Chapter 114 – Chapter 114 ― The Laboratory Is Closed (1)
Episode 114 ― Research lab closed (1)
The sharp sound, like glass breaking, was a sound effect that could only be heard in Roan’s mind.
Rather than the instinctive reflex of shrinking the body
Their hands went to the hilt first.
And Helen’s ‘Shield’ unfolds like one body.
In an instant, Helen drew her sword and stood in front of Roan, looking around her room.
But Roan was staring at the ceiling on the other side of the door with a frown on his face.
He knew where the magic that attacked him came from.
Clear information about hostile magic,
A clear sense of boundary felt through skill.
Roan realized what his blessing was for.
‘Blessings of the Stars’
It was to prevent mental attacks.
“Ohhh… Your Majesty too. You are amazing!”
“… What are you doing!”
It was Helen who roared instead of Roan.
The Count, who crawled out from under the machine, clapped his hands lightly, burst out in admiration.
It looked like it was working.
“Seeing the tenacious treasurer, I thought I should install a defense magic in this room first. I never thought that there would be someone who took it so quickly.”
Bright red concentric circles spread out endlessly.
His heart peeked through ‘listening’,
Regret and dismay.
The Count’s smile, like a mask, is to hide his surprise.
“Since it was us, we blocked the magic. What were you planning to do if even an attendant fell under the spell?”
The Count met Roan’s bloody eyes straight and smiled.
“No big deal! You will simply obey my orders for a while.”
This is true.
But the heart conveyed in words,
In my heart, the hope that I wished I was under that spell collapsed, and I was saddened.
“That… Magic.”
“Sure! This is my specialty magic. Ahaha☆”
The count smiled cheerfully and skillfully hid his embarrassment.
His specialty is ‘puppetization’.
There was no way the opponent he was aiming for could escape this magic.
A weak opponent cannot resist,
It was the Count’s magic that boasted a 100% success rate by forcing strong opponents to be careless or unable to avoid magic.
Indeed, after a long time of failure, the Count was confused.
“Don’t recklessly install offensive magic in the castle.”
However, he is a person who is used to not showing his emotions.
At Roan’s warning, the Earl lowered his head.
“All right. Your majesty.”
Even if I know it’s a lie, there’s no way to punish him.
Of course, only when he was a tyrant could he say ‘Dare to cast magic on me!
Now I’m not.
The Count must have known that and did something like that.
Shouldn’t I be comforted by the fact that I was not affected by magic because I had ‘Star’s Blessing’ on it, and it was an opportunity to clearly realize its performance?
Roan had a bitter taste.
After catching his breath, he introduced Helen, who was still glaring at the Count, to the Count.
Even if it wasn’t, the sharp eyes became more terrifying.
“This is Helen, one of my escorts. She is a human, and she served as a knight of the Order of Laurecia in Merde before converting to Evirzio.”
“Are you the priest you saw at the banquet!”
“Yes. Helen, this is the great lord of Northern Baekryung, Amhangbaek.”
“… I look forward to. Count.”
Helen bowed her head to the count without concealing her wary gaze.
However, the count did not care even in Helen’s eyes. He just has a new interest and he’s just looking happy.
“Then, let’s get down to business, Helen?”
“All right.”
I decided to sit in a window chair and watch them experiment for the rest of the day.
Since the cat tower was placed in the best spot with warm sunlight, the chair had no choice but to be placed in the corner.
“Is this it?”
“That’s right. Count.”
The Count looked with interest at the sealed box Helen had brought with his eyes twinkling.
The contents inside, to his eyes, would be nothing but black stones.
However, there is no need to show my strength in front of him just yet.
Even in the form of a stone, the crystal absorbs mana.
Its performance doesn’t seem to be a problem.
Of course, that would be clear if you look at the results of the Count’s research.
“Please take out one.”
“Yes.”
Helen began to break the seal.
The magic that radiates from the moment you open the box.
The count’s cat’s eyes narrowed.
“Oh, there are also black crystals like this.”
Helen, who only possessed her divine power, was expressionless,
The count’s face immediately contorted.
“This… Strength.”
“Is that enough?”
Roan, who was watching his expression in the corner, asked.
“Your Majesty, have you ever used a magic stone?”
Roan shook his head.
“There is no direct.”
Magic stones are cores that are collected from demons.
In this world, it is used like a battery for objects that use magic.
However, Roan, who came here and immediately lived the life of an emperor, had no opportunity to hunt demons or directly replace magic stones that had lost magic.
I just know there is such a thing as a game.
“I haven’t measured it accurately yet, but at first glance it looks like dozens… , Maybe hundreds of times.”
“… Hundreds of times…”
What I admired without realizing it was Helen.
The Count is already clinging to one of his vaunted machines.
“Helen, put it here.”
“Yes. Count.”
Helen set the dalgrak crystal down on something like a saucer hanging in front of her machine.
The Count, who was manipulating various things behind the magic tracking camera, burst into admiration.
“Ahahaha, this is great! To find something like this, Your Majesty, is amazing!”
“Hmm?”
“What a discovery!”
Excitement was raw in the earl’s voice as he checked the magical power of the crystal through the machine.
“Compared to normal magic stones of the same size, hundreds of times! Even the highest quality magic stones are dozens of times stronger!”
Roan’s expression was like, ‘I guess so’, but Helen was surprised.
“It is said that it is dozens of times the highest grade magic stone… Do you mean the power of dozens of wyvern-class individuals?”
Only then did Roan’s eyes widen a little.
Also, you may be surprised by what you need to know.
Dozens of times the amount of magic stones that come out when you catch a beast the size of a wyvern?
A top-notch magic stone with a small quantity and tremendous power. Of course, a vicious and gigantic monster like a wyvern is not common.
It is an even more precious magic stone because it is used by wizards for experiments or to set up defense magic circles at the territory, city, or country level.
But those crystals were all over the cave?
What Helen took out was just a small crystal the size of a baby’s fist.
Roan and Helen both shut up in amazement at the unimaginable enormous power of the crystal.
It was only the Count who spoke with an elevated heart.
“This can be compared to a dragon’s mana stone!”
“… Oh my god. Is it a dragon’s magic stone!”
In the end, Helen cried out, as excited as her countess. Recognizing Roan’s gaze, Helen immediately apologized in embarrassment.
“I’m sorry, Master…”
“It’s a dragon’s magic stone. What is it used for?”
It was Helen who answered, not the Count who had already lost his mind clinging to the machine.
The calmness had not yet returned to her tone.
“Spros… The center of Merde’s capital defense is the dragon’s magic stone.”
“Dragon… Had he not perished?”
“Yes. It is said that he perished in the fight against the devil. It is the magic stone of the last dragon, Wiltz, that is building the defense of Sprouse.”
“It is equivalent to such a great thing, this one stone Your Majesty has brought!”
The Count stuck his head out from behind the machine.
His eyes glistened with a slightly different madness than before, and Roan staggered back.
“You really don’t intend to use this as a weapon, do you? Your majesty? Shouldn’t we wipe out human countries and occupy that fertile land?”
A count who calmly says such things in front of the human Helen. I guess I’m the type who has to say what I want to say.
There might be a way to do that right now.
However, as the Eastern Emperor said, if the corrupted land affects the intellect, then the entire continent could be devastated someday, in the very distant future.
Considering that the Eastern Yellow Lord continues to say that the desert is expanding even now, it might be in the not-so-distant future.
If this crystal and ‘seed’ is what keeps the dark forest as a dense forest, the best way is to somehow solve the root cause.
Roan shook his head slowly.
“Weapons only cause trouble. Besides, even if the invasion succeeds right away, it may take several years to control all of their lands and bring back all the harvests humans reap.”
“Huh.”
The Count let out a slightly disapproving snort and shrugged his shoulders as if resigned.
“Well, for now, I can’t help it. Then, Helen, would you like to give it some strength this time?”
“Yes. Count.”
Helen, who picked up her crystal from her plate, spilled her holy power. Roan, who had been training her quite a bit, could now feel the flow of her divine power.
The feeling that the power that had been floating inside her body gathered at the fingertips.
And the fix is
It started to glow with a faint blue light.
“Hoo-oh.”
The Count hurried back behind the machine, again exclaiming.
“Helen, keep injecting your strength.”
“Yes.”
As the intensity of the power Helen focused on increased, her crystal began to glow more and more brightly.
A crystal that emits a transparent light mixed with blue and purple. However, it did not shine as brilliantly as when Roan’s ‘starlight’ shone.
And decisively.
“Hmm, if you inject divine power directly, there is no change in the flow of magical power. When you don’t put in divine power, it loses its light and goes back to black…”
As the Count murmured while writing down his observations, Helen looked back at Roan with a puzzled expression.
Unlike the transparent crystal that went through Roan’s magic once, the crystal into which Helen put her divine power was a black one that Roan had just picked up from the cave a while ago.
She receives divine power, but it turns black again, unlike when she reacts to Roan’s ‘starlight’.
Even Roan couldn’t understand English.
I just assumed that it was because his power was strictly different from the divine power that Helen had now.
Roan chinned Helen to focus on her studies.
In between.
The Count, who had been constantly taking notes while peering into her machine, suddenly approached Helen and grabbed her stone.
“Count?”
It was an instant thing.
Roan woke up unexpectedly.
The Count swallowed his groans as if in a bit of pain, and his face contorted.
“… I’m sorry.”
He ended up dropping his crystal with a clatter.
“Are you all right, Count?”
Helen asked him anxiously, but the Count waved his hand as if it were okay.
“Are you okay. It’s okay. Helen. Please read the figures recorded on the back of the machine.”
“Ah. Yes!”
Helen hurriedly headed behind her machine at the Count’s words. Perhaps it was the first time Helen had ever seen such a large machine, she seemed to be carefully examining it here and there.
“Ah, from this square board…”
“Is it so. These are the numbers that come out in yellow.”
“5312… No see.”
“What about the note I wrote in front of him?”
“It is 5280.”
“32…”
The Count smiled troubledly at the number.
“Ahaha, this is really scary stuff.”
“What do the numbers mean?”
The Count replied to Roan by squeezing the wrist holding the crystal.
“It means that 32 of my power was absorbed. For reference, the 1 in that machine is the level of power of the magic stone collected from the lowest level monster.”
Roan’s brow furrowed.
Then, even at first glance, the number 32 did not sound small.
“That means 32 low-level monsters… , Did you mean that your strength was just taken away?”
“That’s right. Your majesty.”
Lesser monsters are about the size of a cat or dog, dangerous if you’re not careful, but enough to kill an ordinary person.
Their magic stones are usually used as magical power supplies for everyday items…
To the extent that just holding a magic stone in your hand for a moment can take away that much power?
“Just being exposed right now makes me feel bad. Helen, did the machine’s readings change?”
The North Baekryeongju stood beside it with the crystal still dropped on the floor.
And Helen nodded her head in bewilderment, then she said in a voice.
“Yes. Just got 1… Went up.”
The count looked at the emperor and shrugged his shoulders once more.
“That’s about it. Your majesty. It’s like a low-level monster just died inside me.”
Helen was rather taken aback by the Count’s words.
It means he’s still pumping magic.
And it couldn’t be good for her master either.
Helen scrambled to pick up the crystal that fell in front of the machine and put it back in her sealed box.
Roan bit his lip lightly.
Crystals are much more powerful than you might think.
It is true that the results are expected.
But can the sorceress Northern Baekryeongju continue her research?
“Count. It’s a dangerous thing. More than Jim thought. Will there be any problem?”
“Ah, it’s okay! Because if you know the extent, you can respond. I need to go back to the castle sometime and bring some magic shielding suits and tools.”
Still, the count returned to his excited face.
The Count, who declared that he would bring more luggage.
The study room was quite spacious.
It seems to be more cramped now.
