Castel's Stellar Furnace was also being renovated without pause.
On one hand, damaged components were being replaced; on the other, it was being expanded.
The current Stellar Furnace still lacked sufficient capacity. After all, it had previously only held the Pirate King, whereas now it held a genuine god.
This project involved no small amount of work and had to be expanded and modified bit by bit, since it was still operating.
Construction of the Pollution pipeline was also being accelerated. Theus had once considered directly building an undersea pipeline to Blood Port, but ultimately abandoned the idea because of the technical difficulties.
Just as everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion, Tata suddenly knocked on the door to Theus's office one day.
"What is it?" Theus was somewhat curious. Tata was now responsible for weapons research and development. He had designed the battleship main guns on the ironclad warships; though somewhat overly cumbersome, their power was second to none.
"Lord, I have a rather immature idea..." Tata said with an awkward grin, handing over a report.
Theus was quite familiar with this. Whenever Tata wanted to come up with some strange invention, he always acted like this.
Like the giant warship he had previously fitted with a ram, catapults, and Gatling Guns. "You know we're at war right now, don't you?" Theus sighed. "I may not be able to support inventions that are too outrageous... Or are you saying this one's highly practical?"
Tata guiltily shifted his gaze away.
Theus now had a good idea of the situation and began considering how to refuse him.
Though he had been mentally prepared, Theus's eyelid still twitched when he opened Tata's proposal.
"What is this? Are you planning to create a roaming Castel?"
"N-not quite that exaggerated. I was thinking, aren't