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While Aresia continued to work tirelessly in the laboratory, her parents, who were planning to find her a fake boyfriend, were still busy with the affairs.
With less than half a month left before the start of school. Before that, she has to finish the things in the territory.
She is so busy with preparations. She need to install protective measures in the alchemy workshop to ensure that it would not be damaged in the event of a storm. She even placed energy boards on the roof of the spacious workshop, connecting them to the three production lines.
These boards absorbed solar energy during the day and magical energy from moonlight at night, providing the necessary energy for the workshop to operate smoothly.
After the equipment was installed, the employees who worked before were assigned. While they continued their previous work, they also needed to familiarize the new people recruited later with work.
She can say that the talent pool of Rogest family is really strong. It seems that no matter what kind of talents she wants, Steward Aaron and Steward Charlie, the two all-purpose steward, seems to get everything ready for her, just like the new in charge manager appointed by steward Charlie, she doesn’t get disappointed.
After completing the alchemy workshop, Aresia upgraded her clones. Although it wasn’t urgent, she wanted to fulfill her promise to Grysenna. She didn’t forget.
Aresia didn’t have the intention to stay in the laboratory forever. She planned to ask for a few days off once the teleportation array was built in Santala City. She wanted to spend time with Grysenna.
However, Aresia was caught by the Duke before she could leave. The Duke had received an invitation sent by The Emperor.
After meeting with the city lords, the Duke and his wife decided to have some fun in the city. It was only after receiving the formal invitation from the Emperor that they realized this.
It wasn’t that the Duke didn’t care about his children. It was just that he and his wife were so enamored with each other that they occasionally neglected them.
The palace messenger delivered the invitation, as was customary. However, since Aresia wasn’t present, the messenger sought the Duke’s help.
The Duke accepted the invitation on Aresia’s behalf and decided to ask her about it later.
“The invitation is for tomorrow. Antonio will be there.”
“Antonio? The one who is in charge of magic towers?”
The fact that Antonio will also be present makes the Duke feel nervous, he is afraid that Antonio will see through Aresia’s false disguise.
Even if Aresia repeatedly promised that she could handle it, the Duke still couldn’t rest assured. Fortunately, the Duke was also invited to this meeting. If there was something Aresia, didn’t pay attention to, he could cover it up.
The agreed time was in the morning. Aresia went there as Isis. The biggest advantage of a disguise magic is that the magic power fluctuation is very small, and it can be completely absorbed by the magic props on the body and the mage’s original overflowing magic wave covered it.
Following the Duke, Aresia once again met the Great Mage Antonio.
Antonio still looks the same, with an old appearance and an ordinary simple temperament. If he were not dressed as a mage, he would be like a kind old man who can be seen everywhere.
Isis who was being observe by Antonio, looked directly at the other party. Antonio can clearly see her face since she was not wearing a hood. Her short hair was clean and neat, and her brown eyes were so deep that they were almost black, cold and sharp. Her whole figure was like an unsheathed sword exuded a compelling edge.
Seeing this scene, the Duke thought to himself and secretly praying that Aresia’s secret would not be reveal.
After the intense staring, Antonio smiled and nodded to Isis, but Isis remained expressionless and nodded back to Antonio.
Aresia then look at the other person besides Antonio, which is of course the Emperor. The Emperor is dressed very grandly, wearing a formal suit that is only worn on formal occasions, and the crown on his head is also the most famous of his many crowns full of thousands of gems.
Dressing up so grand was to show to Isis that the Emperor shows a great importance to this meeting.
After the silent confrontation of the two eight-level mages the Emperor had no doubts about Isis’s professional level. She could withstand the deliberate pressure released by Antonio, means she is of the same level.
Actually the Emperor was very surprised when he saw Isis. He expected that an eight-level mage like Antonio will probably look like an old woman, but to his surprised she looks young, and she looks about the same age as his eldest son.
“It is great honor to meet you, your excellency Isis.”
Isis returned him a mage salute, “Good day, Emperor of the Holy Lotean Empire. Your Highness.”
While the Duke was listening to the Emperor in a serious manner, he was also observing Isis. Originally, he was worried that Aresia would be too nervous to speak, but in fact Aresia’s performance is remarkable, and she has a character that has no expression and doesn’t like to talk.
Even the Duke didn’t see any flaws in her. In fact, in terms of the way they talked, no matter how much the Emperor said, she just says “Hmm”, “Oh” and “Yes”. It’s pretty hard what’s going on with such a simple answer. This made the Duke’s heart drop a little.
But soon he started to get nervous again, because when the Emperor said a lot and Isis still looks like indifferent.
When Antonio joins the conversation and topic switch to magic research, Aresia became interested, it seems that Aresia’s preferences is really all about magic and magic research. Aresia and Antonio started to delved to magic reseach and soon forgot about the Emperor.
But the Emperor is not offended at all, he’s actually happy that the two great mage get along well. For him, it means that he has more chance in recruiting Isis.
The two mages talk for a while, and the Emperor and the Duke just listen to the side. After some time, the Emperor using signal something to the Duke, at first the Duke didn’t understand because the Emperor is using a mouth-shape to talk and no sound. Eventually, the Duke gets what is the mouthed-word the Emperor silently saying, “Teleportation Array”.
The Duke then gets what the Emperor wants, he wants him to open the topic about the Teleportation Array. The Duke is speechless, he didn’t dare to disobey, since he is the ruler of the Empire.
“Ehemm…” the Duke clears his throat, which attracted the attention of the two mages.
“Your Excellency Isis, regarding the teleportation arrays, I have already said it to you before, about promoting the teleportation arrays in Holy Lotean Empire. I wonder if you have considered it?”
Of course the father and daughter talk about this in private. Aresia certainly agreed to build teleportation arrays in major cities in the Holy Lotean Empire.
But the Duke also told her to act like she is hesitating, and wait for a few days before giving an answer, so that the Emperor pay more attention and be willing to pay a higher price for it.
It doesn’t matter whether if the price is higher or not, the main thing is to maintain a high profile and not be underestimated.