"Phew—"
"No matter how many times I see this thing, it's still amazing."
The sun blazed overhead.
Yet Albert looked just like a farmer.
With a towel around his neck and a straw hat on his head, he wiped away his sweat and looked ahead.
Standing before him
was a magic-powered excavator.
He had just jumped down from it.
That's right.
He was using an excavator to dig a hole.
And, naturally, the excavator belonged to Lan Qingyou.
From Albert's perspective, it was a machine made through mechanical alchemy.
It was worth studying, learning from, and then mass-producing for sale.
And in fact, that was exactly what it was.
But in Lan Qingyou's eyes, the thing had no technical merit whatsoever.
After all, she and The Chariot, Orff, had developed it together.
And the only reason she had brought it out was to build a magic array.
That day,
after being granted her fief, Lan Qingyou had decided to turn it into a second Eureka.
And so here they were, using an excavator to dig out a magic array.
Originally, Albert had planned to leave after the summoning that day.
After all, a god had been summoned.
An event that momentous had to be reported to the Old Emperor.
But when he heard that Lan Qingyou wanted to build a magic array like this,
he had chosen to stay rather than leave with the observers.
After all, the "Magic Protective Shield, stronger than the Colosseum's defensive magic array" that Lan Qingyou had described was incredibly appealing.
Besides, he had seen her use it in the Colosseum before.
So he was intensely curious.
To be honest,
if Lan Qingyou hadn't used that shield that day,
the battle, which looked like something straight out of a bard's tale of the "War of