Chapter 222 – Raising Talent 1 (2/2)
“I guess by land it isn’t.”
For a quicker return, Woohyuk specifically asked Aris to make a custom order, a flying shuttle, designed by Jake the Engineer.
Once one boarded the shuttle, one could easily move around the continent through the sky.
Before long, when they saw a huge shuttle landing in front of their eyes, the group opened their mouths with an exasperated expression.
“Th-This is… isn’t this… a flying shuttle?!”
“Can you fly in the sky with such a piece of metal? I think it would be more convenient to just use floating magic.”
“It looks quite strong, my lord.”
The reaction was that most of them did not seem to understand the principle of flight.
After Woohyuk had his party board, he ordered Aris, who was in the cockpit, to take off.
“Go ahead, Aris.”
“Teehee~ Okay~.”
Aris started whistling to herself as she started the shuttle.
Before long, the engine started running, and the engineering marvel rose high into the sky.
“Wow~ we’re really flying!”
“How amazing. To think that stable flight is possible with such heavy metal components. I will have to go through the old documents later to see if there were any cases like this in the past.”
“But when did you make it, Lord? Aris must have been busy doing other research.”
“Fiona helped out. As the systems manager for the magic engineering city, Inotia, she possesses a lot of knowledge in this field.”
In other words, when Aris and Fiona joined forces, quite a few magic engineering (Hextech) inventions were easily be created.
Everyone was surprised by Woohyuk’s explanation.
“Woohyuk, then, can we make a car or shower room in our world?”
“In theory, it’s possible, Hong Yuri. The power source may be a little different, but I mean, there are quite a few solutions to solve that problem.”
“Oho! I’ll have to ask Aris to make them both for me later on.”
“However, if there’s no blueprint, it can take a long time to produce.”
Furthermore, now was the time for Woohyuk to focus on cultivating talent rather than technology.
This was because of the systemic problems in this world could not be overcome only by technological progress.
Looking down at the distant ground from the shuttle’s viewing bay, Woohyuk made up his mind.
Now was the time to develop the old guards and talents to a usable level.
***
The shuttle landed in Inotia, the Hextech City.
Though it was called Hextech city, it only had Neustein Castle, the central area, and was surrounded by wasteland.
Since the elevation was so high, only the Dragon Tribe members could live in such a place.
“You were gone for a long time, Mr. Woohyuk Chun.”
“There was a lot of work to do on the ground, Fiona. Did anything happen while I was gone?”
As soon as Woohyuk returned, Fiona approached and gave a report. She was, after all, the system administrator of the Hextech City.
She continued her report from within a transparent glass test tube.
“There have been a number of times when some dragon tribe members came down with the contagious/infectious disease. They turned into demonic dragons. We fired particle cannons on the demonic dragons that approached Neustein Castle and intercepted all of them. That is all.”
“… Good work.”
Fiona was originally the Queen of Erendia, but her speech had changed since systematizing herself. She became more robotic and blunter.
Woohyuk spoke again after checking the report she had written on the screen.
“You said you developed a cure for the infectious disease?”
“Yes. Closer analysis revealed that the dragon disease epidemic was caused by the component A7F4HA3.”
The component A7F4HA3 was one of the determinants of the demons.
In other words, the plague on the dragons was caused by the demons.
However, now that the cause was discovered, the occurrence of demonic dragons would decrease.
“Does the cure have a significant effect on individuals who have already turned into demonic dragons?”
“Yes. In addition, this remedy also functions as a preventive agent, so it is good to use as a prophylactic/vaccine for the young.”
Hearing her explanation, Woohyuk thought of Lia and Carnelian.
Woohyuk turned the pages of the report and asked a question,
“The analysis of Qliphoth’s Fruit is still only at 78% complete. Is there something wrong?”
“It takes a long time to find out the unknown ingredients. However, it turned out that the Water of Paradise and the Water of Life are related to this, so the estimated time may be shortened.”
Still, 78% was great progress.
Awakenings will continue to appear in the future, so it would be better to finish the component analysis as soon as possible.
Woohyuk finally took out the Grouse’s Egg from his pocket.
“I didn’t have time the other day, so I just kept it with me, but I have time now. I want you to shock whatever is in this egg and incubate it.”
“Okay. Considering the actual hatching environment native to the Grouse species, I will proceed under similar conditions as much as possible.”
Fiona took the Grouse’s egg from Woohyuk with a mechanical hand.
After that, when she applied electrical stimulation on the Grouse egg for a while in the laboratory,
“Pika?”
The egg hatched and a blue grouse raised its head from the cracked shell.
Woohyuk called on it and gave it a suitable name.
“Your name is Thunderbird. That’s simple enough.”
“Pi-Yak?!”
It seemed that the Thunderbird was quite taken aback by this ridiculous name.
Still, since it was a unique summon, it seemed to have a high level of intelligence.
Woohyuk decided to give it simple instructions,
“Sit down.”
“Pi-Yak.”
“Stand up.”
“Pi-Yak.”
“Pretend to be dead.”
“Kweck.”
“Fly.”
“Pi-Yak.”
It was much smarter than a pretty pet.
Thus, Woohyuk decided to use it to fix Roan’s habit.
“Master! Don’t just stay with that electronic girl, go outside and free your…”
“Kya-Ahhhhhh!”
As Thunderbird entered the entrance, Roan, whose speech went beyond common courtesy, was instantly electrocuted.
Roan started to see stars.