New Deployment

"Mage Benjamin, how on earth did you come up with something like this?"

As he walked down from the city wall, the Prime Minister took off his sunglasses and could not help revealing an expression of admiration, staring at Benjamin as though he were some kind of monster.

Benjamin scratched his head awkwardly. "Well... it's nothing much. I just coated the lenses with something. It's not that big a deal."

"But being able to think of it in such a short time is already quite astonishing."

"No, no..."

Benjamin felt rather helpless from all the praise. After all, sunglasses were not something he had invented. He had merely borrowed the wisdom of others.

How could they see freely under intense light? The Hori Kingdom had posed them that difficult question, and Benjamin had quickly thought of sunglasses. This world's glassmaking techniques were not bad, and glasses already existed, but they were still some distance away from an invention like sunglasses, which were mostly used for showing off.

Thus, Benjamin proposed the idea of sunglasses, and the craftsmen and mages in the city immediately got to work. To filter out the intense light while ensuring clear vision, they naturally did not resort to such a crude option as ink. Instead, they had potion mages quickly concoct a liquid, gathered every pair of spectacles in the city, and began manufacturing them at once.

Within a few hours, they had rushed out more than a thousand pairs of sunglasses. They immediately put them on the soldiers defending the city, who lined the walls and showed off.

—They were also declaring to the enemy through their actions: "That kind of trick won't work on us!"

When Grant and that commander-looking man came over to inspect the situation, Benjamin had also hidden among the defenders.