The Transians Had Done Nothing but Evil
Murphy left.
But little Ashina looked miserable. She'd just taken part in "deceiving Lord Murphy," and as one of Murphy's descendants, she'd lost favor with him.
It made little Ashina feel awful. So after Murphy left, she pounced on Menghaha and tickled her mercilessly, forcing her to swear she'd produce a finished product as soon as possible and salvage her precarious standing in Lord Murphy's eyes.
"Relax, don't worry. This will be easy to make."
Menghaha soothed little Ashina, who was pouting, and said:
"I already have the blueprints for it. When I get back, I'll pick out the radio design best suited to Transia. A walkie-talkie might be just right if it's going to be used by the military.
"We really do need our own secure communications network. For now, the computing orbs have established the most basic form of psychic communication across the continent, but like I said, the halflings have complete control over them.
"To anyone who doesn't understand engineering, these things are a black box that can't be deciphered.
"I suspect the halflings distributed the computing orbs partly because they want to control the continent's intelligence network in the future.
"The more widespread these things become, the more powerful the halflings' ability to gather information will be.
"Actually, I'm pretty sure that although Sulk Flywheel claimed he has nothing to do with the halflings anymore, the Steam Lords' Council must be backing him in selling computing orbs to other factions.
"Tsk, tsk. This continent looks chaotic, but once you dig deeper, it's not hard to see that all sorts of undercurrents are at play."
"I don't care about any of that!"
Little Ashina hadn't considered things that deeply. She crossed her arms, floated into the air, and shouted:
"I'm