[He is very much a grumpy grump, but Viktor is not immune to seeing a dead end of a project when it's staring him right in the face. More tools are required before he can really crack this thing...]

Scavenging what we can would be wise. I can build anything we need with enough raw material and the correct tools. [he can also build the correct tools, given the time and resource- two things they may or may not have. This place isn't exactly giving them much to work with, but he's scrappy.

He's also terminally curious,]

Is this technology common to you? [She seems very familiar with it, where Viktor is piecing together knowledge from fantasy-tech equivalents of Runeterra... though he is the premier authority in those.]