Everyone had initially expected the magic array to have a problem, or for the summoning to fail.
That kind of failure.
Who could have guessed it would end up like this?
Apart from Lan Qingyou and Hopkins, who was used to it,
everyone else had suffered varying degrees of mental damage and needed proper rest.
Although the incident had left everyone on edge,
neither side had called a halt.
Why?
Because they had all seen that it was possible.
Since it really could produce powerful things,
did it matter what they were?
Of course,
summoning a god who could grant them a title would be the best possible outcome.
After all, who wouldn't want to greatly enhance their abilities?
Not to mention,
even an ordinary Blessing was enough to make everyone green with envy, including the nobles and royalty.
And so,
while Lan Qingyou stayed at the Hot Spring Villa, working to improve the magic array,
a different kind of storm was brewing in the Imperial Capital, more than a hundred kilometers away.
Put simply, everyone was "snatching people."
That's right.
They were literally snatching people.
The experiment had shown everyone that "summoning a god" was possible.
Although something had gone wrong and they had summoned an unknown Tentacle Monster,
it was still far better than what the Britt Bastards in the report had summoned.
The members of the various noble houses and the royal family had begun recruiting talented people from all over the country.
Array Masters and Alchemists, in particular, were suddenly in high demand.
As long as you weren't an apprentice,
you'd receive job offers from every faction, whether you'd just graduated or had already made a name for yourself.
There was only one reason.
They all wanted to research the Summoning Array for themselves.
After all,