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After the territory upgrade was completed, a message appeared in Haru's mind.
[Congratulations, City Lord! Your Angel City has been upgraded to an Intermediate City. Its direct territory has expanded to two hundred kilometers of diameter and the scope of influence of the city has increased to one thousand kilometers of diameter!]
[The Defense of the Castle Heart has increased tenfold!]
[Your Angel City's influence and reputation on the Endless Continent have greatly increased!]
[Special Reminder 1: The Forest Giant Kingdom's hatred towards your Angel Castle has greatly increased!]
[Special Reminder 2: Dragon Nest's hatred towards your Angel Castle has greatly increased!]
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"Two hundred kilometers in diameter of the direct territory!" Haru took a deep breath. This was really too large! Even with his improved eyesight, he could not see the city walls because the distance was too far.
What was the direct territory? It was the area surrounded by the walls that marked the boundaries of the Angel City. In this area, Haru could build a large number of buildings at will.
The area outside the walls of the castle, within a thousand kilometers in diameter, belongs to Angel City as its area of influence. Invasion of this area with an army without Haru's approval was equivalent to starting a war.
"Such a large territory won't be that easy to defend!" Given the size of his army, it was very difficult for Haru to defend the city walls with a diameter of 200 km. After all, the perimeter of the city wall was over 628 kilometers.
He only had about 5,000 troops under his command. Even if they were all stationed to guard the walls, there would only be one soldier every 125 meters. This meant that he was extremely understaffed! A castle territory as large as Haru would need to have at least an army with 100,000 troops as well as more than a million subjects to be considered normal.
The population increased at a speed that was completely unable to keep up with the territory's upgrade speed which caused his territory to be exaggeratedly large, but the population to be pitifully small. The other Castle Lords had a sufficient amount of troops to manage their small territory.
Haru's only problem wasn't just the small population. The buildings in his territory were pitifully few. At a glance, other than the main castle, there were very few buildings around it and the rest of the city was empty, for about a hundred kilometers till the city walls. Rather than looking like a city, it looked more like a tribe.
Haru turned to look at Sylvana and told her about this issue. After hearing this, Sylvana thought about it and said, "Lord Almighty, how about relocating the Elves of our tribe and the Gnomes from the underground world?"
In the Elf Tribe, that was more than a hundred kilometers away, there were about three to four thousand Nature Elves. All of them were birthed by Sylvana herself and were native creatures of the Endless Continent.
As for the underground world, the Gnome Kingdom and a large Gnome population of approximately twenty thousand Gnomes in total. If all the Elves and Gnomes were moved over, the population of Angel City would exceed thirty thousand.
In addition, they could move a group of Dwarves from the Dwarf Kingdom to Angel City. This way, the population of Angel City could reach around 40,000. This way, the huge Angel Castle wouldn't look as empty. Moreover, the city's defense would also improve.
Haru nodded in agreement. After thinking for a moment, he said, "You can divide the direct territory of the castle into four areas, separated by city walls! The Gnomes would live in the outer city, the Dwarves live in the middle city, and the Legion of Light would live in the inner city. As for the core region of the city, only the Angels and Elves will be allowed to live here!"
Hearing Haru's words, a sweet smile instantly appeared on Sylvana's face. Being able to live in the core area of the castle meant that the Elves had a high status in his heart. Although it could not be compared to the Angels, it was still far higher than other races. This was enough!
Haru took out the blueprints that his army had obtained after conquering the Dwarf Kingdom. He wanted to see if there were any city wall blueprints in there. If there weren't, he would go to the Hyperspace Trading Channel to buy a few of them. After all, his current wealth was so vast that buying a few construction blueprints was nothing.
He counted and found that there were more than seventy blueprints obtained during this war. All of them were unidentified. He immediately identified them one by one without any hesitation. At the same time, he looked at the new status for Angel Castle.
[Angel Castle]
[Rank: Intermediate City]
[Ordinary buildings: Warehouse, Residential Buildings, Noble Courtyards, Wall, Watchtower, Crafting Forge…]
[Special Buildings: Angel Reincarnation Pool, Elven Mother Tree, Holy Light Temple, Altar of Faith, Space Teleportation Magic Array, Holy Monastery]
[Upgrade Requirement: 7 million units of Wood, 5 million units of Stone, 2 million units of Refined Iron.]
[Next Rank: Advanced City]
[Current Status: Invincible]
[Current Camp: Light, Kind, Order]
"The next upgrade will level my territory up to an Advanced City! What I'm lacking right now is Wood and Stone. I need more than 6 Million units of Wood and more than 2 Million units of Stone. As for the Refined Iron, I have 4.3 Million units so I've already satisfied the upgrade requirements! In other words, as long as the Wood and Stone meet the upgrade requirements, I'll only be one level away from a legitimate Kingdom!" Haru grinned. He then turned off the status panel of his territory.
After that, he glanced at his current reserves of Power Stones and Magic Crystals —
Power Stones: 1,292,185
Magic Crystals: 6,018
"I've gathered about 140,000 Power Stones and about 3200 Magic Crystals while conquering the Dwarf Kingdom! This kind of harvest far exceeds the time when we conquered the Gnome Kingdom."
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