When Richard flew back to Alpine Fort, he saw the blacksmith's workshop bustling in the sky.

"What are you doing?" Anyway, it was nothing for the time being, and he flew over and landed in the crowd.

There are not only tall and sturdy centaurs, dwarves like trees, but also many black-headed and black-brained mole people. Standing there was no dwarf height, barely as tall as a centaur leg.

Although these severely myopic little people can't move a forging hammer, they have a unique sensitivity to fine structures.

In the past, in the Orc Kingdom, the well-made carriages they made were sold to other countries, and the prices were quite expensive. Now that he has moved to the Alpine Fort, the lord himself is not very supportive of the luxury industry—things that may be a good income in normal times, but almost completely useless in the event of war.

The old trade of building carriages could not be counted on, but skilled craftsmen were never useless, so most of them became members of the military industry.

The name of the warriors of Alpine Fort has long since spread, even the three-year-old children in the city of Cologne have heard of it.

But outsiders would never have thought that this remotely located and newly established marquis still has a military industry department that can be called the first in Pompeii in terms of scale, technology, and talent reserves!

In addition to the continuous factory buildings he saw, Richard knew that there were three entire floors of underground structures hidden beneath his feet.

In those secret warehouses buried deep underground, there are not only various prototype weapons that have not been mass-produced, but also the remains of various ancient weapons pulled from the goblin ruins.

It is no exaggeration to say that if you take out two random pieces, it is very likely to cause an uproar in the entire human world.

"My lord, we made the lighter you wanted. The Mole Elder respectfully presented a metal box.

"Oh?" Richard copied it, and as soon as he touched the bracket skillfully, a steady wisp of pale blue flame immediately burned.

Richard took a closer look and found that the structure was actually very simple, with a fire rune built into the box, and a small piece of magic stone connected to the machine.

As soon as the machine was pressed, the magic stone fell on the rune, and the flames burned.

This thing was also a whim for him, and he casually said it at dinner. Unexpectedly, in just two or three days, the workshop came up with a similar finished product.

And the post-processing is also in place, you can't feel the raw edge in your hand, and the surface is polished so bright that you can almost reflect the figure.

"Not bad. The lord shook his hand, and the firebolt turned into a cloud of silver light that flew up and down between his fingers, and suddenly stopped with a "snap". It made the elder of the mole people puzzled, obviously he had just come out of the results, how to look at the lord's posture as if he had been playing for several years.

It's a pity that there are no cigarettes, otherwise it would be handsome to light one. Richard was a little regretful.

"But how about the weaponization of fire runes?"

The elder of the mole people looked left and right, and a group of people looked at the sky and the ground, and they didn't mean to make a sound at all, so they had to bite the bullet and say, "General." ”

"A single fire rune is not powerful enough, and it is almost non-lethal. However, to connect multiple runes, it is not as simple as it seems, and we are still figuring it out. ”

"Don't rush, just take your time. The lord said comfortingly.

If what he did in the goblin ruins was theoretical research, then these craftsmen were trying to transfer the theoretical results into practical fields.

To be honest, even Richard himself is not very optimistic about what decent results can be achieved in the short term, after all, Alpine Fort is really poor in terms of elements and magic.

But people should not only look at the present, but also plan for the long term.

"But we do make some logistical products. The Mole Elder looked at his face cautiously, "Like a sleeping bag with a heating function, and a marching stove that can make a fire on its own......"

The voice of the mole man is getting quieter and quieter, after all, according to the current mainstream view, it is a basic virtue for the big head soldier to endure hardship. The fact that the military-industrial sector actually produces these "useless" things is about tantamount to a crime.

The lord was stunned.

He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he went with the Young Pioneers to interview a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the old man did not tell any heroic deeds during the whole process, but he just gushed out and sighed that the conditions of the Yankees were really good, which made the teacher who led the team look very ugly.

"Logistics is combat effectiveness, pick up the more practical ones, and you can try to mass produce some of them. ”

Li realized that if these things were really fully installed in the future, the living standard of the Ripper Legion was estimated to be able to open an era gap with the Allied Army, and eighty percent would not be able to escape the name of the young master soldier.

Greatly encouraged, the craftsmen invited the lord to inspect the military industrial area, and Richard did not give in.

I walked around with a group of leaders and saw blacksmiths pouring in large quantities.

Blazing molten iron was poured into the prepared sand mold, and white smoke rose everywhere. After quenching, it was slightly polished and equipped with the most rudimentary equipment, and then packed into a carriage and transported away. The quality of the finished product is very average, and it is prepared for arming the wilderness natives in the future for all-out war.

After reading it, he was about to pretend to make a few brief speeches, but he was dragged away by Anne before he was too old to be official.

"Master Dupont is here. ”

The lord had no choice but to end the meeting hastily and return to his private parlor.

"Richard, what the hell is going on with Yeyu?" Du Pon looked at him with a good eye, "Yeyu lives in Alpine Fort, but the chakra behind your head is clearly still there. ”

"Old man, old man, don't open any pot and mention it. Richard smiled and put his arms around his neck, "We have a relationship, you can tell him directly." ”

"The last time you asked me to help channel the volcanic leylines, I'm not here. Dupon coughed, his face a little unnatural, "Also, by the way, look at Hinkre's child." ”

"Then let's go and channel the leylines first. "Your Excellency leads the way.

The underneath of the castle was also created by the Mole People with a very complex underground structure, and the noise of the surface was gradually isolated by the earth layer as you descended the spiral staircase. In the extreme silence, it is as if you can hear the heart in your chest pacing again and again.

This place is completely out of reach of sunlight, and it is only possible to see with a lot of luminescent bacteria transplanted from the surrounding walls.

"How deep is this stairwell?" said Master Dupont, and immediately stirred up a cascade of echoes.

Those glowing fungi, which were originally dim, also emitted a slightly brighter faint blue light

"One hundred and fifty blade stairwells, plus twelve large underground warehouses. Richard said proudly, "The Alpine Fort has a master of construction engineering and has mobilized hundreds of people, otherwise it would never have been easy to excavate an underground building of this scale." ”