After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1927

Chapter 1927: Underneath Hassen City

Clank! Clink!

Inside the massive hall underground were thousands of people, guards, and slaves. Among them were several hundred goblin slaves, and...hundreds of dwarves.

There were dozens of trebuchets lined up, all with different progress. There was also an area creating the other weapons, like certain types of bows and arrows, as well as bombs. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

There were different workshops for the bombs. Not a lot could be made by batch, but there were still many times more than what most cities could produce.

Not that other places had any idea of this, of course.

Evos stood above them on a mezzanine floor that had an overview of the entire workshop. It was a place that never stopped running because he hoped to stockpile as much dwarven equipment as he could.

Even if their effects at the city level were limited, and any improvement was a long shot, they could make up for the shortcomings with the quantity.

"To think I had to reveal a portion of it so early..." he said, admittedly dissatisfied with Balthazar for asking him about anything. The other subsidiaries would never dare to request dwarven weapons—they did not need to.

Revealing more than one might already alarm some territories, but that territory Valov was eyeing was truly interesting, so he decided to take a risk.

All these years, he had been careful about revealing even a bit of his arsenal, just to avoid trouble. It was also slow to build up, so he had to be mindful of the potential losses.

After all, the dwarves were so sluggish to make these things by nature, and it was only in the past decade or so that the first products bore fruit in his time as a Lord.

During this time, after all these years, the hundreds of dwarves had only managed to make a few hundred of each type of weapon. They shall make more and more as years pass, generation after generation.

He also had to manage the dwarven population. The dwarves, fortunately, had long lifespans, but maybe because of this, they were fine with working so slowly.

This also meant that each one took a while to be productive, and even less so as they got older. As time passed, he needed more and more new blood.

It had gotten more and more difficult to procure these things from slave merchants because they were getting better at hiding, so Evos (and many others) had to force the dwarves to procreate.

Unlike the orcs, the dwarves’ fecundity was not too far from humans. It was just that they were so...slow and what they considered to be the age of adulthood was much older than other races.

Evos had forced the dwarves to procreate more than once, requiring each female to give birth at least twice in their lifetime, or else they would be punished.

Now, there were dozens of dwarven children being cared for by some old female dwarves and goblins at a small section of this large tunnel. Every so often, the crystal wall that divided the main work area from the nursery would be open for dwarves to see the children inside.

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