EP.237 Uninvited Guest (5)
“Sending outside personnel into the treasury…”
“So?”
“···it’s nothing. I guess I meddled for no reason. There shouldn’t be any problem accompanying the next Mage Tower Lord. very like a whale.”
Resty, who defeated the manager guarding the magic tower’s treasure chest with a cold look, placed his insignia on the door of the treasure chest.
[Confirm access.]
The barrier reacts with the insignia that Resti has.
As the bluish barrier clears and you walk along the exposed passageway… a huge library comes into view.
The central library of the Gray Magic Tower.
That is another name for a treasure trove.
Only the elders and the magic tower owner, the actual rulers of the magic tower, can enter this place, and the history of the gray magic tower is fully contained there.
The first magic tower lord, Armiel.
The current and next Mage Tower owner, Resty Eleanoa.
It is an archive in which the long, long gap between those two names is completely recorded. Among them, the archives were full of confidential documents that should not be leaked.
“This way.”
And, a corner of the library.
“I have collected the research records of the next Mage Tower owner, Raniel Van Trias, separately here.”
The bookshelf looks as if it was newly installed, and is more shiny and shiny than the other bookshelf. The name written there comes into Rania’s field of vision.
『Raniel van Trias』
Rania blinked blankly at the fact that her research records were taking up a corner of the treasure trove.
‘···I guess it’s all unfinished?’
We still don’t know if the research has been completed.
Why are the incomplete and crushed studies taking up a corner of this place?
“I’ll take it out. You said it was an augmented magic engineering experiment, right? “It would be in the seventeenth column…”
Resty, who had climbed the ladder, came down holding a cube the size of a small box.
“Here it is. Are you going to go up and check it out?”
“Just look at it for a moment. for a moment.”
A cube that compresses research data.
When the lock on the cube was unlocked, the documents Rania had written with her own hand floated in the air.
‘As expected, it was just one step short.’
It was just as he expected.
In the past, most of the ‘ancient magic engineering research’ he conducted at the Magic Tower was halted due to failure to solve key problems.
‘There was just one piece missing.’
The driving force at the heart of horse engineering.
It existed in ancient times, but has been lost in modern times.
During my time as the next Mage Tower owner, I was never able to find it. Therefore, all that is written in this research material is the form of the magic engineering core that he had inferred in his head.
“······.”
Recalling the ancient magic engineering core that she discovered while disassembling it, Rania looked at the shape of the core that she had guessed in the past.
‘Really, we’re almost there.’
The shape is quite similar.
Similar, yet a little different.
It’s not wrong, it’s different.
There, Rania realizes the possibility of heading in a different direction. It seems like a new direction has been established. Inspiration was always sudden, and Rania felt she needed to put it into practice right away.
“Lesti.”
Rania held the cube tightly.
The unfolded documents gathered into one point.
“Can I borrow your lab for a moment?”
“···yes?”
“I think I just need to touch up one last area.”
Resty blinked and then nodded.
2.
The top floor of the Gray Magic Tower, the laboratory of the next Magic Tower owner.
When Rania arrived there, she took off her robe and poured out everything she had in her pockets. Resty’s eyes widened as she glanced at her pouring magic tools.
“···uh?”
The form itself is different from the current magic tool.
These are magic tools known to have been made in ancient times. What’s even more surprising is its storage condition.
‘An undamaged ancient magic tool.’
Things that cannot be valued in money.
There are not just one or two such things, but dozens of them. Resty’s pupils shook.
“Well, Professor Rania?”
“huh? why?”
“W-Where on earth do you get this…?”
“A friend gave it to me.”
A friend gave it to you?
Although it was literally just something given to him by a friend, Resty had to sweat hard to understand the true meaning of those words. While Resti’s gaze wavered, Rania picked up one of the spilled magic tools.
Snap!
And then just pull it out.
“uh!”
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An embarrassed Resti made a threatening sound, but Rania tilted her head as if asking what was strange.
“You can just pull it out. What I felt while reassembling this was that ancient magic tools were very durable. “It was made to be assembled and used from the beginning.”
“Well, is that okay?”
“huh. “I’ve disassembled everything here at least once.”
Rania disassembled the magic tool with skillful hands and placed the core core on the table.
“This is the core of an ancient magic tool.”
Rania takes out another magic tool from her arms.
It is not an ancient magic tool, but a magic tool made from modern parts.
“From now on, I will engrave the circuit used in that nucleus here. “In a slightly different direction than that one.”
“…You’re saying it’s engraved, not implanted?”
“The magic tool will work even if it is transplanted, but it is meaningless. “Because that is not the method the Gray Magic Tower pursues.”
Rania said as she put down her magic tool.
“The Gray Magic Tower is a magic tower whose main value is restoring the technology of the ancient kingdom. It’s restoration, not imitation. Restoring it and using it as our technology.”
Rania pointed to the core of the ancient magic tool.
“This, which forms the core of ancient magic tools, is an ore that is now mined only in a place called the Demon World. “It’s not easy to obtain, and even if you do, it will be contaminated.”
It means that there is no point in imitating it.
Because it cannot be mass-produced.
“So, I guess I should use something else.”
Muttering that, Rania separated the magic tool she had assembled. What makes up its core is a bluish magic stone that can be obtained anywhere.
“Recovering ancient technology into something that is commonly available and commercially available in modern times. “That is the direction the Gray Magic Tower pursues.”
she smiled
“is not it?”
“···Yes.”
Resty nodded.
“So from now on, are you going to make that magic stone to act like the core of an ancient magic tool?”
“yes. Have you ever studied magical engineering?”
there was. a lot.
Resty’s main field of research was the restoration of ancient summoning circuits and the creation of magic stone golems, so he had a deep connection with the Department of Magic Engineering.
Resty nodded, and Rania pointed to the magic tool as if everything went well.
“Then will you assist me?”
“Me?”
“huh. You have good eyes. “I will do the engraving, but if the flow is strange or in the wrong direction, it would be nice if you could point it out.”
“Okay,” Rania snaps her fingers.
The spread out flow of mana powers the devices placed in the laboratory. The devices begin to operate one by one, making a keying sound.
Hehehe.
Fix the blue magic stone to the device.
Next to it, the ancient magic engineering core is fixed.
“It begins.”
She rolls up her sleeves and holds an awl for engraving.
Horse engineering is a job that requires extremely detailed work. Even the smallest mistake can lead to a huge malfunction, so you have to put a lot of effort into it…
Tick, tidididik.
Rania’s hand movements are unstoppable.
She dots and draws lines without hesitation. It wasn’t something she had done once or twice. Resty swallowed her dry saliva and narrowed her eyes.
A platinum-colored ring of light appears in my eyes.
The Watcher’s vision, which reads the context, accurately reads the imprint engraved on the blue magic stone. And, Resty realizes.
‘a little bit different.’
It’s not just about moving it.
There is a clear difference between the engraving on the core of an ancient magic tool and the engraving that Rania currently engraves on the blue magic stone. However, it is not wrong.
It’s not the wrong direction.
Modifications are being made to the circuit to suit the current magic engineering system, which is different from the ancient one.
That fact surprised Resti.
‘···It must be an incredibly difficult task.’
While general spell circuits work on a flat surface, magic engineering circuits require ‘three-dimensional’ work.
This is true even for the simplest cubic magic tools.
Where surface meets surface, the circuit has a three-dimensional connection point. It is difficult to engrave on a surface, but if it is the core that is the center of it… the engraving is difficult to say.
‘however.’
Transformations are being made and circuits are being engraved.
And that too instantly.
It was truly a miraculous act.
Although Resty’s depth of knowledge in magical engineering is less than Rania’s, her Watcher talent allows her to see the same vision as Rania.
“···ah.”
The scenery I got to see was amazing.
Under a series of surprises, Resty does not forget what Rania asked him to do.
“5 of 7 lines.”
Coordinates marked on the magic tool by the experimental device.
Resty said the coordinates where the error occurred.
“I don’t think the circuit you pictured there connects properly with this line here.”
Resty said, pointing to the side of the magic tool that Rania had disassembled. Although it is a very small error, it is a large error that will appear when assembled and operated.
“Well, definitely.”
Rania separates the fixed magic stone.
After fastening the new blue magic stone to the device, Rania started working again.
······The reason why machining work requires a significant amount of work time is because it is difficult to detect errors before assembly and because the engraving work itself is difficult to speed up.
I don’t know where the problem occurred or which part needs to be re-engraved. It takes an enormous amount of time to re-engrave.
Therefore, magical engineering research is difficult.
It takes a long time.
“6 of 8 lines.”
“check.”
“3 of 4 lines.”
“I fixed it. “If we do this, we’ll be able to connect, right?”
“Yes, and the 5th degree of the 3rd line…”
However, the case of Rania and Resti is different.
Rania draws circuits without hesitation. In no time she catches up with the progress of the circuit she had previously carved. Resty immediately points out any errors that occurred during the engraving process.
Time is shortened.
The work of the two is seamless.
It was daylight when we arrived at the lab, but it was deep into the night when Rania’s hand stopped. Rania took a quick breath and put down her awl.
“Do you think it’s finished?”
“Yes, I don’t think there are any errors.”
Resty closes and opens his watery eyes a few times.
Rania placed the bluish magic stone in the center of the magic tool and reassembled the disassembled magic tool.
Keying.
The magic tool works.
The circuit engraved in the magic stone reacts simultaneously with the circuits on all sides, circulating magic power smoothly. It is perfect without any errors.
“I don’t think there’s any problem.”
The core of the ancient magic tool was not used.
They succeeded in recovering ancient technology using only materials that are commonly available today. It was truly a feat that could be called a feat.
Resty looked at the magic tool with his wet eyes wide open, feeling proud for some reason.
Although I didn’t write it myself, it helped me too. Resty is happy about that fact.
Although she didn’t know it, it was a common study with the gray wizard whom she was sometimes jealous of and sometimes admired. The magic tool created by the previous generation and the current next magic tower lord gave off a soft blue light.
“Good job, Resty.”
Rania lifted the magic tool.
“I think we should publish this under our joint name at the magic banquet.”
“yes? “I only caught the error…”
“I caught the error and gave advice. “If it weren’t for you, I don’t know if it would have ended in a month.”
She smiled and tapped Resty’s head with the back of her hand.
“thank you. “It was very helpful.”
With those words left behind, Rania began to organize the magic tools scattered on the table. Resty smiled slightly while touching Rania’s bangs where the back of her hand had touched.
“I’ll help you clean up after me too, Professor.”
3.
As daily life repeats itself, the night of the wizards is just a few days away. Aplia has also decided to have a short vacation of about a week to coincide with the festival period.
This was partly because some professors had to participate in the Magic Banquet, and it was Dean Aaron’s decision who believed that touring the Wizards’ Night itself would be helpful to the students.
“This is the end of today’s class.”
Is that why?
The students seem a little excited.
“Professor Rania! “Professor, are you planning on stopping by somewhere during Wizards’ Night?”
When class ended, several students came up to the podium and asked me questions. It was a place to visit on a wizard’s night, so I thought for a moment before opening my mouth.
“I don’t think I’ll stop by anywhere else. “I think I’ll be busy in many ways at that time.”
“yes? Are you busy? Ah, are you participating in the fair held on the side of the Gray Magic Tower?”
“I am not a member of the Gray Magic Tower, so I will not participate. “I want to go see it, but there’s something else I need to participate in.”
There is a place to participate.
At those words, not only the students on the podium but also the students sitting in their seats looked at me. Facing those curious gazes, I reluctantly opened my mouth.
“I got to participate in the magic banquet.”
“···yes? “Magic banquet?”
Amid the barrage of questions, I called out two students who were sitting in their seats and answered appropriately.
“Ayla, student Chloe.”
I said to the two people.
“Please come to Mana’s trading professor’s office after the next class.”
Ayla became independent from the stars.
Chloe has gained some ground and has risen to the level of taking the same classes as other students.
‘Now might be the right time.’
There was a need to get those two back on track in earnest. It would be after the Wizards’ Night ended… but there was a need to announce it in advance.
“then···.”
I guess I’m done with my delivery. It’s the moment when I’m about to leave the classroom.
Drurk, thak!
The door to the classroom opened roughly.
I didn’t open it, nor did another student open it. Standing beyond the open door is a man I have never seen in Aplia.
bluish hair.
And, vertically torn golden pupils.
My eyes opened wide.
It looks like he’s camouflaged, but there’s no way I wouldn’t recognize those eyes. This is the moment when I try to capture the name of the man standing in front of me.
“oh. “We finally met.”
The man let out a brief exclamation and bowed.
Eventually, he lifted my hand and lowered his head to kiss the back of my hand.
For a moment, my mind went blank.
While I had goosebumps all over my body, the man slightly raised his head and spoke to me in a whisper-like voice.
“To the beautiful lady…”
and.
“What the f*ck…”
What came to mind was a very purified expression, “Are you crazy?”, but I was so embarrassed that the words came out of my mouth without going through the purifying organ.
“Are you crazy?”
I cracked a man’s joint.
I feel regretful that I wore flat shoes instead of military boots.
“Ugh!”
Bah!
Screaming, the man bent his knees.
Knowing that this was all a terrible death, I looked at President Aaron, who was standing restlessly behind the man, and opened my mouth.
“What is this guy doing? President?”
I know who it is.
However, it was necessary to deliberately pretend not to know.
“Huh, huh!”
While the president’s complexion turned pale, I glared at the man lying at my feet.
A being that wizards regard as a god.
A magician from the beginning who first made a contract with the stars and lived a full life for tens of thousands of years.
‘Jormun van Dragonic.’
A being called the Elder Dragon Wizard.
“As expected, she is as spicy as the rumor said…”
Even while he was falling down, he was talking crazy. As I lost consciousness, I felt that all the respect I had for the wizard in front of me evaporated in an instant.
“You senile little lizard.”
indeed.
What the Great Sage said was right.
