130 – Turns out engineering genius (4)

“Have you ever heard of Living Armor?”

Eltman showed me the glove and said so.

Living Armor. It’s not the first time you’ve heard the word. That’s because it’s a name that often appears in games and various subcultures. As the name suggests, living armor refers to living armor. However, being alive has many meanings, but most of the time, the soul dwells and moves spontaneously.

So, it’s a haunted thing.

“Ooh…”

I tried to take a close look, but after realizing the meaning of the Living Armor, I widened my distance, and Eltman smiled and said,

“hahahaha. There’s no need to hate it so much. There are no ghosts attached to it. Well, to be precise, it used to be attached to it, but I have to say it doesn’t exist anymore. It’s an item that has been purified in the temple, so don’t worry.”

“I’m concerned that they were originally attached.”

“Hey, I’m fine.”

Certainly, I didn’t feel any special aura from the gloves.

Hey, there’s no way you’d take out such a dangerous thing so calmly. However, it is only reluctant to say that it was once possessed by a ghost. After receiving the glove, I looked around and returned it to Eltman. Except for what he showed me at first, I couldn’t find anything unusual about the gloves.

“By the way, if the ghost dwelling within this has already been exorcised, isn’t this just an ordinary glove?”

Without ghosts, it wouldn’t be living armor anymore.

When I asked that question, Eltman responded by putting magic on his hands and putting on his gloves again.

“It’s not normal. Look, it sticks to itself like this. It doesn’t have any special function other than this, but it can be called living armor at this level. To be precise, it should be said that it was artificially made according to my taste.”

“Artificially?”

“That’s right. Ordinary living armor can be damaged by the mind contamination of the grudges that dwell in it after wearing it. That’s why most of them are treated as cursed equipment. This is an item that removes the grudge and replaces the vacancy with my magic formula. That’s why the original various functions are gone, but you can use it safely like this.”

Well, it’s already a failure in that it has to remove most of its abilities. After muttering that, Eltman threw the glove back into the pile of junk and got up. I also turned to where he was heading, and Eltman continued to talk to me as we moved.

“Originally, that item was received from the Mage’s Tower for research purposes. Divinity is not always required to remove grudges from an object. Magical treatment can also forcibly separate grudges and objects.”

“But didn’t you just say that you were purified in the temple?”

“That’s after the work is done. The Mage Tower tends to pay for these cursed things, so from the seller’s point of view, it’s better to just sell them than pay for them in the temple to purify them. Because it’s nothing more than a thing.”

anyway.

Eltman led me to a table in the corner of the lab.

Unlike the other parts of the cluttered laboratory, the tabletop was clearly organized, and there was a pedestal with a large number of magical power lines connected to one place, and a sphere of unknown use placed on top of it.

It’s an unusual thing to pretend to be.

Enormous magical energy was gathering in one place along the magic line, but should we say that the mighty energies gathered in one place were circulating in a harmonious pattern rather than causing repulsion to each other? It wasn’t that threatening, but it wasn’t normal either.

I had no idea why this was the next item to be shown after the Living Armor, but judging by Eltman’s confident expression, it probably wasn’t something that deviated from the subject he was trying to talk about.

The glove from earlier was just a taster, and Eltman, who showed me this globe with a face that said, “This is the real one,” continued his explanation, albeit regrettably. Is it because the questions and answers continue without interruption? Eltman seemed very amused as he spoke to me.

Or maybe it just likes to explain.

“The thing we need to focus on here is ‘Grudge.’ Human souls. Spiritual beings. The element that gave the glove, which originally had no ability, a strange ability. For your information, the glove prior to being commanded augmented the user’s strength. It has an induction function that enhances durability and automatically defends even if the user is not aware of the attack.”

“Oh. It’s useful. Why did you ask for it?”

“Instead, they extort vitality horribly.”

Aha.

hahahaha If there is no such price, it is not a cursed thing.

“When the grudge disappeared, the glove lost that function. The function I made by replacing it with a magic formula was originally one of the abilities the glove had. Should I say it’s a kind of trace left by the grudge? There is a certain pattern of energy that comes out.

It was a human spirit in the first place, so is it natural? anyway. It’s like filling in the empty part to some extent, but there’s a limit to the magic that can be given to the glove itself, so I couldn’t restore it until that point. I wonder if it was made of mithril or a metal with high magical conductivity. It was just an ordinary piece of iron. By the way. Isn’t there something strange?”

“You mean something that can’t be replaced with magic?”

“right.”

Eltman clapped, saying that I was right.

exactly.

Although I haven’t studied magic specifically, there are a few things I know. All objects that exist physically in this world can be vessels that can contain magic power, and each substance has a fixed capacity.

That is why artisans want materials that can hold more magic power when making things, and knights want weapons made of such materials. It was natural for a knight to want a sword that could hold more of his aura, and for a craftsman, it was natural for him to want a material that could hold all of his abilities.

Of course, if a knight reaches a certain level, he can escape from this situation to some extent, but the case of a craftsman is different. Because the characteristics of the material belonged to a fundamental problem in the field that had nothing to do with the realm. If we compare it to a martial artist, it should be said that it is a matter of dantian before qi.

The functions of living armor that Eltman had mentioned were certainly too many for a mere iron glove to carry. It is said that the performance exceeds the limit that the material can contain.

But, of course, Eltman, who raised the question, solved the question.

“Since ancient times, objects with spirits have been treated better than magic tools. Since you are a knight, you know about the Ego Sword, right? Do you know why swords with such self-consciousness are treated better than other swords?

The reason is that all actions performed by spirits dwelling in objects have a greater mystery than man-made magic. The actions performed by a pure spirit, not a shell of a body, are more natural than any other magic and touch the truth.

Of course, even in the soul, there is a difference in rank, so no matter how young you are, you are a firefly in front of the sun in front of someone with a better soul than you. But what matters here is the ability of the spirit.”

“The power to transcend the limitations of materials.”

“That’s right. Since ancient times, many magicians have tried to overcome the limitations of matter by endowing it with spirit because of this power. but above all…”

“It must have been an ethical problem. Dealing with spirits is something that cannot be done within a legal process, so the imperial family couldn’t have overlooked it.”

“That’s right. I don’t know if it’s an animal, but where would the knowledge-mad wizards keep the line? However, spirits aren’t necessarily just people and animals, right?”

“It’s a spirit.”

“Oh, the answer comes right away? It’s okay to be a wizard, not a knight. Yes. The next thing the wizards touched was the spirits.”

“But isn’t a spirit a being that can’t be recklessly reincarnated into an object like that? I think it’s more dangerous than a human spirit.”

No matter how weak a spirit is, basically, a spirit is the embodiment of nature’s will, so if you mishandle it, you can suffer a great disaster. If it were to dwell in a natural state, it wouldn’t know, but it would be impossible for the spirit to permit the act of artificially reinforcing the material.

Sure enough, Eltman nodded, saying that I was right.

“That kind of thing can only be done by an archmage who can defy the providence. It’s not impossible at all, but the risk of doing so is so great that even using the spirits is forbidden.”

Eltman’s hand goes to the sphere on the table. After taking out the sphere from the pedestal, Eltman started pouring magic into the sphere with his hand. Then, the sphere spun around on Eltman’s hand, and a faint light radiated along the circuit engraved on the sphere.

When the line was all connected with light, two visible red dots appeared in the middle of the center of the previously invisible sphere, as if you had just opened your eyes.

what? Where have you seen this…?

Ha X?

“But that’s true. Spirits are beings that were born when the energy that exists in nature has a will, right? That’s why they have the properties of nature. Then, what if we intentionally endow energy with will? It only assists magic calculations The birth of a mental body to do this. Is that really impossible?”

The answer is NO.

As soon as Eltman finished speaking, the red dot on the sphere flashed irregularly and an artificially created mechanical sound that could not be called a human voice flowed out.

[I’m hungry.]

Although this was the first word I spat out, I could see that the words it spat out contained emotions that could never be contained in normal coding. It also seemed very irritating. It was a voice that made me feel that way even though there was nothing to say about the expression.

Emotions are proof that they can think and make judgments on their own and exist as independent objects.

So again, this…

“Ah…This is an Artificial Elemental.”

It is the sound of perfectly completed AI (Artificial Intelligence).