Chapter 38: Mineral Resources’ Emergency
As the battle was about to begin in Puba Village, over a hundred blacksmiths in the village all stopped what they were doing.
All of them went to the Science and Technology Academy to help Alger forge equipment for the soldiers who were about to participate in the battle.
The scene was very spectacular to behold. All the blacksmiths in the Science and Technology Academy were busy day and night.
In order to make sure they wouldn’t overwork themselves, Joshua implemented a three-shift system so that all of them could take breaks.
The increase in efficiency took less than three days for them to complete their task. These people had already helped to create more than 60% of the soldiers’ custom-made weapons and equipment.
At this time, a problem appeared!
The materials in the warehouse were in a dire state. It was estimated that in less than three days, these materials would be exhausted.
Seeing the empty warehouse, Alger immediately went to the city hall to ask for help.
In the office.
“Village Chief Joshua, it’s an emergency!”
Seeing Alger so anxious, Joshua immediately stood up.
“The Science and Technology Academy is under attack?”
He hurriedly waved his hand and said, “There are no more materials left from the warehouse. Therefore, we have to continue forging materials for the equipment.”
As he said that, he took out the form in his hand and placed it on the table.
Usually, the materials in the warehouse were exchanged with gold coins. Now that their development was stable, there was no excessive mining in the jungle.
“How much longer will it take?”
“There’s still three more days before we won’t have any more crafting resources left!”
“You can go back first. I’ll think of a solution right now.”
After Alger left, Joshua immediately called for Georgi.
“Village chief, what are your orders?”
“Georgi, stop all the construction sites in your hands for a while.”
“Tell these people to quickly go to the mine to mine. Right now, there are not enough materials to make more war equipment!”
“There’s about three days left.”
“Yes, my Lord! I’ll do it right away.”
After receiving the order, Georgi immediately took action. He assigned strong races like minotaur to mine the mines.
Although it eased the current situation, it still needed to be refined. In less than five days, the materials were still insufficient.
By then, only 80% of the soldiers would have any equipment, which was very disadvantageous to the war. Moreover, it would only be armor and nothing else.
The war would wear these out at any moment and they would need to be constantly replenished in the future.
Left with no choice, Joshua could only pace back and forth, not knowing what to do…
Just as Mondette arrived at a tavern in the Floating Plane, she heard the people there discussing the undeveloped land of the eastern continent.
Because the flow of information was very fast, the people here had already started to place their bets.
“Come, come, come! The bets are on. This is a big bet.”
“The holy war is about to break out between the east continent’s undistributed towns and Puba Village. Everyone, place your bets!”
“The odds for Tobomori are 1 to 1.5, while Puba Village’s odds are 1 to 5. There’s no limit. Everyone, come quickly!”
Hearing the shouts, Mondette immediately shouted, “Damn it! It’s all happening so quickly!”
He turned around and walked out of the bar. Before he reached the door, Mondette immediately turned around and returned to the gambling table in the bar.
After registering her identity, she bet 1,000 top-grade magic stones on Puba Village.
“When you lose, don’t run away. Those who offend me, Mondette, will never have a good ending in their lives!”
Hearing this, the person who opened the table immediately sweated and promised, “This is the opening of the largest chamber of commerce in the Floating Plane. You won’t have to worry about that! Even if we dared to swindle people, no one will dare to lie to you, Mondette, the pioneer of Death!”
“It’s good that you know!”
After saying that, she turned around and left the tavern in a hurry, heading straight to her own skyship.
He shouted to the crew members who were maintaining the ship, “How much more time do you have to maintain it?”
“Lord Captain! There are still three days left!”
“Three days is too long. We’ll set off tomorrow morning. If things go wrong, you’ll fall to your death with me!”
After saying that, Mondette immediately reincarnated and left the dock.
“Damn it, we should have gotten the ship maintenance done earlier. Joshua, you have to live well. I’m coming to reinforce you now. I’ve bet a huge amount of magic stones on you!”
After leaving the dock, Mondette immediately went to her commerce chamber.
She immediately took out all kinds of materials from the warehouse and found a lot of unused magic weapons from the warehouse.
After some emergency maintenance for these weapons, Mondette arranged for the crew to deliver all these things to the ship.
On the other side, Joshua was recruiting workers in his territory to speed up the mining as much as possible.
Because there were still old and young people in the village, it was impossible for all of them to take action.
Seeing that the entire village had been struggling so hard but still could not increase the output by much, Joshua could not help but feel depressed as he just sat down in his chair.
Seeing that Joshua’s expression was not very good, Mortimer immediately suggested, “If it really can’t be done, then send out all the old people in the village and the men who are about to reach adulthood!”
Hearing this, Joshua was not happy and immediately interrupted Mortimer’s speech, “This can’t be done. It would be going against our village’s principles. You can go first, I’ll figure something out. If it really can’t be done, I still have one last trump card to use!”
“Although I’m very unwilling, in a situation of extreme danger, I will seriously consider using my last trump card!”
Hearing Joshua’s words, Mortimer nodded and left the office.
He knew very well what Joshua was talking about. He was talking about Alexia, the dragon that Joshua regarded as his daughter.
As long as she made her move, the war would be won without a fight.
At the same time, Mortimer could deeply understand what Joshua was thinking. He did not like to let his child be tainted with blood.
In this world, once something started, it would be endless. That was why Joshua insisted on trying not to cross these boundaries.
As the days passed, the warehouse was completely empty. The blacksmiths all stopped working.
Alger quickly arrived at the city hall.
“Village Chief Joshua! The warehouse is empty now. All the workers have stopped production! We are only at 85% of the weapon forging progress. We are still far from the target!”
At this time, Joshua had no other way. He had used everything he could.
There was no other way!
While they were struggling, a cloud of black smoke streaked across the sky and landed at the edge of Puba Village.
Georgi saw that someone waving a white flag and immediately went to the city hall to report.
“Sir! Mondette’s skyship is here!”
This could be the best news that Joshua had heard during this period of time. He immediately stood up and rushed to the place where the skyship had fallen with his people.