Chapter 431 (1/2)

419 Magi Craft Meister

13 Stronghold Enhancement Arc

13-07 Hot Cake

Jin took only Reiko and boarded Pegasus 1. Both of them transported to the sky above the town of Taki through the “Warp Gate that does not require a receiver”, also known as the “Transporter”, which was installed in the plaza behind the research institute on Horai Island.

As a precaution, they transported a small rubber ball through it, and had a Regulus 50 nearby the destination confirmed it. When no problems were confirmed, they transported Pegasus 1.

This time, the coordinates of the Regulus 50 was used as a marker for their destination, which error resulted was almost negligible.

“Hmmm, if I put a marker in the known world ….”

Jin’s murmur was transmitted to Laojun. However, marking various places in the known world would be for future discussions.

It was still bright, so they activated Invisible and landed on the outskirts of town. The Regulus 50 showed Jin and Reiko the way toward the sanatorium.

“He’s here.”

It was a small sanatorium on the outskirts of Taki. Marcus Grinwald was resting in that one room.

“… He looks terrible.”

It was debilitating to see. His consciousness had not returned. Reiko seemed to be indifferent. It was only natural for her to show the cold attitude since Marcus was Jin’s enemy.

Meanwhile, Jin was talking to the Regulus 50.

“This is most likely due to the strengthening and mobilizing the body by force.”

Marcus was a human being. He was manipulated by a demon so that the extraordinary physical abilities beyond human capability could be demonstrated. His muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones were battered.

“The healer has finally able to recover him to this point.”

“I see. I don’t have much time, so I’ll do it quickly.”

Jin took the Magi Crystal that he had prepared out of his pocket and used Transinfo at level 8. It was the normal highest level.

Above that level, there were only level 9 that could copy up to the personality, and level 10 that Jin’s predecessor used when passing her knowledge to him.

Unlike level 9, level 10 could even add “annotations” to the knowledge being transferred. It would take more time to do that.

Setting that aside, Magi Formula surfaced from Marcus’ head and disappeared into the Magi Crystal as the level 8 Transinfo was utilized.

“That should do it. Let’s have Laojun do the analysis.”

Jin left the treatment room and returned to Pegasus 1.

He handed a bottle of recovery medicine available aboard Pegasus 1 to the Regulus 50 that was seeing them off.

“Administer this little by little. It should help speed up the recovery.”

Then, Jin and Reiko returned to Horai Island through the Warp Gate installed aboard Pegasus 1. Pegasus 1 would return to the island by autopilot.

“Welcome home, My Lord.”

“Laojun, please analyze this.”

Jin entrusted Laojun with the Magi Crystal that should contain all of Marcus’ memories, knowledge, and experience.

“Understood. I will do it right away.”

At that time, someone came.

“Brother Jin, Edgar’s remodeling is completed,” Elsa reported.

When he heard her voice, Jin thought of an idea. But he held back in expressing it. He thought to talk about it after more careful consideration.

“Oh, I see. Have you tried activating him yet?”

Be that she was Jin’s disciple, Elsa was quite fast in working.

“Yup, I have just activated him. And I wanted Brother Jin to see it.”

Jin had just finished talking to Laojun, and was about to return to the workshop anyway.

“Oh, looks good.”

“Really?”

He tested Edgar’s activation. His operation seemed to be stable. It seemed that the data sent by Reiko to Laojun was also useful.

“Well, you’re ready to create an Automata.”

“If Brother Jin says so, I’ll try it.”

Finally, Elsa started working on creating the Automata to be given to the Marquess.

“So that it can provide healthcare, I think it should have about your physique, Elsa.”

Jin was thinking about the possibility for the Marquess to carry the Automata on his back or hold her up in his arms.

“Yeah, I think so, too.”

The skeleton used 64 aluminum. The muscle was from Magical Fiber produced on Horai Island. Magical Skin was also used to create the skin.

The goal was to have half of the specs the earliest version of Reiko possessed that Jin created. Of course, a measure against rewriting the magic for slavery purposes should be taken into account as well.

To improve Elsa’s skills, template references were kept to a minimum; it also served as OJT (on-the-job training, a method of teaching through hands-on experience).

This was her second creation, so it took her about 3 hours to complete. Her skills had clearly improved since it took her 4 hours to create Edgar in the past.

She used Grand Caterpillar for the material of the clothes. She created a typical maid outfit for Lisa to wear.

“Well done. She has a bigger physique than Edgar, but she’ll be Edgar’s little sister.”

It was not something strange, because Reiko was the eldest among all Jin’s golems and Automatas.

“Have you decided what to name her?”

“Yup. I think I’m going to name her Lisa.”