Chapter 450: Cement
This is one of the major construction projects of the organization to increase its influence in the Adrian Empire.
The whole architecture department was moved, anyone who has the cultivation of the Great realm and above is sent to the construction project.
Their main goal is to construct towers for the Mercenary teams. At the moment, there are around a hundred members in each mercenary team that was being led by the Nascent stage cultivators in Adrian.
Due to Sam's promised rewards, they are extremely excited and involved in the project. They tried their best to get new recruits. Particularly the team that established themselves in the Imperial capital.
That was led by the Overall leader of the Nascent stage cultivators, at least for the Mercenary corps under Sam. That guy is the one that is ranked first in the rumble.
He noticed that Sam need more people who have potential and started sending orphans back to the city. He was the one who has access to the Space gate, so naturally, it is easier for him.
Apart from that, they are extremely good at recruiting new members. Most of the new members got into the mercenary teams after being saved from the life and death situations by the mercenary teams. In fact, they didn't let go of any of that chance.
Apart from that, they focused on people who are betrayed by their teams, trying to find the people who are retired from the military and city guard because of some mistakes, some solo cultivators who are being oppressed by some noble families, and so on.
Of course, there are normal people as well, who joined the mercenary team because they are strong and have great prospects.
But they didn't reject them, in fact, they tried to brainwash them to the loyalty with rewards, opportunities, enticement with their superior class weapons, the Bee puppets, and so on.
They expanded far more in these three months, more than Sam expected. Even though they didn't bring extremely loyal and permanent members into the group, they could still be used.
As for the towers, they are not the pure communication towers that were built on the western continent.
Rather, they are residential towers and at the same time communication network hub will also be placed. But that communication network will not be known to others and will not be open to the public. This is a communication network of Sam's troops.
At the same time, these things have another purpose. That is they act as the business joint of Sam in that empire until the Parks are built.
Th architecture departments paired with the required formation department and inscription department are divided into different groups. The main commander of these teams is obviously Austin, the first pre-transcendent stage cultivator under Sam.
There are not many Nascent stage architects under Sam. There are only around ten of them.
But most of the construction doesn't need them, they have to build the foundation and the other core structure, the secondary structures will be done by Grand realm cultivators and the rest can be done by great realm cultivators.
This time, Sam gave a myriad of designs. This time, he didn't integrate the formations completely into the tower's structure.
Rather, the formation department people are responsible for using the structure of the tower to their advantage and set the defenses.
So, the designs are not extremely complicated. In fact, Sam only gave the outer appearance for more than half of the designs, with the new-found knowledge the architects are more than good enough to come up with a good enough design.
The Inscription masters are responsible for the inscriptions of the tower to enforce the defense.
But the construction is not going to start simultaneously in all places. They are going to start the project in the sea-shore cities of Adrian and slowly move upwards in the next two months.
And they did exactly that.
A team of more than three hundred people arrived at the imperial city of Adrian in batches. This much of a large movement will be too eye-catching if they moved together.
So, the formation was activated in batches of ten and even then, they moved out of the building in which the formation was constructed extremely discreetly.
When all of them are spread out, they traveled for more than a week to reach the Coastal cities and three towers started their project. Due to the presence of more Nascent stage cultivators in the initial phases, it would go faster than normal.
And from what they spent all these days in the school, one of the students came up with a new method of construction. At least, it is a new method in this world, and it is similar to the method of Pre-casting of walls of a house.
All this while, the construction process was done step by step and layer by layer even with the presence of all these architects, he decided that he would try to make use of a method which would let him construct the structure in pieces and join them.
And in that process, he created something similar to cement. But this won't have any form of similarities with the modern-day cement except for the solidification process.
This comes from a mixture of three types of materials turned into powder and mixed with two types of liquids. One of them is a plant-based juice and the other one is the mucus of a beast.
He is a grand realm architect and he is in his late twenties, which made him eligible to be a student in the school. As for why he was able to get these plant-based juices, he was also a dual elemental user.
So, he attended some classes and read some books on herbs in the school's library. He has this idea for a long time, but he was only able to try and find a way recently.
After the patent thing a few days ago, he felt that he should definitely show the practical application of this and was trying to find an opportunity to meet with Sam or his three friends. As for the department heads, he didn't believe in them.
He only believed a lecturer in the architect department and asked for his help. But they couldn't reach the four of them no matter what they did.
The four of them are busy making preparations.
But still, they were able to get a chance to talk with Philip and explained his idea.
Philip placed them in the first tower construction project and he should use his technique and record the whole process with the recording crystal. If everything adds up, he would be able to get the patent and also the prize money that would come with it.
Here he is.
Currently, the architect department is making the door section with a Black stone to make an entrance for the tower and the foundation and the wall surrounding the entrance were already built.
The first step is to attack the stone entrance to the wall and see if it works and if it does, then they would continue.
And working doesn't mean just sticking together and attaching themselves, the two surfaces shouldn't have any problems in conducting spiritual energy and should be able to retain the inscriptions.
They did some tests, and this is the final one to convince the rest of the department.
After joining the door, they waited for the day and left it to solidify as they proceeded with the rest of the construction. But the guy who made this cement is making a structure on the side and it is not the first one, he is making the window frames from similar black stones and he even started constructing the adjacent sections of the windows and sunshade for the windows.
Even when his colleagues wanted to stop him from this and asked him to wait until the experiment is proven he didn't stop. He has full confidence in his own invention and the next day, the results really did surprise everyone. Not only did it work, it even exceeded their expectations.
Generally, the architects have a lot of trouble when construction, because they have to make the large uneven, and irregular stones into neat and clean structures.
For that, they have many skills trained which are achieved by manipulating the earth's elemental energy.
They use that energy to not only shape the stones, they will also create smooth surfaces and forcefully bind the two stones to make them one object.
This binding is actually the toughest of all, but this new cement will eliminate all those problems.
The news sent cheers to everyone. Now, they could see a lot of possibilities with the help of this new binder.
The shapes of the structures, the choices of the size are all flexible now. All this while due to this binding problem they wouldn't use smaller stones rather they would bind large stones so that they could make do with fewer bindings. But now the stone bricks can be used to create large surfaces which give more freedom in design and less effort from them.