Global Lords: My Territory Heart Is a World Tree

Chapter 353: Chapter 1: Territory Changes

Inside the World Tree Territory, the colossal World Tree stood in the center, its mountain-like size making it look like a vast green mountain range.

After more than four years of development, the territory had once again undergone a world of change.

For the territory as a whole, the biggest change was its constantly expanding, massive landmass.

The territory expanded by 24,591.15 square kilometers each day. After 1,500 days, it had grown by a total of 36,886,725 square kilometers, bringing the total area to 37,378,548 square kilometers.

Compared to the 491,823 square kilometers of territory before he left, the current territory was a full 76 times larger.

Originally, the 480,000 square kilometers allocated to him in the second phase had constituted 1/33 of the Unclaimed Land. This meant all the Unclaimed Land combined amounted to only 15.84 million square kilometers—the combined territory of the 990,000 lords eliminated in the first and second phases.

Adding the territory of the ten thousand lords who had advanced, the entire continent was a little over 16 million square kilometers.

(Russia’s land area is 17.0982 million square kilometers.)

In other words, Lin Yu’s territory alone was now comparable in size to two of those continents.

Fortunately, the defensive plants no longer needed to be constructed; they could now flower, bear fruit, and grow new plants on their own, which allowed them to just barely maintain a few defensive lines.

With the rapid expansion of its territory, the biggest problem facing the domain was that it was vast and sparsely populated. The immense wasteland needed a large population.

Even though the territory now encouraged procreation, urging its people to multiply and offering substantial subsidies to families who actively participated, most of the races within the territory still couldn’t keep up with the rate of expansion.

Fortunately, the sprite race only needed enough energy to reproduce through fission. Their growth required only the absorption of Spiritual Energy, and they could produce this energy themselves simply by attaching to trees, making them self-sufficient.

Using a new method improved by Chenxi, which combined the Sun and Moon Breathing Technique and the Star Technique, a sprite could go from accumulating energy to splitting off an infant in just one week.

The infants’ growth didn’t require much intervention either. With the help of the territory’s other inhabitants, these infant sprites were well cared for, and they would mature in two months.

Once mature, they could work to produce Spiritual Energy and begin to propagate.

One became two, two became four... The rate of fission had finally caught up with the territory’s expansion speed.

Of course, the sprites’ education was not neglected. After maturing, the sprites could attach themselves to the large trees within schools, allowing them to produce Spiritual Energy, develop, and study all at the same time.

(Because there were dozens of sprites on a single large tree, their production and development speeds were much slower compared to the normal model of one sprite per tree.)

To this end, the Urban Planning Bureau had built countless Spiritual Ability Comprehensive In-service Colleges throughout the ever-expanding wilderness of the territory.

This comprehensive adult education building provided a massive educational bonus to the adults studying within it.

Conveniently, sprites matured in two months, so they counted as "adults" and could benefit from the college’s educational bonus.

Furthermore, the knowledge taught in the colleges was comprehensive, encompassing all the existing knowledge systems in the territory. With content ranging from introductory to master-level, it was suitable for sprites at all stages of learning.

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Similar to the sprites were the Slimes, a race that had mutated from them.

No, they should be called the Gluttonous Slime race. After Lin Yu left the territory to return to Cuiwei Star, all the ordinary Slimes had transformed into Gluttonous Slimes. As long as no sprites mutated into Slimes on their own, no more ordinary Slimes would appear.

Gluttonous Slimes could also reproduce through fission. Moreover, the individuals born from their division were not infants, but Level 1 adults. The only catch was that each Gluttonous Slime had to reach at least Level 2 before it could divide.

Fortunately, the territory had two Cultivation Techniques, the Sun and Moon Breathing Technique and the Star Technique, which accelerated the natural leveling speed of the Gluttonous Slimes.

Coupled with the fact that Gluttonous Slimes could absorb energy by devouring the territory’s waste and debris, their leveling speed was quite fast.

Of course, newborn Gluttonous Slimes, like the sprites, would also study at the Spiritual Ability Comprehensive In-service Colleges.

The sprites were on the large trees within the Spiritual Ability Comprehensive In-service Colleges, while the Gluttonous Slimes were in other areas of the colleges.

The fissiparous reproduction of the sprites and Gluttonous Slimes, combined with their extremely short breeding intervals, caused their numbers to increase exponentially.

The final result was that across the newly added lands of the territory, aside from the various plants, most areas were populated only by the twinkling green lights on large trees (the sprites) and the roving jellies that flowed and slithered beneath the grass and fallen leaves (the Gluttonous Slimes).

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In addition, the territory had gained a new race—the Human Race.

These humans were the subjects, soldiers, and heroes who had served under the previously eliminated lords. After losing the protection of their territories, they had all become refugees.

When the competition organizers allocated the plots of Unclaimed Land, these refugees were assigned to Lin Yu’s territory along with the land. They were then discovered by patrol teams and gradually accepted as citizens of the territory.

After receiving Lin Yu’s approval, the territory established dedicated settlements for them.

After an initial period of adjustment, they slowly began to integrate into this strange territory.

These humans were quite diligent; those who were able to find work started their jobs early on.

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