☀️ Arselia and Akonia

-- There are many questions, now that I have earned your trust. I congratulate you on your upcoming coronation, Your Highness; you are definitely needed by the Empire now more than ever. However, what about His Majesty? Please tell me what is happening. It seems that the lack of publicly available information about his... condition after the attack by Despair is not just a political gesture. Nevertheless, we have just witnessed the capabilities of Margel's search engine, so what is happening, is there hope, and what is its source? Can we be of any help?

-- May I also ask how many Aconian stones you have collected so far? It seems that with almost every meeting, you become stronger; I believe that your progress is already significant, but in order to plan the remaining work, I would like to have an estimate. And... you know, if you could reveal a little more about the nature of your achievements in studying this sacred past and gathering its power, I would be grateful, but I will understand if the time is not yet right. After all, I don't even have mind immunity right now; I can't be sure that this secret will die with me.

-- Sad news about Nephiria, but I must say that this explains a lot. I have a secret idea that I haven't even told my master yet, although perhaps this precaution is unnecessary. Just because it seems so... that it could change everything.

-- I believe that the connectivity of regions and armies can and should be improved. Tell me... I haven't observed this personally, but does this world have the concept of signal towers? There probably should be. Recently, Master Quant told me about how he uses special clocks to control an unmanned aerial vehicle. Although this achievement is in itself, I thought at that moment that clocks don't care what they control, right? What if, on the other side, instead of an aircraft, there is some kind of dial with letters? Hmm, I won't overwhelm you too much, but it seems to me that by building many, many towers, and then connecting them all with invisible threads, it will be possible to transmit messages over any distance in an instant. And then nothing will catch us by surprise, because instead of sending messengers or pigeons, it will be enough for some duty officer to go to the tower, and then another duty officer to descend from his. I can't confidently say now whether this is necessary in the war against the undead, and also whether I am not overestimating the properties of precious stones, which, for me, who is not used to this, look like an obvious magic. Maybe it can't even be done at a reasonable cost. But if you say that you are interested, and that it makes sense... I will probably start developing it as soon as possible.

-- By the way, unmanned aerial vehicles themselves also look like a good addition, although I don't like to fight that way. But maybe it's worth calculating economically, and if it turns out that they are much cheaper than airships, then many of these kamikaze aircraft with bombs dropped at the right altitude would work well against airships. Hmm, maybe this is something that I should calculate myself in advance, before burdening you with my still unfounded thoughts.

-- Also, what do you think Senator Shen Tao is planning? Perhaps Her Highness Lady Naera has already described to you what I myself thought about the likely policy of this gentleman, but this was the opinion of a complete political dilettante, and what do you think?