After helping kill the monsters along with evacuating the citizens, Shiro received a report from Nan Tian saying that the Asharia in the spirit world has enough space for another city or two worth of citizens but after that it’ll be full.
Hearing this report, Shiro couldn’t help but furrow her brow since she’ll need to make more versions of Asharia if she wanted to keep saving more people.
However, a city like Asharia needed a huge power source. Even with her capabilities, keeping a whole city like that afloat was ridiculously hard and it was only thanks to the anchor that this was possible.
With the increased mana production and divine energy generation, this city could float without her interference. If she wanted to make another city, she’ll need to first make a branch anchor before making a city around it.
“We’ve only got one last city to go so we should be good for now. I’ll expand Asharia first so that there is another layer below the main city where the refugees can stay for now. Once I finish that layer, we should be able to transfer the citizens in the spirit world to Asharia.” Shiro replied.
“Alright. But after we finish construction of this underground layer, we’ll need to filter out the criminals. Unlike your other skill, this one doesn’t care about good or bad does it? We should screen the people that we helped first.” Nan Tian reminded, and his face was serious.
“Mn I know. I’ll put in a production request for a new blueprint that I made. It’s an orb that should measure their souls since the soul becomes darker the more evil natured a person is.” Shiro nodded.
“After helping the last city, you should take a day’s break. The stress that you’re putting on your body is quite high.”
“I will.” Shiro smiled softly as she did a final scan of the city to make sure that there was no one left. Once she was sure that it’s cleared, she teleported the mechs back to the city.
Arriving back at the city, Shiro saw that Silvia, Nimue and Attie were having trouble with the final part of the spell, making sure that everything worked properly and that all the magic circles were activating at the same time. If it doesn’t, it wouldn’t count as a proper spell.
With how overloaded the spell was, trying to optimise the usage of the magic circle was tough considering how powerful Grace was. With it being limited to charges, trying to replicate it without that limitation was very difficult.
“Just keep working at it. After the next city, we’re going to assign new pilots to help the cities. You can also stop the healing on me since the last city is manageable.” Shiro smiled as she sat down near them and hugged Attie.
“Mn, I’ll send a note out to the healers in the city centre. Since this spell isn’t ready, what are you going to do for the rest of the cities? Knowing you, you won’t stop here will you?” Silvia asked.
“For the rest of the cities, I’m thinking of maybe deploying all of the mechs to restrain the monsters while I escort everyone away. I’ll have to interact with their souls one by one since if I just revive everyone, there’s a good chance that some will die again immediately. Without the golden barrier to protect them, they would be going through unneeded pain.” Shiro shook her head.
“That’s very inefficient. I’ll try to get this spell done quickly.” Silvia frowned.
“Mn, I’m counting on you.” Shiro smiled as she wasn’t sure how long this transformation period was going to last.
After resting for a while, she jumped down to the final city being affected by her barrier and helped the mechs evacuate the people.
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For the next day, Shiro continued to help cities despite saying that she’d take a break. While taking care of the cities, she was also expanding the size of Asharia so that it could accommodate more people.
There were a few sketchy individuals that started to snoop around despite receiving Shiro’s mercy and naturally, Nan Tian had no qualms about killing those kind of people who didn’t treasure her kindness. He would check their belongings and find out that they’re either acting as spies for a Queen or private organisations that were interested in her tech along with how the city floated despite its mass.
Shiro knew about this but she didn’t say anything. Since the city was created by her, she had eyes all over the place. Nan Tian was dealing with it so she decided to trust in his capabilities. After all, he wouldn’t do something that harmed her interests.
Of course, there were a few people that were shocked at Nan Tian killing people but he only told them that they were planning to sabotage this city, which was the partial truth, and this calmed them down.
Quite a few of them expressed dissatisfaction since they still tried to harm Shiro despite the fact that she had actually risked herself to help them. Those kinds of people didn’t deserve a second chance.
In addition to this, a few of them expressed interest in joining the army and Nan Tian replied that they need to first resolve the issue of space along with the constant influx of refugees being teleported.
There were small fights breaking out over conflicting opinions such as stopping the entry of more refugees since they were running out of space but the police dealt with them accordingly. There was a strict no violence policy right now since that would just waste manpower on small bickering. After the first warning, should they continue, they’ll be kicked off the city.
Nan Tian knew that this is what Shiro would have done since this was already a tough situation but they were still causing trouble which infuriated him to no end.
This warning caused them to quieten down since no one wanted to go back out there where death could be looming around every corner.
Doing so was no different from suicide.
While Nan Tian was sorting out the refugee’s, Madison continued to lead the demons to help the cities alongside Shiro. The views towards demons in the city improved greatly thanks to this and the humans that were already residents were more accepting towards them.
Of course, Madison had a small talk with a certain someone that took charge in her place but decided to let it go for now since there were more important matters. Hierarchy was strict amongst demons and that fact that she could take charge was not the best situation she could hope for. Punishment was required.
As for Silvia, Nimue and Attie, 15 hours after they started, they had finally gotten the spell to work. The mana to heal ratio was also very good thanks to Nimue and Attie so they could keep the spell up for much longer.
The range of the spell was surprisingly big since it’s not an area of effect spell. Rather, anyone that has been ‘marked’ will be healed.
With Shiro being able to target people through their mana signals, marking them was easy. Plus, it automatically marks them if Shiro revived them using her control over souls.
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Sitting on the edge of Asharia, Shiro drank her juice as things were calming down a little, She noticed that the spawn rate of monsters had decreased and the natural disasters were stopping. Most of the land has been changed to match the monsters appearing there such as frozen tundras or burning hellscapes.
So far, Shiro had helped a numerous amount of cities but she wasn’t able to get all of them to her city. With the natural disasters stopping, she made underground bunkers instead.
“You should rest now. I heard from Nimue that the stress you put on your body during the past few hours has been ridiculous.” Nan Tian said as he sat down next to her.
“How is she doing?” Shiro asked.
“She’s helping out with distributing food. This transformation stage should be ending soon so you can rest now.” Nan Tian replied.
“Mn, the system has been a little quiet but it seems like things are updating. I’m guessing that things will catch up once the transformation ends. After all, my EXP is still pending.” Shiro chuckled softly since her level has been paused for now.
“I’m guessing that you’ll probably receive quite a few titles during this.” Nan Tian chuckled softly.
“Mn. I guess I’ll sleep for a few hours. After I finish sleeping, I’ll work on making some branch anchors for more cities.” Shiro yawned.
“In that case I’ll filter out those that are evil natured. We don’t want those kind of people in the city after all.” Nan Tian smiled as Shiro nodded.
“Thanks.”
Teleporting out of the area, she face planted into her bed and fell asleep immediately.
