Chapter 1399 - 1314: Setting Out on the Journey

Chapter 1399: Chapter 1314: Setting Out on the Journey

The illuminated crown, like a halo flowing down rippling light, landed on the shoulder of the Wolf Woman.

Almost everyone present held their breath, ready to step forward and offer help at any moment.

A few seconds later, the Wolf Woman opened her eyes, only to gesture to the researchers present to stop: "I’m fine, the test succeeded."

The researchers at the scene all let out a sigh of relief, but the next second, they were tense again.

"Since the experiment was successful, let’s prepare; I’ll head to Black Snake Bay soon..."

"Wait, wait." Ithuluus hurriedly stopped her, "Your Highness, that’s too fast, it’s just the first trial."

"So what?"

"Your Highness, you shouldn’t be too hasty." This time, Ithuluus earnestly advised, "This is an initial prototype, many things haven’t been tested; we can’t guarantee safety.

How about this, maybe you should tour the vicinity, like Rapids City, High Castle City, or places like that first, then decide when to depart?"

Seeing Hilov still frowning, Jils whispered, "There are still many matters at the Holy Council awaiting handover..."

Reflecting on the Holy Council she established, the Wolf Woman finally set aside her overly eager thoughts: "Then let’s set a deadline, depart at the end of June, one week later."

She was not at ease, leaving such a large Holy Council in the hands of some fools without transition and instructions.

This was merely the Wolf Woman’s own opinion; in her eyes, many people were fools.

Many so-called inventors actually used exhaustive methods in their invention approaches.

It’s not that the Wolf Woman looked down on exhaustive methods, but she couldn’t understand how certain inventors came up with things like electric shock bull enlargement techniques, nor who was buying them.

Before leaving, without assigning tasks and explaining procedures, she couldn’t just pack up and leave.

Hilov kind of regretted founding the Holy Council; she wasn’t interested in power.

Over the years, the Holy Council had developed to form a colossal department along with the Holy Property Guardian Bureau.

The integration of production, study, and research by the Holy Mechanism Court wasn’t done haphazardly; since the coming of the Holy Alliance era wasn’t too long ago, many things inherited from the previous Imperial Era.

Among them were some not so good, like a large number of untrained civilian miracle scholars.

But there were also good things, like inventors and miracle scholars of the Holy Alliance who typically dedicated themselves purely to scientific research.

Most of them owned properties, or were even advanced engineers themselves.

Below many research institutes were large numbers of mechanical workshops co-built by Holy Alliance capital, private capital, and technical capital.

These organizations and company workshops combined to form a fertile soil for mechanical processing and invention within the Holy Mechanism Court.

This has led to a siphon effect for the entire Holy Alliance, and the peaceful Holy Alliance in turn creates a siphon effect on the entire empire.

In fact, the Holy Mechanism Court has now become one of the most prosperous cities in the entire empire.

Looking out from the terrace of the Mechanical Palace, Hilov saw rows of high-rise apartments and exposed gears and springs.

Public trams and carriages moved together in the city, shop windows replaced old fronts, and one could often see groups of workers cycling past.

Don’t underestimate these bicycles; purchasing them requires industrial coupons, a privilege for administrative monks and workers.

This was also due to the low production of bicycles which must be prioritized for the front line.

Looking further, one could also see large numbers of young or middle-class individuals, with their families and belongings in burlap sacks, disembarking from carriages.

Due to Flower Hill becoming the front line, commerce near Huaqiu City sharply decreased, leading many businesses and capital to choose to flee to areas controlled by the Holy Alliance.

After all, compared to Falan’s frequent defeats, the Holy Alliance was significantly safer.

A large portion of Falan’s commerce shifted to the Holy Alliance, and despite the external war, internal civil engineering within the Holy Alliance thrived.

Numerous shops and workshops sprouted up like bamboo shoots after a rain across towns large and small in the Holy Alliance.

Urbanization rates soared, with agricultural immigrants primarily heading to Mountain County, Black Snake Bay, Shattered Stone Plain, while urban immigrants mostly settled in the densely populated towns of the Thousand River Valley.

In the capital cities such as Xia Lvcheng, Rapids City, Joan of Arc Castle, High Castle City, and Shelley City, the population surged.

The wealth brought by the population flowed with the Narran and Ibe rivers to the Holy Mechanism Court, the hub of the Holy Alliance.

Processed through universities, research institutes, mechanical workshops, and mechanical processing plants, new production capacities were generated.

In such a positive cycle, in ten years, the Holy Mechanism Court might be the most prosperous city in the whole East Continent, without exception.

Moreover, under the thought of the Holy Sect, research was seen as the closest action to the Holy Father.

To some fervent miracle scholars of the Holy Sect, the whole Holy Alliance ought to serve miracle studies, which was the way to achieve Earthly Heaven.

The high esteem for researchers and the resulting profits, along with this massive system, gave rise to a miracle accelerationism thought in the Holy Mechanism Court.

"Clockwork New Heaven’’ was a product of this thought, and among many defying divine projects, Clockwork New Heaven was certainly a standout.

But Hilov dared not guarantee that more defying plans wouldn’t emerge later on.

Before leaving, she must first summarize a set of technical ethics to ensure the researches of various institutes wouldn’t be so outrageous.

In the subsequent period, Hilov began to travel around for this technical ethics document.

The research monks insisted that "miracles are the truth," believing that the ultimate exploration of ether and gears was fundamentally serving the gods and should not be bound by mundane ethics.

The vampires of the Sorrido Clan focused more on research value; as long as it brought them closer to the Divine, a few ethical controversies were just mortal cowardice.

At these meetings, Hilov even "surprisingly" learned from Cheka that the Sorrido Clan had once funded the Scales Hermitage.

They had long been birds of a feather.

A meeting lasted a week, and in the end, Hilov had to exert pressure by presenting her position as the President of the Holy Council, and with Catherine’s endorsement, finally got everyone to sign the ethical code.

But she also understood that these radical researchers would never completely settle down.

She specifically arranged for personnel to lead the establishment of a Technical Ethics Review Committee, giving it the authority to halt violating projects at any time.

After handling these, she then tirelessly managed the daily affairs of the Holy Council.

Reviewing journals, overseeing exams, establishing new universities, ensuring the operation of the Ethereal Tower...

It wasn’t until early July that Hilov finally managed to wrap up most of the matters, able to embark on her journey.

The dock of the Holy Mechanism Court was exceptionally busy in the first days of July.

Hilov wore short leather armor for easy movement, accompanied by four personal mage guards and a Witch guard.

Of course, there was also an entire battalion of gendarmes responsible for protecting the Wolf Woman herself.

Additionally, the entire team, including Ithuluus, would accompany her to maintain the crown device.

The meetings were over, she sorted out the technical ethics; the only remaining task was to set out for the experiments.

She planned to head to High Castle City first, to see the hometown of Horn and Jeanne, then to Rapids City to witness the spectacle of sugar-grain robbery road.

Then she’d return to the Holy Mechanism Court, and head south to meet that Red Dragon Cynthia to completely unravel her origins.

But standing on the dock, Hilov found herself hesitating to board the ship.

This was her dream, after all, to leave here and see somewhere else, even farther away.

"What’s that?"

"Luminous bombs being transported to Shattered Stone Plain." Ithuluus looked at the boxes of luminous bombs with a complex expression, "André has already launched a major summer counterattack, preparing to retake Fat Cow Castle, and the war has resumed."