"How could Zhang Yu forge that fast?"
Looking at the intelligence Su Yun Ni had sent over, Jin Jun's first reaction was disbelief.
"He reached this point in just over a month? He really had no shame at all."
At this moment, Jin Jun deeply doubted how much of Zhang Yu's achievement was genuine.
He had seen this sort of thing far too often in the Artifact Crafting Department's many laboratories. Some people were barely competent themselves, yet hired capable assistants to complete most of the work, pushing quality and speed to the limit before signing their own names to the result.
"Zhang Yu should have some skill. At the very least, he can forge a Level 1 Prototype Machine. But there was no way he could achieve this in one month with just two people!"
"He must have spent a huge sum to hire an enormous team to assist him!"
Jin Jun reached his conclusion. "That's the only way he could have gotten this far in just over a month!"
"Releasing news like this... was he trying to shake my morale?"
Yet Jin Jun had to admit that Zhang Yu truly had thrown his emotions into turmoil!
He took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. Magical power circulated through his body in a wave, and a steady Dao Heart gradually calmed every stray thought in his mind.
Jin Jun understood that the key reason he had been so easily rattled was because he had invested too much into this project!
"I put nearly half my fortune into this project. If it fails, not only will it be difficult to recover the funds, but it will also deal a devastating blow to my reputation in artifact forging!"
[Written to this point,
At the thought that, after failing, others might add