Lin Mo smiled.
"Besides diplomacy, we have a rather presumptuous request for this visit."
"As I mentioned before, we need master craftsmen from the Dwarf Clan to inscribe runes on our enormous spacecraft."
Understanding dawned on Thorin.
"Right, you mentioned that before. A flying ship, wasn't it?"
"We've built those before. Airships, we call them. Not as practical as ships."
Lin Mo shook his head.
"It's not an airship. Its main framework is nearly complete, and it's far bigger than an airship. It's no different from a metal mountain!"
"We plan to have it not only fly through the atmosphere, but also venture out into space!"
Thorin's breath caught. His eyes immediately widened, and he pointed at the sky.
"What did you say? Fly... fly beyond the world?!"
"Yes," Lin Mo confirmed.
"But to get this enormous spacecraft flying, we need your rune technology."
"Not small runes, but... an immense rune magic circle, formed as a single whole and covering the entire hull!"
"Stability runes, fortification runes, weight-reduction runes, levitation runes, and so on!"
Thorin gaped and murmured,
"That... that's absolutely insane!"
"Lunatics! You Great Xia people are a bunch of lunatics!"
Only after a while did he recover and say,
"All right, no problem!"
"We'd certainly like to see how you built it."
Seeing him agree, Lin Mo immediately said,
"Good! The price is negotiable. We won't shortchange you."
"That's a trivial matter!" Thorin waved a hand dismissively.
"To forge such a miracle with our own hands is an honor for any dwarf craftsman!"
That was what he said, but inwardly, he was thinking about secretly picking up their techniques to see whether the Dwarf Clan could reproduce it in the future.
Compared with money, that was what really mattered!
The next morning.
The diplomatic delegations from Terra's