Chapter 2454: The Chaste Woman's Grief (5)

Priority: make the craftsmen's fashion sets first.

This counts as boosting production capacity.

Of course, the sooner the better.

With Speed-Work Talismans to accelerate time, plus the ultra-effective experience pajamas, their specialization should level up very quickly.

Equip them with two pieces of class fashion each, and the operation can start running afterward.

The entire production line can be considered set up.

After that, it won't just serve Zhao Chi himself — it can also be sold to other allied lords.

This must be done first.

Apart from that.

There is other work.

【Two: Crafting Equipment】

The full sets of equipment for those 4,000-plus female soldiers all need to be remade.

They were previously equipped with Jade Hammers, Mystic Maiden Shields, and Mystic Maiden Armor sets.

All of it needs to be remade.

Besides these.

The equipment of the other female soldiers has also suffered considerable wear.

They fought six consecutive battles following Su Qin, and some have already degraded to Good quality.

That doesn't matter much.

After all, Good quality is still quite strong.

The main issue is that, aside from weapons, the vast majority of the Mystic Maiden sets are still iron — very few are steel.

Because there really wasn't time to make them before.

They'll all need to be upgraded going forward.

These are also very time-consuming tasks.

If only the equipment of those 4,000 female soldiers is replenished, it would take about seven days.

If all the female soldiers' equipment is upgraded to steel, it would take even longer.

Roughly one month.

That's really long.

But these things are also very important.

Because equipment directly affects combat.

Ding Dang and the others haven't yet started mass-producing steel equipment, and their specialization is still insufficient — they need to accumulate specialization first.

That also takes time.

So the only option is to pull out Speed-Work Talismans for them to use.

Each of them can use about three Speed-Work Talismans consecutively per session before needing rest — that counts as one crafting cycle.

Accounting for meals and breaks, they can do at most 12 crafting cycles per day, consuming 36 Speed-Work Talismans.

By that measure, each female blacksmith effectively works 360 hours a day — the equivalent of 36 days of work.

Add the experience bonus from Experience Fruits and the Goddess Pajamas.

They can gain roughly 22 skill points and 22 specialization points per day.

So in only about five days, they can start crafting steel equipment — and craft high-quality steel equipment at that.

Zhao Chi only needs to refine it.

If he wants them to refine it successfully on their own, it would take about nine to ten days.

For them to super-refine steel equipment, it would take about 14 days.

That timeframe actually isn't long.

But the consumption is enormous.

After all, this is a full 1,500 female blacksmiths — if they really go all-out consuming Speed-Work Talismans, that's 54,000 Speed-Work Talismans per day.

Over ten days, that's 540,000!

An astronomical figure.

Currently there are still… 29,841.

Only enough for a little over half a day's consumption.

So more Speed-Work Talismans still need to be found.

Massive quantities of Speed-Work Talismans…

So no matter what, the equipment work definitely won't be fast.

Fortunately, the Jade Clan and Moon Clan aren't short on equipment, and Good quality pieces can be used for now — plus the proportion of Good quality isn't high, most are still Fine quality, so the overall impact is minor.

Then leave it aside for now.

Wait until the temporary trading post is built in the next couple of days, then purchase in bulk.

Besides all this, there's also the commendation ceremony in two days.

Previously, Zhao Chi crafted so much equipment and fashion — the value was enormous.

The White Tiger Regiment certainly provided quite a bit of materials and items too, but still far less than what Zhao Chi made.

Although it was given out under Li Ruanyu's name, the White Tiger Regiment also said they wouldn't treat Li Ruanyu unfairly.

But exactly how wouldn't they treat her unfairly?

In the end, they still didn't give a clear answer.

Of course, this really isn't the White Tiger Regiment's fault.

After all, since the werewolf invasion, the entire regiment has barely had a moment's rest.

Now they've only just escaped, and there are far more urgent matters to handle, so they truly have no time to spare for these things.

It'll probably be announced at the commendation ceremony, right?

Although they're busy, this meeting must be held — they have to make time for it.

Because they need to boost morale.

To let the lords regain their confidence.

Besides, the White Tiger Regiment really didn't suffer a loss this time.

There were indeed losses, and not small ones.

But the werewolves' losses were even greater.

The werewolves could be considered to have had a major disaster.

An entire werewolf regiment came to attack the White Tiger Regiment, yet from start to finish lost a total of 1.5 full brigades' worth of werewolf lords, and in the end still let the White Tiger Regiment escape with its full organization intact.

Meanwhile, the White Tiger Regiment only lost half a brigade.

Relatively speaking, the losses were very small.

Moreover, the werewolf regiment's combat power was more than double the White Tiger Regiment's, yet the result turned out like this.

The people of the White Tiger Regiment also truly reaped abundant loot.

However, although the White Tiger Regiment can be considered a great victory in battle, all their territory has been lost.

The entire World-Breaking Army territory in the southwest of Snow Plain City has all become werewolf land, and control of all the formation arrays has been lost.

From the territorial standpoint, the werewolves can be considered the winners.