Business trip (3)

A huge storm of lightning sweeps the battlefield.

The flashes of lightning that fell endlessly colored the darkness of the gray world like broad daylight, and the electric shock that struck the ground burned dozens and hundreds of monsters without a trace.

It was weather manipulation magic that used not only the caster’s natural magic, but also the friction of the thick cloud layer that covered the sky.

The power of magic using even the power of the natural world far exceeded the tiger’s imagination.

Truly a manifestation of disaster.

All that remained on the battlefield that was swept away by [Thunderbolt] was death and destruction, and only traces of the beast that had become rags.

“·······.”

After the short and long magic ended, Skadi stared blankly at the scene he had created.

After the mind control was over, the effect of the hive mind also disappeared.

The mind that had risen to ‘above’ also regained its place, but the afterglow remained for a long time and echoed in Skadi’s image.

“I… 9 circle magic…”

I’ve been knocking on the door for a long time, but I’ve never been able to enter the heavenly realm.

He finally stepped into the realm of the 9th Circle, which he had not even stepped on for the first time in nearly 10 years.

“Congratulations.”

A voice was heard from behind.

When I turned my head, Kang Yoo-jin’s characteristic blunt face was clapping.

“Helios will soon have a 9th circle mage.”

“ah···.”

Hearing that voice brought my mind back to reality.

After staring blankly at the devastated battlefield, this time he turned his gaze to the surroundings.

Surrounding cities were also swept away by thunderstorms, and buildings that were no different from ruins now completely disappeared without a trace.

“Ugh…”

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Joy and sadness.

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Joy and lamentation.

Conflicting emotions coexisted and boiled as the rise of the realm and the pain of loss intersected.

“Are you okay?”

“Uh… it’s okay!”

The past is just the past.

Don’t get caught up in it.

Like Yujin Kang said, we have to live for tomorrow.

I shook my head, clearing my confused mind, and raised my head like that.

“First of all, thank you… Oh?”

But there was something strange.

The building with Kang Yu-jin’s back.

The ger where the prototype was sleeping was intact without collapsing.

“Uh…? Why is this building fine…?”

“I kept it. It shouldn’t collapse.”

He pointed his gun.

He said that he fired several bullets enchanted with the 4th Circle’s “Lightning Rod”, inducing and canceling out the thunderbolts of lightning.

It was because it would be difficult if the building collapsed and the dismantling magic stopped.

“·······.”

But whatever the intention, this place survived.

Traces of the past, which I thought would all disappear, are left here.

Perhaps it was because there were still things he thought he would lose with the rise to the 9th circle, Skadi’s face quickly turned into a tearful look.

“Professor Skadi?”

Skadi, who was crying, raised her arm and wiped her eyes.

Then, looking at Kang Yu-jin with open eyes, he hugged her tightly.

They hugged each other as if they were clinging to each other and jumped and rubbed.

It was a very passionate hug.

“Thank you! Thank you very much!”

“·······.”

It was a bottomless thank you.

It was sudden, but Yujin Kang didn’t say anything.

Without saying a word, he just patted her on the back with his hand.

“Hmm… kuhmm…”

And Skadi, who fell in a hurry, made an awkward face and twisted her hair.

I committed it out of anger because I was overwhelmed with emotions, but looking back, it was because my face was hot.

“I-I hugged you because I was grateful!

“Yes.”

Of course, Yujin Kang was not the kind of person who cared about such things.

“The dismantling work must be finished now. Let’s go back before more monsters arrive.”

“Ah… that’s right! That’s how it should be!”

I followed Kang Yoo-jin inside, and there was a completely dismantled cylinder lying neatly on the floor.

Putting it this way, there aren’t that many parts that will be the core.

Kang Yoo-jin, who was carefully looking at the wreckage, picked up a small core placed in the middle.

“It seems to be the object responsible for the nucleus of the sympathetic nervous system.”

“Can I just bring this?”

“Yes. The rest are things I can’t even use anyway.”

Except for the core, all of them are old and have reached the end of their lifespan.

He added that even if he took it, it would be of no more value than an antique.

Kang Yoo-jin, who took a single word from his index finger, called Warp.

The voice that announced that there were no demons nearby and explained the coordinates was still calm.

Despite all that, he was always a calm and blunt person.

“Professor Yujin Kang.”

“Yes.”

“What are you going to do when you get back?”

While tying her fluffy tail, she spoke a little shyly.

“First of all, we will organize the data of the rotating body kit.”

With the kit I lent to Skadi, I’ve accumulated enough data.

As it assisted with 9 circle magic, there would be no better data than this.

Are you going to go back to work?

Skadi, who inflated his cheeks a little dissatisfiedly, kicked the floor.

“I’m going to write a thesis with what I realized this time. I think a good thesis will come out if the magic phenomenon experienced in the 9th circle!”

“okay.”

“That’s why…”

He holds his tail and continues talking while covering his mouth in embarrassment.

“Can you write the thesis…?”

Kang Yoo-jin looked at Skadi at the small suggestion.

Deep, deep eyes looking at oneself.

For some reason, his gaze was tense, and he swallowed dry saliva without realizing it.

“I’m a little busy…”

“Oh no…”

push shh. The steam leaked out and my shoulders drooped.

I was nervous and asked, but the reaction was the same as usual.

“still.”

However, he added.

“Professor Skadi, if you need him, make time.”

“·······.”

that one word.

A word of consideration that he gave indifferently lingered in Skadi’s ears.

Hwaaak-

The light of the warp that arrived just in time embraced him.

Looking at him reaching out his hand in the pouring light, he nodded vigorously.

“Give me time!”

And, he held Kang Yu-jin’s hand tightly.

*

The return was swift.

After returning to Helios by warp, Skadi and I wrote a brief report and parted ways.

However, before we parted ways, Skadi had asked me to show the data of the rotating body kit he had obtained from her for a while before revealing it.

‘Isn’t that the data that will be used for promotional purposes later?’

‘That’s right.’

‘If you send it to me, I’ll give you a good trick!’

I didn’t say what the trick was.

I just wanted to ask for a surprise.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to hand over the data.

After all, half of Data’s share belonged to Skadi.

I handed over the data I had compiled over the course of a whole day to her, and after that, my daily life continued without much happening.

Returning to the lab on a campus that was sparsely populated, I spent a week studying the loot from Rendire.

“Is the structure different from the general sympathetic nervous system…”

There were quite a few things I found out in a whole week of digging.

One of them is that the structure of the sympathetic nervous system engraved on it is different from the normal nervous system.

The ‘nucleus’ was clearly an object made based on the sympathetic nervous system.

When I tried to respond through magical power, I could clearly feel the presence of the nervous system inside it.

However, its structure was unique compared to other sympathetic nervous systems.

Unlike the general nervous system, the nuclear nervous system showed several artificially created structures.

“Are you trying to weaponize the sympathetic nervous system?”

It seemed that the sympathetic nervous system, which was only a means of communication, was modified and used as an ‘artificial intelligence’ that actively accepts and reinterprets demonic energy.

It’s like putting an ego into the so-called network itself.

It was probably developed as a means to actively respond to the situation on the battlefield.

I don’t know the detailed principle, but one thing is certain: this is very fatal to mankind, and its completion is just around the corner.

“No, it could have already been completed.”

Considering the glass tube Wyvern used, there was a good chance that it would have been completed by now.

No matter what the ghost tribe’s ‘Balthazar’ was aiming for, it was information that was a threat to the allied forces.

Relevant information will need to be quickly organized and submitted to the military.

“The dismantling of the glass tube is still…”

Because the structure is so complex, the glass tubes have not been dismantled even after a week.

Before, I didn’t know how to deal with it, so I was at a loss, but now that I’ve been to Rendire, I think I’ve got a clue.

If dismantling ends soon, it will be possible to grasp the principle based on the information found now.

If that happens, it will be possible to absorb their skills into mine.

And maybe Maria’s half self…

“·······.”

A crystal extracted from Maria, where her Witchbeast Ego slept.

Banjak looked at the black light for a while, then put it back into his arms.

Looking forward to the day I can wake up soon.

‘wait a moment.’

Leaving only the dismantled glass tube behind, I left the lab with the lights off.

I want to stay longer, but I had someone to meet at the office today.

Passing through the empty campus, I climbed the stairs to Helios Middle Floor.

It’s been a while since I spent a week in the lab, and the office I’m heading to is a little unfamiliar.

When I climbed the stairs and arrived in front of the office, I saw the person who had made an agreement.

A blonde girl dressed neatly in a coat.

It was Estelle.

“Ummm…”

She was standing in front of the office, clearing her throat.

I watched to see what they were doing, and Estelle, who was well-dressed, greeted me in front of the closed door.

“Hello? Long time no see.”

Then he shakes his head.

“Hello, professor. Umm… you’re uptight, professor?”

What can I say…

Seeing you muttering like that, I wonder if you’re practicing greetings.

It was worth pretending not to know it for a moment, but it seemed like it would be like that all day if I let it stand for a long time.

I stood behind her in front of the door.

“Um… I’m here, professor-“

“Estel.”

“-Nihieuek.”

Estelle let out a strange scream and quickly turned around.

“What are you doing not going in?”

“·······.”

A red blush spread across Estelle’s face, which was rarely embarrassed.

I walked past her, who only opened her mouth, and opened the door to the office.

Estelle hurriedly followed with her flushed face lowered.

Then, as I was about to sit down, he added more and more as if hitting a player.

“I have a habit of practicing greetings before meeting people.”

“yes.”

“This is by no means a panicked explanation.”

“i get it.”

It seemed like he was flummoxed by something like that.

I decided to pass it on quietly for Estelle’s sake.

“Yes. Why did you make the appointment?”

After sitting in a chair and rhyming, she let out a deep sigh and handed me a letter.

“…First of all… No, it’s a letter that Encia asked me to deliver.”

“·······.”

It’s a letter.

He usually texts me about important things, but has he grown up?

When I opened the letter, the contents were more than I expected.

It was a story that I wanted to ask for a personal consultation later.

The time is after the vacation is over.

At that time, I had to meet him anyway, even if I didn’t like it, so there was no reason for me to refuse.

“I’ll answer Ancia directly. Thank you for the letter.”

“You’re welcome.”

She nods her head elegantly, as if she has blown away all her shyness from earlier.

By the way, if Estelle, Altair’s daughter, would even run errands like this, it seems that the two of them got pretty close.

Did you heed the advice I told you to make someone to stand by your side?

In any case, it is a pleasure for the teacher.

“Umm…then I’ll tell you the real purpose.”

After clearing her throat, Estelle pulled out several wads of paper from her bag.

Each was a press document such as a journal and a daily newspaper.

“About the rotary body kit we talked about before.”

“yes.”

“The Workshop Federation started to raise questions.”

I picked up a newspaper.

As Estelle said, what was printed on the front page was an objection to the rotating body kit raised by the Workshop Federation.

The kit’s stability and reliability were not verified, and it was written at length that it was necessary to refrain from using it and summon the developer to investigate.

“You play childishly.”

I ignored the call, and now it seems to have turned to the attack.

“Altaïr’s intentions.”

“First of all, I plan to slowly appease the media by issuing a refutation article. But the Workshop Federation is also a veteran in this regard, so I don’t think it will be quickly suppressed.”

It must be so.

They are also people who can be called vested interests.

Of course, they will try to protect their own interests, and in the meantime, there will be many things that have been cut off before they grow in a similar way.

This is something that happened frequently on Earth.

It seems that the saying that people live everywhere is the same.

“There is data for the reliability test, so I’ll organize it and announce it soon. I’ll also publish a counter-article at that time.”

“Yeah.”

This should be enough to deal with it a little bit.

They will come out as tenaciously as their interests are at stake, so it will probably be a long fight.

A sigh comes out of nowhere.

I tried to put it on track during vacation, but it seems like it was too big of a dream.

“… I’m sorry.”

“It can’t be helped. It’s not something I don’t understand.”

That’s the way everything in the world is.

It wasn’t unexpected, but I couldn’t help but feel bitter.

belt ring-

“yes···?”

At that time, Estelle’s watch alarm went off.

“What.”

“…I got a text. It’s from Hanna, but I guess I’m in a bit of a hurry.”

Estelle carefully looked at me.

It must be difficult to see it as it is in front of the professor.

When I tell him to read it, he bows his head and rolls his eyes.

Estelle’s eyebrows twitched as she read the message.

“Tell me to watch the news now.”

“now?”

“Yes. It looks urgent…”

The contents of which the English language is not known.

There’s no way you wouldn’t know that it was rude enough, but I wonder if it was urgent enough to send even knowing that.

Well, there was still time, so I brought the crystal ball from the office.

“Then excuse me…”

Estelle turned on the crystal ball, adjusted the channel, and fixed it to where the news came from.

Soon, a loud voice came out, and I couldn’t help but be surprised to see the person in the interview.

“Professor Skadi?”

The main character of the interview was none other than Professor Skadi.

The headline was ‘Breaking News! A new 9th circle wizard is born!’ was

She was blatantly publicizing her achievements in Rendiur.

-Professor Skadi! How do you feel about breaking the wall of the 9th circle at the young age of 28!?

-What… You’re calm~ It’s just that you climbed a bit early to the place you’ll be climbing someday~ The way you’re proud with your chest stretched out is very Skadi-like.

But why did you ask me to see this?

As soon as he swallowed the question, Skadi’s mouth opened again.

-And I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Yujin Kang. Because it helped me a lot.

-If it helps, may I know what you are talking about?

-A rotating body kit!

She took out her staff in front of numerous reporters.

It was the staff with the kit I gave them.

-This is really great. When you first entered the 9th circle, the circle was unstable, right? But, while this adjusts the imbalance of the circle, it also stably manifests magic.

lively.

Skadi, who waved her tail and waved her hand, smiled briskly.

– Without this, achievement would have been delayed by years! I can say that I owe a lot to this kit to achieve my 9th circle!

-Then does that mean that the rotating body kit is so good that it stably supports 9-circle magic?

-Absolutely! The effect is great!

Then the reporter adds.

-The Kobo Federation recently raised an objection to reliability. What do you think about that?

-Oh~! That’s what they’re trying to say. It also supports the 9th circle, but if stability is bad, shouldn’t all the artifacts in this world be used? You can trust this! Aha!

“·······.”

“·······.”

Silence fell in the office.

My eyes and Estelle’s eyes were fixed on the interview.

this···.

“…I guess I don’t have to write a rebuttal article.”