After the strategy meeting ended, Veylin quickly assigned tasks. He entrusted the defensive deployment entirely to Diana, who knew her troops better, and instructed Tristan to assist her with every resource the territory had available.
Now, the weakest link in the entire battle plan rested on his own shoulders.
The final dam, which would complete the encirclement, had to be indestructible.
A huge seawater culture tank occupied the center of the laboratory.
Following the optimized procedure provided by the system panel, Veylin had produced a new generation of fast-growing redleaf trees after several hours of catalysis.
Inside the tank, a rough, rocklike texture had appeared on the deep purple trunk, utterly unlike the reddish-brown parent tree.
Veylin picked up an iron hammer and brought it down hard on a section of trunk taken from the culture tank.
"Clang!"
Sparks flew. The web of Veylin's hand went numb as the recoil sent the hammer bouncing back.
He set the hammer down and leaned closer to inspect it.
There was only a faint white mark on the sample's surface.
Veylin brought up the system panel.
[Rock-Armored Redleaf Tree] [Level: 4] [Bloodline: Siren redwood 32% (Silver Tier), flexible steel toughness 15% (Gold Tier), mixed bloodlines 53%] [Overall assessment: Possesses granite-level hardness and toughness.] [Cultivation requirements: Each plant requires five kilograms of soil with a high Ether concentration, 50 grams of leyline crystal powder, and 0.5 milliliters of spinal fluid from a Draconic Species.]
Veylin frowned at the final line.
He picked up a charcoal pencil and rapidly worked through the calculations on a sheet of parchment.
The final dam sealing off the bay would have to be at least ten kilometers long.
At a density of five trees per meter, he would need fifty thousand Rock-Armored Redleaf Trees.
His pencil drew