277 Chapter 277: Wee to Kranor
The mighty wooden gate and ice portcullis opened up slowly, allowing Frost, L, and Sam entry into Kranor. With Timothy’s loud yell everyone knew that Sam and L had returned. The vast majority of the soldiers here ran up to greet the two of them. Not only were Sam and L well known for being part of the mayor’s family and future leaders of the enve, the two of them were C-rank adventurers, powerful fighters that demanded respect. For most of the soldiers here the two of them were their idols, their goals in terms of strength. Getting to meet them in person was a great honour which none of them wanted to miss out on.
“Lady L wee back.”
“Sir Sam how did the hunting go?” Many bright eyed young soldiers pestered the husband and wife as they entered, eager to catch their eyes. The fact that L’s father had fallen ill, and that L and Sam had left to retrieve a C-rank magic core wasn’t known to everyone. The young soldiers simply thought that they were returning from a regr quest. Only themander and vicemanders of the vanguard defence force were in the know.
Hearing the mouring and fervent voices of their subordinates the three officers exited their barracks and when their eyesid upon Sam and L a hope was kindled. Seeing their hopeful expressions L simply nodded their way, causing a wave of relief to wash over their bodies. One vicemander went weak in the legs and muttered “thank the gods” over and over while themander performed a determined military salute. The final vicemander moved to disperse the doe eyed young soldiers so that L and Sam could get through and see to the mayor’s health.
Only once he arrived and yelled for his soldiers to get back to work did he see Frost. ‘Hmmm a young elf, never seen him before.’ The vicemander had met a lot of people thanks to his work, but he didn’t recognise Frost in the slightest. He came in with L and Sam, so he assumed that it was one of their usual adventurer friends.
“This is?” He asked inquisitively, even though Frost came in with Sam and L he needed perform the usual checks. If they just let anyone in without examination it could cause unrest within the enve.
Sam wrapped his muscr arm round Frost and dragged him before the vicemander. “This is Frost, mine and L’s new student and also the one that helped with the hunt.” Sam introduced Frost with a bright smile, his close intimate actions revealing the level of trust he had in him.
“Ah!” the vicemander looked at Frost in surprise, not expecting someone so young to be able to help in hunting a C-rank monster. ‘Guess you can’t judge a book by its cover,’ the vicemander dropped his misconceptions as he showed Frost a grateful smile. “Is that so, thank you Sir Frost and wee to Kranor, I hope you enjoy our little enve.” The vicemander gave a respectful bow to the three before taking it on himself to lead them into the former monsterir.
Themander and other vicemander went to work reorganising the soldiers with more oomph and gusto than usual which the young soldiers found odd but obeyed none the less.
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As the vicemander guided them into Kranor, Sam began telling Frost a little more about the ce now that they were here in person.
“Kranor is built within a monsterir that used to be 9 floors deep with rather hospitable environments that still exist today, though they are less impactful without the constant flow of mana and their doesn’t repair itself.” As Sam spoke the group entered into the first section and Frost was stunned by what he saw. The fact that this was once a monsterir was hard to believe. It looked very simr to the open ins surrounding Furano and was dotted with hundreds of man-made buildings with hundreds of people going about their regr lives. It was veritable town built within.
“The floors within Kranor all tend to have this fairly open in like environment, with a few alterations. Throughout Kranor the weather is mild, far more pleasant than the cial mountains plus the flow of night and day is the same as outside. Here in the first floor in each section, we have a town that spans the majority of the area. And They mainly hold our military infrastructure given the proximity to the entrance as well as tradesmen and their workshops. A very business-like floor, very popr with outside merchants and visiting adventurers. The shop that made my great sword can be found in the second town; I’ll take you thereter if you want.”
“The second floor contains the government buildings, offices, inns and a few restaurants whereas the third and fourth floor are residential based, having houses, ts, vis as well as restaurants, markets, simply shops, bathhouses and also schools. We grow a lot of safe but not edible nts and trees on those floors as well to give a much cleaner living environment. There’s also some caves and rock formations as well as natural pools of water that make for great y areas on the fourth floor.” Sam continued to describe theyout of Kranor as the vicemander led them to the government district. They didn’t enter any of the towns, passing right by them. As they travelled the warm weather started to be more clear, L could finally remove her oversized fur coat and finally reveal her oversized ass that her husband loved to ogle which he did without the slightest shame. It took him a few seconds to regain hisposure and continue exining Kranor to Frost.
“The fifth floor is mainly geared towards adults containing brothels, bars, inns and other adult oriented shops, plus there’s breweries and a couple quarries where we dig into the mountain for stone and metal.” Though a great many buildings were made of ice in Kranor many were also stone and or wood based.
“Finally, the sixth and seventh floor are fully dedicated to agriculture and farming since there are the most expansive and have many natural water springs to support farm life. We grow a lot of crops on these two floors with room for more fields but just not the seeds nor the workers to support it. In terms of regr meat, we raise chickens and pigs plus a small variety of fish. But water is rather scarce in that regard making it a small project. To subsidise thecking amount of meat the military sends out frequent hunting parties and we put up quests for our own adventurers. Thest two floors are still bare, going unused for the time being.” Frost was blown away by the degree of infrastructure here in Kranor, it was evenrger and heavy duty than Furano (the town not the entire county).
He couldn’t help but be impressed, if he got the chance he’d like to tour each and every floor and learn from them, especially the farming floors that contained their crops, nts, trees, and wildlife. Whether or not his dungeon could support non-dungeon spawned life heavily relied upon his ability to produce food. Though in his case it would be a lot easier since he could alter the floors and rooms anyway imaginable. For instance, Kranorckedrge bodies of water that could supportrge amount of fish, Frost didn’t have such a problem. With a ssh of DP, he could even make an underwater room if need be.
He did however get a much better understanding of regr life within as he observed the goings on in Kranor as well as Sam’s and asionally L’s detailed exnations. Frost even started to think of ways in which he would improve the ce or how he would go about dealing with such problems if he was faced with them. As long as he could get a solid future proofyout he could escape a great many pitfalls. Once the area was already established it would be much harder to change it. That’s why a great many towns and cities be cramped and inefficient in theiryouts, even Furano had areas like that. Kranor however was quite well designed in his opinion, with each floor being assigned its own purpose with little ovepping. The more prosperous and traffic heavy areas were also nearer to the top, making the travel to such areas quite easy. Bar of course the 5th floor that was mainly for adult entertainment. That may have been better on higher floors given the obvious pull it would have but then kids would have to pass through it whenever they wished to go up. Lots of little details like this went into future nning and it was stuff like this that really interested Frost as well as gave him a headache.
The desire to make something perfect without fault was strong and caused him a great deal of worry since he considered himself a bit of a perfectionist. Now however he understood that there was likely no perfect system oryout just bad ones. Every choice will have some drawback it’s finding out which ones can be allowed, and which can’t. In terms of establishing a simple camp this didn’t matter too much but if Frost wished to embark down the route of town, city, county and then even a country it certainly would. He needed vast amounts of knowledge and experience, far more than what he currently had or what one person could really provide. Skilled assistants would be needed.