Chapter 31

Time flew by and soon, it was summer.

With the addition of the trolls and cyclops, the construction of the city wall was halfway done in just over a month.

The only bad thing was that the two races had a huge appetite. When they worked, each troll and cyclops had the appetite of five people each.

However, they usually only ate once a day. Most of the time when they weren’t working was spent sleeping.

After checking the city wall’s progress, Joshua turned around and left.

Back at the police station, Georgi was training these new subordinates in an orderly manner.

When he saw Joshua, he immediately threw over a weapon for practice. “Village Chief Joshua, these new recruits look down on your swordsmanship. How about you demonstrate it to them now!”

Hearing this, Joshua said with a straight face, “Oh! Is that so?”

With that, he took the sword for practice and pointed it at the young man from the Great Ghost clan in front of him. “Was it you?”

Because he was very young, he looked down on everything.

The young man immediately picked up a mace.

After testing it in his hands, he turned to Joshua and said, “Don’t blame me if you get hurt!”

Hearing this, Joshua laughed. “Haha! What an interesting young man. What’s your name?”

“My name is Lawrence. Now take this!” As he said that, he threw the mace in his hand directly at Joshua.

The sound of the wind breaking entered Joshua’s ears. Through this, Joshua had already determined his opponent’s strength.

“Your strength is not bad, but it’s not enough!” As he spoke, he pulled out the sword he was using to practice and raised his hand to slash at the incoming mace.

The sword in Joshua’s hand was twice as fast as the mace. The blunt sword then collided with the mace.

It cut the mace in Lawrence’s hand into two.

Seeing this scene, the young ghost man named Lawrence was stunned!

“How!”

At this time, Joshua had already put his weapon back into the sheath.

“It’s good to be young and vigorous, but don’t be overconfident. This will make you lose your way forward!”

Seeing Joshua’s attack, Georgi was also surprised.

He did not expect that Joshua’s sword skill could reach such a level in less than a month!

Feeling the strength that he could not surpass, Lawrence collapsed to the ground.

Seeing this, Joshua walked over, patted his shoulder, and said, “You’re still young. Train well behind Georgi. It won’t be long before you are capable of standing your own ground on the battlefield.”

Hearing this, Lawrence was very unwilling. Ordinary people should not say that it would not take long for them to surpass them!

What Joshua said made Lawrence feel a trace of rebelliousness in his heart as he soon became more passionate in his training.

After the competition ended, Joshua called Georgi to the side.

“Georgi, you should choose a few outstanding people to replace you. Next, we will start to build an army so you will be busy for some time after this.”

Georgi thought for a moment and nodded.

“I will settle this matter in the next few days!”

After giving his instructions, Joshua went back to the municipal center. He was ready to check on the recent financial situation.

Since currency was popularized, all the surrounding demi-humans had signed contracts with Puba Village.

These contracts allowed the surrounding demi-humans to store all their food in the city.

At this stage, the city was most lacking in grain.

This was because the first season of magic rice could only be harvested in October and it was only the middle of July.

In the municipal office.

Mortimer took out all the grain storage records in the city. Joshua picked up the records on the table and read them one by one.

At present, the grain storage situation in Puba Village was not very good. If they were still in their previous situation, they would probably have run out of grain by now.

The grain in the city could barely last until the October harvest. In order to avoid accidents, Joshua decided to make some moves.

“Deputy Village Chief Mortimer, during this period of time, send out a few patrol members to collect wild fruits. Then, from the city guards, select some people who know how to fish and tell them to catch some fish at sea!”

“The grain in the city can indeed last until the autumn harvest. But we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to have 100% yield during harvesting season. In order to reduce the risk of grain production, we’ll try to find other substitutes from the surrounding jungle and the sea!”

Hearing Joshua’s words, Mortimer immediately nodded and began to plan out how to get these orders done.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Joshua quietly left the city hall from the side.

After completing the arrangements in the city, Joshua went to the Science and Technology Academy.

The defense around the Science and Technology Academy was very tight. Unless one was an ant, it would be very difficult to enter.

Because the Science and Technology Academy was mainly located underground, only a part of the testing site was above ground.

After entering the front door of the Science and Technology Academy, one could only enter Alger’s room after layers of identity verification.

Alger, who was busy, stopped his work when he saw Joshua arrive.

“Village Chief Joshua, come and take a look at this!”

Following Alger from behind, he came in front of a strange machine. However, after looking at it carefully, he finally remembered what it was!

“It’s a water filter. You actually made it into an enhanced version!”

Because Joshua had his system, he could tell at a glance that the machine had been enhanced.

When Alger heard Joshua’s words, he immediately beamed with joy. “Sir Joshua is indeed the most powerful person in my heart! You can tell what it is just by looking at it!”

“How’s the test going?”

“Currently, it’s been going on for more than ten days. Everything is very stable and its energy consumption is very little. The daily consumption of magic stones it requires is about the size of my thumb!”

When he heard this, Joshua could not help but praise Alger’s genius. This was because the things that were originally produced from this design blueprint were several times more energy-consuming than the current enhanced test model before him.

“That’s good! After the city walls are built, we’ll popularize these things. This way, everyone can have access to clean drinking water and not endlessly search for non-polluted water sources!”

After leaving the Science and Technology Academy, Joshua felt relaxed. Now, all the important places to ensure the village was fully functioning had been settled.

Along the way, Joshua walked until he arrived at the entertainment district. Apart from drinking, there were also various red-light districts.

As he walked, he suddenly heard crying. Following the sound, Joshua found a girl.

She had a pair of fox ears and three short tails behind her butt.

The few demi-humans around her were quite scary so as soon as they got close to her, she would start crying even harder.

Joshua immediately walked over and gestured to the people around him to disperse.