"It's all set! This plasma cannon is now linked with an energy cell group!"
Cissel wiped a streak of sweat from her cheek as she stepped back from the massive weapon. She had handed over the responsibility of refining and finalising the base layout to Elena, choosing instead to stay by John's side as he had requested her technical expertise.
Elena had immediately taken charge. Under her direction, the Bulltors had begun the back-breaking labour of digging the lake and the primary canal.
Laying down the massive perimeter walls and the defensive towers would eventually fall solely to John. Even with the strength of the giants on their side, Lanmar had quickly demonstrated the physical impossibility of the task for anyone else. He had shown them that even ten Bulltors working in perfect unison couldn't lift a single modular wall segment.
Each wall was a monolithic slab of reinforced alloy, standing twenty meters high, thirty meters in breadth, and twenty meters thick.
