Chapter 552

All along, Sui Xiong had felt that Void City's "New Oriental Technical School" did not quite live up to its name. A technical school ought, of course, to provide technical training. Yet his school taught general knowledge, bookkeeping, herbal medicine, and cooking—but nothing like machinery or mining.

Just look at the technical schools on Earth. Even the lowest-tier ones taught machining and fitting. The more advanced ones, like Blue Soar, covered the whole chain from driving cars to repairing them to building them, with excavators, bulldozers, road pavers, and every kind of construction machinery imaginable—now that was what a technical school ought to look like!

Sui Xiong was not dissatisfied with the achievements of his knockoff New Oriental, but without a mechanical engineering department, he felt that the school was incomplete, missing something crucial.

Now, with the arrival of these craftsmen and technicians from the Dwarf Kingdom, that greatest shortcoming could finally be remedied!

"What? The work His Majesty Void Mask has arranged for us is... teaching?!" Hala Hill, leader of these dwarven craftsmen and technicians and younger brother of the current king of the Dwarf Kingdom, stared wide-eyed at Liv Parn, who had come to deliver the order. Somewhat bewildered, he asked, "Teaching whom?"

Liv, who had married not long ago, was no longer the green and reckless girl she had been when she first met Sui Xiong, Leon, and Steel. She was now poised and gentle, yet years of adventure had left her with a heroic air. Her features bore some resemblance to her mother, Madam Tig, while her bearing faintly carried the shadow of her father, Knight Parn. Seeing the brawny dwarven uncle before her looking utterly lost, she smiled mildly and explained in detail.

It would have been better if she had not explained. Once she