"Are you planning to build a large-scale Magic Protective Shield to protect your entire territory?"
"What an utterly ridiculous madman!!!"
Even the Old Emperor couldn't help exclaiming when he heard the report from the people who had returned from Lan Qingyou's place.
Compared with the nobles who were only interested in making money,
the Old Emperor saw more to it.
A Magic Excavator?
It was just a tool, hardly worth giving much thought.
But he was very interested in what she planned to do with the excavator.
Although he hadn't watched the earlier duel, he'd heard about it—and in great detail.
So he naturally knew what the machine could do.
There was only one thing he wanted to know now.
How strong was that Protective Barrier?
Although he'd directly given her a place that didn't even have a name,
that was precisely why it was so spacious.
He didn't know exactly how large it was.
After all, he'd mentioned it offhand.
But if the entire lake was included, it had to cover at least five or six hundred mu.
That was definitely more than three times the size of the entire Imperial Capital.
It was easy to imagine how difficult it would be to build a defensive Magic Array over such a vast area.
That was why he was curious.
But more than that, he hoped she could pull it off.
After all, she'd gained another title related to Magic Arrays.
If she really succeeded, there'd be no harm in hiring her to build one for the Imperial Capital.
Just as they'd discussed before,
the town would be built on the lakeshore opposite the Hot Spring Villa.
No... more accurately, a mountain lay between them.
The Hot Spring Villa was on the mountain's front side, and the great lake was