After a brief search, she obtained a map.
They hailed from a country called Huiwei.
To be honest, the name sounded a bit strange.
Looking at the map, to the north of Huiwei lay the Mis Kingdom, while to the south were Guluo and Lümingte; based on their area, they all seemed to be small nations. To the east was an area labeled as the Mist Zone, with no further detailed information available.
This atlas, labeled as a world map, was published by the Dawn Empire.
It was clear that the entire world was composed of two supercontinents. There were some islands around the continents, but everything else was ocean.
Xia Jin was currently on the West Continent, which encompassed the entire region from the Border Forest to the Dawn Empire and the demon territories.
To the west of the West Continent was the Great West Sea, and to the east was the East Sea.
One would have to sail 23,000 kilometers across the Great West Sea to reach the East Continent on the other side.
Clearly, that distance was too far, so the Empire preferred to trade via the eastern side—the East Sea. That distance was roughly 15,000 kilometers.
Oceanic trade routes had already been established between the two sides, but it was mostly the Empire expanding colonies on the other side.
Guluo and the Meien Kingdom to its south were now gradually falling under the Empire's control, becoming production sites for various raw materials. Trade was then conducted via the route south of Haipuai Island.
The other side, the East Continent, was not entirely undeveloped either. Its northern region was home to the Yelu Empire, whose strength was formidable, exceeding that of the Kingdom of Clear which Xia Jin had conquered.
After learning of the Dawn Empire's power, the Yelu Empire had been working hard to develop its navy in an attempt to rival the Dawn Empire at sea. The two sides had fought several battles for global hegemony, but this country was lacking in both technology and scale. In the current global climate, it was essentially impossible for them to defeat the Empire.
“This makes things easy. I'll just attack the Mis Kingdom north of Huiwei.”
The Mis Kingdom had a poor relationship with the Yelu Empire to its north and only maintained simple trade contacts with Huiwei to its south. They didn't have much contact with the Empire; they might sign a trade treaty with the Empire in the near future, but that was a matter for later.
Judging by the map, this country was larger than Haipuai Island but smaller than the Kingdom, making it a very suitable opponent.
“Let's build ships.”
Xia Jin still didn't know the specific situation of the Mis Kingdom.
Regardless, they wouldn't be stronger than the two empires, especially not the Dawn Empire.
If what the merchant captives said was true, the Empire's battles against the Yelu Empire were complete stomps.
“Brain Bug No. 1, do you think it's worth further compressing our land-based organisms to focus entirely on producing naval and air forces?” she tried asking.
“Future events are uncertain. Given the Zerg's current production speed, consuming about a week's worth of resources to develop the navy is a reasonable choice.”
“Fine.”
In a week, many of these 13,000-ton Carrier Bugs could be produced.
The corresponding mutalisks and scourges would naturally not be few in number either.
Of course, it was impossible to stop producing land-based Zerg entirely.
Considering the need for long-distance landings, a massive navy would be required to seize sea superiority from the Mis Kingdom, followed by an incredible number of landing vessels to transport the Swarm ashore.
If a single Carrier Bug were to carry zerglings, squeezing in 1,000 would be quite an achievement.
The shipyards in Clear weren't that fast either. It seemed she could only consolidate all the civilian vessels from the city states region and the Kingdom.
She would produce a massive batch of Carrier Bugs, accompanied by some escort ships, to safeguard a swarm of civilian landing vessels as they charged directly at the Mis Kingdom to perform a landing.
At Xia Jin's command, the entire Swarm began investing 10 million units of standard energy into the construction of Carrier Bugs.
The remainder was used to produce scourges, mutalisks, jet-propulsion bugs, and the like.
Considering that elf bugs were small, capable of speech, and both beautiful and cute, Xia Jin also planned to produce more of them to accompany her on her campaign.
...
At the same time, at the Kingdom shipyard.
“They want this many ships? What are the Zerg planning to do?”
The designer in charge of shipbuilding frowned as he looked at the order in his hand.
The requirements were very high, and there were even orders for ships over 100 meters long.
The only thing that made him feel excited was that the Zerg had provided a more advanced shipbuilding technology.
It included every magical detail, array, and the smelting and forging processes for steel and other related metals.
These had been obtained from Kelu.
“Wrapping them entirely in iron-clad hulls is a great technique, but it's a pity it requires so many mages.”
“There will be no problem with mages. At least 1,000 mages will arrive within two hours to help you rapidly construct the arrays,” the elf bug girl beside him said.
Upon hearing this, the designer's mouth hung open in shock.
“One thousand people?”
Good heavens.
“All the ports across the country have received orders now. If you really can't complete the advanced ships, then produce early models to make up the numbers. With magic, manufacturing should be very fast, right?”
“No problem. With sufficient raw materials, we can build them in a few days. Producing twenty ships per batch is no issue,” the other party immediately guaranteed.
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