Yucheng left the gift box on the conference room table, then turned and strode away with easy confidence, leaving the others exchanging looks.
The sages' gazes were all fixed on the gift box on the table, and they paid no attention whatsoever to the Inazuma delegation's departure.
Azar immediately dismissed everyone else, including Alhaitham, leaving only two sages to gaze at the gift box Yucheng had left, lost in thought.
This was a gift from Inazuma's Electro Archon to Lesser Lord Kusanali. A gift from one god to another certainly could not be anything ordinary, and the protection of a gift box personally secured by the Electro Archon only further highlighted how extraordinary its contents were. How could Azar and the others not be curious and excited?
In truth, although Azar and the others had treated the Inazuma delegation with indifference, that did not mean they held the same attitude toward the Electro Archon.
Quite the opposite. After Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's demise, the newly born Lesser Lord Kusanali had been nothing more than a mascot to the Akademiya, utterly unable to satisfy their thirst for wisdom.
Of Teyvat's other six gods, the one most to the Akademiya's liking was Inazuma's Electro Archon. The reason was simple: this Electro Archon enjoyed inventing novel things that ordinary people could not begin to understand.
Especially given the current situation, with the Akademiya carrying out the [God Project] together with the Fatui Harbinger [The Doctor], one could imagine the tremendous shock Azar and the other sages had felt when Azar learned that Scaramouche, whom he was about to turn into a god, was actually an unfinished creation of that very Electro Archon.
Without Scaramouche, that perfect unfinished experimental puppet, finding another experimental subject capable of withstanding an infusion of divine power would have been