Chapter 526 - Investment Foresight (1/2)

Chapter 526 Investment Foresight

Faced with Stephanie’s doubts, Roland explained, “Building a floating city requires a very secretive environment, otherwise the initial construction of the floating base can easily be destroyed. The world has no shortage of particularly jealous people.”

Stephanie thought that Roland’s concern was natural.

If she knew that someone she didn’t like was building a floating city, she would definitely think of a way to destroy it before they became too powerful.

Not to mention that there were quite a few people who didn’t want others to succeed.

“I see.” Stephanie played with the long hair by her ear with her right hand, curling it for a short while. She said, “I’m announcing to the public that I’ve hired you as my royal Mage and that you’re responsible for the security of my territory. This way, I will not arouse the suspicion of outsiders when I send you large quant.i.ties of magic materials. At the same time, if you are in charge of the security of my territory, you can decide the layout needed to build the floating city without having to specifically ask for my opinion. How about this?”

“Then it’s troublesome for you,” Roland said quite gratefully. She had thought it out for him, so a little grat.i.tude was in order. Stephanie stared at Roland for a moment, then smiled and said, “You’re welcome, we’re partners now.”

Roland finished the cake in a few bites and said, “Then get ready, we’ll leave later when I return from the Magic Tower.” He knew well that women always had something to carry, and it wasn’t convenient for them if he watched from the sidelines.

“Okay.” Stephanie nodded. After finis.h.i.+ng the milk, Roland went to the Magic Tower.

After Roland left, Stephanie’s face, which was quite impa.s.sive, suddenly showed a delighted expression. When Andonara saw this, she smiled and said, “It’s strange that you are willing to cooperate with Roland. Last night, you were clearly saying how ungentlemanly and unmanly he was.”

“A floating city, that’s a floating city.” Stephanie looked at Andonara with an astonished expression instead. “A Mage who can build a floating city is right in front of you, only a fool wouldn’t work with him!”

Andonara was even more puzzled. “Do you believe Roland now? Aren’t you afraid he’ll lie to you?”

“He could create a multiple teleportation magic array, so the floating city is not unexpected.” Stephanie smiled smugly. “Although I’m not very good at internal affairs, and I don’t have much of a broad view, I’m not so stupid that I can’t see who the real future talent is. I’ve studied with my father for more than a decade and couldn’t learn anything well, but I’m very good at investing.”

Andonara looked up smugly. “Not even close to me, you’re just a partner, Roland is all mine.”

“You have it backward, you are Roland’s.” Stephanie shook her head.

Andonara shrugged indifferently. “Between husband and wife, there’s no need to distinguish so clearly.” Stephanie was speechless, and once again felt bitter. Roland arrived at the Magic Tower and checked on the recent affairs first. Vivian had managed everything here quite well and with the help of Christina the vampire, everything was on track. The students at the magic school were studying diligently: one-fifth of them had become magic apprentices and two had become official mages. Everything was on track. Roland and Vivian chatted for a while, and when he prepared to go back to the manor, a group of bats suddenly flew in from outside and hung upside down on the ceiling A dozen pairs of red eyes stared at Roland.

Vivian was used to it, and after she went to close the window to block the sunlight from outside, Christina came down in her human form.

She looked at Roland rather unhappily. “Master, is it proper for you to leave the running of the Magic Tower to us two women when you run around outside every day?”

“I have a feeling you like it quite a bit,” said Roland, bluntly.

Christina choked on her words.

Vivian smiled lightly beside her.

Just as Roland had said, the two of them quite liked this job.

In this world, this feudal era, the status of women was relatively low.

The ones like Stephanie who could become a queen were irregular. After all, the Fareins Kingdom had the tradition of a queen being in power, so the status of women was relatively high.

But only a little higher.

There was no such tradition in Hollevin, where it was hard for women to get ahead.

For a woman like Vivian, to be in charge of a Magic Tower and influence half the city was already an unimaginably high status for her. So she cherished this status and diligently managed the Magic Tower and the city. Sixty percent of her motivation was to help Roland and the other forty percent was for herself. … Realizing the value of her own life. That was probably how it felt. “Vivian, apart from work, you have to find time to practice magic,” Roland said plainly. “Just as I delegate my work to you, you can also delegate some of your work and power to other trustworthy members of the Magic Tower. In this world, if you want to become a leader, you need a certain amount of strength at the end of the day. The Magic Tower will get bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more people, and if you can’t keep up in strength, you will only be able to manage a hundred or so people.” Vivian was stunned for a moment, then she thought about it, nodded, and said, “I understand.” Christine sighed. “I know that this is quite a good position to be in, one we never would have imagined being in before, but… We don’t always feel very safe when you’re away. After all, out there, there are always different ideas and opinions about women, especially beautiful women.”