novelpro #639 - Chapter 639: Colony of the Abyss
#639 - Chapter 639: Colony of the Abyss
Hearing that the succubus Nova could suppress Tess Flowerwhisper's soul, Wu Wei stopped focusing on her.
After all, in war, individual strength is important, but not as important as the army itself.
So, after confirming that the succubus was unharmed, Wu Wei immediately shifted all his focus to building his army.
It's worth mentioning that thanks to Lord Xue Jingsong's "contribution", Wu Wei's army size and quality far exceeded any previous point.
In addition to gaining many high-level demon warriors, the number of Lesser Demons within Wu Wei's army also dropped below 80% for the first time, reaching around 60%.
This doesn't sound like a huge decrease, but considering Wu Wei's army already numbered in the tens of millions, it's actually a terrifying figure.
But at the same time, such a large army size also brought another new problem.
That is, the consumption issue of Wu Wei's army!
Tens of millions of demon warriors are scattered across various planes.
Even if they do nothing, the rations they consume every day are astronomical.
So, just yesterday alone.
Wu Wei's resource points dropped by more than a million.
Logically speaking, compared to Wu Wei's tens of billions of resource points and dozens of vast planes, a consumption of over a million shouldn't be a big deal.
Most lords, if they possessed Wu Wei's resources, could easily support this army of tens of millions with so many resource points and planes.
But the awkward problem is that Wu Wei is not an ordinary lord, he is a lord of the abyss.
And his army is not an ordinary army, they are demons.
Wu Wei is not "good" at managing his territory, and demons are not "good" at production.
Moreover, Wu Wei's territory is not an ordinary territory, but the territory of the endless abyss.
A lord who is not good at management, coupled with a race that is not good at production, plus a barren territory....
It is conceivable that Wu Wei is facing a considerable logistical pressure.
If it's a short time, it's okay, but over time, Wu Wei will be eaten alive sooner or later.
Faced with this extremely tricky situation, Wu Wei's first thought was to ask the knowledgeable but scummy fallen angel, Liz.
But unfortunately, although the scummy angel is knowledgeable, she doesn't have a good solution to this problem.
Because her method is not applicable to the abyssal plane Wu Wei is in.
The abyssal plane Wu Wei controls is too small!
So, Wu Wei decided to consult another being who might have a solution.
That is, the dwarf who oversees all of Wu Wei's logistics - Birkin!
(The first greedy dwarf to surrender to the demons.)
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Inside Birkin's office.
"What?"
"These bastards ate more than a million of my lord's resource points in one day?"
"By the abyss, if these demon bastards keep eating like this, then my poor lord will be eaten bankrupt!"
"Here, Lord, please have some tea!"
The chief steward Birkin, covered in gold and diamond ornaments, said flatteringly to the lord.
And the two female slaves behind him very sensibly placed two cups of tea on the table in front of Wu Wei.
Wu Wei picked up the tea and looked up.
It has to be said that as Wu Wei's chief steward, Birkin is really living the high life.
He decorated his office like a mountain of gold, with dazzling gold and diamonds everywhere.
And this is not the most exaggerated thing.
The most exaggerated thing is that Birkin actually used pure gold to create a statue of him and the abyss lord in his office.
The theme of this statue is the scene when the humble Birkin swore allegiance to Wu Wei, the abyss lord.
Tacky.
But flattering enough.
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"So, do you have any solutions to this problem?"
Wu Wei said to the chief steward Birkin after taking a sip of tea.
"Of course, I do, my supreme lord!" Birkin said excitedly. "Wasn't I born to solve your problems?"
"What solution?"
"It's very simple!" Birkin said with a serious face.
"Let these demons, from today onwards, no longer eat anything!"
"They only get food when they fight!"
"Pfft!" Wu Wei couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.
What a joke?
Not letting the demons eat?
If the demons knew about Birkin's proposal, they would probably rush over and eat Birkin.
"That won't work."
Wu Wei shook his head.
"First of all, demons are ruthless creatures that will kill each other."
"Even when there is no food shortage, they will devour each other, let alone cut off the food supply."
"If the food supply is really cut off, they will kill each other until the last one."
"The cost of these armies is far more expensive than the things they eat."
"Moreover, although my abyssal hatchery has extremely fast hatching speed, it still takes at least a week for me to completely replenish these demons."
"So now, I can no longer keep the abyssal hatchery dormant during peacetime and only replenish demons during wartime."
"Uh, so that's how it is."
Although Birkin had previously proposed an unreliable solution, he still had other solutions.
"Lord, have you ever considered letting my demon laborers reclaim planes?"
"Reclaim planes?"
"Not very realistic."
Wu Wei shook his head.
"All the planes polluted by the endless abyss are not suitable for planting food."
"No matter how rich these planes were in the past, they will eventually become like the land under our feet."
"On this land, let alone food, most non-abyssal plants cannot survive."
There are plants in the abyss, but these abyssal plants are not only inedible, but also poisonous.
Some abyssal plants even have strong carnivorous properties.
So Birkin's proposal was directly rejected by Wu Wei.
But this time, Wu Wei was wrong.
Because he misunderstood what Chief Steward Birkin meant.
"No, no, no."
"Lord, what I really mean is."
"Have you ever considered getting some planes suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry over here."
"But you don't let these planes be drawn into the endless abyss, but simply use them as food production areas?"
"Like...."
"Colonies of the endless abyss!"
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