The reason Beren's stone cannonballs were so expensive was no great mystery. Unlike the neighboring states, there wasn't a single noble who operated cannons. I was probably the first, wasn't I?
So when someone suddenly tried to obtain them, the supply price couldn't help but skyrocket.
Still, a weapon is the kind of thing that proves its worth in proportion to its cost, so I could only hope the doubters would recognize its power today. Schneider and Marco, as I'd ordered, aimed intensively at the Baschurten castle gate.
Since the quantity of cannonballs was limited, concentrated fire on a single target was essential. So the laborers built a small mound in front of the cannons and adjusted the angle several times.
Because of that, the laborers had to rebuild the support mounds several times over.
There was no backbreaking labor quite like it.
