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Chapter 48 Grand Blueprint (Seeking monthly votes!)
System notification: Your civilization has developed a grand blueprint!

System notification: The grand blueprint will exist as the backbone, cornerstone, and even fundamental national policy of a civilization. This great and vast plan will become the greatest undertaking in everyone's heart, distinguishing us from others. Each nation's grand blueprint will be an unimaginable spectacle, astonishing all other cultures and peoples of the world.

System notification: Once the grand blueprint for national development is completed, everyone will be awestruck and awestruck by such a magnificent achievement. Each stage of the grand blueprint will have a profound impact on the civilization and people at that stage, inspiring awe and reverence. Some individuals from other civilizations will choose to make pilgrimages to your territory at any cost. Even if your civilization is not currently the most powerful, all nations will regard it as a major power once the grand blueprint is completed. It will be equivalent to a religious holy site, the core of the world, or other extreme positions.

System notification: Once your culture develops a grand blueprint and puts it into action, all cultures will view your culture as a civilized culture, not an uncivilized culture to be conquered. All mainstream cultures will regard the Silver Gate as another mainstream culture, and will differentiate and express their attitudes accordingly.

System notification: Your grand blueprint for civilization is the Ideal State!

'The Ideal State (Silver Gate Grand Blueprint)'

We have witnessed the Britannian white ships sailing the seas, their massive anchors and fleets advancing across the ocean. It was as if angels were fluttering their wings, countless dust motes falling as offerings, allowing their fleets to move freely across the sky and earth. The gods told us that if they wished to utterly destroy the Misty Isles, they could likely annihilate them with the mere flick of their fingers.

We certainly believe in the judgment of the gods, and we also certainly believe that the gods do not truly favor us. They guide our path forward, but in the face of crisis, while we can plead, we must also open our arms and strive to confront it. And with calamities like this, we clearly recognize that it is because our island is too small, our space too limited. We cannot build large-scale defensive systems and fortifications around us to prevent them from pinpointing our location. Nor can we establish a comprehensive offensive zone because our island is too confined to such operations.

But we do not give up. Britannia is not perfect, but we can certainly catch up. We need to create a vast island, to gather all the resources of the ocean and forge them into our nation. We will bring the perfect city into the world, every inch of its land and structure meticulously planned.

We will build a truly great city-state, which, under the influence of countless magical runes and marks, will shine brighter than Londinium and be more sacred than Rome. In the very heart of the sea, the ideal city-state will emerge under the power of wonder.

This may take decades, but we believe that as long as we don't give up, it will all happen, and it must happen.

'Ideal City Construction Process Effects:'
Our Ideal!: All individuals within the Silver Gate culture will receive an ideal bonus, calculated as a doubling of all attributes. If a cultural flourishing occurs, this bonus will continue to increase until it reaches the population's limit.

The ideal city after construction:
Phase One, more effort needed! : Increase all buildings and population stats on the Ideal City by 300%

Gone.

Simple, direct, and powerful.

The Silver Gate culture doesn't have many mechanisms or distinctive features. If one had to describe it, the artificial population born from within the Silver Gate probably doesn't possess much emotion. They simply live according to the established order, respecting Leon and their own lives as they see fit.

However, while this culture lacks any spiritual resistance, various forms of resistance, or divine intervention, and it doesn't have any class hierarchy or anything like that—things the Silver Gate lacks—the Silver Gate culture has one very good characteristic: high stats. There are no fancy tricks; the people of the Silver Gate are simply high in stats. So high that Li Ang couldn't even comprehend them.

After the construction of the Silver Gate was authorized, over two thousand people held a citizens' assembly overnight. Thousands of people were already packed tightly together on the archipelago, fully demonstrating the necessity of expanding construction. After Leon's friendly provision of a mental link to accelerate the discussion, the people of the Silver Gate quickly came up with a plan and began implementing construction with great enthusiasm. Everyone believed that they were building their own great nation, and everyone believed that their race's destiny was coming.

Some members of the Silver Gate were even infected by this enthusiasm and tried to spread the advantages and traditions of the Silver Gate culture to the sacrifices on White Porcelain Island. Of course, unsurprisingly, they were ignored by the sacrifices. These individuals in their internal cycle ignored any temptations, real or virtual, and single-mindedly tormented themselves, seeking death.

However, such a minor setback clearly cannot shake the Silver Gate species' ambition to make their name known to the world.

They began by building different Saint ships.

In Li Ang's view, the crowd, spurred on by the Britannian expeditionary fleet, began to burst forth with intense enthusiasm and ambition. Li Ang couldn't understand why these individuals who emerged from the Silver Gate possessed such strong self-esteem and arrogance, as if they couldn't accept anything less than being the first.

They began to imitate standard docks, building one after another, gradually figuring out construction methods in the process. Their minds began to fill with various common sense and knowledge about construction. Under the lighthouse's illumination, countless materials were gradually poured from the now-sunken Porcelain Island and spread to the area surrounding the main island of Silver Gate, and dozens of docks were built in scale, as if copied and pasted.

The three thousand sacrificial offerings obediently continued their work on the ceramic island. No trace of man-made structures remained on the island; the original houses and roads had been stripped of their porcelain and pushed into the ocean, merging with the white seawall and spreading outwards to form an even larger road. Their first task was to completely transform the ceramic island and the Silver Gate into a pure white expanse, a purely porcelain-built nation. Their next plan was to link and replicate the island, uniting the two sides into a giant circle, constructing a massive seawall, and then filling it with various kinds of materials.

Countless raw materials, a mixture of pure white kaolin and soulstone, were fed into the Lianshan Kiln through the labor of the sacrificial offerings. On this magnificent porcelain factory, resembling a small mountain, runes, indescribable in words, were altering the numerical values ​​of reality, transforming the porcelain pieces into something far more powerful, surpassing even the strength of steel in awe.

These powerful terracotta blocks will be delivered to the empty plaza, awaiting the descending light that will engulf the tons of terracotta artifacts. Meanwhile, on another part of the island, the Silver Gate workers, who have been waiting patiently, will begin to sprinkle soil and seeds around the landing site, rapidly reinforcing the sea dike using the wizards' techniques. They will also infuse the terracotta armor with life force, utilizing the properties of the soulstone to ensure it is forever immune to erosion and obstruction. The dike, approximately twenty meters high and five meters wide, will be completed in three hours by two hundred Silver Gate workers. This magically imbued seawall will then be initially placed into the seabed foundation, which has been precisely measured and excavated using the Saint's specialized cutting tools, as part of the deepest part of the foundation.

They were well aware of just how crucial a solid foundation their mythical creation required. They envisioned a foundation approximately thirty meters deep, with the portion reaching sea level reaching a total height of about one hundred meters. Such a powerful structural framework would require the combined use of terracotta armor and magical artifacts to even begin its construction at the very bottom. But this wasn't even the very beginning of the entire ideal city; the very foundation itself was proving difficult to build.

But people remained enthusiastic, passionately expressing their fervor and longing for their ideal city.

I don't understand.

The spirit of nature expressed its anxiety within the Temple of Communication.

'I have never encountered humans like this before. They didn't choose to beg us; they decided to do it themselves. This is a disaster, my friend. I have never seen humans decide to do anything with their own hands. At least not on this scale.'

'Isn't this a good thing? They've shown their desires, their own sense of good and evil, and their own thoughts, demonstrating considerable ability. Their performance is quite good, and I think it's a positive thing. Humans can't expect gods to do everything for them; they have to demonstrate their own abilities and initiative. I don't like believers who constantly crave divine power to provide them with food and drink; things are fine as they are now.'

'But what they're doing is so appalling, don't you feel it? They're usurping the power of the gods with their actions!'

'If the power of gods could be taken away so easily, then I think it wouldn't be a big deal if a god died. Even if that god were me. If I were so easily eliminated and abandoned, I might as well just kill myself. But clearly, this is hope and the future.'

Watching the ant-like masses on the map gradually divide their tasks and cooperate, even without Li Ang's commands, they already exhibited a similar state of mental unity, a genuine smile appeared on his face. After all, this was exactly what Li Ang was pursuing. On the system, the symbol of civilization in operation was shining brightly, and these people were diligently building a magnificent blueprint that even the gods dared not imagine with their own hands.

These magnificent structures often require a vast empire to build, such as the eternal sun dome of Britannia, or the earthly paradise of the Roman Cathedral. Such grand creations typically require the combined manpower and resources of an entire continent to construct. However, the construction of this ideal state was not based on forced conquest. These humans acted out of their most genuine desire to protect their homeland. Thus, they decided to utilize everything at their disposal to ultimately assemble a seemingly immense, yet ultimately achievable, supernatural structure.

This wasn't even a blueprint for a wonder provided by Li Ang; rather, it was something these humans deduced and decided to build based on their own ideas and thoughts. How could such a thing not fill Li Ang with immense joy and happiness?
'You'll get used to it eventually, spirit of nature. This is exactly what I've been expecting, and what I want to see.'

As he watched the ceramic island gradually expand and spread into the entire interior of the island, eventually transforming into a massive mining pit, Li Ang's smile grew even more ardent and sincere.

"Humans are beings capable of conquering themselves, even the stars. They're merely blinded by temporary gains; many are like that, forgetting much for small benefits. But ultimately, many will not yield, nor do they want to. They want to see more, to build more—this is what humanity calls a vision for the future. That's why I have expectations for humanity. They should be like this."

"Having witnessed the power of the gods, in times of fear and despair, they don't simply bow down in worship. There will always be those who think, 'Why can't I do these things? Why can I only kneel on the ground instead of taking up these great powers?' It is in this way that humanity will attempt to take its first steps."

'It's just that your vision is too narrow. You should take a good look at the amazing brilliance that these humans display.'

'Well……'

Within the Temple of Communication, the Spirit of Nature remained silent for a moment.

So you're finally admitting you're not human, but just an observer?

'If you keep saying such strange things, I might not be sure what I'll do. Take a good look at the great achievements of humankind.'

Looking at the crowds constantly experimenting in the ocean, planning and calculating by firing various ceramic slabs, Li Ang said with immense pride.

　I really don't have much time, please forgive me... I'll try my best to write more when I publish it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)