Eastern Sea Coast: Building Seven Cities

A year later.

Under Jiang You's guidance, Lionheart successfully became a Thunder Wielder and rode his Griffin home.

Atop the cliff.

Jiang You watched Lionheart's retreating figure, his gaze calm.

Over the past year.

Jiang You had not only passed on his cultivation experience to him, but also told him many historical tales from his previous life.

Those countless stories reshaped Lionheart's thinking, opening up more possibilities for his future.

Meanwhile.

After returning to the Human Race Tribe.

Lionheart worked even harder at raising Griffins and maintained an unfailingly respectful and loyal attitude toward the Goblin Emperor, Amigel.

Yet the more respectful he became, the more contemptuous the goblin officials grew.

The Human Race Tribe frequently suffered abuse and unfair treatment!

But Lionheart endured it.

During his year on Paradise Mountain, he had heard his father tell him two stories.

One was about Qin Feizi, the founding ruler of the Qin State, and the other about Goujian, ruler of the Yue State.

Whenever he suffered humiliation, he drew encouragement from their deeds.

Decades later.

Lionheart officially became the chief of the Human Race Tribe.

The Human Race population had also reached ten thousand, and the number of obedient Griffins they raised that could be ridden had risen to nearly a thousand.

As the humans who had emerged from the Sanctuary slowly grew old, Lionheart became the new leader of the Human Race.

Amigel trusted Lionheart far more than he trusted the humans who had emerged from the Sanctuary. At the same time, he gradually eased his surveillance of the Human Race.

More than half the goblin officials and soldiers originally stationed in the Human Race Tribe were withdrawn.

Those who remained mostly kept watch only over the elders who had come from the Sanctuary.

Lionheart bided his time and continued building his strength.

Meanwhile, in the Goblin Imperial Court, as the emperor's sons gradually grew up, undercurrents began to stir as certain factions egged them on in their struggle for the supreme Emperor's Throne.

Although Amigel was a Demigod, he had actually suffered grievous injuries in his battle against the Thunder Titan in his younger years, shortening his lifespan.

Though his injuries had later healed, the consequences of those wounds were now gradually becoming apparent.

Demigods lived for three thousand years, and those of Legendary rank for one thousand.

Already several hundred years old, Amigel was beginning to age.

Eastern Sea Coast.

Paradise Mountain.

White Stone Fortress.

Jiang You studied the report in his hands on the development of the Winged People.

After these decades of continued growth, the population of the Winged People had reached three hundred thousand!

With Jiang You personally overseeing the planning.

He designated seven sites along the Eastern Sea Coast with excellent locations, pleasant natural conditions, and abundant resources of every kind.

He had the Winged People build seven cities in these locations.

Each city had at least ten thousand residents, with villages of the Winged People scattered throughout the surrounding area.

At the foot of Paradise Mountain stood the newly completed, largest city of the Winged People, serving as their royal capital.

Paradise Mountain itself had been converted into a military base and the site of the royal palace, and no longer housed ordinary Winged People.

In Jiang You's plan, these seven cities would be enough to cover the entire Eastern Sea Coast, forming hubs whose influence extended across the whole region.

With these seven cities at its center, the planned region could support millions of Winged People!

This was the course Jiang You had charted for the development of the Winged People over the next thousand years!

The number of Transcendent class holders among the Winged People had also grown rapidly.

A few years earlier.

Sophia, a genius among the Winged People, had completed the Hero Tier advancement path for the Light Swordsman class.

Thus, the advancement path for the Light Swordsman class became: Light Swordsman-Wings of Light-Light Emissary!

Other classes had also been developed by Transcendents among the Winged People.

They had also drawn upon the class systems of other races.

The known starting classes of the Winged People now included: Light Knight, Light Swordsman, Sky Warrior, Royal Court Guard, Imperial Guard, Wind Messenger, Spear Warrior, Earth Javelin Thrower, Flame Igniter, and others.

Among these, light-based classes were the most common, while classes of other types were exceedingly rare.

Darkness-based classes were virtually nonexistent.

The Winged People now had a thousand-strong Heaven Corps composed entirely of Transcendent class holders.

They also had an elite army of fifty thousand ordinary Winged People!

Their strength had increased tremendously.

Over these years, Jiang You had led the Winged People's corps in sweeping away the magic beasts across the entire Eastern Sea Coast, allowing the villages of ordinary Winged People to gradually spread throughout the region.

And in recent days.

Jiang You had also dispatched officials of the Winged People to the border between the Eastern Sea Coast and the Ferland Continent to search for suitable places to build fortified passes.

He intended to protect the entire territory inhabited by the Winged People from incursions by other races and magic beasts.

For as the Goblin Empire developed, even setting aside the magic beasts for now, the goblins' territorial expansion had nearly reached the Eastern Sea Coast, approaching the outermost Winged People villages in the east!

It had to be said that goblins truly were prolific breeders. If their population had been close to ten million before the empire's founding, it was probably fifty million by now.