Volume 1 Chapter 88 (1/2)

Confidentiality contract

“Xu Yi, just what kind of things are you thinking?” Still knocked on Xu Yi’s head without any politeness. She looked around before revealing a strange expression, “Wella clearly admitted that she stole the technology for the production magic machines from you, you still want to hire someone like her? You aren’t afraid that she will steal even more important technology?”

“If I was afraid, I would just give up researching since anyone could steal it from me, right? For example, Evita and Akallie, or even you.” Xu Yi pointed at Still as he spoke.

“Nonsense!” Still slapped Xu Yi’s hand away, “Are the three of us the same as Wella? You weren’t that close to Wella before and the three of us are at least good friends with you.”

“Good friends?” Xu Yi revealed a smile. In the face of enough benefits, not to mention a good friend, it wouldn’t be strange even if a family member or a spouse were to betray you.

But Still reminded Xu Yi that he had not taken any security precautions yet. If Evita and Akali were naive enough to sell the technology they had because of money, he would have no defense against that.

Because the technology they were currently researching was quite low level and didn’t involve any high level technology, this wasn’t as important. When they were here longer and grasped more key technology, if this situation were to ever happen, it could deal a heavy blow to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

Not to mention that those large companies in Banta City, they definitely want to obtain these core technologies.

If they knew about the existence of Evita and Akali, knowing that these two little girls grasped many of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s important technology, they would use a high price to entice those two and make them sell these things.

“Hey, Still, what do you think about me signing a confidentiality contract with you?” Xu Yi asked Still.

“About the magic machines?” Still asked back. Seeing Xu Yi nod, Still revealed a smile and pushed back her golden locks as she revealed a proud appearance, while saying, “What? You only thought of this now? Dear sir chairman, do you know that there are many companies that have looked for my grandfather and even me? They asked how much of the magic machine technology we had and even offered to buy them at a high price.”

“Oh? How high are their prices? If it’s high enough, I can sell to them too.” Xu Yi said with a relaxed smile.

Still rolled her eyes at Xu Yi and said with a cold snort, “Uncle, you’re not worried? I’m still fine, but if grandfather is moved after knowing how important these things are to those companies, you’re not afraid of suffering a large loss?”

“Of course I’m not worried. His excellency Great Magician is not that kind of person, how could he agree to do such a villainous thing?” Xu Yi shot a smile at Still before adding, “Of course, a noble and beautiful miss like Young Miss Still would never do something like this.”

Still looked up slightly and gave a soft snort, “At least you understand. But I’ll be serious with you, you should add some security measures. For example, when grandfather signs magicians to his Magic Tower, the contract has a security clause, stating that they can’t reveal the research results they obtained in the tower. If they go against it, not only will they be kicked out of the tower, grandfather will report them to the Magicians Guild and they’ll lose their qualifications as magicians if it is serious enough.”

“It’s a pity that magic machines aren’t protected by the Magicians Guild right now. The penalty will just be some gold coins, I’m afraid the restrictions aren’t enough.” Xu Yi helplessly said.

This was the problem Xu Yi currently faced.

There was no intellectual property protection on the Sines Continent and the Magicians Guild will not protect any form of magic application. The only form of punishment was punishment through the kingdom’s laws.

But the kingdom’s laws only protected a company’s property and they didn’t consider technology as a company’s property. So when company’s faced this situation, most of them would retaliate in secret.

Xu Yi was not willing to do this, but if he didn’t have enough punishments, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s technology was very likely to be revealed.

Still thought about it for a while and found that there really wasn’t any good method. She could only say in a depressed voice, “Then just raise the compensation a bit higher, make it so they can’t pay even if they sold everything they had. That will put the fear in them.”

Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders, “I can only do that for now.” He looked at Still after saying this and hesitated a bit before asking, “Still, I can definitely trust you and his excellency Great Magician, so you don’t need to sign the confidentiality contracts. But as for Evita and Akali…...It isn’t that I don’t trust them, but I’m not that close to them, so I’m worried that when I have them sign the confidentiality contract, they might have some ideas because of it……”

“Relax, they won’t. They are my good friends, I understand them very well. They are not that petty. If you feel like it isn’t good for you to mention this, I can do it for you and take responsibility for it.” Still patted her tall chest, speaking in an honest voice.

Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile, “This is good. Alright, let’s go see your grandfather.”

The two were talking on the top floor of the Magic Tower. They pushed open the door to the side and walked into Great Magician Camilla’s private research lab.

Seeing the two walking side by side, a smile flashed on Great Magician Camilla’s face. He waved his hand at Xu Yi and said, “Come, Xu Yi, see this Magic Array.”

“Oh? Your excellency Great Magician has come up with new innovation?” Xu Yi came over and looked over the Magic Array on the workbench. For a while, he didn’t know if he should say he understood or that he didn’t understand.

His meaning of understanding it was that Xu Yi could tell from a single glance that this was a mix of a Frost Array and a Flame Array. Moreover, it was a mix between the two opposing attributes, causing these two Magic Arrays that weren’t that complicated to become much more complicated.

What he didn’t understand was that Xu Yi didn’t know if this Magic Array could still be considered a single Magic Array anymore.

“This…..Your excellency Great Magician, can this Magic Array work normally?” Xu Yi couldn’t help asking.

According to normal magic theory, a normal Magic Array couldn’t be mixed with another Magic Array, not to mention one that was of a completely opposite attribute.