Volume 9 - Chapter 2 – Superalloy (1/2)
09-02 Superalloy
After lunch, Jin got in touch with the SP following Reinhardt.
His goal was to once more draw out information from Marcello. Intelligence was indispensable.
First of all were the preliminary investigations for the matter. He wanted to know where Marcello had been imprisoned. Once he knew that he could somehow manage with the help of the SP.
But the reply he got was surprising.
“Chief, that isn’t a worthwhile question. All the Unifiler prisoners were executed in the morning.”
“What!?”
“Kidnapping a Shouro Empire diplomat was a crime that resulted in the death penalty for all of them.”
“What the heck…”
The hastiness of the executions was a little too strange.
Jin once more thought that the Unifilers probably had connections with Celuroa Kingdom’s underworld. They were probably afraid of information being leaked.
However, by now there was nothing that could be done.
He recognized the Unifilers’ strangeness anew, and resolved to do what he could for now.
Jin decided to review Reiko’s railgun.
“What kind of force did she use to bend the Adamantite barrel…”
Reiko looked apologetic when Jin was shocked.
“I am sorry. When I saw Father get sent flying I lost my self-control.”
“Does that mean you may have used 1000 percent of your power…?”
Strength to bend even Adamantite. Jin then suddenly realized it.
“Reiko, your skeleton’s also made out of Adamantite, are you sure there’s nothing wrong?”
The gun barrel which was thicker than Reiko’s bones was bent. Jin became worried.
“Yes, nothing’s wrong.”
Reiko said, but Jin who had become worried decided to do a check-up just in case.
Jin looked over Reiko’s skeleton after her Magical Energy came to a stop and she had come to a standstill.
“I knew it…”
The joints had become loose and some of the arm bones too had been bent. Jin wondered whether Reiko lied because she didn’t want to worry Jin or whether she didn’t notice it at all.
“Even Adamantite can’t bear Reiko’s 1000 percent power, huh…”
Jin thought. Of how he could increase the strength.
“After all, strength, meaning the force tying the atoms or molecules together needs to be increased, huh.”
If the bond between the atoms or molecules was broken that would mean the object would break.
“So, what to do to increase the power of these bond?”
Jin remembered that there was a method of adding particular metals together to increase the metal’s tenacity.
“Let’s give it a go I suppose…”
As Reiko was still off, he called for Soleil and Luna.
“Please get Adamanite and Mithril ready for me.”
“Yes, Father.”
The two fetched Adamantite and Mithril ingots from the underground storehouse and put them in front of Jin.
“Good work. …First, let’s try just Adamantite.”
Jin made an Adamantite testpiece using Craft Magic. It was a rod with a diameter of one millimeter and a length of about 20 centimeters.
“Next let’s mix in one percent Mithril.”
Using [Alloying] he created an alloy of Adamantite and Mithril. Then he made similarly-sized testpieces of it.
“This will do. …Soleil or Luna, can either of you bend this Adamantite rod?”
Jin asked, but very quickly,
“It’s impossible.”
He got such a reply.
“Well, I guess it would be.”
And then with no other choice, he activated Reiko.
“Father?”
After Reiko woke up, seeing the displeased look on Jin’s face made her puzzled.
“Reiko, I thought so, but your skeleton has got some problems with it. That’s why I wanted to reinforce it, but to do that I need to experiment. So I woke you up even though I didn’t repair you yet.”
“I see, I will gladly help.”
Then Jin had Reiko bend the Adamantite testpiece.
The testpiece bent and snapped broke with about 25 percent of current Reiko’s output.
“Alright, next is this one.”
It was the one to which Mithril had been mixed in. It bent with about 20 percent output.
“Father, hasn’t it become weaker instead?”
Said Luna, who was watching. However,
“Well, just wait. Next I’ll do this and then let’s try bending it.”
Jin said, then poured in his Magic Energy into another testpiece.
Fundamentally Adamantite didn’t interfere with Magic Energy, but because Mithril had been mixed in it became able to contain Magic Energy.
“I will bend it now. …?”
Something was weird and it was apparent from Reiko’s expression. But that was to be expected, as the rod didn’t bend even with power increased to 30 percent.
Reiko further increased the power. Jin felt her output rapidly increasing and quickly had her stop.
“Alright, Reiko! That’s enough. As I thought, it seems that Magic Energy increases the strength.”
“Just Magic Energy increased its strength? Not reinforcing magic?”
Jin nodded at the question.