The Abandoned Prince With The Otherworldly Shopping System

The structure Luke had used in the Great City of Selene was also employed here, and the process had commenced.

The work in this ENORMOUS city would take much less time because Luke had not a hundred elves at his command, but tens of thousands of people who knew exactly what they were doing.

The areas were dug up, and roads began to be built, supported by magic to bear the weight of the buildings, without damaging them, right up to their upper sections.

In just one day, Luke had spent over fifteen thousand gold pieces, and this expenditure was only to complete the roads for one-third of the city.

In just one day, this entire area had been completed.

The following day, Luke gave an order. This order was to remove and store all items of value found within Wirgo Manor.

Hundreds of thousands of years' worth of documents, portraits, swords, shields, armour, and much more had been taken out and stored in over seven hundred spell bags.

After that, Luke's first action was to alter the Wirgo Manor and place a new manor in the same location.

Of course, this manor would have its own automatic water centres. Luke absolutely had to build a water reservoir for the Wirgo family and the city of Esphia, just as he had done in his own city.

Still, the priority was to rebuild each house.

With the order given to the public, every house within the first thousand kilometres of this city, which had a radius of three thousand kilometres, began to be renovated one by one and converted into three-storey houses with the revised blueprints following discussions.

This took exactly three days.

Meanwhile, roads were built within a two-thousand-kilometre radius of the city and extended up to three thousand kilometres.

Within a week, Luke managed to transform four hundred thousand buildings, sleeping only two hours a day.

Now, Luke's task was to establish a large water reservoir to ensure the city could function directly.

Luke took nearly three hundred Earth mages with him and walked to a point in the middle of the nearby mountain range.

Just as he had done in his own city, once he had built the water reservoir and filled it with water, it was time to rest.

It was clear how exhausted he was after sleeping for a whole day.

Still, there was work to be done.

After waking up around noon, Luke had taken a quick shower, dressed properly, and left Wirgo Manor.

Before going to sleep the night before, he had asked the only rune circle mage in the city to move as many workers as possible to the other side of town, to the empty field.

After a day, nearly twenty thousand people had gathered on the right side of the city and started waiting in tents.

Luke would, to put it briefly, be helping these people here without pause for the entire week. His goal was to build houses in a thousand-kilometre area and erect nearly two hundred thousand homes. This would cost nearly twenty thousand, but the most expensive part would be the roads.

The reason for this was that the original area where Esphia, the city of the Wirgos, was founded was flat. The roads leading to the mountains, however, consisted of areas with constant potholes and steep slopes.

This meant that Luke had to fill in the roads, prepare better drafts of the areas to be excavated, and observe the areas before starting work.

Still, the soldiers of the north, the people who agreed to work for Luke, were not weak. It would not be wrong to say they were beasts capable of processing not just a thousand kilometres, but even two thousand kilometres in a week.

Precisely for this reason, he had left the construction of the enormous roads stretching up to a thousand kilometres towards the water reservoir in the western part of the city, which was flat like the main city itself, to the hundred thousand people who had already set out on the journey.

The ancient dragon Shenhal himself was the one who transported the materials there.

While Luke slept, in a single night, enough Moonstone, iron pieces, and round stones to pave roads across a vast area of at least five hundred kilometres, covering the flat and zigzagging terrain, had been transported by the Ancient Dragon Shenhal.

Upon waking, Luke asked the wizard who could draw rune circles to send him east as well, and he eventually managed to reach the east.

He realised that thousands of people were waiting for him in this area he had reached.

Luke gave the order to start work immediately, and this massive army, consisting of soldiers who had been fighting for the Wirgo family and the northern walls since their youth, set to work.

They worked so seamlessly that Luke would have gladly spent hundreds of thousands of gold pieces to have these people while building the roads of his own city.

Although the roads of his city had already been built, this was merely a symbol, yet the fact that these were his true thoughts was an unshakeable reality.

Luke had purchased hundreds of horse-drawn carts and, naturally, horses from the shop panel, and had helped transport tons of Moonstone and the necessary materials.

Over forty per cent of the roads at the points marked on the maps covering an area of a thousand kilometres had been built in just half a day.

This required enormous coordination and endless stamina, and the soldiers of the north possessed both.

They hadn't rested for a single second, hadn't paused even to catch their breath, choosing instead to breathe while struggling to carry and place things.

Nothing had passed their lips except the dry bread and vegetable soup they ate in the morning, but none of them cared.

They had to protect the Walls of the North as best they could, and Luke Ibn Alphonsine, the sole prince of Hiera, was making a great effort to ensure this happened.

None of them could be selfish. The walls of the North, which had not been expanded for a long time, had been enlarged to the point where they merged with the mountains. Now, what needed to be done was to build proper roads and erect houses. After that, there would be a large influx of people here from other cities.

There was no way it wouldn't happen.

The North would have more warriors, and the walls would be better protected.

While all this was happening, Luke had climbed the walls with a few soldiers and then began to carry out a careful observation.

Luke was aware that there were millions of soldiers in the city. In this situation, installing new weapons on the walls would be quite useful.

This city could already bring dragons down from the sky, but Luke could make a significant contribution to take this situation to an even more extreme level.

The ballistae on the walls of his own city could also be installed here.

After Luke briefed the soldiers on the plans, he took their opinions into account, and without even consulting Hannah, the city's leader in Kassadin's absence, the ballistas were immediately deployed across an area spanning two hundred kilometres.

The top of the wall was equipped with ballistas that could at least help the soldiers defend themselves.

Luke would have done more, but he had completed the task in exactly four hours, trudging along for two hundred kilometres.

There was no need to mention how reluctant he was to do more.

By the end of the day, Luke had managed to erect twelve thousand three hundred and ninety-six houses, taking only about a hundred soldiers with him, as the darkness of night fell and the cold of the north brought everyone to the brink of freezing.

Of course, this scenario meant that no one needed to sleep in tents.

When the next day arrived, the remaining houses were completed within sixteen hours, placed one by one by Luke, and in such a short time, over two hundred thousand houses had been erected in the vast area.

Luke's work in the eastern region of the north was now complete.

The maintenance of this place and many other things were now directly under the responsibility of the Wirgo family.

Luke could have tried to return himself, but he did not want to spend days travelling.

It was easier for him to call out to the Ancient Dragon Shenhal, still sleeping in the middle of Esphia, from a point over a thousand kilometres away.

"Come," said Luke, his voice so commanding, so authoritative that the soldiers around him, even those who had fought magical beasts for years, couldn't help but tremble.

The Ancient Dragon Language was truly in a different league.

After a fifteen-minute wait, the Ancient Dragon Shenhal appeared directly where Luke had called out to it and transported Luke straight back to the centre of Esphia.

Luke was drenched in sweat; it would be accurate to say he stank.

After entering Wirgo Manor and taking a long shower, he reported to Hannah Wirgo and then went to sleep.

After a full day's sleep, he set off westward once more, this time with the Ancient Dragon Shenhal.

This time, he had to deal with the West. He could finish everything sooner than he thought and return home.

He needed to tell Zoey how much he missed her.