Volume 3 - Chapter 8 – Magi Jet Engine (1/2)

This one was translated by Silent, please enjoy.

The Cygnus was completed the next day.

The same day, Marcia went to her part-time fishing job while Jin went back to Hourai Island.

「Well, I wonder if my thinking is correct.」

Last night, an idea came to his head while he was in bed at the Sea Pavillion

「《Blower》」

Jin used basic wind magic. Normally it’s a magic used to blow away rubbish. A strong wind was generated which ceased after around 5 seconds.

「Hmm, as I thought, there’s no recoil.」

Jin noticed that there was no recoil with most magic. The commonly referred to “law of action and reaction” was valid even in a different world.

However, this did not apply with respect to magic. Jin was trying to analyze the reason why.

「So Reiko, when I signal, please use Blower.」

「Okay.」

Reiko was a super automata, in order to protect her master, attack magic of all attributes has been programmed to be used, including high level magic that her master cannot use.

「3, 2, 1, now!」

「Blower」

「Trace」

Strong winds swept from Reiko’s hands, it was followed by flows of Jin’s magic.

「This time use Strong Winds please. 3, 2, 1, now!」

「Wind」

「Inspection」

Now, Jin began to examine the workings of magic and magic energy.

After repeating this 3 times,

「I got it! It’s as I thought!」

「Father?」

Seeing Jin jump to his feet was uncommon, Reiko was puzzled.

「Reiko, thank you. I finally found the reason only the target is blown away with wind magic.」

Jin then explained to Reiko.

「For example, the magic Blower, appears to have created wind from the palm, however, it actually fires by collecting air from the surroundings.」

Jin speculated this structure was because it was a relatively weak magic.

「When firing, although there is supposed to be recoil, the operator does not feel it. This is because magic cancelling the reaction is triggered at the same time.」

「Is that so?」

「Ah. There’s no doubt. Air flow, magic energy flow and magic structure, it’s all as a result of examining them.」

But, Jin let out his breath,

「From the operation of Blower and Wind, it’s only good at cancelling part of the recoil.」

From Jin’s extent of understanding, magic is the recorded procedure of invoking the (flow) in the world, it starts with the soul of language in the presence of chanting and continued by the imposition of mana.

In a magic item, a “Plate” is used to record and store the “World” procedure (flow) with the soul of language, magic is triggered when supplied with mana.

Storing a new procedure (flow) into the world is creating a new magic, it is said.

With that said, the memory isn’t foolproof, differences appear between mages spells.

That aside, Jin continued talking.

「Because of that, you can do the same thing with a magic tool.」

「I was able to understand the story. But the magic tool you mentioned before, what is it useful for?」