After just one tour with Lu Yi, Xiao Hongchen could tell that although fewer than two hundred people worked here, every role was clearly defined. The place had all its organs in place.
Clearly, if it continued to develop along this model, the Ministry of Magic could grow considerably.
They only glanced at the other areas before Lu Yi brought Xiao Hongchen to the section devoted to making Soul Tools.
It was a relatively separate area beside the forge. Lu Yi had built it there because most people learning smithing were already Soul Engineers, and the location would make it easier for them to craft Soul Tools.
He had also considered that most people might never master Thousand Refinement in their lifetimes. It depended on insight and luck, after all. This area gave them a way out: they could at least return to being ordinary Soul Engineers.
Whether those people stayed or left would make little difference to the Ministry of Magic. Its true core would always be the people who mastered Magic.
As for the possibility that those who left might reveal the method of Thousand Refinement—
For one thing, given their current treatment, none of them wanted to leave.
More importantly, Lu Yi had never intended to keep it secret. He even hoped the technique would spread far and wide.
Otherwise, whenever he needed Thousand-Refined metal for something, he would have no way to buy it. He would have to plant himself in front of a forge and swing a hammer for hours at a time.
That was why Lu Yi had told Fan Yu the method.
So far, though, only two people besides him had completed a Thousand Refinement: Fan Yu and a young teacher at Shrek.
Even Qian Duoduo, the deputy head of the Soul Tool