Chapter 65
days have passed in relative peace. The longest stretch of normalcy we’ve seen so far.
Every morning me and Hui’Jin go and clear out the boars from the dungeon entrance to keep them from getting loose, as well as to restock the base supplies.
The Dragon Priestesses have been a huge help to the city construction, burning through half of the grade 2 mana stones we’ve collected from the boars, but large parts of the city already have refugees and base workers moving in.
The population seems to skew further every day though. At first there was a wave of non magical humans that came seeking shelter, most of them have moved on, seeking something else. But increasingly we’re seeing demi humans, mages and witches come look for shelter, citing the feeling that this city is the place they need to be.
Under a quarter of those we receive are originally from this planet, our own supernatural communities having banded together to help stabilize their home regions.
Jurgen and the Ramirez brothers have been out for the last 3 days, patrolling ’to look for new portals and keep the farmers safe’ as they put it. The base has sent over 200 people out on such missions.
The Adventurer’s Guild has been a huge hit, membership is growing steadily, and the new staff are popular with everyone, their uniforms earning them respect everywhere they go.
We’ve yet to make our own coins, but every day a merchant caravan comes through the travel gate between us and Drakon City, formerly the City of Seattle. The meat and hide of the boars, as well as any mana stones we can spare are their primary requests, but Mustard seed and powder has been in high demand.
Fortunately, it’s grown not far from here and we only needed to put out a Guild request to get a truck load of it here, packed to ship within a day.
News from around the country isn’t all rainbows though. The deep south is still having issues with giant monsters coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, as is the east coast of central America.
The East coast is mostly fairing well, but political chaos and rioting in the cities has become a daily occurrence, leading to marital law and enforced lockdowns.