Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 302 - Progress

Bali Headquarters, Bali Island.

4 days until the arrival of the guests from outside the Island.

In the study room, Alex was seen looking at one of the documents from the pile of official documents, which was located on the table in front of him, prepared by Cahya, the current right hand of Devita in governing the base. Seeing the amount of outstanding datas reported in the documents, Alex could not help but smile like someone who won a lottery ticket.

Turning his heads towards Cahya, Alex asked the man.

"So, Cahya, how was my wife going when I was gone? Is she having enough rest or is she working too hard? Are you having a hard time working with her?"

Cahya was overwhelmed by the barrage of questions from his superior and could only stand there, speechless. Realizing how fast he spoke, Alex could not help but scratch his cheek awkwardly. "I'm sorry. Did I speak too fast?"

"Don't worry, Alex.. Your wife is a natural leader and an excellent administrator. You can rest assured that the base is in a good hand."

Ever since Alex returned to Bali, he felt bad for his wife, who gave her best effort to take care of the headquarters' matters while he was gone. Seeing his wife's expertise in managing the island and its residents, Alex felt that he was not needed anymore. Rubbing his chin and sighing in exasperation, Alex thought, 'I guess my talent is not as good when compared to my wife.'

'Better let my wonderful wife take care of these, lest I mess up somewhere.' Alex jokingly thought as he saw these reports.

A year and half has passed since this headquarters was founded and its development was still continuing to this day. Since the very day it was founded, information about this safe island sterile from zombies and other monsters had long been spreading around the world, making a lot of immigrants from outside the island willing to come here to seek refuge.

Even though Bali Headquarters has provided many expeditions to pick up those who wanted to move, the fact still remained that the ships they had were not enough to pick up all of them. There were also many places still out of reach by them. However, there were some of these people who decided to come on their own. These people came from all the thousands of islands in Indonesia and as far as Asia. The Bali Headquarters was naturally happy to take these people under its wing, increasing the population of Bali Island as a whole.

Without realizing it, the bay city Harbour had turned into a massive port where dozens ships of all the sizes, from the gigantic ones to the small ones, could be seen docking and filling this dock. The heavy traffic that occured at the port made Bay City a place for residents of Bali Island to carry out their economic activities.

The documents in front of him updated the number of residents recorded on the island. Including the personnel of the military headquarters, residents who gathered at strategic posts and communities that have filled the center of Bali Island itself. Currently there were almost 2 million people living on this island.

Total population in Bali Island : 1.895,963 inhabitants.

Population Occupation Distribution: 

Civilians: 81% [1.535,963 people]

Administration: 1%

Children: 13%

Elders: 6%

Farmers: 35%

Weapon Production: 2%

Construction Workers: 8%

Medical Research & Development Division: 2%

Resource Division: 13%

Unassigned: 1%

Military Personnel: 19% [360,000 active personnel]:

Elite Troops: 10,000

1st Division Soldiers: 80.000

2nd Division Soldiers: 80.000

3rd Division soldiers: 80.000

Cadets: 20,000

Militia Troops: 50,000

Although at first glance the island of Bali has an impressive troop size of 360 thousands, the actual number of their troops has not increased that much in the last 9 months. The qualifications to join the army have been tightened, those who had low performance had been replaced by those who were better. Sending those who didn't reach the standard to the other sectors that needed manpower.

Most of these fighters were the ones who fought to clear up Bali island, as for the newcomers, they needed to go through many tests. One had to at least have reached the Sky realm stage to qualify to enlist in the elite troops, not to mention the tests they had to pass, that would test their overall combat strength. 

Those who wanted to apply to the military had to pass various tests that would assess their talent in combat. However, those who had proven to be the best will definitely get support in their upgrades until they reach the Earth realm stage. Meanwhile, the Sky realm fighters, who were members of the elite troops, were getting the best treatment.

Currently, all the elite troop members had reached the Sky realm stage, while every 100 soldiers unit in each division was also led by a Sky realm fighter. All Sky realm fighters were at least equipped with Tier 1 Hardened weapons, except for those 400 elite fighters who go to Australia, who on average already had tier 2 and tier 3 weapons.

From a security point of view, the report looked absolutely amazing. Not to mention the protective facilities the Bali headquarters had built, which further convinced those moving to the island of Bali of their choice.

By registering a total of 1 million residents in the Doomsday Pillar, the Bali headquarters managed to get 50 monoliths that could be deployed. These 50 monoliths were then immediately scattered to form a giant formation covering a quarter of the island of Bali.

With their protection, the facilities and also the number of fighters, Alex certainly did not worry about the security of the island when the first tribulation came.

Obviously, all of these improvements could only be obtained because of the support of a very large number of spirit stones. 

After 9 months, The reclamation area used for planting magic raisin was very large, reaching the interior of the island of Bali. The number of farmers had doubled, currently there were more than half a million farmers with 80% of them focused on making the magic raisin. Meanwhile, the iron craftsmen who focused on making tier 1 hardened weapons already had more than 20,000 people.

Alex had ordered the headquarters to focus on this area because in the era of apocalypse resources were everything. Thus, the capital requirement for land preparation, required buildings, materials and furnaces were quickly paid off. A total of 200 furnaces were built. So currently, the daily production had reached 10 million units of magic raisins and 100 hardened weapons, giving a net profit of 100 thousand to 200 thousand spirit stones per day.

This massive profit was not only felt by the headquarter in Bali, the headquarter in Java and Sumatra also felt the same benefits after they followed the guidelines for establishing this industry.

Alex could only stare at the sight of the spirit stones, which continued to accumulate every day.

Every profit earned meant that every city and country that has an import agreement with Alex was also helped in their food and safety matters.

The most amazing thing was that this industry was run with a profit-sharing scheme where every profit received by the government was also felt by the people. Therefore, with more and more spirit stones entering their pockets, the market which was open to the public also came alive, signaling the economic recovery of the pre-apocalypse.

With the arrival of immigrants from outside the island, naturally the trade in of luxury goods began to occur. Luxury goods such as special artifacts, vehicles and 'contraband goods' such as alcohol and cigarettes were the most commonly seen being traded.

At present, the Bali headquarters was no longer a mere defense and protection base, but also a trading center haven. Not only their internal economy flourished, where there were lots of big marketplaces controlled by Bali citizens, their external trade had improved. And a trade route that connected other bases to Bali Island through the water routes had been established.

This situation made the worries and dreads that existed because of the arrival of the apocalypse have begun to dissipate from the residents of Bali Island. An achievement that no amount of spirit stones could measure.

Seeing the reports, a big smile appeared on Alex's face, he was very proud of his wife. Somehow he felt that now his wife was the main breadwinner of the family, while he was just busy playing the hero every day.

When this thought crossed his mind, Alex's wide smile quickly turned awkward.

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