For Thousands of Years, My Weakest Brother Has Become a Demon King

   Chapter 111 Efficiency Issues

  Sigmons doesn't know exactly how things got to this point either.

   He was originally just an ordinary team leader in Yinliu Mine, and his biggest plan for his life was just the word "resignation".

   But one day, after he was dragged out of his throat by a self-proclaimed presiding judge, a spider with a human face, his fate, which could have been seen at a glance, suddenly became elusive.

   At first, the presiding judge just sent him to a field in the mountains and asked to excavate an ancient ruin, and promised him that as long as he could do this well, he could become a candidate member of the "Stonemason Order". Although Sigmons didn't know what kind of organization the Mason Order was, it didn't prevent him from agreeing to this commission because he thanked the other party for his life-saving grace.

Everything was normal at the beginning, dozens of miners, simple equipment, limited supplies, and generous rewards, except for the overly mighty Netherworld knights who were in charge of their security work, these things were still in Sig. within Mons' understanding.

   But then things started to make him feel outrageous.

   First, the presiding judge directly transformed the rock and soil blocking the valley pass into a human-shaped earth servant, and then used them to open a road leading to this long-forgotten valley.

  Although it is a very rough and rough road, it still connects here with several surrounding towns and establishes a stable logistic supply line.

   Then, this inaccessible place began to become lively day by day.

Hired professional excavation teams, various skilled craftsmen from the Craftsman Guild, a large number of logistics staff, clergy of the Holy Spirit Church, a small number of magic casters, and many enchanters and alchemists... Not only luxurious technicians The team came here, and there were even a few circuses in the nearest town to relieve their boredom.

  This place seems to have transformed from a wilderness to a prosperous town overnight.

   At the same time, one news after another was brought from afar, constantly confirming the Lord Judge's previous promise like a fantasy.

  The former Duke of Thorns died, the entire Elemental Silver industry began a major reshuffle, and the Blackwater Province announced that it had separated from the empire's rule...

Now the ruler of the entire Blackwater Province is the former Chief Court Mage Vincent. The first thing he did after taking office was to spend a lot of money to hire experts in various fields to come to this inaccessible Mourning Mountain to repair the fortress .

   And what happened next made Sigmons even more dreamy.

  Refined Origin Silver, which was bought by the gram in the market, was dragged here one by one, and piled into the warehouse like sweet potatoes. Soon after, the processing equipment of the Origin Silver Refinery in Thorns City was dismantled and shipped here for assembly. In addition, the large-scale enchanting table that was regarded as a treasure by the Austrian University was also removed and sent here for placement.

   Many of these devices are antiques produced before the establishment of the Riel Empire, and their manufacturing processes have long been lost. Some things are even damaged and do not know how to repair them. But in order to save a little time to repair the fortress, they were all dismantled and sent here.

   After the preliminary work on the excavation of the ruins was over, Vincent sent almost all the enchanters with a certain rating or above in the entire city of thorns, and asked them to be responsible for the second stage of the fortress maintenance work.

   Of course none of the above was the most incomprehensible to Sigmons.

   The most incomprehensible thing for him is that until now he is still directly in charge of the maintenance of the entire fortress.

   In other words, the thousands of people in the Mourning Mountains, whether they are miners or craftsmen, whether they are enchanters or magic casters, are actually obeying his command now.

   "Lord Judge, I think I may not be able to handle such an important job, you should ask another..."

   Once, when the mysterious presiding judge came back to check the progress of the work, Sigmons dared to suggest to him.

   "Why? Isn't your current job doing a good job? I don't see any flaws. Rather, you have managed this place quite well."

   The chief judge, who was checking the condition of the already laid lines in the fortress, replied.

   "But I was just a team leader before, and I didn't understand those technical things. I haven't made any mistakes so far, but I'm just lucky..."

   "Then keep your luck going."

   The other party answered lightly.

   He went on to say:

"Some technical problems are handled by people, and all you have to do is learn how to make good use of those people. You are doing very well at this point. Don't worry, if you really can't do it. You don’t have to propose a job yourself, I will directly find someone else to take your place, but before that, I need you to take charge of this job well.”

   The presiding judge's speech made Sigmons very uneasy, and he always felt that there would be greater challenges waiting for him in the future.

   Sure enough, not long after that, the presiding judge ordered that the construction time for the laying of the Demon Sealing Rune line be advanced by 30%, and it must be completed before the rainy month this year. Compared with the adjusted plan, the current project progress is far behind.

   This made Sigmons sad and gray. Because with the current manpower and efficiency, this is basically an unachievable goal.

  Although the raw materials and working equipment here are very abundant, because the level of these enchanters is too uneven, the pass rate of the final product can be said to be extremely appalling.

   Just identifying and returning the unqualified Demon Sealing Runes, then casting and reforging them, at least slowed down the efficiency of the entire project by 40%.

   But even so, Sigmons did not dare to continue to exert pressure on the Enchanting Factory. Because after he issued the death order last time, several enchanters had a private discussion with the magic caster who was responsible for testing whether the finished product was qualified or not, and marked some magic seal runes that were barely usable although there were problems. Qualified finished products were sent to the engineering team.

   If it wasn't for Sigmons' foresight in advance, and there was a final inspection before the final line was laid without the other party's knowledge, maybe the batch of questionable magic seal runes would have been installed in the fortress.

At that time, after Sigmons learned about this situation, he was so angry that he directly took control of the three Netherworld knights in his hands to find the enchanting factory, and they joined forces to deceive his enchanter and the inspector to urinate. Almost scared out.

   But no matter how wrong the other party's actions were, Sigmons couldn't refute their excuses afterwards.

   They are only so capable, and now basically everyone is doing their best work. But what you can’t do is you can’t, whether it’s continuing to increase pay or threatening violence, you can’t get someone who’s done their best to continue to be productive.

  Forcibly increasing the pressure and raising the requirements will not bring any positive help except for them to take risks and join forces to deceive themselves.

   In the end, nothing changed except that the enchanter and the inspector's workplace were completely isolated, and the rules for blind inspection were formulated.

   Even this new rule has slowed down the entire work efficiency a little bit. After all, those runes are no longer ready for inspection as soon as they are completed.

In the end, Sigmons, who didn't even finish the preparatory course of the Austrian University, was forced to have no choice but to go to the enchanting factory himself, ready to learn the entire enchanting process from scratch to see if it would be like mining. Again, there are places in the process that can be optimized.

   On the first day he came to the enchanting factory, he found a huge problem - all the enchanting runes were made by the enchanters themselves, and then cast them by themselves.

   (end of this chapter)