Struggle in the Steam Age

The height of the world tree that finally grew was not as high as Lawrence and the others imagined before, but stretched around after reaching a certain height, and finally formed a giant tree like a big umbrella. At the same time, when the crown of this giant tree expanded to all directions, the roots that looked like the air roots of banyan trees hung down from the branches and fell to the ground. It supports the branches that continue to expand around.

"It actually grew in place at once!" After quickly flying up and down in the air around the big tree, Nora floated in front of Lawrence and said in shock. "Except for the World Tree mother tree located in the Elven King's Court on Yongju Island, this second world tree belonging to the tribe will be of this size once it grows up."

"That is to say, with your instilling a lot of faith, has this tree reached an adult state?" Lawrence asked a little dizzy after hearing Nora's words, because the tree in front of him Most of the growth process did not match the knowledge about the tree that I had obtained from the seeds before.

"No, this tree just looks like it has entered adulthood." Nora shook her head helplessly and said, as the owner of this space, she can clearly feel the current specific condition of this tree. "That is equivalent to the situation of elves after a hundred years of planting under normal circumstances."

"In terms of human lifespan, this tree has just left its infancy and entered its juvenile period at most. Except for the appearance of an adult world tree, most adult world trees have no abilities that should be possessed. For example, magic Defense ability, for example, the adjustment of magic power in the surrounding environment—”

"Stop, stop, don't talk about these things that are temporarily unusable." After hearing a lot of abilities that are temporarily unavailable, Lawrence interrupted the little doll and asked. "I just want to know what abilities this tree can use now. I think this powerful magic plant should not be able to do anything now."

"If you want to say that there are also skills that can be used, excluding some things that are not very useful like fallen leaves that can be used as refreshing drinks, there are two main skills." Nora nodded slightly and said "One is to break the invisibility, all things with extraordinary power that enter within 1.5 kilometers from this tree will be detected, unless such things or people who possess this extraordinary power have reached the sanctuary and above level."

"Outside, this skill should be very useful, but here it seems a bit tasteless." Lawrence said quite pertinently after thinking for a while. After all, this place now belongs to Lawrence's astral plane, and there are a lot of very confusing traps outside. According to Nora, as long as it is not a god or a veteran demigod, it is impossible to lock this plane from the huge astral world and break through.

Therefore, in this way, the detection function of the world tree basically does not seem to have much effect. After all, it is impossible for superhumans with a low level to enter this plane, and those who can enter here will naturally not be discovered by this tree as long as they want to hide. Because of this, Lawrence said that this function is a bit tasteless.

"Of course I know that this ability is useless." Nora shrugged slightly depressed and continued. "However, another skill is quite useful, and that is to change the surrounding environment and make it very suitable for the life of intelligent creatures within five kilometers. Simply put, it is a large air conditioner here, with an air conditioner and a humidifier .”

"That sounds pretty good." Lawrence shrugged. Everything in this world is good, but the climate completely imitates the climate around the area where the ancient Nile civilization was born. So much so that this place is under the control of high temperature most of the time. Even an extraordinary person like Lawrence would feel that the temperature is too high after staying here for a long time, let alone a jackal with thick hair.

So, if the ambient temperature can become comfortable, the city should quickly become popular with these jackals. In fact, when the tree was growing, there were already jackals curiously looking at it. It's just that they retreated automatically after seeing the figures of Lawrence and Nala.

In the following time, Lawrence and the others returned to the temple and began to plan new urban construction. Well, now they don't need to plan the city itself, they just need to plan a canal from the big river to the World Tree. So it only took half an hour, and a canal 17 kilometers long, 35 meters wide, and 5 meters deep appeared on the sand table.

"How long will it take to repair this river?" After planning the entire canal, Nora turned her head to look at the highest priest and the highest person in charge in the temple and asked, "I mean, without hindering other work The time required under the conditions. After all, we cannot delay other work."

"If this is the case, the number of people on the construction site can only be kept at about 5,000." The high priest with white hair and a white linen robe said after calculating on the papyrus, "If everything goes well, , we will be able to complete the project in about eight months.”

"Is 5,000 people enough for eight months?" Lawrence felt a little surprised after a hasty calculation, because this work speed was already close to the work efficiency of those workers who were assisted by steam machinery that he had seen in the White Eagle Federation before. But now these jackals have only simple steel tools in their hands.

"Of course enough, Your Majesty." In the eyes of the jackals, Lawrence was the number one apostle of their god Nora, so their attitude towards Lawrence was the same as the outside world treated the highest leaders of those religions. "And because we want to show the mercy of our Lord, we still set the daily work efficiency of each person according to a relatively low standard."

"Minimum standard—oh, I understand." When the old jackal said it, Lawrence suddenly discovered a problem that he had missed in his previous calculations, and that was the body strength of these three-meter-high jackals. It is much stronger than humans. According to them, each jackal is equivalent to three and a half ordinary humans when doing these physical tasks.

If the average efficiency is calculated in this way, then their arrangement is indeed very reasonable. Seeing Lawrence Nara lost in thought, the jackal thought that the two of them were struggling with the speed of the canal construction, so after a brief thought, he said another piece of good news that was not sure.

"Actually, the manpower that can be transferred in the previous calculation is purely calculated based on the manpower that can be mobilized now. However, this time period is also the time when our manpower is the tightest. Because we need a lot of manpower to grow wheat and flax." The name The white-haired jackal explained to Lawrence and the others. "After all the crops are harvested, we can spare two to three times the number of people to help on the construction site during the off-season."

For an agricultural nation, this kind of busy farming period really cannot spare too many people to work. However, a lot of manpower can generally be spared during the slack season. Just like why those corvees in ancient China theoretically chose the slack period, so did the jackals.

"In any case, agriculture comes first." Nora warned seriously, but she knew what those fanatics would do sometimes, so she simply told them clearly in advance. "I will be very angry if you delay other things because of this canal."

"Understood, my lord." The high priest of the jackal folded his hands on his chest, and then bowed solemnly to Lawrence and the others. "We'll do all this as you tell us."