Chapter 1497 - 266: I Believe in My Own Charisma

Chapter 1497: Chapter 266: I Believe in My Own Charisma

After the banquet, Ian arranged special accommodations for the envoy group—a forty-story residential building located near the commercial street on the east side of the city, with a distant view of Dazzling Lake, facing Silver Peak.

This was Ian’s concept of a ’residential building’, and also a test of Xiawei Territory’s construction team on their capability to build high-rise buildings.

The test results were excellent. With the assistance of Earth Ascenders and Ironman Exoskeletons, the construction team built quickly and well, with excellent quality. Even the interior decoration was considered exquisite, proving that Xiawei Territory is now on par with international standards in civil engineering.

Yet, in reality, even if property management of the residential building was more convenient, and the arrangements for water, electricity, and various resources more straightforward, even the decoration was taken care of.

But for the people of Xiawei Territory, as long as they can live in a standalone house, even if it’s a shabby little one, it’s absolutely better than living in a high-rise building.

After all...

"The Lord must be right, I think living in such a building would surely be comfortable."

According to a survey conducted by the City Hall of passersby, almost ninety-nine percent of the people believed that Ian’s design of the residential building was very comfortable. They even tried to move in, but later all gave up.

The reason was simple.

"This building is too tall—if a war breaks out, won’t it collapse at once?"

Pedestrians spoke bluntly: "Our territory is so nice, I don’t want to die so early."

That’s how it is.

Since then, Ian gave up on replicating Earth or pre-eruption civilization’s skyscrapers in Terra... Yes, it was too foolish. Any enemy Sublimator with half a brain would definitely target such densely populated buildings for bombardment.

After all, Terra is not like Earth. When the war machines here start, they don’t care about civilian buildings. Rather, they aim directly at civilian buildings. As long as the enemy’s troops hide in the city, the entire city will be razed to the ground.

Condemnation? A joke, the Terra World Wars are aimed at extinction and total annihilation. Any force below the Fifth Energy Level does not deserve to exist in the bloody battlefield. Who would care about condemnation—even ordinary people themselves feel this is not wrong. What they need to do is to suppress their sense of existence as much as possible, and then survive.

So, since then, Ian began to study underground living areas and shelter structures intently.

Only until this time did he understand why the ’labyrinths’ of the pre-eruption civilization were so numerous... It wasn’t that there were many labyrinths underground, but only the underground remnants survived the Calamity of Heavenly Fall to become labyrinths!

Following the City Hall staff, the Envoy Group of Huaiguang moved into the hospitality hotel named ’Supreme Spirit Building’, this ’safety-concerning’ high-rise.

Warm rooms, excellent decorations, although simple yet comfortable beddings... These ordinary details touched the group from Huaiguang.

"The construction of this territory seems to show no signs of oppression between anyone."

The four clerics in the other team, acting separately from Yingguang’s trio, were elite clerics under the Grand Archbishop of the Vowed Oath from the Imperial Cathedral. They traversed the entire Xiawei City during their free activities, observing construction sites, interactions between commercial street managers and vendors, patrol guards, and operations in the alchemy workshops.

The leading cleric, dressed as a Knight with winged armor, said: "There is no ’slave foreman’ whipping or yelling at the workers on the construction site. Even for the simplest transportation tasks, workers have ’Ironman Exoskeletons’ as tools, and the site strictly adheres to safety regulations (by Terra’s standards), evidently prioritizing workers’ lives."

The second reporter was an old Nun, about sixty years old, whose demeanor was kind but tone serious: "The vendors also diligently follow the rules. The entire commercial street has no littering. Everyone places their trash properly in dedicated trash bins..."

"This is quite unbelievable. I even suspected it was some Spirit Energy brainwashing, but upon observation, besides discovering that the people of Xiawei indeed have used ’Artificial Soul’ technology as per the intel, there are no traces of brainwashing."

This elderly Nun was a Spirit Energy User, whose eyes gleamed with a pale green halo that could see through many truths: "And the City Hall managers never ’reprimanded.’ They just made suggestions, and most vendors followed them. This is rather strange because their hearts are evidently filled with fear of some ’punishment’..."

"We are still unclear about the punishment’s content, but even by the harshest standards, Xiawei Territory’s laws cannot be called evil, and they are the most benevolent laws I’ve encountered in the hundreds of cities I’ve walked."

"Even the citizens can be considered good citizens; there isn’t a single troublemaker... In the past, cities without troublemakers were usually cleared using violent means by the Lords, but Xiawei City has none."

"And that’s not all."

A young Descendants of the Sea warrior said: "Because the leader of Xiawei Territory’s guards, the Green Tide, is also a Descendant of the Sea, the guard squad on the street is willing to chat with me. From their mouths, I learned that although they patrol 24 hours, they do it in three shifts. Each person only needs to work eight hours a day, and overtime is only required during critical moments, with overtime pay guaranteed."