Endless Plains, the Great Xia Expeditionary Force's fief.
A colossal portal, fifty meters high and ninety meters wide, stood silently.
Deep blue light flowed around its frame, like an enormous doorway set between heaven and earth, revealing the profundity of space.
A hundred-meter stretch on either side of the portal had been designated as a dedicated transport route, with thick steel plates forming a solid road.
Not far away, a construction site bustled with activity.
Countless combat engineers worked alongside heavy machinery. The roar of engines mingled with ringing work chants, shaking the earth.
Concrete mixer trucks formed a long line, streaming out of the portal toward defensive works being poured throughout the fief.
Overhead, the rotors of heavy attack helicopters whipped up fierce winds as they flew out of the portal one after another, carrying enormous prefabricated modules beneath them.
This transported both the attack helicopters and supplies, accomplishing two things at once.
The troops previously stationed in Firefly Leaf Valley and Emerald Leaf City had all assembled here.
The entire fief had entered a frenzied era of massive infrastructure construction.
When Ryze had forcibly stretched the portal from a circle into a rectangle, a full fifteen meters of its lower section had been embedded in the earth.
Even after becoming rectangular, it remained flush with the ground.
This accidental outcome had instead saved them the trouble of raising the canal embankments, leaving the engineers in charge grinning from ear to ear.
Lin Mo and Zhao Gang stood on a hastily built command platform, overlooking the seething activity across the land.
The centaur Grom and several guards stood loyally on watch a short distance behind them.
"Whew. After we sent off the Holy Human Race's, the Elves', and the Dwarf Clan's transport convoys yesterday, our warehouses were more than