So far, the Ballenner Academy was still enjoying the academic advantage of monopolizing the cobalt mines. But while they continued to advance the research of the floating spell, they did not forget to raise issues against Houdini. For example, in the subsequent decision on personnel, Chief Councilor Lotica bluntly said, "I believe that Houdini has not fulfilled his responsibility of leading the fleet to explore the unknown. He has been overdue for more than a month, and we have not received any news of his departure. I hope that the council can dismiss Houdini from his current position and revoke his' researcher 'status in the Brenka Academy! "
This was not the first time something like this had been said. Now that it was brought up again and again, the other councilors had slowly changed from their initial opposition to habitual silence.
This was Councilor Lotica's goal. In fact, they all knew that the news of Houdini's sudden discovery of cobalt mines was most likely true, but so what? As long as one had enough power to speak, truth could also become false!
You want to cut off the Ballenner Academy's source of income? Then please go to hell!
"Plans can't keep up with changes. Houdini has already proposed to extend his return date. I think there is no need to vote on this issue."
The only one who spoke fairly was Councilor Jeremy. With his white hair and beard, he usually did not take the initiative to express his views. He was fair and extremely prestigious. With his words, Lotica did not need to think about what to do with Houdini today. But he was not in a hurry. He still added a bunch of trumped up charges against Houdini, such as "inappropriate signing of the agreement", "extravagant and wasteful", "possibly corrupted by the Kingdom of Karen's money" and so on.
Anyone with a brain knew that this was an obvious attempt to mess with Houdini, but even the councilors of the Brenka Academy could not respond at this moment. They were alone and did not know if there was really a problem with Houdini. The most important thing was that the "core councilor" Corey was used to being a neutral party and did not have any courage at all. All he could think of was letting Houdini take the blame when he returned. This negative attitude made the situation even more unfavorable for Houdini.
"Everything regarding Wizard Houdini needs to wait for him to return with the fleet before we make any further decisions. Councilor Lotica, I will record your proposal in the memo. When the time comes, I will also ask Wizard Houdini to personally come to the council for consultation. I hope that we will not hear any more complaints against him, understood? "
"Brenka respects the Council's decision."
Lotica knew when to stop and obediently sat back down.
Not long after, the regular meeting ended, and the councilors filed out in twos and threes. Rotica walked provocatively in front of Brenka Academy Councilor Corey. Corey did not want to provoke Rotica, so he could only lower his head and walk around. This scene made many people shake their heads, but it was also a daily occurrence in the Lassiman Kingdom.
Wherever there were people, there would be Jianghu. It was the same no matter where one went.
Chairman Jeremy also saw this scene, but he didn't have any extra expression or thoughts. He had a ruler in his heart for everything. Whether it worked or not, whether it was good or not, whether it was good or bad, he had his own standards to judge right and wrong. No matter how much Rotica said, Chancellor Jeremy's thoughts never changed.
After leaving the conference hall, he no longer thought about the choice in the political arena. Instead, he thought about the topic he was currently researching — Magnetic Field Magic.
Walking into the laboratory, he saw that the books used to record experimental phenomena were piled up like a mountain, but there were only a few pages with useful conclusions. Jeremy was not discouraged. He just frowned and thought about how to solve the current problem: Stabilizing the energy output of the magic array.
This was the biggest bottleneck affecting the current experimental results, and it was also the problem faced by the Lassiman Kingdom at present. Because when the experimental results needed to be recorded and extremely detailed to reach a conclusion, the quality of the "experimental equipment" played a very important role in verification. Jeremy now felt that "even the cleverest housewife can't cook without rice". Although he was one of the most powerful sorcerers in the kingdom, he still had his own limits. He already had a precise idea, but the magic array and equipment he used could not complete the experiment he envisioned.
It was not that he was not strong enough, but that the accuracy of the experimental equipment was not high enough. This problem was indeed a dead end for the magic kingdom, which was lagging behind in industrial development.
Although the kingdom's gross domestic product had risen rapidly in the past two years due to the rise of the magic civilization, the sorcerers obviously focused more on improving their own strength and did not consider the impact of basic industry and agriculture on the overall strength of the country. Or even if they did consider it, it was rejected during the vote in the parliament.
Therefore, most of the experimental equipment now had to be made by the sorcerers themselves. If they could not make it … then the progress would be stuck.
"What should I do?"
After tearing up the 276th experimental plan, Chairman Jeremy's face became even more gloomy.
*****
In Elsen City, Roddy, who had held a whole day's "seminar," only felt thirsty.
The idea of an "aircraft carrier" was completely based on the fact that when the Orc army was driven away, the technology of Elsen City had already unlocked the "beginner floating-space tower," which meant that Roddy now had the ability to build his own floating buildings.
The so-called "beginner" referred to a floating building with a total mass of less than ten tons, a floating height of less than 100 meters, and a distance of less than 500 meters from the main control core magic array.
Roddy glanced at the intermediate floating-space tower. The magic array of the intermediate floating-space tower could only be unlocked when the city level was raised by two levels. That kind of magic array took up too much area and consumed too much energy. Roddy obviously could not build it at the moment. And the "advanced floating-space tower" was the scale of the central floating-space tower in Elsen City. Speaking of which, the load capacity did not increase much, but the flying height and control distance had changed.
So for Roddy, who had a modern vision, the biggest significance of the "floating-space tower" was not defense, but "air supremacy." This had been proven by the lives of more than 6,000 Orcs. From the perspective of war, each floating-space tower was actually an "armed helicopter." For enemies in the era of cold weapons, this was the existence of no natural enemy.
The only limitation of the floating-space tower was that the core magic array was fixed in Elsen City and could not be moved. But what if the magic array was moved to a ship and the floating-space tower floated on the sea?
The small floating-space tower used by "Boratini" now was only used to show off strength and slightly increase attack power. Because of the gap in floating-space magic array technology, the small floating-space tower and the one that Elsen was always floating in were obviously different. The main point was that the High Elves had optimized the problem of energy to the maximum and reduced the energy consumption of the floating-space tower to the minimum.
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