Arcane Lord

"Lord Chateau, as you know, all the orders for the Demon-Slaying Talisman were obtained by me from Prince Pasteur of Denzo. Not long ago, Prince Pasteur knew about the materials I used to deliver the orders. The demon-slaying amulets are all from the Tower of Time, from Lord Shado, so he made a request to me——"

Having said this, Charles Harlan paused deliberately and glanced at Sha Duo tentatively. Sha Duo did not have any overreaction to this, but just lightly urged:

"What request? What does it have to do with me?"

Charles Harlan was excited and continued: "Prince Pasteur hopes to obtain the key to the rapid production of the Demon-Slaying Talisman from Lord Chateau through me!"

"The key to quickly producing the Demon-Slaying Talisman? Is the underground situation so bad?"

Shado was stunned. He had just heard from Iolum not long ago that the situation underground had stabilized after the opening of the second battlefield in Amarinda, and the two sides were engaged in a tug-of-war and war of attrition.

If Iolum would not lie to him on this issue, then it could only be an exaggeration on the part of Lord Harlan.

However, strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as an exaggeration. Lord Harlan represents the interests of Prince Pasteur to a certain extent, and Prince Pasteur undoubtedly hopes to end the war sooner than humans.

Prince Pasteur would probably be very interested in anything that could have a positive effect on the balance of war and try hard to obtain it.

"The underground situation is not very good. The drow's offensive is very fierce. The underground warriors' demand for demon-slaying amulets is increasing day by day. If a large number of demon-slaying amulets can be obtained quickly, it may play a decisive role in the battle situation!"

Charles Harlan said this, but Shado shook his head secretly. If the war was decided by only one kind of weapon and equipment, maybe the Mithron Core would be it, but it would definitely not be the Demon-Slaying Talisman.

Inspired by the hatred of the subjugation of the country and the annihilation of the nation, even without the Demon-Slaying Talisman, the dwarves may still develop a strong will\\bresistance that is not inferior to the Demon-Slaying Talisman itself.

This kind of thing can only serve as the icing on the cake, or even provide help in times of need, but it will definitely not be the only decisive factor.

Maybe the dwarves still hid the artifact at the bottom of the box, but they didn't use it because the cost was too high. No one can say for sure until the last moment.

Of course, the real reason why Shado was opposed to what Lord Harlan said was not because of this, but because——

Once the dwarves are told about mass production or even standardized mass production, under the pressure of war, the dwarves, who are not far behind Netheril, may quickly realize the industrialization of magic.

It's not that the dwarves don't have mages, it's just that their magic system is different from that of Netheril and the elves. In other words, the Holy Hammer warriors are actually their mages.

And once the dwarves quickly realize the industrialization of magic, they may be able to show an overwhelming advantage in the war against the drow. Will the elven countries remain indifferent in this process?

Even if there is no comprehensive transformation, at least a few pilot cities will be established.

But in this way, it is almost a disaster for Netheril who wants to develop. In many cases, it does not mean that standing on the same starting line will definitely win.

Not to mention, Netheril is still far from being on the same starting line as the elven kingdoms.

At present, Netheril is able to maintain the power of a great nation in the North, largely because of these dozen or so people on the surface, as well as the unknown number of great arcanists hidden in the Seven Towers, who support the great nation with their individual strength. national power.

Once magic is industrialized, in the foreseeable future, individual strength will be quickly flattened by weapons and equipment. At that time, the national strength of a great country will no longer be determined by how many great arcanists or high mages a country has, but by individual strong men. It’s about how many over-the-limit weapons you have.

Shado does not think that Netheril is now ready to fully enter the industrial age and even compete with other industrial countries. Once the industrial revolution is started at an inappropriate time, the outcome may be worse than what Shado knows. It's much worse.

Whether standardized mass production is the key to the industrial revolution, it is difficult for Chateau to say with certainty, but he certainly will not bet on the low probability that it is not the case.

In fact, he himself believes that standardized mass production has a greater role in promoting the industrialization process than improving productivity itself.

Productivity is indeed the foundation, but it is a qualitative change and is not easy to happen. Standardized mass production is a relatively easy process to achieve and belongs to the category of liberating productivity.

And with a unified industrial standard, qualitative changes in productivity will be easier to occur.

For example, now, it is probably not easy to let the dwarves use their ultimate move to kill all the drow instantly, but it is certainly not difficult to let them change their production methods, liberate productivity, and produce a large amount of war materials.

After being able to improve combat effectiveness in a short period of time, there is no need to think about whether they will continue to integrate production, or even research and innovation, it will definitely happen.

Therefore, even if there is only a slight possibility, Shado will not transmit the concept of standardized mass production to the dwarves, at least not yet.

However, it would not be appropriate to reject Lord Harlan so directly. After all, the other party now represents Prince Pasteur, and to a certain extent, the Kingdom of Danzo.

As an individual, it is obviously not a wise move for Xia Duo to directly confront a country.

"Lord Harlan, the Tower of Time does produce the Demon-Slaying Amulet faster than other Mage Tower organizations, but that is entirely because the Tower of Time has equipped full-time production personnel for the production of the Demon-Slaying Amulet, and all production personnel Dedicate all your personal time to those orders. If other mage towers can do this, it will not be difficult to achieve the same or even surpass the efficiency of the Tower of Time. "

To a certain extent, Xia Duo was not lying. He indeed equipped full-time magic technicians for the Demon-Slaying Amulet production line.

When it comes to private time, it depends on how you define it.

The magic mechanics of the Tower of Time can also be considered as full-time students and part-time mechanics, just doing odd jobs in their spare time to earn some living expenses, that's all.

As for the production efficiency of other mage tower organizations, if there is a mage tower that can recruit a large number of full-time alchemists, maybe it can be achieved.

But the cost is much more expensive than the Tower of Time.

The production efficiency of the Tower of Time is far from that. At this stage, Xia Duo only uses the relatively backward manual production line in order to allow more people to have a stable job and prevent them from causing trouble.

If we switch to a fully automatic assembly line, the efficiency will take off even more.

But there is no need to talk to outsiders like Lord Harlan.

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