Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 869 - 98: Mobilizing Resources

"Send word out: have all cities send mining resources to Langton. If anyone objects or protests, send the Floating City to suppress them." Perfikot issued the latest order while in her lab in Langton City, processing the corpse of the minotaur monster.

She ordered her men to start scavenging resources from all cities within the Empire's homeland, preparing to construct the second Floating City module.

Originally, Perfikot was not inclined to exploit the Empire's homeland so harshly, but now the War God had come right up to her face. If the War God wasn't seemingly uninterested in waging a divine war, the war might very well have already started.

As such, Perfikot had no leisure to handle these cities in the homeland with any sentimentality.

Of course, she wasn't completely draining these cities dry, but rather instructed her people to extract resources to the maximum extent as long as it didn't drive the cities to rebellion a second time.

After all, although Perfikot could forcibly suppress any rebellious forces, killing everyone would mean no one was left to work for her and mine.

Although the mining units carried by the Floating City could be sent out to independently mine, they still required technicians for maintenance.

Moreover, critically, the mining units that the Floating City could carry, and the amount of ore it could process within a given time, were limited. It wasn't like a video game where as long as you stack up mining units, you could obtain a large amount of minerals within a unit of time.

Perfikot had to rely on these cities' existing mining and processing systems within the Empire's homeland to obtain sufficient mineral resources.

It was precisely for this reason that although Perfikot demanded the maximum extraction of resources, her actions were not overly excessive overall.

Although resentment rang through the cities, it hadn't reached the point of wanting to rebel, so Perfikot successfully secured a large amount of resources here and began the construction of the second Floating City module.

This time, however, she adopted the design plan of constructing the Floating City module directly through the existing one, commencing construction in mid-air.

The construction of the new Floating City module certainly couldn't be as quick as when Perfikot concentrated the entire Northern Territory's alchemists and industrial capabilities to build it.

But with the experience of one construction already, and with Perfikot having optimized the construction process, overall, it wasn't much slower.

After about a month of construction, the framework of the second Floating City module had even started to take shape.

During this period, Perfikot also sent envoys to the Northern Faction, informing the Cabinet and Empress Annie of the occurrences in the Empire's homeland.

The Cabinet was shocked by the happenings in the Empire's homeland but didn't have much to say about it.

After all, Perfikot was right there, so what qualifications does the Cabinet have to direct her? Isn't it just what Regent wants to do, she does?

Ultimately, it was about how the Cabinet could cooperate with her.

Furthermore, with the next Cabinet election approaching, although the current Prime Minister Wellington was keen to seize this opportunity to leave a mark of achievement, facilitating his re-election,

other members of the Cabinet were not thinking the same way.

During the first election, everyone lacked experience, and Perfikot's support for the pairing of Wellington and Kallen allowed them to easily win the election.

Everyone, although not very satisfied with this result, reluctantly accepted, after all, it was the first so-called democratic election, and being unfamiliar with the gameplay, a loss was just a loss.

But in this second election, after a term's accumulation, all factions already understood the gameplay of democratic elections and the Cabinet system, so they were gearing up to challenge the prime minister's position in the second election.

Although Prime Minister Wellington's first term was indeed commendable, and his chances of re-election were high, it wasn't to the point of certainty.

If the opposition parties combined forces for a coalition government, Wellington might not succeed in his re-election.

Thus, it was understandable that the Cabinet was indifferent regarding the matters of the Empire's homeland.

On the contrary, Empress Annie was very concerned with the issue, sending some people from the Royal Family back to Langton to manage certain properties of the palace and the Royal Family, while also reassuring the people of Langton that the Empire had not forgotten them, and the Royal Family had no intention of abandoning them.

Of course, compared to the Cabinet and the Empress's response, the real reaction to the messages Perfikot sent back was from Sanderion.

Since the second Floating City module she presided over had completed construction and passed all tests, it was already combat-ready.

Upon learning that the divine war was about to break out, Sanderion did not dare to delay. She left her student to continue overseeing the construction of the third Floating City module while she herself was commanding the second Floating City module to head to the Empire's homeland, preparing to support Perfikot.

In Sanderion's view, Perfikot should now be in a state of solitary burden; although the Floating City is powerful, relying on one's strength alone to wage war against gods is somewhat beyond reach.

Even if the Floating City were made entirely of steel, how much divine assault could it withstand?

In fact, in Sanderion's judgment, even with two Floating City modules, facing an attack from a divine army wouldn't hold for long or be of much use.

What could truly decide the victor in the war between the Empire and the divine was still the Godslaying Armor, a war weapon developed jointly by her and Perfikot for slaying gods.

Therefore, Sanderion's support for Perfikot this time was not only to bring the Floating City module to rendezvous with Perfikot, but more importantly, to transport the Godslaying Armor she left in the Northern Territory to Langton.

Of course, Sanderion wasn't foolish enough to bring all the Godslaying Armor at once; she only took one-third, leaving more than half to guard the Northern Territory to prevent any divine trickery of diversion.

As for whether bringing only one-third was insufficient, Sanderion wasn't worried.

She had left a batch of Godslaying Armor she made in the homeland, and Perfikot brought with her Beifa and several other latest models of Godslaying Armor when she went there. Together with what Sanderion brought, the combined forces would total about twenty Godslaying Armors.

Honestly, Sanderion was stunned to learn the number of Godslaying Armors Perfikot had in hand.

She hadn't expected Perfikot to quietly amass such a number of god-killing war machines and even perform multiple iterations of technological upgrades.

Although she and Perfikot had previously engaged in close technical exchanges, actively applying these new technologies to the Godslaying Armor she made, and also using Langton's resources to produce some new Godslaying Armors, she had managed to assemble only nine in total.

The number Perfikot produced was more than three times hers! Is having the Philosopher's Stone that formidable? Sanderion didn't understand, pondering whether to discuss with Perfikot about helping her to create a Philosopher's Stone as well.