On the night of October 10, in the eastern Industrial New District of Night-Kirin City, Gleia and Wendy leaned against each other in the top-floor control room of a magic factory, operating a Magic Array.
In a large processing room beside the control room, a shield-shaped metal blank floated in midair. A stream of magic descending from the ceiling split into dozens of Mage Hands, while a Dragon Transformation Art rising from the ground divided into more than a dozen tentacles.
Wendy's Mage Hands and Gleia's mage tentacles worked together, leaving orderly yet intricate magic patterns across the shield blank. A few minutes later, as the Mage Hands and Dragon Tentacles dispersed, two pieces of High-Rank magic beast hide rose simultaneously and sandwiched the blank from either side.
A dim glow lit up around the room once more. A circular Magic Array surrounded the newly assembled shield, leaving one main-axis magic pattern and four secondary-axis magic patterns along the hides' natural grain. After the Axis Magic Pattern processing was complete, a layer of Mana-Conductive Metal covered the shield's entire edge and outline, followed by another round of simultaneous work from Mage Hands and Dragon Tentacles.
Outside the processing room, the Legendary mage Ben Kaul held a Magic Mirror and watched the progress.
"I never expected Landen's greatest talent not to be building Magic Furnaces, but building Magic Workshops." Alexei Zhuoqin, visiting the central control room for the first time, said with a smile beside the Legendary mage. "Even if he loses authorization to make Magic Furnaces someday, this skill alone at renovating workshops should be enough to keep the Gallop Fund afloat!"
"Indeed. He can actually integrate Wendy, Gleia, and Sophia's magical abilities into a single workshop, letting the three girls operate it from separate control rooms."
Ben Kaul agreed