The brave man opened the coffin and rose

As the construction of the city wall began, Abes also received a lot of useful feedback on his operations in Sweetleaf Town.

With the blacksmith and iron mine, Abes can now equip some people with iron armor.

The first ones to receive these armors are the shield soldiers who are responsible for defense.

In addition, important management members such as Kronos, Anivia and Gavilin also received a piece of armor each.

It’s not that Abes doesn’t know the power of armored heavy cavalry.

The cavalry, which already has powerful charging capabilities, can gain powerful defensive capabilities if they are equipped with armor for both horses and men, and can effectively resist enemy attacks and provide better protection.

Allowing them to withstand more damage and increase their survivability.

And such an army will have great deterrent power.

In modern times, the Mongolian cavalry's tall stature, iconic iron masks and magnificent formations are most likely the source of the centaurs in Western stories.

In general, armored heavy cavalry possessed strong defense, attack, mobility and deterrence, making them an important force on the battlefield before the birth of hot weapons.

It has unique advantages in charging, raiding, and enduring heavy damage, and can play an important role on the battlefield.

Abes knew all of this, but the output of armor was simply not enough.

For this reason, armor can only be provided first to shield soldiers who have clear defense requirements.

There are two reasons why the output of armor is too low.

On the one hand, the blacksmiths in Sweetleaf Town are still using manual forging and the miners are still sending workers to dig iron ore. It would be impossible to speed up the material supply and production process.

On the other hand, it was also because Abes had been working with some blacksmiths, as well as Kronos, Sister Agatha, Hyo Nagi, Wilford and others, to study the application of the materialization of magic power to the production of steel, thus sharing the manpower.

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There are many ways to increase steel production, and at present, Abesi's choice is to improve the furnace.

There are two reasons.

First of all, the simplest application of magic power is probably to increase the temperature, which is a pure way of converting energy into heat and releasing it.

If the first application of magic power is to be used in mining, it would be pitiful that day that Abes, a lousy gamer, could draw the schematic diagram of a tunnel boring machine by hand?

But the steelmaking furnace is different. The melting and solidification that we learned in junior high school is the basic principle of the steelmaking furnace.

Secondly, the improvement of steelmaking furnaces is not groundless, nor is it a step too big to cause consequences.

Didn't the steel mill in the royal capital that Wilford mentioned already use closed blast furnaces and liquid fuels such as alcohol?

It can be said that what Abes needs to improve does not require drastic overhaul for this era, but only requires replacing the part that utilizes liquid fuel with a heating device that materializes magic power.

In this case, it would not be an exaggeration even if it was proposed by Abes Grande, an "ancient man".

Isn't it just using magic to ignite fire and provide heat? This is what most steel mills in big cities do.

This is also what the steel mills in the capital of the small kingdom of Wommza used to do.

Now all Abes had to do was to change from hiring wizards at great expense to setting fires to trying to use materialized magic crystals to drive heated rune sets or magic circles.

However, even with these two reasons, Abes still received unanimous opposition from everyone after he put forward his idea.

The first person to raise objections was Hiiragi, and her reasons seemed quite ridiculous to Abes.

"What do you mean, materialization magic should be used for more useful things..."

As expected… the mage is proud and arrogant, and the warlock is arrogant and proud.

"Don't you think it's a good idea to use magic to produce steel?" Abes looked at the wizard lady in front of him sternly.

Hiiragi lowered her head. She had never expected that her objection would lead Abes to question her like this.

Don’t I, Anivia, and even Abeth Grande himself, all have the ability to cast spells?

Wouldn't this ancient hero know what it means to have extra magic power?

Large magic that can be cast more than once, and a second high-level spell can be released at a faster speed.

Didn't Hyogi herself, after losing the battle with Abes, rely on her extra magical power to heal her waist and abdomen which were almost pierced?

"I just think it would be more efficient to give these things to spellcasters to fight," Hiiragi replied in a low voice.

Seeing that the other party seemed to not understand the connection and had no intention of blocking the development of the new furnace, Abes just sighed.

Wilford on the side did not say much. Having been to the capital to open up trade routes, he knew very well that those steel mills inviting mages to set a fire was really like begging for help from everyone.

Many wizards would rather go to the homes of wealthy nobles and perform magic tricks to entertain them than trade with merchants or workers in steel mills.

The mages they could hire were all apprentices with little academic proficiency, and after casting a third- or fifth-ring spell to ignite and maintain a high-temperature fireball, they were all hesitant to take the money.

The posture was just like that of a cilantro-phobic person who had eaten cilantro, or a girl who had lost her virginity.

The steel plant in the royal capital spent a lot of money on this before the technological reform.

Although the lady in front of her did not mean that, she just thought it would be more efficient to leave the materialized magic crystals directly to the spellcasters to replenish their magic power.

But Wilford still felt a little regretful, wishing he had the ability to cast spells.

The second voice of opposition came from Kronos, who firmly believed that Abes's improvements would not be wrong.

"My lord the Brave, you have the blessing on you, and you are destined to walk on the path prayed for by the gods. The furnace modification you proposed has also been listened to by the blacksmiths in principle, and there are no major problems. This proves that it should be feasible."

They talk about protection and heroes every three minutes, worthy of being the Mers family who were designated by the Sages' Council to guard their coffin a thousand years ago.

However, after praising himself profusely, Kronos changed the subject.

"But we shouldn't make the transformation now, as it will slow down our steel production."

"We got rid of General Paddy's messenger this time. What about next time, and the next time?"

"They were able to capture the important military base of Crow Castle. Wouldn't it be even easier for them to deal with our small garrison in Sweet Leaf Town if they lack armor?"

Apart from that, Sister Agatha and the blacksmiths had no intention of speaking.

Sister Agatha, as a researcher of magic materialization technology, is a pure scientist and does not want to participate in such discussions.

And those blacksmiths?

Now they all just lowered their heads in fear and listened to Abes, Kronos and other adults "arguing" here.

Although Abesi has always emphasized equality and freedom, these people felt extremely nervous about participating in this seminar.

An old blacksmith who was closest to Abes could even see with the naked eye large sweat stains on the back of his clothes.

Abes looked at Wilford who remained silent again, "Didn't you tell me about the blast furnace in the capital? Why are you silent today when we have a research meeting?"

Wilford just felt his stomach begin to ache.

"Anyway... using a blast furnace, it looks right, that's what the capital does."

After saying this, Wilford never spoke again. He never mentioned the two questions raised by the wizard Hyōnagi: "Should the materialized magic crystals be used in steel production?" and "Is now a good time to improve steel production technology?" raised by Kronos.

This also made other people on the field roll their eyes at him.

Is this a question of whether to use a blast furnace?

Abes looked at the people present and raised a new question, "What if, after the improvement, the steel production capacity can be increased to the point where these two problems no longer exist?"

The breathing of the ice-blue-haired wizard and the silver-haired girl both paused briefly.