Occupation

The workshops and craftsmen of this underground world...

Their lives might not be especially easy from here on out.

But that was all right. Lord Huo Ling would give them jobs with suitable pay.

They would be absorbed into companies under Huo Ling's rule and become workers of a new era.

After Huo Ling had taken the Chaos Lands and part of the Shortblade Clan's territory, Huo Military Industries had also grown from a skeleton into something with a little flesh on its bones.

Many of the weapons and armor in Huo Ling's current army had in fact been produced by factories and workshops under Huo Military Industries.

And now that Huo Ling had taken this underground world as well, the greater number of craftsmen and population here would make the framework of Huo Military Industries grow ever larger.

After waiting for more than a month, a Type-A Goblin War Division arrived in Iwa City.

Accompanying it was the General Staff led by Ren Jingchen.

During this time, they had already planned for the troops to occupy every underground city along the route ahead.

The soldiers of the Goblin War Divisions extended underground like countless feelers, taking one underground city after another.

Naturally, undead soldiers were deployed alongside them.

Under normal circumstances, twice as many undead soldiers accompanied them.

The goblin soldiers were used for garrison duty, while the undead soldiers were there to guard against unforeseen incidents.

No major battles occurred along the way. Guided by the local dragons, those underground cities that had already submitted to the Iwa Kingdom...

...obediently accepted their fate. At most, they had simply changed masters. Taxes had to be paid no matter who collected them.

Inside the grand hall atop Dragon's Nest Mountain, Huo Ling paced back and forth, with Ren Jingchen following