Various types of Titans were constantly transported from military bases outside the Trost District to different areas of Wall Maria.
The iron ore mining zone, which had previously ceased production, was put back into operation, and with the help of the giants, the efficiency of iron ore extraction increased dozens of times.
Around the mining zone, ironworks were built at a rapid pace, and refugees from the development zones joined the vast workforce under the government's plan.
Food supply and logistics were no longer a concern for them.
Agriculture had replaced manual labor with heavy machinery.
Now, a farm only needed about a dozen people to manage it and could produce enough food for thousands.
Whether it was sowing, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, or transporting, no external help was needed. The entire agricultural process could be completed independently.
The government centrally planned the agricultural zones within Wall Maria, and food production quickly reached a surplus.
People no longer had to work tirelessly just to obtain food. Meanwhile, many of the original residents of Wall Rose abandoned low-yield agriculture due to falling food prices and instead applied for government jobs, receiving fixed salaries.
Paradis Island had a small population—less than one million—but it was vast, so there were always job vacancies.
As long as people came, regardless of age or gender, they could generally find suitable work.
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At the end of August, the new government began establishing banks and issuing paper currency, using its credibility to back metallic coins such as gold and silver.
All employees of government agencies would receive their salaries in the new banknotes and could purchase various goods at government-affiliated institutions as usual.
A significant number of people, after seeing their neighbors and friends receive high government salaries, left their original jobs and chose to strive for a better life.
The social changes were so rapid that residents were completely caught off guard.
All of this was due to the use of Titan labor, which greatly increased productivity.
For example, the grain that a person could produce in a year of work might only be enough to feed themselves and their family. If taxes were paid to the nobles, they might even go hungry.
Eating is a basic necessity. If that need is not met, people cannot participate in other forms of labor.
However, now it only took one month of working for the government to earn enough to buy food to support a family—and still have some left over.
If one was focused, capable, educated, and able to influence powerful figures, the purchasing power of a monthly salary was something many would never have dared to imagine in the past.
With extra money, people were able to buy new houses, renovate their furniture, and purchase high-quality clothing from textile factories, greatly boosting public enthusiasm.
Life had improved significantly, and everyone could feel it.
Within the walls, the productivity of what had originally been a medieval agrarian society was instantly elevated by the power of the Titans to a level comparable to that of modern society.
Yes, it happened almost instantly, without any transition.
Agricultural Titans were even better than modern large-scale farming machinery.
They required no fuel or maintenance, adapted to various working environments, and were more flexible and practical than modern equipment.
The large construction Titans were even more impressive.
By following complex instructions, building houses was as simple as assembling blocks.
They could start and complete the construction of a building from scratch in just a few days.
All kinds of dangerous tasks could be assigned to Titans, such as building pile-supported bridges in turbulent rivers;
In caves prone to collapse, they used large iron shovels to dig tunnels;
In forests, they raised their axes to cut down giant trees, splitting the wood into clean planks…
As long as they were exposed to sunlight, they could work tirelessly, and even if they were injured, they could recover quickly.
Their enormous potential only became reality once Titans were truly used for construction.
With vision and knowledge ahead of his time, Gale led the people within the walls onto a broad avenue of progress.
If no one interfered with Paradis Island, it was possible that Gale would only need a few decades to see the familiar scenery of his memories once again.
But… it would not be that simple…
The Marleyan government continued to covet Paradis Island. According to observers, once a month, warships arrived at the port of Paradis Island.
They remained at the port for one to three days, unloading some Titans, and then departed.
The reason they came every month was likely to meet with their "soldiers."
Technology in the outside world had not yet developed enough to allow for convenient remote communication.
They could only make arrangements in advance and wait for the soldiers to return within a set time.
They did not know that their soldiers had been annihilated within the walls—and that their waiting had been in vain.
If everything proceeded as expected, they would only lose patience and begin exploring the island in the year 850.
The current year was 846, and there were still four years before that moment would arrive.
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November, year 846, Paradis.
Paradis Island experienced its first snowfall of winter, and Gale guided Eren and Dina outside Wall Maria.
Their mission was to tame the large number of Titans living beyond the walls.
Centered around Wall Maria, all Titans within a radius of 100 kilometers were summoned to the Shiganshina region by the power of the Founding Titan.
The migration of the Titans lasted three days, during which the sound of continuous footsteps could be heard.
A terrifying number—thousands of Pure Titans—darkened everything in their path.
As they arrived in masses, a thin layer of snow began to fall.
The first Titans to reach the Shiganshina region were already covered in a silver mantle of winter.
To mislead Marley's spies, about one-third of the Titans were left wandering freely one hundred kilometers away from the walls.
Eren set a boundary for the Titans, preventing them from approaching the walls, so that when Marley's people sailed near Paradis Island, they would still see active Pure Titans on the island without noticing anything unusual.
Under Gale's command, construction workers used "special construction Titans" to build a new military base in the Shiganshina region.
Including newly recruited soldiers, a total of 3,000 people settled in the Shiganshina military base.
From early November to the end of the month, a full month, Eren and Dina worked together to tame 7,321 Pure Titans into 126 different subcategories.
Some of these "special Titans" were sent to work in the already established mining and agricultural zones within the walls.
The other main task was to begin constructing exclusive railway lines to establish fast transportation and communication channels between different locations.
Additionally, Gale left behind 800 "abnormal Titans" and secretly took them to the coast facing Marley's port.