Chapter 739: Esmeralda Becomes More Agitated the More She Speaks

"...Of course I remember, what's wrong?"

The two called out felt it was a bit baffling.

Who didn't have a card that could now be said to have completely replaced all the functions of a Blue Star mobile phone?

Practically every transmigrator still alive had one.

Yet this guy actually used a word like 'remember' to describe it.

This was somewhat strange.

"Cards made by imitating the magic desk... You two as partners didn't actually believe her nonsense, did you?"

"Or rather, you two became so swollen with pride that you truly thought you were geniuses who could already copy the magic desk shortly after transmigrating, without even fully understanding the rules and magic power?"

"To put it bluntly, if the designer of the magic desk hadn't provided the design concepts, do you really think you could have produced a magic item like cards, which are even more convenient than the magic desk, in such a short amount of time?"

Now, not only the two who were called out, but even the several 'old-timers' from before Lan Qingyou joined, such as Chu Yuan, Jiang Lan, and Hels, fell into silence.

Thinking back to a few years ago when cards were first introduced, everyone was only filled with joy and excitement in their hearts.

And they didn't delve too deeply into the successful development of the cards themselves.

After all, it was something created jointly by three elites in the group.

So they didn't think in that direction.

Vivian was the one with the most say in this area.

Thinking about it now, it seemed Esmeralda was the one who first proposed this concept back then.

Later on, Esmeralda, the proposer, gradually faded into the background.

And the person leading the research in this area also gradually shifted from her to Magician.

Not long after, a trial version of the card was produced.

After trying it a bit and finding it viable, they started equipping and using it on a small scale within Tarot Manor.

Afterwards, Magician indeed developed many more functions.

Such as video, games, and so on.

But these were all completed on the premise of the magic encoding provided by Esmeralda.

"At the time, they called it Magical Instructionology, and I didn't think much of it. Looking at it now, this Magical Instructionology alone is strange enough."

Thinking of something, David muttered a bit despondently.

However, although David was muttering, everyone still heard it clearly.

Come to think of it, it's true.

He had thought it was the brightest display of his brain in this lifetime.

In the end, it was all someone else's calculations against him.

How could this not make David feel depressed?

To be honest, not suddenly jumping up and giving Esmeralda a few hits already proved he was civilized enough.

As for Vivian herself, she wasn't as dealt a blow as David.

After all, her research direction itself wasn't in this area.

Of course, another reason was that because she also participated in the card's research, she also received income.

Since she got a cut, the rest didn't matter.

"Hmm... Is that the angle you're taking? That was indeed an unavoidable measure."

Esmeralda shrugged her shoulders, and then drained the wine in her glass in one gulp.

"An unavoidable measure?"

Lan Qingyou accurately caught the keyword in Esmeralda's words.

"That is to say, the consumption of things like the magic desk is simply too huge, so there was a need for a substitute. This was to prevent everyone from being unaccustomed to it if it ever became completely unusable due to the disappearance of the Will of the World."

"From this point, I was still very considerate of everyone."

Esmeralda gently shook her head.

Indeed.

This was exactly the kind of thing everyone had been worried about happening previously.

If the Will of the World was really gone, let alone the magic array overhead, things like the magic desk that relied on the Will of the World to operate definitely wouldn't be preserved either.

That was why they immediately contacted their trusted aides to formulate backup plans.

"Then what about the shelters? Will the shelters also disappear with it?"

Compared to others, Lan Qingyou cared more about this aspect of the problem.

After all, things like communication could still be handled by magic communicators even without cards.

Although the range might be a bit shorter, witches basically fought their own battles normally anyway. For the times they truly gathered for battle, the communication range of this thing was sufficient, and that was enough.

But the shelters were different.

Currently, the entire Eureka City relied on the shelter mechanism to operate normally.

If it became unable to fly or encountered flight difficulties due to the disappearance of the Will of the World, the losses would be massive.

"No, this is a one-time investment item, and a portion of the energy collected by the Will of the World is indeed transferred to the shelters."

"So there is no need to worry about the shelters being affected by this."

Speaking up to here, Esmeralda paused, then slightly tilted her head, a powerless mocking look appearing on her face.

"Rather, it's completely impossible for the physical shelters to disappear. Otherwise, wouldn't everything I did previously have been in vain?"

"Everything you did previously?"

The crowd was puzzled.

"What else could it be but the shelters! You guys don't actually think the shelters appeared out of thin air, do you!"

"Do you know how hard it was for me to gather these more than twenty billion shelters?"

"From games to novels, looking for concepts everywhere, whatever I could think of, I brought over from Blue Star and put into practice."

"And those dogshit place names and magic beast names, as well as those appraised introductions, values, and whatnot."

"If I hadn't directly bought a game company and had those wage slaves make the data directly, wouldn't it have exhausted me to death?"

"You guys simply have no idea how miserable I was during those years, more miserable than corporate slaves."

Esmeralda became more agitated the more she spoke.

Towards the end, she even picked up the wine bottle and chugged straight from it.

Glug, glug, glug—

"Those shackles treasure chests were prepared by me, and the supplies inside were prepared by me. It was all so that all Blue Star people could have a transition period after being teleported here, to adapt to this world full of magic power."

"And you, Witch, you guy completely ruined all the concepts I originally laid out."

"Do you know how much effort I expended behind the scenes to patch up the things you created?"

"The Bloodline Era, which was supposed to officially start only when everyone reached level 10, had its rhythm completely disrupted by the Witch Potion you researched."

Originally, Lan Qingyou, as the questioner, should have been acting high and mighty.

In the end, she became unusually awkward because of Esmeralda's accusations.

It wasn't that she was repenting for what she did.

She was simply not good at dealing with drunks.

Very clearly.

The previously wise, aloof image of Esmeralda had completely collapsed with her complaining.

But perhaps this current Esmeralda was her true face.

"Then what about the levels? The more things I appraised, the more I felt there was a lot of fishy business inside."

"You just said something about a game company. Could it be that all those things were made according to a game?"