Chapter.9 Star Fall (24)
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Jabak
Jabak Kogok!
Flap, flutter!
“How about it?”
“This… is an approach I’ve never thought of before. Amazing… really amazing!”
When I said, “I found a way to solve the airship’s balance problem,” Roman jumped out of the pile of luggage like a shelter and was now observing the soul jar that was my hand moving around the floor with me.
The soul jar looks like a chicken, as can be seen by the way it pecks at the dirt with its head or the way it curls its little finger and thumb and flaps it.
“Using black magic to extract the soul of an animal and use its senses…”
“Yes! Honestly, I don’t know how black magic works, but I’ve confirmed that the spirit of this cockatrice is keeping the head steady. Wouldn’t it be possible to synchronize this sense and the airship with a magic circuit?”
I don’t know the detailed principles or processes. What matters is the result. Right now, the Death Knight is a monster created by putting the soul of a dead knight into a body prepared by another great warlock, but it wields the aura of dark magic in the same way as when it was alive, right? Even if that cockatrice’s soul enters what used to be my ‘right hand’, is it also the behavior principle engraved in its soul that causes it to behave like a chicken? I thought it might be something like that, so it was quite possible.
“A magic circuit that responds to actions… No. During the delay, you will lose your balance and fall. Synchronization of the senses…. Lifespan of the soul…. Persistence…. When I was studying in the tower, an invited wizard gave a lecture on the form of the soul…. Data. “We need research for clearer data!”
Jump up!
“professor! Come to think of it, there is still one captured cockatrice left!”
“uh? “Isn’t that right?”
“Then you can use it harshly! I’m going to use this!
Hurry!
Roman seemed to have heard my words as permission to blow up the soul jar as an experiment and eat it. As soon as the words left my mouth, Roman grabbed the soul jar and started running.
Tuk!
“Oh my! Hey be careful! This is an expensive craft from a desert country-”
Boom!
“You’re so busy, what are you doing, Roman? hey! “Look ahead!”
After a while, sparks from the magic iron connecting the circuits began to fly among the parts scattered like toys thrown on the floor by a child.
As I was about to get closer and take a look, someone grabbed my collar and stopped me.
“Shh! Just leave that person alone. “If you disturb me when something like that happens, I’ll get really angry!”
“hmm? Who are you?”
“Oh, come this way first!”
The person holding on to the collar was a short girl. A girl wearing top clothes and carrying a small baggage. She grabbed my collar and dragged me to the back of the cart, peeked her head out among the trade goods, and began observing Roman.
“Lucilla Aedran. “Please call me Lucille.”
“I see. Lucille? “Is it possible that he followed his parents to the upper level-”
“He may look small, but he is past working age and is a full-fledged Gold Geyser, recognized by the upper level lord as an official member of the upper level, and has followed the ley line up and down, and is also a gunner for our youngest member, Roman Gachia Menson, a trainee member of the upper level?”
“Uh…”
“There’s no need to be surprised. “Everyone who meets me asks this question, so the answer is just a familiar one.”
A child who answers before I can say anything. No, passing the working age means being an adult in this expression, so even if you look like that, it means you are over nineteen. Anyway, Lucille was a very smart girl. Unlike the merchants who kept a certain distance after seeing my fighting style, Lucilla quickly climbed up the pile of luggage and whispered in a low voice right next to my face.
“You said you were a friend of Roman, right?”
“yes?”
Takkong!
“Aya!”
“Then what should I do if I just leave someone like that while I’m there for them when they’re having a hard time?”
“Until it becomes like that. It looks brighter than when I saw it before-”
Takkong!
“evil! this…!”
“It’s because the so-called hero of the church can’t even read his friend’s mind! How bright is that! “You’re just ‘pretending’ to be bright!”
scolded.
While the girl was struggling with the magic circuit, she glanced at Roman, who was loudly calling for Notum and Aldrich, and began to push me fiercely.
“Roman Gachia Menson! Men-son! Don’t you know what this name means? You’re a noble, you’re a noble! It’s also a name that means he’s from the Menson family, the only wizard family in Roderick! Because such a person has no money, he goes to gambling places and even steals with clumsy skills that he has never done before in his life! It’s natural that something happened in the meantime, right? If you’re a friend, you should find out that much right away! “You said you were my one and only friend!”
“No, not that much with that guy-”
“Just look in the mirror and make excuses like an empty coin pocket! What kind of hero would it be to let such a lonely person wander the streets alone! He was disowned by his family! Not only did he suffer all kinds of humiliation for being a bastard, but he was also told that he was a disgrace to his family because he had no talent for magic and resorted to foolish trapping techniques that only goblins would try!”
“what? What are you talking about. Disowning? “Menson was kicked out of the family?”
This was something I had never heard before, as I had been listening to it thinking it was just a cute young merchant complaining. To my question, ‘What have you been doing the past few days?’ Lucilla, who was looking at me with the same pitiful eyes, pointed to Roman, who was embarrassing the two soul magicians.
“Roman Gachia Menson. The third son of the Menson family. As the illegitimate son of the head of the family, Gachia Menson, and the maid, Odette Soilin, his position within the family was quite weak. Although he realized magical power early on, he was limited to second-tier due to his lack of talent for magic. Gilder Gachia Menson handed Roman over to Isaac Mandalius, a wizard with whom he was acquainted, and through ‘education’ using somewhat experimental methods, Isaac gave Roman the 3rd rank. “We made it possible to use magic that appears hierarchical.”
“Did you… investigate everything?”
“Even if there was permission from the owner of the business, not everyone can accept it. “When I gave him alcohol, he got drunk.”
I didn’t know. I had no idea Roman had such a backstory. In fact, it was also a hero unit where such aspects were not important. Unlike other hero units that need to delicately manage their bonds and maintain relationships, Roman was the easiest hero unit to recruit and only needed to provide research funds. Even after being recruited, the relationship was such that he stayed in the lab and the player went out and only reported the results, so there were no players who paid attention to his situation.
Weeeeeee-
At that time, I heard the sound of the magic circuit vibrating, which had been ringing in my ears every night for the past few days.
“It floated!”
“You are so unwavering! “It’s very stable!”
“It’s a success! Finally! “I succeeded!”
What was different from what I had seen over the past few days was that Roman’s airship was circling leisurely and smoothly in the sky, like an albatross crossing the ocean.
Roman, who was smiling so brightly that his mouth was about to split, looked around and found me and Lucille hiding behind the cart, waving his hand and manipulating the small box in his arms.
Wei Ying –
The model Airship 3, connected to the box with a silver thread, gently flew across the sky and landed in my hand.
“professor! Did you see it! I succeeded! really! “You created an airship!”
Roman’s face is filled with happiness. However, there was sadness in Lucilla’s eyes when she saw him like that.
“Hero, that airship. There will be a nameplate below the figurehead. Would you like to read what it says there?”
Following Lucilla’s words, I looked around the model airship and was able to feel the touch of metal plates on one part of the wooden hull.
“Model airship… No. 723?”
“Hero, do you have a good head? It is absolutely not common for a nobleman, no matter how bastard he is, to be kicked out of his family. Do you know why?”
Sigh –
The professor ran his fingertips over the nameplate of the model airship. Unlike the smooth border, the inside feels very rough. Judging from the fact that gold leaf remains on the border, it must have been a luxurious nameplate with beautiful gold leaf at the time when it was ‘Model Aircraft No. 1’. Unlike the nameplate No. 723, which was erased and re-engraved hundreds of times with a stylus, and the gold leaf was peeled off and became rough.
The collapse of the magic tower. Roman wanders off alone. And Airship No. 723 and the disowned family. The information that came to mind pointed to one fact.
“You went back to your family and received research funding. While making 723 expensive model airships, each containing a handful of small magic stones and empty magic stones. No matter how much material and money the wizard’s family had, there was no way they would have provided that much support to Roman, a bastard. They must have given something in return. “I continued to fail and eventually ran out of support money and was kicked out.”
However, in front of Otman and I, this was introduced as ‘Model Airship No. 3’.
A magical engineer who abandoned the path of water-based magic presented his research results for the first time in front of a friend who had initiated him into the path of water-based magic and an old water-based magician whom he regarded as a teacher at the magic tower. After abandoning everything and rushing in, all that was left in his hands was a toy that failed 723 times and couldn’t fly for even a minute. What was Roman thinking when he cut off the first two letters of 723? Feeling unqualified? shame?
I couldn’t figure it out. Because Roman was smiling the same way back then.
“Hot hot hot! I was wondering what you and Lucilla were talking about! “Were you just talking about that?”
Roman approached me before I knew it, took the model airship from my hand with a confused look on his face, and smiled brightly.
“It’s hard to say something like that…”
“I know! That’s a heavy story! Even now, when I think of my mother, I feel sorry. My mother lived a lonely life, locked in a corner room of the castle all her life, waiting for her father who would never return. I should have treated my country well too. In fact, not only did he give up his inheritance, but he even gave up his right to succession! Even my gentle and weak mother scolded me this time! How are you going to make a living from now on? Hot hot hot hot! “Your brothers really like it!”
Giving up succession rights and inheritance. For him, who lived as the illegitimate son of a useless family, it was the only link that allowed him to remain a member of the Menson family. Instead of receiving research funding, Roman had to abandon all of his faint remaining family connections.
A noble who is kicked out of a family can never set foot in that territory again. Roman, smiling broadly with eyes dripping with longing, will now never see his mother again.
‘Is this what it meant?’
I was able to understand what Lucilla meant by ‘until it becomes like that.’ His smile has increased significantly since the last time I saw him. His personality has become strangely brighter. It was a psychological defense mechanism created by Roman. A person who has experienced a severe shock or loss may say, ‘It’s okay!’ As if encouraging yourself.
He laughed to overcome the frustration and fear that settled in his heart every time he scratched out the numbers on the back of the model airship with a stylus. The smile he used to fight alone against the 723 failures until all the gold foil on the name plate was peeled off has now stuck to his face like skin.
After failing, he lost everything, was kicked out, wandered the streets, and faced a rough life he had never encountered since he was born as a nobleman, but he did not give up. Smiling as if he had lost his mind, he became a gambler, a petty thief, and a person at the top, until he finally reached this point.
“Hey Roman….”
“Ha ha ha ha! Don’t make that face! Hasn’t this happened already? You have to tear off the old scab and look at the wound to see if it gets worse. No need to worry at all! Now take a look!”
Gikkikkikkikkikki! Nope!
Roman took out a stylus from one of the dozens of pockets on his shabby clothes, drew over the scratched and worn name plate as if it represented his life, and then inscribed a new name.
[Prototype Airship No. 1]
“Now what does it say here?”
“….”
“This friend talks as much as me, but why did he become so dumb! hurry! “Read it to me!”
“Prototype Airship No. 1.”
“hahahahahahahaha! Hot hot hot hot! okay! It’s not a model! Although it is small, it can only fly within the influence of the magician connected to this soul steering device! This is not a model, but a proper airship! Success! success! I mean success!!! Hahahahaha! Ha ha ha ha ha! Hot hot hot hot!”
Although he didn’t shed a single tear, the professor felt that the laughter represented all his emotions. Lucilla and Ottman are holding on to the sleeves of his clothes. Even Aldrich and the people at the top who were standing next to him were sniffing at him or turning their heads to look at the sky.
“Hot hot hot hot hot! Ha ha ha ha ha! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
Inventor, a class reserved only for geniuses created by an era.
Roman was not a genius. He just didn’t give up. A person who never gives up despite facing countless setbacks until he or she achieves something that can be called a genius by anyone in the world.
“Hot hot hot hot! Success! In the end, it was a success! I! hahahahahahahaha!!”
Roman Gachia Menson was that kind of person.
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Roman, who was celebrating with the people at the top under the airship circling in the sky as if announcing his birth, suddenly approached me and asked me to tell him his name.
“name! “Tell me your name!”
“name? “What name?”
“Of course, this is the name of this great technology, ‘Soul Balance Control Device Using Black Magic’! Don’t deny it! This is a technology you created, so you should name it! ruler! Even if it was temporary, the first invention is always valuable! “Engrave the name of the device on this empty space!”
“Why burden yourself with names… Just you-”
“Quick!”
I thought about just passing it off, but I couldn’t ignore it because I saw Roman’s eyes shining brightly and looking forward to it. After much deliberation, the professor accepted the magic tool that Roman held out and engraved the name of the device on a box full of magic circuits.
[Chicken Sensor]
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Shit! hey!
– professor: Sorry. That’s the best.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: No, in a world where the world is turned upside down just by imagination, the name of the magical engineering device is Chicken Sensor! Are you scattering ashes on a finished invention?
“Chicken sensor…. Chicken sensor! What a intuitive and good name! Thank you my friend! “Thanks to your chicken sensor, my dream can come true!”
– professor: Look! They say it’s good!
– Nutria Gena: Fuck it’s good. Ask for my inspiration!
– Highway Nacho Man: What kind of chicken is this sensor? Are you a hungry teenager?
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: I wondered why a friend who was so talented couldn’t date until now. It was because I didn’t have as much sense as a dog’s snot!
– takealook: Woooo! Change it! Right Now! Just leave it to the gacha man!
Shit. I thought it was a pretty good name. It’s unfortunate, but since he’s a broadcaster, he can’t ignore public opinion.
“If you change it, won’t it work? If you change it! Hey Roman! Speaking of that chicken sensor, it’s just that…”
Whoa!
Just as I was about to grumble and tell Roman to come up with a name for me, light suddenly began to emanate from Roman’s body. In the soft glow, Roman smiled brightly as he watched the mana of the water-based magic he had once abandoned play between his fingers.
“okay. Now I understand. I had a lack of qualifications for magic. Since I couldn’t keep up with my brothers using magic, I wanted to show my family that I was a useful person by succeeding in magic engineering, a completely different field of study. Why didn’t I know? Magic engineering is also a branch of magic. Magic and magic engineering… these are the two legs that will move humanity forward. Make good use of both without distinguishing between them. That’s magic engineering. “Now… I understand a little bit.”
Tiring-! Tiring tiring tiring tiring!
[Information update: A scene from history! congratulations! You succeeded in making a hugely positive impact on one of the most important moments of our time!]
“Uh… Huh?”
Light suddenly erupted from Roman’s body, and the system beeping started beeping like a slot machine that had hit a jackpot. A scene from history. And that light. That…
“The wizard’s… enlightenment?”
Tiring-!
[Information update: Hero Unit ‘Roman Gachia Menson’ has succeeded in finding his calling and mastering its essence! – A new school of magic, ‘Magic Engineers’, has been launched in the world! The world will be filled with curiosity and sometimes even anger at the appearance of a completely new type of wizard! If you want to grow them, be careful! Currently, there is only one true magic engineer in the world: Roman Gachia Menson!]
[Great invention! We witnessed the birth of ‘Prototype Aircraft’ with ‘Chicken Sensor’! – The unlucky genius who never gave up even in the face of adversity took over your inspiration ‘Chicken Sensor’ and finally succeeded in producing the ‘Prototype Aircraft’. This is an important technological invention that could advance humanity to the next level, and your name will be engraved in history for having had a huge impact on it.””’]
“Uh-uhh! Uhhhhhh!!!”
no way. It was a message I had only heard through rumors, so it was my first time seeing it with my own eyes! no way! No way!!!!
– Noru Drug: The stomach has exploded! Rats! I trusted you, Gacha Man!
– Jokass: Hey! Airship appeared in March World! Ciba Now you can taste machine mulberry at GG!
-GOLDMAN SUCKS: That’s ridiculous! Why does he always fail when I push him like that?
– Holly: You didn’t have a chicken sensor!
– Noroo Drug: Kkkkkkkkkk A high school girl is talking about the richest man in the wasteland kkkkkkk I
checked the chat room to see if I was mistaken, and judging by the fact that he was going crazy both once and twice, it seemed like the message I knew was correct.
– Heungan Mandu: Please just clear it safely, please! I was an Air Force ace! This means that if you put just one blade, at least an airplane, in April World, I can become a ranker!
– Speed Wagon: Please put an embargo on this. I think it’s okay to sell non-process information.
I don’t know, I can’t hear you! I can’t hear anything!
Wow!
“Roman you damn idiot! “You really did it!!!”
“Hot hot hot! Everyone thanks to you – hehehe! Let me go! “Breath, breath!!!”
No, I can’t let you go! You have no idea how big of a deal you have done this time!
“Hahaha! You prevented destruction! Roman! Are you listening! “I heard you saved about 20% of the world!”
“Ugh! Let go! Let go! “I’m going to die like this!”
“Put down the oar, Captain! “People are going to die!”
“I heard it’s true that this guy has bipolar disorder! Notum! “Professor, please do something!”
“Gwook. “A human man bursts out laughing.”
I can’t believe it even when I see it with my own eyes. A notification that is so important that the unfriendly system message emphasizes it strongly.
””’Your name will be engraved in history.””’
This message is the system’s official declaration that the impact of the current events will continue to the next world after clearing!
You may be asking me to make such a fuss about it, but it is significant that this message appeared for the first time during play.
The system is starting to talk about what will lead to the next world. That means that GG’s insanely and horribly accurate system recognized my chances of clearing to some extent.
GG’s system, which throws out all kinds of bad news and causes players to become frustrated, has finally acknowledged that I [Player professor] have taken one step closer to ‘clearing World 3’! This guy can really clear it, right? This means that it has been recognized by the best AI since the birth of Homo sapiens!!!
“Thank you, Roman Gacha Man! Thank you for not giving up! “Thank you!”
“Haha-cough! haha! You are stating the obvious! I am Roman Gachia Menson, a magic engineer! Unlike magic that uses imagery, magic engineering is something that anyone can understand and inherit if they understand mana! The failure of a magic engineer is just a trace left behind for countless generations of students who will follow him! There is no way that frustration would follow an engineer’s failure! under! hahahahahahahaha!”
Roman, who had completely returned to his usual self, said this and picked up the airship that had fallen with all its magic power.
Cheesy!
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if savoring this moment, and lowered the iron without hesitation. Above the spot where the iron passed without hesitation, only the number ‘1’ was shining clearly.
Roman was smiling.
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