Chapter 148: Chapter 106: Mechanical Engineer (Part 2)

On a few diagrams, there were the young girl’s wildly imaginative ideas, but they just hit the nail on the head, highlighting her extraordinary talent for mechanics.

However, if this talent isn’t grounded in real knowledge, it might quietly disappear one day, never to be grasped again.

Halfway through, Andasu spoke.

“What was that just now?”

“What are you referring to?”

“The way to make The Sandbone Group commit suicide, was that some kind of magic?”

“Just a little bit of Magic,” Li Ang smiled.

“Calling that ’just a little’… that’s truly absurd.” The young girl shook her head.

The Beast eared Maiden raised her hand to remove her mask, revealing a face as handsome as it was gentle.

“What about your three team members?”

“Two of them, and one was just a temporary recruit.”

“Unlike with me, you didn’t invite her to join?”

“She currently doesn’t have that desire, and I haven’t asked her.”

“But you were quite direct when inviting me?”

“Because you are very suitable.”

Not understanding why she brought this up, but since they were talking about it, Li Ang listed the situations he could think of one by one.

“We need to build a big ship, which you’ve seen the blueprint for. A skilled helmsman is required. At the same time, you are also an Assassin, and when disembarking on adventures, a partner with quick single-target strike capability helps fill the current team. Lastly, you’re a girl, which is a factor because they don’t want strange men on board.”

Andasu rarely smiled: “Do I not look like a strange man?”

“A different type of beauty, a brand new scenery line.”

The young girl’s beast ears wiggled, and the large tail behind her swayed a few times from side to side.

“You’ve got a hand with flowery words.”

Andasu’s fair face turned a faint pink.

Over time, the strange fragrance in the room that was there when entering had gradually dissipated, but now it seemed to grow stronger again.

“When I saw them that night, I thought they were very happy, not only because you were escorting them all the way, but also because your existence gives them direction.”

Andasu’s boyish voice slowly narrated, “People, only with direction, know who they are. The Yunxiang Race hopes I am the savior, and so I am. Bonnie considers me a friend, pushes me to be the boss, and so I am. The Platinum King discovered my driving talent, let me race, I won, and others called me the Platinum Ace, so I am.

“But without these, who am I?

“When I get on your ship, who am I?”

Li Ang thought for a moment and understood what she wanted to express.

She was a person without dreams.

Andasu wasn’t a character in a legendary story, born with a certain dream seemingly just waiting for the main character to pass by, for them to hit it off, the protagonist shatters shackles for them, and they become an aid to the protagonist, achieving their dreams in the process.

If they killed the Platinum King and rescued the Yunxiang Race, it seems she would just grow a gang with the Sandstorm Lioness and Tiger Sisters, drifting through life like that.

She lacked a compelling reason to board the ship.

Li Ang looked at her blueprints and the meticulously maintained tools beside them.

“What about those? Your drawings and reflective words don’t seem to agree.”

Andasu’s tight shoulders shrank: “That doesn’t really mean anything.”

“Even though I’ve never left the Flashing Field, after leaving the island, there are few places with airship races. Here, a standout Platinum Ace, outside a nobody…” Her voice grew fainter.

“What about the metal ball just now?” Li Ang asked, “That ball is tracking, there shouldn’t be such a device here, is that you controlling it?”

Andasu lifted her wrist, where there was a small remote device mounted on a wrist guard half the length of her forearm along with three clip locks, one of which still contained a third metal ball that hadn’t been deployed.

Normally, her sleeve would cover this special wrist guard.

“Just a mechanism, if I had your Magic, would I need this junk?”

Li Ang shook his head, “It’s not junk, and it’s not ’just a mechanism’.

He picked up a small device from the table, examining it closely.

It seemed to be some kind of defense weapon with an electromagnetically propelled shock head, but only halfway done.

Including her net projectile ball, there were many such gadgets on the workbench’s table.

“These things—”

“There’s nothing special, just, just a casual hobby.”

Andasu appeared a bit anxious but dared not stop Li Ang, instead hugging her knees, burying half her face.

“Didn’t it work just fine? In combat.”

“Who fights like that…”

Li Ang laughed; it seemed she truly didn’t know herself.

“How much do you know about Professional Skills?”

“Not much, I only know that Warriors, Swordsmen, Fighters, and Assassins are more common among the sandland merchants.”

Andasu recalled, “Casters in the Sable Sky Realm are rarer, I’ve seen them a few times in the Flowing Silver Combat Skills, and then there’s you, who seems different from anyone I’ve seen before.”

“Do you know which Casters there are?”

“Mages? Priests? Mages? Beyond that, I don’t know.”

“These three are indeed the most common ones.”

Li Ang continued, “Aside from common Professions, there are also special and rare Professions. A special Profession like Storm Messenger can advance through the Mage you know of.

“While rare Professions are those uncommon Professions, such as Magic Warrior, Dancer, often capable of things standard Professions cannot accomplish.”

Andasu lowered her head, “Why tell me all this?”

“Because you are the rare Profession ’Mechanical Engineer’.”

“I, me?”

“Yes, haven’t you noticed that you actually have a great talent for mechanics?”

“A bit better than others.”

“That’s not just a bit better,” Li Ang shook his head, “You’ve managed to self-learn Mechanic Engineer up to Tier 3.”

“Are you sure you’re talking about me?” Andasu raised her head slightly.

“Yes, handling Fukate posed no issue for me, so I know a bit about various situations in Nebis. As for your situation, I wouldn’t make baseless claims.”

Li Ang said, “Mechanical Engineer is a Profession that uses mechanical devices to fight, special mechanical devices can have unexpected results, possibly more practical than Magic.

“Mechanical Engineers can also create robots, and with them—”

“Robots?”

Andasu jumped off the recliner: “Robots that can understand commands and help with tasks? How, how do you do that?”

Her light golden eyes suddenly brimmed with light.

“Yes, even robots that can counter large Demons head-on.”

Li Ang seized the moment to persuade, “You can learn how to make them outside.”

Hearing about going outside, the young girl’s enthusiasm slightly waned.

She sighed gently, “Weapon Master, I—”

“Call me Li Ang, I quite dislike that title.”

“Okay, Li Ang, the reason I sought you out is really to let you know—”

She hesitated momentarily, organising her thoughts, “Just now, when I talked about the forward direction, I meant to say, actually, I have always known that Penny and the others, and you, are right.

“Rescuing the tribe, killing the Platinum King, it’s absolutely the right thing to do…

“In fact, none of you know, that I have already tried to kill the Platinum King.”

“Oh?” Li Ang raised an eyebrow.

“Li Ang, are you willing to listen to my story?”

“I’m a bit curious, what was the situation?”

Andasu sat back on the recliner, resting one foot on the edge, arm laid on her knee, slowly narrating.

“Before the age of six, I always believed Antorus Sangrus was my father.”

She referred to the name of the Platinum King.

“I lived in the Platinum Hall, in luxury, he took care of me kindly. Even though I realized the Race was different, who else could he be if not my father?”

Andasu touched the ears on her head.

“Then, on my sixth birthday, I thought it would be just like when I remembered things at four or five, a grand birthday party, bring all the theater, circus, magic shows to the palace front, have a large crowd of strangers celebrate my birthday, and have towering cakes and a variety of delicious pastries.

“However, that day he didn’t smile once, no matter how I tried to amuse him, saying things he usually enjoyed, he only looked at me with a peculiar gaze, a gaze I will never forget.

“Later, whenever he thought of ways to disrupt everything I cherished, torturing me, he’d use that gaze.

“That day, he took me to a dirty, ugly slum, to a group of beast ear-eye people with the same white hair as mine, who I saw as dirty and dark back then. He told me that couple with tear-stained, dirt-smeared faces were my real parents.

“He abandoned me among these strangers, who seemed like beggars to me back then, and walked away without looking back.”

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