Chapter 1020 New Type of Transport
"I think this is the best we can do for now." Roel spread his arms, showing off the creation he had painstakingly created in the last two weeks.
There were a total of nine long trailers, divided into three types.
Roel made two trailers for both the passenger type and the pulling type. The remaining five were of the transporter type.
"Mhmm... They are quite good." Anna looked at them with a serious expression. "Still, shouldn't we make them out of steel or something to make them sturdier? For the passenger type, having a comfortable inner part is good, but the rest doesn't really matter, right?"
"That's actually the problem." Roel scratched the back of his head. "We don't have enough iron right now. What we have the most right now is money and wood, but there's not enough iron. Even most of our weapons are made of wood, which is easy to break."
Anna contemplated for a moment. "So, that's how it is. It seems that we have to find a way to procure iron. Is there any place where we can get them? Maybe the Greenwood Kingdom?"
Anna thought about asking the Greenwood Kingdom for iron, but Roel shook his head helplessly.
"I have asked Balott about this before, but it seems that the Muivell Kingdom is planning to isolate us. While we can get a lot of money right now, if we can't spend it to gain a lot of resources, the money will be useless." Roel explained. "The Greenwood Kingdom doesn't have a lot of iron ore deposits."
"Zaecuria Kingdom?"
"It's too far away from here."
"Atracaeca Kingdom, huh?" Anna's expression turned serious. There was a conflict between Noel and the Atracaeca Kingdom, so she couldn't really make an agreement with them. "I will think about this for now. The wooden one is still strong enough, right?"
"Yes. With the help of those runes, it should be fine as a prototype. Once we get enough materials for the rest, we can proceed with upgrading them."
"Alright." Anna nodded. "I will draw the runes on each of them. Once done, we can start releasing them."
"Understood." Roel asked the rest to leave first. There was a difference in drawing the Spirit Enchantment and Runes, so only Roel had the privilege for this one as of now.
This was also an opportunity to teach Roel so that he could gradually get a few disciples for this craft.
The process didn't take too long. After about an hour, both of them opened the workshop's gate and took the first one out.
Of course, the first one to come out was none other than the pulling type.
The pulling type had a steering wheel inside.
"This is quite amusing." Anna pointed at the steering wheel. In the automatic carriage, the steering wheel was made of a single wheel, so a round steering wheel was a first for her.
The trailer itself was three meters high, so people could easily stand up inside. With a width close to three meters, a single trailer looked like a beast that could easily destroy a house or two.
"Amazing."
"To think that we've been working on something this amazing."
"Long live the Ardagan family!"
"Long live the Ardagan family!"
They were cheering, only to stop after they saw the second trailer coming out. This time, it was the cargo trailer.
Anna carefully steered it to the right and made a turn, but suddenly, someone shouted, "Stop!"
Anna frowned and stopped pouring the energy into the rune, which slowed them down.
"What's wrong?" Roel raised his voice, thinking that they were rude for stopping Anna.
But when he came out and saw the person responsible actually pointing his finger at the workshop's gate, he couldn't get angry anymore. The distance between the carriage and the gate was only one meter left and it was shrinking. If this continued, they would collide with each other. He didn't care about the workshop gate that much, but he definitely didn't want the new invention to get damaged.
"Hmm..." Anna looked at this matter seriously. "It seems that we have to be careful when driving this thing. It's something that we have never done before and there will be a lot of accidents if we use them carelessly. For now, we will have to take this out manually. Once we're outside, we can test it a bit better."
"Yes. But I can see a few problems here. First of all, it's going to be impossible to make a big turn inside a city. If they want to make a turn, it needs to be done gradually over a long track... maybe a few hundred meters or even kilometers.
"Second, this will also cause some inconveniencegot since we will need a big U-turn if we just want to turn around. Or maybe we can place another pulling type on the back, which faces the opposite side.
"Still, all of them will require a lot of money. And it would be troublesome if they get attacked on the way."
Anna contemplated for a moment. "The security can be enhanced with proper guards and runes. So, you can focus on the first and second problems... I will also send a letter to Noel about this. Oh, you also need to prepare for airship development."
Roel nodded. "I can delegate my apprentices to work on more carriages while we're solving the two problems. I'm a bit curious about the airship as well, so I think I'll focus on it until the Lord orders something else."
"Yeah." Anna hurriedly made an arrangement for the people to bring all nine trailers outside the city. She also wanted to test how much the carriage could pull before it was too much.
Obviously, the people couldn't help but watch these behemoths coming out of the city, thinking that the Lord must be planning on another good thing.
And the one who was most excited about this was actually Layla.