The cost of developing the new armor had completely exceeded Rocky's imagination, and it even surpassed the maximum financial burden he could bear!
When Hammerfire produced the fifth version of the improved armor and started to work on a comprehensive upgrade to the next version, the one million Gold Coins provided by Rocky were entirely spent...
To the average person, such spending would be unimaginable because only a few months had passed since the beginning of the Rune Armor project. Yet they had already spent over a million Gold Coins in such a short period, burning cash even faster than indulging in eating, drinking, and gambling.
But this was the reality, and not only was it a fact, but in the eyes of people like Orton, it wasn't even surprising because even a few million Gold Coins being spent on the research process of ordinary technology or techniques would be considered quite normal, let alone their research on Rune technology, which was of the topmost tier.
