A strange world

The area around the bay has changed from a snow forest to a vast snowfield. The spacious and straight streets are lined with exquisite but not old-fashioned new houses, with sloping roofs covered with the thin snow that fell last night.

Children play on the frozen sea during the warmest time of the day, while adults in the distance carve out territory and build houses along the snowy forest.

When spring comes and everything revives, this seaside town will be so prosperous.

Is it too late to ask Andrew Luna for money at this time?

The cavalry wandering around the outskirts of Xingyue Bay discovered them, and the guard captain led a small team towards them.

"Uncle Blom."

"Long time no see, Swain, boys."

Blom greeted him familiarly, telling Annan: "He's my nephew."

Annan was not surprised that Blom and Swain looked alike when they stood together.

The carriage drove towards the town, but the beauty seen in the distance was revealed as it approached - the broad and flat road was still covered with rough gravel roadbed, the empty houses on the street lacked life, and the old camps blocked by the town had also reappeared. reveal.

"Damn it! What are you doing!"

A rough scream passed through the empty town, and the squat craftsman who looked like a tree stump rushed in front of the team like a rolling stone, feeling sorry for the paved roadbed.

"Uh... I'm sorry, but the cement is almost ready for alchemy."

"That thing called cement better be useful! Get off my roadbed now!"

Annan was obedient. Xingyue Bay has transformed from the camp where he left it to a brand-new town, and the Chunky Craftsman is indispensable.

Returning to the camp, the friendly but ugly log house appeared in front of him. Annan sighed that he was familiar with the big house and didn't find it ugly. The fireplace burned warmly, and the big house became Ingrid and Francois's office during the two months he was away.

Francois and Ingrid rushed over, but the guard captain had not left yet.

"Any thing else?"

The guard captain nodded: "Do you remember the escaped citizens?"

"Someone left again?"

"There are a few territorial citizens, and we let them leave according to your order. But they are not the problem. The initial fleeing territory citizens ran to Glacier Port."

"Is he from Glacier Harbor or did he run there?"

"have no idea."

They don't have undercover agents in Glacier Harbor. Annan looked at Blom, "Not even Olmedo," he said.

It's a pity that Dina stayed in the city lord's mansion, otherwise a member of the Shadow Brotherhood would be able to find out the truth.

"It doesn't matter, I'm just a citizen."

The longer the delay, the greater the advantage of Xingyue Bay. Annan expected that when Gema really came to cause trouble, he would face the elemental army——

Thinking of this, Annan activated the magic ring, and a wind element appeared in the teleportation array. It's a pity that it's not the sixth water elemental.

Letting it go out to play with the sea breeze, Annan went to the open space outside the big house to release low-level summoning spells, brought Aunt Susan and the others back to Xingyue Bay, and then asked the ogre to find Michael.

Xingyue Bay is not wheelchair accessible yet, so Lindy supports Mr. Victor.

"The scenery is nice." Fast commented, and he really liked it here. "Where is my tavern, boy."

“It hasn’t been built yet.”

Annan summoned the squat craftsman and asked him to bring a map of Xingyue Bay to customize for these people: Fast's requirement was that the tavern must be along the coast.

"When the port is built in the future, the tavern will be crowded with sailors and merchants every day." Annan reminded Fast, who just wanted to live a peaceful life.

"Forget it, where are you?"

Annan pointed to the future lord's mansion, and Fast randomly chose an open space next to it. He didn't want Evelin to hang out with smelly sailors all day long. Evelin has already been led astray once by Annan!

Annan correspondingly set aside an area on the seaside where Andrew Luna's tavern would be.

The sea breeze is moist and corrodes wood and paper, so Mr. Victor’s library was also chosen next to the lord’s mansion. Annan asked craftsmen to increase lighting when designing the library; Aunt Susan and her family, Annan wanted them to live in the lord's mansion, but Uncle Huolin said that was not good, so he only built a residence next to the mansion; Howler came over and wanted to live in the lord's mansion. account. Annan rejected him: "You are my subordinate, you can live in the mansion", and then kindly agreed to decorate its room in an orc style.

There is also the elemental army... Annan asked the pudgy craftsman to dig an underground hall under the lord's mansion to hide the elements.

At this time, the ogre came back with Michael.

"The cement you need."

Michael handed over one part of cement, one part of fine sand, one part of water and the mold to Annan.

"What is this?" Francois asked.

Annan mixed them, mixed them, and put them into the mold: "The foundation of the future of Xingyue Bay."

Wood will rot in decades, concrete will remain standing for hundreds of years.

And Xingyue Bay needs city walls. The ice wall will melt in the summer, and the rat people will not be stupid enough to attack Xingyue Bay in winter. Nothing is better than cement for building a solid city wall.

It takes time for the cement to solidify. Let the pudgy craftsmen come to see the results tomorrow, and then assign half of the territory's citizens to dig limestone in the mining area. Annan briefly asked about what happened in the territory in the past two months.

For example, there are traces of gnolls wandering outside the bay after snowfall, but as the weather gets colder, these gnolls migrate south—perhaps breaking into the Glacier Bay of Gema.

Annan then chases Ingrid away and asks Francois to bring a box of gold coins.

1000 gold coins should be able to make up for the mistake?

With this thought, Annan released the low-level summoning technique.

A portal appeared in front of Annan: an attractive golden color, a priest and a church appeared on the other side of the rift.

Annan hurriedly canceled the spell before the priest looked back in confusion... The King of the North almost became a thief who stole the church idol.

"We didn't see anything."

said Annan and an equally shaken Francois.

Francois had a nightmare that night. If he had known that Annan was plotting against the goddess of wealth, he would have definitely escaped from Xingyue Bay. Annan slept well until early in the morning, when the echoing sound of chiseling woke him up.

"What's going on outside?"

"Workers are disposing of feces," the guard said.

The sound of banging a pickaxe reminded Annan of his days in the haunted gold mine.

The captain of the Guard said that the feces was as frozen as stone. Even if boiling water was poured on it, it would freeze again before it melted. Moreover, the smell could make people vomit out the dinner they had three days ago. Every day, dozens of residents spend a whole morning digging——

Annan was thoughtful, his black eyes gradually falling towards the water element.

…

Wow——

The water ball created by the water element fell into the temporarily dug ditch and turned into a rapid flow of water rushing towards the retting pond.

"That'll be fine."

Annan taught a pudgy craftsman to upgrade pit-type public toilets to flush-type public toilets, easily solving the problem that had puzzled the territory for a long time. But Francois hesitated to speak.

"What do you want to say?"

"This water element...should be at the elite level? Are we sure we want to put it here?"

"Don't let reality constrain our imaginations," Annan said. "Magic is not just for fighting."

Anyway, there is no such organization as the Elemental Protection Society in this world.

should not.