In the end, the Soul Engineer Academy reached an internal agreement: members would receive a certain number of points based on their technical contributions to the academy.
Soul Engineers could exchange these points for technology licenses.
Of course, the empires behind them would still need to exchange metal resources for these technology licenses.
Thus, the more someone contributed, the more technology licenses they could secure for their empire, allowing it to obtain more advanced soul tool technology and thereby gain greater combat strength in war.
The technical contribution points would be calculated by the Fate AI, ensuring fair dealing for young and old alike.
After this measure passed, Li Ming noticed a clear rise in the enthusiasm of the academy's Soul Engineers. They worked harder on research and development, all hoping to secure more technology licenses for their respective empires.
Moreover, after this measure was introduced, the academy's Soul Engineers were no longer considered traitors by their own empires. Instead, they once again received their empires' support.
One could only say that the Soul Engineer Academy had become a new battlefield for these empires.
Li Ming, however, was happy to see it happen, because it would make them compete ever harder, and as their boss, he naturally benefited.
Under these circumstances, the Soul-Charging Treasure came into being.
Its operating principle actually borrowed from his Solid-State Soul Power Compression Array.
It compressed soul power into solid-state soul power crystals and stored them in a metal container sealed as a single unit, preventing the soul power from leaking away.
When soul power needed replenishing, it converted the solid-state soul power back into gaseous soul power.
Of course, the technology involved was more complicated than one might imagine. It involved numerous arrays, such as an array that converted a Soul Master's soul power