The Assault Coffin Begins Its Charge

"It had been a while since I last returned to Castel. This was a good chance to go back and take a look."

Theus muttered to himself, though his expression carried a hint of reluctance.

Honestly, he did not really want to go back to the island.

With Gaia, the head of the R&D department, away on a diplomatic mission to Rhine, the island's research work was, according to protocol, being temporarily managed by a technician with relevant administrative experience.

Unfortunately, that person was Tata.

Tata, a senior researcher of Moth Chasing Flame, possessed extremely extensive experience in this field. Theus was not worried that he would be unable to handle the job.

On the contrary, Theus worried that he would handle it a little too well.

To be fair, the Stellar Furnace and cargo ships designed under Tata's leadership had both been highly successful creations. They had merely taken a few detours along the way.

The problem was that those detours had been a bit too winding.

Leaving aside everything else, even Big Gwen could summon a Steel Ark from the sea. Who knew how many ships had sunk beneath those waters?

Tata still did not dare approach that huge vessel, afraid that the Machine Soul aboard would blow up at him.

Now that he was returning to the island, just imagining what miraculous invention Tata might have come up with this time gave Theus a headache.

"Forget it, forget it. I should still go take a look. Tata hasn't been in charge of R&D for long, so nothing should go wrong."

After spending half the day talking himself into it, Theus finally decided to make the trip back—he was afraid that if he stayed away too long, Tata might spring something huge on him.

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