After a brief silence, the classroom erupted into an even more heated discussion than before.
"What is this? An external box? It's too crude!"
"This is an insult to Alchemy! How is this any different from a blacksmith hanging a bell on a suit of armor?"
"It has zero aesthetic appeal, and that Rune Paper... it's single-use, isn't it? You have to replace it after two uses? What a profiteer!"
Victor immediately sneered.
"Allen Wesren, you call this an upgrade? This is nothing but a shoddy, heavily patched consumable!
"When your little box runs out of energy, or when that fragile Rune Paper fails, what is the farm owner supposed to do? Spend money to buy a new one? You're not solving the problem at all; you're just fattening them up for slaughter, trapping them so they hand you money for the rest of their lives!"
His words were highly inflammatory, immediately drawing agreement from the majority of the apprentices.
