episode_0177

Waiting for me at the entrance of the mansion was a princess accompanied by two bodyguards.

When I first saw the princess’s gray hair, I had a question.

As befits a person who could be described as crazy about alchemy, the person who provides lodging and food at the Magic Tower was the princess. Unless it was something serious, someone who would never leave the Magic Tower came to visit me, so it was natural to have questions.

However, after a moment of doubt, I immediately opened the door to the mansion. The skeleton moved and the huge gate slid open.

“Princess.”

“Viscount Steel. I’m sorry for coming to you so suddenly. But there is something I really want to ask you.”

The princess passed through the open door and entered the garden, and before I could even say hello, she suddenly said that she had a favor to ask.

And, I quickly found out what the request was.

It wasn’t even subtly, it was just plain- looking at the zombie wyvern, it seemed like he was trying to ask the wyvern to give him a ride.

However, the request the princess made was similar to what I thought, but different.

“To prove that, as Viscount Steele said, everything in this world is made up of very small things, can you give me a ride on a wyvern?”

“Uh… … . It’s not difficult to give it a ride, but how did you know that I turned the wyvern into an undead?”

“… … You could see everything? There’s no way I wouldn’t hear you screaming like that while flying on a wyvern.”

My face turned red for no reason at the princess’s words.

I remembered that on more than one occasion, we all burst out in joy and admiration because we were so absorbed in the idea of flying.

“Keu, keuhm… … . By the way, what does wyvern have to do with proving what I said?”

“Do you know about gravity? Like this, when you pick up dirt and drop it, it has the power to make it fall to the floor.”

“Ah, yes. I don’t know the details, but I understand it to some extent.”

Because my memories of my past life were not complete, I could not recall details about gravity. However, I did know that there was a force pulling the earth and that it was called gravity.

“I wondered if I had to explain gravity first, but I’m glad you said you knew.”

“It’s the same with magic, but there are some parts in black magic that require attention to gravity, so you need to be aware of them.”

And, even if it was not a memory of my past life, I knew the concept of gravity from the beginning. This is because if the size of magic, whether magic or black magic, increases on a large scale, there are some aspects that must take gravity into account.

Usually, such magic is a large-scale destruction magic, so I would hardly ever use it myself, but since it had an effect, I was still trying to understand the concept.

“Flying magic and Meteor-type magic are magic that must be used with gravity in mind. Although I doubt there are one or two people on the entire continent who can use it.”

The princess also nodded in agreement, probably because she understood gravity for similar reasons.

“By the way, what is the connection between gravity and what I said?”

“If everything in the world is made of particles, wouldn’t those particles also be affected by gravity? In my opinion, the higher you go in the sky, the thinner the air becomes. Of course, when it is true that everything in the world is made up of very tiny particles.”

If I had intact memories of my past life, I would have been able to know the correct answer to this part, but unfortunately, nothing came to mind about that part.

Instead, I thought it was a fairly reasonable idea that there might be some remnants of the unconscious that I couldn’t even think of. There is a high possibility that what the princess said is true.

“Uh… … . Then let’s take a look. Because it’s not difficult.”

“Thank you.”

I shrugged my shoulders and answered, and the princess smiled softly.

However, looking at the zombie wyvern with a faint blush on his face, it seemed like he didn’t decide to ride the zombie wyvern purely out of a desire to explore something.

I felt quite envious of the two women and I riding zombie wyverns and flying freely through the sky.

Still, since the person who played an important role in leading the magic tower was the princess, she was able to do as much as give her a ride on a zombie wyvern.

“Then shall we go right away?”

“Good.”

“Ziena, Amy. I’ll be back soon, so take a rest first.”

After watching the two women nod and enter the mansion, he immediately escorted the princess and climbed onto the zombie wyvern’s back.

The guard knights tried to ride along, but there was no room for them thanks to the princess who had already lined up several alchemy tools on the zombie wyvern’s back.

In the end, with just the princess and me on board, the zombie wyvern kicked off the ground and flew into the sky again.

“Kya!”

For a moment, the princess let out a short scream and struggled as her body shook. However, since the floor was made soft, there were no injuries.

Instead, I admired the wide, blue sky with a blank face, as if I wanted to look at the sky after falling.

“By the way, princess. How do you prove that the air gets thinner the higher you go? You really think that if you can’t breathe, the air is thin… … ?”

“Ehm. Have you forgotten who I am? He is the head of a school of alchemists who seek the truth. I’m not saying I’m that complacent!”

The princess twitched her fingers left and right at my words, then took out a small box-like thing from her bosom.

“This is a specially created artifact. It measures what’s inside. Weight, volume… … Things like that.”

The princess stroked the box as if showing off her treasure, then opened and closed the lid of the box.

“If you do this, there is air inside, right? The Artifact will then automatically measure the air inside. Now we’re going to look at the weight, so… … .”

As the princess manipulated the artifact with the feeling of mana flowing, a change occurred in the plain artifact.

A number appeared on the top of the lid of an artifact that looked similar to a box.

[8.9012g]

“This is the weight of the air inside. It is possible to measure very precisely using mana!”

Seeing how proud he was, it seemed like an artifact he had made himself.

“Oh, by the way, the standard for weight is the weights and measures improved by Viscount Steele. There’s something familiar here, right?”

In the hand of the princess, who was writhing on the underside of the artifact, was a small, flat iron plate weighing 10 grams, one of the weights sold at the store.

It seemed to be a method of using magic to determine the weight based on the weight.

“I measured it once at the Magic Tower before going to Viscount Steele’s mansion, so now I just have to measure it every time I go up to a higher place.”

“Is there any difference from the results obtained now?”

“Hmm, the only difference is the decimal point, so I don’t know yet. I think it can be seen as a range of error depending on temperature.”

“Let’s go up so I can check it properly,” he said, smiling lightly at the sight of the princess fixating her gaze high in the sky, and injecting a large amount of dark magic into the wyvern.

The zombie wyvern began to flap its wings with more power than before, and the princess and I quickly flew towards the sky.

As I was soaring so hard, I soon came to be at eye level with the clouds.

“Wow… … . It’s beautiful. I can understand why Viscount Steele and his wives made such noise.”

It may have been because she ascended directly to the high sky, but even the princess, who was only interested in alchemy, looked as if she was ecstatic.

Still, I maintained my composure, even though it was my second time, and roughly shrugged my shoulders and led the wyvern to a higher place.

“Ugh… … .”

“Why are you saying this, Viscount Steel?”

“It’s gotten really cold, princess, are you okay?”

“Ah… … . Because I have dull senses. Ever since I had an accident while practicing alchemy, my senses have become very dull.”

The higher she climbed, the colder it got to the point where her bones were sore, but the princess just tilted her head as if she knew nothing. There was frost on the eyebrows and around the mouth, and the cheeks were red, as if they were on the verge of frostbite.

If I continued like this, I could hear that I let the princess get hurt, so I immediately used black magic.

Flames were created around the zombie wyvern’s back using black magic, and the cold wind that had been blowing became a slightly warmer breeze.

Maybe it was because I flew higher than when I flew with Jienna and Amy, but the cold that made me shiver had eased a lot. Thanks to this, not only the tremors in my body disappeared, but even the frost on the princess’s face disappeared.

However, the princess didn’t seem to be particularly interested in such things, so she only manipulated the box-shaped artifact while muttering, “It’s warm.”

The idea was to open the lid, close it, and use mana to weigh the air inside.

[7.6543g]

[6.8024g]

[5.9595g]

[5.2525g]

And, as it flew higher and higher, the weight displayed on the artifact gradually decreased.

Just as the higher you go, the tiny particles contained in the air become rarer.

“Viscount Steel. This should be enough. Clearly, the higher you go, the weight of the air entering the same space changes. That means that not all air is the same, but that there is something that is affected by gravity. For example, very small particles.”

Even though it was measured using the same artifact, the princess seemed convinced that the weight measured was different depending on the height.

“Of course, the air is very different down there. Even though my breathing is no different from usual, I feel strangely out of breath… … .”

“Huh? Yes? I didn’t realize it because I was a bit insensitive, but I felt secretly frustrated.”

Seup-ha- Seup-ha The princess, who was taking a deep breath, looked surprised as if she had finally realized it.

I chuckled at the sight of the princess’ eyes shining brightly as if she had discovered something truly amazing.

“Viscount Steel, let’s go to the Magic Tower!”

And, the princess, who was breathing hard for a while with her eyes shining, asked to go to the magic tower.

I was convinced that there were tiny particles that made up this world, and I thought I was going to do research on them.

Of course, I headed straight to the magic tower and listened to the princess’s request. Depending on the princess’s research, the benefits I can gain may increase enormously.

Anyway, the princess who drove the wyvern in front of the magic tower and dropped it off must have already had her mind filled with research, so she waved her hand roughly and ran into the magic tower without even looking back.