Everyone arrives at the Skylion palace, once inside, Isabella's ancestor, Kristina, finally lets go of her human form again to walk, she stretches a little and looks at everyone saying: "So?, what else do you plan to do?"
Cecilia looks at her son-in-law and tells him: "In fact, I think you do have something to do… you see Evelyn came and left half of certain materials you sent her to buy two weeks ago, I don't know what they are for but she said they were important and she left me a note, where she told me to put them in a place where only the Sky Lion guard and the Skylion family can enter."
Feicui Long realizes and tells her: "Oh, I see, it's quite efficient, she even thought of that just with the shopping list, if you want you can follow us mother, I can show you what I plan to do with those materials."
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They all walk to a secluded area, in that area several blocks of energetic granite are organized, it is luminous white granite, along with a few piles of auxiliary materials, among them several other energetic materials like cyan copper, purple tin and black iron.
Kristina quickly realizes this and says: "This… are you going to make a portal?"
Feicui Long thinks that she already knew, but remembers that Isabella didn't keep her outside and then nods and explains: "Mother, this portal is in order to connect the palace with my own house, so we can support each other when we need it and facilitate the trade of high value things, also this way we can gather more often."
Cecilia has no problem with that, but when noticing that there is no material with energy or space laws, doubtful she questions and says: "How are you going to do it?"
Feicui Long understands and tells her: "I don't need materials with the space attribute, with my level in mastery of inscriptions I am able to do it only with inscriptions, besides I have a very good handling of the law of space."
Then Feicui Long signals Mariane and the two quickly get to work, they have to finish this today because they have to return tomorrow to their village or rather, the capital of the new barony.
Soon with the teamwork, of Mariane carving all the auxiliary inscriptions and Feicui Long all the central inscriptions and the formation that will open the portal, everything finishes in only about three hours, Feicui Long only sets the spatial coordinates and the formation ignites waiting for the other portal to be built.
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After that they dine and Cecilia asks him: "Long'er I was thinking, what are your plans for the forest?, you told me you are going to build a city in the middle of the forest, but I don't have much knowledge of what you have planned."
Feicui Long nods and says: "I plan to do it in three phases, the first phase the city, obviously it will try to attract new citizens, who will mainly dedicate themselves in three areas, agriculture, services for adventurers, hunters and mercenaries and lastly the harvesting of energetic materials, I want to exploit the energy stone mine and the energetic wood."
He puts the map on the table and points the places to his mother-in-law, his mother-in-law curiously sees how he doesn't prioritize the iron and gold mine and asks: "I understand the first two, but why not prioritize easy money first?"
He simply shakes his head, just to explain better: "It's not that I don't want to, but with everything I have earned lately not only can I afford to create two portals, but if I sell all the equipment of the invaders, what we obtained from the new ones, the skins and bodies of energetic beasts, I estimate that I will have even with that expense a total of between 150 to 175 platinum coins, subtracting the portal expense."
Cecilia is shocked this young man is disgustingly rich, the Skylion barony… no now the Skylion county barely possesses a treasure of 250 platinum coins and it is thanks to the fact that they possess 3 mines of energy stones and mines of lower heavens steel and lower heavens platinum.
Feicui Long looks at her and nods: "So money now is not a problem, instead I need many energy stones for formations, cultivation of my troops, artifacts, medicines and more, the wood the same and on top of that I can use it to build defenses, not to mention that I can sell them at a higher price."
Finally he adds bitterly: "There is also the fact of the manpower, if I choose to exploit gold and iron, I will have to put forges and smelters, much more costly and rarer, if I don't want to lose money selling raw material, the two energetic materials I don't even need to process to obtain a high price."
Cecilia smiles, this son-in-law of hers is quite intelligent in governmental affairs and tells him: "Don't worry about the manpower I will help you attract immigrants, after all in the end many arrive at the barony seeking refuge from much more dangerous areas of the empire."
She wasn't exaggerating thanks to the previous lord of the Leechwald forest, there weren't waves of beasts nor other creatures coming from the back and the few dangerous points didn't burst in waves so often, but rather every several decades or centuries even, so many escaped looking for a quiet place to live, it wouldn't be difficult for her to give incentives for them to move to the forest.
Isabella intelligently adds saying: "In fact that is very convenient, because if we add to the fact that we spread the rumor that the lord of the forest made a deal with us and since on top of that in the forest only beasts can enter and on top of that only elemental realms, then this will cause a feedback and attract people to our city."
Johan and Cecilia are left confused, even their ancestor, how is that possible?, although Feicui Long had told them he had something planned, he never told them something like this.
He then has to explain to them long and thoroughly about everything from aura projection to repeaters, among others, then they look at him with wide eyes and Cecilia says: "You used 10 drops of eastern divine green dragon blood just for that?, where did you get so much?"
Kristina quickly explains to her: "It was one of the rewards destined to Isabella, I suppose she gave him a little for that."
Cecilia see with shining eyes at Feicui Long and he sighed bitterly and told her: "I can help Mother establish one in her capital, the problem is that… it can attract unwanted eyes, after all an aura of a beast of that level that appears out of nowhere in your city is not easy to hide…"
Cecilia quickly extinguishes her illusion, she knew that he was right with him there was not so much problem he was in the middle of nowhere and they had the excuse of the lord of the forest, but with her and her county?, it is something totally different because they are already established and known, it could even alarm the union of mortal races.
Feicui Long comforted her and said: "Anyway do not worry mother, I think with the profits we both obtain from the city in Leechwald, we can help the county gain a lot of strength in little time."
Then he raised a finger and said: "Not counting that the second phase of the city is to expand it to exploit more nearby resources and the third to establish towns that serve as proxy to support the city, specifically towns specialized in areas like agriculture, mining, etc."
Cecilia's face lights up, she is lucky that her son-in-law forced her to accept sharing benefits, with this her county could grow and perhaps recover part of its former glory.
Irina a little nervous asks Feicui Long: "This young master… aren't you going to inform about that?"
About that?, Feicui Long looks at her very confused, he didn't understand what she was referring to.
It is not until Irina speaks and says: "About Tannenwald and Rotenberg and about Krötenheim."
He then nods and tells them how he obtained subordinates and support in the barony of Tannenwald and the Viscounty of Rotenberg, that now the Skylion family could use to decrease the pressure from the absorption of the forest but also because they could use them to increase their trade, their influence and power, also try to bring them closer in the next war against Krötenheim.
As for the one that is in Krötenheim it is even better since they have an infiltrator, who on top of that is loyal to them and hates his own count house, so the war will be easier at a certain point.
Then Kristina interrupts them and asks the hardest question of all, but at the same time the most necessary: "How much time do you estimate we have to prepare?, a city is not made in one day, just building the houses of your village took 2 months and something and they are not even 100 houses, using golems and undead accelerates everything, but at the same time they are part of your military force."
Feicui Long could only smile bitterly Kristina was right, he as the very Supreme God of Time knows that in the end, the most important thing always is time, not even the where, but the when, since it does not matter if you don't know the where, because you can search for it, but… if you don't know the when you will be playing with luck to guess it.
Kristina then changes the question: "Also who is going to govern the city, to whom will you leave it to administer it for you? you don't have anyone loyal at this moment."
Isabella looks at her ancestor and shakes her head: "It is true that at the moment we don't have many people, but everything will come with time, for the moment we can use the commanders of the Sky Lion guard, they are anyway taught how to administer cities temporarily, so 2 or 3 years it is possible to find someone capable and loyal."
Mariane nods and adds to that: "My master has many followers, with 1 or 2 years it would be enough to bring someone capable."
Feicui Long then, thinks about the course of action and decides that maybe, besides the group of believers he summoned and arrives tomorrow at the entrance of the forest, maybe he should call more, especially those of the administrative area.
With that the dinner continued in the middle of the discussion of possible plans and other things…