The steel mill was built not very far from the castle. Viscount Roster had learned quite a bit of the 'form' of industrialization but hadn't grasped its 'meaning.'

But fortunately, using magic power to drive flame runes for metallurgy didn't cause much pollution, so it didn't make people uncomfortable.

The instant these nobles were brought into the steel mill, they froze!

This was completely different from the workshops they imagined!

In their impression, blacksmith shops were all built from stone, with doors wide open, various large tools placed inside—forging furnaces, bellows, hammers, grinding stones... The scorching air constantly impacted everyone. The craftsmen inside were bare-chested, constantly swinging their tools. A strong smell of sweat hit you in the face—no perfume could cover it... But now, the situation was completely different.

Rows of huge furnaces, countless runes glowing bright. Workers threw iron ore in from one end, then a continuous stream of red liquid metal flowed out. After a series of processing, finally, it would be refined into very rare high-quality steel!

Throughout, there were various strange mechanical creations working. Things that normally required dozens of slaves to accomplish now only needed one strange machine and one operator!

"Oh my goodness! God! This... this is a creation of the God of Technology?! This is the legendary technological miracle, the product of magic and machinery fusion?! Incredible, truly incredible, I've never seen..."

Finally, a minor noble couldn't help but let out bursts of exclamations, his eyes full of disbelief. He felt that if all these 'magic blast furnaces' here could be used normally, it would only take one day to smelt all the ore his territory produced in a year!

Before seeing all this, he truly couldn't have imagined it. The others were the same!

No one would have thought that Magic Conductors in smelting would have even stronger power than in warfare.

They couldn't even imagine what so much steel could be used for... Even to build a castle made of steel probably wouldn't take very long, right?

Even some nobles who believed in the God of Technology were now somewhat stunned. "Mr. Roster, truly surprising—you've already reached this stage?! You truly deserve to be the foremost among our god's believers!"

"I'm merely following in His footsteps!" Viscount Roster said to them with a smile. After these nobles understood the secrets of Roster territory's steel mill, he led these nobles toward the mines.

Roster territory's mines were located directly south of the castle, in that mountain range where enemies had invaded before. What used to be just small paths in the mountains now had very flat, spacious roads. There were also many incomprehensible marks on the road. The nobles in their carriages, looking at all this, couldn't help discussing it, just like discussing the steel mill earlier, discussing what exactly Viscount Roster was trying to do...

But soon, their expressions became somewhat dazed. On those incomprehensible marks, there were actually rows of small carts moving at high speed. Though inferior in many ways to the trains these believers saw on the Day of Ascension, it was definitely a huge train, loaded with countless iron ore...

The carriages continued forward. They saw that the source of this train was actually in the mine tunnel. It seemed this train could directly transport ore from inside the mine to Roster territory. The efficiency was so high it made them shudder, so high it made them jealous. If... if their mines could also have such efficiency, what great wealth would that be?

They couldn't imagine, but at the very least it would be dozens or hundreds of times what they had now, or even more!

The nobles' gazes began to burn with intensity. Their earlier resistance had long been swept away. Greedy emotions unsurprisingly occupied their hearts, occupied all their thoughts.

Their calmness, restraint, and noble bearing—the instant they saw the mines, they could no longer maintain them... If their close ones saw this scene, they'd probably be shocked. Their master could actually show such an expression... Turns out, he's just an ordinary person too!

"By the God of Technology, this... what is this thing?!"

After entering the mine tunnel, seeing that extremely large machine using an astonishing power to pulverize countless ores, load them, transport them—the rumbling sounds kept ringing out. This was emitted by that huge steel monster. With each rumbling sound, hundreds of pounds of ore would fall. That was the result of dozens of people working hard all day, but with just one rumbling sound—done!

"This is the purpose for which I invited you here." Viscount Roster smiled, pointing at this large machine in front of them, saying with a smile, "Mountain Opener Number One, mining-type Magic Conductor. It can be charged using energy storage runes or the Magic Power Network. With sufficient energy, it can work 24 hours non-stop. Its main function is using mechanical arms to crush ore and assist with loading... Oh, that's the train you just saw. However, I prefer to call it the magic-tech train. Unfortunately, our technology is still very immature—it can only haul a little bit."

"Only a little bit?!" The moment they heard this, several nobles' mouths couldn't help but twitch, their hearts shouting: "I really want to hammer you to death! You call this a little bit? The ore it hauls in one go is probably what we produce in a year."

Compared to the previous things, this Mountain Opener Number One was easier for the nobles to understand. After all, its construction looked somewhat similar to magic golems. Though it was mechanically manufactured, though it was a Magic Conductor, at its root, it was still a humanoid machine, and its main functions were all achieved through mechanical arms.

"Continue forward. We can still see many machines designed for different environments. In Roster territory, 80% of heavy physical labor is completed by Magic Conductors."

Roster led them to continue deeper. These nobles became more shocked the more they looked, more astonished, more incredulous. They never imagined that mining in Roster territory—every single step—was completed by various magic-tech 'steel beasts'!

They also didn't expect that the business Viscount Roster invited them to discuss wasn't about having them invest, but about... selling these steel beasts to them!

Each of them could run their territories prosperously in this decaying kingdom—they had ability. Though they couldn't determine exactly how magic power drove these steel beasts, they could see that these steel beasts had unimaginably intricate precision... How exactly did Roster territory manufacture them?

Rumor had it that Roster territory had a divine envoy of the God of Technology. Could it be these were the divine envoy's doing? Could it be these also came from the miracles of the God of Technology?

Was Viscount Roster really willing to sell miracles from the God of Technology to them?!

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