The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

"Hahaha, please don't be offended, Princess. Mr. Mudd is just a scholar. He is not very familiar with the etiquette of the nobility and the rules of the empire."

After Duke Booker smoothed things over, Claire's vigilance relaxed a little.

After all, Karin and Zhuying stared at each other for a long time and didn't find anything unusual. Maybe she was really a little too nervous.

"Well, if His Highness is not the person we are looking for... then maybe the [Child of the Star] is not human."

"There are many people of the same age as me in the empire. Are you planning to test them one by one?"

"Your Highness, you may not know that the members of the Star Seeking Brigade have been searching for relevant clues all over the continent five years ago. Because we happened to detect an abnormal energy reaction in the Armand Empire not long ago, my colleagues and I came here to investigate."

Speaking of abnormal energy reactions, Claire felt a little guilty.

After all, Aarons has indeed produced a lot of strange things recently, and what these people detected might be the psychic fluctuations generated by the carbon-uranium explosion.

But if this kind of thing were to be made public, it might cause unnecessary trouble.

"According to the information provided by the Duke, Your Highness, you are the only qualified human in the empire... But unfortunately, you are not the one we are looking for."

"Since I have nothing to do with this matter, can we talk business, Your Excellency the Duke?"

"I am truly sorry to have delayed the Duke and His Royal Highness' time. I will take my leave now."

The well-mannered scholar bowed to Claire and the Duke again, then took the initiative to leave the reception room.

And until he left the room, Karin and Zhuying didn't find anything suspicious about him - but they still felt that this person was not right.

I can only check it later.

"Hmph, since there are no outsiders here now, can I talk to His Excellency the Duke about something else?"

"Haha, Your Highness, why do you think I allowed such an unknown person to see you?"

Just when Claire was about to test Duke Buck's attitude again, the fat old duke suddenly put on the appearance of a shrewd businessman.

"Do you know what's so special about the crystal he just took out? You are an excellent magician, and your vision must be better than mine."

Recalling the scene when she was infusing magic power just now, Clary immediately noticed a key point that was almost overlooked - after her magic power entered the crystal, it remained completely in it.

Could it be that the crystal can store magic power? !

"From your expression, I think you understand. Although I have the title of a noble, I am just a businessman."

"...Can that kind of thing be mass-produced?"

"The Covenant Alliance has the technology to extract that kind of crystal from the magic source stone. Although the output is not very high, you should be very clear about the value of this thing."

The reason why magic items are not popular nowadays is actually because there is a lack of suitable energy.

The size of the psychic energy conversion array is too exaggerated, and the magic core of Warcraft is quite expensive, so most of the portable magic props can only be used by the magician himself.

If there really is a small source of magic power that can store energy in advance and reuse it, then human life might change.

"Your Excellency the Duke, what is the meaning of your telling me this?"

"Your Highness is a smart person and should know what is right."

The devout believer he had just had disappeared completely, and now Duke Booker looked like a shrewd businessman - and this obvious change finally made Claire nervous.

The old man in front of me is not some fat-headed fool.

"I am a businessman and I know that most people and things in this world have specific prices - and William's value is obviously not equal to yours. So although I am a little sad, I will not bear a grudge against you."

"You mean, my marriage is also a business?"

"Of course I know what happened to your Highness the Princess in the past. And I can probably guess what you want to achieve most."

Although she really wanted to kill Duke Booker, after weighing the pros and cons, Claire held back.

And such a trade-off may be exactly what the other party wants.

"You want His Royal Highness the Third Prince to become the emperor. Of course, I can help you realize your wish. Now I support His Royal Highness the Second Prince only to ensure the stability of the empire."

The Second Prince and the Border Guard Corps who fought against the Kingdom of Dusk on the southern front were actually always sponsored by the Duke of Booker's family.

If problems arose in the Duke Booker's family, the Dusk Kingdom might take advantage of the situation and move in - it was precisely because Clary took this into consideration that she did not let her emotions control her actions.

"I maintain the empire so that my family can continue. I know I am just a borer, but if the tree falls, even the strongest borer cannot survive on its own."

The Duke of Buck's statement was quite straightforward - but this is the capital that the great nobles are proud of.

Without these nobles, the basic order of the empire would collapse. As long as there is still a basic sense of morality, it is difficult to make the choice to eliminate them regardless of all consequences.

"And you must have a price in your mind that you cannot make public, right? The reason you chose Aarons Moti now is simply because no one has offered a suitable price yet."

"…Are you insulting me?"

"Oh, Your Highness, please calm down. I just said some unpleasant truths. But even if you don't want to admit it, I believe you have your own answer in your heart, right?"

This disgusting and heart-piercing remark made Claire silent.

Although she had never doubted her feelings, she still subconsciously simulated the scenario of making a choice - if one day she had to choose one from several options, would she be able to give up everything else and follow her heart?

"Oh, Your Highness, you are still young and may not have thought about these things yet. So I will simply make a price here. You can go back and think about it for a while, and it won't be too late to make a decision later."

As if he had really grasped the weakness of human hearts, the obese but extremely shrewd Duke of Buck finally threw out an irresistible bait -

"I will give you the technology to refine the magic storage crystals, and I will also fully support the Third Prince's succession to the throne. I can even give that Marquis a piece of territory so that he can live a stable and prosperous life without having to worry about so many things in the future."

"Is this... your price?"

"If you feel that this is not enough, you can continue to bargain with me - after all, this is the rule of doing business."