Chapter 174: Madness

Just as the nations were experimenting with their new weapons, the appearance of floating warships made them feel that their second boot had finally landed. I didn't have much to think about it now, and the only thought was to get my own floating battleship out as soon as possible - for that more delachite ore had to be imported. Speaking of which, these guys, without exception, kept the alchemy of the Remiret Island Kingdom in the alchemy of chaffinite refining secret, and wanted to make this new country a simple resource exporter. They admit that the kingdom of Remiret is unique in some technologies - such as the magic suit, but in terms of breadth and depth, the continental countries are still far ahead of the countries in the wilderness - and of course the kingdom of Novaya Zemlya is also one of these countries.

There is indeed a gap, in the life of ordinary people and even in the enjoyment of high-rise luxury, the only city on Remilet Island, the black giant tower, and the city of any country on the mainland does have a gap, at least they don't even have the magic guide street lamps in the whole city, and they rely on natural light for lighting. As for the utensils used in daily life, there are also obvious differences, and it has been a long time since Remiret and Novaya Zemlya have been ridiculed by mainland countries as dirt buns. But the upper echelons knew that Remilet Island was so rich, that rare and precious ores and extremely valuable biological materials on the mainland could be found on this huge island, and that the inhabitants of the island had never understood what famine was.

It's a pity that Remilet Island is still far away from the mainland, and the traffic is very inconvenient, and the only thing that can slightly offset the danger of the journey is the deep island of the Novaya Zemllya Kingdom, which is relatively close to Remirete Island, and can be said to be the last supply point to Remirete Island. Of course, countries with sufficient technological power, such as the Duchy of Belken and the Kingdom of Bourbon, are fully capable of using ultra-long-range airships to travel back and forth. But if it doesn't involve the transportation of precious ores and the transportation of precious magic equipment. It's still easier to resupply in the deep island, which is more labor-saving and cost-effective. The long distance also discouraged the ambitions of the continental kingdoms. At the same time, it also effectively balanced the ambitions of the Novaya Zemlya Kingdom for Remiret Island - under the pressure of the mainland countries, the Novaya Zemlya Kingdom, which had hoped to be the counterbalance of the mainland, was forced to declare the Deep Island a demilitarized zone and an area that did not require an entry permit, and the Novaya Zemlya Kingdom had no way to monopolize the mainland terachite trade. However, as a country with its own mineral veins, the kingdom of Novaya Zemlya also gained a lot of benefits from it, and the two cities of the deep island developed rapidly under the stimulus of this trade, and the taxes collected from it and the various trade costs generated by the transit made the kingdom of Novaya Zemlya a lot of money.

There are still only two settlements on the island of Remiret, the capital and largest settlement, the Black Tower, and the other is the window of foreign trade, which until now has no official name, but the Duchy of Belken was at the time of its first arrival. The nobleman in charge of the reception was someone from the half-frog clan, so he called this place Flogerhaven, and as a result, everyone agreed to call this place Froghaven. Even the official text of the Kingdom of Remilet called this place Floghafen, which can be regarded as giving it a name. Today, Froghaven has expanded several times in just a few months, and the unwalled city is surprisingly vibrant. A considerable number of humans and elves, dwarves and centaurs of Remiret Island spontaneously picked up the ores, and then took them to this place to trade with the biological alchemy materials they had collected - the interior of Remiret Island was still a forbidden area for the majority of other countries, not only because of the laws of the country, but also because of the terrifying monsters. Moreover, the king of Remiret had already declared that all minerals and materials belonged to the state, and that the citizens had to pay taxes to pick them up and sell them, and that they had to obtain a license to mine them.

There were also many envoys and merchant groups from various countries stationed in Frogen. The ambassadors were all housed in the Black Tower, the capital of the kingdom, but the embassy and merchant district were all located in the dock city. The envoys in the Black Tower are legitimate spies. In accordance with the principle of reciprocity, Zhou Zhongmou also sent envoys to the capitals of countries with diplomatic relations - all of whom were of humanoid race without exception, and all of them were "nobles". Of course, the foreign envoys also reported to China the latest progress of the "Magic Machine", a specialty of Remiret Island, and in the report they claimed to have discovered that the Magic Robot had been upgraded, and the jet thruster behind it seemed to have been replaced by something more stylish. "It's like a beetle's carapace, a hard cloak or back armor with a rather aristocratic style" Of course, Zhou Zhongmou got a lot of orders next, all of which were for the replacement of the flight module.

Although it is called "Timman", it is not technically much more advanced than "Hakuna Matata" except for the jetpack, and the magic suit as a weapon was already very mature when it appeared in the first generation. This is also because the technical analysis of the holy warrior in the machine qì person information obtained by Zhou Zhongmou in the Bofu Library is quite complete. After charging a hefty upgrade fee, the new Mana Conversion Engine and Jetpack module were crammed into the airships of each country, and along with the Modification Technical Manual, they traveled to the capitals of each country along with the Modified Technical Manual and the Dragonman Technician in charge of teaching, where the Magicsuit Soldiers were almost always deployed.

In the following days, the undercurrent was turbulent, various countries, all countries qualified to be bright on the continent all desperately developed and built their own floating warships, according to the Duchy of Belken's world-changing Nibelungen-class floating warships, the Bourbon Kingdom's Anton also took off for sea trials, and the Principality of Belken was similar in size, and the similar technology of the floating warships greatly boosted the morale of the Bourbon Kingdom. In the following year, the Habsburg Kingdom's Elector, the Kingdom of Yuctobania's Borodino and other similar technology and comparable size of floating warships entered service, and the world suddenly became a crazy world of floating warship competition.

These countries are starting to build floating warships like crazy, and they are constantly improving, anyway, now that the Birdstone is no longer a bottleneck under the open supply of the Remilet Kingdom, the only bottleneck that limits the number of floating warships in each country is industrial capacity. Building a floating battleship doesn't require too many rare materials other than the cost of delphinium. The alchemy technology of this world has developed to this point - most of the materials can be replaced by steel with various ingredients, and I don't know how much progress has been made compared to the carapace of giant insects and the trunks of thousand-year-old trees. The seaside industrial area of the Duchy of Belken is full of black smoke, and almost every three to four months, a group of floating warships will roll off the assembly line, each batch of floating warships varies in size, but at least three of them. This kind of crazy move made Zhou Zhongmou also speechless, "This is even more exaggerated than the Anglo-German naval competition before World War I!" Although the construction period of the largest model of this floating battleship is more than a year, there are many docks in the Duchy of Belken, and several warships have started construction in batches.

Other countries are similar, and the squeeze of manpower is becoming more and more severe, many young and middle-aged people have been pulled into the army to serve as soldiers, and the air of military expansion and warfare has filled the sky over the entire continent. (To be continued......)