Conquering His Cold Heart

Chapter 652 Work begins

Along with the quota for the not yet seen Niflheim gnomes Findley and Khuno attributed the rest of the manpower quota to getting lesser yuki-onnas, yuki-onnas and ronsos, monsters that could leave the confines of the Dungeon and build on the surface level albeit awkwardly in the case of the lesser yuki-onnas.

They were still viewed as rather monstrous but given that Frost informed the council beforehand and that he'll also be employing full yuki-onnas as well as his ronsos the labourers shouldn't be too hard pressed.

"We're also upping the amount of goblins, frost dwarves and couerl pups as they can help gather and carry the materials within the Dungeon which the surface group can then collect and utilise for the wall."

Given that Daki's forge as well as a couple more were present within the Dungeon they needed a group to transport these materials through the floors.

"Have the hidden paths been established, no one has noticed anything?"

"A few adventurers found them, but we took care of them thus the hidden paths remain a secret. Our forces can easily bypass the delving adventurer parties if needed." The fact that a great deal of the stronger adventuring parties would teleport directly to floor 5.5 through the floor jumping stones also helped.

"Looks good." Frost muttered as he listened to Findley and Khuno while also skimming through their reports, groaning slightly whenever his gaze passed over a set of costs.

'Urgh…it's all part of the plan, it's all part of the plan' Frost internally chanted a mantra as he added what was listed to the Dungeon shopping cart and clicked confirm. A juicy tendril of creation energy briefly flowed through his body as the Dungeon core started to hum and spin.

A moment later dozens of monsters appeared across the Dungeon from magic crests, their assigned officers ready and waiting to give them their first orders.

"The manpower on our side is now accounted for and they are receiving their instructions. Come let's head to development site and begin the festivities." Frost tightly clenched his fists as he boldly walked beyond the Camp's gates, stopping after roughly 3 kilometres.

"Begin!" With his order Findley, Khuno and himself started marking out points across the 3 kilometre stretch. They were swiftly joined 20 minutes later by Rana of the labourers guild as well as Jaina from the adventurers guild and a young woman by the name of Tessa who was filling in for Calder as he interacted with the many merchant caravans in the area.

"Here's the altered plans Rana, I trust I can leave you and your capable subordinates to supervise the overall project." Though Frost considered himself rather capable Rana and her guildmates were true professionals when it came to construction.

"Sure thing Lord Frost, leave it me." Rana slammed her arm against her chest in confidence before loudly hollering orders to a group of gruff men and women behind her who quickly got to work with sparkling eyes. To work on such a grand project such as this was a dream for many of them, so of course they were rather excited.

"I've got teams collecting materials from my vaults as well as the Dungeon itself so just let one of my officers know how much you need and when." Frost gestured to the yuki-onnas and ronsos who started arriving behind the labourers.

"The yuki-onnas and ronsos will be integral to adding that last layer of strength to the wall as will any magician capable of powerful ice magics."

"I can see that in the plans and to be honest it's nothing I haven't encountered before. Once you reach a certain depth within the Glacial mountains all the nations there use similar methods to establish sturdy walls of ice." Though there were a few additions that truly made this old woman marvel at Frost's ingenuity the basic foundation for the wall itself was not one of them.

"Hoh I didn't know that you had ventured into the Glacial mountains." Frost was quite intrigued, he looked at the gruff old woman known as Rana with interest.

"Pah and there's a lot more you don't know about me my Lord but yes in my youth I forayed more than once into glacial mountains. I visited not just the kingdoms in the outer reaches of the external regions but also those in the inner regions. In fact I even helped repair a few walls at Icethorne along with the previous guild master hahaha." Rana laughed without reserve as she sunk into nostalgia.

"Anyway my point is that when it comes to constructing this wall of yours as long as you can supply me with what I need it'll be a piece of cake."

"It's a relief to have someone so reliable by my side." With Rana taking on more responsibility it would free him up in other areas, a pleasant surprise.

"Oh you don't know the half of it hehehe." Rana was perhaps subtlety jabbing at Frost, given that before today he adamantly rejected using the labourers guild for the Camp's important developments thus causing him to lose out.

Frost simply had to take the blow, internally admitting that he may have been a little too paranoid resulting in the territory developing slower than it could have done but there was no use crying of spilled milk.

"Jaina I'm guessing Ringwald's busy at the guild arranging all the quests I submitted?" Though their first interaction certainly wasn't that pleasant Frost no longer held anything against her.

"Yes but on top of that he's summoning as much of the adventurers as possible to help with the wall's development whether that be hunting for specific materials in the Dungeon or being consigned as aid for the skilled labourers.

To be honest I don't think he even went to sleep last night." After speaking Jaina flashed a slight glare at Frost warning him that she would not be doing the same, her beauty sleep was very important to her.

"How's that going?" Frost ignored the playful look Jaina gave him; their relationship had actually grown to the point that she was comfortable throwing out the occasional jabs.

"So-so, adventurers enjoy freedom and don't see much glory in helping develop the territory in such a manner but as long as the pay is good, and the guild master does enough sermons we should be able to meet our quotas."

"Good, you'll need to liase with Rana frequently as she'll be the one directing the overall workload."

"I expected as much." Jaina thus sauntered over to Rana's side and informed her of the adventurer recruitment drive.

"Tessa was it, how confident is Calder in getting our much needed materials." The woman Calder sent as his representative had a bookworm like appearance and was naturally quiet. She stuttered nervously when Frost directly questioned her.

"T...The young master said he's confident in getting at least 75% at a fair price, the remaining 25% will be tricky."

"I see, what about the addition I mentioned, the materials required for building forges."

"That he was even less confident in getting a fair price. Materials to build forges are always in high demand and sometimes even regulated. Given the situation in Northrend as well as the urgency in which we need them he'll likely have to use up several favours and even then it's unlikely he'll be able to get everything.

"How many?"

"Two, he said he can just about get you the materials required for two high grade forges within 2 days."

"Haaaaa it'll have to do I guess, have him keep an eye out for more though." Daki wanted to have at least 3 more high grade forges, two would be cutting it real close, something she would surely be unhappy about.

"I'll inform the young master immediately."

"Un." Frost watched from the sidelines for the next hour as many amended reports were handed to him but after the paperwork was finished he joined Rana's labourers, personally taking part in the construction. An inspiring image for the these gruff men and woman, seeing the local lord willing to get his hands dirty filled their hearts with fire. Their work output increasing to 110%.

It was a couple hours later that Yuna contacted him through the Dungeon menu system, letting him know that Dark had approved of his new species and even left a congratulatory note.

Apparently Frost was the second Dungeon core to successfully created their second unique race, falling just behind Indra who on top of his initial species the Oni which were akin to lighting aspected demon ogres created an airborne species called Tengu.

"Huh Indra was first not Yami or Aqua?"

"Apparently so master."

"Seems he really isn't satisfied being 5th place, how interesting brother." Frost considered Indra his friendly rival so seeing him dash ahead inspired him greatly.

"I'll be over in a minute; we can enact the reveal plan then."

"Understood."

Frost ended the communication and walked over to Rana.

"Rana it seems I'll have to leave the site in your capable hands for now as our guests from afar are about to arrive."

Rana raised her brows "The gnomes?" She asked with a glint in her eyes. She had never seen a gnome before, but she'd heard of the legends and to someone like her who was a labourer the craftsmanship of the gnomes was even more hallowed.

Frost simply nodded his head in reply before leaving the site with a spring in his step. He had planned an elaborate ruse for the gnomes arrival.