In front of Adam were Alba and a man who held a weird device. It was like a tube, no, he had seen it on the internet when he was still on earth, it should be called monocular. He held it in front of his eye, as he looked at Adam and Ruby.
They sat in a cafe that he and Ruby visited before. The cafe owner welcomed them enthusiastically when they came. Some customers looked at them curiosly. Some customers that heard their discusion back than also greeted them.
Behind Adam were the rest of Hellcat team players at some tables. They ordered foods and drinks, as they had meals while talked among themselves.
The reason they were here was because of Alba's invitation. She said they had to celebrate their first win in an amateur game. And she was willing to pay for it. Adam and Ruby didn't have reason to refuse.
Adam also had already promised her to give her time after the match to ask some questions. So he agreed immediately.
Then he got an idea. Rather than Alba only interviewed him, wasn't it better for her to interviewed Ruby too. Alba was enthusiastic about his idea, she then asked Ruby, but Ruby refused it flatly.
Adam then explained his plan to Ruby. He told Ruby, battle ball was an entertainment sport, so to promote Hellcat, every publication means were necessary.
At first, she was stubborn. She didn't want to be in the spotlight, and she argued, Hellcat hadn't needed something like fame yet, as they were just an amateur team.
Adam then explained his view, he had already told Pete and Cleon about it. To make Hellcat a big and rich team, they needed to ensure it to be a self-sufficient team. They could sell the team's jerseys, put a sponsor in the team's home ground and jerseys, and build a fan club.
He then explained to them one by one. Ruby at first was indifferent to Adam's ideas, as it was too foreign, but as Adam said it was not impossible to get thousands even tens thousands of gold coins by doing that, she nodded with some doubt.
On the other side, Alba seemed to get inspiration. She nodded a few times and wrote on a note sometimes. As he saw that, he asked her that these things were off the record. She agreed easily.
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"Before the interview is started, can I asked something?" Adam asked.
"Technically we have been interviewing you. But okay, what is it?" Alba asked.
Adam then pointed to the device that the man used, "Is it for recording? What is the name of it?"
Alba blanked for a moment, she then chuckled, "You are too frank Adam. You know, many people had looked at it with curiosity before. But they were too embarrassed to ask about it. This is called monoye, a portable recording device that was invented by the Raymond Republic. We got some of them a year ago, as we bought them pretty expensive."
"So, how can you watch the recording? As I remembered, we must rent a crystal projector to run a recording." Adam asked.
"Well, like immovable record device that is planted, we can also do like that. But you can buy a miniature of it rather expensive if you like. The device was call crydow.
Oh, I understand now. You want to buy one for the team right? It was a good idea. But its price is about 100 gold in the market. Because this is a pretty new invention. You must order it first, as it can only be produced by the Raymond Republic.
But if you really want it, I can get one for you for 150 gold coins, as one of a merchant that my father knows suffered a huge loss because his caravan was just robbed. He was a collector of some mana devices. But he needs some money to start over again. So he has to sell some of his colection. And of course in high price."
"Got it, then I will rely on you to relate me to him. You can start asking me anything now," Adam said.
Alba nodded, "Then wait for the news from me. By the way, Ruby, are you ready?"
"O-okay," Ruby said in a nervous tone.
Adam looked at her. And he saw her body was stiff. Adam chuckled, "I have never thought Her Majesty could also nervous when she was interviewed."
Ruby then stared dagger to Adam, and said," Hump, If you said anything else, I will go. I'm not kidding."
"Sorry... I am sorry, okay. I will not say anything else," Adam said while raised his hands.
Alba and Ruby chuckled as they saw adam's action. Alba then glanced at Ruby who was more relaxed. She smiled, "Okay the first question. Adam, Please tell me how you could breakthrough continuously?"
Adam then sighed a long breath, "You know, I can't really talk about it. But I assure you, it wasn't easy."
Ruby frowned, "Why can't you talk about it? Do you have a special constitution?"
"No comment," Adam said with a flat expression.
"Or are you involved in a secret experiment done by the kingdom?" Alba asked.
"Please miss, you are being unreasonable here. Can you just ask a normal question?" Adam asked her with a sigh.
After that Alba asked a normal question, "How did you feel after the breakthrough?"
"I was grateful to God, as we know, it was a rare phenomenon. Even I had never dreamed of breakthrough continuously," Adam answered.
"What will you do after this? Do you want to focus on cultivation after this? I heard if you can breakthrough to level 6 mage before age of 30, you had a bigger chance to breakthrough to level 8 or even 9 in your life," Alba asked.
"No, as you know, I am just a summoner. Have a high level was not my priority. We all know that the summoner's strength depends on his summoned creatures' power. So I will focus to strengthen my summoned creatures. Besides that, I also want to enjoy my youth.
As you know, for us noble, our time in the academy is a valuable moment in our lives. We who were prepared to inherit the fief didn't have opportunities to play like other children when we are kids. So, Academy years was only our opportunity to have fun.
After this period, I will be buried in fief matters until I have an heir who will be responsible handle this thing in my name. And that is around 30 years from now.
So, I want to have fun by playing battle ball, doing business, tasting wonderful food out there, and many more as long as I can," Adam said.
"Those are wonderful plans, it must be hard to become a noble," Alba said and nodded as if she understood, she then faced Ruby, "Your Majesty! Your decision to build a battle ball team surprised many people. You know, it was rare for girls to love this sport. Could you tell us your attention?"
Ruby stared dagger at Alba, she felt being stab at the back by her. Alba just smiled innocently.
"Eee... Actually... I didn't want to build a team. It just that... Eee... I need...," Ruby was confused to answer, as she couldn't reveal her real motive founded Hellcat to the public.
Seeing Ruby had difficulty in answering, Adam interrupt her, "Excuse me Your Majesty, could I answer it for you?"
Adam's interruption made her felt relief as if she got an escape rope, She then looked at Adam and said, "Yes, please."
Alba frowned, she felt her trap had been spoilt by Adam, but she still could maintain her professional manner, "Oh, let us hear it."
Adam smiled, "It is a little wrong to say that Her Majesty who built this team. The fact was Her Majesty, I, Pete, Cleon, Logan and Gavin who built this team together."
After hearing Adam statement, amazement was seen on Alba's expression, she then asked, "Could you elaborated it to us?"
Adam then explained their plan to divided the shares of this team to six of them based on their investment value to the team.
He added, "As for why Her majesty took part in it because we asked her to. You know she is busy attending the lesson, doing an apprenticeship in the hospital. But we really need a healer, so Pete suggested to talk to Her Majesty, because, she was the only healer we knew back then.
After explaining our plan, we are jubilant to know Her Majesty supported us even willing to become the manager and auxiliary of our team."
Alba dumbfounded, she had never thought Adam could cover Ruby really well. She then said, "Wow, that was an unexpected truth. Let's talk about another topic. We just got information that you succeeded in buying a pretty large area in South Block of Silverpool city. Is it true?"
Adam shooked his head, "That is inaccurate information. I bought the usage rights of the land, not the land itself. The land is still in Silverpool fief and in the jurisdiction of Duke Silverpool. We will build a mansion on the land according the law of our kingdom stated."
"What is the difference?" Alba asked honestly, as she didn't understand the implication of the words choice.
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