Chapter 945: Lan Qingyou's Refusal

In organizations like Knight Orders, many people would even get tattoos to increase their fierce appearance.

So strictly speaking, there wasn't anything that would make people feel surprised.

So the real reason that surprised these nobles was only one thing.

And that was the fact that the members of the Maple Leaf Knights all had the emblem tattooed on the back of their left hands.

This was very unusual.

Because there was a unified beauty to it.

It was just like unified standard-issue weapons and standard-issue armor.

If the lord was a bit more particular and spent more money, they would even seek uniformity in the color of the mounts.

That's right.

"Everyone should have felt it, right?"

"Do you guys think there's a possibility that what Lord Lan Qingyou was researching is this kind of standard-issue something?"

A noble asked with a frown.

"Hmm... now that you mention it, it's really possible."

"Are you talking about magic items functioning for the legion?"

"After all, it's someone who could create the Goddess Summoning Magic Array and actually communicated face-to-face with the Goddess. Doing this kind of thing isn't impossible."

Someone nodded slowly, their furrowed brow gradually relaxing.

Deriving this answer wasn't difficult.

Or perhaps the other party didn't seem to intend to hide it either.

She just openly showed it to those merchants, not even shying away from their inquiries.

It was just that if they asked too deeply, she wouldn't answer.

As for whether the derived answer was correct, whether it was true, that was unknown.

"Do you guys think we should find someone to pay a visit and ask?"

A noble who was truly at his wit's end held it in for a long time before asking this question.

"Have you forgotten the matter that the people we sent before had no news?"

"Of course I remember. But this time we won't send spies, we'll directly send envoys to find Lord Lan Qingyou and just ask clearly."

Facing another noble's inquiry, he shook his head.

There was no other way.

Spies and such were originally shady things.

Under the circumstance that this path was blocked now, the best way was to go over openly and boldly.

And not just inquire.

But cooperate.

"If there are any results, there's always no problem with everyone cooperating, right?"

"Moreover, didn't everyone just send gifts over a couple of days ago?"

"Although two days have passed, we can immediately dispatch envoys to chase after them and travel together."

The noble who came up with the idea spoke with assurance after looking at everyone.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nod.

"So that's how it is."

Because they had always treated Lan Qingyou as an Alchemist before, they had forgotten the interactions between nobles.

If this was the case, then there was indeed no problem.

After all, everyone was a noble, and in this aspect, they could indeed communicate and negotiate.

Thus, all the families immediately took action.

They dispatched envoys to whip their horses and chase after the convoys delivering the gifts.

And on Lan Qingyou's side.

After the convoys loaded with gifts arrived at Maple Leaf Territory, she learned of the matters the nobles wanted to inquire about.

To this, Lan Qingyou didn't even hesitate.

She immediately rejected those envoys regarding cooperation on the new technology.

This completely deflated the tempers of the nobles who received the news.

For no other reason.

Lan Qingyou had the envoys bring back a single sentence.

It was exactly this sentence that made them abandon any thoughts of cooperation or anything else.

"This technology is mainly used for the management of the Knight Order members. It is a master-servant contract specially prepared to prevent the Knight Order members from betraying little Feng."

This statement.

Put more straightforwardly, wasn't it saying that cooperation was possible.

But the Knight Orders in your hands all had to become little Feng's subordinates?

What a joke.

Did she really think every noble struck it rich like she did?

Accumulating a bit of family wealth wasn't easy.

Leaving aside other things, just armor and weapons would consume a significant portion of their territory's tax revenue.

And Maple Leaf Territory was different.

The lord herself was an Alchemist.

And a top-tier Alchemist at that.

The envoys who returned all said that the armor worn by the knights of Maple Leaf Territory was the same armor worn by those combat magic golems they saw during the duel previously.

Then what more was there to say?

They couldn't compare.

They sincerely couldn't compare.

Others not only had money, but also technology.

But in terms of Social Niceties, Lan Qingyou still did enough.

Others sent carts after carts of materials as congratulatory gifts for little Feng becoming the Title Heir.

Then as a teacher, return gifts certainly had to be provided as well.

Perhaps they didn't necessarily have to be high-end goods.

But they had to have prestige.

So she gave each of these noble envoys a set of top-tier Potions as a return gift.

"Forget it, let's just go research summoning magic. At least that doesn't need to be bound to a little girl."

Since the other party had already reached this extent.

If the noble lords continued to ask, it would be stirring up trouble.

So after a brief period of excitement over this matter.

They refocused their attention on the development of the Summoning Magic Array.

Although it was a bit regrettable that Lan Qingyou didn't bring out the technology to share.

But there was nothing they could do about it.

After all, they wouldn't dare to directly go to her door and demand it.

And Lan Qingyou here, after storing those materials into the warehouse, continued her own manufacturing.

She wasn't manufacturing anything else.

Just armor and weapons.

From the pink infantry's armor to the aerial troops' armor, not a single troop type was missing.

Even because the Maple Leaf Knights' position was to protect Maple Leaf Territory.

So she even specially designed armor for underwater use.

After all, it was equipment for ten thousand people.

Wanting to finish all of it would still take some time.

Actually, if Lan Qingyou wasn't so particular, directly manufacturing equipment like other Knight Orders would be very fast.

But Lan Qingyou didn't want to do that.

On one hand, naturally, it was for performance.

And on the other hand, it was because of aesthetics.

She felt Karim's plate armor designs didn't look good.

It was still the heavy Power Armor she produced based on games that met her aesthetic standards.

Even if those ordinary plate armors could take shape just by slightly changing the shape of the alloy on the alchemy array.

But if she wanted to make the kind of Power Armor worn by the magic golems, it actually wasn't that simple.

After all, there was no such thing as muscles and bones for magic golems.

So no matter how heavy what they wore was, as long as it didn't exceed a certain value, it wouldn't affect their movement.

But the members of the Maple Leaf Knights couldn't do that.

So on the basis of armored power, she still had to conduct light-weight enchanting.

Otherwise, given the bodies of the Karim natives, no matter how strong they were, they definitely wouldn't be able to wear them.

Of course.

Behind those two reasons, there was another very important reason.

And that was for little Feng's protection.

The Knight Order was originally established for little Feng.

The purpose was to allow little Feng to be more stable in the storm that would sweep across the entire continent in the future.

As for taking little Feng to the space-time a thousand years later...

It wasn't that Lan Qingyou hadn't thought about it.

But it couldn't be done.

Leaving aside her own abilities and limitations on the number of people.

Just whether or not they would be erased by the World Will as undocumented residents after going to a thousand years later was hard for anyone to say.

After all, little Feng was a figure from a thousand years ago.

And the World Will of her own space-time had this kind of criminal record.