The Martial Unity

Chapter 3767: Metrovision

”All done.”

Rui’s voice of relief hung in the air.

The light of the evening sun illuminated him and the empty land around him that stretched as far as the eye could see. Nothing remained, save for the remains of the foundations of great buildings that used to cover the entire cityscape. He had removed the dead, saved the living, and emptied out the rubble from city to city, creating a blank canvas upon which anything could be drawn once more.

A part of him looked forward to what kind of civilization would be built upon this emptied land. Technological acquisition and development had outpaced the bedrock of civilization. Many cities and towns in the Kandrian Empire were still built from wood and stone despite the great technological leaps that had occurred in the past five years.

Unlike other nations in the world that had suffered tremendous damage from the Beast Incursion, the Kandrian Empire had not experienced any harm from it, leaving it no reason to rebuild what had never been harmed.

Now, however, they had been forced upon an opportunity to reconstruct an advanced civilization bedrock that vastly exceeded the rest of the nation. From much greater reserves of esoteric matter acquired during the Era of Darkness, along with superior esoteric, conventional, and organic biotechnology, they could construct truly advanced high-tech cities in the ruined East Kandria.

”This...!”

”Impossible!”

”How... how can one man possess such power?!”

Rui’s thoughts were interrupted as the Martial Artists assigned to the city he was in returned from their medical camps to inspect the work that Rui had done.

The Martial Masters assigned to the city stared at him with awe and shock, leaving him utterly stunned. Even though they had received reports of what Rui had done in the other cities, they still couldn’t believe their eyes.

”Survey the city, just to make sure that nothing’s been left out or that there hasn’t been any damage to the bedrock

,” Rui commanded them. ”After that, report back to the Disaster Relief and Management Committee and Minister of Domestic Affairs.”
”U-Understood, Your Highness!”

Rui nodded.

His work was done.

He had saved everybody in every city and cleared all the rubble, completing all of the work that held up personnel in the Ministry of Domestic Affairs.

”Time to ensure he’s holding up his end of the bargain.”

WHOOSH

Rui teleported back to the office of the Minister of Domestic Affairs, where the Minister jumped as he spotted Rui in his office.

”Your Highness!” The man sounded jubilant. ”You did it! You actually did it all in just an hour!”

”Well, of course,” Rui replied with a composed tone as he walked up to his table, taking a seat opposite him. ”Did you think I was lying?”

”N-No, of course not! But still... actually reading all these reports of you doing exactly what was said word for word is... genuinely shocking,” the man heaved a deep breath and directed a gaze filled with strong gratitude.

”Thank you, Your Highness. You have saved everybody from much more suffering, you have saved us much time and energy, you have given us momentum in progress.” The Minister of Domestic Affairs noted. ”It allows us to move to the next phase of our plans almost immediately.”

Rui raised an eyebrow. ”Next phase? Already? I would have imagined you needed time to plan that. It has been a few hours since these cities were destroyed. Did you use the manifold?”

The Minister of Domestic Affairs grinned. ”We did, but we are actually borrowing from an ongoing project in the Kandrian Empire. Project Metrovision was commissioned by His Majesty as a way to upgrade every city and town in the Kandrian Empire into smart cities integrated with all the breakthroughs in all relevant fields of technology. It was commissioned five years ago, and we have tried integrating all the breakthroughs made recently, which are meant to be long-term. But... with the recent tragedy, we have the opportunity to realize it much sooner.”

Rui’s eyes lit up. ”I was hoping for something like this. Tell me more about this. I am curious about what the future holds for the Kandrian Empire.”

The man excitedly whipped out several tentative blueprints, handing them to Rui while also projecting three-dimensional blueprints of a vast overarching metropolitan structure across the city.

Rui’s eyes widened as he understood the sheer ambition of this project. ”This... This is a multi-layered metropolitan smart city. You plan to create an equally voluminous underground layer that is entirely centered around logistics, transport, storage, and other vital systems. That... that is incredibly ambitious.”

”No, it’s well within our capability, Your Majesty,” the man remarked. ”There already exist underground structures like this, such as the Derimont Bazaar, said to be a stronghold of the Beggar’s Sect. We have acquired technology from the Nest of Terra in exchange for negatron matter. We have the ability to dig out vast underground enclaves without compromising the strength of the surface. We can create extraordinarily high-tech smart cities that leverage this space for highly volume-intensive technological systems.”

”This city...” Rui’s ethereal eyes widened. ”You want to use world bridges for public transportation? You also want to use negatron matter to facilitate greater mobility and instant transmission of goods and people. That is the most extravagant use of negatron matter I can think of.”

The blueprints of the city were littered with world-bridges across the entire city, allowing for the teleportation of people and goods across its vast expanses, spanning nearly a hundred kilometers in diameter.

”Oh come on, Your Highness!” Minister Danes grinned at him with excitement. ”You control all negatron reserves and negatron supply, so you should know more than anyone that negatron matter is no longer scarce. It is actually quite abundant. In the past, it would have made sense to reserve this resource only for future interstellar travel, but currently, we can use it for all sorts of purposes, including enhancing the quality of life of all the people who have suffered from the consequences of the war.”

Rui’s expression tightened at those words.

The minister did not say it out loud, but what he really meant was the consequences of Rui’s actions. Thus, he implicitly insinuated Rui had a moral obligation to try to compensate for the suffering he had caused by making the lives of those Kandrians much better in the future.