"I didn't think too much about it at first. I just happened to have one in my belongings when I came out to do business, so I thought I'd bring it out to play with. I never expected it would actually come in handy."
That's quite a coincidence.
I gently tapped the outer shell of the metal sphere, watching it spin steadily with a clicking sound, occasionally flashing a tiny red light from its core. I then drew out a wisp of magic to test it: "And then?"
"Then, of course, we need to find investors! Well, mainly your Lovech Workshop."
"You have the Wan Jin Chamber of Commerce behind you, why don't they just ask your family to invest?" I asked, puzzled. "Besides, you have plenty of pocket money of your own."
"Those funds, aside from daily necessities, must be reserved for the experiments we are currently conducting; they cannot be used casually."
She first explained the second half of the sentence, then a hint of disdain flashed across her pretty face. Grey then curled her lip and continued, "As for my family's, they're all obsessed with money. Expecting them to look at something that looks like it's a waste of money and doesn't bring much profit is just wishful thinking."
"...I don't have much money, don't expect me to come."
Such casual criticism of one's own business is really difficult for an outsider like me to respond to. I'm afraid that the speaker may not mean anything by it, but the listener may take it to heart, and that would be a real disaster.
The little princess didn't dwell on the issue and instead introduced it to me: "Well, thinking about it carefully, it's not a big deal if my senior knows about the origin of this thing."
"Actually, the prototype of this thing was brought back by an exploration team sent out by my family's chamber of commerce. Along with it, they also recovered the collection of documents that my senior had helped to recover, as well as the aircraft that is currently being tested... However, at the beginning, these were just rubbings of sketches that were full of incomprehensible drawings. It took a long time for someone to study them before they were gradually restored to what they are now."
"...Wait a minute, did you get all of these from the ruins?"
I remembered what Qiao had casually mentioned before, and I sat up slightly.
While still casually peeling the remaining pomegranate seeds, Grey nodded: "I heard there were many other artifacts in that ruin, but most of them were too big or too broken, so they couldn't be brought back. It's a real pity."
Can you confirm what era it belongs to?
After thinking for a few seconds, Grey shook her head: "I heard it's deep in a restricted area, so I haven't been there to see it in detail."
"However, according to the returning expedition team, the materials used in that ruin were quite solid, and they didn't spend too much on fancy decorations. They also couldn't find many traces of monsters. It looked both wild and advanced, and it was hard to tell the difference, but there were traps everywhere that couldn't be detected by detection spells, so they suffered quite a few injuries along the way."
"According to this theory, could it be a product even earlier than the Kingdom era?"
"Who knows? The current academic community hasn't even fully explored the remnants of the Kingdom era, and the existence of even earlier eras remains a distant concept. How can we possibly know what existed back then?"
After wiping her hands clean and elegantly blowing on the warm tea, Grey took a small sip: "Besides, even if there are still relics that record that era, they may have already been buried by time."
"Perhaps the situation is different inside the hidden forbidden zones, for example, there might be conditions that protect things left behind by previous civilizations..."
Although that's just a guess, it seems impossible when I think about it.
"Didn't you say before that you wanted to talk to my dad about cooperation? What about those things now?"
“I’m not optimistic about the extra transaction orders that Grandpa added on the airship. Although the airship is fast, there are many uncertainties in the air, and the potential dangers of getting on and off multiple times must be taken into account… Let me make it clear beforehand, this is not to say that your airship is of poor quality! However, more convenient transportation is a top priority, and the communication technology also needs to be further updated.”
"Relying solely on manpower to travel back and forth is far too inefficient. Even if the mages were to open doors on both sides, it would only be a matter of a few times, and their strength would be greatly diminished for a period of time afterward, rendering them ineffective in combat, let alone able to influence the course of the battle or provide rapid support and relocation."
She suddenly looked up at me, then quickly looked away. From behind the teacup covering her mouth, she muttered softly, "Not everyone can be like you, senior, casually casting Void Walk, which consumes a lot of magic power, as an ordinary spell."
You're making it sound like I'm abnormal.
It's simply a matter of doing a few more practice sessions on top of the increased total magic power after the magic circle is set up. It's a training method that only ordinary people without great talent can achieve as long as they have perseverance.
I pursed my lips, not wanting to insert any pointless arguments here, but at the same time, I felt that the first half of her statement was quite reasonable.
“Fortunately, thanks to the senior students’ proactive efforts, these proposals have all received preliminary approval after being supplemented with contracts. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how they are implemented.” Shaking her head and putting down her teacup, Grey cheered up. “In short, everything has taken a solid first step, which is a good start!”
After a brief silence in the room, Grey waved her clenched fist, looking determined to make a big splash and encouraging herself.
"...One question: why haven't you been going to class?"
I looked away and finally voiced the question that had been brewing since we met: "Is there any holiday schedule planned for the college recently?"
"Can't I be like my senior?"
Grey blinked innocently; to an uninformed person, she might really seem like just a simple young girl.
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