Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 52: Toward (Part 02)
The sun went down and the day changed. At Luke's family home, a quiet atmosphere was felt and on the front lawn. On top of the flower plants and plants, there was a glitter of flying fireflies mixed with low-level spirits. Amidst the darkness surrounding the Mansion located far away from the public settlement, bright lights were seen from the lights installed on the building and along the fence wall of the place.
Gariadin sat in front of the entrance gate guard post, holding his spear and at first glance looked saturated despite being accompanied by several Lizarman who were busy chatting with each other. The unusual routine he had been doing for the past few days was a little imprinted in his mind, it made the old red-haired man feel a little bored with his current job of just guarding the gates or occasionally helping the servants in the Mansion in doing heavy work.
Inside the dining room of the Marquess' main building, Odo Luke and Mavis sit opposite each other on a rectangular dining table. A basket of dry bread is on the table, several jars of sweets and pickles are also provided for washing the mouth. Although the Luke family now inside the Mansion was only the two of them, the young man in black hair chose not to sit next to Mavis.
The light from the chandelier seemed to make the atmosphere more dim, the beautiful decorations that adorned the walls in the dining room did not make the mood of the blonde woman happy or momentarily forgot the conversation earlier in the afternoon. The dinner plate in front of Mavis was still left, while Odo's plate was finished and the young man's black hair busied himself with various utensils that he placed on the table.
Some thin glass balls are multicolored with hollow center sections such as light bulbs, iron rings, screwdrivers and bolts, wire, magic crystals and fabrics and lubricants, all that Odo put on the table next to his empty plate. Fiola who was standing behind Mavis stared slightly annoyed at the behavior of the boy, imania and Julia, who were standing near the entrance of the dining room, looked curiously at what Odo was doing.
Odo assembled the components previously seized from his room, painstakingly and meticulously installed small parts and made skeletons and magic structures on the objects he was making. Mavis put both elbows on the table, propped her head up and watched her son in surprise.
Little know what his son was doing, Mavis asked at a glance, “What is a magic lamp?” Odo stopped his hand and looked at his mother, taking a breath and trying not to remember the previous conversation.
“This is not a lamp,” replied the young man while re-assembling his magic tools.
“Not?” Mavis stopped supporting her head, sat up straight and asked again, “Then what is that transparent glass ball and magic crystal for? Isn't that a lamp component?”
“True wait, Mother. This ... almost done.”
Odo further assembles, uses screwdrivers and bolts to hold components together, and wears a welder from a small wooden box container to reduce friction between component joints. No more than ten minutes, the young man finished making his magic tool. It did look like a light bulb, with a magic crystal as the core, on the bottom was an iron skeleton that could be rotated to open the bottom cover and paired with a circuit structure connected to the magic reactor.
“At any view ... it's a lamp, my son.”
“Really?” Odo put the magic tool on the table, smiling at a glance satisfied with what he made.
Odo observed it, re-raised the object and examined it from several angles. Making sure that the device was as expected, the young man turned the bottom and opened the lid, then channeled his Mana directly into the glass ball in his right hand and activated the magic tool. Unlike magic lights that emit a bright light, the magic tool did indeed shine a dim green and what became the output was a cool breeze that even reached where Mavis was sitting.
“This ... wind magic? What is from the tool?” mavis asked in surprise. The wind blew quite fiercely, his pony hair slightly blushed and what was on the table swayed due to the gust.
“Hmm ...” Odo held the bottom of the magic tool, then with a thin smile explained, “This is a simple fan. Well, even though there is no fan and only emits wind, hell.”
“Eng?” Mavis was a little confused, as far as she observed it was indeed very similar to the prototype of the magic lights present in the Mansion, shaped like a bulb. Curiously he asked, “Why can? Isn't it ... it's just a crystal placed in thin glass? Is there a special structure in it?”
“Not really,” replied Odo while observing his magic tool to make sure no one was disabled after being activated. Gazing towards his mother, the young man said, “This is indeed really similar to the lights that are on the ceiling of this room and in some corners of the Mansion. Did Mommy guess the concept of this magic tool made me?”
“Hmm ...”
Mavis slightly looked away, recalling the slightly different concept of magic lights and crystal lights. The crystal lamp as the name suggests directly uses magic crystals as lighting, while magic lights tend to be like what Odo is holding and the concept of trapping energy in a space enclosed in glass to be converted into a beam of light.
Pointing her index finger forward, the blonde-haired lady said, “If the concept is the same as the magic lamp, then it uses the energy change from the magic crystal being compacted in a sealed space on thin glass? It keeps the light—Wait, it's not light output and it's even wind, right? Means ...”
Odo smiled at a glance, felt more knowledgeable than his mother and said, “Does Mommy know? The light attribute is one of the purest attributes. Unlike the others, it was actually merely a form of pure energy and had absolutely no command in it. That is why light magic is also synonymous with holy magic, can adjust other attributes especially darkness.”
“What does it have to do with that magic tool, my son?”
“Of course there is.” Odo lifted his magic tool forward, then with a thin smile explained, “Crystals on this tool are indeed only crystals without attributes, but the glass and iron frame used are quite unique.”
“Unik?” Mavis stared intently at the green shining glass, realizing that there was a flow of Mana that looked unusual and so orderly in the arrangement of formulas she did not know about.
“Does mom see it? This glass has the passive wind attribute and will become active if it gets Mana.” stimulation
“It ...” Mavis begins to understand the secret of the magic tool Odo created. Nodding once, he made sure, “Did you melt the magic crystal into his glass, my son?”
“Fright!” Odo deactivated the magic tool, put it on the table and pointed a finger as he said, “Basically the glass-making material is sand heated in high temperatures. The concept is not far from it, it is made by melting the finished glass shards and mixed with magic crystal shards. With such a simple manufacturing method, attributes can be passively embedded in the glass and if placed in the construction of the lamp frame, be like this.”
“Wait!” Mavis opened her palm forward, then held her chin and asked in surprise, “There is something strange. If it is like that, instead of the output form is still in the form of light?”
“Indeed ...”
Odo again took the bulb-shaped magic tool, and rolled it on the table toward Mavis. The blonde lady received it in a slight panic, then picked it up and observed the tool closely. Draining the Mana and trying to activate it, the magic tool emitted a cool breeze and indeed made Mavis amazed.
“The tool still emits light and is not pure wind.” Odo picked up another glass ball on the table, then went back to assembling another magic tool. While moving his hands and still assembling, the young man explained, “The magic crystal that became the core of the tool still emits energy in the form of light, but the light trapped in a closed space in the tool is processed by wind-heavy glass and turned into active wind gusts that structure from the glass surface.”
“Surface?” Fiola also became interested in the magic tool, bent his body and observed the glass ball Mavis was holding. Feeling the cold wind that did feel a little damp, Huli Jing was amazed by the tool.
“Ya, surface.” Odo stopped the hands, looked at them and began to explain, “In other words, it is not the crystal that gives off the wind, but the glass on the tool that emits it. Well, that doesn't mean it gives off oxygen or gas, just the form of Mana that affects the temperature so that the movement of the surrounding air changes. Using heat generated by energy.”
“Hmm?” Mavis was at a glance confused to hear that, then asked, “Don't you just say that this tool attributes wind, my son?”
“Wind ...” Odo briefly sighed, moved his hand again and assembled another tool. In a light tone he again said, “But there are also attributes of fire and water as sub-materials. I didn't use one kind of crystal to make it, Mother.”
“A—” Mavis momentarily gaped upon hearing that, slightly staring flatly at her son and saying, “Odo, where do you know such methods? As far as you know, in the library there is no ordinance to make a magic tool like this.”
“Indeed not exist ...” Odo glanced at a glance without stopping the hand, then in an indifferent tone he said, “But, there is not much knowledge that can be used to make tools like this? Which Flow Method In Objects, Mineral Types Magic Conductors and Isolators, Basic Framework Mechanics Flow Structures and Magic Reactors, such books are not in the library?”
“You ... made this magic tool with the reference of those books?”
“Will be free if knowledge is not used, it's called throwing gold into the mud. Letting the knife rust.”
Odo finished the other magic tool and put it on the table. The young man took out another glass ball with a different attribute element, then started reassembling a similar magic tool. Seeing that Mavis's eyebrows twitched, completely giving up on the nature of his son who was completely unwilling to listen to his words. Their previous conversation seemed to be meaningless, not changing the behavior of the young man at all.
“Now what else do you make?” mavis asked while enjoying the cool breeze of the magic tool she was holding.
“Wind already, water and fire I've also made. Next I want to make the Mana gathering automation bigger at once with the same structure as the magic reactor.”
“Eh?” Mavis was surprised to the point of almost dropping the magic tool in hand, she wonderfully asked, “Odo ..., you know the structure of the magic reactor?”
“Of course!” The young man stared at the spirit as he opened a small square piece of cloth on the table with his left hand. Then in a tone as if it were ordinary, the young man in black hair replied, “The magic reactor is made of the Best Quality Crystal array placed in the magic structure panel board to collect Ether and turn it into pure Mana, then it just flowed into energy using magic circuits on the walls of this Mansion. The Master Magic Rector whom I have operated several times is in the backyard, near the warehouse and the circuit path is connected with layers of processed threads from quartz stone that are strong conductors. The concept is like the wire on my desk ...”
“I-It ...” Mavis pointed tremblingly, then in disbelief she asked, “Made of quartz stone?”
“Hmm ...”
Mavis was at a glance stunned, patting the eel and sighing long. From the manufacture of magic structures and the supply of energy to the entire Mansion building, the most difficult and time-consuming stage of his mastery was to make threads out of quartz stone. It functions a kind of cable, but not easily decomposed or easily leaked the load even without being wrapped in rubber material. Shaped like a white wire and flexible enough, the outermost part is slightly transparent and inside there is a thin thread for energy transmission or arrangement of information.
“Where did you learn to make that?!” ask Mavis worriedly.
Odo was surprised to the point that he almost kept the glass ball he was assembling with other components. Sighing and putting his work on the table, the young man fretfully replied, “Todidak ....Well, even though it takes a lot of sacrifice.”
“Odo ..” Mavis's forehead shriveled slightly, he briefly recalled something related to the Mansion's magic circuits and reactors that in recent months had always been constrained and the replacement of its components more often than usual.
“Ya?”
“Lately the magic structure in this building often there are irregularities and low-level spirits difficult to gather, as a result of which Ether is difficult to concentrate and the energy supply is reduced. What ... was it you?”
Odo looked away, seemed to be hiding something and was reluctant to answer. Gaining a sharp gaze from Mavis, the young man gasped and in the end let out a long sigh. “Replacing him in a very difficult place, so I cut and take some that can be taken,” replied Odo with his leisure.
“It turns out it was you, Mommy thought it was a rat or something.”
“What rats can enter this building?”
“Ordinary mice will definitely get stung if they get into the sidelines of the building, but if rat monsters will usually instead multiply quickly because it devours the energy flowing in the circuit.”
“Ah ..” Odo was at a glance stunned, rolled his eyeballs to the side and in his mind said, “It looks like my cultivation method used to be the same as the mice, stealing energy from the circuit for development.”
“So, what is it for?” ask Mavis.
“Hmm?” Odo takes his job, then re-assembles the magic tool. With a slightly lazy tone the young man replied, “For my shop.”
A moment of strange feeling appeared in Mavis' mind, between anxiety and anger at Odo's words. Aware if advising or scolding the child is very useless because that is the nature of Odo, as a mother Mavis just said, “You still have not given up on it, yes.”