Chapter 122: The Orc Federation and the Magic Energy Device

Leaving Elena's room, Yun Mu crossed the second-floor corridor of the Frost Bank and arrived in front of Brenna's bedroom.

She reached out to push the door open, and as expected, Brenna was not there at the moment.

The other party seemed to have a room specifically for researching Bionic Dolls, only Yun Mu did not know where it was.

"I feel like I've forgotten something."

Yun Mu walked into the room and closed the door behind her, saying.

"Never mind."

She shook her head; if she couldn't remember, she wouldn't think about it. It probably wasn't anything important.

After all, she generally shouldn't forget important things.

"Better get to reading."

She took out from her bosom the small card that held various painting tools and books she had sealed inside while at the café.

Yun Mu injected her own Spirituality into it, then lightly tossed it onto the room's carpet.

There were no special effects; it was just that in the world of Ether, it caused a ripple stirred up by Ether, and the items sealed within the card appeared out of thin air above it.

"The Art of Elegant Communication and Discourse, daily etiquette suitable for various occasions."

Reading the name on the cover softly, Yun Mu gave a dry laugh and quipped, "What a long book title."

She took this book out from the pile of items, then sealed the other items back into the card.

After all, this wasn't her room, so it was better not to leave too many of her own things behind.

Besides, since she had already become a Painter and possessed the ability to carry painting tools with her, wouldn't it be a waste of this skill not to make good use of it? After all, painting tools could be said to be a painter's livelihood, and for a Transcendental of the Painter series, painting tools were the weapons they used for combat!

Such important things were only reassuring when carried on one's person.

"Read, read!"

Instead of sitting at the desk in Brenna's bedroom, Yun Mu took off her shoes, her small feet wrapped in black leg warmers stepping lightly onto the soft pink bedsheets.

She sat back against the headboard, propping a pillow behind her.

"Ah, lying down is still the most comfortable," Yun Mu thought with a sense of nostalgia.

Before she transmigrated, she liked to lie on her bed like this and scroll through her phone. Although she didn't have a phone now, reading was actually much the same.

Gently flipping the book open, Yun Mu stopped talking and began to read the contents with Focus.

Under the blessing of the trait Focus, it wasn't long before she entered the zone.

【Because of the effect of your title 【Language Spreader】, you have triggered Accelerated Eureka!】 As the familiar Eureka Acceleration triggered, a massive surge of inspiration flooded Yun Mu's mind.

In that instant, it was as if she were communicating with many people simultaneously, constantly practicing and correcting the content she saw in the book.

【Through arduous training and study, your passive skill 【Social Etiquette lv1】 has been upgraded to 【Social Etiquette lv2】】 【Your Charm +3; when communicating with others, your techniques for requests, provocation, seduction, apologies, Taunt, etc., are improved by 20%】

【You have successfully finished reading a book; your Charm +1, Path of Civilization points +1.】 "Hmm, ah?"

"Finished already?"

Coming back to her senses from the state of Focus and Eureka Acceleration, Yun Mu looked at the book in her hand, which was flipped to the last page, and said in surprise.

Although the book wasn't very thick to begin with, it was only about 150,000 to 160,000 characters.

But she was supposed to be learning the content while reading it.

To think she finished it so quickly! Even more magically, she felt that even without practicing, she could already execute eighty percent of the book's content.

Of course, as for surprises, the real one was the increase in Civilization points.

So, just by finishing a book, one could gain a Civilization point?

That would be too easy. With so many books in Brenna's bedroom, if she did nothing but read every day, she estimated it wouldn't take long to grind the Path of Civilization level to lv3.

Of course, that was assuming her guess was correct.

Click.

The bedroom door was suddenly pushed open. Brenna stood outside the door, looked at Yun Mu sitting on the bed, and said, "Miss Yun, it is time for lunch."

"I know!"

Hearing Brenna's words, Yun Mu replied.

Placing the finished book on the bedside cabinet, she put her shoes back on and followed behind Brenna, walking toward Elena's room.

Before she even entered the room, she smelled the charred, savory scent of roasted meat.

"Is this... rotisserie meat?"

Yun Mu walked into the room and saw at a glance that Elena was holding a sharp dining knife, constantly slicing at a square block of roasted meat.

The roasted meat was skewered on a thick metal pipe, and above and below the metal pipe were rotating gears that drove the entire pipe to spin.

On the left and right sides of the meat were blazing flames, constantly roasting the edges of the rotating meat.

There was no need to worry about the flames escaping, as this entire device was embedded into the thick concrete wall.

"Has Miss Yun also heard of the Orc Federation's rotisserie meat?" Brenna, standing to the side, asked with slight surprise upon hearing her words.

"Orc Federation?" Yun Mu felt puzzled inside, but on the surface, she feigned knowledge and said, "That's right, I heard a merchant from overseas mention it at the port before."

Sorry, non-existent overseas merchant, you have to take the blame again this time.

Yun Mu thought to herself without a shred of remorse.

"This is just rotisserie meat I tried my best to imitate," Elena, who was cutting the meat, suddenly spoke up: "There is still a large gap compared to the original version, and..."

She paused and said, "Burning the fire this way wastes too much heat, and it makes the room very hot. If only there were a Magic Energy Device from the Orc Federation."

"Magic Energy Device... what is that?" Yun Mu asked, slightly stunned.

Had she heard something incredible? "A Magic Energy Device is a machine that uses Magic Energy as its primary energy source," Brenna, standing to the side, explained to her.

"And Magic Energy, simply put, is Pure Ether obtained after purifying Ether, which has no information recorded on it."

"Hmph."

At this point, Brenna gave a disdainful huff and said, "Although machines powered by Magic Energy indeed have many advantages compared to steam engines, purifying large amounts of Ether also means that it is impossible to give birth to a Transcendental through conventional means... I mean, our conventional means."

"If you want to know why."

Brenna waved her hand lightly and said, "Ether cannot disappear; those devices that store Pure Ether, which is Magic Energy, will have that Pure Ether re-contaminated by external information after the energy is released."

"But this process of constant purification and release causes the information recorded by the Ether within our country to become abnormally monotonous, so information regarding the various classes of Transcendental naturally ceases to exist."

PS: The Orc Federation emphasizes bloodline supremacy; the purer the bloodline of a Beastkin, the higher their status.

Here there are well-dressed Beastkin and a capital-supremacy ideology.

Politically correct equality, and a fake Human Rights Association.

——Supplementary entry: Introduction to Magic Beastkin: A Supernatural power that is Widely Known in the Orc city-states; by engraving Magic Runes into their bodies, they can obtain corresponding power.

The more powerful the Magic Rune, the more expensive it is; the more noble the bloodline of the Beastkin, the more they can accommodate more powerful Magic Runes; you can become stronger by spending money.

——Supplementary entry: Mechanical Modification

Introduction: The most widely circulated power in the Orc city-states; simple, cheap, and practical.

Come and join the glorious evolution, friend!

(End of this chapter)