Chapter 43

Dear Diary,

After three weeks of travel, we finally reached Dreadfort.

The first thing I noticed upon coming back home was the increased amount of ambient magic in the atmosphere.

I had no doubt it was the work of the Leaf and Ash whom I'd left in charge of the Godswood.

Once we reached back to the Castle, a large feast was held by his aunt for coming back home safely.

Once the short feast ended, I went to the Giants and talked with them about a suitable habitat for them. And after a few hours, I gave them a good amount of land in the Lonely hills along with a steady supply of food until they are able to set themselves up in their new home.

Suffice to say that I'll have to create armors for them soon enough.

After all, despite being 14 feet tall, they were still impervious to arrows and spears. And I didn't want them dying so cheaply when I eventually take them to war.

Wearing a Frost Steel armor that was imbued with Featherweight charm would definitely keep them safe from such things as well as allow them to move around without any difficulty.

I'll also have to commission some large swords, warhammers and shields for them. Just thinking about what kind of damage they could do in a battlefield gave him goosebumps.

Yup, definitely have to create some magical armors and Warhammers for them.

The other thing that came to my notice was the fact that the blacksmiths had gotten used to the Blast Furnace as well as the Water Wheel powered hammer. And because of the constant supply of good quality steel, they were now able to mass produce swords, armors and spears for the roman style legion that I was about to train in the near future.

I now had enough armour and weapons to equip an army of 6000 men easily. That was a bit of a bummer because I didn't even have that many soldiers in my army at the moment.

So it was decided that most of his blacksmiths would now start creating equipments that would benefit the farmers and other smallfolk.

And any weapon and armor made by them would be sold to the other houses of Westeros and Essos.

The greatest thing about this was the fact that the armors that they created were not only sturdier than the ones created by other blacksmiths, they also took far less time to be made thanks to the water wheel hammers. Not to this would stop him from selling those things at an expensive price. But he had no doubt that he could easily create another industry focused solely on smithing in his domain.

Perhaps one day.

But for now, he needed to start creating the army that he would need to protect his prospering domain.