Kiara froze for a brief moment that lasted no more than a heartbeat, so subtle that anyone watching closely might have mistaken it for nothing more than a pause in breathing.
Yet inside her mind, the stillness cracked open into a rush of realization that she could not ignore, because she had truly forgotten about it.
The moment the system unlocked the factory functions, the original plan to build a proper smithy had slipped away from her thoughts as easily as a tool dropped into the dark, unnoticed and left behind without care.
Now, as Alexander brought it up again, her thoughts began to move quickly, rearranging themselves in a clear and structured way as if pieces of a puzzle were suddenly falling back into place, and she began to see the connection between everything she currently had and everything she could build.
"Factory…"
The word echoed in her mind, not as an idea but as a direction.
"Production…"
Her thoughts sharpened, forming a path forward.
"Bullets…"
