241 Making Effor (1/2)
Chapter 241: Making Effort
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
Inside room no. 14, on the thirteenth floor of Allyn Magic Tower.
Florencia was wearing a light blue dress today, which style was close to that of Tria or Aalto. In this dress, she looked even hotter and more charming, in a slighty more mature way.
Right now, Florencia was sitting opposite Lucien, with her left hand supporting her head, and her long blond hair gently falling over her shoulders, listening carefully to Lucien, who was explaining his purpose in coming. Then, her green eyes looked at Lucien when he finished his words, and she put on a smile.
”Evans, do you think this proposal can get approved within the Affairs Committee? You know… a proposal that can increase the cost and cut down their profit...”
Her attitude remained ambiguous with this question.
Lucien did not know her well, so he tried to be careful with his answer, ”Possibly, I think. Firstly, the cost can be shared and spread out on the prices of the final products, and secondly, I'm sure that many members in the committee understand Astrology. They can see the possible future of our next generations with their own eyes if we do nothing right now. Thirdly, it's also a great chance for us to show our friendly manner to elves and druids, which is beneficial to the development of the Congress.”
”What an eloquence…” Florencia made a bit fun of Lucien, then she got more serious, ”But any increase in price will definitely affect the sales volume, which is directly related to how much money can actually go into many sorcerers' pockets. As a sorcerer, Evans, you know that we always need more money… for materials, for experiments, for magic rites… I'm afraid that not many sorcerers really care about the long-term future as much as you do, especially when it comes to their own interest.”
After a short pause, Florencia continued, ”I admit that Astrology might help a bit, but there are so many spells that can be used for sorcerers to protect themselves, or they can just go to other dimensions for good. Not everyone can see long-term interest, and what they can see is just the a few meters right in front of their feet. With no doubt, you're very talented, Evans, however, you're still too naive. Even if the committee decides to be on your side, many sorcerers would find their own ways around it anyway, not to mention the fact that pissing off their big supporters is the last thing those committee members want to do.”
For a moment, Lucien did not know what to say.
Florencia reorganized the documents in front of her again, and said, ”Evans, your idea of using Elemental Swirl to deal with pollution is great, but my question is, again, did you ever consider its cost? Enchanting your ring, Element, with the spell, cost us a lot, and it can only be cast few times in a day. Even if the hydroelectricity magic tower in the alchemical factory could provide enough power for simplifying the spell to fourth or third circle, and even if the recycled pure elements could be reused, the cost is still there. Thus, the price, just like what I mentioned before, is still the biggest problem.”
Lucien had no idea how to refute Florencia. After a while, he looked at Florencia sincerely, ”Ms. Florencia, the cost is not that much.”
”I know, but for many wealthy people, they would rather waste their money than invest the money in the future.” Florencia nodded, ”As this proposal is related to our cooperation with elves and druids, I will bring your proposal to the committee meeting, but I don't want you to have too much hope with it.”
Her implication was clear. The reason why Florencia was having this conversation with Lucien was that Lucien was a young, talented sorcerer from the Will of Elements, and the reason why she was willing to bring proposal to other committee members was the cooperation relationship between the Congress and the elves and druids.
Promising as Lucien was, at this stage, Florencia was not going to spend too much time or effort on supporting this young second-circle sorcerer and level four arcanist.
”I really appreciate it, Ms. Florencia.” Lucien knew that he was not some kind of big potato, thus he was aware that the outcome of this conversation was already not bad.
”Then, as a gentleman,” Florencia smiled, ”are you gonna invite me to dinner tonight?”
”Ah..? Yeah… I mean… of course.” Lucien nodded. In fact, Lucien was about to visit Raventi later to see if members of High Tower could do anything for this issue, after all, High Tower had quite a good relationship with the Will of Elements, however, Lucien knew that he should obey Florencia's will right now.
”Ha…” Seeing Lucien's facial expression, Florencia grinned, with her hands covering the lower part of her face, ”Don't be nervous, Evans. I was just joking. My husband, Oliver, will be back tonight from the other dimension, and we'll be having a nice dinner together.”
Florencia simply liked making jokes of young and single males, but that was it, as she did not really mean anything.
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Hearing from Lucien that Florencia was going to put forward the proposal, both Iristine and Arcelion were a bit relieved. At the same time, they also sent a message back to Stroop forest in order to gain more support.
Then, they came to the Royal Magic Tower of Holm with Lucien, to visit Raventi.
Raventi, who was wearing a gray magic robe, embroidered with mysterious symbols of elements, said to Lucien, ”Evans, for you, I'll try to talk to the members, but honestly speaking, I don't understand why you care this much about it. Alchemical factories indeed do damage to the environment, but there's no difference between this and farmers cutting down forests to grow crops. We can make the factories stay away from cities as far as possible, so human beings would not be affected that much.”
Although Raventi valued Lucien way more than Florencia did, and he knew Lucien's talent well ever since Lucien first put forward the periodic table of elements, unfortunately, Raventi knew nothing about being environmentally friendly.