"Heavy cavalry? They were nothing more than relics obsolete in this age."
The Lava General's voice did not waver in the slightest. "The times have changed. Cavalry will gradually be eliminated by the age."
"They would no longer be major consumers of steel. Yet in this new age, the steel they consumed could practically be ignored."
"How much steel did the new structures I had you build recently require?"
"How much steel did the Magitech Power Armor we wore require?"
"How much steel did our war machines require?"
"How much steel would future mine carts require? Construction within factory zones, planning within mining areas, Rail Transit from the mines to various regions, all kinds of new mining machinery—far too many things required steel."
"The future is an age of magitech and steel. Even if current production capacity increased a thousandfold or ten-thousandfold, it might still fail to meet the demands of the new age."
The Lava General spoke very calmly, so calmly that it was as though he were merely stating something already certain.
Yet the mine officials listening to him were shaken to their cores.
Their way of thinking had remained stuck in the distant past.
But after the Lava General's reminder, they suddenly came to their senses.
That was right!
In the past, steel had indeed been almost entirely claimed by heavy cavalry. Once steel was produced, it was practically all used for heavy cavalry. But now, the times had changed!
Though they lived in a remote little kingdom, thanks to the Magic Net, they had learned something about other regions. In the Dawn Kingdom, large amounts of Magitech Industry equipment had already begun to see use, and all of it was made from steel.
Then there were the invincible Tracked War Machines.
Even the farms of some