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Chapter 1396 Chocolate Factory
Turan City, [Hermes's Travel Hat] branch.

After the upheaval, the first thing to change was not the relationship between countries or the relationship between races, but [architecture].

Whether it is building world barriers to cope with the environmental changes caused by the earth-shaking, or constructing an inn when entering an area that has never been visited by the current civilization, these are challenges to the current field of architecture.

People with rich civil engineering knowledge have become technical talents that are in short supply everywhere, and even become strategic resources.

After all, a better way to declare sovereignty than raising flags and stationing troops is to directly build a city and start trade and life.

Although the world has become bigger now, many human kingdoms, led by the three major kingdoms, have remained silent. The main reason is that they are hoarding civil engineering resources and maximizing their profits in one fell swoop.
[Hermes's Brigade Hat] As an organization at the forefront of activities and advocating "Long Live Peace", it is determined to contribute to world peace, so they poached all civil engineering talents and used the fastest construction speed in the world.

On the first day of entering Turan City, a simple branch store was built and a large cocoa bean processing plant was completed at the same time, which was extremely fast.

The reason why it was able to move so quickly was not only because of the large amount of civil engineering materials stockpiled by [Hermes's Traveling Hat], but also because of the emergence of a special architects' guild.

All members of this guild are foreigners, and they are dedicated to repairing and building large buildings such as the World Barrier. From small stables and pig pens to large neighborhood schools, as long as the commission is given, they will immediately arrive and start work.

This Architects Guild is not a guild in name only, but is similar to a hunting group, composed of like-minded foreigners.

Many foreigners who are too lazy to repair the world barriers will entrust them. Since it was established by foreigners, many kingdoms will also entrust them. Even [Hermes's Traveling Hat] commissioned the Architects' Union to build a chocolate processing factory.

This was what Herbie proposed to Kate Cat after he felt guilty about bothering strangers to build buildings and only paying for the materials every time.

I spent more money, but I felt better.

Blaze left the curtain and entered the chocolate processing factory. As expected, a majestic little figure was standing in front of the guardrail with his arms folded across his chest, looking down and supervising the processing below.

"Hey, long time no see." Blaze patted Herbie's shoulder as if it was a sneak attack.

Herbie seemed to have expected this and was not surprised at all. He rather maturely held a piece of chocolate between two fingers and handed it to Blaze.

"I knew you were coming."

"Oh, it triggered the title." Blaze took the chocolate and looked at it.

This is a round chocolate coin with a feathered serpent printed on one side and a cocoa nut printed on the other side, which has a strong sense of regionality.

"That's great. When Turan City mints currency, we can just do it this way." Blaze rolled the chocolate coin between his fingers.

Herbie didn't say anything. Although his face was facing the processing plant below, his eyes were always on Blazer's constantly swinging chocolate coins.

Finally, she couldn't help but speak.

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"Isn't this currency?" Blaze was stunned and pinched the chocolate coin. He thought Herbie was joking, but suddenly he realized, "Don't worry, I don't like chocolate so much that I would attack strangers and steal chocolate coins, so you don't have to feed me in advance."

Herbie didn't say anything, but turned his head away.

Although Blaze couldn't see Herbie's expression, he could see Herbie's puffed cheeks.

It seems like they are having a quarrel. "What's wrong with you?"

"nothing."

"That's good." Blaze bounced the chocolate coin up, then opened the magic bag and let the chocolate coin fall into it. "After all, this is the first chocolate coin I got. I have to distinguish it carefully and don't confuse it with other chocolate coins."

"How long do you want to keep it?" Herbie suddenly turned his head and reminded calmly, "Although this thing is called chocolate coin, it is chocolate after all. It doesn't have such a long shelf life."

"Eat it on Valentine's Day." Blaze touched the back of his head. He knew that food should not be wasted.

"Oh." Herbie nodded, his face glowing red under the light from below.

The chicken was watching nearby, not knowing whether to push or stop it, but doing nothing would not work, as it would just become a dull event.

"Hey!" Ji grabbed the two men's waists with both hands and lifted them up with one force, sandwiching her in the middle, creating a perfect harmony.

"Are you planning to carry both of us down to tour the factory like this? At least change into beast form," Blaze protested.

Hebie didn't react much, but just sighed helplessly. It was obvious that being held like a doll by chickens was her daily routine.

"No, that won't work. There's an important food processing factory down there. How can we let birds and animals in?" Chicken refused, but she put Blaze down for the time being and held Herbie in her arms.

"That's fine too."

The three of them walked down the steps next to them to the processing plant and visited the chocolate processing process of [Hermes' Traveling Hat].

The cocoa fruits purchased from foreigners are sent here, where workers break open the shells and remove the pulp, leaving only the cocoa beans.

The pulp will be sent to be made into feed or fertilizer, and the cocoa beans obtained cannot be used immediately. They need to be dried using magic, and it is best to bake them until they have a caramelized aroma.

Herbie believed that if he wanted to bake something, he had to get the best result, so he specially found a piece of corona stone.

This is a very rare material. If it is embedded in weapons or armor, it can directly raise the quality of the equipment to a higher level.

This piece of Hebi is mass-produced. The corona stone is said to absorb the sun's rays and is itself like a small sun. Amaterasu, who is the sun, can rub the corona stone with her hands.

However, compared to the corona stone that has transformed through years of accumulation and can provide endless power, the one made directly by Amaterasu is disposable and can only be used for a few days, but it is more than enough for roasting cocoa beans.

After being roasted by the power of the sun, the cocoa beans give off a burnt aroma. Of course, this is only half of the chocolate making process. The next step is to pry open the cocoa beans and separate the shell from the kernel inside.

It is basically impossible to achieve high-speed mass production by manpower, so we borrowed the Shendai technology designed by Jasmine.

After the cocoa beans with a burnt aroma entered the mysterious silver iron pipe unique to Shendai Technology, a thick brown-black liquid flowed out of the pipe.

"Would you like to try some freshly baked chocolate?" Herbie patted Blaze's head with a wicked smile.

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

(End of this chapter)