After the Sky Warships project began, the Family Council consolidated the nation's resources once more, recruiting every blacksmith with manufacturing experience into the industrial district.
At seven in the morning, workers began filing into the Military Foundry north of Morris Town.
The foundry covered more than seven hundred thousand square meters. Foundation pits of all sizes stood packed across the grounds, each roughly three to five meters deep.
Each foundation trench contained a support frame.
A specially made Floating Device hovered above each frame, holding an entire iron plate aloft.
The institute's mages worked above the steel plates that had already been fitted together, using scorching flames to fuse the tempered steel.
Once the welding was complete, the workers drove rivets into the iron plates, then reinforced them with another layer of steel plates.
After the physical fastenings were finished, Ansirem led the institute's members in applying reinforcement enchantments to the warships' lower armor, ensuring the steel plates had sufficient strength and flexibility.
Two weeks had passed since construction of the Sky Warships began. The foundry now employed over two thousand people, yet even with that many workers, what they had completed in two weeks was only the tip of the iceberg for the Floating Warships.
The old guild president's heart bled as he watched the enormous sums spent each day.
In two weeks, the entire budget of two hundred thousand gold coins had been spent.
And that was with Ashvane Munitions supplying tempered steel to the foundry at factory prices. If the free steel from the industrial district were included, the cost would probably have approached three hundred thousand gold coins.
After Young Master Rowan left, Floyd temporarily took charge of the guild's finances.
Although the guild was now earning more, the nature of the Norwington Family had undergone