Please Save My Child

The sound of footsteps following Damian suddenly stopped. When he turned around, Peter had his head down, clutching the papers with both hands.

“…what?”

“Peter Hubert.”

Even when Damian called Peter’s name, he couldn’t answer as his whole body was shaking. No matter how much force he applied, the document in his hand was crumpled and a mess.

“Dismiss!”

Peter raised his voice loudly for a rare occasion and jerked his head up.

Peter, to be exact, Peter Hubert.

“What a genius idea this is!!”

He looked unusually excited.

Damian looked at Peter with a puzzled expression.

“Were you listening to my story? You read and react better than that.”

“Your Excellency always brings too much work, so this level of multi-tasking is not even a task for me. There is no way that someone who comes up with an idea like this is an empty shell. No, more than anything, it is rude to call someone an empty shell. dismissal.”

“…”

“In essence, magic stones are classified into mined magic stones and then go through a refining process. The refining process is done by magic agents or wizards. By stabilizing the magic power inside.”

“There is no need to say what you know.”

This was information that Reina and he had read last morning.

“I don’t know how Reina Borton knew about that concept…”

“I heard she used to work at a magic stone smelter.”

“Anyway, once this theory is established, the lives of the people of the empire will improve significantly.”

“The market will also turn over.”

Of course, if the theory was established, that is. Damian looked up and saw the majesty of the tall mansion.

“It’s going to get busier for a while.”

What Reina suggested was ‘a method of turning magic stones into powder’. There were several names for magical stones with magical power: magic stone, magical stone, magic gemstone. To be more precise, magic stone was a word that includes magic stone and magical stone, and magical stone was a stone processed from magic stone.

A magic stone, or magical stone, was a stone with magical power stored in it, and that was why the explosion occurred. If you succeed in turning it into powder, the accumulated magic power would be dispersed into the powder. Also, since it absorbed shock easily, it would be easy to maintain.

This theory was not the first presented by Reina. The only problem was how to turn the magic stone into powder. It has been about 70 years since magic stones began to be used in daily life, so not much research has been done yet. In short, if the method proposed by Reina was feasible, it would be a discovery that could shake the entire empire.

* * *

“Uhmm…”

When Reina opened her eyes, what she saw was a daylight ceiling. To be exact, it wasn’t unfamiliar.

Did she fall asleep here…? Last morning, she held meetings with Damian until dawn, frantically searching for data. The purpose was to lay the foundation for writing a proposal, and Damian listened to Reina’s story, which was only a loose theory.

‘In fact, it was the master who established it.’

Damian found and provided all the data to support the seemingly wild theory.  As Reina moved her body, the jacket covering her body fell off.

“…?”

This was… a familiar jacket. The jacket that became Bonita’s bag of cookies was Damian’s coat.

“Why do I have this?”

Before Reina could understand the situation, the door to the office opened and Damian and Peter came in.

“Master? Peter?”

“You woke up early.”

Reina looked back and forth between the jacket in her hand and Damian. He had slightly bewildered eyes.

“You woke up early. From what I heard, it seems like you and Your Excellency were looking for materials until morning.”

In Peter’s hand was a wad of paper that he had scribbled down until this morning. To be exact, Damian wrote it all down for her, but Reina explained it in such a haphazard manner that it ended up being a mess.

“Why is that on Peter?”

“I gave it to you to look at.”

Reina stood up from the sofa and then stopped, looking at the two men in an awkward posture. Damian had an expressionless expression as always, and Peter had a business-like, friendly expression as always.

“It was such a groundbreaking idea. It was so great that I don’t even remember the last time.”

“Oh, no, it’s just that… it might actually be possible… In fact, the master helped me with everything, so I didn’t do it.”

“It’s even more amazing that you came up with the idea. Reina Borton! All things in the world are now taken for granted, but just thinking of them for the first time is the beginning of a great discovery. Isn’t that right, Your Excellency?”

“Yes.”

Reina’s ears turned red at the unexpected praise. She felt the heat rising to her face and swept the back of my neck with both hands.

“How did you come up with it?”

“Last night, when the magic tools went out of control and the house was in chaos, I remembered a story I had with Lord Dean before. So… the story about how I worked at the magic stone smelter. “There was an accident there in the past where a magic stone exploded.”

Peter nodded his head and took the seat across from Reina.

Reina watched her hesitate and only then sat down when Damian nodded his head.

“In the case of magic stones and magical stones, they are harder than any other metal. That is, before you use up all your strength. After you use up all your strength, you can just drop them on the floor and they will crumble. So, what Peter taught me a long time ago, The Principle of Maab, Chapter 3…”

Peter listened to Reina’s explanation and flipped through her paper. It was something she already knew from reading the material she received, but it was even funnier to hear it in her quiet voice.

“…So, the conclusion was that the magic power in the magic stone is a formless force. Just pure power without any magic symbols. So, the magic stone is harder because of the magic power inside it, and it explodes because the force is strong. “In that case, I thought it might be possible to use that principle in reverse.”

Reina said as she overlapped her hands to make a circle.

“All you have to do is gather the magic stones together, lock them up, and explode them.”

Peter, who heard Reina’s theory firsthand, saw her eyes sparkle.

“By making the tool itself a magic stone?”

“Yes, I’ve been thinking about it… but I’m not sure if this is really possible.”

Reina felt that her explanation was vague and dragged her piece of paper to the table. She grabbed the pen that was rolling around and drew on the paper. She drew a large circle and next to it an arrow rolling in one direction.

“If you make it like this and roll it, the stone inside and the boundary made of the lowest grade magic stone will keep colliding, causing friction.”

Peter asked while listening to the explanation.

“But why is it the lowest level magic stone?”

“Ah, that’s… When I was working at a smelter, there was an accident where the highest grade magic stones collided with each other and exploded. At that time, I was next to a huge rock made of the lowest grade magic stones.”

The lowest level magic stones were very hard, so they caused trouble if they were mined using huge rocks.

Reina added that she was inviting a wizard to ask if he could take it to the magic tower.

“But when the explosion suddenly occurred, the rock didn’t even crack. And neither I nor the wizard who was behind it were hurt.”

“Is there any theory that the wizard used protection magic?”

“He looked embarrassed too. No, if he had done that in the first place, he would have only wanted to protect me and him. The lowest grade magic stone is not that valuable.”

Reina shook her head and continued speaking.

“So this is a conclusion close to a hypothesis that I came up with on my own. In the case of the lowest grade magic stone, I think the magic power is too concentrated rather than the lowest grade. So, this is a case where it has become like a fossil.”

Reina said this, but now that I think about it, in Eugene’s world, fossils become oil, so the magic stone eventually becomes fuel, so it’s a similar concept. I thought to myself.

“I think that’s why it became so hard that its power couldn’t escape, so it was designated as the lowest-grade magic stone. In fact, the lowest-grade magic stone has low commercial value because it is virtually indestructible.”

“…The lowest level magic stone is harder than any other magic stone, and if you break it anyway, you won’t be able to earn more than the labor cost and it will only take effort, so no one breaks it. The reason the magicians couldn’t measure the magic power is because it’s that hard. It’s probably because of that.”

“Besides, if the magic power is so vast, there are times when even magic surveyors can’t read it.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, because people can only recognize within the categories they can recognize.”

Reina wrung her hands and rolled her eyes.

“…Well, all of this is just my theory.”

“But if this hypothesis is correct, it is a great discovery. If it explodes in a space made of magic stones, the magic power will not leak out and it will act as a barrier.”

Peter thought for a moment and wrote down the numbers on a piece of paper. This was a list of funds needed for this experiment.

“Your Excellency, I think this will be enough.”

“It’s cheaper than I thought.”

“Experiment space is an issue, though.”

“You can use Baron Testoa’s villa or Count Embron’s residence. It’s an empty space now anyway.”

And it also had a symbolic meaning. Damian added and Peter nodded.

Reina hasn’t figured out the situation yet.

“Space? Experiment?”

Damian did not understand why she was embarrassed.

“Isn’t that obvious? Whether it’s Reina or not, you don’t even have the land capital to conduct experiments.”

“That’s true, though.”

“As long as you can prove your identity with the proper documents, you may be able to receive investment from the imperial family, but in your case,

“…?”

Reina blinked with a puzzled expression.

 

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