After returning to his Sky Castle, Lin Li felt more and more uncomfortable looking at the Sky Castle due to the fact that he had just seen the Sky Garden. The urge to modify the Sky Castle also grew stronger. However, Lin Li knew very well that he had to take it slow. He had to modify the Sky Castle while maintaining a certain level of combat power at all times.
Through the control crystal of the Sky Castle, Lin Li did not need to observe and measure it bit by bit. The entire structure of the Sky Castle from the inside to the outside was clearly imprinted in his mind, which saved him a lot of time in the early stages of the transformation.
Lin Li knew that it would be impossible to modify everything in the Sky Castle in a short period of time like the Sky Garden of the Supreme Council. Hence, he only formulated his own modification plan based on his current needs and some aspects of the Sky Castle that needed to be modified urgently.
The first thing that Lin Li needed to solve was actually not the problem of modification, but the need to carry out a comprehensive restoration of the Sky Castle. Although the Sky Castle was known as the most powerful of the seven Sky Castles of the High Elves, it had been worn down for thousands of years, and had never received the most basic maintenance.
Besides, for thousands of years, the Sky Castle had been in a spacetime rift, and was constantly being eroded by the Nether Storm. Even if the Sky Castle had a powerful protective canopy that could resist the Nether Storm, it had been thousands of years, after all. Even the gods would probably be doomed, let alone the Sky Castle that was intricately constructed.
Besides, when Lin Li was exploring the Sky Castle previously, there were several intense battles in the Sky Castle, especially the last battle with Highlord Osric, which caused considerable damage to the Sky Castle. After all, if a battle between Sanctuary powerhouses were to take place in Anril, it would probably have caused an earth-shattering disaster.
The Sky Castle could still fly through space, and even launch powerful attacks, but it could not hide the fact that it was severely damaged. In particular, this time, Lin Li had used all the power of the Sky Castle to severely damage the corpse of the Dragon of Destruction. When he returned to check on the Sky Castle afterward, he was even more shocked. He even suspected that if there was another attack like that, even if the Sky Castle did not collapse and disintegrate, it would most likely stop functioning.
Hence, regardless of whether it was suitable for humans to control or not, the most urgent thing for Lin Li to do now was to repair all the damage to the Sky Castle. Of course, during the restoration process, Lin Li could also add some modifications to the design in some suitable places. That would also save some time and resources.
However, in order to repair the Sky Castle, Lin Li still had to face a problem that could not be avoided in the future, and that was the massive amount of resources and materials needed for the repair and modification. The Sky Castles were the most outstanding achievements of the High Elves. The entire High Elves had gathered all the wealth they had plundered from Anril to build the seven Sky Castles. Although Lin Li did not need to rebuild the Sky Castle, the resources and materials needed to repair the damaged areas would be astronomical.
Under Lin Li's management, the Tower of Dusk had indeed amassed a massive amount of wealth in just a few years. However, it also depended on who they were compared to. Compared to local forces like the Tower of Dusk, it was naturally a huge fortune. However, compared to the royal families of the various kingdoms, the wealth of the Tower of Dusk was far from enough, let alone compared to the High Elves back then.
However, Lin Li had also made up his mind. Once the Sky Castle was restored to its peak, it would be of great help to him and the Tower of Dusk. He did not want the Sky Castle that he had painstakingly obtained to only float in the sky for people to see.
Hence, Lin Li began to take things out of the Ring of Endless Storm. In the Ring of Endless Storm, apart from the things that Lin Li had plundered from various ruins after coming to Anril, there were also many things that he had brought from the game Endless World.
There was almost infinite space in the Ring of Endless Storm. Hence, when Lin Li was in the Endless World, he would put almost everything in the Ring of Endless Storm. In addition to the corpse of the Dragon of Destruction, the Divinity Metal, and other rare materials, there were also a large number of various precious materials that he had stored for the sake of improving his Life Skills.
If Lin Li poured out all the things in the Ring of Endless Storm, he would probably be able to drown a city. In the past, Lin Li felt regretful that he had so many precious materials, but had no place to put them to use. However, if the Sky Castle was not worth using those materials now, there would probably be nothing else in Anril that could make Lin Li take them out.
This time, Lin Li was going to be troubled by the lack of materials. According to his estimation, even if he took out all the materials in the Ring of Endless Storm, there would still be a huge shortfall in repairing and transforming the Sky Castle. After all, no matter how rich his collection was, it could not be compared to that of the High Elves. Unless he went to rob the treasure vaults of several kingdoms, it would really be difficult for the Sky Castle to reach the goal that he wanted.
In order to repair and transform the Sky Castle, materials were only one aspect of the problem. There was also a very important problem, and that was manpower. Lin Li couldn't possibly complete all the work alone. No matter how capable he was, he was only one person, after all.
Fortunately, the Tower of Dusk could solve most of Lin Li's problems, especially given his current needs. Lin Li had always attached the most importance to the cultivation of talents, and during the three years that Lin Li had left the Tower of Dusk, the Tower of Dusk had never slacked off on the cultivation of talents even when they were in trouble.
Besides, talents were not just in mages, but also in other aspects, such as pharmaceutics, inscription, and forging. In fact, there were even talents who were outstanding in ordinary occupations such as accounting, management, and construction that were not valued by other forces. They were also the targets of the Tower of Dusk's vigorous cultivation.
Hence, at this juncture, when Lin Li needed talents the most, the huge talent reserve of the Tower of Dusk finally played a role. Under Lin Li's orders, all kinds of talents in the Tower of Dusk gathered in the Sky Castle in a short period of time. Lin Li formulated a detailed repair plan according to the needs of the Sky Castle, and distributed it to his subordinates. Only then did he finally heave a sigh of relief.
Of course, the tasks that Lin Li handed over to his subordinates were all tasks that did not require high technical requirements for the time being. After all, no matter how competent the talents were, it was still their first time coming into contact with the Sky Castle, and they could only learn further during the process of the repair work.
In a huge project like the repair and transformation of the Sky Castle, there was naturally a need for more manual labor in addition to various technical talents. No city could be built just by those technicians. A large amount of labor at the bottom was the foundation of the construction of a city, and it was the same for the Sky Castles.
Legend had it that when the High Elves built the Sky Castle, they had recruited countless powerhouses above level-15 and even Legendary-level from the various races under their rule as laborers. It could be said that although the Sky Castle was the crystallization of the High Elves' civilization, every inch of land was permeated with the blood of the people of the races that were ruled.
Although ordinary people were insignificant in the eyes of a Sanctuary powerhouse like Lin Li, he would not be as cruel as the High Elves to oppress ordinary people and use their lives to complete the transformation of the Sky Castle. Let's not talk about whether or not this would cause any condemnation in this era. Lin Li himself had not reached the point where he could forget his identity as a human and view all living beings as insignificant ants.
Why did the transformation of the Sky Garden of the Supreme Council take hundreds of years? Apart from the technological research, it was also because they did not exploit the labor like the High Elves did during the construction. After all, the Supreme Council was well aware of why the powerful High Elves Dynasty had been destroyed, and they naturally did not want the glory that Geresco had brought to the Supreme Council to be damaged in the slightest.
However, Lin Li did not want to spend so much time to complete the transformation of the Sky Castle like the Supreme Council did, nor did he want to be like the High Elves at all costs. That seemed to be a bit of a dilemma, but fortunately, the Immortal King had solved that problem for him.
The Immortal King had left a rather large team of alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses in the Sky Castle. Although some of them had been destroyed in the previous battle, the remaining number was still very shocking. When Lin Li had just obtained the Sky Castle, he had used this batch of alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses to clean up the Sky Castle, which had become a mess after several fierce battles.
The alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses were originally created by the Immortal King for the daily maintenance of the Sky Castle. However, after the Immortal King left, no one could really control the Sky Castle, and no one could command the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses. Hence, the Sky Castle had not been well maintained for so long.
Although some of the souls of the High Elves had combined with alchemy puppets or Alchemy Colossuses to become an Undead alchemy creature, they were destroyed when Lin Li and the others were exploring the Sky Castle. However, the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses only took up a small portion, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were just a drop in the ocean.
If such a huge alchemy team was released outside, it would be more than enough to destroy a kingdom. If the Soul of the Dead High Elves had controlled all the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses back then, the exploration might not have failed, but the casualties would definitely have increased greatly.
Compared to manpower, the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses were obviously better laborers. In fact, in the era of the Goblins, the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses were more important than fighting for them. After all, the small bodies of the Goblins were too weak.
The alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses in the Sky Castle were all created by the Immortal King, and were definitely the pinnacle of alchemy. Not only were they more powerful than the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses of the Goblins, but they also did not need to be controlled by humans. Just like the so-called intelligent robots, they had considerable intelligence. In fact, it might be more appropriate to say that they were alchemy creatures, but even if they had intelligence, they had to be controlled by the master of the Sky Castle.
Initially, when they heard that the President wanted to transform the Sky Castle on a large scale, Gavin and the other senior executives of the Tower of Dusk were really conflicted about the issue of labor. They even thought about whether they should transfer the members of the mercenary corps that were attached to the Tower of Dusk to the Sky Castle. After all, the mercenaries were stronger than ordinary people. However, they were also worried that if someone with ulterior motives were to take advantage of this opportunity to sneak into the Sky Castle, it would be quite disgusting even if it would not cause a huge loss to the Tower of Dusk.
However, when Gavin and the other senior executives of the Tower of Dusk arrived in the Sky Castle with all the technical talents, they were completely stunned by the neat rows of alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses in the square. Although they had basically lived in the Sky Castle for a long time, they had never thought that there would be such a large alchemy army in the Sky Castle.
"President, what are these?" Gavin asked curiously as he walked past the Alchemy Colossuses, feeling a little frightened. He couldn't wrap his head around it, and he wondered what Lin Li was going to do with these weapons of war. Could it be that he's going to plunder slaves?
Even Gavin was behaving like that, let alone the others. Even the members of the team of mages who had participated in the exploration had never seen such a large and orderly alchemy army before. Even the Rotterdam Kingdom, which was famous for its Alchemy Colossuses, would not be able to produce so many Alchemy Colossuses.
Hearing Gavin's slightly worried question, Lin Li smiled, and took out some ring-like alchemy devices from the Ring of Endless Storm. He handed them to Gavin, and said, "These are the control centers that control the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses. Distribute them according to the needs of the project later. These alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses can do a lot of things for them."
Lin Li had found those control devices in the control center of the Sky Castle. Actually, the design itself was not too complicated, and it was more like a symbol that made the alchemy puppets and Alchemy Colossuses obey the owner.
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