LORD OF THE SKY CITY

Chapter 605: Chapter 568: Blessing and Misfortune Come Together Chapter 605: Chapter 568: Blessing and Misfortune Come Together After the armory factory was completed, it naturally began operations immediately, and as previously agreed upon by both parties, Rocky was in charge of the workers and production, while the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce handled the sales.

This immediately filled Thunderhawk City with vitality, as the start of operations meant a large number of job openings. The armory factory funded by the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce was not a small workshop, but a bona fide factory, whose scale even compared favorably with large factories in Sky City. Thus, as soon as the factory began operations, it immediately provided hundreds of job positions in Thunderhawk City, swiftly resolving the employment issues of the recently increased population.

In order to better facilitate production, Rocky enlisted the Ruby Chamber of Commerce to employ a large number of technicians from Eternal City. Although Thunderhawk City was not short of workers, producing Armor ultimately required specific skills. Even though the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce had already set up the equipment, these were not machines that just anyone could operate. Thus, skilled technicians were needed to run them and simultaneously train Thunderhawk City’s own workers.

Once the factory started, it also meant that Armor production was underway, although Thunderhawk Armor was still in the experimental phase, so the factory could only produce one type of Armor at this stage, the Tank Armor.

To ensure that Tank Armor could find buyers, Rocky also made significant improvements to the design. After all, the initial design of the Tank Armor was rushed, resulting in many defects. Such flawed Armor certainly couldn’t be sold off. Buyers, whether they were lords of major cities or even alliances, were no fools and could not be easily deceived. Hence, Rocky had to redesign the Tank Armor completely.

Luckily, with the passing of more than two months, Orton and others had established a professional research and development team. This not only significantly alleviated the pressure on Orton and his colleagues but also directly elevated the research and development capabilities of Thunderhawk City to a remarkably high level.

Initially, only Orton and three other masters were conducting research around Rocky, and though all four were renowned masters, they could hardly be called a true research team. However, now that Rocky agreed to expand the team’s size, Orton and the others jumped into action, mainly Aniye and Pelaya taking charge.

Though Orton and Hammerfire were both acknowledged masters with unquestionable achievements in their academic fields, their character flaws affected their reputation, to say the least.

In this situation, recruiting new team members naturally fell to Aniye and Pelaya, who, with their connections and solid academic reputations, quickly put together a genuine research team.

This newly formed research team expanded from the original four members to forty!

Moreover, the individuals recruited were all elites, including masters from various fields. With more personnel involved in development, and under Aniye’s suggestion, the team was further divided into four research groups overseen respectively by Orton, Aniye, Hammerfire, and Pelaya. Each led ten people in focusing on Rune Technology, Rune Expansion, Magic Conduction Technology, and Armor Technology.

This distribution was certainly the right choice as Aniye and the others were not only capable of independently leading research but also had experience in guiding a team, so when the four groups were established, progress in all research areas accelerated significantly.

With such a formal, large-scale, high-quality team as support, the research and development prowess of Thunderhawk City was immediately boosted several notches. For example, the design of Armor, with the support of the team, underwent a dramatically faster improvement on all Armor design projects than before.

Previously, the group had designed various Armors, but because only Hammerfire was a master in this field, the majority of the work fell on him alone. Others could at most assist. Later, although Rocky also joined in and quickly began designing Armors independently with Hammerfire’s help, there were still only two people who could significantly contribute to Armor design, so one can imagine how slow the process was.

But now, things were different. Thunderhawk City had a group specifically responsible for designing Armor, so when Rocky brought the design plan of Tank Type 1 Armor to the group and started improvements with everyone, it took less than a week, and the improved new version of the Armor was completed!

The new version of the Tank Armor was named Tank Type 2, which corrected many defects and insufficiencies of the old version and included slight technical enhancements. It certainly met the standards for sales, and after that, Rocky handed over the design to the factory to start official production.

Meanwhile, as Rocky prepared for the factory to start operations by hiring technicians to train workers and improving the design of the Armor, the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce was also not idle. In fact, they had been active ever since signing the cooperation agreement with Rocky and officially announcing it.

This cooperation with Rocky was another attempt by the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce to enter the Armor Domain—an almost gambler-like trial. They put all their bets on Rocky. So after announcing their cooperation with Rocky, the Chamber of Commerce began contacting potential buyers, preparing for the official sales of the Armor.

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