Lord of the Sky City-Chapter 767 - 729: New Industry

Chapter 767: Chapter 729: New Industry

Rocky naturally had a detailed and complete report on the industrial distribution within Carltos City, so although he visited less often, his understanding of Carltos City was no less than anyone else’s. Therefore, when Voss mentioned the city’s industrial dilemma, Rocky became interested.

As he knew, Carltos City had several key industries, with food processing and manufacturing being the primary focus. In the world today, with resources in the skies relatively scarce, food unquestionably remained a basic necessity. Thus, processed and manufactured foods were always in demand, and this was the case in Carltos City as well. However, the city now faced difficulties.

According to Voss, due to increased demon attacks, the number of merchant teams sent out by various chambers of commerce had significantly decreased. This not only increased the cost of importing raw materials for all industries but also made sourcing these materials more difficult. Carltos City’s food industry was currently facing such predicaments.

The food industry in Carltos City mainly processed meat products, capable of producing a large quantity of meat that could be preserved for a long time, and the profit was quite substantial. However, since it involved meat processing, the raw materials were naturally livestock. Carltos City had its own livestock farms, but these were not on a large scale; they were more for self-sufficiency, so the livestock needed for the food industry was usually imported.

Now, due to increasingly frequent demon attacks, major chambers of commerce were hesitant to send merchant teams to trade in far-off places, making it difficult for Carltos City’s food industry to import livestock, leading to a major crisis where production had already dropped by more than half.

With production down, income naturally decreased as well, but Voss saw this as a secondary issue. He was well aware that Rocky’s main focus was on developing Thunderhawk City, which was generating millions in revenue every quarter, so Rocky was not short on money. The real serious issue was that if the food industry, a pillar of the city, collapsed, then Carltos City itself would face significant problems. No more need be said; once a large number of people became unemployed, the city’s stability would truly be at risk, and that was Voss’s biggest concern.

“So that’s the situation…”

Having heard Voss’s explanation, Rocky nodded thoughtfully, not only taking in the information but also being quite inspired by it.

For him, saving Carltos City’s food industry was not a big problem. He now had such a good relationship with the Ruby Chamber of Commerce who would definitely be willing to engage in this business. Even if the Ruby Chamber of Commerce declined, the Apple Tree Corporation would agree, since they had always wanted to expand their business beyond warships and armor. They were also trying their hand at general trade, and if all else failed, Rocky could find other chambers of commerce willing to cooperate with him in Eternal City. So this matter was not difficult.

In fact, what really interested him about this situation was that through Carltos City’s food industry, Rocky thought of demons.

Yes, he did think of demons.

Of course, Rocky had no intention of processing demons into food, as this approach had been tried before and ended disastrously.

Theoretically, demons are not much different from other animals, and indeed many demons could be used as food. Not to mention, the Beastmen of the Fireteng Tribe on land consume demon meat, seeing no difference between it and beef. But the same could not be said for those living in the skies who would absolutely not accept eating demons. Thus, what Rocky really considered was not making food from demons but processing demon materials.

The value of demon materials needs little explanation. Apart from income from mined resources, Backhill Village’s most significant revenue comes from selling demon materials, an amount not even less than what they get from mining.

Thus, once Rocky learned about the issues in Carltos City’s food industry, he suddenly thought of a possibility—could an industry related to demon materials be developed within Carltos City?

One must understand that what is euphemistically referred to as “demon materials” are actually various materials from a demon’s body like demon skin, demon bones, or demon cores, among others. If one thinks about it carefully, this process does not seem too different from slaughtering livestock…

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So if Carltos City’s food industry had the capability to process livestock, then, with proper training and development, they would be fully capable of applying the same technology to extracting demon materials!

And once Carltos City attained this capability, Rocky’s income from demon materials could almost double because a complete demon could sell for a thousand or two gold coins in Eternal City, and the same could be fetched from its demon core with demon skin and other parts bringing in decent revenue as well. Thus, selling a complete demon and buying demon materials were two different concepts, with both potentially generating substantial income. If Rocky had the capability to directly manufacture demon materials, then he would make substantially more money from demon parts.

However, this decision could not be rushed; after all, decomposing a demon into demon materials wouldn’t be as simple as slaughtering a pig and couldn’t be easily performed by a butcher. So this matter still needed to be consulted with professionals, but at least it gave Rocky a new direction.

In this context, Rocky had a discussion with Voss, then returned to Thunderhawk City and met with Archimonde again the next day.

Once they met, Rocky discussed his plan to build a shipyard in Carltos City.

Upon hearing this idea, Archimonde was initially taken aback because building a shipyard was no trivial matter. An ordinary city in the skies simply could not undertake such a project; a single warship required hundreds of meters of space and at least a thousand workers, something a normal Sky City just couldn’t support.

But after thinking it over carefully, he realized his perspective had been too rigid, framed by Thunderhawk City’s standards, forgetting that Rocky not only had Thunderhawk City but also another Sky City. Carltos City, in terms of both population and scale, was many times larger than Thunderhawk City, and establishing a shipyard there was certainly feasible.

Realizing this, Carltos City became very excited, as this was indeed a big deal!