The city of knowledge, Logia.
Constantine District.
Lugia, known as the Arcane City and the City of Knowledge, is a standard neutral city. Including the Black Tower, a large number of extraordinary research organizations have established their headquarters here.
And with different research factions as the core, Lugia is also divided into different urban areas. The Constantine District is the area of the Steam School, named after Constantine, the first legendary mechanic in the Western Continent.
Char was walking on the streets of Constantine District.
Different from the grand, solemn style of the imperial capital, the architectural style of the Constantine District is mostly quite trendy.
In addition to the common buildings, you can occasionally see mechanical shops with gears and furnace cores as their symbols.
Here, machines are not just novelties in the hands of extraordinary people and the powerful, but have been popularized in the lives of ordinary people.
A considerable number of horse-drawn carriages were replaced by magical mechanical vehicles that traveled through the wide streets, and even the main roads had permanent street lights.
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...
Aurora's calm voice sounded beside Xia: "So Su Lun asked you to meet here."
Su Lun is the real name of the Saint of Dawn.
Airola usually appeared in public without makeup, but today she wore light makeup, which was extremely rare. Even her clothes were carefully selected. She chose a dark-colored dress that was the most popular in the imperial capital.
At this moment, she no longer had the solemn aura that she had when she was ranked first in military mission points. Instead, she was more in line with the identity of the little princess of the Winter Flower family.
And unlike her usual habit of following Char half a step behind him, today Airola took Char's arm quite forcefully and proactively.
Like a peacock asserting its sovereignty over its rivals.
"No. 301 Tianhuo Avenue, the Third Machinery Manufacturing Institute, is indeed here."
Xia looked at the street number, smelled the faint fragrance of the girl who was holding his arm, and felt both pain and happiness.
The pain was because he was caught on the spot while communicating with the magician Su Lun, the Saint of the Dawn, in the evening a few days ago.
In the past two days, I have been stared at with the deathly gaze of a jealous person.
The reason for happiness is that the jealous Xiao Ai is really cute. She has taken the initiative to give him a lot of benefits in the past two days.
It turns out that for a character like Tsundere, only internal competition can unleash their potential.
Xia nodded in his heart.
Meow~
On Char's shoulder, a white cat meowed weakly.
As Sylvia's spiritual incarnation, she now feels a little regretful.
Although as a pet, I can indeed have all kinds of close contact with Brother Xia without any scruples. I don’t know how many times I have been approached by Brother Xia in the past few days, and I even heard Brother Xia’s confession to me with my own ears.
However, this also means that the dominant power is completely in Char's hands. He can stroke her when he wants, hug her when he wants, and let him knead her as he wants.
And the most important thing is, as a pet that always accompanies Char, she heard a lot of Char's little secrets...but she also had to witness Char being affectionate with other women, and she could only watch helplessly from the side.
Look, she felt like she had turned into a lemon person, no, a lemon cat, with a sour smell all over her body... If she didn't look at it, she would feel itchy and uncomfortable.
Master, when can you finish those things and come over from the White Tower?
If you don't come soon, your brother Xia will be eaten up by other bad women.
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Char and Airola once lived in this city called Lugia for nearly two years.
Although Char was accepted as a disciple by Hathaway, "The Eternal Page", one of the Eight Pages of the Black Tower, he spent most of his time studying in the subsidiary planes of the Black Tower headquarters.
However, as a modern time traveler, Char would often bring Xiao Ai to the steam machinery shop in the Constantine District in his spare time, dreaming of driving a huge war mecha in the future.
Although several years have passed, the Constantine District is still familiar to both Char and Airola.
Soon, they stopped in front of a huge machinery manufacturing plant.
Xia pushed the door open and walked in.
His eyes looked around.
Then, in the rest area of the mechanical hall filled with mechanical apprentices, he spotted the dark-haired figure wearing a baseball cap with the brim pulled down low.
"Long time no see. I thought you wouldn't come in person."
Xia greeted her and sat down with Xiao Ai opposite the black-haired figure.
"We haven't seen each other for five years. This is a rare opportunity, so I have to come out and see you."
The sweet voice of Su Lun, the Saint of the Dawn, came through the mask, sounding a little dull.
Looking at the beautiful girl in front of him, who was wearing a heavy baseball cap and a mask, with a scarf wrapped around her neck, wrapping herself tightly, and whose appearance could not be seen at all except for a pair of beautiful eyes, Xia couldn't help but speak with sympathy.
"It's not easy to go out in disguise like this."
Although this look was a bit strange, Xia could completely understand why Su Lun did this.
The identity of the Saint of Dawn is very special.
As for other powerful people, even if they are legendary beastmasters or leaders of a large force, their fame is limited to their own extraordinary circles.
For ordinary people who have not entered the extraordinary realm, they are not qualified to know these secret information. Unless someone is interested and specifically asks about it, no one would know that the person next to them is actually a legend when walking on the street.
But Su Lun, as the Holy Maiden of the Dawn, is a symbolic figure of the entire Holy Court and even the entire Holy Church.
As the face of the Vatican, it often appears in public at sacred ceremonies.
The Church of Dawn is the most influential religious organization in the entire Western Continent. Its followers are not limited to the Holy Kingdom, but include almost all territories of the Order Camp.
Therefore, Su Lun can now be called a big star in the Western Continent. His popularity and reputation are second only to the archpriest of the Dawn Church. Even Isadella cannot compare with him.
After all, although Isadella is the second princess of the Foresta Empire and is quite popular among the people, she has not yet ascended the throne. Most people outside the empire will not pay much attention to a princess who has not yet ascended the throne, while the believers of the Dawn Church are spread all over the Western Continent.
Although the atmosphere of faith in Lugia is not strong...but if Su Lun's true face is revealed, it will definitely cause great excitement among the Dawn believers.
It gives me a sense of déjà vu as if celebrities in previous lives disguised themselves and hid from the paparazzi.
"It's okay. I'm a mechanic after all. In order to keep up with the latest progress of the Steam School, I've been going to Lugia a lot in recent years. I'm used to it."
"Of course, it's okay if you think I'm having a hard time."
The beautiful eyes of the Saint of Dawn were slightly curved, and her voice was slightly lowered.
"The Saint of Dawn, admired by all the people, has traveled thousands of miles, through thousands of difficulties and dangers, to secretly meet you without telling her fans..."
"How about it? Did you feel moved for a moment?"
As he spoke, Su Lun pushed two glass cups with straws in front of Xia Ya and Airola. The dark brown liquid in the glass cups was bubbling.
"Here, the happy water you've always wanted."
"The flavor is made with alchemy, and the air is pumped with magic machinery. It's specially made to taste like Coke instead of Pepsi according to your taste."
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"To be honest, if you don't say it yourself, I do feel a little moved." "However, the current environment makes me a little afraid to be moved."
Xia glanced at the black-haired girl in front of him. Her chestnut eyes were hazy under her hanging black hair, making it difficult to see clearly.
He returned his gaze to the three glasses of fat house happy water in front of him: "You didn't secretly put some secret medicine in them, did you?"
In the eyes of outsiders, as a symbol of the Church of Dawn, the Saint of Dawn is naturally pure and sacred, and is the perfect incarnation of an angel's halo wherever she goes.
In this regard, Char’s comment is: Don’t believe in rumors and don’t spread them.
Although Su Lun appeared to be a perfect saint in front of the world and the public, only Xia Ya knew that it was all a false illusion created by Su Lun, and it was completely black inside when cut open.
A pure bad woman.
If she was a proper saint, would she want to provide evidence and offer to help herself turn a former god-favored person into a ball of lint?
Given Xia Ya's understanding of Su Lun's dark side, it's not impossible that she would put computer accessories in drinks and seduce decent women and men.
"Is this how you see me, Char? It really makes me sad."
The black-haired saint revealed a tearful expression, and lowered her head to take a sip of the drink in front of her with a straw.
"After all, Xiao Ai was there too. No matter how beastly I am, I would never do such a thing in front of Xiao Ai."
"but……"
Su Lun paused for a moment.
She stood up, leaned close to Xia's ear, and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I really did bring the medicine you mentioned just now."
"I have also booked a suite at the Jingui Hotel."
"Xia Ya, if you want, I'll be waiting for you in Room 903 of the Jingui Hotel at nine o'clock tonight..."
hiss--
Xia took a long breath.
The purity of this bad woman is getting higher and higher.
He had to admit that he was a little moved.
Anyway, they are all fish raised in their own fish pond. Xiao Ai still needs to plan and find a night with a beautiful full moon to get down to business. Sylvia is worried that she will be suppressed because of her lack of strength, but the Saint does not have so many restrictions.
A bad woman like Su Lun, who likes to seduce young men from good families, needs the strict teaching of a righteous partner like me, so that she can turn over a new leaf and get on the right path.
But soon.
Char was brought back to reality by the murderous cold eyes beside him.
Not only Xiao Ai had changed from a little angel to an angel of death, but even the look in the white cat's eyes when it looked at her had something a little wrong.
Are you helping your beastmaster catch an adulterer?
"cough."
Xia coughed and cleared his throat.
"We've strayed off topic, let's get back to business."
"How are my mechanical sparks and the two sets of mechanical combination arrays going?"
“It’s all done.”
Su Lun's words were still pleasant to the ear, and his beautiful chestnut eyes stared at Char, not wavering at all because of Char's refusal.
"Your idea is very advanced and the difficulty is also very high."
"Several title-level mechanical beastmasters tried but failed to complete the task. Finally, I asked the current president of the Steam School, the legendary mechanic, to help me complete the task in the name of the Saint of Dawn."
"The cost of hiring a legendary mechanic..."
Xia frowned slightly.
He is now very wealthy, not only because he made a fortune in the remnants of history.
Isadella was currently enjoying great success in the empire, and the status of him as the number one figure in the Second Princess's faction had also risen accordingly. Many great nobles who had chosen to sit on the fence in the previous dispute between the Borgia family and the royal family had now expressed their stance.
As fence-sitters, they were too embarrassed to kneel directly to Isadela, the princess known for her iron-blooded style, so they turned to Char to show their goodwill.
Plus the White Tower's entry, etc., brought invisible benefits to his business industry...
Char's current total wealth is quite astonishing, a far cry from the poverty he had more than a year ago. It is no problem for him to hire dozens of title-level beastmasters at once.
But legends are different, especially legendary mechanics. Just like the alchemists in Char's previous life's fantasy novels are much more valuable than warriors of the same level, professions like mechanics and alchemists are legendary, and their employment value is simply inestimable.
Xia was not sure whether his wealth could meet the other party's offer.
"Although I would like to take this opportunity to make you owe me another favor."
"But the president of the Steam School said that your idea is very advanced and inspired him. You only need to pay for the materials and there is no need to charge any extra fees."
"The things you want are now stored in the seventh production room. Just go and get them."
As if he could see what Xia was thinking, Su Lun let out a low laugh from under his mask.
"President Steam is such a nice guy."
Char nodded.
Of course he knew that Su Lun, the Saint of the Dawn, was also a wealthy woman who was no less wealthy than the Chairman of Baitata, Elvia.
But if he borrowed money from such a bad woman, he was really afraid that he would be taken advantage of anytime.
Come to think of it, there are really a lot of rich women around me...
Su Lun, Sylvia, and Isadella... As an eternal page of the Black Tower, my teacher has accumulated wealth for who knows how many years, and his wealth should be terrifyingly high.
Unfortunately, I am a man who likes to live off women.
Char sighed inwardly, stood up, and walked towards the seventh production room.
"Xiao Ai, just stay here and wait for me. I'm going to the production room."
As he walked, Xia felt a sense of anticipation in his heart, and even his steps became lighter.
That was a plan he had thought of countless times since he first traveled through time.
Previously, in Diris's "Dream Creation", the dream fragments revealed by Char were not complete, but they were not all false imaginations.
However, in the past, Char’s rank was not high enough, and the funds were insufficient, so some of his plans and ideas could only remain in his imagination.
And now, Xia's rank has entered the fifth ring and he can be called the master of beast taming.
His funds are already in place, enough to support the entire plan.
so--
That was the grand idea about magical machinery that originally existed in the dream.
At this moment, a part of it is finally about to become a reality.
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