The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 911: Starship Construction



Vaan conditioned his mental and physical states as he prepared to cultivate the Heaven Forging Dragon Art.

He was rather curious about heaven's punishment.

How powerful was the Divine Damnation? What form would it take? Where would it come from?

Vaan wondered if heaven's punishment would even reach him.

After all, he was inside of the Profound Pearl of Life, a separate universe. Even if the heavenly laws of Chaos could pinpoint his location, its punishment might not be able to enter the Profound Pearl of Life.

Considering the Profound Pearl of Life was also a True Divinity-rank heavenly treasure, heaven's punishment shouldn't be powerful enough to break it. If heaven's punishment were truly that powerful, then Vaan would have no chance of surviving anyway, no matter where he hid or ran.

After optimizing his condition, Vaan immediately started running the Divine Refining Life Art to gather life energy.

The refined form of life energy was stored within the Heaven-Swallowing Space shortly after. He did not consume the refined energy but stockpiled it.

To ensure the success of cultivating the Heaven Forging Dragon Art, his supply of refined life energy had to be abundant. After all, a tremendous amount was required during his cultivation.

Having a shortage of refined life energy during the crucial moment would only lead to disastrous consequences.

Since cultivating the Heaven Forging Dragon Art was already considered an act against the heavens, how could Vaan take on the challenge half-heartedly?

Unknowingly, an entire week of accumulating refined life energy passed by.

Although Vaan's Heaven-Swallowing Space was constantly expanded by life energy, the Death Eaters were still forced into a corner after refined life energy filled up the space.

Nevertheless, Vaan made sure his accumulated life energy wouldn't wander into the Death Eaters' territory. He understood that life energy was like poison to them and vice versa.

Nevertheless, once Vaan felt like he had accumulated enough refined life energy, he finally cultivated the Heaven Forging Dragon Art.

...

During this past week, Valefor had been a busy bee in Gehenna.

After he had learned Astarte's Divine Weapon Refining Art, he poached two hundred Dark Dwarves from the Redsong Territory and brought them to the Evernight Territory.

Of course, Astarte was not happy with the decline in her workforce.

However, two hundred Dark Dwarves were only a small fraction of the Dark Dwarf Clan living in the Redsong Territory. Moreover, they weren't the most skilled craftsmen among their clan members.

With the exception of Team Leader Rudrec, who was an eccentric but talented weapon designer, the rest of the poached dwarves had limited experiences in divine weapon-refining. Furthermore, they were even considered neglected commoners within the Dark Dwarf Clan.

Even so, Valefor selected them because of their potential and not their talent.

If they had any talent in divine weapon-refining, they would have already proven themselves. They wouldn't necessarily leave the Redsong Territory even if they were given opportunities elsewhere.

However, it was also because Valefor promised them a stage and opportunity to showcase all their skills that the two hundred Dark Dwarves easily followed them.

In the Redsong Territory, the quality and success rate of one's divine weapon-refining were the main determining factors for a Dark Dwarf's talent and status.

If their skills were poor, they would be frowned upon and ostracized.

However, Valefor didn't care about this; he didn't need their divine weapon-refining talents. He had a superior divine weapon-refining art to compensate for their lacking talents.

What he truly wanted was their skills in other fields of craftsmanship, such as construction, city planning, and tool refining.

After gathering some resources from the Evernight Territory, Valefor immediately gave them a huge task - To build a battle-class starship.

Despite possessing the knowledge and skills to achieve it, no one in the Dark Dwarf Clan had ever undertaken such a huge task. This was because it required tremendous resources and funds.

Astarte never needed a battle-class starship, so the Dark Dwarf Clan never had the opportunity to build one.

Nevertheless, it was also for that reason that two hundred poached dwarves were very excited to work on it.

Even Rudrec, who followed Valefor after getting fired, became interested in joining the project. This was despite his original purpose to learn the Divine Weapon Refining Art from Valefor after receiving his enticement.

As a result, he ended up becoming the project's head designer.

...

Evernight Territory, Vladigold City

Although Abaddon's floating castle had been ransacked after his death, the treasury was slowly refilled after Mephistopheles, Balmodan, and Astarte returned their share of the loot.

For the past week, Valefor had used the floating castle as his temporary base as he oversaw the project's progress from the sky and mobilized the remaining Vampire Lords to gather the materials required.

Despite the Vampire Lords' shock when they saw "Vaan's" strength, they didn't dare to question a Peak Divine Knight.

Nevertheless, a huge project such as a battle-class starship undoubtedly put a strain on the Evernight Territory's economy, especially since it had been plagued with chaos and disorder. The territory had neither recovered nor been stable since Abaddon's death. Valefor's trip to the Shadowcage Territory's Sea of Darkness had been delayed due to recurring problems in the procurement of materials for the battle-class starship construction. The Evernight Territory might have plenty of resources, but they still needed to be unearthed and processed.

Considering most of the Evernight Territory's labor force consisted of mortal livestock such as humans and other red-blooded life forms, the procurement of rare minerals was already expected to be slow.

However, it became slower when the labor force experienced lethargy as a result of using blood currency to trade for daily necessities.

Originally, the problem should have been solved within the first three days after Valefor supplied diluted life energy drinks to the labor force. Unfortunately, the same problem still

persisted.

The diluted life energy drinks might have restored miners' vitality, but they also made their blood so much more attractive to the vampires.

As a result, there have been many incidents of miners getting seriously drained or killed due to uncontrolled bloodsucking.

When Eighth Progenitor, who had become Vaan's loyal dog, reported the persisting problem to Valefor, he felt deep dread.

"I'm sorry, my Lord. The young ones are just too unrestrained. However, I will definitely fix this problem as soon as possible!" the Eighth Progenitor promised on his knees, shivering in

fear.

"You said that four days ago, but the problem remains unchanged. It's clear that your methods aren't working," Valefor stated before coldly asking, "Do I need to personally wipe out the entire vampire race before this problem is no more?"

"N-no, my Lord! This time, I will definitely succeed! Please give me one more day!" the

Eighth Progenitor requested.

"I'll give you half a day. If you fail again, I will slaughter half of the vampire race, and your direct lineage will be on my priority list. If you don't want that, bring me the head of all parties involved in the delay," Valefor coldly stated.

"I understand, my Lord...!" the Eighth Progenitor acknowledged as he trembled in fear. Facing Valefor's incomparably thick killing intent, he did not doubt his words in the slightest; The truly believed them.