Volume 1 Chapter 9 (1/2)

Long term goal

His meeting with Great Magician Camilla was longer than Xu Yi had expected.

Great Magician Camilla had asked many questions about the Magic Array inside the Magic Fan and in order to make a good impression on Great Magician Camilla, Xu Yi had to extensively answer every question.

But most of Great Magician Camilla’s questions weren’t related to the Magic Array at all. After all, the Revolving Wind Array was only a low level Wind Magic Array. No matter how Xu Yi modified it, it was impossible that it would stump a Great Magician like Camilla.

Most of his questions were because he didn’t understand the design of the Magic Fan.

When it came to questions on design, most of them contained mechanical engineering knowledge.

It could be said that this knowledge had never appeared on the Sines Continent before. Xu Yi had quite a bit of trouble explaining these things to Great Magician Camilla, sometimes he even had to start with the most basic knowledge.

But because of this, when Xu Yi finished answering Great Magician Camilla’s questions, Great Magician Camilla gave him praise that surpassed Xu Yi’s expectations.

“I had thought that this Magic Fan was something you casually designed, but I never thought it contained such rich knowledge. Moreover, putting aside the things that I didn’t really understand when you explained them, just based on the Magic Array itself, it lets me see that you have quite a bit of talent for magic.” After saying this, Great Magician Camilla paused before looking at Xu Yi with a bit more expectation, “Xu Yi, I feel that you really aren’t bad. How about this? Are you interested in becoming my assistant for my magical research?”

Xu Yi was instantly stunned.

Assisting Great Magician Camilla’s magical research? According to the tradition of the Sines Continent, this was basically Great Magician Camilla wanting to take Xu Yi in as an apprentice!

If it was any other magician, they would be filled with wild joy and would accept without any hesitation.

Camilla was considered a top Three Star Great Magician even on the entire Sines Continent. Being able to become his apprentice, that was the dream of many young magicians!

If any other magicians in the Magic Tower knew about this, they would die from their jealousy of Xu Yi!

But Xu Yi thought about it and didn’t immediately reply. He just said that he would consider it.

Great Magician Camilla was clearly a bit surprised and disappointed, but he didn’t force Xu Yi to agree. He just waved his hand to let him leave.

When he left the top floor of the Magic Tower, he was hit by a heat wave that caused Xu Yi to be covered in sweat, while also calming him down.

Becoming Great Magician Camilla’s apprentice?

If it was two months ago, or even a month ago, he definitely would have agreed without any hesitation. But now he found that he wasn’t moved by this prospect at all.

“Why am I suddenly unmoved?” Xu Yi asked himself with a frown.

After the confusing thoughts circled his mind a few times, a familiar object appeared in his mind, the Magic Fan.

That’s right, it was the Magic Fan!

This fused magic with the mechanical engineering of earth, it was made after Xu Yi completely focused his mind on creating it. During this process of studying it, he frequently had the misconception that he was back in his lab on earth.

Xu Yi didn’t feel anything back then, but thinking about it now, he found that it was completely the effect of the mechanical engineer’s soul inside his body.

That’s right, he loved machines since he was young. In his previous world, he had completely thrown himself into the mechanical industry.

Even though he couldn’t use pursue his hobby and use his ability after coming to this magical world, forcing him to study magic, his heart had not changed.

Now that he had realized the joy of researching machines through the Magic Fan, how could he be willing to give it up?

“That’s right! I’ll study machines in this magical world! I want to perfectly combine magic and the mechanical industry together! Not only a fan, but also air conditioners and refrigerators! Even steam boats and airplanes! I want to create an industrial system on this continent! I want to create a magic industry empire!”

Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly felt like his entire body was filled with his epiphany and his body was completely filled with excitement.

He understood. This was because after wasting three years in this world in a daze, he had finally confirmed his goal.

His goal could be considered lofty and even unlikely, but it was still a goal, it had motivational power!

As for the difficulty? It would be overcome.

Xu Yi’s footsteps were faster when he returned to the lab. What welcomed him were gazes filled with envy, jealousy, and questioning.

His colleagues didn’t understand at all, why was a new person that had been in the Magic Tower for less than two months suddenly summoned by Great Magician Camilla. It had to be known, these people rarely saw Great Magician Camilla and there was no need to mention being summoned by him.

Xu Yi didn’t care about the strange gazes his colleagues were giving him at all. He now had a goal, he didn’t care about anything else now. He had a faint smile on his face as he casually returned to his spot.

Although he didn’t plan on being Great Magician Camilla’s apprentice, Xu Yi didn’t plan on leaving the Magic Tower.

If he wanted to do some things in Banta City, with some things related to magic, he had to maintain a good relation with Great Magician Camilla. Xu Yi was not dumb enough to cut off this relation on his own initiative.

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Three miles to the west of Banta City, there was a small manor that occupied a space of less than ten thousand square meters.