A forest with four holy trees meant even more opportunities and resources. Just the water of the lake would allow for two hundred thousand additional troops to be brought into the new world.

The stone on the island at the heart of this lake had been analyzed as a metal that could change shape and form. It wasn’t exactly hard, but it was durable and very pliable.  It was likely that new alloys for armor plates could be developed with its addition, strengthening everything from airships to individual soldiers.

The main restriction behind the development of weapons in the Evernight World, apart from technology, was material. Especially when reaching the fortress level, the materials had to be combined with different special components in order to produce their respective attributes. However, there wasn’t much production to speak of when it came to such materials. Most of them were simply chanced upon, and their extraction process could be duplicated sometimes.

This meant that a single type of special material might only be enough for a couple of fortress weapons. People would have to figure out something else if they wanted to build more weapons at the same level. The design, production line, and auxiliary components had to be changed. Hence, the discovery of high-end material held...