Chapter 26:
After half a month of development, Master Li Wei in the Black Mountain Territory
broke through to the third-level intermediate level as expected. Now compared to a month ago, Li Wei can cast one more third-level witchcraft.
After all, it only took Li Wei two months to advance from a third-level junior wizard to a third-level intermediate wizard. He was already considered the top genius in the Fontaine Kingdom. Although a lot of precious resources were used in the process, which noble would not spend money on cultivation?
However, because his predecessor was relatively ordinary, he barely entered the third level at the age of eighteen. Overall, the eighteen-year-old third-level intermediate wizard can only be called excellent. However, considering that the caster itself is very rare, Levi's actual worth will be slightly higher.
Ten days ago, Levi once again received an urgent coded letter from Earl Norton. He received jaw-dropping news from Lord Norton.
The counterweight trebuchet that Li Wei had plagiarized actually showed its power in the Snow Dragon Fortress, killing a lot of masters including an Elephant Human Sanctuary, and successfully shaken the enemy's formation.
What was even more fierce was the Marquis of Ashan. This famous Marquis in both countries actually did not shy away from the attack and personally led his army to attack the enemy's formation, knocking down an orc army that was twenty times the size of his own.
When he first heard that the orcs were approaching the Snow Dragon Fortress, Mr. Li Wei shamelessly commented on them as "silver-like pewter spearheads." Unexpectedly, the old marquis hit countless people in the face with his strength.
In addition, when receiving this news, Levi received another wave of benefits from the system. The system prompts that he has achieved an achievement called "Butterfly Wings".
The general meaning is that the counterweighted trebuchet he took out killed many masters of the Orc Empire, which indirectly affected the outcome of this epic battle, and he was rewarded with an intermediate treasure order.
Now the northern border is temporarily stable. According to Earl Norton, there should be news about large-scale phased rewards in a few days. By then, the gray rock territory promised to him by Master Levi will definitely not be able to escape.
Speaking of this transaction, Levi had some regrets, but he definitely did not regret it. After all, he was just a small country baron, lacking connections and connections. Even if he wanted to contribute a counterweight trebuchet to the Marquis of Ashan, there was no way.
The power of the counterweighted trebuchet in the Snow Dragon Fortress this time has nothing to do with Levi. The Norton family made a lot of money from this transaction.
The generous Earl Norton expressed his willingness to further deepen his relationship with the Monterey family and gave Levi 30 blacksmiths and 600 mining slaves as a friendly gift.
In this aristocratic society, connections and connections are a very precious and practical resource. Levi was very happy to be deeply tied to a big noble like Earl Norton. If there was no one above him, he would sometimes die without even knowing it.
In the past half month, in addition to Li Wei's breakthrough to the third-level intermediate level, there was also two good news. One is the cavalry captain Harland, who has been at the intermediate level of the fourth level for a long time. Perhaps stimulated by the last war, he broke through to the advanced level of the fourth level in one fell swoop. The strength of Li Wei's men has increased slightly.
The other is about the iron-making workshop in the Gray Stone Territory. The monkey version of the "blast furnace" has been successfully tested. Now the steel output of Liangyanling has surged, with a daily output of 600 kilograms of steel, and product quality has also reached a higher level.
Based on a gross profit margin of 30%, this steel workshop can contribute approximately 20,000 gold coins in revenue to Mr. Li Wei every year.
And it can be predicted that after the blast furnace is further improved and upgraded, a series of hydraulic equipment are constructed, and technologies such as the steel frying method are explored, the steel industry in the limestone region will truly become bigger and stronger. The small gray stone building became Mr. Levi's pocketbook.
Now Levi will put some of his energy into the production line of extraordinary weapons. The more than one hundred wizard apprentices who signed long-term contracts with Master Levi have now barely mastered the relevant basic knowledge and are about to join Master Levi, the unscrupulous capitalist's "sweatshop".
Calling it a "sweatshop" is actually not that exaggerated. These wizard apprentices were paid by Master Li Wei to help them get started, and their income was much higher than that of ordinary farmers. Moreover, the generous and kind-hearted Mr. Li Wei also announced in public that if there are hard-working and talented people among them, Mr. Li Wei will invest additional resources to train them.
When did Li Wei learn to draw pie? Probably because he was a worker in his previous life, his bosses and superiors often drew pie cakes for him. Over time, these pie-painting skills and techniques were all memorized by Levi.
Now Mr. Li Wei has countless "employees" under his command, and he finally realizes the pleasure of painting cakes for others.
After half a month of screening and adjustments, the first extraordinary equipment production line in the Hisoka plane has finally taken shape.
Heishan leads more than a hundred wizard apprentices, scattered into more than a dozen processes, and each process is a working group.
Allocating the number of people to each group is the most troublesome at the beginning. In order to ensure that each wizard apprentice is only allowed to master one process, each group can only slowly add more people when allocating the number of people to try to balance the production efficiency of each group.
The workshops of each process are isolated from each other, and each small unit is provided with food and accommodation independently. It is strictly forbidden to exchange technology with each other. Mr. Levi has tried his best to keep confidentiality secret.
Levi is very satisfied with this rough and immature production line of extraordinary equipment. When operating at full capacity, it can produce 10 basic-level extraordinary long swords, 8 basic-level extraordinary lances, or 5 sets of basic-level extraordinary armors every day.
Although the battle situation on the front line has stabilized now, the entire northern border is still at war, and risks exist objectively. Therefore, as soon as this extraordinary equipment production line was established, Levi ordered it to be operated at full capacity and to cash in the materials and gold coins in the warehouse as soon as possible.
During this time, Levi also asked the captain of the guard, Beram, and the captain of the cavalry, Harland, to organize a wave of recruitment. The main recruitment targets are those who have transformed into the third level, and then some second-level high-level auxiliary soldiers will be added.
The three baronies of Tangquan, Silver Pine, and Gray Rock were destroyed, but some third-level mortals still escaped. Li Wei has realized the role of elite combat power. In many cases, no matter how large the number of cannon fodder is, the role it can play is limited.
Li Wei planned to build the third-level regular soldiers under his command into something similar to the kingdom's standing elite corps. Since there are not many elites, in addition to the most basic level, the equipment must also keep up.
Many barons and even viscounts were unable to equip their third-level regular soldiers with extraordinary equipment. Since Li Wei had developed a production line for extraordinary equipment, he naturally wanted to equip his soldiers to the teeth.
Not only must all third-level regular soldiers be equipped with extraordinary equipment, but each person must also have two pieces, one for offense and one for defense! Li Wei believed that as long as an elite force like fifty cavalry made a sudden attack, an ordinary army of less than a thousand people would not be able to stop them.
Mr. Levi even once thought of equipping his mount with extraordinary armor, but he gave up after consulting the cavalry captain Harland and the guard captain Beram for their opinions.
There are two main reasons. One is that ordinary war horses using extraordinary armor are too wasteful and have no effect at all. Another reason is that it is too ostentatious. If a country baron puts extraordinary armor on a horse, even a fool can see that there is something wrong.
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