Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 72 I’ll come as soon as I go

To be fair, the magical version of the Great Lighthouse, or Tartarus, is a very powerful wonder.

It can even be said that with this wonder, no individual in the ocean with a radius of 5,000 kilometers will be able to resist the existence of the Negative Star Ship. That huge figure will be visible thousands of kilometers away, just like the world wound caused by Stonehenge, it will leave a striking mark in the real world.

Once Tartarus is built, the entire Chaos Sea will be lit up by brilliant psychic lights. The side effects of the lighthouse alone will be able to make all sea elves invisible and easy to track.

But Li Ang didn't want to build it at all in the beginning.

Not to mention the huge amount of material and magic power expenditure, what does it mean to consume 500 points of magic power every day?
The pure magic power leaking out of Stonehenge is only 200 points every day, and each living person can only support 0.1 points of magic power. This lighthouse consumes nearly one-fifth of the territory's magic resources.

This is not as simple as just consuming magic resources, because many magic resources are fixed and need to be consumed. For example, expanding the borders of Stonehenge, maintaining the defenses of major cities and outposts, and fighting against chaos pollution. These fixed expenditures are necessities of existence and are indispensable.

In other words, after deducting these fixed expenses, Tartarus actually consumed almost all of the Negative Star's disposable magic resources.

What does this mean? Ordinary humans cannot produce any magic resources. According to what Leon stole, I mean after observing the players' data, only one in a hundred people actually have the qualifications to awaken magic. Only about one hundred people can provide 0.1% of the magic bonus, and it still needs to be refined.

Whether in the Empire or Bretonnia, the Mage Corps is a very rare and precious combat unit. If converted proportionally, it would take about 5,000 mages to permanently station at the lighthouse to light it.

And based on the ratio of mages to normal people, that would be 10 million people.

This is a wonder that can only be supported by a country of ten million people. Now, just because of the existence of those damn sea elves, Leon has to build it. Is this acceptable?

"Those sea elves did such a cruel thing that they took away the lives of 10 million people! 10 million people, if 10 million people were given to me, wouldn't that be equivalent to 1 billion! If I had 1 billion, would I be like this now? The Land of Descendants would have been better long ago! The Negative Stars have conquered the world!"

"..."

Not at all, right? Aren’t they all blocked?

And how was the 1 billion calculated? I have no idea what Lord Li Ang is talking about.

Seeing Li Ang suddenly speaking out one violent opinion after another, the people present once again fell into silence, because they knew very well that Li Ang wanted to vent his dissatisfaction at this time.

During this time, they also understood that Li Ang was not a god. Ordinary gods did not have such drastic emotional fluctuations. Except for calculating magic power and the surrounding forces, Li Ang was actually a very tolerant ruler unless he was controlling people with his hands.

He did not ask his subjects to sing praises to him, nor did he force people around him to surrender their loyalty, nor did he force everyone to have unreserved faith and love for Li Ang. Everything happened naturally, at least the negative stars never felt the oppression of Li Ang.

Just like the construction of this wonder, theoretically it seems like a huge undertaking for everyone, but in reality the residents have a pretty good idea of ​​what their territory looks like.

"My Lord, there is something about this wonder..."

After looking around, Oliver, the official in charge of the territory's infrastructure—because a bard who was more suitable for managing culture had been captured—came out and said respectfully:
"Based on our current financial reserves and related material storage, we simply do not have the ability to build the Tartarus Lighthouse you mentioned. We still have reserves of magic power and gold, but our reserves of copper and iron ore are relatively insufficient, and it will take some time to process them."

"Copper and iron ore? These two are the least likely to be in short supply, right?" Hanging upside down in the observatory, Leon looked at Oliver, who was glowing with golden light, with some surprise.

"Isn't it enough to go out and kill some demons of the God of War? And by the way, drag his bronze bull back and kill it all. There are only pieces of bronze outside, so why not just drag it back, strip it naked, and then kill it?"

"Demon weapons are often filled with magic. It is difficult to remove the magic without damaging the weapons and minerals... Even after using the World Wound to absorb the magic, it is still the same. The remaining iron sand and copper sand are of very low quality, far inferior to normal minerals."

"After all, it has been blown by the wind of chaos for so long, so it is natural for the mineral properties to change..."

But this is indeed a bit difficult to do.

Looking at the various necessary buildings and related facilities stacked in the territory icon, Leon frowned.

The population is still too small.

The current total population of the Land of Advent is approximately 22,000.

Among them, about 4,000 people were engaged in hunting demons around the Giant Tree Outpost and Fool's Beach to earn magic and technology points. The various populations in other places were distributed in agriculture and other scarce production activities.

For a high-density labor-intensive industry like mining, it is normal for large mines to absorb thousands or even tens of thousands of people. Of course, there are no mines of this level in the Land of Advent, so it is naturally unable to afford the construction process of Tartarus.

The reason why the population is so small is that a considerable number of them are out there maintaining the route of the Norse Great Migration. Now the north side of the Norse Peninsula has been regarded as a forbidden area by Leon, and there are about 60 dragon boats sailing in an interlaced manner, carrying a considerable amount of supplies and people for transportation every day.

Many Norscans do not identify themselves as Negators, but as Norscans.

Their ideas were similar to those of migrant workers. Such people were just floating populations, not the subjects of the land they had landed in. The demands made by these cunning chiefs were also similar.

It was nothing more than letting Leon show more power and security, so that the Norse people could get dignity and space for development. Although this kind of nonsense had already made Ulfric chop off several heads in anger, it was also an objective reality that the stubborn Norse people were unwilling to leave their homeland.

The population was insufficient, the routes were blocked, and Li Ang was not a slow-moving person. So after a brief thought, Li Ang decided to use some tricks.

"Just build the experimental aerospace battleship in the dock first. I'll try to figure out how to trick the players into giving me the supplies. They don't have much else, but they have plenty of supplies."

After giving a thumbs up to his trustworthy people, Leon lay there and died at the speed of light.

What the identities of the two worlds can bring is the integration of the resources of the two worlds.

The next second, he opened his eyes in a tank full of nutrient solution.

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