Haha you can see Lucian going "Errrr...I'll be standing wayyyy over here,,," in the second panel. ]:)Quite so. On the other hand, in the first panel he looks all... urmm... how to describe it... "I'm so cool and self-assured I don't care and you're boring me". A bit unexpected for me, but it might be another side of our mage's personality that we hadn't seen before.
Wait... if they're thick and safe.. how are they gonna use them? ]:O"Curses! That's the sole reason they never gained market popularity!"
Together with this Batch of cheap airship cores, we're gonna make a Killing!
Oooooh, okay. I guess I missed that then. It's just that Voltar's expression in the last panel here makes me think that something more is up than just not selling off paltry items to these "heros". Perhaps, then, could he be nervous that his ship is about to be diced to pieces by an angry dragon?