Lord's castle, master bedroom.
Tang Yu was sitting cross-legged on the bed when he suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp light flashing across them.
"I've finally reached the Fifth Tier of Awakening."
The soul power container placed not far in front of him no longer had any light circulating within it, indicating that the soul power was completely depleted.
He turned his head to look outside the window, where strands of golden light filtered through the clouds, gradually brightening the world.
Tang Yu descended the stairs only to find that Eileen had already gotten up and was preparing breakfast, with an open Magic Book beside her.
Not wanting to disturb the focused and earnest Eileen, Tang Yu left the castle and when he reached the Energy Patio, he grabbed a bottle of water to rinse his mouth.
The water from the spring, nourished by energy, could almost be called a Spiritual Spring.
Of course, it didn't have any miraculous effects, but the taste of the water was refreshing and delicious, making Tang Yu instantly fond of it. The few people living in the castle also occasionally fetched water from here to drink...
If the population increased later, he would have to consider building another Energy Patio for water supply.
Along the way outside, he coincidentally ran into Chen Haiping, who was busy working.
Chen Haiping was an early riser, assigning tasks to the survivors under his charge from dawn.
Tang Yu couldn't help but feel that everyone was more competent than he was.
Being a lord felt quite fulfilling.
After greeting him, Tang Yu didn't dawdle but quickly got to the point, asking about the changes in the Sanctuary over the past few days.
"Our Sanctuary now has four hundred and seventeen survivors, including three hundred and twenty-two male survivors, ninety-five female survivors, and a total of fifty-three awakeners, with twenty-three of them in the Patrol Team..."
Tang Yu nodded; apart from the somewhat large discrepancy between the male and female ratios, everything else was fine.
And the gender ratio wasn't really a problem... No one was thinking about marriage now, dating was out of the question, and as for sex, without measures to prevent pregnancy, the female survivors naturally wouldn't want to engage in such a losing bargain.
"What about housing and food? Are they still sufficient?"
Chen Haiping nodded, not even glancing at the notebook in his hand as he slowly reported, "As for housing, the villas are a bit crowded, with some people allocated to makeshift housing. As for food, the supplies are not abundant, but the farmworkers reported that some crops will mature in two days, which will resolve the food crisis in our Sanctuary."
The two walked while Tang Yu asked for more details.
Chen Haiping was somewhat puzzled; Director Tang usually didn't concern himself with these matters.
They soon walked all the way to the Mercenary Task Management Center.
It wasn't yet the official opening time of the center, but there were already many awakeners waiting at the door.
Seeing Chen Haiping, who was essentially the steward of the Sanctuary at this point, they made way, and some, seeing him closely following a young man, guessed and showed expressions of surprise on their faces.
Tang Yu paid no attention to these people and walked around the Mercenary Center, constructing a building model in his mind.
He had always been good at geometry, thus had no problems with spatial structures, assisted by the system, a building model soon formed in his mind.
He intended to construct a new Mercenary Center.
Being a crucial building to the Sanctuary, the Mercenary Center, however, looked very ordinary. The villa's exterior walls were patched in some places and because the area wasn't large enough, a makeshift shelter had been added.
It looked like a rundown building even before the apocalypse.
Previously, due to a shortage of Source Crystals, Tang Yu naturally couldn't use them for such unimportant places, but now things were different. Source Crystals were just a number now, however, what frustrated him a bit was, not the lack of Source Crystals, but the shortage of other materials, such as some Transcendent Mineral materials...
Tang Que would still carry this name for quite some time.
Besides the Mercenary Center, several other civilian and façade projects needed to be constructed, partly to enhance the cohesion among the survivors of the Sanctuary, and partly because it was too dilapidated for him to bear watching.
For instance, a cafeteria was essential; once built, there would be no need to distribute food to the survivors every day.
In fact, after distributing food, without electricity, the survivors could only perform simple processing on the food ingredients, making instant noodles the most popular food since boiling water was still feasible without electricity. But for modern people, creating delicious meals with simple tools was a significantly challenging task.
Furthermore, Tang Yu planned to build some residential houses and thus begin his long-cherished real estate ventures.
He shook off all the development plans that flashed through his mind.
Tang Yu signaled to Chen Haiping to have the surrounding survivors back off a bit, clearing a space next to the Mercenary Center.
[System Panel - Building List - Select Construction - Custom Building]
In the game, there was a module for customizing buildings which would only affect the appearance, not grant any special features.
Modifications could also be made to the existing buildings, altering only their appearances.
"Ding-dong! Constructing a custom building, consuming various materials, several Source Crystals, are you sure?"
Tang Yu stretched out his finger, a breeze sweeping by.
A two-story building, appearing layer by layer like 3D printing, materialized before everyone's eyes.
From the foundation to the walls, to the internal structure, the building quickly took shape.
This building was much larger than the original villa, covering an area of over a thousand square meters.
And it was much taller.
Though it was said to be a two-story building, it actually stood over ten meters tall, with exceptionally high ceilings. At this moment, the door was wide open, and upon first glance, it resembled a hall with a massive, yet dim panel in the center, unactivated.
Tang Yu walked inside; from within, on either side, there were several rooms... If the hall was prepared for ordinary users, those rooms on the sides were designed for VIP users.
Additionally, there were many vacant rooms, some of which could be used as storage, holding various exchange items, while others... he hadn't yet decided, but building big certainly couldn't be wrong.
After a cursory look, he walked out of the two-story building.
He glanced up above the door; it was empty, but Tang Yu felt something was missing.
"It's the signboard. As an important building, it definitely needs a striking name."
He was about to engrave 'Mercenary Center' when he reconsidered. The Lindong Sanctuary called theirs the Mercenary Task Management Center. Compared to theirs, 'Mercenary Center' simply lacked a punch.
But he couldn't choose bizarre names either...
After pondering for a while, he finally looked up.
Above the door, the blank signboard suddenly displayed several large characters.
Just then, the rising sun in the distance began to illuminate, and the characters slowly gleamed under the sunlight.
Beside him, many awakeners who were originally waiting for the Mercenary Center to open and ready to grab tasks, were now completely stunned.
It wasn't that no one had guessed that this young man was the mysterious Director Tang.
But no one had thought that Director Tang's actions would be so decisive: in the blink of an eye, a building had already taken shape, and from the outside, it was quite beautiful, very much in line with architectural structures... So, Director Tang was actually an Architecture Ability User!