Volume 9: Phantom of the Ancient Castle, Chapter 6: Preemptive Strike

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The warming weather seemed to also drive the sustained economic development of the Caucasus.

With the Bahomon Iron Mine officially starting production, and its output steadily increasing, and the dredging of the Catania River, the transportation route from Bahomon to Mattdam was officially opened, allowing raw iron ore and pig iron to be transported directly to Mattdam by water.

The road from Bahomon to Ugru had become the best road in the entire Caucasus Region. It only took two days to travel from Bahomon to Ugru, and if one had urgent matters and needed to travel overnight, a day and a half was enough. This quickly made Bahomon the largest raw material and rough processing base in the whole Caucasus.

As the riots in Leon became more frequent, a considerable number of liberated slaves among the half-orc miners, who were neither willing to stay and wait for death nor willing to join the rioting armies, fled to the Caucasus.