NOVGO.NET Chapter 1274 Building Site
Chapter 1274 Building Site
Now that everyone they needed was in place, Karl went looking for Hugo, who could open them a portal to the building site. The city of Zilaz was huge, and sprawled along the shoreline with millions of residents. If their new building wasn’t in the same district, only a portal would get them there in a convenient amount of time.
Karl realized that he should have paid attention to the whole map, and not just the part around where the new facility was going, but it was a bit late for that.
Hugo knew what he wanted the moment that Karl arrived, followed by Dana, who had Tian sitting on her shoulder. The fox was getting a bit large for that, but at her level, Dana’s strength was more than enough to support a cat sized companion.
“Excellent timing. I will open the portal to save us a few minutes.” Hugo greeted them, then continued.
“The old building has already been removed, as it was just crude wood, and had nothing of value to save. On foot, it would take about thirty minutes to walk there in traffic, so using portals will be the best option, even though there isn’t a public one near the destination.”
That would be quite the commute for the people who wanted to work there, while living in the Alliance House. But Karl was sure that they could work something out.
Many of the lower ranked members were mages, and it didn’t take a massive amount of power to open a portal only a few kilometres away.
Hugo opened the portal into the middle of a construction site, which had fences erected around it for safety, and to keep some of the gawking spectators away. Unfortunately, because the streets were so crowded, many of the visitors preferred to fly, so they would be able to see exactly what was going on as the building went up.
Not that they would be able to understand most of it, but the process was sure to gather a crowd.
Geralt and Tian toured the area for a few minutes, and the fox listened carefully as the Dwarf described the small changes that he wanted to make to the plans that he was holding.
They were mostly about the thickness of various areas of the stone, as well as a number of details that he wanted to add to the outside of the building.
Those were all minor concerns to Tian. As long as it was mostly the same sort of stone, it would be effortless for him.
After a bit of discussion, Tian nodded happily.
[Karl, if you can start channelling mana to me, I will form the spell.]
“Do we need to move?” Hugo asked.
“It might be best. Let’s go stand at the corner of the lot, where there won’t be any major construction. They will redo the landscaping after the whole building is up, so we will be out of the way until then.” Karl agreed.
Everyone not directly involved in the construction moved to the edge, while Opal sent out an illusionary butterfly as her representative, so she could show the dwarf what she wanted.
There were only a few things that would matter to her plans, and they were all on the outside of the building. For the first few minutes, nothing seemed to be happening, despite the massive amount of mana that Tian was using. However, they hadn’t started from the obvious points, they had started by building a foundation and basement for the building that was suitably durable for Dwarven construction.
Only when that was finished did the building start to appear.
First, some inner rooms, the foundational base for the upper arena, then the outer shops, the pillars, and the oval bowl of the arena itself.
They had everyone’s attention now, as that sort of construction was impossible to ignore, even if you were trying not to notice the massive amount of mana being used.
The building was taking shape within twenty minutes of them starting, and Tian began borrowing the items that Karl had created, so he could place them within the solid stone of the building, where nobody would be able to find them. Some were still easy to access, like the illusionary stones that were made for the shops. Those would need to have their settings altered fairly regularly, so Tian didn’t want to bury them and make everyone go to some weird spot in the basement just to set up for a party.
Others were deliberately hidden and buried so that nobody would ever know the secrets that were involved in their creation. The plinth for the arena, the specialty stones that would make Epic Golems that had a skill which wasn’t innate to their base powers.
But that wasn’t the hard part.
The true difficulty would come when Opal joined the group and started to layer all the illusions so that they could make solid objects inside the Illusionary Domains.
That was a huge draw of his power, just to get the spells functional. Enough that Karl actually started to use some of the stored power in the Tiny World’s Mana Crystal to supplement the building.
The rooms weren’t too bad, but when Opal started in on the staff, Karl learned something very curious. The Dark Elven Priestesses were predictably challenging to create. However, when they created the Bunny Girls for the ice cream and soda shop, who had nearly the same design, they were significantly easier to make.
Opal noticed first, as she was the one creating them, and quickly altered all the back of house staff, the chefs and others who needed a skill, to be beastkin, or actual beasts.
Making most of them Bunnies, and the rest Lamia reduced the amount of mana needed by two thirds.
So, as she continued, the rest of the staff was changed as well.
The store staff that wasn’t specified in the designs were all changed. Most of them were made into Werebears, which Opal found to require only slightly more effort than actual beasts, but the arena stand food vendors, who were originally planned to be dragonkin were altered to be badger kin. Those were also easy to make, but Opal didn’t understand why Karl’s magic stones were giving her headaches with dragonkin. They were at least as much beast as the badger kin. Not nearly as much as the Werebears, though.
But then she continued with some Dark Elves, for the additional flavours of cuteness factor, and found that they were just as easy as the Werebears.
There was no logic to what was hard to make and why.
At least not to Opal.