Chapter intermission 3
Satou's here . In this world, there are people who are puzzled to hear that doing research needs money . Do they think that you can research things with just a pen and paper?
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"Satou speaking . I've collected the void sky's probe . "
『Saze of Beriunan Clan speaking . Is it possible to reuse the probe?』
"Yes, the Ether Drive is just dented, the Mana Accumulator Branch is fine . "
While having a long distance talk with no lag with the high elf of Beriunan Clan through [World Phone] magic, I repair the void sky probe .
This void sky probe has been deployed by Beriunan Clan's initiative in order to investigate the jellyfish's nest .
I was asked to investigate probes whose communication had been cut, and then I found one of them stuck between the inner and outer planetary debris when I searched with Flash Drive and visual-based Unit Arrangement .
Since I've come this far, I might as well create several space houses with earth magic from several debris and put carved seals for teleport magic inside .
Next I shot the debris toward the deep space, each with different velocity while only leaving one here .
Now I don't need to repeat visual-based Unit Arrangement to go around .
After finishing the extra work, I replenish the void sky's probe magic power and put it back to its planned course .
"Satou speaking . The void sky probe has departed . I've checked the beacon deployment, so you should be able to receive the signal by tomorrow . "
『Thanks Satou . Come to Beriunan Forest after this, we'll have a party to show our gratitude . 』
"Thank you, Saze-sama . "
It seems the research about preserved food is currently getting popular amongst the elves of Beriunan Clan so I'd like to bring Echigoya Firm's new products and talk about various research .
According to the info from the map, there are a lot of large debris on the brink of the current map, so I'm going there to see .
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"Ooh, it's a mountain of treasures . "
There's a lot of rock debris, but around 30% have iron mixed within . There's even pure iron lumps among them .
Inquiring the map, a lot are alloys, but I also found marble blocks and gold lump .
It's as if they were discarded into the space on purpose .
I was slightly suspicious, but since they're undoubtedly useful, I put the debris I found en route into my Storage .
Every one of them is as big as a small island, so it's quite a profit even if they were all just iron .
--Crisis perception .
"Geh, aren't these radioactive material . "
I erase the radioactive material with space magic [Space Disintegrate] while being surprised with the information on the AR .
Even though it's usable even in time of peace, there's no need for nuclear substance in a fantasy world .
Corpse said that, [Gods used their miracle to turn every radioactive material into lead], but it seems it didn't reach the void sky .
And anyway, when the time comes for me to need it, I can just use space magic or force magic to create nuclear fusion magic .
Further, even though there are cosmic ray in the void sky, there's no problem as long as I use [Astro Suit] magic since the density is low .
I found an especially big lump of iron when I was loitering around the group of debris .
It's shaped like a sword, but there's no way you can swing such a huge sword like this . There's no point to it unless the opponent is as big as the moon .
When I tried to put it into my storage, I was able to without problem . Looks like my storage's size really is infinite .
I thought of using the iron as a base for the floating continent, but it's too big .
I want something a bit smaller . Thinking the damage possibility if it crashed, perhaps I should make it a floating island instead of continent .
The candidates increased when I lowered the size I wanted .
I found a huge crystal of hard quartz so I put it into the list of candidates .
I also found lumps of corundum and topaz which were even harder, but since they were only as big as the solitary island palace, I wrote them off the list .
Let's make a floating island using this as the base .
The solitary island palace is better as our base camp, but I couldn't resist the appeal of floating island .
Due to my pondering, I forgot to consider the danger in the void sky .
Without realizing it, I had crossed the map and entered the next map .
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"Woooo"
'Zuin, zuin', metal-like sounds reached my ears who was protected by [Astro Suit] magic .
The barrier created by the automatic defensive item repelled some silver spears .
The spears look like spear squids .
Apparently, I was attacked by mysterious creatures in the vein of the jellyfish .
They're accelerating in the void sky while leaving red light behind on their paths .
The spear squids which failed its attack disappear into a huge black body I could see in the distant . It's huge enough to be an asteroid .
I did not chase them carelessly and collected information with [All Map Information] .
It seems the ones in this are are only 100 of the [Spear Squids] like the ones earlier and the black body ahead .
That's right, that black body is also a mysterious creature read as [Unconfirmed Object] .
The [White Ball Space Kaijuu] and [Dark Grey Space Kaijuu] I saw back then were also [Unconfirmed Objects] weren't they .
When I got a certain distance closer, the black body spread itself .
At first it looked like a black starfish, but then its eight tentacles stretched toward me .
--It's a Black Octopus Space Kaijuu!
The tentacles whose tips are divided into small string-shaped things stretched .
The thin strings on the tips look like feathers, but I know that each one of them is as big as a skyscraper .
--Huge .
The diameter of the main body alone might be around 100 kilometers .
No no, that's way too big .
Even the moon is only around 3500 kilometers in diameter .
What's up with its astronomical size .
Even the biggest one yet, the dark gray space Kaijuu's diameter was only about 3 kilometers . . . .
However, it'll be bad if this thing comes to the planet orbit .
I take out an Orichalcum wand and use a forbidden spell suited for long-distance attack .
--Divine Banishing Laser .
The light of the forbidden spell that's been said to cut a continent burns the void sky .
The spear squids that were trying to make a surprise attack on me from behind the tentacles were evaporated in an instant .
When I had cut two of its huge tentacles, it dealt with the laser quickly .
Jet black spheres that are floating around the other tentacles and the main body curved the laser that should have flown straight and absorbed it .
Don't tell me, are those black things black holes?
The octopus that should have been 60 kilometers away got close to me in a straight line like dropped frames .
I managed to escape since I reflexively used Unit Arrangement, but its acceleration is odd .
. . . . Come to think of it the White Ball Space Kaijuu also accelerated like this eh .
The octopus suddenly accelerated again without taking a breather .
Would love to have this inertia-canceling acceleration to be more moderate .
I tried looking for points of attack using advanced light magic [Photon Laser] which only consumed a little magic power, but unfortunately it ended in vain .
It seems the main black body surface can also absorb magic power like the jet black spheres as the [Photon Laser]'s composition loosened when it hit it .
With the help of [Parallel Thought (Thread Think)], I keep thinking while keeping a distance away from the octopus .
There were too many notices from Crisis Perception it's blocking my thought, so I temporarily put them into the log .
Since the combination attacks of the octopus and the spear squids were too annoying, I created a void sky artificial spirit Full Burnern 4 to play with them .
It's the artificial spirit I remodeled from Beriunan and Burainan clans' research result, on top of being furnished with high powered laser, it's also highly mobile .
It has short operating time, but that's a fair trade-off for its performance .
Even though it's a big artificial spirit that's more than 500 meter long, it looks small since the surrounding scale is just too big .
I'll record the anime-like dogfight of the artificial spirit's fight to enjoy it later, while I myself will fight the octopus .
I repeat several Unit Arrangement and fly about on the center of the map .
--Chiiiii .
It looks like it had read my pattern, the black body waited ahead of me on the teleport point .
With its size, its speed is like a short-range teleport .
My magic power is being absorbed at far higher force than the weaselkin's [Magic Eater] machinery whom I repaired .
If this keeps up my magic power will be exhausted-- .
An idea flashed on my mind suddenly .
I landed on the black ground with Unit Arrangement .
It's the octopus's body surface .
Just as I thought, the octopus's body surface can also absorb magic power, my [Astro Suit] has been canceled .
However, don't think you're the only one that can absorb magic power you know?
I execute mid level force magic [Mana Drain] .
Unfortunately, there's no advanced or forbidden spell that's more efficient than this one . Of course that's only if I use it .
As its magic power got tremendously absorbed, it's losing its black color, turning white .
--VOWVOOOOOWWWN .
The octopus's scream is transmitted on the black body .
It tried to escape from me in panic, but it's useless no matter what inertia-canceling movement it uses . My [Magic Arm] is firmly wedged on the octopus's white body .
I use the fire magic forbidden spell [<<White Inferno>>] on its defenseless body .
The white flame scoops out the octopus without even leaving an ash .
The spell created a crater several hundred meter wide, but it seems its fat could also absorb magic power so the destructive power of the spell wasn't as high as I hoped .
Even my forbidden spell can't instantly kill this one due to its unrealistic size huh . . . .
--The stars over my head suddenly disappear .
The jet black spheres are approaching to wrap me up .
It seems the octopus wants to kill me using the jet black spheres even if it means injuring its body .
The white liquid from the gouged octopus spews into the void sky .
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I look down at it from the void sky .
I was able to somehow escape with the little chance I had . After repeating Unit Arrangement and getting separated around 1000 kilometers away, I wait for the replenishment of my magic power that has been used up on the forbidden spell .
The sword-shaped lump of iron that looks like it can even pierce the moon flashes on my mind .
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