Last time the dwarves of Archcrystal fought off their first goblin invasion. In the seven years since, more goblin armies have come and been quickly crushed. Work continues on the clear glass fort in hell as well as the glass tower rising up from it.
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Avuz Girderwhip, the chief engineer of Archcrystal, was beginning to see some of her work take shape. The forges were ready for magma to be brought down and work was nearing completion on the factory floor for the other workshops.
More bedrooms had been made and magma ducts and aqueducts of glass began to criss cross below in order to take the liquids through the fort when they were ready.
The work was painstakingly tedious to make enough clear glass blocks for everything as it took 100 blocks to make a simple 10 by 10 floor – and that was a month of production time. But at least it was steady. 15,000 clear glass blocks were used so far, and the new glassmakers were getting better at making more. The population was growing and more children were getting old enough to take on meaningful tasks.
The glass tower which was 22 stories now was about to reach the lowest cavern layer and preparations were made to bring magma to one side and water to the other.
Avuz designed glass pumps one floor above to suck the liquids through grates to avoid any creatures getting into either liquid flowing through the inside of the fort. When it was finished it would create a magma fall down one side and a waterfall down the other side of the tower and bring water and magma down into the fortress.
Avuz checked on the constructed underground river to make sure there would be enough power from the waterwheels.
She smiled, there were more things to do.
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The population now is 98 with about 3 babies being born every year. We’ve had goblin raids of 16, 25, 75, 55, and 60. All of which were put down very quickly. We are up to 231 artifacts and fort value is over 90 million.
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