Path of Light.

Chapter 878 879. Forging Workshop

The Jiaxi Mountains are not far from the Plateau City, and the three black iron mines are also located under the three snow-capped peaks in the southern part of the Jiaxi Mountains...

Leia even felt that the magic airship took a long time to rise into the wind layer. Just after adjusting the course, before she sat down on the chair in the cabin, a command came from the captain's room. They had actually arrived at the forging workshop and the magic airship began to land.

It only took half a day, and most of the time was spent ascending and descending...

The magic airship successfully arrived at the forging workshop at the southern end of the Jiaxi Mountains.

For the first time, Leah looked down at the Kasir Mountains from above and had a panoramic view of the three majestic snow-capped peaks.

Leah felt as if she was being oppressed by the mountain in front of her and was unable to breathe.

Under these three mountains, everything seems extremely small.

After the magic airship descended to a certain height, Leah saw a group of buildings on the grass at the foot of a mountain. The biggest feature of this group of buildings was that every few meters you could see a chimney rising into the sky, and these chimneys were gushing out thick black smoke.

Looking down the chimney, Leia discovered that the building was built around dozens of magic furnaces.

Almost every furnace is surrounded by a series of supporting facilities, and a large number of gray dwarves work in this large workshop.

Although Leah didn't recognize these mining machines, she could hide in a corner and listen quietly to the adjutant Luke introducing the various mechanical equipment in the mine to Roy, Mulin, Olive, and Zeena.

According to Luke, many of the machines were hammered out by the gray dwarves using forging hammers.

From ore selection and grinding to smelting and forging, even the smelted slag will flow into a large rough mold, and the slag will become hollow bricks when it cools down.

You know, the main parts of all the buildings in the entire plateau city are built with hollow bricks.

Luke pointed to the mountain of ore two kilometers away and said to Roy:

"At present, the iron ore mined from the three mines will be transported to the freight yard via rail mine cars. The miners will first select the iron ore containing magical black iron. These ores will be smelted separately in the No. 1 furnace, and the ordinary iron ore will be sent to other furnaces."

Three tracks extend from the distant mountains to here, and mine carts are moving slowly on each track.

These mine carts are filled with ore. After arriving at the ore mountain, they will rush directly to the highest place with the help of some dwarf miners and unload the ore.

“How many miners are there in the three mines?”

Seeing dozens of piles of ore that looked like small hills, Roy asked Luke.

Luke calculated carefully before saying, "The three mines of Edas, Aurelion, and Shyvana have a total of 18,000 miners."

Roy didn't expect that there would be nearly 20,000 miners in just three black iron mines. This huge number shocked him. You know, when he took over the three black iron mines, the number of miners in the mines was less than a thousand.

"Why are there so many miners?" Roy asked Luke.

"Boss, how long has it been since you asked about the black iron mine in the Jiaxi Mountains?"

Luke smiled helplessly and continued:

"You only know that we used the hollow bricks produced by the forging workshop to build a plateau city. You probably don't know how much iron ore the forging workshop melted to press these hollow bricks!"

It was the first time for Olive and Zeena to come to a place outside the Plateau City. They were very curious about Roy's forging workshop. After all, hundreds of thousands of sets of Ring-type Siren Armor were said to have been made in the forging workshop.

They stood beside Roy, holding onto the side of the boat with both hands, leaning out and looking at the forging workshop below...

Mu Lin was quite familiar with the situation in the forging workshop, and took over Luke's words and said:
"Initially, there were only 2,000 half-elf miners in the three mines. Currently, these elven miners have become the management of the mines, but they still lead other miners to go down the mines every day."

"There are 7,000 headhunter miners in the three mines. Almost all of these miners are headhunter prisoners of war sent by Captain Helike from the ancestral land. They were assigned to the mines one after another in the past few years."

"They have families living in the prisoner-of-war concentration camp in Plateau City, so these headhunters and miners are very obedient. As long as they have food to eat and a place to live, they will work honestly. In addition to the monthly welfare benefits, they have a family visit leave to return to Plateau City every six months."

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that those bloodthirsty highland headhunters would actually be the easiest miners to manage."

Mulin stood beside Roy and introduced him.

"There are nearly 9,000 gray dwarf miners in the three black iron mines. These gray dwarves were the gray dwarf prisoners of war sent to the Plateau City during the earliest naval battle of the Queen Eweni Islands. They have become accustomed to the life of prisoners of war and have accepted the job of miners."

"In order to make these gray dwarves dig ore in the mine honestly, they have suffered a lot..."

It is conceivable that these gray dwarf prisoners were disobedient to the rules.

In order to make these gray dwarf prisoners dig in the mine, Mulin can only use whips and fruit wine...

Using threats and inducements at the same time.

The gray dwarf bandits then picked up their pickaxes. It must be said that the gray dwarves are born miners. They can tell the direction of the ore vein in front of them just by sniffing...

The black iron mine in the Jiaxi Mountains has been able to continuously increase its production capacity in the past two or three years, also because the gray dwarf prisoner miners played a key role.

"The forge is recruiting dwarven blacksmiths. Every day, gray dwarves come here from the prisoner-of-war concentration camp. All the gray dwarves who have mastered the blacksmithing skills will stay in the forge. The selected gray dwarf prisoners will not return to the prisoner-of-war concentration camp on the plateau. They will be sent to the black iron mine in the Jiaxi Mountains."

Mulin said standing next to Roy.

"In the past few years, we have been working hard to build the Plateau City, so the gray dwarf prisoners will be given priority in supplying the forging workshop in the Jiaxi Mountains. The forging workshop you see now has only been expanded nineteen times."

"Currently, the forge has 16,000 gray dwarf blacksmiths, of which 1,700 are forgers. The forge has 41 magic furnaces, and almost every magic furnace has nearly 40 forgers to maintain the normal operation of the magic furnace production line..."

"This is also the reason why we can produce one thousand sets of Ring-type Siren Armor every day."

The magic airship landed at a simple air port outside the forging workshop, where a large number of wooden boxes were piled on the platform. Olive and Zeina only needed to look at the appearance and shining labels of the wooden boxes to know that the wooden boxes contained the Ring-type Siren Armor.

Roy walked out of the magic airship.

There were only a few half-elves standing on the platform at the airport terminal to greet them. They seemed to have not expected that Boss Roy would come in person, and their eyes were all focused on Mulin behind Roy.

"Lord Mulin, how can you stop the order of the Ring-type Siren Battle Armor just like that? Do you know how much loss our forging workshop has suffered? There are currently 17,000 sets of Ring-type Siren Battle Armor stored in boxes ready for shipment at the terminal, and you just told me to 'stop production of the entire line'... You just don't want it anymore, how can this be possible!"

A half-elf came up and complained loudly to Mulin as she walked out of the magic airship.

Mu Lin coughed lightly. Seeing that he still didn't notice Roy, he took a half step back, pointed at Roy beside him, and said to the half-blood elf:
"Jerome, you picked the wrong person to complain to. You should complain to Boss Roy and ask him to help you think of a solution..."

When the owner of the Jerome mine heard what Mulin said and saw her pointing at the figure wearing a magic pattern suit beside her, he realized that the somewhat unfamiliar face was actually Boss Roy. To be honest, he hadn't seen Roy for several years.

If Mu Lin hadn’t reminded him, he might never have recognized him... This is Boss Roy.

The owner of the Jerome mine was so frightened that his legs went weak. He had just complained loudly several times in front of Boss Roy.

Roy was somewhat surprised to find that the half-elf currently managing the forging workshop was actually the owner of the Jerome mine.

According to Roy's impression of the owner of the Jerome mine, he should be managing several mines in the northern part of the plateau.

"Boss, why are you here? Is the battle going well at the front?"

The owner of the Jerome mine seemed a little incoherent when he spoke.

Roy smiled and nodded, took the initiative to step forward and patted him on the shoulder, and said to him:
"We have won, and the Siren Clan no longer needs this kind of armor specially built for the Dark Faceless, so the work of building the Siren armor here must be stopped."

The owner of the Jerome mine didn't dare to continue complaining in front of Roy.

The half-elves following behind the owner of the Jerome mine were very excited to see that Boss Roy actually came to the forging workshop in person.

Many half-blood elves were very unfamiliar with Roy. Only when they saw him this time did they realize that he was very different from the boss in the rumors. He was actually so young...

"I came here this time just to see what your forge looks like. I am very satisfied that you can provide a large number of high-quality Siren armors. Next, I need you to change your thinking and build some high-end elven armors."

Roy stood on the platform of the airport terminal and spoke to several managers of the forging workshop.

……

Olive and Zezena now came to a pile of crates which formed a very high wall on the platform.

A group of half-elves were moving the Ring-Type Siren Armors out of wooden boxes. All the brand new Ring-Type Siren Armors coated with oil were loaded into the garbage truck. The wooden boxes were emptied again and neatly stacked together.

The half-elves would load a cart full of Siren armor and push it directly along the track.

Jie Zena often interacts with half-blood elves. She took the initiative to walk over and ask one of them:

"Where should these Ring-type Kraken armors be sent?"

Zetsuina is now an elf...

The half-blood elf glanced at Zeena and answered casually, "These all need to be sent back to the furnace and melted into iron ingots again."

Jie Zena saw tens of thousands of Siren armors piled up here. Although Roy had said this a long time ago, she was still shocked by the scene after seeing it with her own eyes.

The airport terminal was built outside the workshop.

On the way to the forge, Zetsu caught up with Roy and the two walked side by side.

"In fact, the subsequent losses of creating these Siren armors should not be borne entirely by you. If you need me to do something, I can go and talk to Commander Taizhiko. After all, the last order did not complete the entire transaction." Jie Zena said.

Roy turned his head to look at Zeena, and seeing that Olive, who was following her, did not say anything to refute, he stopped and explained seriously:
"Don't think that I am always helping you. In fact, helping you is also helping myself."

"If the Dark Faceless Army really defeats the Siren Tribe, the Half-Blood Elves will have to deal with these dark armies head-on in the near future. It is impossible for them to occupy the ocean and live in peace with the Half-Blood Elves. There is no such possibility. They will only erode the Partington plane little by little."

"We can't chase them into the deep sea, so the war will become endless, but now we have worked together to drive away the Dark Faceless One. The Siren Warriors have paid so many precious lives, and we have only built a batch of more armor. I can still afford this loss..."

"Besides, if the armor in the forge is melted again, we can create new armor."

"All I paid for was the labor of the gray dwarf craftsmen. Asking them to do more work would only waste some time at most."

"I brought you here to let you know about this forging workshop."

"You will lead the Siren Warriors to go to Kui Island with me. Since the ring-type Siren armor is no longer suitable for the Siren Warriors, it is necessary to rebuild a new type of armor. I need our Siren Warriors to have the strength to completely suppress other Siren Warriors when facing them..."

After hearing Roy say this, Jie Zena finally understood what Roy was thinking.

Led by the owner of the Jerome mine, the group walked into the forging workshop. As soon as they entered the forging workshop, they felt the heat wave mixed with the smell of fireworks. The air in the workshop was very dry. Even though it was hundreds of meters away from the nearest magic furnace and separated by several walls, the rolling heat waves made people feel that the air they breathed into their lungs was full of sparks.

There aren't actually that many half-elves in the workshop, and most of the positions are filled by gray dwarf craftsmen.

The molten iron flowed along the ditches into some molds. These gray dwarf craftsmen had strong naked upper bodies, thick boots on their feet, and long iron hooks in their hands, constantly hooking out the formed iron ingots.

The red-hot iron ingots slid back and forth along the ground, and the gray dwarf craftsmen moved through them very freely.

The owner of the Jerome mine took Roy to a forging table, pointed at the gray dwarf forger in front of the anvil, and said to Roy:
"This is Master Forger Mags. The steel plate he is making now is a sandwich plate. This layer is mithril, but it is not a thin mithril coating. Instead, the mithril sheet is evenly pressed on top..."

(End of this chapter)