370. The Northern Lake

"My Lord, as you can see, this carriage fully meets your requirements, and its performance is excellent too. It is just especially expensive." Faced with Landen's questions about the carriage's cost, the Dwarf also shook his head. "A full amount of iron and Mana-Conductive Metal, over a dozen magic patterns, and the crossbow mechanism on top even needs three small arrays and five Runes. If not for Mage Sophia, the Carriage Body alone would cost several hundred Gold Coins."

"Altogether now, the Carriage Body is about eighty Gold Coins, and the Giant Crossbow is about two hundred Gold Coins. Once we make more in the future, the cost can come down a bit. But what matters more is that right now, even if Mages Sophia and Wendy come over, one person can only draw patterns for two carriages a day. That means the two of them would have to spend the whole day in the Magic Workshop."

"Understood." Landen nodded. "I'll think of another way."

With the Iron Smeltery, Dwarf Rune masters, and templates from the Imperial Capital as references, finalizing the designs for the new carriage and Giant Crossbow was not particularly slow. Production of the frame and Carriage Body for the general-purpose version had already entered the small-batch trial stage, with the first twenty completed. Five Giant Crossbows had been made for testing. Ten lengthened carriages had been made, six of which had completed installation of functional Carriage Bodies.

However, Landen had too few Mages on hand, and too many product lines: all kinds of magic-pattern equipment, carriages, Magic Pattern Breeding Tanks. These past few days, he had also gathered all the Mages to develop the honeycomb planting area. Even though most of the Mages above elementary level were currently involved, it was still very difficult to allocate