Unlike his elder brother, who had risen to become the Council President of the Floating City League, Alice was a researcher of Demon Scarabs.
At least, that was how things appeared on the surface.
Thus, when High-Grade Mana was discovered and Luo Zhen provided the mana furnaces for refining it to the various Floating Cities as a last resort, Vivel, as humanity's highest representative, was naturally the first to receive a High-Grade Mana Furnace and have it installed.
Relying on Jess's position, Alice had analyzed and researched the High-Grade Mana Furnace provided by Luo Zhen.
Or rather, it was not only Alice. The other Floating Cities surely had specialized researchers analyzing and studying the High-Grade Mana Furnaces provided by Luo Zhen, trying to bring the manufacturing techniques under their control and fully obtain this astonishing power, right?
However, neither Alice nor anyone else could do anything about the High-Grade Mana Furnaces.
The reason was simple. The Rune magic arrays inscribed on the furnaces were astonishingly complicated and cumbersome. Countless rune combinations that even specialized professionals had never seen before had been added to them, making everyone feel as though they were looking at a book from heaven. Forget analyzing them—even understanding what they saw was difficult. Under such circumstances, how could they reproduce the arrays within, let alone copy the technology?
People did not even dare to handle the High-Grade Mana Furnaces too roughly, lest they damage them.
After all, when he had provided the High-Grade Mana Furnaces, Luo Zhen had already declared that the technology used to make them was far too complicated and the materials extremely difficult to find. Therefore, aside from Vivel and Mistgun, which had each been equipped with three large High-Grade Mana Furnaces, every other Floating City had only one large High-Grade Mana Furnace and