The outskirts of the Imperial Capital had never been so lively.
In order to conveniently and quickly train large numbers of adventurers in batches, while not allowing this number of adventurers to directly enter the city and disrupt urban order, the government established numerous training institutions directly outside the Imperial Capital.
"Just how many people are there..."
An adventurer who had just arrived looked out over the near suburbs of the Imperial Capital from the mountains and sighed thus.
On the plains near the Imperial Capital's suburbs, countless camps arranged in extremely orderly fashion formed a continuous camp complex stretching several kilometers.
Looking down at this scene from above, it appeared extremely spectacular.
This would be where he'd be living for the next few days.
According to the contract—the government would cover all his food and lodging for these three to seven days, and it seemed the conditions were quite good.
Adventurers were already accustomed to sleeping rough outdoors; he had thought the government would just give him a sleeping bag to make do.
He hadn't expected treatment on the same level as the Imperial Guard.
On the other side, countless adventurers holding various weapons were training at nearby temporary training grounds under instructors' guidance.
After all, ultimately about ten thousand or more—nearly all the adventurers in the entire country—had come, making the training momentum appear massive.
Looking at the scene below, and thinking that only after completing the government-designated [Goblin Extermination Technical Assessment] could he officially take on those frighteningly high-reward commissions.
The adventurer could barely suppress his desire to hurry down and join them...
Looking down from the city walls, Elashia smiled with satisfaction and praised Cecilia beside her:
"Really excellent. Over ten thousand adventurers, yet you've managed to arrange them so orderly."
You must know, these were over ten thousand adventurers who hadn't been trained by military rules—managing them was no easy task.
Never mind over ten thousand adventurers, even ten thousand pigs would be hard to manage!
When numbers got large, even where to have them use the toilet became a non-trivial problem.
Having spent so much time with Cecilia, Elashia finally discovered that the knight girl beside her wasn't just martially powerful.
As an officer graduated from knight academy, Cecilia was also extremely outstanding as a general.
But Cecilia just smiled modestly.
"Without the surplus daily equipment from the military camps, these adventurers really would be hard to arrange. Fortunately there's enough of that equipment, or we couldn't manage those adventurers according to military standards."
After hearing Cecilia's words, Elashia also laughed with some amusement.
Here she really had to thank the old emperor.
The previous old emperor had long anticipated that his tyrannical acts would inevitably lead to uprising, so he had already prepared large quantities of military equipment, ready to expand the army at any time.
However, after Elashia came to power, through a series of measures she not only ensured people could eat, but also rekindled their confidence and loyalty toward the royal family, completely preventing the crisis of civil war in its cradle.
So the final result was—not only did Elasia not expand its army, Elashia even directly disbanded many unnecessary military units.
This suddenly made Elasia's military equipment much more abundant.
Whether weapons like crossbows, spears, and steel swords, or non-weapon military equipment like military tents and uniforms, the quantities far exceeded their proper scope.
Now many munitions factories had ceased operations under Elashia's direction. Except for heavy weapons where more was always better and production continued, all other weapon production had stopped.
Thinking of this matter, Elashia suddenly asked:
"Cecilia, how's the production speed of magic crossbows at the munitions factories?"
Upon hearing this, Cecilia immediately nodded excitedly.
"Your Majesty, your method is incredibly effective! We've been trialing it for a full month now without any problems! This kind of large military equipment should have been produced using your method long ago!"
Previously, after Elashia toured the magic crossbow production factory, she couldn't help but be speechless at the frighteningly slow speed.
One workshop, with hundreds of craftsmen mastering advanced techniques working around a single ballista for a full year, could only produce one magic crossbow.
However, when she questioned the factory's speed, Cecilia and the craftsmen in the workshop had their own say.
When Elashia learned from Cecilia that a magic crossbow contained at least hundreds of extremely precise components that required extremely particular assembly methods, she immediately thought of cars from her era.
Thinking of cars, she remembered what she'd learned from history books—"assembly line production methods."
So she immediately had a flash of inspiration—"Why can't assembly line production methods be applied to magic crossbow production?"
Thus, after finishing the munitions factory tour, Elashia immediately suggested to Cecilia—"Could we change this production method?"
Upon hearing Elashia's suggestion to specialize factories, with one workshop specifically responsible for manufacturing one type of component, and finally having a specialized munitions factory for assembly, Cecilia was suddenly enlightened!
Previously each magic crossbow was produced in different workshops without unified standards, but as long as standards could be unified, this kind of specialized production was completely feasible!
After completing the production method reform, magic crossbow production speed immediately increased dramatically!
Moreover, even human resource costs were greatly reduced!
Now the busiest factories were the magic crossbow ones, with some other munitions factories even being converted into magic crossbow manufacturing plants.
Current Elasia was rapidly producing at the astonishing speed of one magic crossbow per week.
Seeing Cecilia's excited appearance, Elashia was also extremely happy.
These heavy weapons would all be useful in future battles—the more the better.
If quantities were sufficient, at the start of battle they could directly have a thousand knights fire a hundred destructive explosive crossbow bolts through coordinated volleys, dealing devastating blows to enemy morale!
However, Elashia knew this wasn't a game where money could directly be converted to weapons.
Even with full production, speed ultimately had limits.
Moreover, in early stages, the raw materials for producing magic crossbow bodies—[Immortal Wood]—were also limited. [Immortal Wood] would only become available after mid-game events when communication with elves was established.
So she was quite satisfied with this production speed.
Elashia praised:
"Excellent, excellent. We need to strive to convert all [Immortal Wood] into magic crossbows by year's end, so we won't be helpless facing next spring's beast tide."
She was very clear—when facing the upcoming beast tide, only two things could truly be trusted.
City walls and heavy weapons.
Human combat units going down from city walls to directly face the beast tide would basically just be sending them to their deaths.
Except for high-level knights and hero units, no human unit could contend with powerful magical beasts.
While magical beasts lacked wisdom, their strength and defense were beyond human imagination.
Human warriors of the same level fighting magical beasts of the same level would need at least five-to-one odds to have a chance of winning...
Elashia shook her head.
Why was she thinking about this now?
If the nearby [Goblin Emperor] wasn't handled properly, Elashia might not even need to wait for the beast tide to arrive before dying.
Looking at Cecilia, Elashia asked:
"How do you plan to train these adventurers?"