The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Although the outcome of the competition was already decided, Taishan wanted to see the quality of the spears crafted by Atilan. He directly picked up the best one and hurled it.

The spear transformed into a sharp arrow, accurately hitting the target 320 meters away.

"How can it go so far!? Atilan, you can create magical weapons!"

Taishan was very excited. Close-combat druids were the individuals among all druids who relied most on equipment for battle. Although he himself had mastered some druidic magic for crafting equipment,

he could tell at a glance that Atilan was not using druidic magic, but dragon magic. The fresh water element carried a strong aura of ocean wyverns. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that this magical equipment was only a semi-finished product.

Taishan hesitated, opening his mouth as if to speak, but in the end, he didn't say anything. Atilan saw through his thoughts and said cheerfully:

"Want to learn? I'll teach you."

"Really?"

"Of course, it's true. Once you've learned it, remember to craft a weapon and armor for the leaders of my subordinates, as a thank you."

The first weapon-making method that Atilan taught Taishan was the obsidian sword.

Using wooden boards, the polished obsidian blades were inlaid on the edge. The evenly spaced serrated sword blades were very aesthetically pleasing. The wooden boards were then carved with patterns, completing the crafting of a magnificent obsidian serrated sword.

Looking at the splendid weapon before him, Taishan couldn't help but reach out and stroke it.

"It's so beautiful. How could I not design such a great weapon?"

The serrated sword was beautiful, but without mastering the correct usage, even if Atilan had inscribed runes of sturdiness and lightness, the blade would easily break.

Both the obsidian spear and the serrated sword were weapons used by jaguar warriors. Atilan gave the first serrated sword to Sandri, who was dressed in leopard print, and said with a smile:

"I'll leave the green manure for the wasteland to you. This sword is your reward. Although you lost the bet, I can't just give nothing."

The leopard woman went to find the wine woman for seeds in frustration. Atilan then said to Taishan:

"You are skilled in using the earth element. By slightly transforming my method of polishing obsidian, you can use it. The key to magical weapons lies in guiding and combining the magic power of the materials, thereby creating unique magical effects."

"I'll tell you the method of using the water element to guide magic power. If you practice diligently, you should be able to summarize a set of forging methods that belong to you. Druids don't use iron tools. You can decide for yourself whether earth forging or water forging is more suitable for you."

What was taught to Taishan today was still the basic casting method. Atilan had more profound methods in his memory, but he hadn't even learned them himself, so how could he teach Taishan?

Returning to the earth fort town, which was under construction, Atilan could see from afar in the sky that several druids were using spells to cultivate a kind of grass to absorb the demonic power left by the gnolls.

Because the planned length of the town's walls was only about two or three li, and it also curved slightly inward, it was more convenient to defend during sieges.

The not-so-square earth fort town felt like it lacked grandeur just by looking at the design drawings, and this feeling became even more obvious when the first section of the city wall was half-built.

However, the earth fort town was, after all, the first city built under Atilan's direction.

Now it was just a two-meter-high earthen wall with a straight length of more than 800 meters, but in the future, the walls of the earth fort town would definitely be expanded. This was the central part of the wasteland, so there naturally had to be a magnificent city to control all directions.

The rammed earth city walls possessed a unique historical sense of weight. The rammed earth city walls built under Atilan's direction had also undergone a considerable degree of simplification in the construction process.

He wasn't even sure if, in three to five years, when the gnolls attacked again, these city walls could hold out until then.

With more than two hundred gnolls annihilated overnight, the gnoll king would surely send scouts to investigate the situation, as long as the scouts saw this city.

The gnolls would have to weigh the losses that an attack would cause.

That's right, Atilan was using the city walls to intimidate the gnolls.

As long as the scouts reported back the news that someone was building a city in the wasteland, the gnoll king would no longer easily attack. The current situation was like a standoff between two equally fearful opponents.

The kobolds were indeed the creatures most skilled in civil engineering. The leading kobold gave an optimization plan in a few days, because Atilan had said that whoever gave the optimization plan would receive a reward.

Otherwise, the kobolds would not dare to point out that the Dragon Lord's city-building method had errors.

The kobold's method allowed the height to be increased by another 0.5 meters while maintaining the existing foundation width of the city wall. Although the improvement was relatively small, Atilan still took out the obsidian spear of the worst quality and rewarded it to the kobold leader.

"Keep up the good work. If you can make even greater contributions, it's not impossible to reward you with dragon blood and let you grow wings."

"Thank you, Dragon Lord!"

Judging from the leader's expression, he was very happy to eat this pie. Even if the kobolds grew wings, their combat power would be equivalent to a level 1 professional. Winged kobolds mainly improved their ability to protect their lives.

Through the colorful scale colors of this group of kobolds, Atilan knew that they were very weak, even less powerful than pure-colored kobolds in digging soil.

The kobold leader was a rare pure-colored kobold, with a body of red scales indicating that he might have the bloodline of a red dragon, but he couldn't even spit out a spark of fire.

Atilan had completely given up on letting the kobolds go to the battlefield. They should honestly be engineers, digging canals, building cities, and farming.

He didn't even plan to use them to forge weapons. They were too weak to forge good weapons.

The food standard that Atilan provided to the kobolds was the worst among the three subordinate races, but they were still the first to complete their task, digging out the moat according to the drawings.

In just one month, working in three shifts non-stop according to Atilan's planned schedule, a moat nearly ten li long, two meters wide, and two meters deep was dug.

This allowed Atilan to see another advantage of the kobolds: their ability to endure hardship.

Since they were so able to endure hardship, there was no need to let them rest. Half of them were left to assist the minotaurs in ramming the city walls, while the other kobolds were arranged to reclaim farmland in Great Horn Town.

Although the minotaurs were clumsy, ramming the soil mainly relied on strength, and it took another half a month for the four walls of the earth fort town to be built.

The wasteland did not have enough trees to build houses, and the minotaurs and centaurs did not like to live in houses, so Atilan could only let them live in the open air.

After a month and a half, the alfalfa, vetch, and other forage planted by the leopard woman near the water source also grew tender shoots that could be eaten, and the centaurs were grazing along the river.

As for the sand rabbits captured, they were handed over to the kobolds, who were good at burrowing, for breeding. It just so happened that the habits of the kobolds and rabbits were quite similar, liking to burrow and reproduce a lot.

The earth fort town was built, but Atilan had no one to share this joy with. Except for him, no other druids could feel the beauty of the rammed earth city walls.

It took a month and a half to build his first city, with walls stretching for ten li and three meters high. Atilan could not hide the excitement in his heart.

This was a small city, and it was also a big step for the Natural Empire.