Chapter 465 – Welcome and Advice

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Bang! Then, when the sound of someone hitting the desk hard is heard, everyone’s eyes are directed there.

There, a woman with her red hair tied into a long ponytail was standing there, looking at her man her, who could be called her boss her.

Looking at the white gowns they were wearing, it was easy to guess that they were researchers somewhere.

“This project is against it. No… The Council will be against it. I told you. Every year… No, every month. No- every day, every minute, every second. The amount of energy in the air is decreasing, the energy in the leyline is getting less.”

Just by looking at the veins on her forehead as she said that, you could tell how angry she was.

“I’m sorry. This is a project that has received final approval from the ‘committee’. Leviathan is already delivering materials for construction to the drylands. Hey R. Our task is to create a weapon that can prevent the ‘Apocalypse’. That’s it.”

The man said that as if he was tired, and laid back in his chair.

“When mana is depleted, humans are also doomed… !”

“It’s just one theory. You know very well that since Tris Megistos, who advocated the theory, disappeared, he has n’t been able to prove the part related to mana among his studies.”

At the man’s words, R hit the desk and made a fist with his hand, and was so angry that his shoulders his trembled.

“R. Calm down. The apocalypse that this lab needs to prevent is not a ‘silence apocalypse [Static end]’ As you claim. It’s a ‘riot apocalypse [A riotous end]’. A war between nations. A nuclear umbrella. ” Peace on the blade created by things, but in this world where you live with a self-destruct button under your cushion, you don’t know when and where it will explode if you get the balance a little wrong, and the control body wants a weapon that can literally control the end of the world. “

“That said, even if we don’t use magic weapons that exceed the standards regulated by international treaties…!”

“Stop.”

When the protest of the woman called R seemed to continue, the man, as if he could not stand it any longer, hit the desk hard with her hand and interrupted her.

“The reason you came here is probably to solve that part. The magic power that will be used as a power source for the weapons we develop. That magic power will be used efficiently. To achieve great efficiency with a little less magic power. That’s it. Isn’t it the meaning of your existence? Apocalypse Countermeasures Weapons Lab. Team leader in charge of magical organ development. Liza R Flame-.”

Bang!

“…”

When the man tried to call him by his name her, R hit the desk with his fist again.

A shimmering haze lingered in her hand, and she glared at him with her mouth shut.

“If excessive consumption of magical power is a problem, then you just have to solve that part. The laboratory prepared for you, and the materials. It’s all there for that. If you understand, go back to your seat. Go. This time Come up with a blueprint for the power engine that will go into the project.”

Eventually, the story ends there.

The man with a higher status than R calls the others and starts talking about the next part of the project.

Hearing the whispers from the surroundings, R turned around and headed towards his laboratory her.

And, next to R, a girl who seems to be of a similar age walks with him.

“R. Don’t be so angry. All of your pretty faces are frowning.”

With her long gray hair, she seemed a bit more mature than R, but she was the only person in the institute who took care of R.

“B. What did I tell you to calculate yesterday?”

“Of course I did. It’s a formula that falsifies the magic adaptation level imprinted in the creature’s genes, right? But what do you plan to do with it? Are you trying to reproduce Tris-san’s formula?”

“Yeah… That’s right.”

At R’s answer to her, B opened her mouth as if a little surprised, then looked around while watching the door to their laboratory open in front of her eyes, then went inside.

“Monitor.”

When R says the name of the tool like that, the giant monitor placed in the lab lights up in response.

The machine connected to the Emerald Tablet and receiving the data was displaying the results of B’s ​​finalized calculations.

As B looked at it, she crossed her arms a little proudly and gave a hum.

R, too, raises the corner of her mouth at her friend’s mistake-free handling of her.

By applying formula B and manipulating a creature’s genes, it would be possible to create a being that far surpassed the limits of the magical power adaptability that the creature was supposed to be born with.

Moreover, this trait is inherited.

As long as the data is complete, it can be recreated.

“What are you trying to do by raising your magic adaptability like this? R.”

“Magical adaptability is the sum of the affinity and dominance of magical power. More efficiency can be derived from less magical power. …If all the people in the world had magical adaptability several times higher than today’s, “It can significantly slow down the time of ‘mana depletion’.”

“Aha…”

B nods his head knowingly.

B, too, was as concerned as R about the situation in which natural mana was depleted in this world.

In fact, on this planet right now, there is a country where the natural magic power of some areas has been exhausted, and desertification is progressing without recovery.

Some researchers warned of the dangers of mana depletion decades ago and even made international regulations regulating the consumption of mana, but there were also those who were violating it as if it were natural.

Onetime. There was a story that a great scholar called ‘Tris Megistos’ had created a plan to solve the mana depletion.

He was accused of being behind international terrorists and was pursued by the international police and arrested.

Ultimately, it was concluded that the charges were false and he was released, but he has since disappeared.

That was already 10 years ago.

Everyone thought he died from the torture he received from the international police.

And, most of the research materials he left behind were of a high level that only ‘Tris Megistos’ could understand.

Except for ‘R’ and ‘B’ here.

Both of them had brilliant brains to the point of being called geniuses, proudly graduating from international universities, and after that, they were promised lives as elites.

Starting with the contact R received from ‘someone’, the two secretly continued to maintain Tris Megistos.

The ‘magic adaptation factor’ created by R by applying the calculation result of the formula created by B.

Looking at the array of genes shining in the monitor, R covers the corners of his mouth.

And, it was a quiet talk.

“And-“

“…And?”

“Weapons using magical powers, and control of structures can be forcibly seized. Just in case, it is possible to normalize weapons that are likely to be misused by turning the muzzle toward mankind.”

At R’s story, B was silent for a moment.

“No way. Leviathan…”

“It’s a story if it’s completed. In order for a human with this magic adaptation factor to be created, I’ll have to send it to ‘that guy’. I don’t know how many years it will take.”

Saying that, R took out the remote control from his pocket and mixed the jamming waves into the communication frequency, creating an effect that prevented jamming and eavesdropping.

Then, while placing his hand on the emerald tablet, he called the name of a being that could only be spoken to through that tablet.

“Mercury. This is R. According to your advice, we have derived the result of modifying the genetic information. I will send this result to you from now on.”

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“Mercury.”

At the end of her vision her before her eyes her, Amelia called out the name her, recalling an ancient entity that existed beneath the depths of her mother’s homeland, the Crystal Gorge.

Then she, who had introduced herself as an artificial spirit of the laboratory, spoke to Amelia like this.

“Amelia is what Mercury created from the research results of R and B. It is your ancestor. And that factor has been passed down from generation to generation through your mother’s line.”

“In us, that kind of thing…”

Amelia clenched her fists with a surprised face as if she knew for the first time a fact that even Mercury hadn’t explained.

“After that, the two of them- what happened to the primordial world?”

“—A few years after that, ‘powerful divine magical weapons in the form of swords’ appeared in the world, that is, holy swords. Humans who could use the holy swords began to appear. “

At her words her, Amelia nods her head, recalling once again what she had seen before.

“…The holy sword and the hero. And after that-“

“Yes. Unfortunately or fortunately. The world did not perish due to ‘mana depletion’ as R and B expected. In the midst of a war that spreads without stopping, mankind eventually became ‘enemy of the stars’. It was destroyed by a golden comet that appeared while tearing a crack.”

“Golden comet. Hero, Lesia.”

Cleon comes to mind automatically.

The fates of those two people were bizarrely intertwined, and the bond still remained undissolved.

Furthermore. The image of Lecia, whom he had seen in a dream not too long ago, came to mind as well.

Her body has already turned into a defense mechanism that destroys the world’s enemies, so she can’t even control herself, she said.

If – if a golden comet descends on this world again.

Will they be able to stop her?

A terrible chill ran down Amelia’s back her.

For something like that to happen, it had to be prevented.

“…That’s right. Amelia. And that’s only possible when you and your companions, the magic swordsman of the Dark Demon clan and their companions join forces.’

An artificial spirit talking to Amelia as if it had read her thoughts of her.

“Tell me. What should I do? What should I do?”

Even if he lost his powers, lost his pendant, and even lost his place his in the kingdom.

Amelia Chaldearis, Saint Princess.

He is a crusader who fights to protect people.

Amelia’s determination was conveyed to the artificial spirit without hesitation.

Amelia here is a pure spirit.

Even if she did n’t mean it, she could n’t hide her true intentions her, and her artificial spirit her would have to think about what to do if she had a dark heart.

However, Amelia did not.

So, the artificial spirit smiled softly and bowed to Amelia as if to express her gratitude to her.

And, she was talking to Amelia like this.

“We must stop those who are trying to activate the Leviathan again.”

“Leviathan… Obviously, when I entered the research center, it was said that it was a project being carried out in Area B. Attis, I also thought that Leviathan was buried under the Dragon Mountain.”

At Amelia’s answer her, the artificial spirit nodded her head.

“That’s right. As she predicted, the Leviathan was built and left unattended, now covered by the ground and sleeping under a huge boulder called the Serpent Mountains.”

At the words of the artificial spirit, Amelia could only imagine in her head her a little whether Attis would be delighted, or she would naturally be flattered.

However, at the same time, if there is something to worry about.

That the regressors are hiding somewhere in the Dead Dragon Mountains.

“Perhaps the ultimate goal of the regressors is to activate that Leviathan?”

At Amelia’s question, the artificial spirit fell silent for a moment.

“I can’t figure out what kind of existence they are. Except that there have been people who have contacted Leviathan for hundreds of years and tried to restore its function. Because Leviathan is not directly manipulated by this laboratory.”

After a while, she talks while looking at Amelia.

“If Leviathan’s functions are normalized, and if it is activated by any chance, it will quickly absorb the mana of this continent and cause a great disaster.”

“Is it a disaster…? Why? Wasn’t the Leviathan a weapon created to prevent the end?”

“A weapon created to restrain humans who have become capable of destroying themselves with force. That’s Leviathan. Of course, it’s an incredibly powerful weapon. And what’s even more problematic is that Leviathan is needed.”

When the artificial spirit waved its hand, the illusion of the Dragon Mountains appeared between the two.

And, when Leviathan wriggled and protruded to the ground from the bottom of the mountain range, the mountain collapsed, and at the same time, a huge magic cannon was fired between the joints and joints of the body, causing a disaster that split the sky , the land, and the mountains and burned them. .

At the same time, the land on which Leviathan was clad quickly dried up and twisted, turning into a wilderness—a desert.

“This… Is depleted of mana…!”

Amelia knew what the phenomenon was as soon as she saw it.

The weapons used by Leviathan were all powered by magic power, and since they were consuming the magic power around them so quickly, they were devastating the ground to such an extent that it seemed as if only that part of the land was passing time quickly.

“If the returners are going to activate this… We really need to stop that much…”

At Amelia’s words, the artificial spirit nodded in agreement.

“The magic adaptation factor within you has the power to seize the control of all kinds of magic-powered objects. Of course, mastering the power requires your efforts, Amelia. , Please protect Leviathan. By any chance, if the child wakes up, you will use your power to put him to sleep once again.”

At the words of her artificial spirit her, Amelia seemed sure she knew what she had to do. He nodded her head as he clenched her fist.

And she suddenly asked her about the facts she was curious about.

“Is it because I can derive the power of the magic crystal because of that magic adaption factor?”

“The power of the magic crystal… Ah, that’s also true. By adapting one’s body to the magic possessed by the magic crystal, it is possible to quickly switch the attributes of magic power.”

To her answer her, Amelia replies, ‘Of course,’ and she ponders.

Then, it was necessary to find a new magic crystal that could replace the Holy Spirit Pendant or the Wolf Head Pendant.

Otherwise, we won’t be able to help Cleon fight together.

However, looking at Amelia, the artificial spirit speaks.

“But. You don’t necessarily need that magic crystal.”

“…Yes?”

She tilted her head, as if not sure what the artificial spirit meant.

Because until now, Amelia’s ability to exert her power without a medium such as a pendant was limited to healing magic that used her divine magic as it was.

“…The human body too. A medium of magical power. In order to fully express your power-“

The moment she said that, the scenery around her quickly blurred, and Amelia’s vision her drew gradually closer to darkness.

And-

[Amelia!]

Thinking she heard Lyla’s voice, the moment Amelia’s eyes closed and then opened-

What unfolded in front of her was the command room of Area B, where she had been confident until earlier.

Emerald tablets and machines. And- it was Lila who was looking at herself as if she was worried.

“…Thank God, I was worried about what I would do if I couldn’t come back…!”

When Layla sighs in relief as she hugs Amelia, Amelia feels a little sorry and tells her.

“I’m sorry. Me too, it was sudden… Ha, but. I’m back with good news for you all.”

“Ah. In that case-“

“It was good———!!!!”

At that time, as if to interrupt Amelia and Layla, there was a woman right next to her raising her hand with a loud voice.

It was Artis.

Ahahaha she is! She did and she laughed out loud and ran to the assistants around her as if to get a rinse.

“…”

Amelia looks at her like that and wonders what the hell is going on with a worried expression, but Lila talks.

“I was watching her talk her with her through her monitor connected to her Emerald Tablet her. I couldn’t hear her very well. I saw a Leviathan pop out from under the Dragon Mountain. That’s how it happened.” .”

“Ah, ah… That, I see.”

Amelia nodded her head in agreement with her answer her.

“… Let’s listen to the details while moving. Before it’s too late, we have to explore the remaining area-A and return to the ground. We need to properly convey what we saw earlier to Cleon.”

“…Yes!”

Amelia nods her head in response to Layla’s story of her.

Last-

What the hell was her spirit trying to tell her?

Humans are also mediums of magical power.

One’s own strength, completely one’s own.

The voice still lingered in Amelia’s head.