Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

Close to noon, Levi found the Sky Knight in the merchant caravan's camp, grooming his warhorse in preparation for departure.

"Sir Sky Knight, please deliver this letter to Miss Lyria, and extend my regards to the Duke."

Sky received the letter, sealed with sealing wax, and carefully placed it inside his chest armor.

"Rest assured, my lord, I will deliver it."

Levi nodded.

He preferred entrusting the letter to Sky, who had just arrived, rather than Mireille, because the middle-aged knight possessed a strong sense of chivalry.

Levi's judgment of character was usually accurate; such individuals often valued their code and honor above their lives and would not stoop to reading private letters.

Although, he wasn't particularly worried about the letter being read anyway.

Lord Levi had always lived an upright and honorable life, with nothing to hide!

Finally, with his hands behind his back, the lord watched the merchant caravan depart, and the cool breeze made him feel strangely empty. He shook his head to dispel the fleeting sentiment.

However, the departure of Muto and the merchant caravan did diminish the lively atmosphere of Highcliff Castle somewhat.

But within a few days, more activity and life would arise at Highcliff Castle.

Slaves, acting as laborers under the direction of the Fede artisans, erected a series of earthen blast furnaces not far from the Roaring River.

The two Wendergo beasts, under the encouragement of the lord's whip (as thick as three fingers), became amiable and began hauling mined iron ore from the Fede tribe to Highcliff Castle.

These beasts stood two and a half 'ren' tall at the shoulder, weighed over a thousand pounds, and possessed incredible stamina, making them perfect for hauling goods.

One Wendergo beast could pull a full cart of iron ore, consuming only ten bundles of rye grass per hundred kilometers.

And this tender green grass was abundant in the wilderness.

The most experienced blacksmith in the Fede tribe was named Anze. The moment the lord saw him, he knew he would get along with a dwarven blacksmith.

He was a small, white-haired old man with a full beard. Perhaps due to years of forging, he was quite robust and sturdy.

If the lord hadn't asked, 'Are you a dwarf?' which almost made the little old man pull out his family tree, no one would have believed he didn't have dwarven blood.

However, the name also reminded the lord of the gnome named Migen. Speaking of which, he still owed him six hundred gold coins.

Since the Fede and Evil Tooth tribes joined, they had voluntarily offered their wealth, replenishing the lord's treasury to a considerable extent, totaling over two thousand gold coins.

But Levi didn't plan to repay it immediately. The contract stipulated within a year, meaning next year around July or August.

The significance of six hundred gold coins now and six hundred gold coins next year was entirely different for the lord.

Anze poured the burnt charcoal into the blast furnace, then added the iron ore in proportion, and finally picked out the slag from the separation residue, repeating the process.

Until only regular iron blocks of varying sizes remained, he then melted these iron blocks into molten iron, forming trapezoidal iron ingots about the size of a palm.

Once cooled and neatly arranged, these iron ingots could be used directly to forge weapons or armor.

Later, if he wanted to improve the quality of the iron blocks, he would need to continue reducing the carbon content, neutralizing it to a high, low, and medium degree, to create steel.

And weapons made of fine steel were highly sought after wherever they were in the Middle Ages continent.

Zart curiously squatted on the ground like a bear, watching the cooling iron ingots, scratching his bald head, unable to understand why the stone-like iron ore could become iron ingots after being burned.

To be honest, he had come specifically with the idea of learning the craft, because the orcs lacked blacksmiths. He believed that with the orcs' intelligence and eagerness to learn, they would definitely not be worse than those potato-like dwarves at forging weapons.

"Stop watching, you're only suitable for swinging a hammer and forging iron."

Levi couldn't stand his clear and foolish gaze.

However, Levi thought of something. The technology in this world was backward, and blacksmithing relied on manpower.

Therefore, a burly strong man was naturally suited for blacksmithing.

Although these Fede people were proficient in blacksmithing and were considered burly among humans, they were still not comparable to orcs, trolls, and other foreign races.

Now that Highcliff Castle's blacksmithing industry was booming, all it needed were 007 employees.

The lord was considering whether to capture a few trolls or ogres specifically to swing sledgehammers.

After all, it would be a waste if these roughnecks didn't become blacksmiths.

But these things had to be done in a few days. Now, Levi had something more important to verify.

Several experienced Fede blacksmiths led their apprentices to line up the anvils and began to transform the iron ingots into weapons.

Zart also joined in, holding a blacksmith's hammer. The hammer, which seemed large in the hands of the Fede people, looked like a mineral water bottle in O'Neal's hands.

Levi bought a fifth-tier troop type, the Orc Great Axe Guard's exclusive double-edged axe from the system, and instructed the blacksmiths to try to forge similar weapons as much as possible.

He was doing a simple experiment.

The soldiers in the system all had standard equipment, such as the fourth-tier troop type's warhammer, the fifth-tier troop type's Great Axe Guard's double-edged battle axe, horned iron helmet, and iron armor.

These equipment could always be purchased in the system store.

However, the previous military expenditure was so tight that the lord wished he could split one coin into two, so he had never fully equipped the orcs with the system's standard equipment.

The Orc Guard had been using weapons bought from the "Migen Weapon Shop" in Whiteflow City, and even the lamellar armor they wore was bought by the lord in loose pieces.

So far, the effect of doing so didn't seem bad. Every time the orc barbarians advanced, their strength would increase significantly.

But Levi wanted to know if there was any significance to the different standard equipment that the system specifically provided for soldiers at each stage.

Or rather, if there was any difference between letting the barbarians use the equipment provided by the system and the equipment he forged in reality, and whether the standard equipment provided by the system would increase their strength more.

The Fede blacksmiths were all experienced blacksmiths. As soon as they got their hands on the double-edged battle axe that Levi bought from the system, they praised it repeatedly, saying that the weapon was definitely made by a master.

Whether it was the weight, shape, or the exquisite纹路, it was just right.

"Lord, we can't guarantee that we can forge a weapon comparable to it, we can only try to make it not too different from it."

In the end, the Fede blacksmith said with great regret.

"It's okay, just do your best. The most important thing is that the weight and shape should not be too different. There's no need to pursue those patterns at all," Levi comforted.

He never thought of letting the blacksmiths forge a weapon that was exactly the same as the one produced by the system.

Although the system's weapons were expensive, the quality was indeed unquestionable, and you definitely got what you paid for.

Brothers, I'm adjusting the update time to group the chapter times together. There will definitely be three updates tomorrow night, and the time will basically not change in the future. There will be three updates at eight o'clock in the evening!