The next three days went by fast for Jack and everyone in his domain.
His commanders armies returned and drilled in the forest area between Black Mountain and Lake-Town, while both armies surged to 20.000 common ranked troops.
The daily leftover trash troops of about 3500 troops, around 10.000 total, where sent to Lee's fort.
Lee had named his 30.000 civilians proper Town 'Silver City'.
Lee now controlled a proper Town and 20.000 trash troops, with 500 common ranked swordsmen as his personal guard.
He had already established proper infrastructure and many essential buildings were being build.
Including new wheat, potato and corn farms, seeds taken from the main farms. Even a new dimwag farm enclosure were being build in one of his newly excavated rooms inside the Silver Mountain cave.
Lee's dwarf civilians were busy tunneling inside the mountain, creating a huge tunnel directly to Black Mountain central - the large habitual area, currently unused, that were at the center of the mountain.
Besides this they had found new veins of iron and pure silver which they greedily mined.
The furnaces and blacksmithing areas were running none stop for more than a day already, creating new armour, weaponry and plating.
Lee had half his forces inside his strong defensive walls, where the small scorpions were already mounted with sufficient iron bolts.
The other half were between Silver City and the beach where he had established a command camp near the roots of his mountain area next to the beach.
These troops had already been in a few smaller skirmishes to claim the beach and had met no further resistance from the reptilians.
They were now scouting in many small patrols for the Prime Rex.
Jack had spend much of his time accompanying troops, civilians and resource wagons to both Silver City and Cochi's fort at the small rivers.
The strong highway road he had made from Black Mountain now directly went from the two huge garrisons above Lake-Town, to Silver City's gate and Cochi's fort.
Traveling civilians, horse wagons and troop patrols were a common sight on these strong roads.
Xena were busy in Lake-Town. It was almost a bottleneck as she, simultaneously with all her other governing tasks, also tried to nurture as many of the civilians as she could, before they progressed to either Lee in the north, or Cochi in the south.
She had 15 fishing boats and 10 transport boats working on the lake and river.
Har huge storeroom had long overflowed and new ones were being finished, alongside a giant armory, being filled with proper iron helmets, long and wide shields, thousands of bows and arrows, swords, chainmail and other items of war.
The high horses had breed the first day the treasure had been set, and around 3000 small horses where running and playing inside the fences.
Xena's civilians had surged to 50.000, a proper small city, and Jack had erected additional houses and more farms where being build, especially chickens as they matured fast and in great numbers, and the meat and eggs were practical for a growing civilian population.
Black Mountain, under Nisha, now had 80.000 civilians and truly settled into a beast of flowing resources.
All the civilians had properly settled and worked tirelessly every day.
Besides the 1.2 million daily gold coins, the copper, iron and silver mines were heavily worked.
That gave the dwarf rich opportunity to mass produce weaponry and experiment with new inventions.
The dimwags, chickens, weat, super corn, cotton, potato, blackroot, salt... All the farms, natural resource or treasures where worked to perfection and the resources highly flowed.
Even if it had just been 3 days, new things were already invented.
The most spectacular were the strong liqueur and chocolate from the cacao plantation.
The liqueur the dwarfs had already named 'vision-water'.
Jack thought, when he tasted it, that it resembled pure gin or vodka from earth, however it was so potent that it more likely resembled absinthe.
It made your mind 'free' and you could dreamt the most wonderfully drunken things while under the influence.
However you never woke up with a hangover, on the contrary, the cacao had healing properties and your mind was clear and your body without aches when you awoke.
The chocolate was likewise amazing, and the first true healing resource Jack had acquired.
But what was truly amazing was the new 'chef-potential' civilians who worked the large kitchen areas.
They had come up with 2 new inventions that were incorporated into the armies and troops immediately, as everyone knew they were at war.
The new bread baked with the sweet orchard apples and crazed plantations fruits, resembling old-earths bananas, became a very long lasting semi-hard flat-bread.
The new small chocolate bars made from the cacao nuts and crazed plantation fruit became an essential item for the marching troops as well.
A single bite from a chocolate bar could heal wounds and combined with a single bread could keep a man fully nourished, strong bodies and battle ready for an entire day.
These two items became mass-produced with a small bag the troops could sling over the shoulder.
1 bag would contain 7 small flat-breads and two small chocolate bars. Enough for a troop to survive for at least 7 days without anything else.
As these treasures yielded an abundance of fruits every week for the crazed plantation, and 15 days for the cacao plantation, Jack decided that only common troops would get these specialized field rations.
Besides all these things, in the 3 days, the giant caws and formerly wild horses were split up into ranches and farms in Black Mountain, Lake-Town and Silver City.
Some civilians had even bought a cow, some chickens or even the rare normal horse, for private use and created small farms near their homes.
The general wealth of a civilian, even the newly summoned ones, in Jacks growing domain, was ridiculous compared to any other lord.
Actually a lucky civilian dwarf in Jacks domain were even more wealthy in pure gold and silver than many lowly lords on prime.
But Jack was still very much unaware of this fact.
Jack's domain kept its rapid growth for another two days.
The two major cities and the smaller Silver City(30.000 civilian, town status), with their connected strong highways, became extremely potent in work capacity and output in every single way and resource Jacks domain controlled.
Even the natural ones as salt mines, cotton fields, tomato, vegetables and roots, and more basic items they found.
Jack had daily received reports from both Cochi and Lee.
Cochi had just informed him that the reptilian Sha'ri, had amassed more than 100.000 troops on the small rivers plains, and he expected an attack any time now.
Lee had finally send word that they had found a Prime Rex nest.
It was located on the far side of the beach, where the huge and rushing river came from the large lake in the center of the peninsula.
The rushing river mounded into the sea at the beach, very close to the mountains edge on the other side.
It was not possible to get across the river, unless the troops would swim at the beach.
But Lee had scratched that. The nest was located on a cliff overlooking the river and edge of the beach, leaving his troops completely exposed to the adult Rex if they ever attempted.
However they would continue to observe the Rex's movement from across the river.
Jack finally threw all these things aside.
'I can't handle everything myself. I will have to trust my subordinates with many things...'
'Now let me check the mission board and study the conquest map a last time before I inspect my armies.'
Jack went firstly to the mission board in the mansion.
[Mission: Successfully cultivate a new Hero in the mansion. Reward: Adventurers Guild House Blueprint]
[Mission(Legendary): Find the natural mithril vein beneath the black mountain. Reward: Unknown]
[New Mission: Create a Trash Rank Castle and Upgrade it twice to Uncommon Rank. Reward: Officer's Academy Blueprint]
Jack quickly made a mental note to create an actual castle, and he already knew that Cochi's lands were ideal, as he were to march there for battle very soon.
Also he still postponed experimenting with all the new hero stuff, as he didn't think the time was right.
And as the dwarves were still making the stairways deep into the earth, and creating tunnels in search for mithril, all he could do was wait.
Moving to the table he sat down and looked at the territory map.
[Conquest mission: Slay the boss of Bloodfall Mountains to claim the territory. Reward: Epic Treasure, Mountain Eagle Nest]
'Mountain eagle? Sounds interesting..' But Jack discarded it after a thought and continued to study the map.
New borders had appeared since he had claimed the Dilato Fields and Silver Mountains.
From the Silver Mountains territory, the Dilato Fields occupied the south borders while the north was ocean, west the Black Mountain and the new territory in the east was a new mountain range which also held the small beach area.
'Rushing Mountain Range... So that's the name of the territory. It looks like it contains many smaller rivers rushing water down from the icy peaks of the mountains into the giant lake in the middle of the peninsula...'
Jack's eyes crossed over the map.
'The Bloodfall Mountains in the south and the sea beyond. The Rushing Mountain range and the sea to the north... That leaves a vast territory in the center, straight forward the territory is called Shiralka'li... Sha'ri's territory.'
Jack stood up and walked through the door with a final thought.
'It's time. I'm coming for you Sha'ri.'