Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

Malin expressed a certain degree of gratitude for the olive branch extended by His Majesty of the Northern Kingdom, Manheim, although Malin had no time to manage this territory. Therefore, he accepted the recommendation of two elderly stewards from old Hagelberry—both loyal and trustworthy elders of the Hagelberry family.

Malin had no objections to this—just as the elders recommended by His Majesty Mowish or those who volunteered themselves from the Nova family, they all had their strengths, and to Malin, their loyalty was sufficient.

The crafty elder of the Hagelberry family handed over all the land deeds of the small town to Malin. Considering these towering land deeds from the old fox, Malin invited Sir Antoine to directly establish a new workshop on the outskirts of the town—the workshops in Copenhagen were already overcrowded. Even Manheim could not think of demolishing a building—relatives who had fled from the south filled every home in Copenhagen, and demolishing a two-story building might displace five homeless families.

So, Antoine accepted Malin’s invitation, converted the city’s workshop into a refugee camp, and brought all the workshop people to the town.

Malin had Fio and the others start working, and the World Tree Saplings quickly established a standard workshop. While smaller, it was modular, which allowed Antoine and his team to quickly establish more sections.

Indeed, within less than a week, Antoine and his craftsmen had built a working area that was every bit as good as the city’s workshops, and this workshop was attracting countless craftsmen from the North—those who weren’t qualified to work at the great workshops of Carterburg or had various reasons not to go there were like sharks sensing blood.

Malin did not keep secrets either; he and Antoine began compiling a new craftsmen’s guidebook, sharing firearm designs with these knowledge-thirsty craftsmen.

Of course, the region currently did not have the large-scale lathes available in Malin’s main workshops, and the firearms produced were generally not intercompatible; however, producing firearms locally saved significant time and transportation costs.

Considering that firearms require high-precision rifling, Malin primarily provided designs for smoothbore weapons such as grenade launchers and shotguns, which ordinary craftsmen could manufacture without spending too much time on the rifling.

In order not to let the craftsmen feel like they were not learning anything trendy, Malin specially brought out the bazooka—a simple weapon consisting of a seamless steel tube, 1350 mm long and 60 mm in diameter.

The projectiles could be armor-piercing or high-explosive shells, and if dealing with Chaos Demons, holy silver salt-filled grenades engraved with sacred inscriptions would suffice to deter any demon daring to manifest in this world.