Years
Deploying a Sealing Designation-level Magus just to test the waters was already no small investment.
Leaving aside those bounty Hyenas who would stop at nothing and knew how to coordinate with modern weapons, that Sealing Designation Magus himself had been quite capable in actual combat.
He was not the scholarly type who focused solely on research and had little fighting ability.
Yet with such a lineup, clearly working as a team, not a single survivor had been left behind!
This undoubtedly put the people secretly eyeing the factory on alert.
Especially the area around Tang Niu's kitchen, which had been completely devastated.
Although no one had been able to investigate what had happened at the time, the extent of the damage was enough to roughly infer that an extraordinarily powerful grand magecraft had been used.
Even an ordinary Lord would have struggled to deal with that previous hunting lineup, and coupled with this display of destructive power...
There was no doubt that Xu Yue had firmly established his title as El-Melloi Lord.
His strength and capabilities had both been recognized.
Under normal circumstances, the other factions would once again acknowledge El-Melloi's position. They would not return what they had previously divided up, but they would resume normal cooperation and no longer show hostility for no reason.
However, the Mana Crystal Workshop, which practically monopolized the entire magecraft world, still represented revolutionary-level profit.
It was something capable of overturning the order of the entire magecraft world.
It was foreseeable that, in the future, all Magi and all research and abilities related to magical energy would decline significantly. The status of those great landowners who had annexed many Spiritual Lands would likewise plummet.
Research into Mage Circuit load and other related fields, along with studies that had once been difficult to