Although Little Sharon, the "master engineer" of Crimson Castle, wanted to see who would win the first Transian boxing championship, after staying at Crimson Castle for three days, she finally decided to set out for the munitions factory in the Andmar Hills.
For one thing, Lord Murphy and her apprentice, Loyal, had been urging her to go. Loyal was fascinated by the steam-engineering technology on the continent and had resolved to master it, but learning took time, and right now he wasn't capable of independently running a munitions factory based on "fantasy engineering."
To put it simply, Loyal was calling in reinforcements and desperately wanted his little mentor to come and take charge.
For another, the main structure of the munitions factory in the Andmar Hills had been completed, and the large steam furnace promised by their "partner," the Capet family, had already been set in motion and was on its way there.
Supposedly, the dozen or so skilled workers the Capet family had sent were already assembling the production line. At Loyal's request, they were also selecting apprentices from nearby villages and among the refugees. That meant the factory's actual launch was just around the corner.
Little Sharon was quite attached to this factory.
The weapons production lines that made up the First Transian National Arsenal had all come from Xico City. They were her "family inheritance," which she had once thought she'd never be able to reclaim. But Lord Murphy had used political maneuvering to get them back.
And now she was one of Transia's administrators and rulers. In any case, she had to take part in managing the arsenal herself. Unfortunately, Dehn, the supervisor who had once managed Xico City's factory district, and his capable, sharp-witted team of workers had all died in the plague.
Still, considering