Inside the Starport Forge's laboratory, Ovilia looked at Luka and asked with some uncertainty, "Are you really going to contact my teacher?"
"What? You can't reach him? Or are you afraid to contact him?" Luka stared at the Mechanical Sage in front of him, a curious expression on his face.
Facing Luka's curiosity, Ovilia's expression was a bit annoyed, but she still explained, "Since you know my teacher, you should understand that facing a Great Sage of that level isn't something just anyone can do."
"Especially when you've touched his things and leaked his secrets."
"Although I am his student, if my teacher wants to pursue the matter of you leaking the Primaris technology, there's nothing I can do to stop him from killing you, and even I might be silenced by him!"
At first listen, Ovilia's evaluation seemed inconsistent with Dora Khaur, that perennial homebody, but if one considers that Cawl is a Tech-Priest who has been brewing a grand plan for ten thousand years without being discovered, one can imagine how good his secrecy work truly is.
Although Luka didn't believe that Cawl had truly gone undiscovered.
However, Luka had his own thoughts on this matter. He simply said to Ovilia, "Send a portion of these seven Primaris modification surgical data to your teacher. He will be interested in this matter."
"This data? What's the point? Primaris technology is my teacher's research. Do you think he wouldn't have this kind of clinical data?" Ovilia didn't quite understand what Luka was thinking.
In Ovilia's view, since her teacher was able to research this technology, he should naturally have perfected it to the highest degree, otherwise, there wouldn't be a large number of Primaris Astartes buried beneath the Forge of the Forge World.
Ovilia, of course, knew what was beneath her teacher's Forge. In fact, part of her duty was to guard the things beneath the Forge.
It was precisely because of this that Ovilia wasn't particularly surprised that Luka and his group knew about the Primaris. After all, her teacher had buried so many Primaris beneath the Forge, so a leak wasn't particularly outrageous.
She also had no intention of keeping secrets for her teacher, as she was already powerless to keep this matter secret.
The Adeptus Mechanicus Prefecture Magisterium, represented by 32, could truly kill her, and in Ovilia's opinion, even had the ability to kill her teacher.
As for Luka's mention of data on modifying old Space Marines into Primaris Space Marines, Ovilia thought her teacher wouldn't care for it; he must have conducted many similar experiments already, right?
Although it's difficult to get a proper Astartes for modification, for a Mechanical Sage, secretly acquiring a Gene-Seed and then cultivating an Astartes for modification isn't impossible.
After all, Primaris Astartes are also Astartes; they also require Gene-Seed.
However, Luka's smile was very strange in response to Ovilia's answer.
He shook his head and said, "Just send the message to Archmagos Cawl. Tell him you saved seven Astartes and transformed them into Primaris Space Marines. Archmagos Cawl will be interested in this matter."
"You'd better be right!" Seeing Luka's persistence, Ovilia finally gritted her teeth and decided to send the message.
After all, she also hoped that if her teacher could come, he could resolve her current awkward identity and even allow her to return to the Forge World to reclaim the Forge her teacher left behind.
Even if that Forge now belonged to Donia, she still had to get the Forge back.
After all, it didn't matter if Luka knew some things; at worst, both of them would be killed by her teacher.
But Donia… Ovilia didn't want her to be involved.
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While Luka was dealing with Ovilia, 32 on the other side was receiving Kristen and her party.
"Sage Olegana." Although Kristen clearly showed vigilance towards the Sage of the Prefecture Magisterium, she still politely greeted 32.
"Wise One Christen, and Sage Seleya, welcome to Rostov III. A Forge is currently under construction here, so I hope you don't mind the mess." 32 greeted the two very gracefully; when it was serious, 32 was indeed very serious.
However, at this moment, 32's appearance could hardly be described as serious, as several kittens were climbing all over her, treating her, her mechanical tentacles behind her, and several floating servitor skulls beside her as a large cat climbing frame.
But upon closer inspection, one would find that these kittens were all mechanical constructs, not flesh-and-blood creatures; their fluffy appearance was merely biological technology-made skin.
"No matter, this is a manifestation of the omnissiah's power. How could we dislike it?" Kristen responded to 32's politeness, but quickly got to the point: "Governor Luka said that this place will be responsible for manufacturing Orbital Ring components. We are here to assess this."
"May Sage Olegana please facilitate our visit and allow us to inspect and evaluate the production capacity here?"
The construction of an Orbital Ring is a massive project, usually requiring the production capacity of an entire Forge World to supply.
But Griya Forge World couldn't possibly move their main factory over, even if it could truly perform Warp jumps.
Luka's business was indeed a large one, but it wasn't yet at the point where they needed to move their Forge factory over.
As for making the parts and transporting them over, this was certainly feasible and was Kristen's original plan.
But this plan was rejected by Luka during their discussion, on the grounds that the transportation route was long, and Subspace Storms had become increasingly frequent recently, making Warp transportation unsafe.
Recalling the various attacks she had encountered along the way, Kristen truly couldn't refute this point, as the ships Luka sent to pick them up had all been damaged.
Therefore, if the relevant components could be produced locally, it would indeed save a lot of effort.
Moreover, according to Luka's plan and attitude, he intended to develop the entire Sub-Sector later, requiring more than one Orbital Ring, so local production indeed had many advantages.
Of course, the premise was that it could truly be produced locally.
So, to confirm whether the local Forge factory had the capacity to undertake the manufacturing of Orbital Ring components, Kristen arrived at the factory on Rostov III with Seleya.
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