"Emm, that's also understandable, so can my grandpa write?"

Picking up another piece of ribs, Carl gnawed on it while waiting for his father's answer.

"I think so. When I visited him, his study was full of books. He has read so many books, so he should..."

Seeing his father looking uncertain, Carl dropped the bone he had just chewed and turned to look for his mother.

"Okay, stop thinking about it. Really, why am I asking you about this? I might as well ask my mom!"

Ellifel, who was processing the rest of the ingredients with Hope and Lisanna, finally noticed her own son at this time. She looked at Carl walking towards her and cast an inquiring look at him.

"Mom, can my grandpa write scripts?"

"Yes! When I was little, your grandpa used his royalties to buy me snacks. Why are you asking this?"

After telling her mother what had happened recently in the Tower of Wonders, Elifel showed a look of sudden enlightenment.

"So, with that illusion device, we can watch the play even without going to the scene?"

"Yes! So I think that Andel's demand for scripts will surge for a long time to come."

Moore and others are now trying to reduce the cost of the Phantom device. If they succeed, the Phantom device will enter thousands of households like televisions.

But even at the current price, there are definitely people who can afford it.

For example, those Andel nobles.

And when the Nine-fold Path competition is over, in order to let these nobles continue to have something to watch, filming stage plays or other entertainment programs becomes the best solution.

However, the reason why Queen Andel attaches great importance to this thing may be that she also wants to control public opinion through the phantom device.

"Wait a minute, didn't we start by discussing how to let your father and I have a share? How come in the middle of the conversation, this opportunity has become your grandfather's?"

Seeing Carl and Ellifer started chatting, Ryan couldn't stand it anymore.

"Dad, you should continue to run your weapons business. The entertainment industry is not suitable for you."

Pushing the ambitious old father back to the grill, Carl and Ellief planned to send a letter to the old man after dinner.

Soon, the barbecue party came to an end.

Elifel packed up her things simply and went to write a letter to her father.

Carl, Hope, and Lisanna returned to the bedroom, ready to play some board games to pass the time.

Only Ryan was left, squatting at the door and feeling sorry for himself, regretting that he could not seize this opportunity, and feeling as depressed as a muscular guy weighing over 200 pounds.

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"Uncle Ryan is really ambitious!"

In Carl's bedroom, Hope holds a hand of cards and marvels at Carl's father's ambition.

Nearly two months of druid apprentice training gave her an original, natural aura.

This means that her body has begun to integrate the original magic power of the wilderness.

The Druid's level 18 feature [Immortal Body] originates from this.

However, compared with the effect of the immortal body extending lifespan ten times, low-level druids can only extend their remaining lifespan by one to six times under the effect of primordial magic.

Carl took a card from Lisanna and placed it in the middle of his own hand without changing his expression.

Lisanna on the side laughed secretly, then drew a card from Hope's hand to form a pair.

"Hmm~, but the weapons produced in Uncle Ryan's factory are indeed a bit outdated. Not to mention [8000 Life Cost], those ordinary swords are not even as powerful as the rifle that Brother Carl made in the examination room."

As they were talking, another round of the joker card game had already passed. Lisanna casually drew another card from Hope's hand, only to find that the joker card that Carl had just drawn was back in her hand.

For a moment, Lisanna's little face wrinkled into a ball.

"Huh?"

Carl covered his hand with the cards on the floor and looked at Lisanna, feeling as if he had just woken someone up from a dream.

"Dad is just worried about the embarrassing situation of outdated products and market pressure, so he wants to develop a side business. In this case, why don't I upgrade his industry and build a production line for rifle parts?"

It was also because Carl made a lot of money after he became self-reliant, so he somewhat neglected the factory that his old father had worked so hard to build.

It would take at least three years of Ryan's arsenal's net profits to pay off Akanix's student loans, but Carl paid them off on his own after just one school year.

So subconsciously, he no longer took his father's factory seriously.

Considering that his father might be facing a midlife crisis, Carl quickly put down the cards and ran downstairs to tell his father what he had just thought.

Hearing that his son had made a cheap, sturdy and powerful musket, Ryan, who was squatting at the door and muttering to himself, immediately stood up.

"Good boy! You are worthy of being my son! Tomorrow! Come with me to the factory tomorrow, okay!"

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll do whatever you say. What's the matter? The performance of our factory is not very good?"

When Ryan heard his son ask this, he bared his big white teeth and wanted to pat his chest and say "no", but he didn't do it in the end.

"Ah~, as you know, our weapons are mainly sold to rangers, but it seems that a shop with better craftsmanship has opened in Greenheart City. A while ago, when Lisanna's parents came to visit us, I saw that the double swords her father carried were not the pair that our family made for him before."

Although Ryan looks very rough, he has the necessary observation skills to build a career on his own in Wana City.

Even the rangers with whom I have a good relationship have switched to other people to produce their equipment. Doesn't that mean our own weapons are lagging behind others?

The weapons industry of Eruden is actually far behind that of other kingdoms.

Because druids do not use metal weapons and armor, but various wooden weapons made of bronze wood from the elven kingdom.

The rangers have quite high requirements for weapons, but the country’s decision-makers are druids after all, and they don’t have high demands for the craftsmanship upgrades of metal weapons, so naturally they are a bit negligent.

However, judging from a series of recent decisions, the druids of Greenheart City seem to have finally realized that they need to arm their rangers with better weapons.

Scratching his chin, Carl thought that since he was going to do it, he might as well add some ingredients.

"If that's the case, I'll design a few more types of muskets for our factory.

What do you think of a revolver? It's a hand cannon that uses a revolver to fire bullets. It's the toughest, has a simple structure, and can add magic patterns to the revolver, allowing it to connect to the Elona quiver and automatically refill ammunition! "

The Elona Quiver is standard equipment for rangers or magic archers. This special space item has three pockets. The smallest one can hold 60 arrows, while the medium and large ones can hold more.

As a [non-ordinary] level equipment, it is very cheap in the continent of Khorvaire, so rangers generally do not need to worry about running out of arrows.

(End of this chapter)