Second World

Those covered all the information about a city. Below those data was the function section. This section had four buttons. Build, Draft, Train, and Transport.

Jack clicked the build button first. A series of buildable buildings were listed. It was a long list. Common buildings were markets, farms, mines, schools, residential houses, and the like.

Peniel informed him that special buildings should be at the bottom of the list.

"You should go to the very bottom of the list. There should be one building that is normally unable to be built but is available now due to Goddess Serenity's blessing."

"Really?" With that prompt, Jack scrolled down at light speed, no longer reading the available buildings in the list, which annoyed John.

Arriving at the bottom of the list, they saw one name colored in green, World Peace Garden.

"That is... That is a Wonder building!" Isabelle exclaimed.

"Wonder building?" Jack turned to Peniel.

"It meant only one can exist in the world," Peniel explained. "High prerequisite is usually needed before one can build a Wonder building. For the case of this World Peace Garden, it requires Goddess Serenity's blessing."

Jack hovered over this building to see its details.

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World Peace Garden (Wonder building)

Generates mana: 10,000/month.

Increases the overall Happiness in the country.

Increases the overall Productivity in the country.

Increases the chance of exceptional individuals emerging during drafting.

Construction cost: 50,000 gold coins, 50,000 mana, 3,000 lumbers, 1,000 minerals.

Construction time: 30 days.

Upkeep: 5,000 gold/month

Requirement: Goddess Serenity's Blessing, the country is not at war.

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"Exceptional individuals?" Jack asked.

"It means it was possible for the people who are drafted to manifest high grades," Peniel explained. "Drafting is taking the commoners from the population and transforming them into soldiers. Commoners are level 1 and without a grade. When they are drafted, they transformed into a level 10. Their grades, however, differ. If one is lucky, one might be an elite or maybe even a rare elite. This World Peace Garden improves the odds of that happening when we draft."

"Then we should build this building first!" Jack said. "Wait, you said drafting is taking from the population? That means the population of the city will decrease if we draft?"

"That's correct," Peniel confirmed.

Thereath was only short two million from becoming a megalopolis. This meant drafting would delay that from happening. But Jack guessed that couldn't be helped. Improving the city's security and increasing the kingdom's military power took priority.

He clicked the option for the World Peace Garden to be built. The timer started counting. "Too bad it took one whole month to build," Jack sighed.

"This is already considered fast," Peniel said. "Thereath's productivity value was considered high. If it was any other city, it might take two months or even more. However, there is a way to hasten the building time."

"Really? How?" Jack asked.

"Later. Select the other buildings you want to build first."

"Other buildings?"

"There are four building slots there, genius," John mocked.

"Yes. A metropolis can build four buildings at a time. A city can do three. A town is two. As for a village, it can only build one building at a time. If this capital becomes a megalopolis, it will be able to build five buildings simultaneously."

Jack felt weird at first. Couldn't they just hire more workers to build more buildings on empty lots? Then, they can build as many buildings as they want as long as they had the coins. Then, he remembered this was a game world. Everything worked differently here from the real world, including its building construction process.

"What should we build?" Jack asked. At the same time, he scrolled up to where the special buildings were listed. They were the colosseum, war academy, intelligence agency, zoo, magic laboratory, and grand cathedral.

"Other special buildings will become available when the city level up to megalopolis," Peniel informed. "Or if you found a city blueprint. City blueprints are unlike the structure blueprints for guild headquarters, they can only be used by a country."

"We should focus on ones that can help improve our military," John offered his opinion. "We need to get back in shape from the loss we suffered from the wars."

"In that case, the war academy and colosseum should be your choices from the special building list," Peniel said. "As for the regular building, you should build more barracks, fighting schools, or magic schools."

Jack checked the info about the war academy and colosseum. "Hey, I can't build the colosseum yet. It says here, needs at least five barracks, five fighting schools or magic schools, and an approval letter from the league of champions. We have twelve barracks and ten training schools and ten magic schools, so that is not a problem, but the approval letter part is greyed out. I guess that's what we are missing."

"Yes, you will need to visit the league of champions for that. Let's leave it for later. You should have no problem with the war academy."

"I don't," Jack said and checked the war academy's details.

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War Academy (Special building)

Training space: 5,000 units

Increases unit's training growth rate within the city.

Increases unit's skill/spell learning probability within the city.

Construction cost: 10,000 gold coins, 1,000 mana, 500 lumbers, 1,000 minerals.

Construction time: 20 days.

Upkeep: 1,000 gold/month

Requirement: Has at least 10 barracks and 10 fighting schools or 10 magic schools in the city, the country has experienced war against foreign forces within the last two years.

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The War Academy soon filled the second building slot.

"What does the barrack do?" John asked Peniel.

"Each barrack has training space for 1,000 units. This meant it can train 1,000 soldiers at the same time. You know that natives are unlike you, outworlders. They level up very slowly. By training inside the barracks, they gain the same leveling speed as outworlders."

"We have twelve barracks. Adding this War Academy, we will be able to level up 17,000 soldiers," Jack said.

"Training priority will always be given to soldiers with the lowest levels first," Peniel said. "So, if you perform draft, those recruits will be the ones who are prioritized to be trained."

"That makes sense. Otherwise, those level 10 recruits will just be useless in a war," John remarked. "But still, 17,000 is too few."

"That's why our leveling progress will never be able to catch up with outworlders," Alfredo remarked. "We need a whole ton of barracks for that, which is unrealistic."