Chapter 581 (2/2)

Now, all he could do was partition the healing abilities of those gods who held the domain but not the clergy. He was entirely unable to do anything to those who also held sway over a portion of the clergy.

If Sui Xiong started a war with other god systems, his followers would be able to directly absorb the Knowledge and Medicine powers of both the opponents and their believers. Though, there weren’t quite as many actions available to them in regards to Healing.

So for this benefit, finding out early whether or not Satan had any rivals was very important.

Satan exchanged a few general greetings with everyone then gave his long-separated student, Nice some homework—a new magical research topic—before beginning to speak on proper business.

“I plan to construct another large-scale purification array,” he said. “The plan is split it into two steps: first, we build purification arrays for the border villages as well; second, using all of these purification arrays as nodes, we create a gigantic array that includes all of the frontier areas within it.”

Everyone couldn’t help exclaiming in admiration at the thought of his tremendous plan. Only Madame Teague, the great governor in charge of civil administration, turned pale.

“This would take far too many resources!” she promptly opposed. “At present, we are unable to bear the burden of undertaking such a large-scale project!”

Sui Xiong stared blankly at her, asking, “Are we lacking in money now?”

“Money isn’t the problem.” Madame Teague realized she’d forgotten herself in the heat of the moment, and hurried to explain, “We have no shortage of money. But to construct this many purification arrays, especially that last super-giant purification array, would consume a great amount of manpower. Furthermore, constructing magic arrays requires a lot of resources, and those which we have stored are not sufficient for such a plan. If you insist on starting as soon as possible, not only will this slow down construction across the entire country, there is also the possibility of you finding yourself in the awkward situation of having run out of resources with a project over half-done.”

It was only then that everyone finally understood; they couldn’t help but furrow their brows at this revelation.

Insufficient manpower had always been the greatest problem which the Republic of Northwest had to face. Even if they went as far as using skeleton laborers, their population was still far from enough, and many of their construction operations were stuck in that same awkward situation due to a lack of manpower.

Mage Satan’s plan was certainly tremendous and grand, and it would bring them immense profit once completed. But with the current state of the Republic of Northwest, where were they going to get the people to build so many magic arrays?

While the lack of resources wasn’t as large a problem as the lack of manpower, it was still not one they could ignore.

Hearing Madame Teague’s explanation, Mage Satan creased his brows, asking, “Can you really not transfer staff for this? By my estimation, we only need around 1000 people for it.”

Madame Teague’s eyes widened, staring at him as if she were looking at a madman. “One thousand people!? We can’t even transfer 100, let alone 1000… Where am I supposed to find that many people for you!”

“We have skeleton laborers don’t we, just get the necromancer to summon another batch,” Steele said lazily. He continued, “In any case, as far as he’s concerned, it should only take two or three days.”

When he said this, Mage Satan let out a sigh, whereas Nice couldn’t resist laughing out loud. “Aunt Steele, we’re talking about constructing purification arrays! If skeletons went there, wouldn’t they get purified straightaway just by touching the materials?”

At this reminder, Steele couldn’t help laughing as well.

Really? Letting skeletons construct purification arrays? That was even more unreasonable than beating a dog with a meat bun!