Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 489 Perfect's Praise
"Please wait here for a moment. The Earl will be here shortly." A maid led Schopenhauer and Weasley to a reception room and served them tea and snacks.

The two sat down on the sofa, looking somewhat reserved.

However, the black tea and snacks provided by the maid soon made the two of them relax to some extent.

In the empire, material supplies have fallen into a very scarce situation. Even people of Schopenhauer and Weasley's status have not been able to drink black tea for a long time, let alone other snacks.

The empire's own tea is entirely imported from the eastern colonies. Now that maritime shipping has been almost completely interrupted, even if the empire can continue to maintain exchanges with the colonies using airships and there is a certain amount of cargo trade, it will focus on various precious and key materials as much as possible. It is impossible to free up precious transportation capacity to transport luxury goods such as tea.

Of course, if he was the Earl of the North, he could indeed afford this luxury.

After all, the airship was invented by her, and all airship manufacturers in the empire must pay her patent fees. Companies that operate airship transportation businesses are even more eager to curry favor with the mother of airships, hoping that she can provide subsequent upgrade and modification plans for the airships.

Although other alchemists and engineers can do this kind of thing, compared with the inventor Perfect, other people's designs are really hard to be eye-catching or have any revolutionary breakthroughs.

And to please Perfect, it was no big deal to use an airship to transport some tea for her.

After all, if one person drinks tea every day throughout the year, how many kilograms of tea can he consume? It is easy to squeeze out space for a few boxes of tea on the airship.

Just because there is space on the airship doesn't mean everyone is qualified to enjoy this privilege and service.

It seems that many things may just be something the parties involved say, but the power, status, and invisible influence involved behind them are quite astonishing.

This luxurious treatment was enough for Schopenhauer, who had not had tea for almost half a year, to fully appreciate Perfecto's tremendous power and influence.

"I didn't expect that I could drink such good black tea in the North. This is really..." Schopenhauer said with emotion, and at this moment the door of the reception room was pushed open.

"Lord Brandlis has arrived." The servant at the door announced loudly, and Perfect walked directly in with the technical report he had received earlier in his hand.

She seemed to have heard Schopenhauer's sigh just now, and replied casually: "It's just tea. If you like it, you can ask the maid for it later and ask them to prepare a can for you."

"Thank you very much, Lord Earl!" Schopenhauer stood up and bowed to Perfectcot. Weasley swallowed the snack in his mouth and bowed to Perfectcot as well.

Although wizards often act very arrogant, Weasley really has no capital to be arrogant in front of the top imperial nobles like the Earl of the North.

After all, during the past few months of participating in the research, he also fully realized what an amazing person the Earl of the North was.

"No need to be so polite. I don't like these empty formalities. I prefer something practical. For example, tell me about your technical ideas and how you came up with the idea of ​​combining the magic circle and the energy tower?" Perfect sat down on a sofa in the reception room, looking casual and relaxed, but with a hint of curiosity in his eyes. "Although this is the research result of Mr. Endymion, the previous president of the Magic Association, it was found out from the pile of old papers and combined with the energy tower, which has nothing to do with magic..."

Having said that, Perfectcott paused deliberately and fixed his gaze on Weasley, making the young wizard almost think that there was something dirty on his face when he was eating snacks just now.

Then she continued, "Based on my understanding of the Magic Association and the introduction of a lady who is very familiar with the Magic Association, I'm afraid this is not something you can think of, nor is it something that those old stubborn people in the Magic Association can agree to."

"Well, actually, this was a sudden idea." Wizard Weasley scratched his red hair at Perfectcott, revealing a slightly awkward smile. "I was ordered to search the archives of the association for information that could deal with the doomsday crisis, and found the research results of the previous president. So I suddenly had an idea that if I could use this technology to connect a boiler to the magic circle, would it be able to continuously provide energy for the magic circle?

I told my mentor about this idea and showed him a model I made. Although he was opposed at first and accused me of being a heretic, he eventually supported me and helped me convince President Grindelwald of the association to get me the opportunity to cooperate with the church.

"I see. I have to say you are smarter than those old stubborn people." Although Perfectcot's words were a compliment to Weasley, from another perspective, they were all disdain for the Magic Association: "Although this idea is very creative, the means or ideas you use to realize this idea are really..."

Perfect tried to think of a less derogatory and offensive word to describe it, and in the end could only call it "dull."

"You can completely bypass at least seven energy conversion programs. Don't you find that in the energy conversion process you designed, the functions of at least six links are repeated? Magic is done once, and alchemy is done again. The functions are all overlapping. The process is meaningless. You repeated three times what can be done only once." Perfect shook his head and threw the technical report in his hand on the coffee table helplessly: "Didn't you two have any technical exchanges and verifications? How could such an outrageous thing happen?"

"We have had technical exchanges, but..." Schopenhauer and Weasley looked at each other and saw embarrassment in each other's eyes. "The main reason is that we believe that there is a technical barrier and gap between magic and alchemy. Although the two technologies can be combined, they are ultimately two technical systems. We are worried that there will be problems if we graft them together."

"Really? In a nutshell, it's because of technological conservatism and those old guys restrict you from revealing the core technology, right?" Perfect pointed out the key point incisively.

However, she did not criticize the two people in front of her too much, and still praised them: "Although the solution is old-fashioned and conservative, and the design can hardly be described as innovative, I have to say that it is not easy for you to come up with this solution, and it deserves praise."

(End of this chapter)