Struggle in the Steam Age

The height of the finally grown World Tree was not as high as Lawrence and the others had imagined before, but after reaching a certain height, it stretched around, and finally formed a giant tree like a big umbrella. At the same time, when the crown of this giant tree expanded to the surroundings, roots that looked like the aerial roots of a banyan tree fell from the branches to the ground. Supported those branches that were constantly expanding to the surrounding.

"It's actually grown in place at one time!" After flying around the big tree quickly in the air and spinning up and down for a long time, Nora floated in front of Lawrence and said with shock. "Except for the mother tree of the World Tree in the Elven King Court on Yongju Island, this second-class World Tree belonging to the tribe will be of this size once it grows."

"That is to say, with the instillation of a lot of the power of your faith, has this tree reached an adult state now?" Lawrence asked dizzyly after listening to Nora's words, because the tree in front of him The growth process was mostly inconsistent with the knowledge about this tree that I had previously obtained from the seeds.

"No, this tree just looks like it has entered adulthood." Nara shook her head reluctantly and said, as the owner of this space, she can clearly feel the specific condition of the tree now. "That is equivalent to the condition of the elves 100 years after planting under normal circumstances."

"In terms of human lifespan, this tree has just left its infancy and entered the juvenile period. Except for the appearance of an adult world tree, most adult world trees should have no abilities. For example, magic. Defensive ability, for example, the magic adjustment in the surrounding environment—"

"Stop, stop, don't talk about these temporarily unusable things." After listening to a lot of abilities that are temporarily unavailable, Lawrence interrupted the little doll and asked. "I want to know what abilities this tree can use now. I think this powerful magic plant shouldn't be unable to do anything now."

"There are also skills that can be used. Excluding the useless things like fallen leaves that can be used as heat-relieving drinks, there are two main skills." Nara nodded gently and said. "One is to eliminate invisibility. Anything with extraordinary power that enters within 1.5 kilometers of this tree as the center of the circle will be detected, unless such a thing or a person with such extraordinary power reaches the sanctuary or above. Level."

"Outside, this skill should be very useful, but here it seems a bit tasteless." Lawrence said quite pertinently after thinking about it. After all, this place now belongs to the astral plane of Lawrence and the others, and there are a lot of very confusing traps outside. According to Nora, as long as it is not a **** or a veteran demigod, it is impossible to lock this plane and break through the huge star realm.

So in this way, the detection function of the World Tree seems to be basically useless. After all, it is impossible for a transcendent with a too low level to enter this plane, and those who can enter here will naturally not be discovered by this tree as long as they want to hide. Because of this, Lawrence said that this function is a bit tasteless.

"Of course I know this ability is useless." Nara shrugged slightly depressed and continued. "But another skill is very useful, and that is to change the surrounding environment, so that the surrounding area of ​​five kilometers becomes very suitable for the life of intelligent creatures. Simply put, it is a large air conditioner here, with an air conditioner and a humidifier. ."

"That sounds pretty good." Lawrence shrugged. Everything is good in this world, but the climate completely mimics the climate around the area where the ancient Nile civilization was born. So that this place is under high temperature control most of the time. Even if an extraordinary person like Lawrence stayed here for a long time, he felt that the temperature was a bit too high, not to mention the Jackal with thick hair.

Therefore, if the surrounding temperature can become comfortable, the city should soon be welcomed by these jackals. In fact, when the tree was growing, jackals were already curiously poking their heads here. Only after seeing Lawrence and Nara, they retreated automatically.

In the following time, Lawrence and the others returned to the temple and began planning for a new city. Okay, now they don't need to plan the city itself, just plan a canal from the big river to the world tree. Therefore, it took only half an hour, and a 17-kilometer-long, 35-meter-wide, and 5-meter-deep canal appeared on the sand table.

"About how long will this river be repaired?" After planning the entire canal, Nora turned her head and looked at the Supreme Priest and the highest person in the temple and asked, "I mean, it will not hinder other work. The time required under the current conditions. After all, we cannot delay other work."

"If this is the case, the number of people on the construction site can only be maintained at around 5,000." The supreme priest with white hair and white linen robe made a calculation on the papyrus and said, "If all goes well. , We can finish it in about eight months."

"Is it enough for 5,000 people for eight months?" Lawrence made a hasty calculation and felt a little surprised, because the work speed was already close to the work efficiency of those workers with the help of steam machinery he had seen in the White Eagle Federation before. But now these jackals have only simple steel tools in their hands.

"Of course it's enough, submissive." In the eyes of the jackals, Lawrence is the number one apostle of their **** Nora, so they treat Lawrence as if the outside world treats the highest leaders of religions. "And because we want to demonstrate the kindness of our lord, we still set the daily work efficiency of each person according to a relatively low standard."

"Minimum standards-oh, I understand." When the elderly jackal said, Lawrence suddenly discovered that one of the problems he had missed in his calculations was the physical strength of these jackals over three meters high. They are much stronger than humans. According to them, every Jackal is equivalent to three and a half ordinary humans when doing these physical tasks.

If the average efficiency is calculated in this way, then their arrangement is indeed very reasonable~www.wuxiahere.com~ Seeing Lawrence Nara fell into contemplation, the jackal thought that the two men were struggling with the speed of the canal construction, so After a brief thought, he gave another good news that was not certain.

"Actually, the number of manpower that can be transferred in the previous calculation is purely based on the manpower that can be mobilized now. However, this time period is also the most tense time for our manpower. Because we need a lot of manpower to grow wheat and flax." The white-haired jackal explained to Lawrence and the others. "After all the crops are harvested, we can allocate two to three times as much manpower to help on the construction site during the slack period."

For an agricultural nation, this kind of busy farming period does not provide too many people to work. However, a lot of manpower can generally be spared during the slack period. Just like why those servitudes in ancient China would theoretically choose the slack period, so did the jackals.

"Anyway, agriculture is first." Nora warned seriously, but she knew what the fanatics would do sometimes, so she simply warned them clearly in advance. "If you delay other things because of the construction of this canal, I will be very angry."

"Understand, my lord." The jackal's supreme priest folded his hands across his chest, and then bowed solemnly to Lawrence and the others. "We will do all this according to your instructions."