Ban's uncle, the typical terrorist look, stubbly beard, fierce eyes, towering frame, the scent of a desperado was overwhelming. Earlier, he asked about his nephew's situation in the East Sea, confirmed everything was fine, then gulped down some alcohol, and immediately started boasting wildly.
Liszt just gave an awkward smile; actually, the main contributors were those guys from Zote.
Due to the terrifying achievements by Black Sail in this battle, Crocodile Island Zote, the army charlatan, were taken down by the East Sea fellows. Even if these guys were crude, everyone at the banquet treated them with utmost respect.
According to the agreement, Liszt was granted Golden Palm Port, but it couldn't be done openly. There was always consideration of the pirate reputation, so a puppet lord would be installed and a 99-year lease contract would be signed with Black Sail Trading Company.
"Eat slower, no one's going to steal it from you."
Wolman was lecturing Fafna. Although Dreya and Goria were taking care of her before, Fafna didn't behave like a young lady at all. With her sleeves rolled up, she devoured plate after plate of food, treating meat like beer, all gulped down.
Fafna paused for a moment.
"Auntie, I'm really hungry, the pressure is killing me, court chef's food, eating it will be the death of me!"
Fafna's eyes turned sharp, eating even more aggressively.
Morison's eyes were full of admiration for the sect's Saint Heir.
Shadi shook his head, Liszt, look at the soldiers you brought up, what has this guy done with the ultimate beautiful girl's body!
Then all of Black Sail's key figures focused their gaze on Archer, each with a tactical poker face, but their eyes sharp as hawks, staring directly at Archer, because the ultimate brain-dead chef was about to take the first bite.
In the past, every time after raiding a ship and returning to port, in the Black Sail Inn managed by Old Wei, Archer had cursed and cried many chefs. Actually, the dishes were quite good, yet he scorned them as pig feed, no one pleased him, never satisfied with any dish. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs novel-fire.ɴet
But this time it was a court chef in Mulong Palace. If he dared to lose his temper regardless of the occasion, they'd shove earwax bought for him straight at him.
Archer forked a piece of beef into his mouth, chewed for a while.
Kidding me! Ingredients, heat, seasoning, timing, presentation, et cetera, there's nowhere to nitpick, how's that even possible? No way! All these eyes on me, must hold it together.
Though there were no faults, there's always room for optimization, shouldn't settle for this.
"Court che...f your mo..."
Before he could finish,
"If you're gonna eat, just eat this, huh!"
Shadi picked up the sauce bowl, not minding the amount, poured the entire bowl of spicy sauce into Archer's mouth.
So spicy that Archer coughed violently, even blew bubbles out of his nose.
"Damn it, where's my apprentice? Someone hits your teacher, aren't you gonna do something about it?"
"Sorry, I'm badly hurt."
Magnus, after resting a few days, still looked a bit pale with some blood deficiency.
He learned one thing from Archer, which was that he couldn't learn anything from him.
However, Magnus was ultimately a person of supreme justice, totally different from lousy pirates, since he acknowledged a teacher, he must take it seriously.
And Fen had already finished chatting with a female intern and returned, his expression uncertain and changing.
A major issue is looming.
If he's right, even if there were Magic Energy Crystal Ore Veins within Mulong, they'd have been mined out long ago, otherwise the Emperor would've come sniffing, not the army's 24th Division but the Energy Department's enlarged army group, striking with a heavy punch.
So the possibility of magic crystal veins is low.
The potential world-class resource comparable to that is now likely being discussed between Celeste and Su Yizhana, it must be obstructed!
The importance of this resource might surpass railways and Golden Palm Port, tenfold or even a hundredfold more.
Fen was just born in the wrong era.
Mo Yutong, Sharon, Liszt (suspected), these people were standing on the shoulders of giants, those grandmasters who laid the foundation for the physics temple in the 17th and 18th centuries.
And Fen himself was a giant, the very luminary who laid the academic groundwork for the Western Continent, not to mention an Upper House Member, during his tenure at Pedan National Arcane Academy, he produced an explosive number of groundbreaking papers, many of which, due to the political climate, were even shelved and couldn't be published.
During his time in Heaven Port, after working with Mo Yutong for a while, some critical issues were resolved, subsequently unraveling all the complex problems step by step.
Lostra's geological survey team discovered oil south of the Boneyard, twenty years ago no one would have bothered with it, didn't even know its value.
Yet Fen was aware of many inside stories, Liszt, Mo Yutong, Sharon were not from this world.
Because of these people, possibly many more of their kind existed, technological outburst only occurred in recent years, cheap energy impacted the Magic Energy Industry, which allowed the widespread rise of industry and fundamentally changed productivity.
The intelligence services of the Five Constant Countries' leadership surely were savvy, and the Tower Alliance's academic community must also have known of some kind of Outer Heaven force intervening.
So Celeste gathered a batch of high-end personnel to re-survey the new energy.
Now it's only in the early stages of exploration, not yet fully explored, and already alarming world-class oil reserves were discovered.
After working with Mo Yutong, Fen's knowledge level, solely in applied physics, wasn't much different from these Outer Heaven Visitors.
Gauss invented high school mathematics one afternoon, many things entirely rely on talent, during Fen's tenure, he once broke through underground gas extraction techniques, but due to political climate, it also got shelved.