Internal Problems (First Update)

"Where did Stephanie go?" Tita frowned, looking somewhat displeased.

It was time to train new recruits. Stephanie should have approved the materials needed for their training by now. Some expensive surgical consumables and medicines had to be produced by the Pharmaceutical Company under Stephanie's control. Wakanda's low production capacity simply could not bear all of the City of Immortals' demands.

She was not wearing Power Armor, but a black-and-gray robe with a belt clasp bearing the Sisterhood's emblem. Though Tita looked fragile at the moment, she could still kill two fully armed adult men in close combat within a second and easily twist off an enemy's head—this was the combined effect of the bionic muscles and magical metal skeleton within her body. Her Artificial Soul and ceaseless magical power drove every movement she made. Homunculi were undoubtedly Salomon's most perfect alchemical creations apart from Gene Alchemy. Without borrowing the power of Aether—the Philosopher's Stone—he could never have mass-produced such a number of Artificial Humans.

"She went to Moscow with the Witch. I bought a French restaurant there from an actor." The Arcanist took the documents from Tita's hands. After flipping through them seemingly casually a few times, he signed his name and sent the paperwork to the next department. "Anything else? I have class in an hour," he asked. "I don't want to be reviewing documents during class."

Tita looked troubled. "Sovereign, the Mars Foundry task that you assigned Stephanie and me to oversee..."

"What did Malphas do?" Salomon touched his Pentagram Tail Ring.

This was his contract with the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons. Though he had yet to command the demons to use their great magic for anything, as long as he wore this ring, he held a certain degree of restraint over every Demon Pillar. That was also