248 Misunderstanding and Challenge (1/2)
On the top floor of the Lancaster Workshop Tower, the airship was docked on one of the two spare ports of the four existing ones.
As Amelia Lancaster was located on a higher floor, she was notified of the airship's arrival ahead of time, while Duke Ignis had zero knowledge of the envoy's arrival.
When the people disembarked the airship, the Duchess was already waiting with her people to welcome them.
”Sir Hendrick, a rare guest we have. What brings you to the Capital today, General?” Amelia greeted, as her gaze slowly shifted towards the envoys beside him. She was blown away by their appearances. ”And these two are…?”
”Greetings, Lady Amelia. These two are envoys of Elvengarde, The Supreme Elder, Haldir, and Fifth Princess Faelyn. They come to seek a friendly relationship with our kingdom.” Hendrick introduced.
Amelia was amazed by the elves' existence and even better, their willingness to seek humans out for friendly relations, but she did not forget her noble etiquette as she offered them her own greetings.
”Welcome to the Lancaster's workshop and Capital of Crawford Kingdom, envoys of Elvengarde. It's an honor to meet you both, Supreme Elder Haldir and Princess Faelyn.”
”The honor is ours.”
”Before seeking the king, the envoys are interested in touring your workshop, Lady Amelia. I wonder if that would be permissible?”
Amelia raised an eyebrow and contemplated briefly.
”Apart from the middle floors and higher, which contain confidential research and projects, I don't mind if it's just the lower floor workshops.”
The envoys had no problem with that arrangement. They were only curious about what human blacksmithing was like.
Everyone was in agreement. There was no problem.
”Very well. My husband should be on the first floor. Allow me to guide you along the way.” Amelia said.
Hendrick nodded and gestured.
”Please.”
The group made their way over to the elevator and entered. A button was pressed, gears began cranking, rushing steam was heard and the elevator descended.
…
After succeeding in forging the Scribing Pens, Leon was already proficient with the skills he had gained from the inheritance and moved onto interspatial storage forging. There was no more discrepancy between memory and action.
He had settled on a design and commenced work immediately. The design did not take much effort.
There were already existing designs of interspatial storages back in the Divine Realm, why bother thinking up a new one when he could use those as templates?
As such, he had easily settled on Interspatial Rings. They were small, convenient to wear, inconspicuous, and could not be any more portable.
The only challenge in creating Interspatial Rings was the demand for high-level dexterity and sight to engrave such minuscule runes on an already small object.
The Magisteel formed the core body before it was engraved and doused in liquid hot Star Meteorite before it was cooled in cold water to form the protective outer coating for the runes on the ring.
The entire process was more complicated than Scribing Pens, but each Interspatial Ring forged took less time than the first Scribing Pen.
At this point, Leon had already integrated with the memory from the inheritance.
Five shiny Interspatial Rings are laid out on the worktable.
Duke Ignis had assisted Leon throughout the process, but now that they were taking a break, he couldn't help but ask, ”What are these for?”
”These are…”
The rotating gears of the elevating were easily heard as Leon and Duke Ignis had their attention drawn over.
In the Lancaster Workshop Tower, each person was assigned enough work that would keep them busy at their work stations throughout the day. Rarely do they have time to leave their work stations.
But for some time, the rotating gears of the elevator had been happening at irregular intervals and now it was finally reaching the ground floor they were on.
The elevator doors opened, and Amelia was the first to exit. Her gaze soon locked onto Duke Ignis in the large ground-level workshop as she knew where her husband's personal forging station was.
Her eyes lit up when she shifted gaze onto Leon, who was next to her husband and immediately made her way over.
After Amelia was the two envoys, followed by the general marquis and finally his crippled son last.
”You're back safely, my dear son-in-law!”
Amelia embraced him, not minding his sweaty topless torso. She naturally heard the news that something went wrong when the elite hunting expedition did not return after a week.
The Duke smiled bitterly at this scene.
Embracing your future son-in-law first instead of your dear husband… this is unfair treatment…
Suddenly, the Duke froze and began to sweat.
Oh no! I hope she doesn't see it…
Amelia's attention was not on Leon for long before it was attracted to a certain opened packaged that was left on the worktable behind Leon when the two were busy forging.
Her nose twitched twice before she released Leon and flashed over to the opened packaged to look at the contents.
”Ahaha! My good son-in-law, how thoughtful of you! Is this for me?” Amelia said with delight.
Noooo!
The Duke was inwardly screaming. His wife discovered it after all!
”T-That's mine…!”
”What did you say?” Amelia squinted.
”Nothing…”
The fighting spirit the Duke worked up was immediately deflated with defeat. Having been married for two decades, can he not know what that look in his wife's eyes was implying?
What's yours is mine, what's mine is also mine.
Duke Ignis sighed with melancholy.
Leon smiled wryly at how much the Duke and Duchess loved their tea.
The herbal tea leaves were only tier-1 spirit herb the first time he gifted it to them, but now it was tier-3 spirit herb. Wouldn't they become even more frenzied over it?
Thankfully, he was prepared.
”Ahem, that one is for father-in-law. This one is for you, mother-in-law.”
Having said that, Leon pulled out another package of herbal tea leaves at the tier-3 spirit herb level.
”Oh my… you didn't have to.”
Amelia accepted with glee and hugged them both close. Clearly, she didn't seem to have any intention of giving back the other package of herbal tea leaves to the Duke.