"Some things that were once noncompliant are legal now."
"Senior Brother, go ahead and do it boldly. I'll support you with everything I have!"
"Wizard Civilization is currently being drained by an intense war. It needs outstanding Alchemy Grandmasters like you, Senior Brother, to provide us with sufficient war platforms and alchemical machinery."
"There are some things that Wizard Civilization cannot directly sell on the surface to Alliance Planes or those Alien Creatures. That is precisely why we need someone like you, Senior Brother, to help us refine our arrangements in the gray and black sectors," Saine said to Zorro.
He and Zorro had been fellow disciples for tens of thousands of years. Back when Saine had still been a magic apprentice, he had studied alchemy under Zorro.
What could two fellow disciples not say to each other?
Zorro spoke with considerable emotion at this point. "Yes. Take the T-220 Type Space Fortress, for example. Before the Civilization War, it was one of Wizard Civilization's most advanced space fortresses—at least within the third generation of space fortresses. It was a cutting-edge weapon of war strictly forbidden from leaking into the Wizard Alliance. Only native Rank Four and above knights and mages of the Wizard World could purchase one. Even the sea folk and demihumans of the Wizard World found it difficult to place an order."
"But once the Civilization War began, Wizard Civilization lost city after city and territory after territory, until even the Mother Plane nearly fell. Who still had the leisure to care about such things?"
"I heard long ago that the most advanced space fortresses and other war platforms were immediately equipped to the Titan God Race, the Zerg, the Elf Great World, and the Beastman Plane."
"Rules are dead, while people are alive. Could it be