episode_0049

The technological development of this world was extremely abnormal. At least that was the way I saw it from the perspective of my previous life on Earth.

In particular, this was true for technologies related to ‘means of transportation’. Although there was no lack of technological power as factories and printing presses existed, almost no ‘modern means of transportation’ was used, except for the transcontinental train that crossed the empire and neighboring countries.

Things like airships and submarines.

You might not know if this technology didn’t exist, but its existence itself was quite widely known. Nevertheless, nobles rode carriages rather than cars, and there has never been any news of them using airplanes or submarines as ‘means of transportation.’

So, there were some things that I was quite puzzled about.

“Wow, it’s scary.”

“Hehe, is that so… ? Because it’s a familiar sight to wizards… .”

The question was completely resolved. Looking at the various airplanes parked in miserable condition at a place called the ‘test airfield’ on the property owned by Magic Tower, the thought that ‘if you ride an airplane = you die’ would be the first thing to be remembered.

“Uh, is this an unfinished product made for experimental purposes?”

“No… . It’s all a finished product… . Probabilistically, it has been proven several times that ‘flight is possible’… .”

“But why is everything like that?”

“Because of probability issues… .”

“Yes?”

The wizard was very kind and explained what the problem was for about 30 minutes, interspersed with boasting about himself and talking about the past.

The ‘magic science’ of this world was indeed difficult for me to understand, but—.

I could understand that part of it. And to briefly summarize what I understand:

You say you can’t make a machine more complicated than “?”

“It doesn’t mean it can’t be made… . It just takes a little bit of time and a lot of budget… ?”

In this world, it was impossible for ‘complex machines’ to operate for a long time. This is because of the existence of ‘magic’ that plays with ‘probability’ as it pleases.

For example, there may be various probabilities that an object called an ‘airplane’ will crash.

It may not receive sufficient lift due to a structural problem, may not receive propulsion due to a problem inside the engine, or may simply fail to maintain balance and fall to the ground. These problems could originally be prevented through maintenance.

As the complexity of the machine increases, the ‘magic’ ‘equalizes’ the probability of the machine breaking down in a more secret and unpredictable way.

It’s as if they reject ‘complexity’ itself.

“Accumulate enough data and put everything into predictable categories… Build as many airplanes as possible and standardize them… . If you do that, it is possible… . It’s just that the history of ‘trying to fly and falling’ is so deep… . It’s difficult to secure that much budget… .”

“I see.”

“Being a wizard is also a very difficult job… ?”

Unlike the printing press, which had a relatively simple structure and a large budget could be invested for the purpose of ‘printing the Bible,’ there were too many variables in the case of transportation.

“Once a certain level of ‘possibility’ is identified, things become much easier from then on… . Once a route is decided, the probability of an accident decreases dramatically when traveling along the same route. . That’s why trains running along railroads quickly became commercialized… .”

“Yes. I heard the story well. But why did you call me… ?”

“Well, I’d like to ask author Herodotus for some magic… ?”

“Yes?”

“I wish you could lend me some magic… .”

“Yes?”

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It’s been quite a while since I was reincarnated in this world, but I’ve never thought about learning about ‘magic’.

Since I am a person with very twisted tastes, I read one more book when I was excited about magical and supernatural things.

So I never thought that I could use ‘magic’.

“To be precise, lending your magical imagination is enough… .”

“Umm, what on earth is this ‘magical imagination’? I think a similar story came out last time.”

“The ability to materialize possibilities… .”

The head wizard laughed heartily and took me somewhere.

It wasn’t that far away. It was a place where the remains of a crashed plane were buried.

The wizard picked up several thin wooden fragments and began stacking them into a lattice to create a small altar-like structure.

“There are many different concepts and ways of realizing magic… First, I’ll try the most common blue magic tower method… . At Blue Magic Tower, magic is realized based on the premise that ‘things that resemble each other resemble each other’… . For example, a small twig is just a material that can be made into anything on its own, but if you stack the branches in the shape of a campfire like this and add some dry leaves in between… .”

The moment the wizard snapped his fingers, a small, bright yellow flame rose up from the small altar—no, the campfire model.

The blazing fire consumed all the dry leaves and quickly extinguished, leaving behind only embers.

“Like this, you can light a fire… . So the wizards of the Blue Magic Tower spend their days creating, installing, and reproducing things… . There’s so much junk in there that it’s almost like a warehouse… .”

“I see.”

“And this time, I’ll try the White Magic Tower method… . In the White Magic Tower, magic is realized based on the premise that ‘same events occur in the same places’… .”

The wizard took out a piece of paper from his pocket, folded it, and made a ‘paper airplane’.

And when he threw the paper airplane, the paper airplane, which had been flying well, suddenly crashed into a place that was almost similar to where the wreckage of the crashed airplane was.

“So the wizards of the White Magic Tower travel to various places every day… Record what happens there… We study the homogeneity between space and space… . So the White Magic Tower is always very quiet… There was no one because everyone was going outside… . There is also a story that this is why the sick who went on a ‘pilgrimage’ to the place where the Savior was resurrected were healed… .”

“Oh, is that right?”

“Honestly, there are many things I don’t know about the work and blessings of the church… I’m just saying that… .”

The wizard shrugged, this time picking up a thick tree branch and lightly hitting it on the wreckage of the plane.

Then the tree branch, which seemed thick, broke ridiculously easily. Just like the wreckage of that plane.

“Red Magic Tower is based on the premise that ‘similar effects can be seen in contact with similar objects’… In the past, this was the way to boil water in a kettle and make tea… .”

“Aha.”

“And the purple magic tower that deals with the human mind, which says, ‘Human perception is imperfect, so anything can be mistaken for something else.’ There is something like the Black Magic Tower’s way of saying, ‘If you can’t predict what will happen, it’s not strange if something happens’… .”

“But the head wizard was a wizard from the ‘Grey Magic Tower’, right?”

“Hehe… . That’s right… . The magic of the Gray Magic Tower that I pursue is the source of all magic and the self-evident definition of all possibilities… .”

The head wizard pounded his chest with his fist with a smile overflowing with pride.

Then, perhaps because I hit it so hard that it hurt, I said, ‘Ouch…’ ‘ He bowed his back for a moment with a groan, and then continued his explanation naturally as if nothing had happened.

“The Gray Magic Tower explores magic based on the premise that ‘if the cause is the same, the result is the same’… . Cause and effect, karma, past and future, cause and effect… The magic of the Gray Magic Tower is to identify the cause and reproduce the result under the belief that there is a causal relationship in everything… . Hehehe… .”

“Something sounds amazing.”

“It is our Gray Magic Tower that completed the standard ‘printing press’ used in the empire… . In particular, we are the best in the field of handling these ‘machines’… There is no causal relationship as clear as the action of force… .”

“Aha.”

The Gray Magic Tower was a group of idiots.

For some reason, I thought the head wizard always had dark circles and fatigue.

I looked at the head wizard with such a strange feeling.

The wizard seemed to be intoxicated with the explanation and continued to explain in a slightly drunken voice.

“And in my opinion, as a senior wizard, author Herodotus has a natural talent for ‘Gray Magic Tower’… . The ability to understand causal relationships between things… The deductive reasoning shown in Sherlock Holmes and the magical imagination shown in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea… . I think Herodotus can definitely use it… .”

It sounded mysterious, like the prophecy of a blind fortune teller.

“The magic book… !”

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After an impressive meeting with the head wizard.

I always sit and read a book, leaning back in my chair and quietly lost in thought. The narcissistic wizard’s request was engraved in my head and I could not forget it.

Is it some kind of ‘magic’ that makes it harder to forget something the more you think about it? I do not know.

“It’s magical imagination… .”

magical imagination. To borrow a memory from my past life, ‘scientific imagination’. A self-evidence that is closer to the realm of natural science and engineering than to the realm of literature.

It wasn’t that difficult if I asked to write it as a ‘book’. Not only did I translate literature, I also translated quite a bit of non-literature. In fact, during my undergraduate years, I looked at more non-literary papers than literature.

Not because there was any special reason, but because it was a science department.

I remembered a conversation I had with a junior in my past life.

– “ek? Did you go to engineering school?”

– “uh. Although it didn’t really suit my aptitude. Doesn’t that suit you?”

– “No, rather than saying that you don’t suit him, you feel like your senior is a huge obstacle, right? Translation from French to English, Russian, German… Most of the time, translation is done without an executive. So I thought you graduated from graduate school in interpretation and translation.”

– “I went to graduate school through interpretation and translation. It was like that when I was an undergraduate student.”

– “Why?”

– “What kind of question is that?”

– “In the old days, it was a little… Are you like an engineering student?”

– “What is it about an engineering student? You think you won’t be popular with women?”

– “No.”

– “That’s resolute.”

– “So why did you go to engineering school?”

– “Because it was a science department. At that time, cross-support was also a difficult time.”

– “Why did you go to science?”

– “I have a lot of questions… . I didn’t think liberal arts would be fun.”

– “Yes?”

– “That’s all you learn in the liberal arts department. Saengyun, monks, economics, court, history… .”

– “What is a court?”

– “Law and politics.”

– “Isn’t it politics and law?”

– “Hmm? Isn’t it law and politics? Well, it was a long time ago so I don’t remember much. Anyway, before deciding on elective subjects, I read their textbooks and reference books… .”

– “Did you read that?”

– “It is the quality of a literary person. But it was all information I already knew. Even if I don’t study, I think I can pass most of the exam questions.”

– “So?”

– “Huh? I knew that re-learning what I already knew would only be a waste of time, so I went to science to learn what I didn’t know.”

– “Senior.”

– “Are you coming? ”

– “Are you crazy?”

– “There’s nothing he can’t say to his senior… .”

Anyway, for that reason, about half of me in my past life was a science major.

Thanks to this, the task of ‘translating’ non-literature itself was not that difficult. There is just a little hesitation.

The reason why we are trying to make adventure popular in this world and spread the ‘laws of this world’ is ultimately to reduce the influence of ‘Earth’.

Is it right to spread ‘Earth science’ here to accelerate that time? I do not know.

“Hmm… . Magic, magic… .”

In fact, I think that there are parts of this world that are quite clearly operating under completely different laws than in my previous life.

There is such a thing as a world tree, and in the case of beastmen, aren’t they somewhat delicate beings from the biological perspective of past lives?

But obviously there were also things that were the same.

Gravity, action and reaction, inertia, light—in addition, there were many self-evident laws and principles that were essential for the maintenance of this ‘physical world’.

So, I think it would be okay if we approach the ‘obvious’ things first.

Not about the science of past lives, but about more self-evident and clear truths. I took out a stack of manuscripts from the nightstand and placed them on the desk.

This title was written on the cover of the manuscript.

[Principia]

Principia. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy.

author.

Isaac Newton.

“Ugh, I suddenly have PTSD from my high school days… .”

I chose chemistry and physics as elective subjects and even graduated from engineering school.

Science isn’t something you can get used to either.

really.