Chapter 262 — The Road to Truth

Gao Yang smiled faintly, while something in his heart gave a small twinge: that play at modesty had not landed...

But Kamael went on: "Yet few are those who understand it as deeply as you do—especially since you are a knight lord of martial origins, and even you can attain such awareness on the road to truth. That already surpasses many a so-called 'scholar' muddling through life."

Gao Yang was just about to speak when Hedy beside him, her face grave, had already begun reminding Kamael: "Master Kamael, knights compared to mages..."

Gao Yang broke into a cold sweat the moment he heard the first few words out of Hedy's mouth. Before she could finish, he coughed hard: "Ahem! Curiosity is human instinct—once the drive to explore is kindled, there is no difference between knight and mage."

Kamael was in fact rather curious about what Hedy had meant to say, but a low pressure spilling from Gao Yang made him promptly choose to ignore the question. He nodded earnestly: "I would certainly have disagreed with that statement in the past, but now I am compelled to agree with your view."

Gao Yang did not extend the topic further—he had already dropped enough hints. He trusted that with Kamael's intellect, once the man found one or two points of breakthrough, combined with his own "inborn gift," he would surely carve out a path in the realm of magic power's essence. To continue force-feeding knowledge would only constrain or distort the thinking of this ancient scholar.

Kamael departed with the transmitter and receiver of the arcane obelisk. The ancient master could scarcely wait to throw himself into a new round of research; he had found his direction forward anew in this strange new era. But before that, he must first hand over the relevant technical materials to Nikolai Egg of the Mechanical Research Institute, so that the results achieved at this stage could be converted as quickly as possible into practical technology usable by the domain.

The domain truly had too few talented people. If he could have a few apprentices as assistants, he could send them running errands and save all his time for the laboratory. Carrying the "prototype" along in a mage hand, Kamael sped through the air while turning over in his mind how to increase the number of mages in this land.

Hedy, meanwhile, remained in Gao Song's office. The elegant lady stood quietly beside Gao Yang's desk and said softly: "Ancestor, actually I think your ancestral precepts are rather..."

The elegance was feigned; the mind gradually turning into Rebecca's was real.

"Don't keep passing down the boasts I made while drunk back then," Gao Cen said, his head aching at the very mention of it. He felt he must find a time to properly correct his two granddaughters' worldviews. "Have you finished looking into the matter I asked you to investigate?"

"It's been looked into. It is indeed as you expected—among the refugees who arrived at the domain after the first snowfall, a considerable number have questionable identities, and these people of dubious identity come from almost everywhere in the Southern Reach except the Leslie and Kant domains."

(Seeking a round of followers for the official account—just search "Yuantong" on the official account. Back then this name got squatted on, =)

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