Fierce battles raged along the coast of Old Drust, yet Leonard and Byron remained at Morris Harbor, hoisting warship armor alongside the workers.
As members of the elite squad during the Third Pirates Extermination War, they had long been unable to sit still once the war broke out.
Unfortunately, Young Master Rowan had not organized the Norwington Family's troops into formations or assigned them to the various fleet captains, which left the Norwington troops with no battles to fight and forced them to hide in the Inland Sea, working for the factories.
To say there was no grumbling in the military camp certainly was not realistic.
Pirates appeared in the open seas, and as soldiers, who didn't want to land a satisfying cut on those son-of-a-bitch pirates.
Rowan had made plans in advance, and the Second Fleet was on the verge of being rebuilt. Splitting the family's army among the major fleets right now ran counter to his current plans. Furthermore, Morris Industries desperately needed a large number of workers now, so since the soldiers had no battles to fight, they simply came to the Inland Sea factories as combat engineers.
Rowan urgently needed manpower now, and even with eight thousand soldiers joining Morris Industries, he still felt the factory could not operate at full capacity.
Material transportation, steel forging, ore smelting-a vast number of procedures required human labor to complete.
Having many people could certainly make things easier for everyone, but it could not increase production efficiency.
At the end of the day, the industrial foundation of the major towns in the Inland Sea was still not up to par.
Human labor ultimately could not replace mechanical production. Seeing the current situation, Rowan prepared to start shifting his mindset: using the current weak industrial foundation to produce some steel