Since she had finally encountered her enemies, Lan Qingyou wasn't about to let them go just like that, even if she couldn't strike them directly.
So, as Liu Yongfu turned to flee, Lan Qingyou placed a mark on him.
This mark allowed the caster to see everything the target saw through their eyes, no matter where they were.
However, this skill had a minor flaw: it could only be used on one person at a time, and once activated, the mark would automatically disappear.
But it didn't matter.
She had already clearly seen the prefix of the guild when Liu Yongfu came out of the Hunters' Association.
“Twilight Canyon, huh? That's a place worth remembering.”
“Remembering what?”
Someone overheard Lan Qingyou's murmur and asked, but Lan Qingyou simply smiled and shook her head slightly.
“By the way, I've already sorted out the first batch of the golems you ordered. Each one has a tag with your name on it.”
Lan Qingyou clapped her hands, and a series of automatic rolling doors nearby opened, revealing a variety of golems inside.
There were humanoid ones, as well as beast-shaped and insect-shaped ones, and even some that were nothing more than simple mechanical arms.
These had been customized according to the specific requirements, work nature, and environment of the Villa members.
For instance, 【Chariot】 Olf's factory only required a mix of simple mechanical arms and a few humanoid golems.
On the other hand, people like 【Empress】 Jiang Lan and 【Justice】 Riesling required humanoid ones.
【Lovers】 Frenna's breeding farm required a large mix of beast-shaped and humanoid golems.
In short, while perfectly fulfilling each client's needs, she was also developing more diverse styles of golems.
The industrial zone existed for two reasons: first, to make money, and second, to research and verify new golem designs.
This was Lan Qingyou's original purpose for establishing the industrial zone.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have given the position of industrial minister to Margaret, the 【Visionary Witch】.
Of course...
This level of customization was limited to clients making bulk transactions.
Those pipsqueaks who only bought a few or a dozen could just buy the standard models from the stalls; these industrial-grade machines weren't suited for them.
However, the witches would occasionally purchase them as well.
This was mainly to study the engraving of the magic circuits on them.
Normally, engraving mana circuits required a crystal pen, but they had Margaret.
Although replicating A-grade items was a bit difficult, Lan Qingyou had previously given her B-grade crystal pen to her.
Under the replication of Margaret's magic eye, they were able to fill the supply gap for the witches who wanted to learn golemcraft.
After taking the Villa members on a tour of the industrial zone, they each took their first batch of ordered golems and returned to their own territories.
They had been out for several days, and official business had piled up like a mountain, requiring their return to handle it.
Even Gu Xiaobei, whose shop was originally in the Abandoned Land, asked Lan Qingyou for an Away Scroll to relocate her shelter to the Forest Elf territory.
However, for the convenience of her patrons, the magic circle name 'Delight Restaurant' remained the same; only the location had changed.
Of course, this so-called 'handling of business' referred to the responsible Clan Leaders.
People like Lan Qingyou, Gu Xiaobei, and Vivian possessed no such sense of responsibility.
It was laughable. They were better suited to 'handling' the people who raised problems rather than handling official business. If they tried to process it, the workload would likely only increase.
Fortunately, the three of them were lucky ones; their clansmen carried the burden for them.
...
And so, after about a week of peaceful days, the excellent clanswoman Diana came to the large workshop in the core area to find Lan Qingyou, carrying a thick stack of documents.
Lan Qingyou was currently brewing potions in over a hundred pots.
This time, she wasn't using automatic golems; she was doing it personally.
She did this entirely to practice and prevent her skills from getting rusty.
“So you're saying the population of the entire Abandoned Land has reached a hundred million?”
Lan Qingyou, who had been brewing potions in the large workshop, almost dropped the World Tree branch in her hand into a pot when she heard Diana's report.
“It surged from nearly a million to a hundred million?”
“Yes.”
“In one week? Seven days?”
“Yes.”
“Are you absolutely sure?”
“There's no mistake.”
“...”
Lan Qingyou was somewhat speechless.
In just one week, the population had grown a hundredfold! And it was still rising!
“Currently, besides the original Typhon City, Abandoned City, and Abandoned Harbor, the twenty-four large villages we previously demarcated have basically begun deep development.”
“But even so, we still can't keep up with the immigrants arriving to register every day.”
“Moreover, I believe this is still just the wait-and-see period. If nothing goes wrong, we'll see an even larger immigration wave after the next mana tide ends.”
As she spoke, Diana pulled a stack of documents from the tall pile beside her, though she didn't hand them to Lan Qingyou.
Rather, even if she did, Lan Qingyou couldn't take them in her current state of brewing potions.
“An immigration wave, huh? Sounds quite terrifying. In that case, expand the twenty-four villages and then try to develop the mountains and the harbor.”
Just as Diana expected, Lan Qingyou had no intention of taking over the paperwork.
“Why the mountains and the harbor?”
Diana was somewhat puzzled.
She could understand developing the harbor to the south, but there was nothing to the north except snow-capped mountains. Surely they weren't planning to climb over the mountains to reach the adjacent regions.
“Because they are the north and south points.”
Faced with Diana's confusion, Lan Qingyou gave a very vague reply.
But she wasn't lying.
After all, these two points in the north and south were the key fulcrums for the entire magic circle.
So, with the population explosion, she naturally wanted to distribute some people to the necessary locations to serve as the mana intensity for the fulcrums.
She had learned this trick from the 'defense value' on the shield.
By using the population to increase the strength of each fulcrum, she could further enhance the strength of the entire magic circle.
“However, this rapid population growth doesn't necessarily seem like a good thing.”
Lan Qingyou frowned slightly.
Although this was something she had anticipated, the speed of it was truly unexpected for everyone.
After all, previously, everyone had been nitpicking and didn't want to come to Typhon City.
That was why the witches had stepped up their efforts, and the result was that they seemed to have overdone it a bit.
“It's probably because of the presence of other races, which gave them more options. After all, it's quite rare to see dozens of new races squeezed onto one map like this.”
“That's true, I just didn't expect that bit Bei Adolis added at the end would be so effective—it worked a little too well.”
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