Cheng Yu had finally opened the only route south from the Northern Borderlands. After clearing the Twilight Fortress "dungeon," he had used the metal confiscated there to churn out another wave of troops.
An endless stream of Purgers marched south from the Northern Borderlands. Like a drop of concentrated ink falling into a cup of clear water, the Purger Army attacked every northern city in the Kurland United Kingdom at once.
When the nobles who had survived Kadrian's purge saw the army of "Monsters" from the Northern Borderlands, they knew their new king, His Majesty Kadrian, had probably met an untimely end. After putting up a little token "resistance," they surrendered.
Just two days after breaking through Twilight Fortress, Cheng Yu had occupied the entire Kurland Kingdom. It was not that no one had considered resisting, but those who did paid dearly. Coupled with Kadrian's earlier purge, the Kurland Kingdom had a shockingly severe shortage of powerful fighters, making Cheng Yu's occupation rather easy.
Meanwhile, thanks to everything Cheng Yu had confiscated along the way, his mechanical army had reached twelve million units, not counting the Basic Units. Including them, the number would easily exceed twenty million.
There was no helping it. When Cheng Yu heard the Conductor's resource survey report, he could barely stay on his feet.
The iron reserves discovered throughout the Kurland Kingdom amounted to over five billion tons, and that only included the large deposits they had located. Including the small and medium deposits, the estimated total could exceed ten billion tons.
There were also hundreds of locations within the Kurland Kingdom suitable for installing Omni-Type Energy Architecture Machines.
According to the Conductor himself, if Cheng Yu filled all those locations with Omni-Type Energy Architecture Machines, his daily energy income would exceed a hundred million. And