On the west side of Jingyue Strait, Banguo Island.

This small island in the strait is in the ocean further west than Hopeland and is now in the rear of the battle.

"Lord Black, Master Lund is here."

In a giant shipyard on the island, Blake stood under the giant battleship that was about to be completed, looked up, and felt emotional.

It's been almost five years now. Since leaving Hopeland and coming to this small island to carry out this mission, time has flown by so quickly.

He was just an orphan who was ignored in Hopeland. Later, he was adopted by the Carites family and became a guard. He was later promoted by Miss Lacy and finally grew to his current position. He has experienced so many things without realizing it.

I still remember that day when Miss Lacey called him into her office, asked him about his ambitions and future plans, and then assigned me this task.

"Although we have gained independence and signed a contract with the Frost Union, this is just a temporary ceasefire. With the support of the Dayas Chamber of Commerce, the Frost Union's steel battleships will be explored and realized step by step." Loran Hill said so, his light-colored pupils like clear crystal.

"And we in the Carites cannot fall behind. We even have to make arrangements in advance to prepare for possible future wars."

"So, I need someone I can trust to carry out the difficult task."

"Blake is willing to follow the will of the eldest lady." He knelt on one knee and swore a promise.

Afterwards, Miss Lacey gave him thick blueprints, numerous materials, inheritance gems, and even a panacea to improve his own strength, so that a year later, he entered Sequence 5, and now he has just been promoted to Sequence 6.

Over the years, he kept traveling back and forth between the island and other places, purchasing various materials and handing them over to technicians. Under his witness, this giant shipyard was built step by step, and then it took several more years to gradually perfect and build these giant warships.

It was not until today that these steel warships were fully built.

"Master Lund is here." A guard came in to report, and then a man in a gray-black coat walked over.

There was still some dust and oil on his clothes and hands, and ordinary people could not see any master's style, but only the staff here knew that this alchemist's hard work in studying warship technology and his understanding of it was so deep that outsiders could hardly imagine.

In order to test the best hull structure, he led his apprentice wizards to conduct hundreds and thousands of experiments in the nearby waters, building one model and experimental ship after another, until the birth of these three battleships.

"Lord Black, what do you want to talk to me about?" Although Londo is the chief technology officer of the island, Black, as Miss Lacey's agent, is in charge of all matters and has a higher status.

"Miss Lacey wrote to me recently. Here it is." Blake had nothing to hide about Loran Hill's instructions.

Longde took the letter and looked at it carefully.

The letter informed Black and Lund that the Berry Kingdom had agreed to a full alliance with Clancy, and that Carites and New Verga would also participate. After the three warships were reorganized, they would be launched directly and sent to the front lines to rendezvous with the Berry Kingdom fleet and then engage the Frost Alliance fleet.

"Has this day finally come?" Longde sighed.

Although he was born in the Frost Union, he was ostracized and despised because of his poverty and membership in a small faction. He then led his students to migrate to Verga. He never expected that many years later, he would end up on the opposite side of his former country.

However, in Ivar's world today, the concept of family and country is not very prominent. He didn't receive any favors in Lurna, and later he and his family migrated away, so he didn't feel uncomfortable about it. He just lamented the impermanence of the world and the huge differences in life's circumstances.

The third-rate alchemist who was ignored and looked down upon in Lurna before has now turned around and become the technical chief of the Carites Chamber of Commerce. If the war is won, he can even get a good position in the country afterwards, which was unimaginable for him before.

"I understand. I will let my apprentices and younger generations handle it properly." He looked at the giant battleship in front of him that was towering close to the dome. He took a few steps forward, slowly approached, and then gently stroked the hard steel hull.

While the Berry Kingdom was still using sail-powered warships, the Frost Alliance had already begun using ironclad warships that used a combination of sails and tail propellers. Their form was roughly similar to the warships of the early modern era that Loran Hill remembered.

The outer layer has a thick wrought iron shell, and in the middle there is a teak partition more than half a meter thick to absorb impact and shells. There are also several layers of steel structures on the innermost side. It can be regarded as an ironclad warship that is a mixture of wood and steel.

The technology left by Loran Hill was based on the classic design of the First World War, the dreadnought, and was improved from the beginning. From the beginning, the heavy and wind-catching masts and sails were abandoned, and propulsion was purely based on the powerful propeller at the rear.

The battleship's size has also stretched to more than 200 meters, with a displacement of several tons. It has two sets of magic steam turbines inside, with a maximum speed of 28 knots, and can usually travel at a speed of 20 knots, far exceeding the current Frost Alliance's average speed of 18 knots.

The ship's hull features sealed bulkheads, an optimized armor structure, and five twin 300mm main gun turrets, three forward and two aft. The main guns were originally designed to be ordinary magic cannons. However, last year, Roland Hill sent a new design, incorporating data from the Twilight Era.

Longde still hasn't fully digested the profound patterns and theories, but fortunately he just needs to follow the instructions. No matter what the patterns mean, as long as they can run, it seems to be fine.

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