Chương 589: Chapter 0586: The Collapse of Natural Magic (Fourth Update, 1/10 Celebration for the Alliance Hierarch Battle Song)

This chapter is a special update sponsored by the Alliance Hierarch "Unassuming Battle Song," with just one additional chapter for now, and ten more to follow.

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Excavating a canal was not an easy task.

However, the distance from Thorn Castle to the sea was less than a kilometer, which made this stretch of the Tonghai Canal relatively easier to dig. For this pure manual labor, Liszt once again raised the basic wages, with each serf receiving an additional copper coin per day on top of their original pay.

As the Tonghai Canal was slowly being excavated, Drillmaster Fred Wells led the drilling team, having completed the second well in Mushroom Town,

and was then called over to dig a well for Thorn Castle.

There was no water source near Thorn Castle, and water had to be fetched from the port town. But as the castle was put into use, the water needs of so many people could not be met solely by fetching water from the port town.

A few days before starting work,