On the workshop's second floor, Alia Lancaster was seated by her design desk, drawing up new airship blueprints with great focus that she did not notice Leon arriving beside her.
Leon quietly observed the new blueprint before shifting his gaze to study the second floor, thinking it had been a while since he last ca here.
'This floor used to filled study materials on the levitation device. But now, there is not a single trace of it. Instead, there were trains, airships, railways, and many other designs,' Leon silently mused.
"Oh? When did you get back, Leon?" Alia Lancaster exclaid with pleasant surprise after resting her eyes for a mont.
She imdiately stood up before speaking while inspecting Leon, "Co, let Mother-in-law have a good look at you. You have not been around much—Woah, you seem to have beco much more burly."
"I have made so minor breakthroughs in Body Cultivation," Leon smiled wryly before changing the topic, "The workshop does not seem all that busy as I would expect it to be."
"With the discovery of Transcendent Crystals and your parents being more generous with their rewards, the number of Fire Awakeners has been growing along with a few selected tal Awakeners around to help out…"
"The additional hands have pushed productions to new heights, reducing the need for raw manpower from the commoners. With the railway to the Grassland Region nearing completion, most of the workforce has been directed over for the New Capital's construction."
"Makes sense." Leon nodded after listening to Alia Lancaster's explanation before saying, "I've heard about the plans, but I have yet to see the progress over there for myself."
"But that will have to wait for another ti. I'm a bit tight on ti and will not be staying in the Capital for long before I need to return to the Wildlands."
"I see. Well, alright then. What did you co over to see for this ti?" Alia Lancaster interrogated before adding, "You wouldn't be visiting unless you have a reason to."
"Why would say that, Mother-in-law? You're making seem like such a bad person…" Leon scratched his cheeks wryly before speaking in his defense, "I did drop by to use the forge, but am I not seeing you first before that?"
"…"
Alia Lancaster was a bit speechless before saying with a shake of her head, "If you were truly sincere in visiting this mother-in-law of yours, you would have brought gifts."
"You know what I an, right?" Alia Lancaster gave Leon a sidelong glance while trying to remain dignified and upright.
Leon gawked for a mont.
Shortly after, he smiled ruefully with a nod before taking out a few stalks of tier-3 herbal tea spirit herbs from his Worldspace and passed it over.
"Please accept this small gift of mine, Mother-in-law."
"Hehe, thank you."
Alia Lancaster happily accepted the few stalks of spirit herbs with a hum before storing them in her interspatial ring.
"Right, how is Rachel?" Leon suddenly asked.
"Rachel? She has been doing quite well in recent days, surprisingly. She is quite motivated to overco her trauma. Still, you should pay her a visit soti."
"Although a date was never set, you two have been engaged the mont you two were born. You should spend more ti together," Alia Lancaster said with a slightly helpless expression.
The amount of ti her future son-in-law spent with other won was much longer than the ti spent with her daughter. She was quite concerned about their relationship.
"About that…" Leon's expression turned awkward before he admitted, "To be honest, I am not sure how to advance our relationship… I feel that our feelings are mutual, but there are things holding us back…"
"Un, Mother-in-law is also aware of the problem." Alia Lancaster nodded before saying, "If you need help, just tell , and I will help you solve the problem."
"How will you help ?" Leon could not help but ask with a weird look.
However, his future mother-in-law did not answer. Instead, she simply said, "Just answer my question. Do you want my help or not?"
"Then… can Mother-in-law help ?" Leon requested politely.
"Kukuku…" Alia Lancaster chuckled wickedly before saying, "Of course! It's settled then. You don't have to worry about this matter and just leave it to . Go do what you need to do for now. We will talk about this another ti."
"But…"
"Shoo!"
Alia Lancaster waved Leon away without much explanation regarding the matter, causing him to be dumbfounded as he unwittingly left in a compliant manner.
"What was that about?" Leon rubbed the back of his head questioningly. He could not help but have a bad feeling about it, but there was no point mulling over it for now.
Shortly after returning to the first workshop floor, he shook his head, "Never mind. I will just have to see what Mother-in-law plans to do the next ti I return to the Capital. For now, I should do what I ca to do."
After selecting an empty workbench and forge, Leon took out his ancient bones and pocketed a few spare alloys lying around before comncing his work.
Four strange-looking bone disks were completed within a short while before Leon took out his Ravenous Black scribing pen and began engraving runes on them.
"It's done. Four Demon Gathering Arrays," Leon softly exclaid shortly after completing the last engraving.
"Although this is the first ti I crafted Demon Gathering Arrays based on the basic concept of the Spirit Gathering Formations, I quite confident in my runic knowledge."
"Now, all that is left to do is to deploy them and see whether they work according to my expectations," Leon muttered while wearing a confident smile.
He did not have ti to cleanse the Wrathful Demonic Energy within a short ti.
But the Demon Gathering Arrays could continuously gather the surrounding Wrathful Demonic Energies, clearing the air in the area by concentrating and condensing them inside the Demon Gathering Arrays until return to refine them.
It was a good alternative, considering the ti constraints.
"Are you leaving now, Your Highness?"
"Yes, I have so things to do… Continue with work had for the empire," Leon patted the sweaty blacksmiths with an encouraging look before bidding his leave from the workshop.
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