Chapter 36 - Armageddon (1/2)

”How is Her Majesty's progress?” asked Natalia.

”Charlotte is improving quickly, she has already reached Level 36 in a short time after I gave her the magic book. She is currently training hard as she is taking advantage of this momentum” said Glaze as he leaned back.

Natalia and Marzia were shocked at the Queen's progress. She was not a hero who was blessed by the Sea of Mana and while she was talented they didn't expect it to be this much.

They thought the Queen indeed was very low key and was probably hiding her potential before the hero was summoned.

”How is the road construction,” asked Glaze.

”The roads connecting all four cities have been upgraded as you asked,” said Marzia as she recalled Glaze had asked her to improve the roads as he planned to create improved magical vehicle.

The current magical vehicles were very slow as no one invested in its research as everyone focused on individual strength. Most people would use magic pouches to transport cargo instead of being carried by a vehicle and the Armies used formations to increase their speeds and travel together but it was still extremely slow compared to a Master Stage being flying.

Glaze had created the Research Department which was working on multiple projects, one of them was a vehicle that could be used in war, though she remained doubtful of such a thing being created so soon, she had raised the production schedule of the Construction Department and had the roads finished constructing as fast as possible.

”Take the bulk of the army to Rizvaria and keep the rest on standby in the rest of the cities. I'll talk to the Research Department and let you know their progress with the Magic Vehicles” said Glaze as he walked out of the room and both of them bowed to him.

In the Royal Research Department, several people were arguing.

”Sir stop, you will blow this place up,” said a guy as he looked at Grant Ward who was the Head of the Research Department as they were trying to create a magic core for the magic vehicle whose power output was far more than anything they had ever made.

While Glaze was no expert in engineering and didn't know how exactly vehicles worked, he had some basic knowledge from the past world that he shared with Grant, the latter had hit a bottleneck for years and was struggling to make new breakthroughs, with this new knowledge that was so different from anything he had learned or experienced as it came from a completely different world whose scientists had a completely different perspective, he was enlightened as his perspective changed and he was making breakthroughs at a terrifying speed.

”Ah, nothing will happen, just shut up for a second,” said he as he waved off his teammates who were scared that this core was gonna blow up the entire Research Department.

It was a cube floating in the space that had extremely minute engravings that one could bȧrėly see with an eye as it was glowing red with a sphere around it and was spinning at an extremely high speed. He casted different types of magic with both of his hands as he tried to make this thing work.

Glaze entered the research department and saw the chaos that was happening, he had seen this happen so many times he had gotten used to it.

”What is it this time?” asked Glaze as he rubbed his temple.

”Your Majesty, you are here! This old man is about to blow the place up” screamed another researched as the core became brighter and brighter and started spinning and shaking vigorously and was releasing terrifying amounts of energy.

Glaze sighed as he stood in front of the core, ” You all can leave, I'll take care of this if something happens” he said as everyone left the room but were still looking through the glass as he could see them panicking around but could hear no sound.

”They are scientists alright,” thought Glaze as he saw these guys screaming about the explosion but had no intention to leave lest they miss the birth of a new invention.

”How is it going ?” he asked as he saw the latter trying to transfer the energy from the glowing core to the frame of the vehicle which had magical engravings that would make the vehicle float and propel it forward.

The frame of the vehicle was huge as it was supposed to carry a large number of soldiers, nothing was powerful enough to lift such amount of weight and propel it forward with a good enough speed before as it was too heavy and would bȧrėly lift up and move at a snail's pace.

”I have managed to gain a lot of insights into improving the efficiency of my engravings thanks to Your Majesty, it has completely shifted my perspective of magical engravings. Now if I can get this to work” said the latter lost in thought excitedly as he cast the last spell and the magic core glowed with blinding light as if it was about to shatter and blow up.

While it wouldn't affect Glaze it would kill everyone here so he took precaution and was ready to erase the explosion with his magic but the magic core then stabilized as the frame of the huge vehicle started glowing as the engravings absorbed the magical power from the core as it covered the entire frame and then the frame lifted. Not an inch or two like before but an entire foot.

The huge 20-meter frame hummed with power as it floated in the experimental zone.

”You did, you actually did it,” said the researchers who were watching as they came back screaming with joy.

”Congratulations,” said Glaze as he smiled and clapped for the research team.

The Researchers were proud of receiving praise directly from the King as they bowed slightly in respect.

”So can it finally reach 60 km/h ?” asked Glaze as he marveled at the detailed engravings.

”No, it can reach up to 150 km/h,” said Grant with a laugh.

Glaze gulped when he heard that, ”Magic is terrifying indeed” he thought as he looked at this 20-meter long monstrosity and imagined how it would look with its body crashing through the battlefield.

”How is the production?” he asked.

”The Manufacturing Department has said they have 3 bodies ready, they just need to be attached to the frame,” said Grant.