Lynn made an estimation.

To forge a basic chest armor would take at least one full day!

And this is because he has the "Heavenly Artifacts" panel, allowing him to quickly go from 'unable' to 'capable'.

Plus the assistance of the forging water wheel!

These blacksmith apprentices don't have such miraculous abilities!

At this rate, forging an entire set of plate armor would require...

Half a month?

A month?

Then there's the assembly and adjustment...

To produce a complete set of plate armor would take at least a month or two!

The required time is a bit too long!

He also doesn't have that many veteran blacksmiths who can forge plate armor.

If he hopes to rely on the forging water wheel to conduct large-scale forging of plate armor.

It's simply unrealistic!

Lynn is once again convinced that using molds to make standard plate armor is the best option!

The chest armor he just created is the cavity for the mold.

Lynn took a look at the chest armor; despite it being his first time forging an iron chest armor, thanks to the "Heavenly Artifacts" panel.

By integrating the memory, he could learn the forging techniques.

This piece of chest armor turned out quite successful.

After further delicate processing, it could be directly assembled with other finished pieces.

Setting down the chest armor, Lynn turned to Ehrelo, "You lead them to familiarize themselves with the workshop environment and to learn how to use the furnace to refine iron ore."

"They are completely clueless about blacksmithing."

Listening to Lynn's instructions, Ehrelo replied, "Understood, Master."

Lynn murmured a response, picked up a garment nearby, put it on, and walked out of the blacksmith workshop.

After just a few meters, a gust of cool wind hit, almost making Lynn sigh with relief.

Even though the blacksmith workshop was semi-open, the temperature inside was overwhelmingly hot!

Ehrelo watched Lynn gradually disappear around the corner.

Only then did he withdraw his gaze.

Ehrelo looked at the three hundred newly arrived blacksmith apprentices and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, let me remind you, working in the blacksmith workshop is even tougher than you imagine."

"The penny wage given by Master Lynn is not easily earned."

"Yet, since you've been assigned here, you can't leave even if you want to."

"Here, you will sweat profusely; apart from the time you arrive dry, every other time you'll be drenched in sweat."

"Therefore, you must drink a lot of saltwater!"

"Secondly, anything unknown to you in the blacksmith workshop must be approved by me!"

"Otherwise, I'll bind you and hand you over to Master Lynn."

"Listen carefully, this is an order!"

"I cannot afford any stupid actions from anyone that could jeopardize the entire blacksmith workshop."

"You don't want your family to end up with your neighbors' surname due to your death, do you?"

If incorrect operations at the iron furnace cause molten iron to spill out.

It wouldn't just be the destruction of the blacksmith workshop.

With Ehrelo's serious words, a clear and orderly response echoed out.

"Yes!"

Ehrelo snorted, his gaze sweeping over the chest armor on the worktable.

The respect in his heart couldn't help but emerge.

The ability demonstrated by Master Lynn was something only someone familiar with blacksmithing could understand.

He truly hammered the heated iron block into a semi-finished chest armor!

The key is.

From Master Lynn's initial forging technique, it seemed he didn't know how...

Or maybe Master Lynn just became rusty after not forging for so long?

As for the mold Master Lynn mentioned... he was just a blacksmith for farming tools.

How could he possess such complex and exquisite forging skills?

Thinking back to his earlier rash remark to Master Lynn that 'blacksmithing is not that simple',

Ehrelo couldn't help but laugh at himself.

...

Walking on the town's red brick road, after being buffeted by the gentle breeze.

Lynn finally felt his body temperature drop.

He was still pondering how to make the mold for plate armor!

Soon.

Lynn's eyes lit up with inspiration.

Using the iron hammer forging technique, he would take the chest armor as a model.

Placing the model in a pre-made sand box, tightly fill the surrounding area with molding sand to craft a cavity matching the chest armor's shape.

Then remove the model and pour molten iron into this cavity.

After solidifying, it would be a complete chest armor mold!

And the making of a sand box isn't difficult; filling a simple wooden box with molding sand yields a sand box.

While molding sand is a mix of natural sand, clay, and water.

Molding sand differs from ordinary sand in that it's naturally formed into granular substances, mainly composed of quartz.

Molding sand primarily comes from areas near rivers!

With this in mind.

Lynn directly instructed Red to arrange ten guards to accompany him to the Acadia River's shore.

The ever-flowing Acadia River has never lacked clay.

Similarly, it hasn't lacked molding sand either!

After searching for half an hour.

Lynn stood atop some beige soil.

[Molding Sand]: Composed of natural sand, clay, and water, used for casting molds, sculpting, and pottery, etc.

Looking at the molding sand, Lynn directly said, "Dig it all up and transport it to the blacksmith workshop."

The ten guards responded in unison, grabbed their iron shovels, and began digging.

When the first batch of molding sand was transported back, the guards returned.

Trailing behind them was Ehrelo with nearly a hundred apprentices from the blacksmith workshop.

The increase in workforce significantly boosted the efficiency of digging molding sand.

Until this area of molding sand was almost excavated below the water's surface, Lynn instructed Ehrelo to continue digging at another location.

Lynn roughly calculated in his mind.

To craft the chest armor using a sand box, the box must be at least sixty centimeters long, forty centimeters wide, and twenty centimeters high!

Only so could the molding sand inside the sand box be adequately packed tightly.

And the armor cavity produced would be precisely clean!

A sand box like this requires nearly two hundred pounds of molding sand!

For the blacksmith shop to mass-produce standard plate armor, such sand boxes should be as abundant as possible.

Now there are four blacksmith workshops, and full plate armor mainly comprises eleven components.

Helmet, neck guard, chest armor, back armor, shoulder armor, upper arm armor, forearm armor, butt armor, thigh armor, calf armor, and iron boots, etc!

Lynn's plan is to divide and conquer, with each workshop making just three components.

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