According to the estimates, construction would be completed within three months. Once finished, the towns could not remain empty. Unmanned towns had no value. They produced nothing and protected nothing.
Because of this, Ethan had been extremely busy recruiting new residents.
However, these two towns were not small settlements. To operate properly, each required nearly two hundred thousand people. Gathering such a huge population was never an easy task.
Fortunately, the slave incident had brought him many people who were still struggling just to survive. These people had lost their homes, their families, and their dignity. With the construction of the new towns, they could finally breathe freely again. In this way, Ethan fulfilled the promise he had once made.
As for recruiting people from other noble territories, that was only possible on a smaller scale.
