Lord: You Were Told to Guard a Barren City, So Why Did You Build a Magitech Empire?

[Lord + farming and infrastructure + System + magitech + comedy + multiple female leads]

On his thirtieth birthday, Zhang Yang finally got the break of a lifetime: a heavy-duty truck loaded with "good luck."

When he opened his eyes again, he was standing at an awakening ceremony on the Tianyuan Continent. He had become the only son of the Grand Duke of Zhenxi in the Great Xia Empire, and awakened a rare profession beyond one in ten thousand: Lord.

His father laid a prosperous territory before him and told him to take his pick.

Zhang Yang pointed to the most desolate corner of the map. "I'll take Wild Horse River."

The food there would last only a month, the city walls were full of holes, the five hundred soldiers were so hungry their eyes glowed green, and outside, magical beasts, half-humans, and enemy lords were all lining up to knock on the door.

Everyone thought he was crazy.

Until cement paved the roads, magitech machinery roared, professionals hauled cannons onto the city walls, and aircraft flew over Wild Horse River...

Watching the flood of steel, the enemy lord fell silent. "Weren't you supposed to defend one desolate city?"

Zhang Yang spread his hands. "What can I say? The people of my territory just happened to stumble into the good life."

This is the story of an unreliable lord and a band of professionals who turn a desolate frontier city into a magitech empire.