Chapter 418: Human Pile Driver

"Sorry about that, I had originally wanted to give you some beef patties to eat on the road, but who knew the beef patties ran off, so now there are only fresh vegetables left — take some more." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said apologetically.

Jimmy looked at the big bundle of fresh vegetables on the ground, his face bloomed into a smile, he tried hard to stay composed, but his hands and feet were not slow at all: "No no no, vegetables are good, vegetables are good, my family just loves eating vegetables."

Jimmy hugged the vegetables and ran off at top speed, secretly muttering in his heart: feeling embarrassed about giving me vegetables? What, are you an idiot?

In North Wind City, beef patties and fresh vegetables were not even in the same league at all; common folk had a very hard time getting fresh vegetables, having some dried vegetables or radishes and the like was already pretty good.

Unlike some humid-climate places in the south, where you could just scatter some seeds in front of and behind the house and grow a whole bunch of vegetables, eating something different every day of the year.

A big bundle of vegetables like this was worth several months of Jimmy's salary; only an idiot would want your beef patties.

After sending Jimmy off, the group headed toward Wasteland Town, arriving at the place where the Undying Tide slumbered; Seeing Ange arched his body and let out a soul-summoning call.

One hand-bone after another pierced through the surface, and skeletons crawled up one after another in a daze..

Before long, a tide composed of tens of thousands of skeletons took shape; the little angel excitedly ran around the edge of the bone-tide, whoosh whoosh whoosh: "Aoo! Aoo! Aoo!"

"Kid, you're a battle angel, not a sheepdog." Lord Nai Ge Li Si shouted in exasperation.

"Aoo!"

"Aoao!" Led on by her, the little zombie also started running.

Driven on by the two little ones, the skeleton tide surged toward the drop-off section.

Duroken nudged Lord Nai Ge Li Si with his elbow: "You were just now afraid my lord would run amok — was it this kind of running amok? How were you afraid he'd run amok?"

Lord Nai Ge Li Si gave an awkward smile: "I was afraid he'd get ideas about the skeletons in the city-defense cemetery, who knows whether someone's keeping an eye on the skeletons in the cemetery."

The skeletons in the cemetery had 'establishments,' basically one grave one pit, if any were missing it would be very easy to notice.

Duroken said, somewhat dismissively: "So what if they notice, are we supposed to be afraid of the Council of the Dead?"

He felt Lord Nai Ge Li Si was being overly cautious; no matter what, he was the King of Alchemy, and with Seeing Ange's power delivery, if the Council of the Dead wanted to give him trouble, they'd at least have to send a Lord of Mourning.

Does the Council of the Dead even have a Lord of Mourning? Even if it did, would it not attack the Star Burst Array together with Your Majesty?

Lord Nai Ge Li Si curled his lip: "Am I afraid of the Council of the Dead? I'm afraid of the Sorcerer Alliance — what if that broken thing in the sky adjusts direction and gives us another Star Burst? It can strike gods, but it's not *only* able to strike gods."

Duroken got a shiver all over his body — oh right, how did he forget about that thing.

Duroken was used to measuring this world by the power system of the Prime Material Plane, and felt that below a monarch, the likes of them were already invincible; he had always been overlooking one thing, and that was the Star Burst Array.

The Star Burst Array, from goodness knows how far away, had fired one shot and obliterated the gods of light; if it now adjusted direction and gave them another shot, what would the consequences be?

Duroken didn't have a divine spark, but Silver Coin and Lord Nai Ge Li Si did; Lord Nai Ge Li Si had the protection of the Tome of Brass — although this was a seal, it also protected his divine spark from harm.

But the question was, could the Star Burst Array *only* strike divine sparks?

Realizing this point, Duroken looked up at the Star Burst Array again, and suddenly felt as if a blade were hanging over his head.

……

With a large workforce, the construction of the dam had no technical difficulties at all; Duroken was one of the top engineers in the entire plane, even across two planes, a mere dam posed no difficulty whatsoever.

The surveying problem was also solved by Seeing Ange's Ring of the Balance — who would have thought that the Ring of the Balance of the God of Equality and Justice would find its most perfect application in engineering surveying?

In a project, from design to construction, the most time-consuming part was surveying — elevation, level, geology, earthwork, and so on; the preliminary surveying consumed enormous amounts of time and effort, but Seeing Ange just hopped around, took a few glances, and it was done.

If not for the Ring of the Balance, he couldn't have seen at a glance that the drop-off section to North Wind City was 'flat'; if the elevations weren't on the same plane, building a dam would be an inconceivable wonder.

"We can build the dam right here, the river channel here is narrow, the engineering workload is small, and there's also a large depression here that can be used as a reservoir; this way, the dam can not only raise the water level but also form a reservoir to regulate water volume during the dry season."

"What we need to solve now is underground piping; the geology at this location is too loose — if water is stored, the water pressure will cause seepage that carries the sediment away, forming underground voids, and then we won't be able to hold the water."

Duroken began surveying the terrain and quickly found a difficulty in the project, but when he came back the next day, he found that the area of loose geology had now hardened into solid blocks.

"Uh, what happened here?" Duroken was a bit dumbfounded.

He had spent the whole night thinking about what method to use to solve this loose-geology problem; the best method was of course to find a bunch of earth mages to cast earth-compaction, and the next best was to use adhesive plus stones to plug it up.

But no matter which method, the engineering workload was just too great — could it be that…

Duroken looked at Lord Nai Ge Li Si in horror.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si spread his hands helplessly and pointed at a sand pit not far away.

Soon the sand pit moved, gurgling and spurting sand outward as though some enormous thing were burrowing out, then the earth shook, thump after thump, as if a giant hammer were pounding on it.

Very quickly, Seeing Ange popped out of the sand pit — every time the earth shook, he popped up a dozen or so centimeters, every shake, another dozen or so centimeters, until at last he stood on the hard ground.

The hard ground he stood on, a circle roughly the size of his body, had been completely compacted by magic.

"Hiss—" Duroken ran over to look and couldn't help sucking in a breath of cold air: "My lord, you not only compacted the loose ground, you also drove stone piles into the earth?"

The solid ground Seeing Ange had stomped was not just a surface — it was a stone pile driven straight down tens of meters into the earth, one every few meters; loose? Forget it, you couldn't blast it open even with a magic egg.

Soon Duroken figured out how Seeing Ange had driven the piles: he stood on the ground, activated Earth Splitter, at a rate of twenty casts per second, liquefying the ground with the shaking, and his whole body just sank straight down like that.

He kept sinking until he reached a place with bedrock, then he began to gather force, and at a rate of one strike every two seconds, he compacted and petrified the earth beneath his feet.

Don't look down on it as just a first-tier spell — in two seconds that's a full forty casts, far more useful than forty earth mages.

"My lord, you're a humanoid pile-driving construct — if we'd had you back then, I could have built the World Transit Station in half a year." Duroken sighed.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked: "Then how long did it actually take you to build the World Transit Station back then?"

"Three hundred years…"

With the help of the Seeing Ange-brand pile driver, which could shorten the schedule six hundredfold, six days later the dam was completed and began storing water.

At the same time, news also came from North Wind City: Marquis Feiwo had spent 1.2 million magic crystals and successfully taken North Wind City, becoming the new Lord of North Wind City.

"But some people aren't convinced — they can't outspend us, so they want to spend nothing and send people to ambush us; Feiwo got slashed, my lord, come save him quick!"

PS: 9 AM in the morning