Final Lord

Chapter 334 World Advancement
Wang Bufu stepped into the council hall of the New Gru territory. The heavy ice door slowly closed behind him, shutting out the howling wind and snow.

William went to the Dead Wetlands, and General Ed was conscripted by the King.

“General Ed,” Wang’s defiant voice echoed like tempered steel in the empty hall, “I have obtained a man-made wonder and wish to place it in the icy world.”

General Ed, who was hunched over a pile of official documents, looked up in confusion and asked, "Huh? What did you get?"

"A man-made miracle."

General Ed slammed his pen on the document with a clang, his gray eyebrows twitching violently: "What did you say? Say it again?"

“A man-made miracle.” Wang Bufu smiled and emphasized again. “The man-made miracle you know.”

"Complete? Or just blueprints?"

"Complete!"

"Wait!" General Ed suddenly pressed down on the back of his hand; the old general's palm was cold and damp. "Let me catch my breath..."

He turned around, grabbed the silver wine jug, and poured more than half of it down. As his Adam's apple bobbed, the wine dripped down his beard and froze into tiny ice beads on his breastplate.

"A man-made wonder...you kid, how come you're so capable! The Eagle Kingdom has been collecting materials and blueprints for building man-made wonders since the first ruler, and there's still no news about them, yet you've brought back a complete one?"

General Ed suddenly realized: "Oh! I see, you're fooling me, joking with me, aren't you? When I ask you the name of the man-made miracle, you'll laugh at me for actually believing it."

This is the "sitting in oblivion" path you mentioned before, right?

"How could that be?" Wang Bufu was amused: "I really did manage to create a man-made miracle."

Wang Bufu took out the Holy Grail, and inside the Holy Grail, a magnificent mechanical fortress was slowly rotating.

General Ed raised an eyebrow in shock, rubbed his eyes frantically, and then jumped up suddenly.

"Good heavens! This is the real deal! I have no doubt about it. It's a true architectural marvel! What... what is this marvel?"

Wang Bufu said, enunciating each word clearly: "Machine, shell, fortress!"

The oak table exploded with a loud crash!

General Ed sprang to his feet as if struck by lightning, his steel boots creating a spiderweb of cracks in the floor. The frost-flower swords adorning the council chamber walls resonated with a clang, and a biting wind and snow swirled around General Ed.

"The hull fortress! How is this possible!" The old general's roar suddenly rang out: "The hull fortress of the hull empire? Wasn't that treasure destroyed by the Sea God Kingdom?"
Um?!"

Seeing the Holy Grail in Wang Bufu's hand, General Ed suddenly choked back his roar.

On the floating, miniature shell-shaped building projection, the runic metal intertwined within it flickers in rhythm with the tides, emitting a deep, whale-like resonance.

Isn't this exactly what the legendary mecha fortress looks like?
The old general rubbed his eyes vigorously with his calloused fingers, as if to confirm that this wasn't a dream: "Gods above... you've really given me a big surprise." His hoarse voice carried a metallic tinge, "Do you know what this means?"

Wang Bufu tentatively asked, "Does this mean that our path to revenge against the Eagle Kingdom has taken another step forward?"

"What do you care about the Eagle Kingdom now?" General Ed exclaimed excitedly, gesturing wildly. "Take this Holy Grail to the Dawn Empire, trade it for the Eagle Kingdom, and they'll send the Dawn Knights to wipe out the Eagle royal family that very day. Compared to the Machine Shell Fortress, what is the Eagle Kingdom? They couldn't even get half a part of the Machine Shell Fortress for the price of their throne. Tell me, where did you get this treasure?"

"It was just good luck, that's not the point. The point is the characteristics of the fortified casing."

When the fortress is placed on land, it continuously transforms the ground into water. It also grows stronger based on the area of ​​water it connects to.

"Where in the icy world does General Ed think would be a suitable place to put it?"

"What? You really want to put the hull fortress here with me?" General Ed shook his head: "I don't agree. The Ice World is too small; it can't possibly allow the hull fortress to realize its true value."

This is a miraculous structure capable of supporting an empire! Like the Machine Shell Empire, choosing a sea location for it is the right way. Kid, think it over carefully.”

“I have given this serious consideration,” Wang Bufu said earnestly. “The Principality of the Buck is a landlocked country, far from the sea. I cannot possibly find a difficult-to-manage enclave in the sea just for the sake of the machine shell fortress. That’s one reason.”

Secondly, even the best man-made wonders must be protected to be truly ours. If we leave them in the main world, I worry they'll be discovered and stolen.

As for the area, General, you don't need to worry.

I'll find a way to upgrade the Ice and Snow World. Once it upgrades, its area will increase, giving you a chance to advance further and not stay stuck at Legendary level forever.

General Ed frowned and asked, "Is it really that easy to upgrade the Ice and Snow World? Are you serious?"

Wang Bufu replied with a smile, "Then do you think it's easy to obtain a man-made miracle?"

General Ed suddenly realized. Indeed, this kid could even obtain man-made wonders; he might actually have a way to help the Ice and Snow World advance.

Ed was persuaded. He began to think on Wang Bufu's behalf.

"Since the hull fortress can transform land into seawater, I don't recommend that you place it near New Gru territory."

You can set aside another spark, build a village attached to the New Gru territory, and then place the hull fortress.

I suggest you place the hull fortress in the northern part of the Ice and Snow World. That's where the snowmelt ends, and there's a frozen lake there anyway; the Ice Barrier team often needs to train there.

Since you have the idea of ​​helping me advance to the next world level, why not just create an ice ocean in that place!
I will harness the power of the world to create more unique icy creatures in the Arctic Ocean, thus enriching the resources of our icy world.

"Alright!" Wang Bufu readily agreed, "We'll do as the general says!"

Twenty minutes later, Wang Bufu followed General Ed to the vicinity of the frozen lake.

Wang Bufu took out the fire seed that had split off from the New Gru territory and used it to build a village, which he named Machine Shell Village.

Then Wang Bufu took out the Holy Grail, exchanged a glance with General Ed, and activated it. Suddenly, the Holy Grail trembled violently in Wang Bufu's palm, and the mechanical fortress within it began to move as if alive.
"It's coming!" General Ed stretched out his hand towards the sky, and the blizzard froze in mid-air, as if time had stopped, to make way for the appearance of the machine fortress.

Suddenly, the miniature fortress inside the Holy Grail began to spin wildly, and blazing white sparks flew from the seams between the shells and the rune steel plates.

When the rotation speed reaches the critical point, the entire building twists and deforms like a soda can being crushed by an invisible giant hand, and finally explodes into a sky full of light particles with a "bang".

(End of this chapter)