After touring the Angola Tribe, Xu Yi stayed another half day to explain to Chief Shluka and Chief Monto some details of the materials research he would be assigning them next. Only then did he take his leave.
Canby, however, did not leave with him, but stayed behind.
Once Chief Monto had made arrangements for those hundred dwarves, Canby would bring them over.
Xu Yi, of course, had to return to Bunta City first to make the necessary preparations.
With a road now built from the Norma Tribe to the main road outside, the journey no longer took an entire day as it had on his previous visit. Even so, although Xu Yi left the Norma Tribe at noon, night had already fallen by the time he returned to Bunta City.
Despite the late hour, Xu Yi went straight to the factory outside the city.
Though darkness had settled over the area, both workshops were still brightly lit. Clearly, everyone was working overtime.
Lately, overtime had become the norm in both workshops.
The dwarves in the Magic Machine Tool Workshop were hard at work on the large advance orders for agricultural magic machinery placed by the nobles, while the Domestic Magic Machinery Production Workshop, led by Heinz, was equally swamped thanks to the popularity of the magic rice cooker.
In fact, the launch of the magic rice cooker had come with some interesting setbacks.
Xu Yi had originally designed the magic rice cooker on a sudden flash of inspiration, without thinking everything through. Once it actually went into production, however, he discovered a serious problem: the main grain grown around Bunta City was wheat, and foods made from wheat were naturally the staple diet both inside and outside the city.
The magic rice cooker currently had only a simple function: