Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 63: Another Contest
The troublesome angel left, and Elder Mu and Elder Lin looked at the clear sky, waiting for her answer.
"I think the two elders are asking questions knowing the answer. Pan was expelled from the Sparkling Gold Civilization because of Yin's loss of twin resonance. However, during the assassination last night, Pan used some kind of power to release the Sparkling Gold Divine Art."
The clear sky's light words revealed important news.
Elder Lin still asked with certainty in the face of the known results: "Her Majesty the Queen has developed a divine magic differential machine?"
"So yours is called the Divine Magic Differential Machine." Qingkong said in a suspenseful manner, "Ours is called the Magic Differential Machine. Master Modokno, who laid the foundation for modern alchemical mechanics, once said that magic and technology seem to be two academic disciplines with different foundations, but with the advancement of magic and technology, the intersection between the two will become more and more, and the end of their development will definitely point to the same source.
I agree with Master Modokno's judgment. With the advancement of magic and technology, a researcher must master more comprehensive academic knowledge, and the direction of scientific research is increasingly shifting towards the microscopic world. The door to the origin of the world is opened, so an ancient discipline is given a new definition, which is the magic science proposed by me and established at the Oulu School of Magic.
As I learned the ancient Glittering Gold language, I found that although the ancient language could not explain the origin of the world, it was an application of the power of the origin of the world. When we decided to build a magic differential machine to calculate and observe the microscopic world, the addition of the ancient Glittering Gold language produced an effect that we all did not expect. "
Elder Lin, who is in charge of technical development, was fascinated by Qingkong's new theory.
The reason why the magic difference machine developed by Ying was successful was that it applied a lot of magic and technology, and it was also an integration of magic technology. However, the development basis of the magic difference machine was the ancient Glittering Gold Language. The magic technology established a large data model, and used the powerful computing power of the difference machine to parse and write the ancient Glittering Gold Language for trial and error, so as to find the correct and optimized magic term group.
The magic differential machine developed by Qingkong is based on magic technology. It analyzes the microscopic world and reversely matches the ancient golden language.
Although Elder Lin was unable to analyze the specific principles of the Magic Differential Machine through the information revealed by Qingkong, his sense of threat from the Magic Differential Machine suddenly decreased a lot.
The Divine Art Differential Machine and the Magic Differential Machine seem to have the same function in casting divine arts, but the difference in the underlying things determines their different development directions. The Divine Art Differential Machine is a platform that connects to the most magical and greatest artifact in the world. With the continuous improvement and function development of the Divine Art Differential Machine, its blessing on divine arts will become greater and greater.
However, the Magic Difference Machine is something that attempts to usurp the status of a divine artifact. Even though it appears amazing at first, if it wants to truly explain the origin of the world, it will take thousands of years of accumulation before it can qualify to be promoted to a divine artifact.
The current Magic Difference Machine does not yet have the capability to develop divine arts. Ying's divine arts Difference Machine will soon be able to surpass the Magic Difference Machine in the application of divine arts and leave it far behind.
Elder Lin was very interested in the Magic Differential Machine and said, "Your Majesty, the magic science you pioneered will definitely bring our world into a new era of rapid development. Now the Shining Gold Civilization is also integrating the academic institutions under our control to establish Shining Gold's magic research and development institutions. The effectiveness of the Magic Differential Machine will definitely provide infinite help to the development of magic science in the future.
Since you have pioneering experience in the development of magic differential machines, can you help our Shining Gold Civilization develop new magic differential machines?"
"Of course!" Qingkong said readily, "I welcome all academic exchanges and cooperation. Only when different ideas collide and learn from each other can we gain more knowledge and vision.
It's just that the magic differential machine we developed belongs to the Magic Laboratory of Raging Waves City, and I have no right to share this technology. But I can promote the establishment of a magic differential machine development project by Oulu College and the Shining Gold Civilization. I believe that the magic technology and magic we have mastered can definitely be integrated into a magic differential machine that leads the era."
The Magic Difference Machine does exist in the Magic Laboratory in Raging Storm City, but its functions are far less powerful than Qingkong described. It is merely an experimental model upgraded from the Alchemical Difference Machine.
Qingkong obtained information by invading the divine difference machine, and through modeling of the spirit orb, he discovered that if the magic difference machine wanted to truly touch the microscopic world, the application of ancient language was a feasible catalyst.
Although the troll scholar Laconia has initially mastered the development skills of ancient languages, his language library and divine terminology reserves are definitely not as good as those of the Shining Gold Civilization. Moreover, since the Shining Gold Civilization has developed the Divine Art Differential Machine, it means that they have a theoretical basis and application experience in combining divine arts and magic technology.
If we can steal this technology, it will definitely be of great help in the development of the Divine Difference Machine and the Magic Difference Machine.
Qingkong was ready to get something for nothing, but Shuojinren felt that he had made a major breakthrough in diplomacy. This cooperation was very likely to create a rift in the alliance between the Moonlight Court and the Golden Shield Empire.
Elder Lin agreed straightforwardly: "I agree to this cooperation, and the Council of Elders will certainly agree as well. After we finish discussing with the Prime Minister of Meteorite today, we will come to see His Majesty to discuss the specific progress of the cooperation."
"I welcome visits of goodwill at any time. The time for your meeting with Meteorite is approaching. I hope you can come up with a solution acceptable to both sides. I have always hoped that the world order will be stable and world trade will prosper."
Elder Lin and Elder Mu stood up and saluted Qingkong: "This is also our common goal."
Although this visit did not achieve a perfect result, the two elders were not disappointed. Instead, they felt that they had gained a lot.
In fact, they did not hold out much hope for snatching the Fire Crystal mining rights from the Golden Shield Empire. After all, according to Meteorite's style, it was impossible to leave a fatal loophole in this regard.
The Moonlight Royal Court is embedded in the western territory of the Golden Shield Empire. As the empire established the Western Territory Office to increase its control over the western territory, the Moonlight Royal Court and the Golden Shield Empire have been firmly tied together. If personal relationships are added, Qingkong will not violate Meteorite in the grand strategy.
But this does not mean that Qingkong is willing to follow the Golden Shield Empire and deteriorate its relationship with the Shining Gold People.
The joint development of the Magic Difference Machine shows that Qingkong still has his own stance.
This is an opportunity!
The second meeting between the Golden Shield Empire and the World Bank on energy currency issues was held on schedule under the watchful eyes of the public. Due to the assassination incident that happened last night, this meeting was even more concerning to everyone.
Where will the world be headed?
The Golden People took full control of the Golden Hotel's visit, and the meeting room used for the talks was heavily protected. When the Golden People elders arrived, the hotel laid out a special golden passage to directly welcome the elders into the meeting room.
Reporters and representatives from all parties gathered in the hotel lobby, waiting to obtain first-hand information after the talks.
The door of the conference room closed, and the Golden Warrior guarding outside cast a spell to set up a golden barrier outside.
In the conference room, the Golden Shield Empire and World Bank negotiators sat on both sides of the long conference table. The elders of the Shining Gold People followed their promise and gave the Golden Shield Empire representatives a fair venue for the dialogue.
The presiding elder on the side of the Shining Gold people is still Elder Mu, and the representative of the Golden Shield Empire is the Empire’s Prime Minister, Meteorite.
Kaileena was taking notes at the meeting on Luke's side.
Chief of Staff Yominton sat on the other side of Luke, responsible for providing information and negotiation advice.
Other accompanying officials and staff sat down in order and performed their duties.
When the talks began, Yomington first issued a stern protest to the Shining Gold People.
“The delegation of the Golden Shield Empire, led by Prime Minister Lord Meteor, came to visit the Golden Valley at the invitation of the World Bank with goodwill and the belief in resolving disputes.
However, the arrogance of the Shuojin people permeated all the reception links, and there were even vicious, despicable, and immoral assassination incidents against our important personnel.
We demand that the Golden Man hand over all those who participated in the assassination of the Prime Minister of Meteorite, and punish them severely according to the laws of the Empire!"
At the end, Yomington slammed the table repeatedly to vent his anger and dissatisfaction with the Golden Man.
All the imperial personnel shouted indignantly, causing the talks to fall into extreme chaos from the very beginning.
Luke sat there expressionless, letting his subordinates do what they wanted.
The Golden Shield Empire's attack on the assassination was within the expectations of the Shining Gold people, so the elders worked out various countermeasures overnight.
After waiting for the emotions of the Golden Shield Empire personnel to calm down a little, Elder Mu said to Luke who was sitting opposite him: "Prime Minister of Meteorite, on behalf of the World Bank, I would like to express my deepest apologies for what happened to you. The assassination was only the private behavior of a very small number of young Golden People. The World Bank has always hoped to resolve the dispute between us peacefully.
Of course... the fundamental reason for assassinating you last night was also because of the dispute caused by the energy policy of the Golden Shield Empire. The reckless willfulness of some young Golden People made them do the wrong thing.
If the Golden Shield Empire can change its energy policy and proactively eliminate the conflicts caused by you, it will certainly be able to mend the rift between us."
The elders of the Shining Gold people put down their airs and naturally became much more shameless.
Luke was assassinated, but Elder Mu insisted that the Golden Man was the victim... The Golden Shield Empire must reflect on this and make amends for its mistakes as soon as possible.
When the officials of the Golden Shield Empire saw that the Golden Man was so shameless, they started to curse him again.
Luke raised his hand to stop them.
Then he took the meeting minutes that had just been typed out from Kylena, pushed them across the table to the World Bank representative, and said, "Elder Pastor...you can reread what you just said, and think about the level of attention our meeting has received. If I give it to reporters outside, it will definitely make the headlines of all newspapers in all countries."
Elder Mu was just secretly proud of his sharp words, but after hearing Yunxing's words, his face immediately changed color.
This is not the Council of Elders, it is not twelve elders against a falling star.
This time they brought their secretaries, staff and officials, and there were countless people outside the venue waiting to pass on the message.
If these words were to spread, it would greatly damage the image of the Shuojin people.
"Mr. Meteoric Prime Minister, what I just said means..."
"No need to explain!" Luke said indifferently, "Just tear up the paper. I will pretend I didn't hear it, and my people will never spread it around.
The talks will continue. It has always been my opinion to resolve disputes peacefully. I also ask the people of Shuojin to put themselves in the right position, correct their attitude, and stop being so arrogant and uncultured. "
Elder Mu reached out and took the piece of paper on the table, then handed it to the person behind him to destroy.
Then Yomington reiterated his protest, demanding that the Shining Gold people hand over the people who participated in the assassination of the Meteorite Prime Minister and try them according to imperial law.
But the Golden Man never thought of handing the person over.
This has nothing to do with right or wrong, making friends means being submissive. If you are inferior to others, there will be no room for negotiation.
Besides, sandalwood must never be handed over to outsiders.
The Art County Alliance is now a thug for the World Bank's development. They cannot hand over the Ice Cave agents, otherwise the Art County Alliance will doubt its promise to protect and support the Shining Gold People.
As for the group of lookouts, it is unclear whose side they are on, and their value is extremely low. Even if they are given to the Golden Shield Empire, Meteorite will not be satisfied.
After the opening contest, Elder Mu was much more cautious this time: “Although you, Prime Minister, were the victim of last night’s assassination, since this unpleasant incident happened in Golden Valley, we should investigate and adjudicate it.
If the Golden Shield Empire insists on asking us to hand over the people involved in the case, it will be an infringement on the sovereignty of the Shining Gold people in the Golden Valley.
Please give us some time, Prime Minister. Please believe that we can investigate the whole incident impartially. The Golden Man will give the Golden Shield Empire a satisfactory answer. "
Elder Mu glanced at Kylena who was typing quickly beside Luke, and recalled what he had just said...very steady, very perfect.
Luke became silent again. He sat there casually, tapping the table rhythmically with his fingers.
His staff and accompanying officials were also silent, drinking water from time to time and pretending to be busy while flipping through the documents in their hands.
If the Golden Shield Empire does not respond, the World Bank will not be able to continue the talks and can only remain silent.
Negotiation is not just a battle of words, but also a test of psychology and patience. When a deadlock occurs, the party that breaks the deadlock first will have to pay a price.
Time passed minute by minute, and the hands on the clock in the corner of the venue turned round and round.
The elders of the Shining Gold people couldn't help but show their impatience.
As time approached noon, the elders seemed a little impatient.
Fortunately, the elders showed patience and composure, and finally waited until the Golden Shield Empire could not help but speak first.
After receiving the Prime Minister's signal, Yu Mington said, "It's noon now. This meeting is over. Please be more fully prepared for the next meeting.
What we want to see is sincerity, not perfunctory behavior.”
The elders of the Shining Gold people did not expect that after the two sides sat there for several hours, the Golden Shield Empire actually announced the end of the talks.
An elder said angrily: "We are very sincere! I think you don't want to talk!"
Luke said at this time: "Elder, don't be so impatient. Important things can never be solved by one or two negotiations. And it was me who was assassinated last night. If the Golden Man really wants to give me a satisfactory answer, please give me a satisfactory answer when we meet next time.
I would also like to remind you that... when the elder of the Shining Gold People was assassinated in Saint Lun City, we handed over his body to you as soon as we captured the assassin.
I think this provides a feasible solution for how you should deal with it.”
