“So fast, I can actually not find anyone else anymore.”
As time passed, it became difficult to find figures offering flowers in front of the grave anymore.
“The adults in the family have all become very busy recently; they don’t even have time to mourn for Dad.”
“Kallen…”
While the blonde girl was still weighing her words, Otto cut in:
“Your father’s death was simply too sudden; this is also something that couldn’t be helped.”
Among the nobles of Kolosten, the Kaslana family was one of the three major powers at the top of the pyramid, yet it had always been the weakest link among them.
Inherently unsuited for politics and management, Kaslana’s influence was not as stable as the other two major families to begin with.
Having lost its leader right now, it was like a tall building with an unsteady foundation, leaving only a still glamorous exterior while actually tottering on the verge of collapse inside.
“Mm, I understand; they also have things they need to do.”
“Kallen, you should pay attention to yourself too.”
Noticing the wounds and bandages on the other’s hands and cheeks, Vester sighed.
Kaslana’s recent days had not been easy, and Kallen was naturally no exception.
“It’s fine, Vester, these are all injuries from training.”
Evidently very receptive to the blonde girl’s concern, Kallen revealed a bright smile:
“For our dreams, and also for the family, I must become stronger.”
Having experienced many things and grown more mature, Kallen unexpectedly had a somewhat heroic and dashing air to her.
On the other side, Vester pursed her lips with a complex mood.
Not long ago, Otto’s side had begun courses learning management and various professional knowledge.
She tried following along for a few days, but the result wasn’t ideal.
“…”
Francis’s matter as well, Kallen’s current matter as well, and also Otto’s side’s matter as well.
Could it be that in the future she could only watch like this?
“Vester, what’s wrong with you?”
“Kallen, am I very useless?”
“No way, Vester, you’re so smart.”
Kallen scratched her head.
“Smart? That’s totally a word used to praise someone only when one really can’t find any other advantages.”
“It’s fine, even if you’re useless, Vester is still very amazing!”
“Not as amazing as the two of you.”
As she spoke, she looked at the two standing aside.
Otto would gradually inherit his political power as Nicholas’s predetermined next Overseer, while Kallen would become Schicksal’s Saintess in the future, simultaneously commanding the Valkyrie squad, the most powerful force in Kolosten.
Among their three-person iron triangle, these two corners respectively represented military force and power.
“However, I won’t keep being this useless forever.”
As the final corner among them, she ought to complete the missing part.
…
At the beginning of their meeting, Vester and Otto were very infatuated with flying machines, so for easier research, the two converted the attic behind Vester’s yard into a secret base exclusively for their experiments.
However, after Kallen joined them and the matter of the flying machine came to a close, no one had been here for a long time.
Until recently, when Vester returned here to research something, this secret base became lively again. Find the original chapter at g.com.
“Ahem ahem ahem.”
Pushing open the large door, the heavy water vapor gushing from inside made Otto unable to help coughing.
“Vester, what are you doing inside?”
Startled by the rising water vapor and mist-wreathed environment behind the door, Otto shouted inside.
After waiting for a long time without receiving a response, she had no choice but to carefully step over the blueprints almost piling up the floor, passing through various bizarre mechanical devices, and walk toward the interior of the attic.
The water vapor grew increasingly heavy, and Otto faintly heard the sound of “clang clang.” Walking further in for a bit, she finally saw Vester’s figure.
“It’s leaking air again.”
The blonde girl was recording something on a piece of paper and completely hadn’t noticed Otto’s arrival.
In the center of the room sat a huge cylinder continuously spewing out water vapor.
The levers connected to it seemed to be some kind of transmission device, continuously moving back and forth through two sets of different levers to drive a metal disk to rotate.
“What is this thing?”
“Hey, have you lost your mind!”
Hearing the sound of Otto talking to herself, Vester only then noticed the former.
Never did she expect that upon raising her head, she would see the sight of the other approaching the center of the room.
“The things spewing out over there are all very high-temperature steam. If you get any closer, you’re going to be roasted by invisible fire, you know.”
“I’m sorry, I was just a little curious.” Otto first apologized, and then asked again, “So, what are you doing, Vester?”
“Ahem, this is something I invented recently.”
Vester first closed the valve on the side, and then said without blushing or her heart beating fast:
“I’m planning to call it a steam engine.”
She didn’t care about this and that; since she made it first, then it was her invention.
“A steam engine?”
“You take a look at these blueprints first; after reading them, you should roughly be able to understand.”
Saying that, the blonde girl simply stuffed the complete design blueprints and the simple operation flowchart into the other’s hands.
Hearing this, Otto continued to flip backward through the blueprints in her hand.
As the sun gradually slanted westward and the contents of the blueprints neared the end, the expression on her face grew increasingly colorful.
‘Heh, can you understand it?’
A voice almost identical to Vester’s rang in Otto’s mind, but Otto knew the one speaking was not her.
‘I can understand some of it; anyway, it’s a very amazing thing.’
‘You don’t understand it yet you can comprehend it?’
Void Archives’s tone was rather emotional.
‘Mn, after all, the principle isn’t hard to understand.’
Borrowing the steam generated by combustion as power, and then applying this power to production through transmission structures composed of various gears and levers, the essence of the steam engine had already been thoroughly seen through by Otto.
“But Vester, why has this steam engine been leaking air?”
Understanding the principle of the machinery before her, Otto raised a new doubt.
The operation of a steam engine heavily relied on the pressure of steam.
Constantly leaking air would not only affect its efficiency, but might also cause operation to terminate due to insufficient air pressure, or even cause the metal structure to rupture and explode.
“The sealing isn’t good enough.” Saying that, Vester shrugged helplessly, “I’ve searched through almost all the craftsmen in Kolosten, but even the craftsmen with the best skill cannot guarantee that the parts they hammer out can fit together absolutely seamlessly.” Read the latest chapters at novelping . com.
Relying on the relevant knowledge from many transmigration popular science and farming novels she had read before, although she successfully pieced together a steam engine, the processing precision of this era simply couldn’t meet the steam engine’s requirements for sealing.
‘This is something leading your era by at least a hundred years.’
‘You know similar things?’
Hearing Void Archives’s voice, Otto asked in her heart.
‘Of course.’
‘Then can you help Vester solve this problem?’
‘Heh, the answer is the same—of course.’
Even capable of mimicking Divine Keys, how could it possibly be stumped by these backward products of the industrial era?
Precision casually reaching 0.1 nanometers!
“Vester, regarding the problem with the parts, it seems I can solve it.”
“Ah, really?”
“I have a friend.”
“…”
Squinting her eyes to size up Otto, Vester suddenly thought of something.
The other party really did have a friend who could do this thing.
‘Void Archives?’
Regarding this Divine Key, whose presence was not strong in the early and middle stages of Honkai Impact 3rd, Vester didn’t have much of an impression.
She only knew that Otto in the Purple Iris Arc indeed possessed Void Archives.
“I noticed that that friend of yours seems to possess the ability to construct all things.”
“It’s not hard to guess, it should be radiating golden light all over, and it can also transform into the appearance of other people.”
Still super-transcendent attention, still not hard to deduce.
“?” × 2
Didn’t leak footsteps, didn’t leak positioning, whether it’s turned on or not, she knew it in her heart.
“Just kidding, don’t mind it~”
Seeing Otto’s expression begin to turn strange, Vester whistled and decided to gloss over this topic.
‘Heh, hahahahaha.’
After being silent for a good while, Void Archives laughed out loud.
‘As expected, truly as expected.’
Shielding Otto’s hearing, it stared fixedly at Vester’s eyes.
Those eyes, without a doubt!
Now, Void Archives could completely confirm that the Vester before its eyes was definitely that person it was most familiar with.
‘Things are getting interesting.’
In the outside world, regarding Void Archives’s thoughts, Vester and Otto were still unaware.
They only felt an unprecedented atmosphere.
That was the wheels of the era about to start turning, the wind and rain coming before a drastic upheaval of the situation.
Time is about to accelerate.