Mentoring, Growing, Establishing

The city was moving quickly with plenty of people making their way to the temple out of curiosity and hope in the healing factor of the trees domain.

With more people came more devotees and with more devotees, Clays power had only grown.

The last two days had been spent teaching Norman and Demetre who had returned how to sense the mana within the forest. To sense how the mana flowed through them with each breath and how it could be followed to each cell of their bodies. Demetre had little luck with sensing the mana consciously, and Norman had opposite luck Feeling it faintly at first but within a few hours could trace the mana just outside his body and by the end of the day he could feel his surroundings with it like a sixth sense.

Clay had been reading and training with them not just his mana control Wich in this environment — that favored not just him but his followers — had reached a level at Wich it could cover most of the surrounding forest, but also had finished reading a new chapter of his book Wich outlined how to not just speak with spirits but also to establish a connection with them, not to dissimilar to a contract.

After these two days Clay instructed his two students to teach the other devotees and paladins who where interested and had a talent for it.

While they did as instructed Clay went over the layout of the city with the group that now composed of fifty people who all had background in their fields. From civil engineers and architects, too socialagists and transportation experts. All of them working together while keeping the original layout the same but with more modern amenities.

"How do these underground water pipes work? What is this electricity? Why would we need these parking lots? No cars in my city!"

Clay would ask a question and shut down ideas of parking lots and instead change them too stables and subways to teleportation gates. Electricity line would be as is as he saw no problem with lighting powered appliances but lights would be magically operational. And the whole city would have a zero emissions policy. That ment no smoke or toxins from any industrial center. Most homes would have a first floor shop and outside of the main eight rides Wich would all be in a compass rose formation three minor roads would form 3 rings about 5 miles apart and all other roads would be allys ways no wider then 16ft.

The 3 rings would divide the city into three main areas. The first ring would be the ring Wich contained the library Wich other then its own connection would also connect to the tower of Babylon, A central teleportation hall, embassy's, and large houses for apostles, in addition to other high profile institutions such as schools.

The 2nd ring from the center would be full of residential, and services such as waste collection and postal services with only a small security checkpoint between the two.

The 3rd layer would be composed of mostly defensive positions, training centers and underground research centers, with thick walls of stone and wood acting as a protective layer for the city against ground invasion. The walls reaching as high as thirty feet with spot lights and magical perches for animals all along them.

The final layer would be for more modern amenities that where not welcome in the city such as supplie depots, large trucks, and gas cars, and would not be a full circle but more like small exstensions by the entrances.

Somehow after lengthy discussions electric cars and motorcycles might be allowed in after first hand investigation from Clay.

But with the plan played out and the crowd of people gather in and around the temple being cleared from building spots and kept to only roads and given warnings of moving terrain, the construction would finally commence.

The crowd of people with cameras and eyes all trained on Clay waited with anticipation for multiple minutes with confusion and tension building with every minute of silence, until after the fight minute the ground quaked slightly then rapidly built until nobody could keep to their feet as as as trees sprouted and stones moved to form the outlines of roads and supports for buildings within the first ring. The trees gradually darkend and thickend while sprouting limbs covered in bark to form the wall while limbs raw of bark but covered in a odd waxy substance smelling like sweet bees wax coving them instead to form the floors. Along side their tree counterparts large furnaces that ran thought the middle of each house constructed themselves out of pebbles, and other loser rocks of all shapes and sizes the rolled across the vast transforming forest to from heating and cooking for reaching building. Once the structures of each unique building had finished, the finishing touches of lights, stone ground flooring, doors, windows, and a shingle patterned bark roof adorned all the buildings.

The last to be completed was the teleportation hall as it wasn't it just the largest building of the first layer but also the most incomplete even after Clay moved on from it as he could not construct teleportation just yet as Nirin had been studying it. He could only connect temples temporarily.

Moving to the second layer the basic structures of the new dwellings would remain the same sturdy and robust trees that formed the innermost layer while the central furnace would be inset into the ground a bit more and only seein from the back of the first floor and the flooring being made of even roots instead of stone. The inside of the front half of the first floor of every home was gaining a desk and a a bunch of different types of methods of display. Each home filling a them. Homes suited for baking had larger furnaces that where construction more like ovens and displays suited towards pastries, while houses for computer enthusiasts had more outlets and a first floor more suited to sells gadgets and small objects like USB sticks.

The wide variety of home layouts all had their own qualities and designs choices that where thought through on a broad scale by the team of professionals, but implanted on a more personal scale by Clay who had to pay attention to every single detail!