Chapter 1427

Su Qin: "That high? You need them urgently?"

Zhao Chi: "Yes."

Su Qin: "Got it, I'll head out now. Should I still hand the supplies to Sister Gu Qing later?"

Zhao Chi: "Right, give them to her."

Su Qin: "Understood, you go ahead with your work, I'll set off right away."

Su Qin really is a great helper.

Then no more wasting time.

He called Zhuang Ya and Ding Dang, and began the second round of full-power production.

Right now, the extreme heavy-type Mystic Maiden battle armor was still short by 456 sets.

Judging by the actual production experience from last time, if each blacksmith was still given 10 Quick-Work Talismans, it wouldn't be finished within this period.

So more needed to be handed out.

Fifteen Quick-Work Talismans per person would do it.

But that was 1,650 Quick-Work Talismans — just the cost of the talismans alone was already close to a thousand gold coins.

Truly expensive.

But this counted as spending money to buy time; in fact, it was already very cheap.

Right now he only had 1,336 Quick-Work Talismans on hand, so he could only hand out 10 to each person first, and distribute the rest after Su Qin bought more.

"Ding Dang, hand these Quick-Work Talismans out. We'll officially start work in a bit."

"No problem." Ding Dang smiled.

Soon, all the blacksmiths were ready.

Zhao Chi slipped into Zhuang Ya's body and activated the Efficiency Guidebook.

Light emerged.

The entire factory was enveloped.

The clanging of hammers immediately rang out.

The whole workshop was filled with the sound of hammering iron.

The smell of gunpowder mixed with body fragrance drifted ceaselessly through the armory.

Su Qin came once in the afternoon and once in the evening.

She brought medicines worth 500 gold coins, as well as 1,700 Quick-Work Talismans.

These Quick-Work Talismans didn't all come from the Exchange — a large portion were bought directly from other lords, the most expensive being only 68 silver coins each.

These medicines were all low-grade and intermediate-grade medicines, the best value for money, totaling over 40,000 of them.

After receiving them, Gu Qing distributed them below and stored the extras.

Later Su Qin brought another 1,000 Quick-Work Talismans and some rare materials — essentially spending every last one of the several thousand gold coins Zhao Chi had given her.

And she had spent them very cost-effectively.

Zhao Chi knew she was trying every way she could to help him save money, so that night he put in even more effort with her.

The next day.

Zhao Chi was going all-out on the super-modification when he received a notification.

【Good News】:

【Yesterday, our forces, jointly with the Dawn Army, successfully repelled the Heavenly King Army's attack at "West Abyss County"】

【And in the early hours of this morning, successfully encircled and annihilated the Heavenly King Army's withdrawing offensive force — the results were extremely bountiful】

【After negotiations, the entire Dawn Army has joined our side with 1 county, 2 towns, and 10 villages. Our territory in Snowfield City has expanded once again】

【The current surrounding situation is complex. All village and town territory leaders are advised to stay alert to nearby security. All actions must follow the arrangements of superior lords; for now, do not act rashly on your own】

Zhao Chi paused for the moment.

This really was good news.

He hadn't expected the World-Breaking Army to stay quiet all this time, only to suddenly pull off something like this.

West Abyss County was the central county west of Snowfield City, sizable in scale.

After the anti-noble battle broke out, the Dawn Army had been occupying this place.

The Dawn Army wasn't the top tier of forces in terms of strength, but it couldn't be underestimated either. Moreover, it occupied a county-level territory with a county-level formation, giving it a clear geographical advantage.

Previously, the Heavenly King Army had attacked several times, all ending in failure.

He hadn't expected the Heavenly King Army to gather strength and make a comeback this time, only to be repelled by the World-Breaking Army and Dawn Army joining forces — and then completely devoured.

Recently, in order to completely wipe out the nobles, the alien races had pulled back quite a bit of strength to the central region.

Forces like the Heavenly King Army all took the opportunity to strike out, carving up the alien races' weak territories.

And the results were quite good.

This time the Heavenly King Army had presumably felt its strength had grown and wanted to take down the Dawn Army and West Abyss County in one go.

In the end, it all fell into the World-Breaking Army's lap.

No wonder the World-Breaking Army had been so quiet before, making no moves at all.

However…

If the World-Breaking Army had been quiet all this time just for West Abyss County, that didn't quite add up either.

There must be some underhanded moves that hadn't surfaced yet.

But this, Zhao Chi had no way of guessing.

Zhuang Ya: "Zhao Chi, why did you stop? Tired?"

Zhao Chi: "No, I got a notification. Let's keep going."

Zhuang Ya: 【Okay】

Zhao Chi was about to keep moving.

But a new notification came in.

【Hello everyone, this is Li Ruanyu】

【All squad leaders and group leaders, please come to my office at 2 p. m. this afternoon for a meeting to receive next month's combat assignments】

【Attention all lords: do not take on any new combat-type missions in the next few days. Conserve your strength and prepare for upcoming operations】

【Also, I have a batch of low-cost Experience Fruits here that I can distribute to the various teams. Quantities are limited, so any lords who need them may submit a request to their superior lord】

Looks like a military operation is coming.

Although Zhao Chi didn't know why the World-Breaking Army hadn't acted recently, he knew they must have accumulated quite a bit of strength.

Sometimes, building up quietly before a sudden burst works better than bursting nonstop.

The Experience Fruits Li Ruanyu mentioned were definitely the ones Zhao Chi had sold her.

Logically speaking, she could have absorbed all 200,000 of them herself. He hadn't expected her to be willing to share them with the lords beneath her.

But if her subordinate lords could grow stronger, that was in a way her own strength growing too.

Not bad.