While Lloyd held the video conference, Xiao Ran kept his attention on Emperor Charles of Britannia, who remained at the center of the screen the entire time. This dictator had pursued military expansion and stationed enormous forces across countless parts of the world. He was also the culprit behind Nanalie losing her sight and her ability to walk.
Yet in Xiao Ran's eyes, this dictator emperor's behavior was somewhat strange. Charles clearly valued the Lancelot project, but he did not seem particularly urgent about it. It was as though he did not especially care whether, after mass production, Lancelot could bring greater Military Strength to the empire. Instead, he seemed more enthusiastic about the new mech project, which currently had nothing more than an outline and a development plan.
That much could be seen from how Charles had not said a single word about Lancelot. In the end, he had merely casually arranged for several units to be built as samples to demonstrate Lancelot's performance, while making specific arrangements for the new project that existed only on paper.
With unknown new mechs capable of threatening the empire appearing around the world, the empire should have urgently needed to replace its armed forces with something capable of confronting them. Lancelot had that capability. Even if it became merely an appetizer and a stepping stone for the new mech project, there would still be at least a year before the new mech officially appeared. That year would be precisely when the empire most needed to stabilize its situation after so many strange units had emerged. Yet the standard KFs could not meet that need, making Lancelot the empire's only option.
Weapons that had been manufactured could always be used. There was no possibility that mass-producing Lancelot now would mean it was directly