Millennium Witch.

Chapter 93 - Equipment Development

Upon hearing this, Yvette let out a soft "Ah," surprised by the outcome. Bingyu, standing beside her, couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Ed, how long ago was this?"

“It’s been at least ten years, hasn’t it?” Ed thought for a moment and said, “The mutated creatures deep in the mountains often come to this ‘Fus River’ and the surrounding area to forage. Although we are hiding on the ‘water tower,’ we can’t stay here forever, otherwise how can we cultivate? Accidents can easily happen during this process.”

Has he really been gone for ten years?

Yvette was somewhat speechless, but quickly realized that given the situation of the machine race, this should be an easy thing to happen.

After all, their communication channels were primitive and closed, they had no stable messengers and could only rely on manual delivery. Moreover, they were naturally long-lived and lacked sensitivity to the passage of time...

Hmm, how come this situation is so similar to my own in every way?

But mechanical parts also age, while her vitality is endless and never-ending, showing no signs of weakening. From this perspective, if she were to encounter a similar situation, she might be in more serious condition than the mechanical race.

However, it should be alright. Since his apprentices have already broken through the theoretical lifespan limit as understood by the Origin Civilization, they can't be viewed with common sense...

She silently dismissed those annoying longevity-related conjectures, composed herself, and said, "Mr. Ed, would you please take us to Miss Bellflower's grave? Since we couldn't communicate while she was alive, I would like to bury Mr. Copperplate's letter with her."

"Huh, you mean the sender's name is Copper Skin?" Ed asked in surprise.

"Well, what happened?"

Ed and his adjutant walked ahead, leading the way as they spoke: "I remember Miss Bellflower once told us that she ran away from home after a big fight with her lover, whose name, I think, was Copperskin..."

"what?"

This time, apart from Abella, Yvette, Ice Rain, and even Dugrabi were all stunned. They all simultaneously conjured up the image of Mr. Copper in their minds—a body made of tin canopy, a round head, and a face with no features other than two glowing round eyes. He looked like a dull, silly little robot with a very serious personality…

What's going on? You, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually have a relationship? You even argue with your partner? And you even secretly keep it a secret from everyone?
Yvette suddenly felt that the machine race didn't seem as honest and simple as they appeared.

Having mastered even concealment, shouldn't the next step be to master the core human skill of lying?

……

The cemetery of the Water Tower Kingdom is located in a wilderness outside the city. There are small mounds of earth everywhere with sticks stuck in them, which are probably simple cenotaphs built by humans. Different cenotaphs are also equipped with different small ornaments to confirm their identity.

Miss Bellflower's cenotaph was covered with small blue-purple flowers, making it easy to spot. After burying the letter in the mound, Yvette's mission to deliver the letter was complete, but there was a slight regret, as it hadn't actually reached the recipient.

Meanwhile, Ice Rain and Dugrabi, who were on the sidelines, were ruining the atmosphere by gossiping the whole time, speculating about how Copper Skin and Bellflower had fallen for each other, and who had pursued whom first.

Just as the two were arguing about this, Abella suddenly spoke up and said, "They are not in a romantic relationship."

After the two looked over, and even the master glanced at her, she smiled slightly and said, "It should be Miss Bellflower's unrequited love, but Mr. Copper didn't understand it. And perhaps there were some disagreements involved, such as whether to move the kingdom from Cux. In short, she got angry and chose to leave."

"How do you know? You clearly don't recognize copper sheets either," Dugrabi said skeptically.

Yvette immediately realized: "You read the letter?" "Yes." Abella wasn't ashamed at all; in fact, she seemed a little proud.

“Miss Abella, how rude of you! How could you peek at someone else’s letter?” Bingyu said immediately.

“Indeed.” Dugrabi also showed a disdainful expression.

"So what?" Abella didn't care at all. "Why should I, a divine heir, be bound by such formalities? I'm not human." After saying that, she turned to Yvette and said sincerely, "My heart is only filled with loyalty to my master! Nothing else matters!"

“…Understood.” Yvette.

After completing her mission, Yvette thought to herself that if Miss Bellflower had any other letters waiting to be delivered, she certainly wouldn't have.

Although it wouldn't matter if we went back, the journey is long and we'll have a chance to meet again in the future, I feel that letting Copper know about this unpleasant fact would only add to Copper's pain.

It's better to let it go with the wind and forget about it in the vast world.

After the matter was settled, Ed warmly invited everyone to stay in the Water Tower Kingdom for a while, intending to express his gratitude on behalf of the late Miss Bellflower.

Yvette readily agreed, partly out of curiosity that as a border city of the Rustbone Free State, she might be able to obtain any information related to the Holy Spirit Cult and necromancy, and partly because she felt that the area around the Water Tower Kingdom might have a powerful aberration nest, which would also be a good hunting spot.

Moreover, she was in the final stages of compiling "The Gale Codex," and needed to concentrate on the conception, so long-distance travel was not suitable for her.

……

Yvette stayed in the Water Tower Kingdom for two years.

During this period, she completed the compilation of "The Gale Codex" and the third book, "The Pure Blue Codex". The former needs no further explanation, while the latter focuses on water magic and includes ice magic as a sub-branch.

During this long compilation process, she introduced some understanding of magic circuit etching and began to try to make the grimoire itself into a special kind of magical equipment.

If completed successfully, the "Flame Magic Grimoire," "Wind Magic Grimoire," and the future "Pure Blue Magic Grimoire" will no longer be just simple books of knowledge.

It can also become a powerful magic terminal with strong combat attributes. By simply connecting the book itself with mental power and magic power, one can cast the spells that have been recorded on it, greatly improving convenience.

Even in critical moments, it can fly in the sky like a floating cannon and fight automatically, achieving fully automatic fire coverage.

Of course, to achieve this military robot-like effect, other means are needed, such as chips.

Coincidentally, due to some foresight in the past, Yvette had already purchased a large number of elemental chips when Agash entered her dream, which would have been perfectly adequate as the central core of a spellbook.

She also recovered a intact mental core—an AI chip—from the wreckage of a mechanical puppet she discovered during her travels. It comes with a small cache, which can save her a lot of trouble.

Thus, combined with other small components such as elemental capacitors, after traversing more than five hundred years, the first magical equipment incorporating all the essence of her magical engineering knowledge was finally about to be born in this desolate yet vibrant submerged city.

(End of this chapter)