"But I won't give it unconditionally. That's understandable," Lin added.
Juan Javier asked generously: "Of course, no one will make such a request. So what are your conditions?"
"The first point is that all material costs and personnel costs are borne by you."
"The material cost is easy to say. What is the personnel cost?" Juan asked cautiously about the unfamiliar terms.
"To put it simply, it is the wages of hired workers and craftsmen who make parts. I know that there will be many people on the airship who are both craftsmen and manufacturers. Of course, these people are welcome to join the work together. They want to learn,
I'll try my best to explain, that's no problem. But whether these people get paid or not depends on your own plan. After all, you are the captain of the boat, and those people are also considered your subordinates."
"That's easy to say. I'll make the arrangements." He wanted to arrange for his own people, but in Juan's initial plan, he didn't expect that someone had made arrangements before he even opened his mouth. This made Juan agree in a hurry.
But Juan Javier also understands that the exchange of benefits is the equal communication method between magicians. It seems that he has taken all the benefits, and the part he paid is what he should give. Then the other party..." Your Excellency,
what do you need?"
"Before making my request, I would like to ask you something first." Lin said politely.
The advantage of negotiating a deal with such an acquaintance is that the other party knows his own limits and will not make exaggerated demands, and then the two parties will slowly go back and forth until the result is "very unsatisfactory" for both parties, and then they look unhappy.
Sign a contract. This kind of gameplay is simply a waste of time and life!
Without a winner-take-all, no one will be truly satisfied! So it’s better not to waste your feelings in the first place. Just wanting to do this is not something you can do when communicating with strangers. A certain fat nerd’s version of time-traveling crowds is just that.
Don't like to deal with outsiders.
But just like what Fen said, the other person is the same person as him, so naturally there won't be so much useless foreplay. Lin went straight to the topic and said: "An has the gift of prophecy, is this true?"
I had heard such rumors before I left."
Juan Javier nodded and said: "This is true. I just don't want her to become a plaything of some powerful people, helping them with divination and prediction all day long. That's why I take her with me to protect her."
.Then you also want to do some divination? I thought you didn’t believe in these false things, but would...well, what do you say, be more pragmatic."
"I don't want to know about the future, I'm interested in the great prophecy. Fen is very knowledgeable, but she is not good at this magic. So I want to know how a magician with the gift of prophecy would explain
, use this magic. This is my condition."
From Lin's current perspective, the barrier between magic and science is not obvious; because there are many things in magic that can be explained by scientific methods. If there is no way to explain it, the only reason is that all the variables have not been controlled yet. That's because
There are too many uncontrollable parts, so magic is dismissed as 'idealism'.
And the 'Great Prophecy' is someone's recent private project.
For Juan Javier, exchanging great prophecy for the knowledge of airships is no longer a question of whether it is worth it, but a question of whether it is willing or not. Because this level of knowledge cannot be simply valued.
to measure.
The Great Prophecy is very powerful, but in any case, it is just a magic. The knowledge of airships is a technological change and an era of progress. How can it be compared to a powerful magic?
Taking a step back, as long as you have money, you can build 10,000 new airships. But with the same money, you may not be able to recruit 10,000 magicians who can use great prophecy. So how to choose?
, for Juan, who has many identities such as Viscount Javier, Captain of the Gauss Bertone airship, and Dean of the Royal Magic Academy of King Huelva, it does not seem to be a difficult choice.
However, he did not let his own thoughts make the decision. Instead, he turned around and asked Anmari, the other party to this transaction and his wife who was sitting next to him. "My wife, do you agree to this transaction?"
"
She is similar in age to Kaya and Halumi, but now that she is a wife, Anmari has shed her former childishness. Perhaps because her heart belongs to someone else, or perhaps because she has a safe home to live in, she has a personality that is not as good as that of a young girl.
She was calm. Faced with her husband's inquiry, the taciturn woman nodded in agreement without hesitation.
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, there is no difference between a magician with the gift of prophecy being held captive by powerful people and being held captive by Juan. But who knows, this is not the path she has chosen to run her business.
Can people who can see the future really be controlled by others?
Just like the request in front of him, as the husband Juan Javier asked out of respect, it was actually an opportunity for Annemarie to influence his choice. Whether he is soft-eared or stubborn and arbitrary, as long as this person is on the trajectory of his destiny
If you have a place in the world, you cannot escape the hands of these chosen people of the goddess of destiny. Of course, she has never revealed any of these things or the identities of the chosen people.
The path that Anne Marie chose was to live a stable life with the man beside her. What she had to do was to help Juan choose the safest path in every fork in fate. However, her
It is difficult for men, or people of this era, not to meet these two people at the decision point of their destiny.
In terms of strength, in general perception, the lich who once had the name of the devil is higher than another man. In the eyes of Anne Marie, on the road of destiny, the lich who is no longer a lich is
It's like a boulder blocking the road. Those who want to move forward have no choice but to take a detour; if they desperately want to shake the boulder, they will end up being crushed to death by the rolling boulder.
However, another man is like a big mountain in the eyes of fate. Everyone who encounters this mountain has only three endings: stop in front of the mountain, cross along the mountain, or die in the mountain. The most terrifying thing is that everyone who enters the mountain will have three endings.
People who go to the mountains do not realize where they are and what choices they face. Even if the end comes, they may not be aware of their situation.
Anmari has never told anyone about such an idea. If Lin himself knew it, he would definitely think of this sentence from his hometown: Only in this mountain, the clouds are deep and nowhere.
Faced with such a man, even if he is the chosen one of the goddess, Anne-Marie actually does not have many choices. There is no way she can provoke her husband to stand against that man.
She knew better than anyone else that the person in front of her was terrifying, and that even the goddess of fate found it difficult. So Anne-Marie compromised; or in other words, the choice she made allowed her and her husband to avoid the worst.
outcome, and get the maximum benefit.
From this point of view, even if she knew that the great prophecy she had handed over would make this mountain, whose top could not be seen when she looked up, even higher. But how could she not choose such a path?