Volume 6 Chapter 48 - Investment involves risks (1/2)

Over a hundred large transport Magic Cars passed over the border of the Lampuri Kingdom and the Rudson Kingdom, heading towards the east of the Rudson Kingdom.

Since the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed the large transport Magic Cars, this was the first time that so many large transport Magic Cars had been together.

Over a hundred large transport Magic Cars driving together, it created a motorcade that was over two kilometers long, which looked very imposing.

Looking down from above, it would seem like a long snake wriggling around at high speeds.

This motorcade was a joint motorcade of the large companies of the Lampuri Kingdom. They were entering the Rudson Kingdom in large numbers and their goal was the east region of the Rudson Kingdom.

These large transport Magic Cars had various goods loaded in them, all of them were strategic goods the Rudson Kingdom bought from the Lampuri Kingdom which were not being delivered. They were to be delivered to the Rudson Kigndom’s army that was currently fighting the Candra Empire’s third regiment.

Although the Rudson Kingdom’s army’s performance had been shocking, no matter how well they did, what decided a war in the end was the supplies.

Especially the Rudson Kingdom, armed with a large number of military magic machines, so they had a high demand for supplies.

Not mentioning anything just, just in the first clash between the two sides, the Rudson Kingdom’s army had used one hundred and thirty thousand arrows in just a single day from using their Magic Repeating Crossbows.

Although there was a shocking power, to supplement the one hundred and thirty thousand arrows, it was impossible just with the blacksmiths contracted by the Rudson Kingdom’s army.

Not to mention that the arrows used by these Magic Repeating Crossbows had to conform to the standard of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to be used correctly. To let them be built by traditional blacksmiths, not only was it slow, it was impossible for the standards to match. After all, it was hard for the hands of men to match the precision and speed of machines.

For example, the two arrows that were in King Teruc’s hands. They looked two different arrows in his hands, but when he touched them and bent them a bit, he shook his head with a bitter smile in the end.

These two arrows looked the same, but when they were in his hands, he could tell that the one in his right hand was a bit lighter. Based on the feel, the arrow in his left hand was much smoother and the arrow in his right hand was much rougher, as well as having some grooves that he could easily see.

The most important thing was that when he put the arrows in front of him, he would see that the one in his left hand was very straight while the one in his right hand was a bit crooked.

Although there wasn’t much difference to the naked eye, for King Teruc who had been shooting arrows from horseback since he was young, if both of these were shot in the same environment, the effects of the arrow in his left hand would definitely be better.

As for why there were these differences……

The arrow in King Teruc’s left hand was the standard arrow that the Rudson Kingdom had ordered from the Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce of the Black Rice Wasteland.

This Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce belonged to a certain fox beastmen tribe on the Black Rice Wasteland, but King Teruc knew that it was the Frestech Chamber of Commerce standing behind them.

The arrow in his right hand was made by the blacksmiths contracted by the Rudson Kingdom because of this war, but it was clear that there was a disparity in quality.

But the real reason that forced King Teruc to give up the idea of having the blacksmiths of the kingdom make these arrows was other than the lack in quality and quantity, the main reason was the difference in cost.

If he ordered arrows from the Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce, a set of twenty cost twenty silver coins and because it was the Rudson Kingdom, the Spirit Fox Chamber of Commerce gave them a discount, making it nineteen silver coins per set.

If this was converted, it was less than a silver coin for each arrow.

However, if he used the blacksmiths, not only did he have to take into account the cost of hiring that person, the average price of each arrow was over two silver coins.

It didn’t matter if it was one, two, one hundred, or even two hundred, but in a war, a single day’s consumption could reach a hundred thousand arrows. If they were all ordered from blacksmiths, just the difference in cost would be over a thousand gold coins, which was a difference that couldn’t be ignored.

With these reasons, even if King Teruc didn’t want the Rudson Kingdom’s army to be controlled by outsiders, he had no choice but to accept this.

Thinking of this, King Teruc shook his head. He put the two arrows in his hands on the side and looked out the window of the Magic Airship at the large motorcade of transport Magic Cars before turning to look at Xu Yi beside him.

“Chairman Xu, when can you bring over the Magic Rockets?”