"Nice to meet you. From today onwards, I will be responsible for your daily needs, my esteemed...master!"
Chapter Ninety: Maid Frosty Night
Luo Tian was stunned. He looked at the beautiful girl in front of him, who looked to be only a teenager with delicate features, with some doubt.
She was dressed in a black and white Victorian-style maid outfit, with an exquisite Katyusha headdress, her long, smooth, jet-black hair cascading over her shoulders, and her eyes, like stars in the night sky, revealed a subtle, indescribable brilliance.
The maid's upper body was completely covered, but her full figure was still able to outline the unique soft curves of a woman under the well-proportioned clothing.
The skirt almost completely covered most of her calves, so Luo Tian could only see the white stockings that reached her calves and the black high heels she was wearing.
Although the maid's long dress completely covered the girl's delicate body, the golden ratio curve of her waist left endless room for imagination about the space beneath the dress.
She simply stood there, exuding an elegant and perfect aura in every movement. Rather than a maid, Luo Tian believed she was the young lady of a powerful family in disguise.
Luo Tian was quite certain that he did not recognize the beautiful and elegant maid in front of him.
Are you... talking about me?
Luo Tian pointed to himself and asked in a puzzled tone.
"Of course it's you, my respected master!"
Beneath her elegant maid's long dress, her long, slender legs were slightly bent forward, her head lowered, and her smooth, long hair cascaded down her shoulders. With her hands gently pulling up her long dress, she gave Luo Tian a near-perfect maid's bow.
Despite her elegant tone and impeccable manners, Luo Tian still detected a faint sense of detachment in her gentle voice.
It seemed that for the elegant maid in front of her, calling Luo Tian "master" was just a job, just a task.
Not paying much attention to that almost imperceptible detail, Luo Tian asked the maid:
"You were sent by Qianyu?"
The elegant maid gently raised her head, a hint of surprise appearing in her beautiful, star-like eyes.
She was somewhat surprised by Luo Tian's way of addressing Yin Qianyu and his indifferent tone.
In her view, Yin Qianyu and Luo Tian's marriage was merely a temporary expedient, and the noble future empress could not possibly submit to an ordinary transmigrator.
Yin Qianyu's arrangement for her to serve Luo Tian can be seen as a form of exile for her and a certain compensation for Luo Tian.
However, judging from Luo Tian's behavior, her judgment seemed to have been somewhat flawed; the Luo Tian before her was not entirely ignorant of Yin Qianyu.
"Yes, His Highness sent me to serve you!"
With her white gloved hands placed on her lower abdomen, the elegant maid responded softly.
"name?"
“Master, you can call me Frosty Night.”
The mechanical question and answer made Luo Tian frown slightly. He could vaguely sense that the elegant and perfect maid in front of him was not as calm as she appeared.
A maid should introduce herself by name as soon as they meet, but in Shuangye's case, she didn't answer until Luo Tian asked her.
Such a mistake shouldn't have happened to this maid who was so perfect in both temperament and manners. The only explanation Luo Tian could think of right now seemed to be that she didn't really think much of her master from the bottom of her heart.
"This was sent by Yin Qianyu, asking me to help train her?"
This was the only explanation Luo Tian could offer.
Nodding slightly to Shuangye in front of him, Luo Tian said in a calm voice:
"Where is the accommodation? Lead the way!"
"Please come with me, Master!"
Shuangye gave a slight bow, then led Luo Tian to the other side of the gate. Without the obstruction of surrounding buildings, what appeared before Luo Tian was a high-tech magic-powered hovercar.
Shuangye respectfully opened the car door for Luo Tian, and after guiding Luo Tian to sit down in the car, she personally fastened Luo Tian's seat belt.
Despite knowing that Shuangye was dissatisfied, Luo Tian could hardly find any fault with the maid's perfectly elegant demeanor throughout the entire process.
Even in those lowered eyes, no emotion could be discerned.
The magic-powered hovercar slowly rose into the air, carrying Luo Tian towards the central urban area of the capital.
As the magic-powered hovercar took off, Luo Tiancai noticed another side of the capital city that he had never noticed before.
Below, crowds surged, while above, only a few magic-powered hovercars sped by, taking in the vast array of people below from a bird's-eye view.
This feeling is subtle, like poppy, making it irresistibly intoxicating.
Seemingly noticing that this was Luo Tian's first time riding in a magic-powered hovercar, Shuang Ye, wearing white gloves and driving the vehicle, explained gently to Luo Tian:
"The magic-powered hovercar is not open to commoners; only high-ranking nobles are qualified to ride in it."
In the entire capital, there are only 103 nobles of earl rank or above. Even including their wives and direct relatives, the number of magic-powered hovercars would not exceed 600, making them a true symbol of power and wealth.
Even Shuangye couldn't help but add a touch of pride to her voice as she said this.
The existence of the magic-powered hovercar represents far more than just a means of transportation; it represents the power that resides at the top of the empire, something that many can only dream of.
The company that successfully invented the magic-powered hovercar by relying on time travelers has maintained good relations with various noble families over the past few hundred years by continuously developing the magic-powered hovercar business.
Even though several upheavals over the following centuries prevented the company from expanding, it maintained its status in high society, which was the foundation upon which it survived these upheavals.
This alone is enough to show how precious the magic-powered hovercar is.
Unmoved by the hint of pride in Shuang Ye's voice, Luo Tian lightly stroked the armrest of his chair and said coldly:
How many years has the Magic Hovercraft been around?
Shuangye paused slightly, but still answered softly:
"Five hundred and thirty years."
Luo Tian smiled coldly:
"Is an old relic that has continued for 530 years without any progress something you should be so proud of?"
Shuangye was stunned. She never expected that Luo Tian, who had been calm before, would suddenly get angry.
She instinctively wanted to refute him with her knowledge of nobility and the long history of the Magic Hovercraft Company, but her maid instincts stopped her from contradicting her master.
But a hint of anger still lingered in her eyes.
"You think I'm wrong?"
Luo Tian looked meaningfully at the earth beneath the magic-powered hovercar. Among the busy masses, occasionally someone would raise their head to look at the sky, their eyes filled with longing for the vast unknown.
"In my opinion, the aristocratic glory represented by the magic hovercar is completely insignificant."
Once this carriage was placed in a high-class pavilion and became a product for nobles to prove their power, it represented the restriction of the minds of ordinary people by those fools.
When the sky becomes a privilege, ordinary people lose the right to explore it!
Chapter Ninety-One: The Reality of the Star World!
The anger in Shuangye's eyes subsided slightly, and she still did not refute it, but the doubt in her eyes had already told Luo Tian the answer.
In her view, the magic-powered hovercar is merely a means for ordinary people to reach the sky, and it is the most difficult means at that.
Whether it's becoming a superhuman with the ability to fly, taming a flying mount, or riding an expensive large airship, humans have the right to easily take to the skies.
The magic-powered hovercars are expensive to build, and even if they were made available to ordinary people, they wouldn't have the financial means to buy and ride them. What Luo Tian said was nothing but nonsense.
“Your eyes tell me that you don’t believe what I’m saying.”
Luo Tian tapped the armrest lightly and said in a calm voice:
"Your gaze tells me that you believe there are so many extraordinary systems in this world, and that there is far more than one way to fly."
The cost of the magic-powered hovercar is so high that it's completely pointless.
At this point, Luo Tian couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle, but the sarcasm in his laughter was impossible to hide.
"Did you know that in a world without supernatural powers, when the prototype of the automobile first appeared, it was just as expensive to manufacture, and its practicality was even inferior to that of a horse-drawn carriage?"
However, under such circumstances, it only took a hundred years for cars to evolve from being a useless commodity to being affordable for ordinary people with speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour.
In the same hundred years, ordinary people developed airplanes, giving everyone the opportunity to explore the sky.
These achievements are all the result of countless wisdom and inventions by ordinary people.
They democratized prices, introduced more advanced technology into people's lives, and in the process created many valuable technological products.
"In contrast, the magic-powered hovercraft, which was invented... oh, no, it should be said that it was a stolen invention from another world that was modified and integrated into the Star World, did not develop at all for five hundred years."
In a society where technology is advancing rapidly, products that have not been updated for decades are considered outdated and should be eliminated, while the Magic Hovercraft, which has not been improved in its five-hundred-year history, is regarded as an honor.
What do you think is the reason?
Shuangye did not reply, but remained listening attentively, though the look in her eyes was clearly wavering.
From her perspective, she only remembered the glorious 500-year history of the Magic Hovercraft and the honor that represented noble power.
However, on another level she overlooked, the magic-powered hovercar brought a stark irony.
"But... this is just a magic-powered hovercar. In the past five hundred years, the technology of the Star World has been developing rapidly."
Five hundred years ago, we could barely explore the stars; five hundred years later, we are able to establish colonies in outer space. What does a mere magic-powered train prove?
Faced with Luo Tian's questioning, even Shuangye, who adhered to the maid's code, finally couldn't help but speak up in rebuttal.
After speaking, Frost Night, who was piloting the magic-powered hovercar, immediately apologized to Luo Tian in a soft voice:
"I apologize, Master, please forgive my rudeness!"
There was a hint of stubbornness in his voice.
Luo Tian smiled, spread his hands, and asked Shuang Ye with a meaningful smile:
"Yes! The empire is able to colonize beyond its borders and explore deeper into the starry sky."
But... what does that have to do with ordinary people?
"Would the resources plundered from outer space by the empire be distributed to ordinary people?"
"In the Great Yin Empire, when people talk about the empire's colonization of other planes and its roots in outer space, even the poorest workers will proudly stand tall."
But in reality, what did these workers give up, and what did they receive in return?
The magic-powered hovercar—perhaps the only way for ordinary people to reach the sky—has been used by nobles, in their so-called honor, to deny ordinary people the right to explore it.
"The magic-powered hovercar is like this, and so is the seemingly thriving supernatural system."
In this world, do ordinary people truly have the opportunity to access the extraordinary? Is there genuine hope that they can reach the heavens they seek through the extraordinary?
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