In addition to the function of the city itself, in fact, even in terms of land area, Hope City is not much worse than the original Barrington.

Although the main body of the city could not be expanded further due to the limited land in the southern part of the valley, the residents of Hope City soon became part of the city beyond the city walls, which is now known as the "Outer City".

Although the area was only beginning to be established and had no other purpose for the time being than for residents and commercial trade, its size had even been demarcated beyond the valley......

Before Weiss came to power, this kind of behavior was tantamount to exposing himself. However, now that Iroh can be said to have taken control of the whole of Falkenridge, under the decree of the state organs, the development of Hope City is not restricted by any outside world.

- In fact, it was with today's situation in mind that Arlo would not hesitate to risk his life to participate in the royal capital incident and make a series of seemingly crazy actions.

Now, it's time for Iroh to taste the sweetness.

The east, west and north of the valley are still in a state of large-scale development. It's not that the subjects of Ayroh don't want to do this, but because these areas belong to several other members of the Tokamaks. Even if they weren't in the valley at the moment, Iroh didn't want to touch their territory casually.

For dragons, territory is second only to treasure in importance. Until Iroh is sure he doesn't need the dragon's help, he's not going to do anything big.

Of course, it's true that you can't develop it on a large scale, but what if it's developed by the hands of those dragons?

Eloco wouldn't have left so much land idle anyway, and at his orders and hints, the lizardfolk had established a thriving tribe in the northern part of the valley. In response to Hope, the tribe grew stronger, and just as the goblins gathered in Hope City, many lizardmen in the eastern part of the Falkenridge Kingdom were also integrated in various ways of coercion and temptation, until the northern part of the valley became an exotic swamp city.

The eastern part of the valley was originally Natalie's territory, and the green dragon originally had few subordinates, only a small number of kobolds and elves and half-elves who had been captured and converted by adventurers.

However, under the covert operation of Iroh, a large group of kobolds and orcs directly renovated the forest in the name of Natalie's men, not only built a town in the depths of the forest, implanted the tentacles of the Tokamak faction deep beyond the valley, but also renovated the appearance of the empty lair that Natalie had arranged an enchantment.

As for the western part of the valley, it was indeed the most difficult to do, because Karamank hated humanoids, so he had no men at all.

However, this is not difficult for Iroh, since he has no subordinates, it is better to send him some subordinates.

So another group of humanoids declared their willingness to obey him and stationed them in the western part of the valley.

"Lord Lord......"

The aimless walk soon exposed Ello's figure to the eyes of his subjects, and members of a team of the Cult of the Dragon, who seemed to be planning to go to the northern swamp city to preach, fell to the ground in their hearts, expressing their respect.

"Get up, I'm just going to take a look. ”

"Yes, my lord!"

The people saluted respectfully again, and then turned and left.

Needless to say, every time he encounters such a situation, the dragon nature in Ello's heart can always be well satisfied.

Even though he could now say that he had full majesty in the valley, Iroh still did not intend to equate himself with the Flame Dragon, the god of the Church. After all, the so-called many people and mixed mouths, the Icourt Valley is indeed much stronger than before, but it is still in a period of savings, and this is still not the time to be open and honest.

As for the above-mentioned repeated big moves, of course, it is not groundless, in fact, compared to the beginning, the human resources of the Ikot Valley forces are no longer lacking.

The goblin race alone has grown from a few dozen members at the beginning of the valley to more than two thousand now, not to mention all kinds of humanoid creatures.

According to recent statistics, the population of the entire Iqot Valley combined, has approached 5,000!

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that of these five thousand, at least one-tenth are devout believers, the number of true believers has also exceeded a thousand, and the rest are almost all shallow believers.

Of course, we can't ignore fanatical believers like Raja, although there are really too few believers at this level.

This means that in the past twelve years, the faith points that Iroh has gained have added up to ...... Close to 20 billion!

But don't be too happy, when this data was first calculated, Iroh was quite incredible. Because he wasn't all asleep during this period - out of concern for his own power, Iroh had only been asleep for about two of the twelve years, which was already considered diligent compared to dragons of the same age.

And when he was sober, Iroh never realized that the number of faith points in his hand exceeded 100 million.

It does seem a little hard to believe, but considering the use of faith points over the years, Iroh is not hard to understand.

When it comes to the use of faith points, one of the biggest things has always been the exchange of goods.

The rapid development of the entire Ikot Valley is not a completely natural process, but the fact that Iroh has exchanged faith points for a sufficient resource base has allowed the subjects to build their territory with almost no worries - and the price of doing so is to use up at least three million faith points per year in terms of food, and the cost of building resources will be several times greater.

If it is only to maintain the stability of the Iqot Valley, it will undoubtedly not be used much, even if it is twelve years down, 100 million points will be enough. It's just that the scope that Iroh needs to worry about now is far beyond the Icourt Valley......

That's right, now he has to take care of the whole of Falkenridge!

As mentioned earlier, if you just rely on the recovery of nature, Falkenridge will definitely be beaten by Stasi. Then Iroh's choice is also very clear: use a large number of faith points to smash directly, and exchange resources for time!

As a result of this, over the past 12 years, Iroh has converted more than 10 billion faith points into a steady stream of supplies for the whole country, which has greatly alleviated Falkenridge's urgent need and allowed the country to devote more energy to exterminating the rebels and strengthening the national strength.

Thanks to the huge amount of faith points that are enough to strengthen an ordinary person into a legendary powerhouse or even a demigod without blinking an eye, Falkenridge has not been left too far behind by Stasie - unfortunately, Stacy's decades of accumulation, even if Falkenridge now has the help of Iroh, he is far from being able to catch up.

In other words, the current balance of power between the two countries can only prevent Falkenridge from a total rout at the beginning of the war!

And in addition to these necessary supplies, Iroh must also take care of the research of the scholars of the Helio-Optics Society. As we all know, academic research also requires a large amount of money, especially in today's tight time, if you want to quickly transform the accumulation of predecessors into tangible results, it is by no means possible for a few scholars to sit in a room and calculate and discuss.

For example, in the field of alchemy, if you want to make a theoretical breakthrough, you need to have a lot of experiments as a foundation. And where do the equipment and materials needed for these experiments come from?

Naturally, it was provided by Iro!

Although it is not impossible to obtain it through normal channels, it is really too slow to exchange it with a single thought of Iro. You know, Eloco has promised scholars an environment where they can study freely and support their research.

Naturally, this promise includes not only a slogan, but also sufficient experimental materials and equipment in exchange for billions of faith points.

Even in some high-end experiments, Iroh will personally participate in it, using faith points to directly build an ideal experimental environment......

All in all, the sum of this series of expenses is really not much lower than Ailuo's gains.

To be honest, sometimes Iroh wonders if it's really okay for him to waste faith points like this?

He had roughly checked what could be provided on the faith exchange contract, if he didn't stick to the original principle, but chose to exchange faith points for items that could directly strengthen his own strength, maybe he would have the strength to surpass the Star Shadow Venerable by now, right?

However, this cannot be counted as such.

Because the huge amount of faith points itself is the result of Iroh's investment at any cost in the early stage. If he had been content with only a few dozen goblins in the Icourt Valley to provide faith points from the beginning, he wouldn't be much better than he was now.

In the same way, paying tens of billions of faith points now is also considered for getting more faith points in the future.

And the saying that there is a reward is common in any world, although the investment of more than 10 billion faith points has not yet been transformed into actual returns, but Iroh also clearly sees its prospects.

The vigorous development of the Icourt Valley, the gradual awakening of Falkenridge, the full-scale rise of the material school guided by the Solar Optical Society, and the expanding power of faith in the Yanlong Church......

Until now, Iroh still vividly remembered the primordial dragon that required a full 100 trillion supreme faith points, and one supreme faith point was equal to a billion ordinary faith points - if there was no strong country, or even people from several countries as their own believers, such a huge need really didn't know when it would be satisfied.

Besides, there are gods in this world. Transcending the Star Venerable doesn't actually mean anything, and the inheritance memory makes it very clear that even the Venerables, who are the leaders of the Metal Dragon Clan, are far inferior to the weakest gods.

Iroh has reason to believe that if he intends to reverse the trend of the world, he will one day be opposed to the gods!

Until then, only by converting the entire world into one's own power as much as possible can one gain the capital to confront God......

That's right, don't rush, take your time, just like you did in Barrington Palace......

Taking a deep breath, Iroh opened his eyes and looked down on the expanding force he had founded from the highest point in the valley, and his mood was better than ever.