chapter_0149

150 – It’s the Best Invention!

150 – It’s the Best Invention!

“……”

“……”

An awkward silence settled between Meiko and me.

She was worried that I might have found out she saw the Illusion Magic Circle.

I was trying to hide the secret she held.

We were silent for different reasons.

My teacher, who had come to the store, glanced at me and drank her tea.

“Does it suit your taste?”

“Ah, yes… It’s delicious. I didn’t know you had such a talent, Max.”

After drinking her tea, she sighed and glanced at me, who was writing a letter.

“By the way, what are you doing?”

“I’m writing a letter.”

“A letter? W-Why suddenly a letter?”

People who have something to hide usually pay more attention to the other person than necessary.

Because of the anxiety that the other person might find out their secret.

I glanced at Meiko, who was staring at me with anxious eyes, and pretended not to know.

“I don’t know if someone broke in or if there was a sudden error, but suddenly all the Mana Batteries I had set aside as spare Mana were used up.”

“B-B-B-Broke in? W-W-Who? No, how can you know that?”

Meiko was being too obvious, as if she wanted to say, “I’m the culprit.”

“There were no signs of external intrusion. But all the spare batteries were used up.”

“Ah… C-Can’t you recharge them?”

I looked at Meiko.

She bit her lower lip and was watching me carefully.

“It’s a prototype, so it can’t be recharged. It was a gift I received temporarily in the first place. So I’m going to send a letter asking them to send me the finished product if they have one.”

“Ah, that’s the battery you said you made with the help of the dwarves last time.”

“That’s right. It’s also portable.”

“……”

Meiko glanced around and then slowly approached me.

“T-Then, if you get the finished product, can you recharge it?”

“Probably. I asked them to prepare something that can recharge Mana separately.”

“I see.”

“If someone broke in and used it up, we should summon the guards and punish them immediately.”

“N-No way! Who would break in? Even if they look down on Illusion Magic users, there’s no way they would dare to break into our store.”

Meiko, flustered and waving her hands, looked cute.

There’s something fun about seeing my teacher flustered.

She smiled awkwardly and said in a barely audible voice.

“A-And if someone broke in, something would have to be missing, but that wasn’t the case, right? R-Right?”

“That’s true, but…”

Should I tease her a little?

“How did you know that, Teacher?”

“H-Huh? W-What?”

“That nothing was missing. Did I tell you that, Teacher?”

“Oh? Ah… W-Well, if something was missing, you would have told me, but you didn’t say anything. So I thought you didn’t steal anything.”

Meiko’s voice grew louder as she desperately tried to explain.

Her face turned bright red, and I couldn’t help but laugh at how cute she looked.

I chuckled and decided to turn a blind eye to her sudden appreciation of Illusion Magic.

-I’ll show you everything, Sister.

-This is a vagina.

-White pee, let’s pee-pee?

Meiko’s appearance, confronting her desires head-on with my younger self, was vivid.

For a Goddess follower, she’s so weak to lust.

Even the saint couldn’t overcome her lust, so perhaps it’s a natural result.

‘It might be good to relieve stress like this.’

I should pretend not to know for a while.

But she’s my teacher, so it’s a bit much to take money.

‘As long as it doesn’t get too extreme…’

It’s okay to just watch for now.

Of course, if her dependence becomes too severe, I’ll need to stop her.

But that wasn’t the case now.

“Anyway, I’m not going to call the guards for something that’s not certain. Someone already broke in once before, and it was very annoying.”

“R-Right? Hahaha, if the guards come to a store like this, it would be troublesome in many ways.”

Meiko smiled awkwardly, the corners of her lips slightly raised.

“Anyway, I’ll write a letter for a while, so please rest, Teacher.”

“Okay!”

Meiko stepped back, took a sip of tea, and glanced at me again.

‘Is it because of the Illusion that I’m younger?’

Meiko was staring at me much more often than usual.

It was…

The way she slowly scanned me from top to bottom was strangely suspicious.

As if she needed to fill her eyes with my current appearance.

‘Don’t tell me she’s going to model me in the next Illusion and apply it in more detail?’

As an Illusion Magic user, Meiko was capable of anything.

I feel uneasy for some reason.

It must be my imagination, right?

Leaving my uneasy feelings behind, I wrote more to Tio, the creator of the Mana Battery.

“Done.”

The dwarf, who had been working tirelessly in front of the dwarven fire in the workshop with goggles on, took off the goggles with a bright smile.

Seeing the perfect Mana Battery completed in the dwarven fire, the dwarf wiped the sweat and ash from her face and stood up.

“I’ve finally completed it. A Mana Battery that has no Mana loss, can be charged at all times, and is as small as possible for portability!”

The most basic battery that allows you to use Mana regularly once charged.

It was an item with efficiency and storage capacity that was on a different level from previous batteries.

An enormous amount of Mana was contained within the cylindrical, navy-blue mass.

Luitan, which has the property of repelling Mana.

And Mana Water, made by grinding Mana stones like water.

The prototype portable battery was made using these.

It was an item with a slight application added to that prototype.

Mikel, a mineral that is most compatible with Mana.

By utilizing a mineral with the opposite properties of Luitan, which has the property of repelling Mana, a path was created to allow Mana to operate more efficiently.

An internal passage made of Mikel is created inside the core made of Luitan.

Luitan prevents Mana from escaping to the outside, preventing Mana loss, while the passage made of Mikel allows Mana to continue to move.

It was a battery that allowed Mana to continue to circulate inside without evaporating into the air, resulting in a large output with relatively little energy.

In addition to this, there were complex formulas and various technologies involved, but I will omit them as they are complicated.

Anyway, thanks to that.

“It’s a portable device, but it has more than four times the capacity of previous Mana storage containers. And it’s also rechargeable!”

An innovative development was possible.

Is it innovative simply because it recharges Mana?

That’s not it.

There were plenty of stationary batteries that could recharge Mana.

Many Mana items used in the Empire and the dwarven world used a method of recharging Mana.

Since it could be recharged, the product could be used semi-permanently once installed.

But it was another matter whether that was possible with portable batteries.

It was generally accepted that Mana could not be charged in a small core.

Why?

Because the core and battery could not withstand the energy when charged.

They usually overheated and exploded or melted.

This was solved by using Mikel and Luitan, which have opposite properties.

In the first place, just the portable battery itself was an incredible innovation.

There were things called portable, but because of their size and efficiency, no one properly utilized them.

‘Most people who can use Mana inject Mana according to the situation.’

It was an item that only worked when Mana was injected, something that ordinary people couldn’t even dream of.

But if this portable Mana Battery was created, things would be different.

If you had enough money, even ordinary people who couldn’t use Mana could use Magic at any time.

Even if they couldn’t use attack Magic, they could use various Mana-powered devices.

Of course, it would cost a tremendous amount of money.

“I succeeded. Thanks to the human’s help, I finally made a finished product.”

An item that would not have been possible without Max’s help.

The dwarf Tio, or rather Tia, a female dwarf who disguised herself as a man named Tio and set up an office in a dwarven factory, smiled as she looked at the battery she had completed.

“Now, all I have to do is send the item…”

It was then.

Ding-dong!

An alarm rang in her office.

Tia, who had finished her work, cleared her throat and adjusted her voice tone.

She refined her voice to be somewhat androgynous.

“Who is it?”

She asked towards the door.

“It’s a letter.”

Opening the door and going outside, a much taller human handed her an envelope.

“It’s a letter from the Empire. The sender is Max.”

“Max!”

Receiving the letter, she smiled brightly as soon as she heard the name of her benefactor.

As she was about to tear open the letter, the postman who brought the package waited without leaving.

“Collect on delivery.”

“Ah…”

She handed over the postage charged for collect on delivery.

This amount of money was nothing to her, who invented Manacon.

Even before inventing this battery, she had created many inventions and was quite wealthy even by dwarven standards.

“What kind of letter is it? What kind of help are you trying to give…”

She had often exchanged letters, sharing ideas and progress on this battery.

She had overcome the parts that were repeatedly blocked by Max’s advice, so she was very excited and read Max’s letter.

Her eyes curved into crescents as she checked the letter.

“You used up all the Mana in the prototype? It’s a version that can’t be charged, so you’re waiting because it can’t be charged?”

Hehehehe.

She let out a low laugh and looked at the cylindrical battery on the workbench.

“You sent the letter well, human. The timing is perfect. The perfect version of the battery for you has just been completed.”

After laughing once, she decided to take the battery.

Originally, she was going to unveil this innovative invention at the dwarven academy.

To prove in front of the many dwarves who ignored her because she was a woman that female dwarves could work in mines and factories.

But she changed her mind.

Come to think of it, this was not her sole achievement.

The human, Max’s help was very important in making this finished product.

Synthesizing Luitan and Mana Water, creating the prototype battery, advice during the battery manufacturing process, and even the idea that Mikel was needed for charging.

If it hadn’t been for Max’s advice, she would still be wandering alone.

“It would be better to present it with the human who helped.”

The best invention completed through the collaboration of dwarves and humans.

To present this, there was a better place than the dwarven academy.

The Imperial University, which has the Imperial Academy where the best talents of the continent gather.

It’s been a while since I’ve had to go to the Empire.

“The human will be happy to see this, right?”

The smile did not disappear from Tia’s face.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been able to use the human’s invention, the Illusion Magic Circle.”

After saying that, her cheeks flushed slightly.