"Of course. Not only can we establish self-charging magic arrays and the Magic Power Network for you, we'll even provide you with a free technical guide to ensure the self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Network can operate correctly and effectively." Viscount Roster's expression was extremely serious.

He was really willing to provide it, to sell it to them?! After hearing the definite answer, every noble perked up. But the more this was the case, the less these nobles dared to relax. They knew that obtaining something always came with a price—there was never such a thing as a free lunch falling from the sky!

Especially between nobles—there was absolutely no way good fortune just dropped from heaven. Never mind anything else, just take marriage alliances—they knew that quite a few families were now being devoured by children born from those alliances. Right now, the number of nobles compared to two hundred years ago had decreased by two-thirds.

There were many other things like this they had to consider.

Even setting aside their noble status, they all knew that even when dealing with gods, obtaining divine miracles required paying a certain price.

So on Viscount Roster's end, he definitely needed them to give up something.

After a brief silence, finally one noble couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Roster, may I ask what price we need to pay?"

"I know what you're thinking. Magic knowledge is priceless, every magical device is extremely expensive—but that was the past." Viscount Roster said with a smile. "The price is much simpler than you imagine. You just need to provide materials and the workers' wages. What I need is simply closer cooperation. I need you to sign agreements that for the next five years, all ore produced must be sold to Roster territory first. Beyond that, I'd like to conduct business activities in your territories—though of course there will be restrictions."

"Priority sales? Business activities?"

"What I mean is, for five years, all the ore you mine needs to first be offered to Roster territory to see if we'll buy it. If we confirm we want it, you sell to us. If we confirm we don't want it, then you can sell to others. Of course, pricewise, we absolutely won't go below market price—we can write that into the contract."

Viscount Roster explained with a smile: "As for business activities, it's mainly divided into two parts. One is selling various Roster territory products in your territories. The other is that our merchants might pass through your territories. Of course, our people definitely have to follow territorial laws. If they break the law, just handle it according to the rules."

"The Bennett family is willing to cooperate with you!"

"The Griffin family is willing to cooperate with you!"

"The Foster family is willing to cooperate with you!"

Actually, quite a few of these nobles had already realized that Roster must have some scheme, but for the moment they couldn't figure out what the problem was. Seeing people around them agreeing one by one, they could only hurry to speak up too.

No matter what purpose he was hiding, they had to get this mining machinery, these self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Network! Before, when only Roster territory had them, it was one thing. But if everyone else had them and only they didn't, that would be a problem. Especially thinking about how Roster territory had become wealthy enough to use streetlights everywhere, thinking about the massive wealth Roster territory earned with self-charging magic arrays—they couldn't refuse even more.

Multi-party talks, everyone happy.

The cooperation agreements were quickly finalized. Roster territory would provide people and effort, each territory would provide money and land to establish self-charging magic arrays and the Magic Power Network. Additionally, each territory purchased one to multiple sets of mining machinery, with quite a few choosing to pay with ore. For the short term, Roster territory wouldn't lack ore.

However, quite a few nobles felt somewhat strange looking at the mountains of mining machinery piled up in the warehouse. Especially seeing that "professional teams" were already prepared and ready to return to their territories with them right away—that feeling was even stranger!

It was like from the very beginning, Viscount Roster had them pegged. But even so, they still couldn't detect any problems.

"Is it really okay to sell these technologies to them?" After hearing what Viscount Roster said, the Wandering Wild Mage couldn't help but ask.

Almost at the same time, in the divine realm, Betty also asked Ren.

Without a doubt, Roster acting this way naturally had Ren, the God of Technology, guiding him from behind, or even directly commanding him. Otherwise, as a mere mortal, he absolutely couldn't be this thorough. Plus, in Betty's eyes, Roster didn't need to go this far.

"You're not doing your experiments, just watching TV here, and you're questioning me?" Ren glared at Betty. "When the Goddess created magic and taught it to others, did any problems come up?"

"What's freely obtained won't be cherished... Isn't that what you told me?" Betty glared back at Ren, her gaze somewhat hostile.

"But this isn't freely obtained—they're paying countless funds for it. And even if they don't cherish it after building it, so what? What I want is for the Magic Power Network to cover the entire continent. Magic-tech industry relies on magic power. We can't do it just with magic anomaly zones. Besides, don't we need the Magic Power Network coverage for our Magic Net to have the ability to transmit more information? As long as the coverage area is broad enough..."

Before Ren could finish explaining everything, suddenly the Goddess of Magic appeared beside the two of them: "Ren, the Goddess of Writing has come to visit and wants to see us. They're outside the divine realm right now."

"Goddess of Writing?" Ren was confused.

"The Goddess of Writing, Reitia, also called the Scribe, has two or three churches in the mortal realm, though not very powerful." The Goddess of Magic quickly explained. "I'm guessing they're most likely here about the Magic Net."

"The Magic Net?" Ren's brain raced. "Do they want to use the Magic Net to publish things they've written? Or do they want to use the Magic Net to spread their faith?"

"I'm only guessing." The Goddess of Magic shook her head slightly.

She wasn't omniscient and omnipotent, and neither was Ren. What's more, this involved another deity. "Should we cooperate with them?!"

"That's up to you." The Goddess of Magic said. "I don't understand how to manage the Magic Net, and I won't interfere."

"Then let's bring them in and talk first... They don't have any past grudges with us, right? Also, what about them and the God of War?"

"No, we've had no dealings with them, and neither has the God of War. They're a neutral and peaceful deity."

After reaching this conclusion, Ren readily agreed. He was also curious about what this Goddess of Writing was really after!

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