You were made to farm, and now you're the emperor of an empire?

Chapter 222 Paying Homage
After dealing with the hospital and alcohol issues, Roman began to work on improving the attributes of the apostles.

The more barren the mineral vein, the less dust-sealed crystal spheres are produced.

The fewer crystal spheres, the fewer magic stones.

Generally speaking, using magic stones to enchant steel is a huge waste; only low-ranking nobles would do something so low-skilled.

Because it would be better used on other metals.

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The properties of orogenic copper: its weight and hardness.
Mithril is as light as a feather, as elastic as a rubber band, yet indestructible.
Fine gold can be considered the highest level of equipment, and its performance is extremely strong.

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While these three types of extraordinary materials are easy to process, forging them is very difficult.

For example, Roman could easily obtain steel.

However, there are dozens or even hundreds of finished steel products.

Low carbon, medium carbon, high carbon, and alloy are all material differences resulting from variations in metal composition and forging/casting techniques.

High-grade steel is stronger than low-grade steel.

However, forging high-grade steel is also technically very difficult.

The advancement of a technology requires countless experiments and trial and error by many talented individuals, and only through a flash of inspiration can the correct path be found.

Simply put, the consequences of making the wrong choices in the tech tree are severe.

What's even more frightening is that if a senior goes down the wrong path, he can lead a group of juniors astray.

But this era was barbaric and dark, making it difficult to spread knowledge.

Technology, systems, economy, environment, religion, and customs are all factors that restrict development.

There are too many constraints, so we have been stuck here for hundreds of years without making progress, and have instead regressed.

In Roman's view, most of the nobles in this land lacked substance and could not even be considered nouveau riche.

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Sinnoh is a remnant of a technologically advanced empire with a developed iron smelting industry. Even in its decline, it still possesses a wealth of resources and knowledge.

Black Iron is a nation established by the conquerors. The conquerors' treasury is filled with countless treasures, and they are capable of building a massive expeditionary fleet, which shows their true skill.

That's all.

The Free City-States are suspected to be the same age as Sinnoh, with a long history, but the commercial city-states are isolated in a corner of the world, and their armies are all mercenaries with little influence.

The ancestors of Cangyue were native mountain tribes. Their shamans would throw poisons and herbs into a crucible to concoct magical potions, and their dark magic made people frown.

Iceland was established with the help of conquerors; otherwise, how could it have ruled such a vast kingdom?

The plateau people are also barbaric people who came from herding backgrounds. Although they are very strong in combat and can dominate a region, their cultural foundation is also a mess.

Wandong is an even more frigid and harsh land, not much better than the Igor region, and there are no conditions for development even if one wanted to.

Although they developed their own extraordinary strengths due to their different environments.

For example, the barbarian rangers of the highlands, the eerie wizards of the Azure Moon, and the axe guards of Iceland.

The humans on the other side of the Igor land also possess extraordinary power.

They worship dragons and are an ancient human clan.

The Igor people have strong bloodlines, but due to their harsh living environment, long nights, and cold climate, their society is still in a savage stage of survival of the fittest.

Therefore, the Northern Pirates were all ruthless and fierce.

Overall, their production technologies are certainly outdated, and due to institutional reasons, it is difficult for them to concentrate their efforts on doing one thing.

Advanced metallurgical technology is also available.

It was hidden deep within the palace.

But can the King of Sinnoh and the King of Dark Iron give it to you?

Will the Pope share the composition of the materials used in Paladin equipment?

Certainly not.

This is something I've kept hidden away.

And even if you were given it to you, you wouldn't be able to create it.

Your resources, financial and human capital are simply insufficient for you to undertake highly difficult tasks.

Legend has it that the paladin was made entirely of gold, shimmering in the sunlight, and was a veritable moving gold mine.

It would take tens of thousands of gold coins to forge a complete set of armor like that. Therefore, forces without sufficient resources can only rely on their own slow research and development.

Hiding in a small workshop, trying things out little by little, accumulating experience bit by bit, is even more risky if you take the wrong path.

The research findings must be carefully preserved and not leaked.

In any case, the various noble families were all doing their own thing behind closed doors, so you can imagine how slow their research and development was.

However, if a powerful and specialized forging technique could be developed, it could be converted into military power, ensuring that a nobleman could settle down.

The three Black Iron Dukes each possessed their own unique forging techniques.

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The Raging Tide Knights can make light cavalry as powerful as heavy cavalry.

The White Oak Legion of Oak is a superhuman unit capable of being mass-produced and deployed in large numbers.

The Broken Archer's armor, made of non-mithril materials, cannot withstand the Broken Archer's arrows.

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Roman knew little about the former two.

I do know a little about the Broken Archer.

The Greatbow of the Cracked Armor and the weapon of the Shattered Bowman are not the same.

The great bow in his hand is a replica of the weapon of the first Grand Duke of the Cracked Armor, worth hundreds of dollars.

The Broken Archer's weapon is also a specially made bow, strong string, arrow shaft, and arrowhead, and the whole set is extremely expensive, costing three figures.

However, the former is in demand but not in price, and its value is difficult to measure. As long as someone is willing to buy, 999 gold coins are not expensive. The reason why they cannot be sold is that they are too hot to handle.

The latter, at most, only has three or four hundred gold coins.

These days, the more expensive the equipment, the more powerful it is.

Roman knew that he would still need to continue researching and developing extraordinary materials and that he needed to improve the mining capabilities of the ore veins.

Because the wars we face in the future will definitely be high-intensity, high-quality, and high-stakes.

Ordinary armies have little influence over the course of a war.

It's time to improve the military's capabilities.

The advantage of mining gold is that it greatly reduces the demand for magic stones.

In the past, when there was no gold, Roman had to reduce his need for gold, but this indirectly increased his demand for magic stones.

Now back on track, Roman's demand for magic stones has decreased by about seven times.

The resources he originally had were only enough to promote one or two dozen apostles, but now they have increased sevenfold.

It can increase the apostle's attribute value by a hundred or so.

Roman immediately selected apostles at the rank of company commander and squad leader, and improved their attributes according to their different troop types.

Over the next month, they will all experience a surge in attribute boosts.

According to the five-dimensional attribute table, as long as one has 1D4E, one is probably a first-order transcendent being.

2D3E or 3D2E are second-order.

If it's 5D or 1C2D2E, then it's a third-order problem.

This is just the beginning. Roman plans to improve the abilities of at least three hundred apostles by next spring, raising them to the first tier, which is 1D4E for all of them.

Training needs to be intensified, and nutrition needs to be adequately provided.

When he promoted Aaron and Green, the two of them practically ate five meals a day, and others probably weren't much different.

This is an amazing transformation!
Of course, one or two unusual cases wouldn't be a problem, but now that there are so many, they're bound to be noticed.

But Roman didn't care about that.

Go and see what laws are in the Origin Code!
Your master is bestowing blessings upon you!

Why ask?

Can this be explained?

What? Why did he transform, but you didn't?
Then you need to reflect on this! Why weren't you selected from my recruitment pool? Was it because you weren't loyal enough?

Reflect more on your own shortcomings and whether you have trained properly over the years.

Why don't you hurry up and worship me, bowing down to me day and night?

(End of this chapter)