Chapter 325: Offering Terms

Chapter 325: Offering Terms

"You may not need me in order to seize Airgead Mountain," Isabell admitted smoothly, refusing to back down in front of this young lord’s ire. When hadn’t she seen men blustering that a woman couldn’t be an engineer, couldn’t study the art of warfare, or couldn’t do any number of things she had already done? If she lost her temper every time some entitled man got his testicles in a twist, she’d never have secured her position as master of her guild.

"But you do need someone to help you keep it," she said, gesturing for the assembled masters to relax and waving a servant forward. Slowly, as if she was in no particular hurry and felt no pressure from Owain or his knights, she took a large, rolled-up piece of parchment from the servant before spreading it across the table. "This is a simple design for a mining fortress," she said, explaining the sketches on the parchment. "It can be built quickly using materials that are available so long as you bring enough laborers to clear trees and construct the earthworks."

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