Falk also laughed, "No worries, no worries! Since we're already partners, there's no need to be so formal!"

An Ya, who was specifically pointed out by Falk, was momentarily bewildered, "This... huh? How did this Fire God Mecha get assigned to me? Hey, hey, did anyone ask if I'm okay with this!?"

——In any case, that's the reason why when the parlor door opened at this moment, Andrew and Falk walked out warmly like a pair of young and old foxes, while Havier had a face like he had eaten something unpleasant.

"...So, shall we meet at the east gate early tomorrow?" Falk said.

In his view, the first business deal to discuss had already been preliminarily settled.

The subsequent detailed cooperation plans and various detailed issues could all be further negotiated through the "Heart Net," not necessarily requiring face-to-face discussions.

"Alright, see you in the morning." Andrew nodded, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "When can the Fire God Magical Motive Armor be delivered?"

"Now," Falk said, "I have a Fire God Mecha with me."

"Really? Awesome! That would be great, thank you very much." Andrew was delighted.

He immediately arranged for An Ya to follow Falk to handle the rental and handover of the mecha.

An Ya was unsure if she could undertake this heavy responsibility but agreed with courage.

Barbara, standing to the side, said, "Grandpa Falk, I've only heard of such a thing as a Fire God Mecha but have never seen it with my own eyes, can I go too?"

Before Falk could answer, Leia raised her hand, "I want to go too, I want to see!"

Falk nodded and smiled, "Of course, you can."

However, he didn't ask Andrew if he wanted to go see it as well.

Andrew sensibly did not make any further requests.

He only cast Barbara a grateful glance.

Deep down, Andrew was a bit uneasy about An Ya following Falk alone for the mecha's handover.

With Barbara going along, there was really nothing to worry about.

"...The only question is, why deliberately choose An Ya?"

Andrew instinctively felt that this shouldn't be a coincidence. There might be some deeper reason behind it that he didn't know.

Recalling the look Falk gave An Ya just now, at certain moments, Andrew even felt that Falk looked at An Ya more kindly and affectionately than at Barbara!

It was as if he was looking at his own child!

"But there can't possibly be any blood relationship."

Andrew thought for a moment but had no leads, so he had to put it aside for the time being.

At this moment, Havier said nothing, turned around, and left.

Ivan stepped forward, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want me to keep an eye on this guy?"

Andrew considered it for a moment, then nodded, "That would be appreciated."

There was no choice, as he was indeed a bit worried that Havier might cause trouble or act up in the territory.

Ivan replied with an "Mm," and his figure quietly vanished from the spot, following in the direction Havier left.

"Phew."

Standing alone outside the parlor, Andrew exhaled, "Feels like this is a pretty good beginning! The cooperative exchange with the Warm Fire Commerce Association."

Magic Power quietly shifted from "normal state" to "enhanced state" and then covered his entire body.

Andrew felt carefully and could sense a subtle pricking sensation on the skin covered by Magic Power from time to time.

Each slight prick would cause the "Water God Mark" on his forehead to flicker a few times.

This was a stimulus caused by some external force.

More precisely, it was a feeling of "being watched"!

Andrew had vaguely sensed that the gaze from the Magic Guild in the vast desert outside the Wildfire Territory had already been fixed on the Wildfire Territory and himself!

"Theoretically, I shouldn't be catching their attention this quickly.

The speed at which news reaches the ears of the high levels of the Magic Guild... is it really so fast?"

Andrew was a bit puzzled by this, but he didn't particularly mind, "Alright then, if they want to watch, let them watch! It's not a big deal."

If the other side only watched and didn't do more, there was really nothing he could do about it.

Forcing a search might not find them, if found might not be able to eliminate them, and even if eliminated, there would be another, the more killed, the more exposure.

So the best response is no response.

At the very least, the Magic Guild can now only secretly observe and not openly run rampant against the Wildfire Territory like Humboldt, Rose, and Fleur did before.

He really couldn't do much about it, but the other side also didn't dare to rashly act against the Wildfire Territory anymore!

And if they were not satisfied with just watching and wanted to cross the line further—

"Our Wildfire Territory will soon have a 'Fire God Mecha'," Andrew smiled slightly, "Once we get the mecha, the security level of our Wildfire Territory will directly increase by several major levels. This way, Ivan and I can go to Warm Fire City without worries."

No longer caring about that feeling of being watched occasionally, Andrew thought for a while and decided to take advantage of the time before setting off in the morning to handle a long-delayed matter.

Thus, for the entire next day, Andrew was immersed in a specially reinforced fortress-type building on the west side of the territory.

This was the prison of the Wildfire Territory.

Where Cook, Sally, and other Magic Apprentices captured after defeating Humboldt were detained.

And after defeating Rose and his Desolate Beast tide, the captive Fleur.

Andrew initially wasn't sure how to deal with these captives, so he had to keep them locked up for the time being.

Until after the battle with that Mountain and Sea, using Water Magic to exorcise numerous Desolate Beasts turned from Flame Warriors, gave Andrew some inspiration on how to handle captives, with some ideas different from the conventional practices of this Flame Realm.

"If I remember correctly, both the Mountain and Sea and those Desolate Beasts exorcised by me with Water Magic were 'people' at the last moments of their lives." Andrew recalled clearly, "At that time, they were neither Desolate Beasts nor Flame Warriors, just a bunch of regular people without Professional Power!"

"So what? You wouldn't think you can use Water Magic to exorcise Desolate Beasts and turn them back into ordinary humans, and then also use Water Magic to turn Flame Warriors or Earth Fire Mages into ordinary humans, would you?" This was Ivan's thought, "That's impossible, don't even think about it."

Andrew actually knew this was basically impossible.

The identity and concept of "Professional" ultimately contains its sacred and inviolable core attributes.

Not to mention the current Andrew, even if ten thousand times stronger in the future, he wouldn't easily alter others' career paths.

Such things are fundamentally "not allowed"!

Professionals can be killed, can be disabled.

But being "purified into ordinary people" or easily converted into another profession by external forces is almost impossible!

Desolate Beasts can be exorcised fundamentally because the power of Desolate Beasts is violent and unstable.

While the power of Professionals is stable.

Precisely because professional power and ability are stable, they can be called Professionals!

"So I'm not trying to turn Flame Warriors back into ordinary people like the Desolate Beasts. I realize that's impossible.

I just think, maybe we can still give those captives, who don't deserve death, a second chance?"

Andrew's idea was simple, "The Mountain and Sea and those Desolate Beasts in the end were ordinary people, thankful to me, and felt remorse for the innocent lives they had harmed in the past, doesn't this illustrate that there's still a piece of goodness within their hearts?"

"So you want them to mend their ways?"

"Something like that, at least we can give it a try, Ivan, what do you think?"

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