"With these things, even if the Arcane Empire returns and fights another war with us, we don't have to be afraid, right?"

After carefully looking at the black armor in front of him for a few moments, Calvin couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion: "Our empire's achievements in 'material science' are far inferior to those of the Kurkut Empire......"

"After all, the empire doesn't have many achievements in magic, and ordinary materials may be studied, but ...... like this magic alloy," Grigory shook his head, "or other mage organizations are more advanced in their research, that's a fact." Fortunately, His Majesty has also realized that in the future world, magic energy machinery is an indispensable thing, allowing us to establish a mage academy, otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable!"

It's just that a certain war zone on the southern front has been attacked by a suspected 'Inland Sea Monster', which has made them can't help but pinch a cold sweat, and even Calvin promised his wife a lot of things because of this, just to rush back to continue researching.

Conventional weapons are hardly able to damage that monster, and even the 'Fortress Cannon' can only break its armor.

With all the artillery fire in place, it took Elano, one of the deputy commanders, almost half an hour to kill the monster.

Even though the cannonball had a strong kinetic energy, under the influence of the petrified aura, it was still hindered a lot, and when it finally landed on that monster, the damage caused was negligible.

Otherwise, as a 'legendary warrior', Elano would not have been so seriously injured that he almost lost his life!

This battle made them completely realize the shortcomings of 'conventional weapons', and not only them, but even many nobles were shocked by this battle, and never mentioned the 'opposition to magic' again.

After a pause, Gregory whispered again: "These 'battle armors' only increase the survivability of ordinary soldiers, in fact, in the face of the Inland Sea Monsters and the Arcane Empire, they still can't play a big role. ”

A basin of cold water poured down from his head, directly waking Calvin from his euphoric state.

He sighed faintly: "I also know this, and the manufacturing cost of the 'battle armor' is still 'too high', enough 'four hundred gold coins', I'm afraid it can only be equipped by some elite soldiers to carry out some special tasks, right?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but show a bitter smile.

Even now, the Empire's fiscal system is still the same as it used to be, not because Caesar XIII did not want to reform, but because the cost was too great......

They would love to be like the Principality of Sorrow, where all the funds in their territories except for keeping them running are turned over and redistributed through the treasury, so that their budgets don't need to be so tight.

But for the nobles, whoever touches the money in their pockets is their enemy, and the nobles in the Ogordon Empire are huge, and even some big nobles do not agree with this model, so the financial reform has not been successful.

Until now, there has been no clear division between the finances of the nobles themselves and the finances of the territory, and even if the territory does not develop, they must let themselves enjoy a better quality of life.

Therefore, even when the army and even the police personnel of the Principality of Sorrow were already equipped with 'exoskeleton armor', they did not have much budget to produce 'battle armor'.

Calvin and Gregory were envious of the system of the Duchy of Sorrow, which concentrated productivity and money, and did not need to think about anything else, as long as they knew that doing it would make the country better, then they would do it decisively.

"Gregory, do you believe it?"

Looking at the black armor in front of him, Calvin sighed again: "If we report the manufacturing cost of this armor, 'they' will let us continue to reduce the cost." ”

Hearing this, Gregory sneered, "It's not the first time I've met them!, because the Principality of Sorrow's 'exoskeleton armor' is cheaper to manufacture than our armor, so they will definitely subconsciously think that we are greedy for money......"

"A person will subconsciously understand a problem that he cannot understand in a way that he can understand, and after that, if that person is not rational enough to react, then the mistake will be magnified, and he will do something unreasonable in order to prove himself right—and the nobles will be more or less like that, even if the experience they used to deal with ignorant commoners is no longer applicable, they still use it. ”

He and Calvin looked at each other, and they both laughed self-deprecatingly at the same time, "Even you and me, too!"

Because the manufacturing cost of the 'exoskeleton armor' of the Principality of Sorrow Wind is relatively low, when the nobles think about it with their past thinking, they will think that the 'battle armor' is just a few more steel plates, can the manufacturing cost be nearly doubled with these steel plates?

They didn't understand the technological differences, the technological gap between the Empire and the Principality of Screaming Winds, or even that 'exoskeleton armor' and 'battle armor' were essentially two different pieces of equipment.

The main function of the 'exoskeleton armor' is to increase the physical ability of the equipper, and everything needs to be played by the equiptor.

However, the 'Amplified Physical Ability' is only the most common of all the functions of the 'Warframe', which is a killing weapon that is completely prepared for the battlefield, and can almost be said to be a miniaturized [Dreadnought] - even a cripple can gain powerful combat ability when he wears it.

Therefore, being able to use a measly '400 gold coins' to produce a set of such equipment is simply a great thing!

If it weren't for the fact that the Kurkut Empire happened to invent 'magic steel', it might have been more expensive to manufacture this set of armors.

Even if Calvin and Grigory did not have a keen sense of war, they could sense that the form of war had begun to change, and that it had previously relied on manpower and material resources, and that victory could be achieved if there were enough people and enough ingenuity.

And now, what about the future?

The monster suspected to be from the Inland Sea had already sounded the alarm bell in their hearts, and against that powerful monster, conventional weapons would no longer have much effect, no matter how many there were, they would not be able to kill that kind of monster.

In the same way with the Arcane Empire, if even the enemy's defenses can't be penetrated, then what's the use of a large number of them?

The era ahead will be the age of 'money', the age of 'powerful weapons' rather than 'numbers' – only a sufficient budget will be able to develop more powerful weapons, produce more powerful weapons, and equip soldiers with more powerful equipment.

Now due to the vast territory of the empire, it can still support it for a while, but as time goes by, this advantage will slowly disappear, because the country's system cannot keep up with the development of the times, which drags down the country's progress!

The existence of the 'aristocracy' is now too redundant for a country that is about to 'industrialize' – they don't want to pay money, but they want the country to become stronger, so that they too can become 'stronger'.

According to the head maid, they want to be a 'white wolf with empty gloves', to be a leech that doesn't give anything and spends all day trying to suck the blood of this huge empire.

Even if Caesar XIII's series of actions succeeded in saving the edifice of the Ogordon Empire, which was about to collapse, it would only prolong the life of the empire, and it was just a matter of surviving!

The Ogordon Empire has ostensibly rejuvenated, thrived, and is heading for a higher peak...... In fact, the interior of this empire is still rotten, but it has been put on a shiny fur and returned to the light.

All the members of the department who walked in this laboratory tacitly stayed away from the two ministers, knowing that if they got together, they would talk about something deviant.

It's just that they probably never thought that what the two ministers are talking about now is very likely to turn this vast empire upside down, or ...... Fall to pieces.