God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 367: You Can Also Just Pile Up Magicians

"I never thought roads could be built like this."

The emperor of Gray Fort stared at the Magic Net and muttered, "Building roads this way really does seem to boost the speed of magic-powered vehicles by a lot. Should I have the roads in Gray Fort Empire built the same way?"

In the Gray Fort Empire, nobles were still nobles and lords were still lords, but thanks to his past reforms, the country wasn’t scattered and disorganized like Dawn Kingdom.

Especially after the Church of the God of War’s uprising caused tons of old nobles to die, he’d taken the opportunity to push their heirs into ruin and seized massive amounts of land.

After all these moves, Gray Fort Empire’s control was stronger than ever.

He totally had the ability to plan nationwide roads. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have borrowed so much money from the Dragon Bond Exchange earlier to build public transportation.

"No, if we built roads this wide everywhere, it’d definitely be wasteful. Plus, the cost would be way too high—not practical."

The emperor of Gray Fort quickly realized the problem and shook his head slightly. "But for the main arteries, it’d probably be worth it."

"If that’s the case, why not handle it in tiers?"

"The roads from the capital to Dawn’s southern territory, from the capital to the City-State Alliance, from the capital to the Highland Kingdom—those are definitely worth making this wide. Connect all the major cities and territories along the way with these roads. As for other areas, plan different widths based on their economic situations and future needs."

The more the emperor of Gray Fort thought about it, the better this plan seemed.

Use these "two-way eight-lane" roads in the most prosperous areas that’d have huge foreign trade demands.

Use "two-way four-lane" roads in moderately prosperous areas, and ideally connect them to the eight-lane main arteries at certain points.

For even less developed areas, just one lane in each direction.

Then connect all these roads together. Moderately prosperous and less prosperous areas could all link to the main arteries nearby through their own roads, weaving the entire empire’s road system into something like a spider web.

The more the emperor of Gray Fort thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed—the better this plan looked.

"They just left Roster territory. It’ll take at least seven or eight days to reach the western territory of Dawn Kingdom. And from that crappy place in the west, especially going along the border to reach my Gray Fort Empire, seems like it’ll take even longer."

After coming up with a rough plan, the emperor of Gray Fort glanced at the livestream that already had millions of viewers. "Later I’ll talk to Viscount Roster about picking a city on the border between Dawn’s southern territory and Gray Fort’s northern territory to be the most important border crossing in the future. Or just pick a spot and have magicians quickly build a border station there. When their convoy comes to Gray Fort, they’ll go through there."

As long as they could determine the entry point, they could naturally rush to build a road from the border to the capital.

At the same time, they could also build the road from the capital to the City-State Alliance.

As long as they were fast enough, the entire convoy would be traveling on wide, new-style roads. Broadcasting this through the livestream and then comparing it to Dawn Kingdom...

It’s easy to get used to the good stuff, but going back to the bad stuff? That’s rough.

When they left Roster territory, people were amazed by these special roads. But after leaving Roster territory, the journey through Dawn Kingdom would probably be pretty miserable because the roads there were just too crappy.

Viscount Roster probably wanted to show off how well these vehicles handled bad roads.

But when they entered Gray Fort Empire, they’d discover that from the northern border to the capital, from the capital to the southern border, and finally into the City-State Alliance—the roads were all just as good as Roster territory’s. What would the viewers think then?

And when the vehicles entered the City-State Alliance and suddenly returned to primitive conditions, wouldn’t people think back to when they were just in Gray Fort Empire?

This was a chance to show off humanity’s greatest nation.

Ever since magic-tech industrialization began, Dawn Kingdom—no, actually Viscount Roster—had kinda become the protagonist of the era. Everyone’s eyes were on him.

In many people’s minds, he represented an entire age.

In this comparison, Gray Fort looked a bit backward, even though they were the strongest human nation in the world.

But this time was a great opportunity for them to reclaim their position.

Even Viscount Roster couldn’t build roads on this scale. Only Gray Fort Empire could.

The emperor of Gray Fort quickly made up his mind. "Let’s just send out all the magician corps, the Magician Society, and the royal magician offerings. With such a massive force of magicians, we should be able to get it done."

Magic-tech machinery was definitely impressive—it could work on building new roads non-stop without rest. When people got tired, just switch them out and keep going.

But even now, even in Roster territory, production was pretty limited, and there wasn’t much available for others to use.

But Gray Fort Empire had the most magicians in the world... except for the Tulip Kingdom. With so many magicians, building some roads should be super easy, right?

Especially now that they had self-charging magic arrays, and those folks at the Magician Society weren’t totally useless—they’d developed a technique to charge magicians.

In the past, magicians were only ever drained dry by large magic arrays. But now, as long as a magician wasn’t completely drained in an instant, they could recharge themselves in a self-charging array. Magic power that used to take three to five days, or even ten days to two weeks to recover, could now be restored in just three to five hours if the self-charging array had stored enough magic.

Because of this, combined with Gray Fort Empire’s massive reserves of magicians—especially all those mass-produced low-level magicians they’d trained in recent years who were completely loyal to the royal family, relied on the royal family for their livelihood, and were originally prepared for the battlefield.

While their individual strength might not be super strong, they worked together really smoothly.

Just three low-level magicians working together could match a full-featured magic-tech machine.

One in front using Stone to Mud type magic to soften the area where the road would be built, a second low-level magician using magic to flatten the road, and a third magician using Mud to Stone type magic to harden it.

And then boom—the basic form of the road was done.

As for the lines and arrows on top, just have regular people go paint them.

The emperor of Gray Fort quickly ran through the scenario, did some calculations, figured there wouldn’t be any problems—even had time to spare—and immediately summoned some ministers for a meeting to finalize this plan.

As for whether people would find out on the Magic Net that they were rushing the construction—who cared?