Chapter 83: Building a New City
Golem Experience Infusion, a spell necessary for making a golem, injects a set of standard combat skills and combat experience packages into the golem control core, allowing the blank golem control core to understand what combat is, how to fight, how to identify enemies, how to understand commands, how to deal with command logic conflicts and a series of other issues.
To put it simply, this thing can allow a blank golem control core to acquire a series of knowledge and instantly become a warrior who can skillfully use various weapons.
This set of memories is standard, and the memories of all golems are exactly the same, which is just right for mass production of standard golems.
Golems with the same function have the same memory, but the memory infusion packages of the same golem may not be the same. There are several sets of memory for clay golems alone, including combat type and life type. The combat type is also divided into human form and beast form.
The main cost of a combat humanoid clay golem is to find a craftsman to carve the golem body. Li Qing made it by hand himself, which is very fast and almost free of charge.
The only cost is the labor cost of drawing the magic pattern and the cost of a soul essence. The total cost...
Not really high.
However, Li Qing did not focus too much on the clay golems. The lowest level ones were too weak. He would at most build some to cut wood and dig soil. He planned to use rock golems as the main combatant. If he got a steel golem in the future, then...
"wrong!"
Li Qing returned to the second level of the Divine Domain Ranch and rummaged through the many mountains of trophies, finding a dozen rock golems and a half-damaged steel golem.
This was the spoils of war from the previous battle with Hashem.
The bodies of these objects were damaged by the impact of meteorites, but the damage was not serious and they remained largely intact.
but……
Li Qing's eyes fell on the missing half of the iron golem's leg and he shook his head.
If the damage was only caused by surface deformation due to impact, I could still restore the structural magic circle of the Iron Golem through self-study, but now a small piece is missing, which means the whole is incomplete, so it is of no use.
You can ask a master of constructed golem to repair it, but it is impossible to deduce the entire magic array system of the Iron Golem from the broken pieces.
However, the rock golems will be able to repair themselves after they learn how to do it.
Li Qing contacted his mentor through the Divine Realm, told him about the situation of the Iron Golem, and asked:
"I wonder if the teacher will repair this, and if so, how much will it cost?"
Nie Yang checked the damage to the golem and said:
“This type of repair is troublesome and the success rate is not high.”
“And the cost of repair is high. Instead of repairing it, it’s better to just redo it.”
"Well, how much does it cost to redo it?"
"The market price is around 60 million, but you don't have the authority and are not allowed to buy this kind of thing during your training, unless you make it yourself."
Li Qing...
"excuse me!"
There is nothing we can do about it.
Without complete runes and magic circles, he couldn't figure it out, so he could only put it aside and make a rock golem for the time being, and study it later when he had time.
The rock golem has a standard height of about three meters and is made entirely of rock.
Generally speaking, the harder the rock, the better. Theoretically, diamond, which is harder than steel, is also a rock, commonly known as diamond.
But diamond is too hard and difficult to process. To process diamond into a standard form is thousands of times more difficult than making an iron golem.
At least steel can be melted and injection molded into one piece, but diamond cannot be melted and injection molded.
If diamond is used to make a rock golem, theoretically it will have at least sixth-order extraordinary combat power once it is built.
But in reality this is not possible because the rock golem's rune array cannot drive such a solid material.
Why are golems divided into third-level earth golems, fifth-level rock golems, sixth-level extraordinary steel golems, and eighth-level extraordinary diamond golems?
This is mainly because the power brought by the materials used to construct the golems is different, and different rune arrays can activate different golems.
Given the hardness of the diamond golem, the rune array of an ordinary rock golem cannot be activated at all, it's that simple.
Therefore, he could only use stones that were no harder than steel to make rock golems.
The most commonly used material for rock golems is granite, which is hard enough, common, and can be found in a wide variety of locations, such as in mountainous areas.
Li Qing did not come up with any new ideas next. After all, human civilization had already known the formula for making these golems, and after so many years of research, a better method would have been discovered long ago, and it would have been impossible for him to wait for improvements.
In the following days, Li Qing studied while making rock golems, and occasionally spent time making sections of city walls.
The construction of the territory was also changing steadily. Nearly nine thousand people in the territory were divided into two parts. One part continued to cultivate the second level of the Divine Domain Farm and the newly unlocked third level, while the other part continued to dig the foundation of the city wall.
With more people, efficiency will be higher, after all, it’s just digging, not building.
By the time Li Qing had figured out the structure of the rock golem and understood the rune array and started to try to draw it, the foundation of the new city wall had been almost dug.
He interrupted his studies, came to the foundation of the city wall that was originally dug, cast a flying spell on himself and flew above the foundation.
He opened the space in his palm, and a rectangular column with a diameter of ten meters slowly slid down from the vortex and just got stuck in the foundation groove.
After waiting for a while, he changed his position and took out another standard city wall that had been made long ago. He placed it against the edge of the previous city wall, and inserted the two two-meter-wide and three-meter-long protrusions into the depressions that were also two meters wide and three meters long, and slowly slid them into them.
With a dull sound, the two sections of the city wall were fitted together tightly.
It's just that the two sections are slightly different in height, but it's not a big problem. As the newly lowered city wall compacts the soil underneath, the two sections will gradually become level. But once the number of them increases, you can clearly see the uneven heights of different sections of the city wall.
This is the difference between one-piece molding and segmented assembly, which may be uncomfortable for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
For example, Li Qing.
He has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder and has always thought it was ugly, but there was nothing he could do about it. This time, he deliberately made this slot to align the city wall just to make it look better.
But after playing ten segments in a row, he suddenly stopped.
He flew above the city wall, looked around for a while, scratched his head, and suddenly put away the city wall sections by sections.
An Erqiu, who was watching from the side, asked curiously:
"Boss, this is well arranged, why are you putting it away ?"
Li Qing licked his lips and said:
“I’ll change the arrangement.”
All the city walls in the palm space were dismantled, and a new city wall was constructed from scratch.
The exit of the palm space has a diameter of only ten meters, which means that only objects with a diameter of no more than ten meters can be put in and taken out. However, the internal space of the palm space has a diameter of one hundred meters, so...
Li Qing thought that he could change his idea and make walls that were ten meters wide and ten meters high, but one hundred meters long, and then take them out and lay them flat as the lower foundation.
Then build another section of wall that is also ten meters wide and high and one hundred meters long and place it on top as the upper wall.
If you want, you can even add a third layer to make a super city wall 30 meters high.
At that time, he will make mortise and tenon structures on the left and right ends of each section of the city wall. At the same time, a large number of uneven square structures will be made on the top of the lower layer, corresponding to the bumps and depressions on the bottom of the upper layer.
When the two sections of the city wall are stacked on top of each other, the convex and concave parts of the joints interlock with each other, so the upper and lower walls will be firmly fastened and will not slip. Even if they are bombarded by huge rocks or impacted by war beasts, they will not be pushed away.
There are mortise and tenon structures between layers, and between sections as well. This way the city wall is of uniform height and straight, which makes it both strong in defense and beautiful in appearance. Most importantly, it can be disassembled.
Moreover, it was easier for him to do so. After all, a hundred-meter city wall originally required ten sections to be put together, but now only two sections were needed.
It is worth mentioning that the mortise and tenon structure between the two layers is staggered. The upper and lower pieces are not aligned, and the staggered space is exactly ten meters, so that the upper layer can be placed on the corner of the lower layer when turning.
However, this is good in every way, except that it is very troublesome to install, as you need to adjust the position. If you make a mistake and it doesn't match, it will be very troublesome to move it.
But as long as it can move, it's not a big problem.
There's nothing to do now anyway.
It took him almost a week just to prepare and adjust the templates of the upper and lower city walls, design the door openings of the city gate tower and the internal soldier storage hole structure, and determine the position and mortise and tenon structure of the arrow tower slots at regular intervals above the city wall. But once the templates were completed, it was easy to assemble them.
A long section of the city wall slowly slid down from the whirlpool like shit, one end fell heavily into the foundation trench, and the other end was still connected to the space in his palm. Li Qing controlled the space in his palm to fly to the right, making sure that the city wall was stuck in the foundation trench after being lowered.
"boom!"
The entire territory was shaking. A strong wind blew sand and rocks into the air, causing many apprentices watching around to flee in panic.
Li Qing looked around and made sure it was placed properly, then went to the other end and began to put down the second piece in the same way.
He planned to put the lower layer in place first, and then put the upper layers in a staggered manner.
As for the city gates and other things, of course they will be repaired later.
He completed one circle first, determined the four city gate holes and the soldier storage holes on the side, the space under each arrow tower and corner tower, made ladders for easy going up and down, as well as the grooves for a circle of city walls to be built around them, and after the most critical location for placing the city gate was dug, he began to prepare for the upper layer.
Excluding the five-meter foundation trench below, the actual height of the lower city wall is only about five meters, and it is covered with protruding or recessed cylindrical or square structures.
After the upper layer was assembled according to the template, Li Qingfei flew to one end of the city wall, slowly released it according to the position, and smashed it heavily at the designated position.
Speaking of which, the space in the palm of my hand is really amazing. Such a long stone must weigh tens of thousands of tons, but it can be held firmly and not slide down.
Repeat the same procedure, align the bottom part, and then slowly lower it diagonally towards the lower section of the city wall.
Looking from below, you can see that this section of the city wall has many depressions or protrusions dug out underneath that correspond to the staggered levels below. Once they are put down and stuck, they will never slip.
A moment later, there was another earth-shattering roar, and a huge rock that was a hundred meters long and weighed ten thousand tons came down heavily and was embedded in the lower city wall tightly.
"good!"
If you have a good start, the rest will be easy.
Over the next week, the apprentices who settled in Li Qingshen Domain could hear dozens of deafening noises every day, and occasionally continuous thumping sounds.
This noise lasted for almost half a month, until one day they heard cheers and some otaku scholars and mages came out of their houses, only to find that the city wall had been built.
Walking out of the castle, you can see a towering city wall that is one thousand meters long and wide and fifteen meters high, surrounding the Divine Realm Castle.
The height of fifteen meters is much lower than the expected twenty meters, but it is already very good. After all, it is equivalent to the height of a five-story building.
The reason why another layer was not added was mainly because there were not enough stones, otherwise another layer would have to be added at a lower level.
After resting for two days, Li Qing began to assemble the main building, and placed turrets, corner towers, arrow towers, etc. on the city wall.
These are all equipped with reserved slots. The bottoms of these arrow towers and corner towers will be inserted into the reserved inner slots. At the same time, thick stone pillars will extend from the bottom and be inserted into the reserved slots. The overall structure will definitely be very stable.
After doing all this, he built four urn cities with an inner diameter of about 100 meters inside the four square city gates.
The wall of the city wall is also ten meters wide, fifteen meters high, and one hundred meters long. It is formed as an integral whole by stacking two walls together.
After finishing all these, eight thick and large city gates were built.
The wooden boards are made of high-density and high-toughness wood fibers, and are filled with layer upon layer of wire mesh to resist impact. The city gate is 20 centimeters thick and weighs several tons. It takes more than a dozen strong men to open and close it.
At this point, the first phase of construction of the new divine domain has been roughly completed.
The next step for the city wall is just to take care of some details, such as adjusting the ground of the city wall, making some drainage ditches and the like.
In addition, some ladders should be built inside each arrow tower and corner tower on both sides of the city gate to facilitate going up and down.
There are some stone buildings at regular intervals behind the city wall. In addition to being used as military camps, they are mainly used to store military supplies. At the same time, a wide stone staircase is built based on these buildings of different heights to facilitate soldiers to climb the city wall from different locations.
In addition, he dug two adjacent foundation trenches every fifty meters or so behind the city wall, and then built arrow towers about ten meters higher than the city wall and placed them behind the city wall.
Being in a commanding position, one can launch missiles to attack those outside the city walls.
You can also attack the enemies on the wall from a high position if the enemy attacks the wall.
After finishing all these, the city can be considered to be truly presentable.
Hundreds of soldiers were withdrawn from the inner city barracks and took position in the new city wall.
However, six hundred soldiers were enough to guard the castle before, and even felt like too many. But now that a new city has been built, this number of people is seriously insufficient.
Li Qing happened to have more than 10 million in his hands, so he simply asked his mentor to order a batch of imperial military promotion cards.
A total of 2,000 Imperial Infantry Promotion Cards, each costing 2,000 yuan, costing a total of 4 million yuan.
A total of 2,000 Imperial Archer Promotion Cards, each costing 2,500 yuan, costing a total of 5 million yuan.
There were 200 Imperial Cavalry cards in total, each costing 15,000 yuan, totaling 3 million yuan.
The human race card was not purchased because there are already 8,438 humans and 710 dwarves in his divine domain, plus 600 troops, which is close to the upper limit of 10,000 people in the zero-level divine domain.
There are only two ways to increase the population limit.
One is to upgrade the level of the divine domain, which requires promotion to a formal war lord.
Another method is very simple. Use the contribution of the Eternal Divine Tree to increase the upper limit. One contribution increases the population upper limit by 10,000.
