"Hmm... It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Tops Watt. I have long admired the Demon Kingdom and am very eager to visit it. I hope to find a position within the Demon Kingdom today."

Tops racked his brains for words of surrender. He looked at the unresponsive Shilina, then at Illa... He wasn't quite sure why the empress wasn't saying a word.

And he was also looking in the direction of Yinla and the little girl next to her.

Yinla looked at Tops with a half-smile. He knew Tops had misunderstood, and that Tops' understanding of the Demon King's territory... well, it wasn't that he had a superficial understanding, but rather that he knew absolutely nothing about it.

Those who have some understanding of the Demon King's territory won't say "Demon Kingdom," but will directly say "Demon King's Territory." However, even those who pay a little attention to international affairs will know that... the Demon King is a dragon loli, not a succubus older sister.

"Well, in short... Mr. Yinla recruited you, right?"

As Satanye said this, she wasn't quite sure why this person kept looking at Sirina while speaking... Could it be that he figured it out? Did he realize that I, the Demon King, am utterly useless, relying entirely on Mr. Illa and Sirina?

Damn it, what a clever human mage.

At this moment, Tops seemed to realize something. He looked at Yinla, and then, with a somewhat awkward response to Satan Ye's words under his affirmative gaze, said, "Well, that's how it is... They said they wanted me to be the teacher."

teacher?

"Teacher...is it someone who teaches me magic?"

Satanye blinked, looked at Yinla with a puzzled expression, pointed to herself, then twitched her tail back and forth in a tangled manner, and said, "But, I don't really want to learn magic... I don't feel like it's very powerful."

Indeed, given that Satan Ye's bloodline is quite exceptional, there is truly no need for him to learn magic.

"Tops isn't a magic teacher... he's a stick-wielding teacher."

As Yinla said this, Tops opened his mouth, but then felt it was strangely fitting, so he kept his mouth shut... Rather than teaching magic, he was actually teaching how to make a fully automated new spell generator (staff).

"Um, I don't understand..."

Completely unaware of the whole story, Satan Ye shook her head and said, "Anyway, Mr. Yinla brought her back, so you can stay with him from now on... Sirina, help tidy up a room~"

"Understood, Your Majesty."

"..."

"..."

That's it?

Tops asked this question, and after the two left, he looked in the direction of Ira in shock. He said helplessly, "So, they just left like that? No... assessment or anything?"

Yoonra smiled at this...

"Isn't it interesting?"

As Yinla said this, he took two steps, then turned around and nodded to Opus, saying, "I hope for a pleasant cooperation in the future, and... welcome to the Demon King's territory."

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"This is Tops Watt, a former professor at the Crimson Tower."

As Yinla introduced them, he glanced at Xiao Gang, who was nodding, and then turned to Opus, saying, "This is Xiao Gang, the leader of the constructs in the Demon King's territory... If you need his help, just say so."

"..."

"Hello, Professor Tops."

Xiao Gang greeted them politely. Although he didn't know why Yinla had brought the mage who had joined the Demon King's territory, he still spoke politely and extended his hand to Tops.

Tops hesitated before placing his hand in Gang's enormous hand. As if it were a special handshake, he suddenly remembered something and said, "Hello... Gang Leader, do you... speak machine language?"

It seems that Tops instantly got into the zone... or rather, the state he needed to maintain in the Demon King's territory was the same as his usual state; he only needed to popularize the new spellcasting method.

“Mechanical language? Of course we know it, but…”

As Xiao Gang spoke, he looked at Yin La with a puzzled expression, unsure of what she meant.

Yinla briefly summarized what Tops was doing, saying, "Simply put, Tops has developed an 'automatic staff.' By manipulating the staff and making it emit mechanical language, magic can be used automatically."

Immediately, Xiao Gang looked at Tops with a shocked expression after hearing Yinla's words. Although he was not a mage, he understood very well what this meant. He said, "So, I'm going to teach this Professor Tops [Mechanical Language]... that is, machine language?"

Xiao Gang paused as he said this... as if he were speaking, but neither Yinla nor Tops heard him.

"Was Professor Tops able to hear what you just said?"

Xiao Gang said this, but all he saw was Tops shaking his head helplessly... If that's the case, Tops can't hear mechanical language either, so how did he do it?

"The development of the [Automatic Staff] is still in the experimental stage. The inscription of each spell requires careful comparison with the translation of the mechanical language in the textbook in order to inscribe the original text of the spell into the staff."

Xiao Gang, who didn't understand what "original text" or "engraving" meant, tilted his head in confusion at Yin La's words, but he did realize that Tops' translation process was very difficult.

"In [mechanical language]...in mechanical language, the difficulty for other life forms, if translated word by word, at least shows that Professor Tops is a very patient person..."

As Xiao Gang spoke, he looked intently at Tops and said, "Unfortunately, if you can't hear me, I can't teach... although I'd be happy to."

There's no way around it, because this goes beyond the realm of "foreign language," and the difference is even greater than the difference between the language of animals and the language of intelligent life...

There's no need to worry about that, because along the way, Illa has witnessed Tops' determination and ruthlessness in achieving his goals through conversations... He's a very typical mage.

In pursuit of truth, any means necessary.

"Don't worry, my staff can act as my ears so I can hear, and I also have a way to try to understand while I hear. As long as I do this, I can..."

As Tops said this, he tore open the chest of his mage robe, revealing a sci-fi-style crystal on the chest of his thin body. He said, "Once I activate this, I will become a construct powered by flesh and blood."

"..."

Xiao Gang looked at him with deep respect, then at Yin La, and said, "I understand, but although I don't understand anything about inscription... if we want to make more of these automatic wands, one person isn't enough, right? Do we need to learn as well?"

Perhaps that's a good choice, and the only choice, but... there aren't enough golems, after all, everyone also has to take care of construction tasks, and the number of constructs isn't that many either.

"Probably... but we'll talk about that later."

Should we try increasing the number of structures?