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Can't say it's useless.

After all, if it weren't for this letter, Gawain would never have known that there was such a rule as "the loser of the battle for the position of head of the Boreas family needs to hand over all his male offspring to be raised by the head of the family."

To Gawain, this was completely nonsense.

Although Sylphy analyzed:

"This is probably to prevent the loser from supporting his son to continue competing for the position of head of the family in the future, causing internal friction, right?"

But Gao Wen only felt:

"The chances of winning in the first competition are undoubtedly the highest. If the loser in this situation manages to defeat the head of the family while his son grows up, then such a head of the family simply deserves death."

"Furthermore, since magic and swordsmanship in this world clearly don't care about gender differences, why aren't women among the nobility entitled to inheritance rights? If they're worried about the loser's son being chosen as the heir, they should have taken away their daughter as well."

"Whether it's heads or tails, the purity is too low. It's simply a joke."

After all, among the Vitrum people, both men and women are equally powerful, and gender differences on the social level are almost non-existent. Or, to be more precise and detailed, in the long era of pure-blood supremacy, mothers who can give birth to a new generation of warriors undoubtedly receive more praise, honor and preferential treatment.

Therefore, Gawain respected his mother even more than he respected his teachers and warriors.

Sylphy patted her brother's hand helplessly:

"Well, that's how it is in our human world! And, our history teacher also told us that traditions are inherently flawed. Rather than saying this tradition is meant to prevent the loser from enthroning their offspring, it's more likely that this function is what's kept the rule from being abolished."

"It is our virtue not to change if we can avoid it!"

Gawain apologetically put his arm around Sylphy's waist and pulled her into his arms. He buried his head in Sylphy's neck lovingly and whispered:

"Feel sorry."

Sylphy tried to raise her neck, but her brother's hot breath made her feel a little itchy. After failing to escape, she could only cover her brother's nose and mouth, and pinched his cheek with her other hand, and she was furious.

"There's no need to keep apologizing for these things! A brother who can't understand the rules of society is an idiot, so even as an idiot brother, you should remember that there are countless people in this world who are even more stupid than your brother. Isn't it logical that you can't create the strictly logical society that your brother fantasizes about?"

"Also! Brother, do you always blow on my neck and into my ears on purpose? I told you it's itchy! Brother, you bad boy!"

Gawain, who was being nagged by his sister again, remained unmoved. He just held Sylphy's hand that had just covered his nose, greedily breathing in the scent of Sylphy's body, and looking at Sylphy's fair and delicate skin, he had an inexplicable urge to kiss her.

But Gao Wen just sat up straight again and asked seriously:

"So, do you think we should listen to Paul? If Rudy really likes Alice, it would be better to arrange for them to get married."

Sylphy's current knowledge of aristocratic rules was at least five hundred times greater than Gawain's. Considering that someone couldn't even be bothered to understand the basics of aristocratic inheritance, it wouldn't be surprising if it was thousands or even tens of thousands times greater. She rested her little head on her brother's arm and analyzed the matter carefully with her hands:

"First of all, as Rudy's older brother and sister, we must prioritize respecting Rudy's thoughts and feelings. We just need to ensure that he and Alice aren't being manipulated emotionally by others."

"Secondly, if Uncle Philip truly intends to use Rudy, he's probably planning to marry him into his family. Then, he'll have Rudius Boreas Greyrat act on his behalf and quickly seize everything from the victor, forcing the Asura nobility to accept this change. After all, if Uncle Philip loses, neither he nor his children nor his son-in-law will have their normal inheritance rights, so he'll probably have to resort to unconventional tactics."

“Actually, that’s the problem.”

"Uncle Philip couldn't see any way to get Rudy to marry into his family without manipulating the relationship between Rudy and Alice."

"After all, if Rudy and Alice were really in love, and Uncle Philip wanted to force Rudy to marry into his family, then I think Alice would probably elope with Rudy, right?"

Then the brother and sister laughed together in a very sarcastic way.

Finally, Sylphy concluded:

"I feel like that's just Uncle Philip's obsession. After all, not only did he fail, but all his sons were taken away from him. Or maybe it's just Uncle Paul's prejudice?"

Gao Wen made the decision:

"I'll just go and warn him. Don't worry, Sylphy, we're just talking and I won't do anything."

Half an hour later, in Philip's study.

The smile that always appeared on Philip's face disappeared:

"Will you kill me if I interfere with my children's feelings?"

Gao Wen just looked at the scenery outside the window:

"So what if I annihilate the entire Boreas family? So what if I permanently lose one of the Four Nobles? How can the Kingdom of Asura stop me? Send an army? Or a powerful water god?"

"Philip, you know very well that the king will only politely present me with a gilded invitation and conclude a peace treaty with me, Gawain Vitrudia, as he would respect an empire as powerful as Asra, or even more powerful."

"Since you know all this, why can't I feel your respect for me?"

Philip stood up, put one hand on his chest, and bowed deeper:

"Sir, please forgive my stupidity."

"In fact, after my nighttime conversation with Rudeus, I've gradually come to my senses. My past obsessions were too deep, and I've lost my original heart. Please trust that I won't taint the feelings and life of my only remaining daughter."

Gao Wen said casually:

"I don't care. If you want to be the head of the Boreas family, go ahead, but wait until we leave this country. Don't let such a small matter affect my life."

Philip thought he would be overjoyed to hear such words. Wasn't it for this sentence that he worked so hard to befriend Gawain? But unexpectedly, he seemed to feel nothing. He just lowered his head.

"As you wish."

Pureblooded society should be closer to socialized upbringing or a matriarchal society. There is little or no traditional family concept. If the mother is willing, the child will be raised by the mother and receive long parental leave. If the mother is not interested, the child will be raised by the Imperial institution.

Logically speaking, this is because for the highly developed and invincible Weixing civilization, the concepts of family and father in the narrow sense are meaningless, while the concept of mother in the narrow sense still has a certain role. Therefore, Weixing civilization only has the macro-family, which is the Vitrum Empire itself, and the macro-father, which is also the Vitrum Empire itself. Psychologically, the emperor is probably similar to the concept of patriarch and the embodiment of father.

By the way, a certain future emperor is suspected of being mother-loving, and his current psychological mother has beautiful green hair.

Chapter 22 Orb

A certain day in March of the 415th year of the Jialong calendar

“Sure enough, there’s no way I can touch it!”

Over 10,000 meters in the air, Rudy and Gawain were standing on a black iron circular platform, looking up at the dark red orb that was exactly the same size as it appeared from the ground. Rudy, somewhat unwillingly, continued to suggest:

"Gao Wen, do you want to increase the altitude? Although the air will become thinner as you go higher, you won't have to maintain the stability of the platform. Just focus on creating air."

Yes, these two skilled and courageous people just stepped on a piece of iron plate and flew into the sky, with Rudy controlling the ascent and Gawain maintaining the stability of the platform.

In fact, Gawain had explored the dark red object surrounded by two light bands many times. Each time, he flew directly to the height of the world's border to check, but he got the same result - that thing seemed to exist in another layer of space outside the world. That's why Gawain shared this with Rudy and pretended to accompany him to explore it three more times using magic.

All of this is to lead to the following:

"Rudy, what do you think of this?"

Rudy shook his head:

"If you, Brother Gawain, can't see it, then I certainly can't either. I just don't know if, after we figure out the principle behind the Magic Eye, we can create a more powerful and accurate instrument to observe and analyze it."

Gao Wen felt relieved and passed on the blame:

"Then I'll leave it to you, Rudy. I'll also record it for you, though it's limited to visual measurements."

Rudy touched his head and smiled embarrassedly:

"After all, I recently asked Gilena to let me study her eyes! Speaking of which, I didn't expect that your eyes, Gawain, can't be considered magic eyes. Teacher Lokishi would be surprised if she knew. We all thought you had magic eyes before."

Gao Wen chuckled and said:

"I can only see a few very vague shadows. It's not as convenient as the magic eye."

Rudy controlled the platform and began to slowly descend:

"Kilenu has been suffering greatly from the Magic Eye, hasn't he? It took him years to finally be able to use it in short battles. However, I think it won't take long to develop a method to open and close the Magic Eye. After all, the Magic Eye's effects require magic power. Just cutting off the magic power supply will shut it off, right? The problem now is that I can't see magic power, and although Gilenu can already use many basic magics, his ability to perceive his own magic power is basically zero."

Gao Wen could already hear the hidden meaning of the words of those close to him, so he took the lead:

"Call me next time."

Rudy smiled:

"That's what I meant!"

Gawain immediately gave Rudy a knife:

"I told you not to laugh so obscenely."

The flying platform immediately shook from side to side, and Rudy frantically began to control and maintain it:

"Whoa! Don't act so silly in the air!"

Gao Wen retorted nonchalantly:

"It's not dangerous."

Rudy immediately protested:

"But it's scary! Please compensate me with another opportunity to assist in research!"

Gao Wen spoke frankly:

"I actually intended to help you research until I figured out how to close and open the Demonic Eye. There's no limit to how many times I can do this, but since you said so, I'll limit it to just two times."

Rudy looked at Gawain suspiciously and thought:

"Brother Gao Wen, have you learned bad things from your sister?"

Thus, the number of assists increased to three.

Moreover, because he committed the great taboo of criticizing the gods above all others, he was thrown down from the sky.

After returning to the surface, Gawain led Rudy to the newly constructed Third Factory, which had been built over two months earlier. This was the most strictly guarded factory, practically a military base, as it produced highly lethal weapons. Similarly, one of the takeoff and landing points for the flying magic had also been set up in this area.

By the way, the flying magic take-off and landing points are rules set by the three people to avoid affecting the citizens, or in other words, to avoid being watched and spied on.

Rudy had visited several times, so he just chatted:

"Brother Gao Wen, how are the new magic devices selling?"

Gao Wen gave Rudy a sharp look.

"Don't you read the financial report sent to you every month?"

Rudy touched his head and laughed awkwardly:

"After all, I'm not good at this kind of thing!"

Gawain sighed:

"It's selling quite well. After all, it was custom-made based on your suggestion. The people in the capital seem to be treating it as a luxury item for comparison, rather than a defensive magical device. The high price, pre-order system, and customization are indeed good ideas. While we can't sell it in large quantities, it has further reduced the vigilance of the Asura Kingdom nobles towards our Chamber of Commerce."

Gawain's original plan clearly underestimated the fear of humans, especially the nobles and ruling class, who lacked individual power, for high-powered magical weapons. He intended to sell these weapons directly at a normal profit margin, basically enough to equip C-rank adventurers and above, but the mass-produced ones would be powerful enough to decapitate a D-rank monster, the Terminator Boar, with a single shot.

Something like this might be a bit of an exaggeration to replace a traditional high-level magician in actual combat, but it wouldn't be surprising to see it replace a mid-level magician. Even the cheapest magic crystal, even if loaded with a silver coin, could fire several rounds, making it quite profitable for hunting.

The original price of this thing was one Asura gold coin and five silver coins. Rudy broke out in a sweat upon hearing this, and practically begged Gawain to revoke his order, thus successfully avoiding the world line where gunfights in the Asura Kingdom became a normal occurrence.

Then, the price increased to 100 gold coins for the base body, and the optional accessories could cost an exaggerated amount of over a thousand gold coins.

As a result, the supply cannot meet the demand.

I forgot to mention that optional accessories do not increase the power.

The two of them quickly walked into the factory. Because these were custom-made products, there were very few employees in the factory. Most of the area was designated as a private research institute for Gawain and his team. The employees were all carefully selected senior practitioners who signed confidentiality agreements. Many of them came from the Three Magic Kingdoms, especially the Kingdom of Nailis, which specialized in making magic tools.

Seeing the two of them come in, an old man in work clothes immediately came over with a box and said in a very respectful tone:

"Boss, and Director Rudeus, we have completed that thing. Please check it."

The old man placed the box on the table and opened it.

Rudy, who had originally wanted to ask the old man not to be so respectful to him, was immediately attracted by the contents of the box and was so surprised that his mouth was grinning from ear to ear.

He picked it up with care.

This is a sword that is very similar to the products on the factory production line, but it is not so fancy. Instead, it is quite low-key and simple.

This is a short sword.

The gun featured a dark brown magic wood barrel, a bronze magical superalloy barrel and trigger, a firing pin ground from top-grade magic stone, and ornate carvings throughout. Each reusable "primer," designed to hold only a single, specific-sized round, was crafted from mithril inscribed with a magic circle. Gawain was responsible for nearly all the core components, leaving the factory's most specialized craftsmen to perform only the decorative carvings.

Rudy can't put it down:

"I'll call you Ebony from now on!"

It is the final trump card that Rudy designed for himself and entrusted it to Brother Gao Wen, the only one who has the ability to make it. Unlike those so-called custom-made products, if used by Rudy, the power of this gun may be able to kill even God.

Gao Wen is considerate:

"Want to try?"

The conclusion is that the power of the ebony wood alone is enough to penetrate a king-level swordsman who is defending with all his strength.

Rudy sighed: