There was no way to blast apart mountains and fill them in, so the only way to fill the land created by hardening and blowing in sand was to slowly dig up soil elsewhere and transport it back, shipload by shipload.
Fortunately, Wang Yue had access to advanced technology. He could use other methods to gradually finish developing the land.
The islands in Delin Region that lay close to one another were now connected. This had completely ruled out the possibility of foreign ships slipping through the gaps between them and approaching Delin Region's land without local vessels to guide them.
That meant that even if warships tried to attack Delin, they could not approach directly, let alone land troops. One false move, and they would run aground, becoming sitting ducks.
After so much excavation, a massive fortress had taken shape inside the mountains of Delin Region. Wang Yue had also brought the fortress tactics he had once used in Nawa Region to their fullest potential.
Various factories had also been built inside the mountains using 550c, ensuring Delin no longer had to rely on imports for its weapons.
Under these circumstances, Delin was ready to take its first steps beyond its borders.
However, Wang Yue had no intention of competing with other countries for territory. With so many sand-blowing ships and advanced machines at his disposal, he could simply build a landmass of his own in the shallow waters of the high seas and use it as an overseas base for Delin.
A little over a year later, after relocating large numbers of people, Delin had a population of more than 2.4 million. Of these, 130,000 were armed personnel, and more than 100,000 worked at sea as crew members. Most of them lived on the original islands, without any