Volume 6 - Chapter 1 – Hourai Island and Kunlun Island (1/2)
06-01 Hourai Island and Kunlun Island
Jin and Reiko continued their journey by carriage with Shouro Empire noble Reinhardt.
And currently, the line of carriages had arrived close enough to see the Fort City Blue Land.
Jin made his suggestion here.
“First of all, I’d like to go ahead to ensure that we’re prepared to house Reinhardt and the rest.”
Reinhardt and Elsa understood Jin’s invitation and eagerly accepted.
“In that case, let’s meet at the gates tomorrow morning. But it won’t likely be just the two of us.”
Reinhardt reminded that Jin should prepare for at least the butler Adberg, nanny Mine, and guard Herman coming along.
“Ah, that’s fine. Well then, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.”
“Jin-kun, see you tomorrow.”
Jin and Reiko parted with Reinhardt’s group with a lighthearted goodbye. They walked for an hour and reached the cave in the depths of the forest on the outskirts of Blue Land where the hidden Warp Gate was.
“Doesn’t look like it’s been damaged, and there’s no traces of entry either.”
To keep small animals from wandering in by accident and to keep people out, a concealment barrier and a barrier that couldn’t be deactivated except by Jin’s Magic Energy pattern had been applied.
Jin and Reiko were able to easily enter the cave, and they stepped into the Warp Gate.
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In a moment they arrived at Hourai Island. A familiar atmosphere surrounded Jin.
“Welcome back, Father, Elder Sister.”
“Welcome back, Master, Milady.”
First Soleil and Luna, then the five-colored golem maids greeted them.
The first thing Jin did was take a bath.
Traveling by carriage was somewhat exhausting, and more importantly, he hadn’t bathed in two days.
“Aah, so warm.”
“Father, are you tired?”
Reiko was soaking in the bath together with Jin.
“Not particularly tired, it’s just that it’s good to be home.”
“Master, shall I give the report?”
To save time, the five-colored golems were summoned to the bath to report.
Hourai Island’s development is doing well.
The roads and the harbor are under maintenance. The orchard and rubber trees are being cultivated, and fish are being raised in the fish preserve.
Stones are being quarried and stored, and mineral resources are mined, categorized and then stored.
Next are the reports of the Air Force, Navy, and Army.
Sky units are making progress with mapmaking.
Marine units have deployed boats to scout the surroundings of the island, and are staying vigilant.
In any case, since at present there were no compasses in this world, ships weren’t able to sail on the open seas.
Finally the Land units are assisting in Hourai and Kunlun Islands’ development while on guard.
“Hmm, now that I’m here, I want to make something with smarts for whenever I’m not around.”
Soleil and Luna were a little unreliable.
Jin got out of the bath and quickly started putting his ideas in action.
“Gather all the types of Magi Crystals.”
Earth, water, fire, wind, lightning, light, dark, and finally metal-attribute Magi Crystals were prepared.
Jin placed one Magi Crystal of each attribute in the middle of a Plate, and the placed the rest surrounding them.
He put together a Magi Device where the Magic Energy could reciprocally cycle after flowing through a Magi Crystal of each attribute.
“Alright, this’ll work as the brain. I’ll use an Ether Converter, and a Mana Driver for the energy source, and a Mana Tank as a reserve.”
It was a safeguard against halting due to most common problems you could think of.
“The chassis will be Adamantite and Mithril.”
He started constructing half of a globe. The dome’s radius was about 50 centimeters.
So that it wouldn’t become a computer uprising like in a lot of science fiction, plenty of Magi Formulas for security were inscribed.
It would recognize Jin’s Magic Energy pattern, and take orders from no one else but Jin. In addition, a device that would crash the program if anyone but Jin started it was added.
Basically, this brain would command all the golems.
The only exception was Reiko. Reiko and the brain would have the same rank, and each would keep an eye out that the other doesn’t go on a rampage.
Reiko had strength, and the brain had smarts.
Finally, Jin transferred it almost all of his knowledge, and all the knowledge of Soleil and Luna, Planetarium and Satella, five-colored golem maids, Sky, Marine, Land, et cetera, gave the brain control of the Hourai Island, and named it Laozi.
“Father, what does this word “Laozi” mean?”
“Oh, in the world where I come from, it was said that he was the leader of legendary magi living in Hourai and Kunlun mountains.”
There’s some incorrect portions in the explanation, but let’s call it a day with that since it’s not going to cause any problems.
“Activate Laozi.”