At the site of the Whirlpool, under the setting sun, ant-like silhouettes are busy at the foot of the spiral tower, and scaffolding is laid along the outer wall of the tower.
When the Swamp Mother asked why she chose this place to build the Alchemy Tower, Chrissy replied that the Spiral Tower can be used to recycle waste, and the wonder of Anne in Agate Lake is enough.
The scope of the alchemy tower protects the surrounding area, and its placement will not affect its effect, and there will not be only one alchemy tower in the Land of Light.
Taking Midnight City as an example, the Land of Light requires four or more.
The Spiral Tower saves a lot of time as a foundation. The Alchemy Tower also needs alchemy items made of obsidian as the main material. The mining task was given to Worm by the Swamp Mother, but the obsidian brought by the first batch of merchants was rejected by Chrissy.
"Obsidian contaminated with the breath of the other world cannot be used as the main body of the alchemy tower."
Since the shortcut was inaccessible, the worms had no choice but to search for obsidian on the nearby Allen Peninsula. Fortunately, they found obsidian rock formations underground about 20 miles west of Watchtown on the back of Mount Sugard.
This is in line with Ophelia's description of "Sugard in hell is an extremely huge volcano".
Their sharp circle of mouthparts can easily crush obsidian, but there are only five worms in the Land of Light. They mine day and night, and even transporting them to the Land of Light cannot meet half the speed of building the alchemy tower. The workers are very interested in the alchemy tower.
Construction responds with amazing enthusiasm.
The Mother of the Marsh's tea party will start soon, and the ladies have discussed it and plan to use the railway from Belfast.
The old route does not stop at Watchtown, but the railway is only about 7 or 8 miles away from Watchtown. Worms can pile the mined obsidian there and then send it to Belfast by rail.
The plan was supported by the other party's sleepers and rails in the station warehouse. After simple renovation, the workers replaced the damaged sections of the railway. New problems emerged and were quickly solved. They were unable to install the steam engine and internal combustion engine into the locomotive in the short term, but they changed.
Ampere, which expands to the size of a small house after its shell, can serve as a locomotive.
On the third day, the residents of the Land of Light saw a strange sight as the mineral train slowly drove into Belfast, but there was no black smoke or whistle, only a centipede strangely transporting the carriage.
At the same time, Chris trained a group of alchemy apprentices in three days. They knew nothing but refining the main material of the alchemy tower, but this was enough.
The speed of the Alchemy Tower increases as a result.
As another wonder of the Land of Light, Annie is growing vigorously. The humanity left behind by Lu Li makes Annie grow every day. The growth potion refined by the alchemist Chris accelerates the process. Anna grows by tens of centimeters a day.
Tree trunks that grow and spread quickly and require three people to surround them only exist in virgin forests where no one cares.
And a week later, the arrival of allies accelerated Annie's growth.
The inhabitants of the Badlands and the emissaries of the plant habitats who boarded the ship from Storm Point arrived in the bay.
The former only increases the population and labor force in the Land of Light, while the tree people in the latter are like Dru Yin, improving Chris's growth potions, reducing side effects, improving effects, and taking over from farmers to take care of the farmland on the surface and in the refuge.
The original farmers were temporarily transferred to workers and alchemy apprentices.
The Land of Light visibly needs inhabitants, many inhabitants.
The Andrea and Heimgru have set sail again, targeting the Vena Dungeon. In addition to the twisted cultists who have become the crew, Claire and the undead, the exorcists will also set sail with the ship.
They will renovate the third, fourth, and possibly fifth ships found with the assistance of the Weiner Dungeon, and carry nearly a thousand selected residents back to the Land of Light.
Craftsmen, scholars, and alchemy apprentices are all the urgently needed population in the Land of Light. The Land of Light is vast and empty enough that even the Agate Lake Camp has not yet been filled up.
The exorcists will disembark at the Wiener Dungeon along the way, and then re-explore this dark, unknown wilderness, and expand the trade scope of the merchants.
And some of them are destined to never come back.
The departure of Claire and the undead did not affect the progress of the Land of Light. The scaffolding of the spiral tower climbed upward every day, and the bottom began to fill with the main body of the alchemy tower as dark as obsidian.
After teaching the second batch of apprentices, Chris took some of her energy away from the construction of the alchemy tower to teach alchemy in the afternoons. She became the deputy dean again, the deputy dean of the school building that didn't even have a name.
No one was idle, Claire and the undead went to the Weiner Dungeon. Ophelia, after taking the sequence potion prepared by Chris to isolate the other world, went to the steel plant to help provide a steady stream of magma;
With the help of her sister, Twisted Shadow, Elena controls the first batch of vortex cultists, but they no longer believe in the distant, dead, and unresponsive vortex god, but the new god in front of them;
Dracula is led by a team of knights to patrol his "team members" all day long. These bat monsters are indeed loyal to him, and they will follow even the wrong instructions;
Margaret is responsible for managing other lost souls who come to the Land of Light and the servants of the Viscount. Rushing to integrate them into the Land of Light will only bring chaos, and it will take time for them to accept order.
Even Pusius is busy. It has some "new scouts". In the process of cleaning up old Belfast, the twisted cultists will find the remaining strange cubs, whose new consciousness has been tampered with by the twisted shadow, and changed
They are products of loyalty to the Land of Light. They do not significantly increase the power of the Land of Light in a short period of time, but they may bring unexpected surprises at some point.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
On the 25th day after Lu Li disappeared, and the second week after Chrissy and others arrived in the Land of Light, Swamp Mother left the Agate Lake camp in the evening and came to Chrissy's laboratory and new home, a single-family house far away from residential areas.
Di.
"How long will it take?" She found Chris who was preparing a new sequence of potions in the alchemy room.
When she is alone, Chris will take off her hood. She is wearing a pair of glasses at this time, hiding her dark golden eyes behind: "About three months."
"The rainy season is coming soon, and there will be more and more weird things."
"There is no way, we have too few manpower. It took thousands of people thirteen months to build the first alchemy tower in Midnight City."
"Can it be expanded while using it?"
Chris paused, and her dark golden eyes fell on the Swamp Mother reflected in the glass: "But the effect will be much worse."
“Sheltered Agate Lake Campground?”
"Can."
"Then enable it first."
The last halo disappeared on the Agate Lake, and the strange fog rolled in from the deep sea, was briefly blocked outside the bay, poured into the land of light from the edge, and engulfed old Belfast.
Only the Agate Lake Campground was unaffected, with the lights on the stretches of houses.
The gentle breeze ripples the Agate Lake, and the quiet fluorescent island in the middle of the lake echoes the sound of rustling trees.
Tomorrow, it will be busy here again.
The Land of Light has prepared for the days to come without Lu Li.