Lord of The System (Book 5): A LitRPG Progression Fantasy Series by Alex Toxic & Furious Miki

Author:Alex Toxic & Furious Miki [Toxic, Alex & Miki, Furious]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magic Dome Books
Published: 2025-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“YOU SAY ‘TSAR THIS… TSAR THAT…’ but do you think it’s easy for us tsars?”

I’d been reminded of this phrase from an old Soviet film several times today. Were all rulers forced to understand technology, weapons, agriculture and generally stick their nose in all matters? This couldn’t be royal business...

The image one conjures up is normally very different. You sit on your throne and just give out orders. Then everyone around you runs around, fawns over you and tries their best to please you. I wondered if Lord Majnun got into all the little details, too, or if he had special people for all that.

Although now I was beginning to understand Emperor Peter the First, who used to be considered a freak. We’d have to do everything ourselves: build houses, cast cannons, and march in formation in an infantry regiment.

It turned out there was no way around it. If you want something done well, do it yourself. If others do it, then you should know their whole process better to evaluate the quality of their work.

There were so many subtleties in all of this. How did I used to reason it out when preparing for tests? First was the Bronze Age, then came the Iron Age. Of course, because iron was better than bronze. People got smarter, so they figured it out.

No damn way! The iron that they learned to cast and forge after bronze proved, in fact, to be complete rubbish. Soft, bendy, didn’t hold an edge.

It was just that there wasn’t enough bronze for everyone, so it remained a metal intended exclusively for aristocrats. Whereas iron was like dirt, it was everywhere, you just had to dig.

Or perhaps there was iron, steel and cast iron. I’d had no idea what the difference was. It turned out that they were all the same metal, the only difference was the amount of carbon.

There was very little of it in iron, which was therefore soft. Steel was the golden mean, but it took incredible luck to “weld” it with our makeshift methods. Not to mention the perfectly selected composition of the charge needed — that is, the mixture of ore and coal — and a stable temperature.

The boring old steel from which everything was made in our modern life, from nails and spoons to cars and airplanes, was now worth more than gold.

You could overdo it and get cast iron: a hard material, but fragile. Cast iron melted more easily than steel, so you could use it to cast pans, hoes and other household products. But it wouldn’t be suitable for weapons or armor.

And you couldn’t get it back again after that. The technology that removed excess carbon from cast iron had not yet been invented, and the System wasn’t going to be generous with it. So in the Middle Ages, cast iron was considered a defect. An error in steel production.

Or take a spear, for example. What could seem easier? A stick with a sharp end. Take it and poke it at the enemy.

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