Reilo smiled at that.
"Before I even returned to the Academy, I'd already heard of Master Xixi Li's achievements in the Academic World. In just a few decades, you actually managed to complete the second phase of such a massive particle accelerator project. The resources it consumed were roughly equivalent to three Sky Fortresses of the highest specifications. Even the Grand Natural Sciences Academy of today would probably struggle to build a super-experimental facility on that scale."
Though he seemed to be praising Xixi Li, she could clearly hear the implication behind his words.
She couldn't help but respond with a teasing smile. "Whether it's the Curvature Reef Plan or the Curvature Spacetime Laboratory, the resources you've invested could probably have built an entire Sky Fortress fleet. What does my little contribution amount to?"
The two of them were measuring resources in units of Sky Fortresses.
That was the sort of conversation only the Ten Giants could have.
After all, even the Fladick War Academy, the inventor of the Sky Fortress, had managed to build only four of them to date.
The reason they didn't pour all those resources into building more Sky Fortresses was that, in the scholars' eyes, each advance in the technological tree would bring far greater benefits than another Sky Fortress at this stage.
From the Academic World's broad perspective, unless they found an alien civilization in the Furnace Death Desert beyond Night's Veil Land, one practically on the doorstep of the Starveil Land's Academic World, and a civilization-level war broke out, the current pace of progress in humanity's war platforms was simply too slow to be of much use.
"Although the Curvature Reef Plan and the Curvature Spacetime Laboratory received some investment from the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, they were supported by the entire Academic