Feicui Long and Irina finally arrive at the meeting point being the first ones to do so, at this Feicui Long takes the opportunity to clear the area a little, cutting some trees, bushes and removing rocks and such.
Curious, Irina asks him: "Young master, is all this work you are doing really necessary? Isn't it just about setting up a camp?"
Feicui Long, distracted while working, tells her: "No, I originally planned to take this forest a year or a year and a half later, unfortunately I had to advance my plans, so since I had to take it as my territory, I will use it completely."
Irina frowns, confused without understanding the reason behind this camp, and tells him: "But what does that have to do with this right now?"
Feicui Long explains to her: "The answer is simple, this will be a permanent camp, because I am precisely planning to establish a city here, in fact here we will not only meet with Isabella, Mariane, my nieces, Caroline, Freja and the others, but also with the reinforcements sent from the Skylion barony."
Irina now understands everything and starts helping him with all the work, if they want to leave a decent camp with stationed people, at least the area should be left quite clean.
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About 12 hours pass and finally Mariane's group and Isabella's group arrive at the completely cleared camp, but except for Mariane, Isabella, the twins, Caroline and Freja, the others are very surprised.
Because this camp almost looks like an improvised mini fortress, since there are palisades on all sides, with small ditches and several wooden spikes in the front, they can still see some golems and undead finishing installing everything.
But they can also see the formation lines that cover the camp and how the inscriptions strengthen the wooden walls and the watchtowers.
When Feicui Long hears the sound of horses he stops his work and runs here, this time the ones surprised are those close to Feicui Long, since they had never seen him so anxious, that although he tries to hide it, it really shows that he is very worried.
When he sees that Isabella and Mariane, along with his nieces and the others are fine, he can finally calm down a little, but it is not until he gives a big hug to Isabella and Mariane and later to his nieces, that he finally feels completely at ease.
They all react differently, Isabella starts hugging him by herself, while Mariane too only that she looks quite happy and proud, the twins although they look cold and indifferent are a little embarrassed by this public display of affection, typical of teenagers.
After about five long minutes, everyone finally separates and enters this camp, the troops without the need to receive orders organize the tents and settle down, helping to establish a place to cook and a bathing area, luckily a river runs nearby.
While all this develops, Feicui Long and Irina sit together and although Isabella and Mariane direct suspicious looks at Irina, in the end they begin to relate everything that had happened, each one with more incredible details than the other.
It is not until the two finish talking, that Feicui Long looks bitterly at Irina and tells her: "It seems that they are very determined to finish you, they practically sent three weak armies to finish you."
Irina cannot avoid feeling a little bad, she did not know that they had come looking for her, so she makes a sad face almost like a scolded puppy.
Feicui Long shakes his head and caresses her hair, then seeing how Mariane and Isabella again put doubtful eyes and want to ask him something, then he tells them what happened on his side, how they were about to die and how in the end he had to resort to using special soul.
Then Mariane frowns and says: "I see master that explains why you are so pale and look weak… it is fine, it does not matter I will take care of things while you recover."
Feicui Long surprised says: "Recover? I am already fine, this weakness is just something temporary, you do not have to worry about that…"
Before he finishes speaking, he is dragged by Isabella to her tent to "rest", that night nobody knows what happened in that tent because they did not hear anything, but they could feel how it constantly shook.
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The next day unexpectedly Feicui Long looks much better, but also Isabella, it seems that this "rest" session had restored both their mood and energy, even Isabella had returned to her flirtatious and kind personality, this last thing leaves the troops who accompanied her speechless, this kind of change was too fast, almost like putting on and taking off a mask.
In any case, both do not waste time and together with everyone in the camp they start cooking and preparing everything, with the help of all the troops and the undead and golems of Mariane and Feicui Long they quickly expand the improvised camp covering both sides of the road, including the formation and inscriptions.
The camp has at least tripled its previous size, although two thirds are empty, but at least it is much wider, they also prepare large amounts of food, everyone has killed many energy beasts and collected several medicinal herbs, it is enough to feed hundreds of people easily.
When they finish, they can finally hear the sound of thousands of steps of metal armors moving and beasts walking, Feicui Long, Isabella, Mariane and Irina are standing outside looking at the army that approaches with firm steps and very organized.
A total of 2500 troops walk all together with their accompanying creature, the beast army armored in a silvery gray product of steel, with white parts, on their chests, banners and cloaks there is a symbol of a winged lion perched on a cliff raising its chest with pride.
In the front an orc woman together with a group of elites with a full plate armor of a silver color with white parts approaches, next to her an adult wind lion at the peak of the earthly palace realm walks calmly.
When they finally arrive in front of Feicui Long's side, the orc woman makes a bow and greets militarily: "Mylene fifth commander of the sky lion guard greets the young mistress of the Skylion family."
Then she does the same towards Feicui Long: "Greetings to the young lord Feicui Long fiancé of the young mistress."
After Mylene greets the two, all the members of the sky guard do the same and after them the army does the same, at the same time saying greetings to the young mistress and the young lord.
Feicui Long greets them with a smile but inside he is surprised, he thought that his mother-in-law would send at most about 500 troops and that is why he expanded the camp, now even if they shared one tent every 20 people it would not be enough.
Anyway Feicui Long lets them all enter at least so that everyone can sit down and rest and enjoy a good meal.
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Feicui Long sits in the tent that he had arranged to meet with the leaders of the army sent, inside everyone from both sides exchange information about the forest, Feicui Long even gives them several detailed copies.
Feicui Long sighs and tells them: "This time those undead really went overboard, sending 7 whole armies for a single person, what kind of madness is that."
Irina at his side feels really bad, she did not know how they had discovered her location and put hundreds of people in danger, luckily all those they sent were just cannon fodder among their ranks.
Feicui Long calms her again caressing her head and says: "It is fine, it is not your fault, besides no innocent died so do not worry."
Directing his gaze towards Mylene he says: "How many of your soldiers can help expand the camp even more?"
Mylene quickly responds: "All, all can help."
Feicui Long raises an eyebrow and says: "Are none of them tired?"
Mylene responds again: "Probably several, but if they are not capable of something simple while being tired they do not deserve to be inside the army of the barony."
Feicui Long only nods and says: "Fine give the order, let them expand the camp, the ditches and the palisades and the spikes, it has to be ready two hours before dawn, Mariane, my nieces and I will expand the formation and put inscriptions on the palisades and spikes."
Mylene curiously asks: "May I know what the young lord needs all this for? I mean anyway I plan to leave a thousand troops here stationed by orders of the lady, but we have to march together with you to the barony, for one to receive the papers of the branch of the union and at the same time the recognition of the empire."
Feicui Long does not try to act mysterious in any way and directly says: "Precisely because I want to build a city right here as an intermediate between my village and the forest, besides that it is right in the middle of the territory."
Feicui Long takes the same map and points to the site where they are: "Besides if you look this area is enormously rich in resources, it has an iron mine on the left side, a quite large energy stone mine on the right, an area with energy trees whose soul and spirit have not yet awakened and in the lower left corner it has a gold mine."
Isabella at his side then takes the word and says: "Besides you have to take into account the great potential that this city would have, this forest is already used as a training zone because there are only beasts in the elemental realm both by the army of the barony, and by the triple union, with their adventurers, mercenaries and hunters."
Isabella takes out her calculations that she had discussed with Elise: "This would provide large amounts of materials from energy beasts, medicinal herbs and other things, besides we could offer them services like lodging, food and so on."
Mylene is surprised by the change of her young mistress but that does not matter to her, looking at it well this city had an impressive potential, it was really very valuable.
With this the meeting ends for today, everyone goes to do their own thing, waiting for what lies ahead…