The cold winter has passed, and the Kawa Great Forest is welcoming a new phase of revival.

However, this year, the forest is shrouded in an uneasy atmosphere, as if something is about to happen. This feeling is especially strong for Austin, who senses the ominous signs of an impending storm.

This period is a good opportunity for hunting. In previous years, the forest was filled with various animals just waking from hibernation, but this year there are even more animals, including giant beasts, forcing the Dragon's Nest Army to increase patrol frequencies to nip dangers in the cradle.

"Something is definitely going to happen, perhaps those large tribes on the border know something."

Now, Austin's early followers from the Dragon Nest Race, the current Dragon Nest Tribe's first warrior, Lizardman Rodney, once lived in a large tribe on the border that was destroyed, as did the Fox-faced Man Quik, who has a similar origin. From them, Austin learned that since a few years ago, raids on the human Bloody Border by those large tribes have been increasing, and conflicts among the powers have also become more frequent.

At that time, Austin thought it was due to the Bloody Great Wall finally being perfected after hundreds of years, greatly preventing Beastmen from invading the human world for food, leading to "internal conflicts" among the Beastman tribes. Now, it seems this is not the case.

Austin also inquired with the Dark Elf Adinlek and captured members of the Blood Claw Tribe branch, but they only knew about the chaotic state on the border and nothing else, not even understanding why they established bases nearby.

Nonetheless, the information they provided about several large super tribes on the border beginning to unite and attack the Bloody Border was even more intriguing to Austin.

"What exactly is the danger?"

This perplexing situation instinctively made Austin feel uneasy, but the unease had not yet developed to a point of menacing dread. Moreover, with the Dragon Nest Race's development reaching this stage, Austin had some confidence in facing future dangers.

"Although I don't know what's happening, this could also be an opportunity."

With the rampant beasts, magic beasts, and giant beasts, apart from the Dragon Nest Tribe, nearby Beastman tribes were unable to ensure their safety, leading to a large population being annexed and absorbed by the Dragon Nest Tribe. The population of the Dragon Nest Tribe has now surpassed the 5,000 mark.

Moreover, with the Dragon Nest Tribe's current strength, the massive animal herds merely provide a large food supply for the tribe. Luckily, after every clean-up of surrounding animal and giant beasts, more herds would pass by in a couple of days, ensuring no food shortages due to the population surge.

"However, preparations must be made to face dangers; let's first implement the Beastman armament plan."

The magic-modified version of the Navy Six Techniques is now fully developed with three techniques: Iron Block, Gale Wave, and Shave. However, it still takes some time for the core Dragon Vein Attendants to master these techniques, and Austin's plan to arm the Beastmen naturally is about true armament.

After a whole winter's three-month development attempt, the Goblins have perfected the manufacturing process of Copper Artifacts. Though they haven't refined what Austin remembers as "Bronze," those Copper Alloy Weapons are not inferior to ordinary Iron Weapons.

With the end of winter, weather constraints vanished, enabling Beastmen to conduct large-scale blast furnace production work.

To arm the Dragon Nest Tribe's army, Austin diverted a significant amount of Beastman labor to copper refining, slowing down land reclamation work. However, using copper tools, farming familiar land is much easier than pioneering forestland. Despite many being pulled for farming, the speed of reclaiming and planting work has not decreased compared to the previous year but has accelerated instead.

But Austin has some concerns; if that unknown change affects the Dragon Nest Tribe, the tribe might have to relocate. Thus, today Austin didn't issue new reclamation tasks, only having the Beastmen plant on the previously reclaimed fields.

To maximize planting effectiveness, nearly every piece of land was planted with kudzu, with other grain seeds left only for reserves.

On the other hand, to realize Austin's vision of an armed Beastman army, at the Copper Mine Base, a large number of Beastmen constructed blast furnaces using local materials.

Then vast amounts of charcoal were produced, and together with the ore, were poured into the furnaces for large-scale smelting.

With copper axes, tree felling became much easier. The surrounding forest was rapidly disappearing, turned into raw materials for copper refining. Plumes of smoke rose from the blast furnaces, covering the Copper Mine Base's sky almost the entire day. In Austin's previous modern world, he would likely be caught the next day for air pollution and environmental damage.

But this is Otherworld, and such pollution hardly amounts to a drop in the ocean and is likely swiftly absorbed and purified by nature.

As the blast furnaces burned furiously, sets of heavy, simple copper armor, copper spears, copper swords, and copper arrows flowed from assembly lines, equipping the Beastman army.

After more than ten days, all Dragon Nest Beastmen army armament plans had been completed.

Looking at the vast open space, where ranks of well-equipped and spirited Beastman army stood, Austin's confidence grew stronger.

This fully metal-armed force is likely unparalleled in the entire Kawa Great Forest, only the unique possession of Austin's Dragon Nest Legion.

With the completion of the Dragon Nest Legion's armament plan, the Legion's strength has significantly increased. The impact against the recent rampages of wild beasts and giant beasts around is immediately apparent.

Before this, to minimize losses, every hunting army of the Dragon Nest Legion had to consist of at least 200 members when venturing out.

Now, with copper spears, copper armor, and other weapons and armor, even a hunting group of a few dozen Beastmen won't face unexpected situations, and their gains are not less than before. This greatly enhanced the mobility of the Dragon Nest Legion and significantly increased the hunting gains of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

After arming the Dragon Nest Legion, the daily prey the Dragon Nest Tribe gained increased by several percent.

The effectiveness of metal weapons in hunting is so good that in wartime, their enhancement of other Beastman tribes' combat power would likely be even greater.

However, with the completion of the Dragon Nest Legion armament plan, Austin did not proceed to broadly re-outfit all Dragon Nest Beastmen, only producing a large number of copper spears for the Beastman militia, without fully equipping them with copper armor, while the remaining production Beastmen were only collectively assigned copper-made hoes, shovels, and other production tools.

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