How to strike the right balance between work and family was a difficult question even for the many sociologists on Earth. Stille certainly could not find the answer so easily.
For Avita and Akali, who had yet to start families of their own, it was not even an issue.
Besides, both of them spent their days wrestling with all sorts of research problems. Where would they find the time to think about anything else?
The Xinfei Merchant Guild had now made a major breakthrough in the Malo Empire, so Xu Yi placed great importance on all the work being done in Marquis Southgate's Private Fief.
As the Xinfei Merchant Guild's technical core, the Magic Research Institute naturally had to provide extensive support for that work.
A few days earlier, for instance, Xu Yi had told Avita that they needed to establish a technical center in Marquis Southgate's Private Fief to provide local technical support for the Xinfei Merchant Guild's factories and other facilities there, as well as the processing factories belonging to other merchant guilds.
Avita had been responsible for allocating personnel and materials and coordinating everything, leaving her utterly swamped.
Meanwhile, Akali had been leading the members of the Magic Resonance Technology research team from place to place, providing technical support for erecting Mana Signal Towers and building the Mana Communication Network. She was even busier than Avita.
The last time Avita had seen Akali was half a month earlier, when Akali had squeezed in a trip back to mobilize her subordinates for support. Her skin had been noticeably darker then. Clearly, she had spent all this time working outdoors and had become thoroughly tanned.
Akali had been in excellent spirits, though. Not only had she been as energetic as ever, but her eyes had shone with an intense