Compared to Grand Duke Muridi's astonishment, Prince Hans was steadier and more composed.
This was likely also because Prince Hans held greater authority.
Faced with the list Saine handed over, Prince Hans said little. After giving it a cursory look, he passed it to Grand Duke Muridi for safekeeping and said, "Our Capricorn Empire will need to discuss this further."
"When it comes to powerful figures from friendly World Civilizations who have helped us, our Capricorn Empire has never been stingy," Prince Hans said pointedly.
Do not assume that the upper echelons of Technological Civilizations were all useless fools with fat heads and bloated guts.
Prince Hans before them could not only deploy and command the Imperial Royal Fleet Group, whose combat power rivaled that of a Level-8 Peak being, but also possessed considerable knowledge in other fields.
Politics, economics, culture... Even among the materials on the list Saine had just handed over, Prince Hans recognized more than a third of them and knew roughly what they were used for.
Many of the metal materials Saine had requested as payment were needed for the outer alloy armor plating of Capricorn Empire's Dominator-class Battleships.
The Imperial scientists were still testing the Dimension Furnace Fragment Saine had brought out, and neither Saine nor Prince Hans and the others were so vulgar as to keep talking about money.
After handing over the list, Saine and the others followed the flow of the conversation and began discussing the fierce decisive battle in the center of the Metal Graveyard that had only just largely concluded.
Thanks to Star Radiance Envoy Oren still holding the line at the front, the heavily damaged Imperial Royal Fleet Group could finally withdraw to the edge of the Metal Graveyard front and rest and recuperate properly.
In this battle, a