Chapter 296 Progress (2/2)
[Yes, I guess you could call it a problem.]
“Like I said, what is it?”
[Yes, then I will tell you. That diary was a diary.]
“Huh?”
Jin doubted his ears. He was worried if Laojun had gone mad.
[No, like, we had thought, it had important facts about the big magic war but it really was just a personal diary.]
“Ah, I kind of understand.”
Jin was able to comprehend.
[It barely has about 2 to 3 parts worth referring to. Except that, it is completely useless. After all, it is no fun reading some stranger’s daily life activities.]
“Well, I guess.”
Losing interest, Jin asked Laojun about those 2 to 3 parts.
[There were something written about alchemy, demons and other historic ruins.]
“Oh? Sounds interesting.”
Jin was drawn in the most by the word ‘demon’. Jin knew next to nothing about the demon race.
[But even still, it is very little… Monsters are beings who live off of ether. And among them, demons are the ones which have intelligence.]
“Hmmm.”
Laojun continued with his explanation.
According to him, it seems like demons have built up a civilisation which could even rival the humans. However, they do not consider flocking like humans a good thing and therefore do not use any ‘war tactics’ or ‘strategies’.
Due to that, the human side was able to barely win.
“But if that is the case, doesn’t abandoning the fort and retreating seem weird?”
If they were winning, there shouldn’t have been any reason to retreat.
[Yes, I couldn’t understand that much from the diary.]
“Hmm, then I leave the report to you. What’s written about alchemy in there?”
Jin knew that alchemy here resembled science in the modern world. But that was all he knew.
Alchemy was developed about 500 years ago, after his predecessor had passed. Hence, the golems (Reiko’s ancestor automatas) which stayed in the solitary island had no way of knowing about it.
[Yes, this was also not something that interesting. It seems they had tried using strong acid as a weapon. At the end, it didn’t become a reality as they couldn’t create a large amount of strong acid.]
Strong acids are acids which have a high level of ionization. Sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. If they were trying to use this as a weapon, they probably contained it in an airtight containers and launched it onto the enemy demons.
“Chemical weapons, eh…”
It was something he didn’t really want spreading.
“What did the part about historic ruins say?”
[Yes, for convenience, I did say historic ruin but it seems that at the time it was an abandoned fortress. It is the fortress near the Yada village’s historic ruin. However, we, the Quinta, have already finished investigating it.]
“Got it. I leave the control cores with you. Continue analysing it.”
[Understood. Also, this is something Topaz and I investigated but, shall I report about it?]
“Hm? What is it? I am listening.”
Thinking that this was one day full of unusual remarks from Laojun, Jin urged him to continue.
[Alright, then… We have identified why the plants, more specifically the fruit trees in Hourai island, grow so well. It seems that Hourai island is a singularity point for mana.]
“Singularity point?”
[Yes. Normally, ether gathers together at the North Pole. Although it is less than 1/10th of the North Pole, it seems there is a pulse here where ether gathers.]
“I see. And?”
[The ether in the fruits decrease in the order: pelshika, apple, citran. Pelshika, being the highest, has more than 10 times the ether compared to the ones grown in other regions.]
“That is quite amazing. It’s like a ‘senmomo’(special peach).”
A while earlier, Laojun had speculated that Jin would react like that when he gets to know about it.
[And we also discovered that we are able to store it without any drop in quality using the ether stocker.]
“Ooh, that is nice. So, the refrigerators are already reconstructed, right?”
This time, Jin saw through Laojun’s works.
[Yes, as per your command.]
Jin felt happy seeing his own creation, the system called Laojun, executing properly.
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At a location 1 kilometer north of the provincial city of Serroa kingdom, Astan.
In that area, lay Shouro empire’s storage depot.
The diplomat Reinhart was being forced to stay there.
Because a majority of the Serroa kingdom’s head camp consists of Unifiers, as a result of replacing that head, they weren’t properly functioning as an administration.
“Reinhart! Rejoice! We can finally depart!”
Elsa’s elder brother, Fritz, said while he jogged closer.
“Eh, really?”
“Yes. The procedures are finally done. We will depart tomorrow morning! Forte, Bololon, Ganiiz, Toskoshia. And my motherland!”
Seeing Fritz in such high spirits, Reinhart felt happy too.
They were about a week behind schedule.
“We can finally go back to our motherland!”
“Yes, I look forward to it.”
That night, Reinhart was also able to talk to Jin after a long while and so lied down on the floor in content.