Volume One: Hell-Level Lord World Chapter 120: The Level 9 Council Hall

The City Core at level 9, with a maximum of level 11, was nothing like the ordinary level 1 City Core that could be casually buried underground and used. After Chen Gu and Kebas determined the exact spot to bury the City Core, they carefully dug up the surrounding soil, creating a large square pit seven meters deep and six meters wide on each side.

At the bottom of the pit, Chen Gu filled it with a one-meter-thick layer of metal and various rare materials.

There were gold coins, gemstones, sulfur, and other precious items.

In fact, to fill this more than one-meter height at the bottom of the pit, Chen Gu had poured in virtually all the resources he had gathered since entering the Lord’s World.

Once the pit became a perfect six-by-six-meter cube, Chen Gu, with Kebas’s assistance, placed the City Core into the pit.

After lowering the City Core, Chen Gu and Kebas stepped aside.

Then Chen Gu activated the City Core.

In the next instant, the large pit they had dug for so long was suddenly filled in.

Following that, various resources that Kebas had gathered and stacked nearby seemed to come under some control, automatically rising and flying toward the pit.

Chen Gu watched as a wooden house appeared in the original location.

This wooden house was peculiar. It was raised about one and a half meters off the ground on wooden stilts, resembling a stilt house. The white walls and gray bark roof revealed its distinctive style.

At first, the wooden house consisted of only one room, along with a wooden platform supported by the stilts, covering a total area of over six hundred square meters.

But as time passed, the size of the wooden house continuously changed.

It grew from a single wooden cabin to two rooms, then three, eventually forming a five-story wooden complex.

Its height also fluctuated.

The first wooden house, during the third transformation, changed from one to two stories, and by the fifth transformation, it became three stories high.

After all these changes, the entire wooden complex expanded to cover over three thousand square meters, composed of five separate wooden houses.

Within this complex, there was one three-story house, two two-story houses, and one single-story house.

Each house varied in size, the largest nearing a thousand square meters, and the smallest around three hundred square meters.

Watching the wooden houses cease their transformation, Chen Gu finally approached the complex.

At the same time, a message sounded in his ear.

[You have successfully activated the City Core. The Forest Garden Council Hall (Level 1) has been completed.]

[Under the influence of the City Core, the Forest Garden Council Hall has been upgraded to the Internal Affairs Hall (Level 5).]

[Under the influence of the City Core, the Forest Garden Internal Affairs Hall has been upgraded to the Parliament Hall (Level 9).]

[Parliament Hall (Level 9): Upon the City Core reaching level 9, it can be upgraded from the Internal Affairs Hall. It provides 5,000 gold coins daily, controls an area of 1,000 square kilometers, and governs a population of up to 15 million.]

One thousand square kilometers?

Chen Gu’s eyes widened at the sight.

He had never imagined the control range of a level 9 city could be so vast.

One thousand square kilometers—roughly the size of Hong Kong or Chongqing.

Traveling from one end of the city to the other would take at least three days on foot.

Previously, Chen Gu had thought his estimate for a level 9 city was sufficiently large.

Now, it was clear he had greatly underestimated the concept of a level 9 city.

Kebas, unlike Chen Gu, did not receive any notification or message. Seeing Chen Gu’s reaction, Kebas couldn’t help but ask,

“Sir, what’s the matter?”

“Nothing much. It’s just that our initial plan needs to be overturned. The Forest Garden—we have to rearrange it.”

“That’s no problem, sir. Whatever you decide, we will follow.”

Chen Gu nodded to Kebas and immediately entered the Parliament Hall.

As he ascended the stairs leading into the hall, Chen Gu began to understand many things.

No wonder the city leader had thirteen members—that was clearly a shift from a city lord system to a parliamentary system.

The layout of the Parliament Hall before him confirmed this.

There were five rooms, each serving a specific function.

The central room was the administrative building, where city maps, construction tasks, resource allocation, and population statistics were all managed.

Here, thirteen dedicated offices were arranged.

Every day, at least one council member was guaranteed to be present to handle daily urgent or spontaneous tasks.

No matter who it was, if there were matters or missions, someone could always be found here to address them.

To the left of the administrative building was the council chamber.

The thirteen council members held their meetings here. Until Chen Gu issued any orders, all decisions in the city were determined by the consensus of these thirteen members.

To the right of the administrative building was the resource building.

Although all city resources were stored in warehouses, this building housed comprehensive data.

Because the city had reached level 9, this Parliament Hall exercised meticulous control over the city.

Besides various resource data, it also monitored outdoor military camps and resource points both inside and outside the city.

Most importantly, it maintained a population register, allowing a view of all living beings within the city.

While it didn’t allow for deep inspection, basic information could be easily accessed.

In essence, this resource building was the core of the city’s control.

As long as this place was controlled, the city’s resources were effectively in hand.

Next to the council chamber was the task building.

Here, council members could accept all town-related missions, and external tasks could also be posted.

Heroes could come here to pick up quests, and council members could likewise accept them.

Thanks to the task building, the city’s town missions could reach up to ten simultaneously, updated daily to ensure continuous development.

Opposite this, beside the resource building, was the construction building.

This was responsible for internal city construction.

Although city blueprints were kept in the administrative building, this place dispatched construction teams.

Up to ten construction teams could wait here.

Ten sites could be worked on simultaneously—unlike Chen Gu’s Vine Light, which could only handle one construction at a time and took longer when transformed into a wagon.

After touring the Parliament Hall, Chen Gu fully grasped the vast differences between a level 9 city and a level 1 city.

Finally, he sat in the administrative building and opened the city’s control range map.

At that moment, Chen Gu truly understood the immensity of one thousand square kilometers.

Heading west from the Parliament Hall, the previously undead city was fully encompassed, with its outskirts extending as far as the lakeside Chen Gu had excavated.