Mechanical Doctor

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"Mr. Manolin, we don't have enough raw materials."

Toloft, the manager of the arsenal, found Manolin who was engraving magic patterns in the workshop.

"Not enough? Didn't we just replenish the raw materials a few days ago? How come they are gone so quickly?"

Manolin asked in surprise.

Faced with Manolin's question, Toloft could only smile bitterly and said:

"The floating fortress is really too material-consuming. Coupled with the recent orders from the navy, the arsenal now consumes more than ten times the raw materials every day than before."

Manolin didn't say much about this. After all, the raw materials are used up, not wasted.

"In that case, then order some more from other ore smelting plants."

"No, Mr. Manolin. Recently, because we have purchased a large number of various metals and metal ores, the prices of metals and metal ores in the entire Gran City have been rising. We use a large amount of metals. If we continue to purchase in large quantities like this, the budget will exceed the budget."

Hearing this, Manolin rubbed his forehead with a headache.

In order to build the floating fortress, he has taken out most of the savings he has accumulated during this period as a budget. If the budget exceeds the target, his capital chain may be broken.

"Do you have any good suggestions, Toloft?"

Looking at Toloft who was not in a hurry, Manolin estimated that he had a solution.

After all, for these mechanical enthusiasts, their enthusiasm for building a floating fortress is higher than that of Manolin, the main person.

Since these guys in the Mechanical Enthusiasts Association heard about Manolin's plan to build a floating fortress, they simply came to work for free.

Some guys even quit their own jobs and came to participate in the construction of the floating fortress.

For example, Stantel, a university professor, even took a long vacation to come and help.

These guys' fanatical behavior scared their families. If these people did not have more mechanical organs on their bodies when they returned home, they would have asked Manolin for an explanation.

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Faced with Manolin's question, Toloft took out the plan he had prepared.

"My plan is to import metal ores and metals from other coastal industrial cities and reduce transportation costs through shipping."

"We can even import some metals from other countries, which can be even more cost-effective."

"I have calculated that even if we have to hire a fleet for transportation, the price of imported metals is much cheaper than the metals in Gran City after the current price increase."

Manolin is really not good at and not interested in these business and management issues.

Hearing that there is no problem with Toloft's plan, he said:

"Okay, the raw material issue will be left to you to decide, as long as it does not affect the construction of the floating fortress."

"Okay, Mr. Manolin, leave this matter to me."

Toloft himself started out in the business of renting sea vessels, and he is very familiar with the shipping industry.

So he is very confident about this matter.

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After Toloft left, Manolin continued to carve magic patterns.

For a huge floating fortress, engraving magic patterns is a huge project.

It would be extremely difficult for Manolin to complete it alone.

Fortunately, Manolin is not without help. His apprentices have gone through this period of study (hard work) and can still engrave some simple magic patterns on the floating fortress.

With the help of these apprentices, Manolin at least feels a lot easier.

Looking at these hard-working apprentices, Manolin is considering whether he should set up a school to teach [mechanics] knowledge so that he can train tool people.

However, after all, the school has not been started yet, so he is not in a hurry. At this stage, building a floating fortress is the main business.

Because the floating fortress is too huge, there is naturally no dock in this world that can build such a huge thing.

So Manolin built it using a modular manufacturing method of segmented manufacturing.

Manolin divided the entire blueprint into several modules, first manufactured the modules and then used the [Metal Control] ability to "glue" these modules together to form a whole.

It must be said that the [Metal Control] ability is really the strongest ability in the mechanical manufacturing industry.

When several pieces of metal are spliced ​​together, there is no need for welding at all, and they are completely integrated, as if they were cast in one piece, and the stress of the metal, small internal cracks, etc. can be easily solved.

If this ability was placed on the earth in the previous life, it would be a strategic ability. With this ability, what kind of mechanical wonders can't be created?

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Time is likeDays passed one after another.

It was not until the New Year of this world was approaching that the arsenal finished its work.

During the period when the New Year was approaching, the world was not peaceful.

After several months of preparation, the Elliot Federation finally started a naval battle with the Kingdom of Fafnir.

And other countries were not much better.

Nicodan, the land neighbor of the Elliot Federation, has recently been affected by the "Resurrection Curse". They have a lot of resurrected dead people to deal with.

And other countries have more or less some problems. With the approach of the "Abyss Wave", each country has more or less demons causing trouble.

Some demons were prevented from reincarnating, like Gran City, which did not suffer much loss.

And those successful demons are a lot of fun for those countries.

Three cities in the entire Old Continent have been completely destroyed by demons that have successfully reincarnated, and ordinary people in the cities have suffered heavy casualties.

As for other cities where demons have descended, they have also been more or less affected by the battle between demons and human strongmen.

All in all, this "New Year" is not easy for everyone.

Although the overall environment is not good, it has not affected Manolin.

Moreover, the war between the Elliot Federation and the Kingdom of Fafnir has led to a surge in orders for the arsenal, and even made Manolin's wallet, which was shriveled by the construction of the floating fortress, richer.

Since the workers were on holiday during the New Year and the apprentices went home for the holidays, the floating fortress was naturally stopped.

After a year of hard work, Manolin is also ready to take a break and relax his tense nerves.

Except for a few hours of work at the clinic every day, he can spend the rest of his time freely.

With free time, Manolin has completely transformed into a real fisherman, taking fishing gear and fishing on other people's boats every day.

For Manolin, fishing is really addictive. Every time he catches a big fish, the feeling of "fighting" with the big fish and the amazed eyes of others make Manolin very happy.

The only thing that made Manolin a little regretful was that Ryan, his fishing friend, had gone to the front line because of the war and could not accompany Manolin to fish.

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