Magi Craft Meister - Chapter 296

Chapter 296
Chapter 296 – Progress



After lunch, Hannah went to play since she hadn’t been to Kaina village in a while .

Elsa was telling Mine about their journey .

Jin had started planning to protect Kaina village, just in case something were to happen . And to implement those plans, he went back to Hourai island .



“Welcome back, master . ”



Butler 1 welcomed him .

And then Jin went to the workshop .



“Welcome back, master . ”



Ann also came . Jin thought he would tell her later about how he met a similar-shaped automata, Tia .

Jin sat down on his usual chair and started discussing with Laojun through the equipped mana cam .

He explained that now that Kaina village was his leasehold land, he was thinking of increasing its security .



“I would like to install magic eyes in several places and increase bodyguard golems . ”



Laojun also agreed with Jin .



[Right . I agree with equipping magic eyes for monitoring along the highway, the Elme river, the northern mountains, the eastern and western forests, etc . ]



“Master, I think it would be good to also prepare barriers . ”



“Alright, let’s install barrier-generating devices below the Elme river bridge and the village’s fences . ”



They made it so that only Jin, Laojun and Reiko could control it . Jin held the most priority, after him was Laojun, and after Laojun was Reiko .



“We will have 26 golems . Same type as army golems, naming them from Land A to Land Z . Let’s make the golems grey so they don’t stand out . Stealth should be installed in all of them . ”



The army for Hourai island is named after numbers so this is to differentiate between them .



[Understood, I will get on starting production immediately . ]



As they would be of the same type as army golems, even Laojun is capable of making them .



“Master, I think it would also be better to equip them with arms . ”



Another suggestion from Ann . That is true .



“Alright, paralyzers against humans . Vibration swords against close range golems . And how about induction radiator against long range types?”



“Hmm, right, but since the opposing party might also not be golems so I think it would be better to go with laser guns . ”



“I see . Then let’s go with both of those . ”



Exactly what were they planning to fight against?! — There was no one in Hourai island who would retort like that .





“Lastly, it would be good to have a proxy for when I am not present . ”



[That is true . I shall station a Butler there permanently . ]



And so, one Butler was stationed at Jin’s house in Kaina village .



“That is fine and all but how many Butlers do you plan on making?”



When Jin asked, Laojun replied ‘50’ .

“Alright . Then make that 51 and make the one which will be stationed at my place numberless . ”



[Understood . It might prove to be difficult without any numbers so I shall name it ‘A’ . ]



And therefore, a Butler which had just been finished was stationed at Jin’s house and would act as his proxy in his absence .



“Well then, after that…”



Jin brought up the topic of how Hannah was held captive for a while in Kurain kingdom and,



“To prevent these kind of incidents from happening again, I think we need to change the SP’s setting a little . ”



[That’s true . A stitch in time saves nine . I think we need to adjust for situations when there are suspicious beings nearby . ]



“How about having it be prepared to subdue anyone who is not known by Hannah-chan, onee-sama and master?”



That was Ann’s suggestion .



“No, worst case scenario, it might subdue someone who just happens to come close to ask directions or such . ”



“That is true…”



They weren’t able to come up with a good option .



[I think we have no other choice but to have you, my lord, develop a new defensive magic tool . ”



“Eh?”



[How about a barrier which forms along the surface of the body . ]



Laojun suggested . Of course, that can be used all the time .



“Hmmm, it will prove to be quite difficult but I will think about it . It seems quite impossible at the moment . ”



[Yes, I also do not think a situation where it might be needed will arise anytime soon . ]



At the end, they decided on using paralyzer as default . Even if they used lighting magic, it would be difficult to make it strong enough to make the other party faint . The chances of it affecting the people around was also high .



In contrast, paralyzer is able to only paralyze the target .



“Alright, that should be good enough for the SP . Also…”



Jin took out two magic crystals from his pocket for the other task he had in mind .

One was Tia’s old control core and the other had Heintz Lash’s sword techniques in it .



“Do an analysis on these for me . It will probably turn out to be quite important data . ”



[Understood . ]



Jin passed the two cores to Laojun .



“All that’s left is… Hey, maybe you guys aren’t showing it to me because I haven’t asked but… that diary-like book we found at the ruins? You are done deciphering that, aren’t you?”



Jin asked with a sullen face . Laojun wondered how he should respond, looking forward to how Jin reacts .

[Yes, that is…]



Laojun inarticulately responded, which was unusual of him .



“What is it? Is there a problem?”

[Yes, I guess you could call it a problem . ]



“Like I said, what is it?”



[Yes, then I will tell you . That diary was a diary . ]



“Huh?”



Jin doubted his ears . He was worried if Laojun had gone mad .



[No, like, we had thought, it had important facts about the big magic war but it really was just a personal diary . ]



“Ah, I kind of understand . ”



Jin was able to comprehend .



[It barely has about 2 to 3 parts worth referring to . Except that, it is completely useless . After all, it is no fun reading some stranger’s daily life activities . ]



“Well, I guess . ”



Losing interest, Jin asked Laojun about those 2 to 3 parts .



[There were something written about alchemy, demons and other historic ruins . ]



“Oh? Sounds interesting . ”





Jin was drawn in the most by the word ‘demon’ . Jin knew next to nothing about the demon race .



[But even still, it is very little… Monsters are beings who live off of ether . And among them, demons are the ones which have intelligence . ]



“Hmmm . ”



Laojun continued with his explanation .

According to him, it seems like demons have built up a civilisation which could even rival the humans . However, they do not consider flocking like humans a good thing and therefore do not use any ‘war tactics’ or ‘strategies’ .

Due to that, the human side was able to barely win .



“But if that is the case, doesn’t abandoning the fort and retreating seem weird?”



If they were winning, there shouldn’t have been any reason to retreat .



[Yes, I couldn’t understand that much from the diary . ]



“Hmm, then I leave the report to you . What’s written about alchemy in there?”



Jin knew that alchemy here resembled science in the modern world . But that was all he knew .

Alchemy was developed about 500 years ago, after his predecessor had passed . Hence, the golems (Reiko’s ancestor automatas) which stayed in the solitary island had no way of knowing about it .



[Yes, this was also not something that interesting . It seems they had tried using strong acid as a weapon . At the end, it didn’t become a reality as they couldn’t create a large amount of strong acid . ]



Strong acids are acids which have a high level of ionization . Sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid . If they were trying to use this as a weapon, they probably contained it in an airtight containers and launched it onto the enemy demons .

“Chemical weapons, eh…”



It was something he didn’t really want spreading .



“What did the part about historic ruins say?”



[Yes, for convenience, I did say historic ruin but it seems that at the time it was an abandoned fortress . It is the fortress near the Yada village’s historic ruin . However, we, the Quinta, have already finished investigating it . ]



“Got it . I leave the control cores with you . Continue analysing it . ”



[Understood . Also, this is something Topaz and I investigated but, shall I report about it?]



“Hm? What is it? I am listening . ”



Thinking that this was one day full of unusual remarks from Laojun, Jin urged him to continue .





[Alright, then… We have identified why the plants, more specifically the fruit trees in Hourai island, grow so well . It seems that Hourai island is a singularity point for mana . ]



“Singularity point?”



[Yes . Normally, ether gathers together at the North Pole . Although it is less than 1/10th of the North Pole, it seems there is a pulse here where ether gathers . ]



“I see . And?”



[The ether in the fruits decrease in the order: pelshika, apple, citran . Pelshika, being the highest, has more than 10 times the ether compared to the ones grown in other regions . ]



“That is quite amazing . It’s like a ‘senmomo’(special peach) . ”



A while earlier, Laojun had speculated that Jin would react like that when he gets to know about it .



[And we also discovered that we are able to store it without any drop in quality using the ether stocker . ]



“Ooh, that is nice . So, the refrigerators are already reconstructed, right?”



This time, Jin saw through Laojun’s works .



[Yes, as per your command . ]



Jin felt happy seeing his own creation, the system called Laojun, executing properly .









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At a location 1 kilometer north of the provincial city of Serroa kingdom, Astan .

In that area, lay Shouro empire’s storage depot .

The diplomat Reinhart was being forced to stay there .

Because a majority of the Serroa kingdom’s head camp consists of Unifiers, as a result of replacing that head, they weren’t properly functioning as an administration .



“Reinhart! Rejoice! We can finally depart!”



Elsa’s elder brother, Fritz, said while he jogged closer .



“Eh, really?”



“Yes . The procedures are finally done . We will depart tomorrow morning! Forte, Bololon, Ganiiz, Toskoshia . And my motherland!”



Seeing Fritz in such high spirits, Reinhart felt happy too .

They were about a week behind schedule .



“We can finally go back to our motherland!”



“Yes, I look forward to it . ”



That night, Reinhart was also able to talk to Jin after a long while and so lied down on the floor in content .