Book 15: Chapter 26
National affairs may not involve personal feelings, but I didn’t intend to take advantage of Nara’s situation. To the contrary, having an ally in the desert was a good thing. My plan was to have the five nations of the desert would forever be divided thereby never being a worthy threat to Rosvenor Empire. Surely that was the stable outcome Mommy Elizabeth wished for, as well.
Nara got what she wanted in the end, plus some authority. However, the guns I sold her had a shorter range. That said, they suited cavalry very well. There was no doubt she’d be able to reverse engineer it and reproduce the guns once she was back home. I was just as certain they’d be unable to produce compatible ammunition.
Our current pointed-tip bullets were the prototypes of modern day bullets. Even our production line had almost reached the level of modern day standards. Thanks to the metal beasts that our mana-powered machines were, we could easily forge copper sheets into bullet shells with no gaps. The press could also precisely set the bullet into the shell. Lorana’s painstaking efforts to create a semi-automatic production line astonished me. I think we managed to push forward industry manufacturing standards by two-hundred years. Although we still couldn’t completely automate it, we managed to reduce our required manpower by fifty percent. There were shiny golden bullets rolling into wooden chests, and then nailed shut before being sent off to many different places on the daily.
Recruited soldiers had commenced training. I could finally proudly say that if we went to war, the North’s only problem would be a shortage of manpower, but we had enough ammunition and rifles. Further, with the ammunitions factory, the city warehouse, the secret ammunition warehouse network that was connected up, which Freya and Mommy Elizabeth designed together, we could guarantee any location that was attacked would swiftly receive reinforcements from the spread out military camps. Additionally, the reinforcements could pick up weapons on the way to their location as opposed to arming themselves before heading to their destination. If defeated, we could pick up our rifles and join the battle again as long as the enemy could be stopped.
The North had no fear of a shortage of ammunition and firearms but lacked formidable soldiers. My guard unit could only protect the Imperial Capital. Any further and it was beyond their reach, so we needed a militia. I didn’t want to have to rely on Mom’s army to protect us forever. I planned to gradually send the soldiers who conquered the North with me back to Mom. The North required an army that was under my control. I couldn’t entrust its safety to another.
The populace of the North was still basically anthropoids; but nevertheless, some humans and anthropoids had developed feelings for each other. Needless to say, Ling Yue was the prettiest anthropoid….
The North basically tampered with my personal feelings… Anthropoids’ children started demonstrating intelligence a month after birth. They’d probably reach the level of an adult in three years. There were plenty of children in the North, as anthropoids were quite proficient at reproducing. To add to it, we implemented a policy which encouraged more births. In about ten years, my first main army would be a reality.
I resolved all of the matters in the North. The development of the North was led off track a little due to Freya’s rampage. Fortunately, Lucia stopped her in time. Otherwise, the North and Troy City would be faced with trouble. That was why I was very grateful to Lucia.
Lucia was always there to protect me and rescue me. She was a very ordinary elf, yet she could save me. She wasn’t the type who was always by my side. By that, I meant the type of main female protagonists you see in movies and novels who save the main protagonist and adventure the world together. However, she’d always be behind me watching me with a tender gaze. When I was hurt or drowned in despair, she’d appear and save me. Hence, I was beyond grateful to Lucia and really loved her. Nier was my wife, no questions there, but if I needed to appear with my main wife, I’d only ever take Lucia.