Chapter 587
Episode 152. Quaul Ganesto (2)
Quaul reflexively reached for the machine, and Jin tilted his head, lightly dodging the touch.
“You shouldn’t try to steal other people’s stuff like that.”
“Why is that yours!?”
“Because I got it from Zipple.”
“under! Zipple, you bastards! Did you take it from me?”
“You say it as if there is a reason why this must be in Zipple.”
It was Quaul who had reacted violently throughout, but the fact that his face was red and blue as if it was about to explode was really angry.
Even his eyes became congested in an instant, and his hands and feet were trembling.
“this… … These motherf*ckers! How dare you deceive this body… … !?”
“Did Zipple trick you?”
Jin’s brow narrowed. I’ll have to listen to the story first, but it was unconditionally advantageous for him to have a crush on Zipple.
“It’s not Zipple, it’s mine!”
“Once again, you learn a lesson about being good at keeping things.”
“Give it back.”
“You probably don’t think that Runkandel is a family that spits out the things they have won with just one word.”
It wasn’t just to raise Quaul’s medicine.
Mechs and ship plans. How many sacrifices did he have to make in Sota Desert to obtain those two items? It was acquired through the death of Jane the Black Knight.
It was to the point of distaste for Qaul to dare to claim ownership of things in front of him.
The utility value of the character of Kwaul is not easily imagined, so he just did not reveal his intention to kill. If he had been someone else, he would have been immediately charged with guilt.
“Okay, I admit it. Instead, I’d like you to tell me where and how you got it.”
“Why should I?”
“You said you wanted my ability?”
“That’s a different matter. If you want to hear the background, this time you tell me something that appeals to me.”
Quaul gritted his teeth. In an instant, the initiative passed.
He had never had the initiative taken away like this before.
The people in power who happened to know about their abilities, including Zipple, usually used meaningless threats and placations, and eventually only made farts.
As long as he had the ability as an engineer, Quaul was always ‘A’. Except for this moment, he certainly was.
‘It seems that these things were more precious to Quawl than I expected.’
Jin’s idea that there would be a desire as an engineer to complete a masterpiece was exactly right.
Therefore, the acquisition is no different from the fact that it is already half-finished.
What remained was the question of how cooperative he was.
“… … Gene Runkandel, you said it was a teleportation device, right? That item is not a teleportation tool, but a tool for super-speed summoning. It is completely different from teleportation.”
“What difference does it make?”
“Teleportation is subject to climatic limitations, as is the case with transit gateways, but the device does not have that, and can transcend time and space.”
That’s why the name of the device was not teleportation, but ‘space-time device’.
Jin couldn’t help but open his eyes at Quaul’s answer.
‘If only I could transcend time and space.’
Perhaps, it was a technique that could bring the brothers from Lapla Rosa.
Of course, I couldn’t completely trust Quaul’s words. It could have been just an absurd story, but it could have been an expanded interpretation to have hope.
However, the space-time device was also an impossible technology not long ago. Jin had never heard of such a technology even in his previous life.
“Is that all?”
“Yes. For now. Now it is your turn to answer.”
“It feels like there is a push and pull between lovers. The item was obtained from Sota Desert. I got both the mechanical device and blueprints from the warehouse in the 2nd Mage Tower. It’s even weirder that I didn’t know that. Were you not working at Zipline at the time of the Sota Desert incident?”
“Hmph, was that the reason I suppressed my murderous intent as soon as I claimed ownership? You must have made a lot of sacrifices.”
“It’s not boneless, but it’s strange that you read that.”
“I apologize for that. The device obviously belongs to you.”
This time, I liked Jindo Quaul’s attitude. It’s true that he’s somewhat angular and eccentric, but at least I thought he wasn’t a human who didn’t know the basics.
For a while, the two of them were silently organizing their thoughts.
It was Quaul who spoke first.
“And here’s something you misunderstood, to be precise, the thing wasn’t made by me.”
Jin had no choice but to accept Quaul’s words as lies.
The fact that Quaul was the creator of the machine and blueprints was already revealed by Valeria’s record magic.
“Then who made it?”
“Loki.”
“what?”
“Rokia Ganesto. The mechanism was not made by me, but by my distant ancestors. The space-time device I created through it is nothing more than an attempt to restore objects from that era.”
If what Quaul said is true, then the space-time device was created a thousand years ago.
Runkandel and Zipple from a thousand years ago possessed much greater power than they do now, and it was possible just by looking at the fact that relics called Masterpieces were often found with far superior performance than advanced technology.
It is not at all inexplicable that the creator, who was revealed by record magic, was Quaul. Since he improved an already existing object, he could also be seen as a maker.
Above all, the historical fabrication of the teenage knights, including Rokia Ganesto, has only faded a little, but it is still working.
“Is the blueprint also made by Rokia Ganesto, not you?”
“If the blueprints you have are in paper form, I made them. But even that was restored through relics left by my ancestors. Like the space-time device, it is clumsy compared to the original that would have existed a thousand years ago.”
It was the first information I had heard.
Jin pretended to know that the original was in the form of a stone slab, but kept quiet, but Kwaul burst into laughter.
“No matter how much you flew and crawled, you wouldn’t have even stolen that. It’s an item in the 1st Mage Tower, the Tower of Stories.”
“Are the blueprints and originals originally yours?”
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“No, that would have been nice. It had belonged to Zipple for a long time. It’s different from the parts I always had in my arms until I started researching.”
“I was told by my informant that construction began in 1775 on the blueprints and 1780 on the parts.”
“You have a great informant. But it’s such a strange thing. As far as I know when my research started, there are only Kelliac, Kadun, and Octavia in Zipple… … .”
Quawl narrowed his eyes as if he guessed something.
“I get it now. Your supposed informant, a survivor of Hester? record magic. Otherwise, it’s information you’d never know. Unless Kelliac Ziple gave it to you!”
Jin didn’t answer and looked at Quaul’s mood. There seemed to be some longing burning in his dark eyes.
“Besides, my real name. That doesn’t even make the assumption that Kelliac can tell. Unless it’s record magic, you’ll never know. You must have identified the device through a record spell. You will have seen the surname Ganesto there.”
The fact that there are survivors of Hester has been known among the great powers for a long time. And the fact that she is with Jin is a state in which both the two families have recently noticed to some extent.
It was perhaps natural for Quawl to make such an analogy.
“Are you going to say it’s an elixir?”
“I guess it depends on what the basis for your thinking is.”
“I have lived under the name Tingenbauer all my life. It was only recently that I learned of my real name, Quaul Ganesto. After the world turns to chaos. If it’s not record magic, what on earth can figure it out?”
It was only about a month ago that there was a problem with the manipulation of history in the name of ‘Ganesto’. The weakening of Zifle’s power caused by Gleec was causing a butterfly effect between Jin and Quaul.
And neither Jin nor Quaul know.
This isn’t the first time Zipple’s manipulation of history has gone wrong.
Even around the time that Quawl was born, and during the lives of his other ancestors, there were moments when manipulation weakened.
In particular, Ganestoga’s fabrication of history was often problematic.
“It’s a shame you didn’t know that Kelliac didn’t know your name either. Yes, the survivors of Hester are with me.”
It was not a situation to keep hiding. Jin continued to watch the longing formed in Kwaul’s eyes.
Quaul is a descendant of Lokia Ganesto, and is the world’s foremost engineer. And what he most wanted was not wealth, power, or personal success, but the restoration and completion of technology.
If so, record magic that only Hester can use was an ability that Quaul needed more than anything else.
“The conditions I was going to talk about in order to leave the cabin were originally these. First, you must own the machine. And the second is to recruit a person who can use record magic and make him my assistant. So, I didn’t expect anything from you. Both seemed impossible.”
Chiik, said Kwaul, lighting a cigarette.
“The first condition has already been met, and the second condition must have depended on how close you are to the record wizard. Would that be possible?”
“I think it’s possible if you’re an assistant, not an assistant.”
“Well, the issue of the name doesn’t matter anyway. Anyway, if you check this body’s ability, it will think of itself as an assistant.”
I thought that Valeria would never do that, but Jin nodded.
Rather, Jin was drawing a picture of Quaul claiming to be Valeria’s assistant.
Quaul held out his hand to Jin.
“There will be no greater luck than having me in your life, your family, and your entire faction.”
Jin responded by holding his hand.
“I will serve you with all my heart.”
“What else do you mean on your own?”
“It means that you are welcome to join the Barmal Union.”
Quawl showed his temper, saying that he did not belong yet, but Jin overpowered him lightly and threw him into Mort’s mouth.
