Although Erin seemed a little confused as to why her father did what he did, Russell could totally understand why her father did what he did.
Joining the military is no game!
Even for an army like the Nova Corps, and Erin's father is the current Centurion Director of the Nova Corps, joining the army is not an easy task.
With the help of Erin's father, Erin can indeed get more opportunities than others in the Nova Corps.
But never forget that any civilized army is an armed organization.
The nature of the army will not change significantly due to cultural differences.
In such an armed organization, even if there are so-called hidden rules and background influences, there is one thing that cannot be avoided, and that is its own strength.
To put it bluntly, even if Eileen's father is the current Centurion Director, if Eileen's own abilities are not up to par, her father will not be able to promote her even if he wants to.
In the military, if individuals are promoted forcibly if their abilities are not up to standard, it is very easy for their subordinates to not obey orders at all.
In more serious cases, he may even be directly deprived of power and become an officer in name only.
In addition, there is another very important point.
Erin is an only child!
Comparing his feelings, if Russell were Irene's father, he would never let Irene join the army.
There are many ways to inherit the power of your father's generation. It does not mean that you must follow the same path as your father's generation in order to inherit the power of your father's generation.
"Then when will you start teaching me?"
After hearing Russell's answer, Irene immediately came up and took Russell's right arm with excitement on her face. Kazilan looked at him with shining eyes.
"Even if I want to teach you, it's not now."
"Besides, you still have many things to prepare before learning magic. It doesn't mean that you can learn it if you want to."
Feeling the softness coming from his right arm, Russell said calmly.
"What preparations should I make?"
Erin then asked.
"Well... this is not a good place to talk about these things. If you want to know, I will tell you slowly when I get back."
Russell is not going to tell Eileen here what preparations are needed to become a mage apprentice.
Apart from anything else, there was still a sculpture-like motionless bodyguard standing in front of them.
"Uh-huh!"
Eileen did not continue to ask further questions and answered quickly.
After answering Russell, Erin looked at the sculpture-like bodyguard and the bodyguard behind who was on the phone to contact the housekeeper.
Although she didn't speak now, Russell immediately understood what she meant.
Without Erin's reminder, Russell once again used magic to completely imprison the bodyguard who was on the phone behind him.
"Okay, done, let's go!"
Russell said to Erin.
"Uh-huh!"
Although her bodyguards have now lost their ability to move, Erin is not worried about her own safety.
If she would be worried about this, she wouldn't take the initiative to invite Russell to stay at her house.
As for whether there would be any problems with the two bodyguards, this was not within her consideration.
Although Irene is not the kind of coquettish person, she can be regarded as a famous second-generation military member in Xandar.
Even though she usually behaves very considerately, she still has some subconscious thoughts in her heart that don't take ordinary people into consideration.
Besides, this is Nova City, the capital of Xandar.
The public security of Nova City is second, if not first, among the cities on Xandar.
Moreover, those two bodyguards were not real bodyguards, but active soldiers of the Nova Corps with military ranks.
Even if they lose the ability to move now and can only stand motionless like sculptures, there is no need to worry about any accidents happening to them.
Not long after, Erin brought Russell to her luxury car.
After seeing the driver get out of the car and open the door for her, she said to the driver: "You have nothing to do here, you go back first."
"Miss, are you planning to drive back by yourself?"
the driver asked quickly.
"No, Russell will drive me home."
After answering the driver, Erin turned to Russell and asked, "Can you drive?"
"Of course, and my driving skills are pretty good."
Russell said with a smile.
Although he has never driven a hover car like the one on Xandar, he can tell by just looking at the settings of the driver's seat that the hover car is similar to the vehicles on Earth.
Even if there are differences, with his current learning ability, he can learn it immediately.
As for the fact that he does not have a Xandar Star driver's license now, this is not within the scope of his consideration at all.
"Then you'll be driving."
Erin said with a smile on her face.
After saying that, he walked straight to the passenger seat, opened the door and got in.
After seeing Erin's actions, Russell did not hesitate, opened the driver's door and got into the car.
After looking at the steering wheel and various buttons and instruments in the car, he quickly determined the way to drive the hover car.
Under Eileen's watchful eyes, he successfully started the vehicle and held the steering wheel that was somewhat different from the steering wheel of a car on Earth.
After Erin set the navigation route, he stepped on the accelerator decisively and drove towards Erin's home.
In the same big city, the traffic environment in Nova City is obviously much better than that in New York.
Of course, this also has something to do with Xandar's cars being able to fly.
Although Xandar Star's hover car cannot fly at high altitudes like airplanes, even so, after breaking away from the constraints of the ground, the traffic environment in Nova City is not generally good.
Coupled with the artificial intelligence included in each hover vehicle, there is no need to worry about buildings or other hover vehicles being mounted on while driving.
In fact, with the technological level of Xandar, it is completely possible to achieve driverless driving.
However, Xandar Star's luxury suspension vehicles basically still retain manual driving.
There is no other reason. When most people can only use driverless driving, having a dedicated driver for manual driving has become a symbol of status.
After all, raising a dedicated driver is much more expensive than updating on-board artificial intelligence.
Not long after, Russell and Erin arrived at their destination in only about twenty minutes.
Erin's luxurious residence is not located in the city center, but in the famous wealthy area of Xinxing City.
Compared with the city center, not only is the green environment better and there are fewer pedestrians, but it is also quieter.
Parking the hover car in front of and behind the villa gate, Russell and Irene got out of the car and entered the villa.
As soon as he entered the villa, Russell discovered the biggest difference between the rich people's villas on Xandar and the rich people's villas on Earth.
Artificial Intelligence Butler!
The wealthy people's villas on Xandar Star, without exception, are all equipped with artificial intelligence butlers, and they are not the conventional versions that ordinary people can use, but privately customized versions.
On Earth, apart from Russell, who owns Number 3, only Tony can deploy artificial intelligence where he lives.
On Xandar, not to mention the rich, even ordinary people have artificial intelligence at home.
This is the gap in technology!
After seeing Russell looking at her place, Irene said quickly: "Don't get me wrong. I'm not the kind of person who will take a man home casually. You are the first one."
After hearing what Irene said, Russell smiled and said: "I didn't say you were the kind of person who would take a man home casually. Why are you so nervous?"
Although he knew why Eileen suddenly said such a sentence, after seeing Eileen's pretty face that turned crimson due to alcohol, Russell couldn't help but have the idea of teasing her.
Ever since he became a heavenly father-level god, or in other words, ever since he became well-known on earth, he has rarely experienced the feeling of being able to joke with a woman he just met.
Because he is too famous, those women will inevitably feel some pressure when facing him.
Although he can change his appearance and pretend to be someone else to deal with these women.
But pretending to be someone else and doing it is always a little less satisfying.
So on earth, apart from joking in front of Diana Gwen and others, he couldn't do this in front of other women.
Because even if he was joking, those women would involuntarily think about whether he had any underlying meaning.
But once you have this kind of intellectual guessing and thinking, communication becomes meaningless.
After coming to the living room and sitting down, Erin originally planned to go to the wine cabinet to get some wine.
However, the moment she stood up, she changed her focus.
She did not go to the wine cabinet to get wine, but took out tea leaves and tea sets and made tea for Russell.
I have to say that when Irene started making tea, she showed an obvious ladylike temperament.
Russell didn't know whether the Xandarians had the habit of drinking tea, but judging from Irene's actions, the Xandarians should also drink tea.
Because when Irene makes tea, there is a very obvious and seemingly meaningless process.
And this means that tea culture also exists on Xandar.
After making a cup of tea for Russell and herself in a gentle and virtuous manner, Irene handed one of the cups to Russell.
Then, he sat down opposite Russell very obediently and said to Russell: "I haven't made tea for a long time. I don't know if my skills have deteriorated."
After hearing Irene's words, Russell gently blew on the steaming tea soup.
Then, he took a sip.
“It tastes pretty good!”
Russell gave his own opinion.
Although the tea on Xandar is not the same variety as the tea on Earth, the tea on Xandar tastes pretty good.
He could even tolerate Gu Yi's heretical practice of adding honey to tea, let alone tea from Xandar.
After hearing Russell's answer, Erin finally took a breath, picked up the teacup in front of her, and took a sip.
Then, she asked Russell: "You just said that I still have a lot of things to prepare before learning magic."
"Now that I'm back, you should be able to tell me what exactly I have to prepare, right?"
After learning that Russell could do magic, Erin, who had grown up in a technological civilization since she was a child, immediately developed a strong interest in magic.
Although there are no so-called mages on Xandar, as a famous interstellar civilization in the universe, Xandar also has some investigation and understanding of magic.
The most typical one is Asgard, which also belongs to the interstellar civilization, but does not follow the path of technological civilization.
"Before answering your question, I want to ask you a question."
"In your opinion, what kind of existence do you think a mage is?"
Russell asked Erin.
"What kind of existence is a mage?"
After hearing Russell's inquiry, Irene frowned slightly.
However, she quickly gave her answer.
"Although I don't know what abilities a mage has, in my opinion, a mage is almost like a scientist."
"It's just that scientists have scientific knowledge, while mages have magical knowledge."
"Scientists can use their scientific knowledge to create various weapons, and mages can also use their magical knowledge to perform various magics."
"Although the expressions are different, they should all be the use of some existing rules."
Russell didn't have much expectations for Irene's answer.
But after hearing Eileen's answer, his eyes lit up.
A person who grew up in a technological civilization did not regard magic as a heresy, but regarded it as another form of utilizing the rules of the world.
Although this is just a very crude understanding, it is already very difficult for Erin to have such an understanding.
If it were someone else, even if they had seen him perform magic, they might still say that magic was an area that science had not yet touched and studied.
From a scientific point of view, this statement is not wrong.
But from a magic point of view, this statement is more than a little wrong.
Science is indeed a means of studying the world, but the problem is that the area where magic is located is not within the reach of science.
This is no longer a problem that Xia Chong cannot speak ice, but that the two are not in the same dimension at all.
After seeing Russell's current expression, Erin continued: "I have never been exposed to magic before, so this is just what I said casually, and I don't know if it is right."
"No, it's not a matter of right or wrong."
"It's a good thing that you have such an idea. At least you won't think that magic is an area that science has not yet studied."
"In words you can understand, magic is indeed the use of certain rules."
"Although this is not a rule within the scope of science, magic also needs to follow certain rules."
"As for what preparations you need to make before learning magic, I can tell you now."
"Similar to learning other knowledge, if you want to learn magic, you must have a pretty good brain."
"In addition, if you want to learn magic, you must also have the potential to awaken magic power."
"If you can't awaken your magic power, no matter how much magic knowledge you have, you won't be able to become a true mage."
Russell looked at Erin and said seriously.
"Then how do I know if I have the potential to awaken magic?"
Erin asked again.
"This is very simple, just let me check it for you."
Russell's expression became extremely serious.
