370 Building a New Region! (2/2)

With that thought in mind, Wang Baole continued his preparations. Time passed in a blur. Soon, the day of departure arrived.

Wang Baole had submitted his recommendations for his vice mayors prior to the date. They had been approved by the Governor without a hitch. His vice mayors were Li Yi, Kong Dao, Jin Duoming and Lin Tianhao.

Lin Tianhao would accompany Wang Baole and head for the new region, while the remaining three would follow after. They needed time to prepare the resources their respective political forces had promised. Wang Baole had a condition for making them vice mayors. They had to bring along the resources they had promised before they could take up office.

Regardless of how resentful Li Yi and Kong Dao felt regarding the arrangements, they could only swallow their resentment. Jin Duoming had no opinion on the matter though. He didn't care whether he went or not, or if he did, when he would depart. The new city zone was just going to be a barren, deserted land. It was going to be so boring if he departed sooner.

In fact, there had been no disputes raised by any other political forces regarding Li Yi's and Kong Dao's candidacy during the fight for vice mayorship. Jin Duoming, however, almost lost his spot. It had been a narrow fight despite the Trilunaris Corporation offering to foot fifty percent of the bill.

Both the Galactic Dusk Sect and the Five Generation Sky Clan had eyed the vice mayorship hungrily. Due to the tensions between the Galactic Dusk Sect and Wang Baole, their request for a position had been rejected. The Five Generation Sky Clan, however, had met all the conditions. They even promised more than what the Trilunaris Corporation promised.

However, in the end… they had still failed.

Wang Baole had heard about it as well. It seemed that the head of the Senate had spoken at the most critical stage. This had caused the Zhuo family of the Five Generation Sky Clan to back down in resignation. Zhuo Yixian had also been transferred away, out of Mars. After slicing up the entire cake and dividing it amongst the various parties, he had been left with no cake and kicked out of the fight.

An outsider might have seen this as an internal fight amongst the various political forces. Wang Baole had thought about it for a while though and felt that Zhuo Yixian's persistent and foolhardy investigation into the incident when Wang Baole and Li Wan'er had spent a night together had been one of the reasons for his current predicament.

Well, there's no way around that. He chose his own grave and buried himself in it when he insisted on investigating the matter… Wang Baole had been rather pleased with the outcome and viewed the matter with relish. After which, he had set it aside and didn't think about it further.

The day of departure arrived. Wang Baole and Lin Tianhao took up their new office. The Martian Colony Governor and the other high ranking officials of the Martian administration saw them off as an enormous fleet of five hundred cruisers slowly rose off the ground inside the Martian City port and into the sky.

Out of the five hundred cruisers, three hundred carried the hundred thousand men charged with constructing the new city zone. They were to follow Wang Baole's orders. The remaining two hundred cruisers were packed with the resources given by the Federation and the Martian administration.

Loud booms thundered in the air. Wang Baole stood on the deck of the cruiser heading the fleet, and Lin Tianhao stood next to him. The two of them lowered their gaze at the land beneath them. They turned their eyes towards the Martian City, then raised said eyes towards the direction where the new city zone lay. Lofty aspirations and grand ambitions filled Wang Baole's thoughts.

”Tianhao, give the orders. Move forward at full speed!” Wang Baole barked his orders. Lin Tianhao inhaled a deep breath and immediately complied. The five hundred cruisers soon rumbled and sped forward.

From afar, it looked like five hundred arcs of rainbow dashing across the heavens, racing into the distance…

Hours later, the five hundred cruisers reached the Divine Armament Zone. The ruins that had littered the lands had vanished, and donkey sprawled on the ground, lazy and pleased. Its cultivation had erupted during the period where he had been clearing the trash after the battle. It appeared to have reached the perfected True Breath realm.

Wang Baole ignored the donkey. The cruisers landed, and with Wang Baole's orders, the blueprints showing the first construction phase of the Eternal Fortress were distributed. Only the core components of the Eternal Fortress were excluded from the plans. A hundred thousand people immediately went to work and commenced construction.

Wang Baole's puppets were activated as well. Every one of those puppets followed Wang Baole's orders and participated in the construction process as the main architects.

Together, they were building… the Eternal Fortress!