The high-power magic crystal lamp illuminates the vast cave as bright as daytime. The mixers, elevators and various magic matrices are intertwined. There are also construction workers wearing uniforms, and technicians are busy walking between the machine and the support frame. The construction site of the South Gate Fortress was busy.

Gao Wen, Hetty and Amber came to this former Shadow Experimental Site. In the center of the cave, they found Gordon, the person in charge here.

"Lord, the support structure and foundation bottom have been laid, the main wall construction progress has been over half, the southern gate, wall block, exterior wall armor, and extended firepower platform have been completed by 60%," Gordon reported the construction of the fortress. "The military station and energy station have been opened. As of yesterday, the garrison capacity has been initially available here."

"Good, good done." Gao Wen looked at the progress made by the engineering team led by Gordon with satisfaction. He saw that workers were strengthening the walls of the cave border. Between the southern gate and the inner cave, an additional layer of cement-steel armor has taken shape. A huge support frame lies across the cave. The magic engine-driven lifting device is fixed at the top of the frame. The winch pulls the cables and is lifting the huge cargo pallet to the second floor of the fortress. Around each cargo pallet, a faint rune light can be seen. The weight-reducing rune matrix is ​​working.

At this stage, weight loss is still a spell that has not been fully parsed. Rune masters have not yet solved the interference problem when several weight loss effects act on one target at the same time. Therefore, it is difficult to use on larger objects (such as large vehicles). However, when dealing with smaller volumes of materials, weight loss has always been a powerful tool for transport.

On the edge of the cave, you can also see a technician carrying magic terminals using "fossil-to-cil-technique" and "mud-to-cil-to-cil-technique" to quickly adjust the rock walls to prepare for the subsequent installation of wall cladding. Another engineering team not far away is inlaiding the magic net unit on the installed wall cladding. The flash of the plasma welding beam (hot melt welding gun) keeps shining, showing the efficiency and coordination ability of each team.

Treating extraordinary power as productivity rather than simply "weapons used by strong fights" brings this incredible efficiency.

Of course, Gordon's proper command is also an important factor in the rapid advancement of the project.

Gao Wen withdrew his gaze and looked at the circular pit on the ground in the center of the cave. Looking at the ancient mysterious rune array at the bottom of the pit and the ancient devices arranged in a ring, he asked casually: "Have this shadow portal had any abnormal reactions recently?"

Gordon shook his head: "Not we had set up magic sensing devices around us, and there was no sign of activation of this magic gate."

"Very good," Gao Wen nodded, then looked at the brand new gate at the end of the cave, "Open the gate, I want to go to the base to take a look."

"It's the gate to open!!"

The rune array buzzed, and the gears and winch heads made a squeaking sound at the same time. The steel chains and bearings pulled the heavy steel gate. With a slight vibration of even the ground, the gate of the South Gate Fortress slowly opened in front of Gao Wen...

If you want to start the wall construction project to the boundary of the wasteland, you must first open a road to the wasteland from the civilized world, and this road blocks the entire black forest that humans have not set foot in for hundreds of years.

After deciding to build the wall, Gao Wen considered two plans to open up this road. One plan was to cross the mountains directly from the South Gate Fort, then build a forward base in front of the fort, violently open the way in the Black Forest, and build a road straight to the wasteland; the second plan was to bypass the entire disobedient fortress, exit the mountain pass on the west side of Cecil, and finally build a road through the Black Forest.

The first plan is obviously more time-saving, while the second plan is to keep the secrets of the Disobedience Fortress and the South Gate Fortress. He did not want too many outsiders to know that Cecil has such a special portal and such a complete ancient fortress. Although there are many rumors about "Duke Cecil has Gondor's relics in his hand", there are too many secrets in the Disobedience Fortress.

But now Gao Wen chose the first plan, because he has confirmed that neither the royal family nor the Eastern Realm will send people to participate in the project. They are continuing to fight to preserve their strength, but for Gao Wen, he is happy to let the entire project be controlled by himself.

Let a bunch of noble supervisors and slave craftsmen from the north intervene, they will only drag the back of the Cecil engineering team.

Due to the convenient elemental manipulation spells, paving simple roads is not difficult in this world. From the South Gate Fortress to the Black Forest, a broad road temporarily hardened by the "Change Mud into Stone" has connected the disobedient fortress and the forward base. Shortly after departure, Gao Wen saw the towering magic net relay tower and the temporary base built by the rising smoke "Road Explorer" in front of him.

More than a dozen large and small board-type houses were built on the edge of the Black Forest. The outer edge of the house was a protective barrier built with wooden fences, steel wire fences, chest-like short walls and sentry towers. The guards responsible for protecting the forward base were watching the direction of the Black Forest vigilantly on the sentry towers, and in front of the gate at the entrance of the base, two strong white knights like iron towers stood.

Just as Gao Wen emphasized before, there are crises everywhere outside the civilization boundaries, this advance base that is advancing towards wasteland naturally needs to be on high alert.

"pay tribute!!"

The two white knights noticed Gao Wen sitting in the car. They immediately stood up straight, and a strong and powerful sound came from under the fully covered steel helmets. The base gate opened to both sides. The magic car that Gao Wen and his three-member man drove smoothly into the forward base.

As soon as he got out of the car, Gao Wen saw a sturdy figure walking towards him quickly.

Wright Aviken, leader of the White Knight and Protestant Patriarch.

The first son of Omaki, who had become a "big man", did not stay in his church. Instead, after hearing that he was going to march towards the wasteland, he took the initiative to come to the front and command the "Road Tailer"'s escort force here. Since the White Knight himself is good at taking on escort work, the power of the Holy Light has the convenient characteristics of healing pollution and expelling monsters, Gao Wen agreed to his application.

Behind Wright, Gao Wen saw several special figures

They were Sonia Frostye and several elves brought by her.

These elves are obviously particularly concerned about the repair of barriers. Although the bustling and novel city of Cecil did arouse their great curiosity and interest, they are still more concerned about the progress of the project in the southern part of the Dark Mountains. Over the past few days, Sonia and her companions have only one-third of their time in Cecil City, and almost all the rest of the time has been spent on the Black Forest.

"I'll check the progress," Gao Wen first greeted Wright, then looked at Sonia, "Are you here again today?"

"Looking at the progress of the project can make us more at ease," Sonya smiled and said frankly, "and not staying in the city can prevent some embarrassing... mother-son conflicts."

What Sonia said was obviously a joke. In fact, her relationship with Saldrin was quite good in Gao Wen's opinion, but Gao Wen still understood the entangled mentality of this elf mother after seeing Saldrin.

To be fair, if he had a son who had not returned home for seven hundred years, had no partner, did not write letters, had a bald wig and liked women's clothing...

Halfway through thinking, he didn't dare to assume any more.

He felt that he might choose to lie back into the coffin and ask someone to help nail the lid.

"... As you can see, we are working hard to speed up the paving speed and strive to open the road to the corrupt plain before the Harvest Festival," Gao Wen concealed his moment of embarrassment with the topic of change. "At present, as long as there is no major accident, the project can be completed as scheduled."

"We saw this and made me feel much more at ease," Sonya sighed softly, "Frankly, I didn't even expect you to be so fast that you could have reached this level. In such a short time, you have already started paving the way in the Black Forest. I can see how much manpower and material resources you have invested in this, but in your royal family, they have not delivered the first batch of supplies yet! To be honest, both Ansu people, how can your efficiency be so much worse?"

"Not everyone will turn magic into productivity," Gao Wen shook his head helplessly, "What's more, the nobles in the north may not be able to realize how terrible the threat of wasteland is. The demon tide seven hundred years ago may still be a vivid purpose for the elves, but for humans... it is an ancient legend from dozens of generations ago."

It was not the first time Sonia had dealt with humans. Of course, she knew what Gao Wen said made sense, so she didn't say much, but looked in the direction of the dark mountains, looked at the direction of the South Gate Fortress, and sighed slowly: "The fortress of the ancient Gondor period... Seven hundred years ago, I heard that the Northern Trail Army discovered an ancient ruin while crossing the dark mountains, but I didn't expect that today, seven hundred years later, it would play such a role in your hands."

"We didn't expect it back then," Gao Wen said with a smile, "just like I never thought that I had watched the magnificent wall be built before I fell down, but after waking up from my long sleep, I had to rebuild the wall again. It was always unreasonable."

"You are also unlucky enough," Sonia couldn't help but shake her head. "You fell down in the most difficult time and woke up in the next difficult time. Destiny seemed to be deliberately planning you to fight against disasters without giving you a chance to rest. We had peace for seven centuries, but you hadn't enjoyed it in a day."

Gao Wen didn't say anything, because he was not the real Gao Wen Cecil, so he had no regrets, but Hedy next to him suddenly raised his head. The Cecil butler seemed to be greatly touched by Sonia's words. She looked at her ancestors with a steady look and suddenly felt ashamed of her usual smoky makeup.

Gao Wen didn't know why Hetty suddenly blushed.

...

At the same time, in the north of the Principality of Cecil, the Port Square of Panshi City.

Sir Wald Perridge, commander of the Rock, stood in the square with the guards and guards of honor, preparing to bid farewell to the envoys from the capital, who had been in the gateway city for a short half day. Now they were about to board a ship and set out for Cecil.

"This city is impressive, sir," said Cohen Loren, the leader of the Envoy, deputy head of the Knights of Ansu, to Wald with conscience. "I came to this land two years ago, but it was not the case at that time. I must admit that it is really incredible."

Sir Wald looked at the deputy commander of the Knights, who had the special surname "Loren", but was a member of the royal family. The envoys he led also had envoys from the East and special envoys from the capital. The profound meaning of this made people think about it. But Wald himself was not a person who was interested in court power and aristocratic balance. He just smiled and shook his head: "Stone City is just a gateway, and you have not seen the truly incredible side of this land yet."

"Oh, I'm a calm person," Cohen Loren smiled politely, "I only look at the novelty here with an appreciation, after all, no matter how magical they are, they are all artificial."

"Please, please." Wald raised his hand and pointed at the dock, and almost at the same time, a melodious whistle sound came from the river berth.

A large ship that shocked Cohen Loren, with the sound of sails and oars and roars, gradually sailed towards the port from the distant river surface.

The ship looked like it was cast from metal.
Chapter completed!