Large-scale construction was underway throughout Trial Valley. Quel'Danil seemed to have mobilized every worker it could muster.
The dwarves were busy building infrastructure and renovating the underground castle, while the navy blasted away mountains to build Deepwater Harbor and establish a garrison base. Goblins drove several Goblin Bulldozers around with a thunderous roar, and most of the centaur prisoners had been assigned to transport supplies and building materials.
Large groups of human laborers kept arriving through the portal. He could see at least a thousand of them from where he stood. Construction was underway everywhere in Trial Valley, so what about the workers out of sight? Just how many human laborers were there? Yu Lin Bloodhawk estimated that more than ten thousand had come to Trial Valley. They did all kinds of work, though most performed odd jobs and were dispatched wherever they were needed.
"Where did all these human laborers come from?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked with a slight frown, turning to the officer accompanying him to answer his questions.
The Second War had not yet ended, and the alliance between the high elves and humans remained strong. Yu Lin Bloodhawk did not want any friction between them at this point, so these human laborers had to have come through legitimate channels. Otherwise, the negative repercussions of having so many of them here could be enormous-enough to jeopardize the alliance between the high elves and humans.
"They're human refugees from the Seaside Plain in The Hinterlands. The busy farming season has ended there, so they were brought here to help in exchange for pay. Rest assured, my lord. They're being paid, and they came voluntarily." The officer hurried to explain, emphasizing that the human laborers had come willingly and were receiving wages.
"Oh, good! As long as they weren't