“Actually, I don’t know much,” the vice duke finally spoke after a long moment of hesitation.

“That’s fine, just tell me what you know.” Qianye knew this would be the case.

The vice duke produced a palm-sized box from his armor. “My primary mission is to bring this little thing into the inner world and hand it to the Eternal Flame.”

Qianye took the item and studied it for a bit. To his surprise, this item was a spatial gear. Qianye opened the box without a hitch and scanned the space inside, only to find that it was filled with all kinds of machinery parts. The item that attracted his attention the most was a transparent tube, inside of which Qianye could see a row of black crystals.

“What are these?”

The vice duke pointed at the tube, saying, “I only know this one. This is a new energy source developed by the Evernight Council. The purified black crystals inside contain ten times more energy than ordinary ones.”

“It must be quite expensive,” Qianye said.

He had set up an entire industrial system on the Fort Continent, so he had naturally developed an eye for quality. The price of a product that had been condensed ten...