Something only in fantasy books - that resonates as something he's heard from other Summoned over the years and Claude smiles faintly. No matter how many times he hears it it never stops amusing him; it amuses him even more so when there's so many things he's been told from other worlds about their advancements and what life is like that he could say the same about so many things in return. Here, at least, it sounds like there's absolutely a(n unfortunate) shared thread of limiting things to those in power or close to it feel should be limited to only those they deem worthy. That gets a shake of his head since challenge sounds about like the right way to describe it.

"You and I share wanting to bring some of this back with us if we can since the world I come from could make good use of even just a tenth of what's available here. The Free Cities were who brought me here and there's more of a focus on technology than magic but so much would be of use if the nations at home could use it to make a difference for those who need it most." Everyone, preferably, if there'll be a chance for him to get his way on that when becoming king to make it so. A push towards equity for more than the nobles would do much - to say the least.

"For what it's worth, I've often found challenges make for a better understanding of something. For what I've been through, anyway, since it made me all the tougher for it." In good and bad ways, but that's perhaps a bit too much to go into upon just meeting someone and perhaps it goes unsaid as a fact of anyone going through something difficult as it is. It's with that latter thought in mind regarding meetings that Claude realizes something important to add as he sits up a little straighter in his lean against the table behind him. "I'm Claude, by the way. It's nice to meet you."