Ariadne saw the two coming as the door was open. With Alya smiling and Edmund laughing, she clenched her firsts, but her eyes stayed the same as their eyes locked on her, and she approached with a serious posture.

‘Thank you, Alya, Can you leave us alone?’ She smiled at the maid.

‘As your will.’ The maid turned around and left the office.

‘So, what is the problem, your highness?’ With a relaxed attitude, Edmund sat on the chair in front of her desk.

‘Why do I even try? You really don’t care about my position, hum?’ She lay back on her chair and sighed.

‘We are alone; what is the big deal about it?’ He crossed his arms.

‘You need to respect me; I’m your master, and you come here all happy and jumpy with Alya, disgusting.’ She slammed her hand on the desk.

‘Wow, what is going on? I’m your slave; just give the order and I will do it.’ He spoke with a tone of indignation.

‘NO!!! You need to do that by yourself; what is the point if I command you? Respect me, damn it.’ Ariadne slams the desk again.

‘I do; you gave me the opportunity to do all of that, and I respect you more than anything.’ Edmund looks into her eyes.

‘Humph… Okay, I will believe you. Anyway, my father said that he is going to marry in a year and a half, and with that, this protection we have is going away. They think I’m going to die soon too.’ She took a fan that was on her desk and gave herself a breeze.

‘That sure is a lot, but I think we are fine. For the amount we did in six months, I think we can invade the dungeon in another year because of your training to fight against the dungeon guardian. We are fine.’ He smiled at her.

‘What are you talking about, peasant? I’m not talking about dungeons; they are going to invade us.’ She raised her tone.

‘Calm down; we need the resources from the dungeon and after that, we can face off against the two kingdoms at the same time if you want, even conquering one of them if you focus.’ Edmund taped his chin.

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‘Hum? Is that true?’ She leaned forward.

‘What surprises me is the fact that you are worried; we see the soldiers train all the time; maybe it's the fact I didn’t show you a vehicle that I was working on for the past six months; it takes time; I’m in fantasy levels of innovation here; not even Leah can help me; I tried and she didn’t understand what I was doing.’ Edmund scratched his head.

‘I know, I think it just took me by surprise. What is this vehicle you are talking about?’ Ariadne closed her fan.

‘If you want, I can show it to you, but it is not really ready or anything. My idea is for transport because we can’t really bring horses into the dungeon.’ He continued to scratch his head.

‘So show it to me; I already said to the village chiefs using the phone and the mayor too, but Alon and the rest need to know to prepare for it.’ She got up from the chair.

‘Not a problem; now that we have a real timeframe, I’m going to adjust things so that we can be fine, but we still need more nihilium and magic crystals for the vehicles.’ He got up, too.

The two got out of the office and were followed by Alya, who walked right behind the duchess. Out of the mansion, Alon was still seeing the construction of the building for closed-quarters training, but as soon as he noticed Ariadine coming, he came close to her and bowed.

‘What a great surprise, your highness, putting on another show with your training for the soldiers?’ The capitain smiled.

‘I’m afraid, not Alon; we need to talk about something important so follow me and the peasant.’ She continued to walk.

Edmund took the lead, and as they passed the warehouse and entered the forest, after some time they came across an open field in the middle of the forest.

‘I did this so that if something got wrong, it wouldn’t put the lives of the soldiers training in danger; that is why it is quite far from the mansion.’ Edmund came closer to something covered by a black sheet, but it looked kind of reflexive.

‘You keep pulling strange things like this, Edmund; now I know why the duchess keeps grabbing you by the throat.’ Alon nodded his head negatively.

‘He has his motives; forgive his manners.’ Ariadne made a motion calling for Alya.

‘Yes, your highness, here.’ The maid opened an umbrella and protected the duchess from the sun.

Edmund took the cover off and reviled the vehicle. It was large with a massive front, but it just looked like a larger wagon with a weird front, and it had no weels. The three were confused about what the thing was; for them, it appeared to be broken because of how it looked.

‘I said it was not finished but I have something to show you.’ Edmund jumped into the front of the vehicle.

He pushed a button that was on a panel in front of him, and a sound of homing could be heard coming from the front of the vehicle. He then pressed another one on the panel, and the hole structure lifted from the ground, making everyone open their mounts. Seeing their faces, he started to laugh, jumped out of the front and walked toward the three of them.

‘I don’t know how to make stronger weels or something like this, so why not lift it up? But right now, I don’t know how to move forward. This is a lot in six mounts, if you ask me.’ Edmund smiled while looking at his creation with pride.

‘Peasant, you cleared all my worries with this monstrosity.’ Ariadne grinned.

‘It is Edmund; to this point, everything is possible.’ Alon massaged his forehead.

‘With the power of the goddess, everything is possible.’ Alya looked at the vehicle with bright eyes.

It started to slowly fall to the ground by itself, and the homing sound stopped right after. Edmund was just scratching his head as his face turned into disappointment.

‘We really need those magic crystals, your highness... Nihillium has reached its natural limit for magic storage use.' He kicked a stone next to him in protest.