Volume 3 Chapter 10 - Plastic arrow (1/2)

“Furio didn’t believe you?” Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile, looking as bright as a human girl with that smile. It made people unable to imagine her real age, “It seems like I need to find some time to talk to him. If his thoughts don’t change, he might not be able to keep up with the changes in the world.”

“You can’t blame him, after all, one had to be quite prudent when shooting arrows before. For an elven archer who has strict discipline to suddenly be wasteful when it comes to shooting arrows, it really is a bit hard.” Xu Yi said with a smile.

“It’s a good thing that this matter won’t happen again in the future.” Elder Illusia looked at the plastic processing line not far away making arrow shafts, “With this assembly line, we can make over three thousand plastic arrows a day, so there’s no need to worry about wasting them.”

“A daily output of only three thousand arrows isn’t enough.” Xu Yi shook his head, “The thirty Magic Repeating Crossbow I sent to the northern army received high praise and now the army headquarters has sent an order for five hundred Magic Repeating Crossbows which I’ve accepted. But because of how many arrows the Magic Repeating Crossbows consume, if they used arrows when they were fighting the Sack Kingdom’s Hungry Wolf Regiment, it really would be too much of a waste. So I’ve suggested these new plastic arrows to the army headquarters and I think it won’t take long before they send someone to inspect them. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a large order.”

“Alright, I’ll Amelud and Delil to properly take care of this.”

Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia and suddenly asked, “Elder Illusia, I always wanted to ask, why didn’t you choose yourself to negotiate for the Night Song Tribe, why did you send out Delil? With your intelligence, if everything was taken care of by you, it would make things much smoother.”

Elder Illusia said with a shake of her hand and a sigh, “I’m already old. The Night Song Tribe’s future will be in the hands of young people like Amelud and Delil, so I didn’t take the post of negotiating for the tribe. I will also give less orders to the tribe in the future, so they can adapt to not having me ahead of time.”

Xu Yi looked at elder Illusia’s face that seemed like a beautiful young human girl in her twenties and knit his brows in surprise, “I don’t think that you’re old at all. I feel that based on your appearance, you are like a young person to us humans, there’s no need to consider your retirement yet, right?”

“Many thanks for your praise, but my age is a fact. No matter how my appearance looks, I’m already old for an elf. The reason I look like this is because of the specialty of us elves.” Elder Illusia paused before suddenly asking Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu, do you think Agnes is beautiful?”

Xu Yi was surprised, “Agnes is indeed beautiful, why?”

Elder Illusia just nodded and didn’t continue this topic.

Xu Yi kept his confusion inside. He followed elder Illusia’s lead and continued discussing the problem of producing the plastic arrows.

The new plastic arrows were made from a new plastic material that the Night Song Tribe had made through their experiments. It had a very hard characteristic and when used to make arrows, it wasn’t worse than arrows made with the best wood.

Moreover, because they were using batch production, whether it was the length, thickness or weight of the arrows, they were all the same. Adding in the custom made arrowheads, the arrows were all the same.

Like this, when firing them, the arrows could adapt to any situation easier. They were more suited for Magic Repeating Crossbows that had a stricter requirement for arrows.

When the northern army fought the Sack Kingdom in the Muerto Mountains for several months, although the northern army had displayed powerful battle strength to steal back the mountains, this all came from their powerful equipment.

Putting aside their weapons, armours, and the Magic Trebuchet, in all the fights, the most important thing that wasn’t the most dazzling was the consumption of arrows.

Because they shot arrows without caring about the costs, they were able to press down the Sack Kingdom, making them unable to fight back at all.

But this kind of suppression had a terrifying consumption when it came to arrows.

In the final confrontation, although it was less than half a month and there were less than twenty battles, they had consumed a total of over a hundred thousand arrows.

The northern army could have this many arrows because the weapon factory had created large amounts of steel arrows, which guaranteed the massive consumption of the northern army.

The problem with these steel arrows was that they cost too much and they had to spend a minimum of thirty silver coins per arrow.