"Your subject, Li Muyao, pays respects to Your Majesty."
Li Muyao respectfully bowed to the emperor.
After all, she was a subject.
Naturally, she had to follow the empire's etiquette.
"Rise."
Yang Yu looked at Li Muyao and waved lightly. "I have no choice but to criticize your Imperial Academy of Engineering! How many years has it been since you proposed the Thought Imprint? It still hasn't been realized. You spend so many of the empire's resources every day—do you think that's acceptable?"
"This..."
Hearing this, Li Muyao had not expected His Majesty to criticize her first.
She was completely dumbfounded.
"Your Majesty, the Thought Imprint project requires specific conditions."
Li Muyao looked at the emperor awkwardly.
When they had first proposed the concept, they had never imagined that putting it into practice would be so difficult.
Even guiding people through psychology would have little effect.
The Thought Imprint should be something engraved deep within one's genes.
It could not be achieved through artificial guidance.
How many people would that require to guide?
"Enough." Yang Yu said, "Your Imperial Academy of Engineering just loves to paint me pretty pictures. Tell me, why have you come this time?"
"Your Majesty, I have come to ask to borrow the Night General."
A confident smile once again appeared on Li Muyao's face. She said, "According to our tests, the first-stage Gene Serum can only unlock fifty percent of the human body's potential."
"So our Biological Gene Research Institute under the Imperial Academy of Engineering has enhanced and improved the Gene Serum."
"It can only unlock fifty percent of one's potential?"
Yang Yu looked at Li Muyao in confusion.
"Yes."
"Everything needs to progress step by step. Nothing can be accomplished overnight."
"Moreover, the Gene Serum developed by our Imperial Academy of Engineering is