The entire afternoon, John and Knicks spent in a daze.
Neither of them expected that seven or eight ordinary wheels together could exert such a great force.
Even Lin Ke was slightly surprised, especially when Ove used a simple magic spell — "Smoothing," the friction was visibly reduced.
Magic is like a sword and skill is like a gun, which are just from the perspective of power.
However, professionals, while possessing solidified skills, can also use some magic, just like someone who uses guns can also wield a big knife.
For instance, this "Smoothing" spell, originally used to make the ground slippery and deal with warriors, was used by Ove to conduct an exploration of "force" and "uniformity".
This also made John and Knicks understand what "friction" means.
Lady Antova, Lin Ke’s mother Fulon, and Butler Billy, along with a group of servants.
They all learned about Lin Ke becoming a professional in half an hour, and celebrated, using a lot of top-quality ingredients.
A professional, at the very least, is considered upper class in society.
Even if Azanen collapses now, Lin Ke can still rely on his status as a professional to attain a "Pioneer Knight" title granted by the nobility.
Pioneers who expanded territories, don’t they eventually become nobles themselves?
At the dining table, there were only four people, or rather three people and a Rabbitman.
"Aunt, I need the family’s resources, I want to conduct a lot of experiments and research, to do many things."
Lin Ke spoke directly, calling "Aunt" when there’s something, "Lady Antova" when there isn’t, just that capricious.
Lady Antova and Butler Billy control the family’s finances, and if they don’t want to give, there are plenty of reasons to refuse.
So Lin Ke has to get Lady Antova’s consent.
Antova elegantly twirled her silver cup with her fair fingers, inside was a raspberry juice with a sweet and sour taste.
Hearing the mention of money, she instinctively frowned, but seeing Lin Ke’s expression, she slowly spoke, "If you want to use money, it’s not impossible..."
Saying that, she glanced at Lin Ke, seeming to want to see Lin Ke glaring with cute big eyes, pleading and acting coquettish at her.
However, she was disappointed, Lin Ke didn’t show her the expression that was exclusive to Fulon, just looked at her calmly, waiting for her conditions.
Antova felt a lack of interest, then frowned, pondering, "Five hundred gold coins per month."
Five hundred gold coins!
Lin Ke thought it would be just a hundred, didn’t expect five hundred.
After all, the purchasing power of gold coins is actually very high, the exchange rate here is 1:10:100, but in reality, Lin Ke calculated it should be about 1:14:123.
A single gold coin’s real purchasing power is roughly equivalent to one hundred and twenty-three copper coins!
It’s just that the Naseng people don’t seem to understand much about finance, so the exchange rate was set arbitrarily for convenience.
If Lin Ke didn’t know that wealth needs power to defend it, he might have considered becoming a capitalist.
"Fifteen hundred gold coins, I need fifteen hundred coins."
Lin Ke opened his mouth and asked for a lion’s share, but that’s how bargaining works.
"So many!? Isn’t that too much?!" Fulon exclaimed before Antova could speak.
Whose side are you on... Lin Ke worried about his mother’s intelligence.
Antova’s face darkened: "Five hundred and fifty at most, fifteen hundred is too much!"
Almost equivalent to half the castle’s income!
Lin Ke knew this, so he pretended to ponder, "The experiments I want to conduct are very costly, you know, a professional’s strength is built with money, how about this, a thousand gold coins, barely enough."
"Professionals’ strength is built with money? No wonder professionals are so powerful!" Fulon listened naively to Lin Ke’s words and believed them.
Antova glanced at Lin Ke, and said to Fulon, "Sister, I recall our husband seems to have never spent family money? He never spends any money."
Fulon instantly realized, looking towards Lin Ke: "Right, Little Lin Ke, your father lived very frugally, sometimes even spending just one gold coin a month."
Nearby, the head maid, guard captain, and purchasing captain, each earning three silver coins a month, smiled and continued to observe.
John, with a monthly salary of one silver coin saved by Billy, looked confused, only Knicks was greatly shocked.
The collective monthly earnings of their entire Rabbitman tribe, even when selling to traders, amounted to just a few silver coins, the most they ever gathered was twenty!
"How about this, give you six hundred gold coins, this is what you can get as the eldest son."
Antova took a sip of juice, then had a maid wipe her mouth, preparing to leave the table.
"Then how about eight hundred coins, that can Read the latest chapters on NovelHub - completely free!"
Lin Ke smiled, referring to the Deep Blue Giant Tigers, those two Deep Blue Giant Tigers had fled.
Antova glanced at Butler Billy, who gave an almost imperceptible nod.
So Antova relaxed and said:
"Dear eldest son, that trouble was brought by your followers, you have to solve it yourself, moreover your powerful teacher is here, so we don’t need to worry, right?"
So, Lin Ke once again argued his case, Antova dismissed it lightly, argued again, dismissed again...
After several rounds, Lin Ke’s monthly experimental expenses finally became seven hundred and twenty-seven gold coins, five silver coins, and three copper coins.
This was his birth date.
"Deal!" Lin Ke was very happy.
Originally, he thought it would be around two hundred gold coins, but he didn’t expect to get seven hundred.
Sure enough, when you want to dismantle the window, you can’t propose it directly, otherwise, it will likely be rejected.
You need to suggest dismantling the roof, so when someone stops you, then you propose taking down the window, and it will be more easily accepted.
At night, there was still the guards’ training, and some guards were also doing archery training.
Lin Ke wanted to train some guards to become archers.
And just the next day, Ove was once again silent about Lin Ke’s pocket money.
He only knew that Garoce seemed to be very poor as well, to the extent of possibly borrowing money from other great nobles.
How come the household seems very wealthy.
Then, the true days of learning and research began!
"Today, I will talk about our kingdom, the Gula Kingdom... "
"Now, it’s time for you to study the pulley set, I mean John and Knicks... as for Lin Ke, I want to teach you other knowledge... "
"It’s not known how many levels there are for professionals, but gods and legends are of level twenty-one and above... "
"Today, I will talk about the conflict and history between the Materialist School and those foolish Idealist School... "
"Now, Lin Ke, learn with me how to create thunder and lightning, as for John and Knicks... have you completed your study of Power Studies? Get a pulley set and let me see... "
Five days of interaction made Lin Ke feel the passage of time again, just like studying in high school in a previous life.
And in just five days, Knicks also took up a position and became a [Scholar], which made John quite envious.
However, after a few more days, John also successfully took a position.
This is healthy competition, their mutual competition is achieved by strengthening themselves.
Whereas unhealthy competition usually involves weakening the opponent.
Of course, only John thought he was competing with Knicks, Knicks didn’t feel it.
And today, looking at the already successfully positioned and talented three children, Ove expressed his desire to leave.
Looking at the talented children in front of him, Ove felt a pity, but he was never good at communicating with people, so he couldn’t bring himself to say "Do you want to be my disciple".
"What? Teacher, are you leaving?"
Lin Ke stood beside Ove, frowning.
After so many days of interaction, he could already make Ove accept someone standing next to him.
"Yes, Little Lin Ke."
Ove touched Lin Ke’s soft brown hair, his voice gentle, his facial expression natural.
After Lin Ke discovered that Ove’s smile was solidified with Magic, he certainly went to great lengths to make Ove undo it.
"Teacher, can’t you stay a few more days? I’m still a bit confused about the mutual attraction of the Power of Thunder you mentioned."
Lin Ke felt a little panicked.
He felt that his own Teacher Ove was really too powerful, and extremely knowledgeable, showing him a way to combine magic and science.
But he also hasn’t completely opened Ove’s heart, nor completely solved Ove’s social anxiety problem, there was no assurance of becoming an apprentice!
No, I need to think of a way to make Ove have to stay.
Lin Ke quickly pondered.
Now, shock therapy is the only option.
Shock therapy is generally a method used for some stubborn psychological disorders, but it is a method that treats symptoms rather than the root cause and has poor results.
But there’s no time now.
Lin Ke must display some theories completely opposite to Ove’s theories, and then make Ove furious and want to prove Lin Ke wrong.
He knew that Teacher Ove was a staunch materialist, and particularly disapproved of the idealist mindset and school of thought.
If he argues with him about this...
Lin Ke had a plan in mind.
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