Chapter 464

Ai Wei looked down at the bustling dwarves and said:

"Almost there, Holy Maiden. By the way, I need a dedicated area to produce flying ships—preferably somewhere remote, since it needs to be huge, at least ten thousand mu!"

The fox maiden Qing Ling nodded and said: "Leave it to me—I'll coordinate it."

The flying ship production line must be placed within the City of Miracles.

Qing Ling quickly marked out the land.

It was a corner on the northern edge of the City of Miracles.

The wall there was in fact movable, designed specifically to allow for expansion if the City of Miracles ever ran out of space.

So now, it had been extended outward by several ten thousand mu.

Qing Ling allocated three ten thousand mu of land to Ai Wei, and after the beastfolk leveled it at top speed, construction of the factories began under Ai Wei's guidance.

Meng Ying also arrived here and began setting up the large wards.

There were already many wards within the City of Miracles.

Meng Ying had not yet placed wards on the city walls—who could possibly reach near them?

The first place Meng Ying warding was the temple.

Several temples were now protected around the clock by massive wards.

Outside the temples, there were multiple layers of wards.

The outermost layer was purely defensive.

Inside were alert wards—for instance, a spirit like the Holy Spirit would be blocked upon entering the temple.

Once the wards were set, they were invisible to the naked eye; only Gao Jie magicians could sense them vaguely.

After the temple wards were completed, the second priority for protection became the dwarves' workshops.

These hundreds of thousands of dwarves also needed protection.

Dwarves were treasures wherever they were placed.

In the human kingdoms of Xiling, Houdun, and Hunhe, there had never been many dwarf artisans.

Dwarves from different regions differed greatly in temperament.

But they shared one trait: they were stubborn, and most dwarves didn't care for wealth.

Of course, some dwarves who had long lived in human lands were greedy, but they were few.

Now, the flying ship factory was also a priority for protection.

These key areas must be guarded against sudden attacks.

Yan's situation was unique: aside from Yan City, which was open for trade, no humans were permitted east of Yan City.

Mixing humans and beastfolk in the short term was unrealistic and would breed countless problems.

In fact, the beastfolk themselves did not wish to live alongside humans.

Scenes of all races living in harmony existed only in fairy tales where even villains couldn't die—forcing integration was simply impossible.

So even after the small empire was founded, Yan would not open its borders, but its economy would remain unblocked.

Additionally, the most devout believers could visit the City of Miracles.

The City of Miracles was continuously being improved and had grown even more beautiful.

Throughout the City of Miracles, abundant magical technology was applied, even including a public transit system.

The entire transit system did not use polluting gasoline vehicles, but magical cars.

The magical cars were simple in design: powered by magic stones filled with electricity and electric motors, with fixed tracks constructed by magic, making transportation across the City of Miracles exceptionally convenient.

Such magical cars were truly zero-pollution and highly efficient.

With magical power, even traffic accidents never occurred.

In fact, across the City of Miracles wasteland, numerous fixed-track magical cars were used to haul potatoes.

In Qing Ling's planning, Yan was the core region of the entire Lord of Flame's realm, where the most hardcore products would be born.

The beastfolk were relatively simple-minded and held the highest faith in the Lord of Flame, unlike the complex human hearts—this was why Yan must remain relatively closed…

After the flying ship factory was built, the production line was nearly complete.

Immediately afterward, over ten thousand dwarves began transporting the production line components into the flying ship factory.

Assembly took considerable time, since these dwarves had little experience.

During assembly, Meng Ying lent a hand, re-enchanted each component.

Two days later, all components were assembled; Ai Wei had already prepared the materials and placed them inside.

This production line was naturally not fully automated.

It was semi-automated—dwarves still needed to control timing and heat, but its efficiency was already incomparably faster than handcrafting.

Faster, labor-saving, and capable of mass production.

Watching a flying ship component produced at top speed, Qing Ling, Meng Ying, and Ai Wei all smiled.

"At this rate, one production line can average four flying ships per month. To increase output, we need new lines—now that they're familiar with the process, I won't need to supervise the new ones."

Queen of the Dwarves Ai Wei said.

Four flying ships per month!

That was an incredibly terrifying speed!

You should know that an alchemy workshop needs at least three months to produce a single ship, even with a large workforce!

And this single production line not only saved labor but increased speed by a full twelvefold!

Qing Ling nodded and said: "The factory here is large enough to hold ten production lines."

Ai Wei said: "But our flying ship production still requires vast quantities of ores—iron, tin-copper, mystic iron, and some rare earths. If possible, we should buy them from the Eternal Night Empire; our reserves are abundant, but we should keep them as stockpiles."

Qing Ling said: "Good!"

Once the production line was established, Yanguo could mass-produce flying ships; although one production line could only build four per month, never forget that more production lines could be added!

Queen Aivi of the Dwarves planned to build five small flying ship production lines, two medium flying ship production lines, one large flying ship production line, and two additional lines dedicated to special flying ships—such as those with exceptional cargo capacity or capacity to carry many passengers.

The larger the flying ship, the longer it took to produce; the first flying ship production line built vessels approximately thirty meters long and ten meters wide.

Actually, that's not small at all!

Immediately afterward, the fox girl Sister Qing Ling built a docking harbor for flying ships beside the highland inhabited by the Winged People; this harbor was likewise protected by barriers and garrisoned by a thousand warrior soldiers.