Chapter 195.1
I arrived at the Zeavert residence with Neurath and Schunzel. I was alert, but I didnt feel like I had been followed since then.
Welcome back, Welner-sama.
Yes, Im back, Neurath, Schunzel, can you wait a bit longer for me to prepare things?
Yes.
Yes.
I instructed the maid to leave my cloak with me and prepare a room for Neurath and the others to stay in. Then, explaining the situation ahead of time to Norbert, I wrote a letter and left it with him.
Sorry, but Ill leave this in your hands, and take care of Neurath and Schunzel for me as well.
You have my words.
I didnt make a fuss about it, but its true that there was an attack and there were bodies left behind, so I should just report it. Just to be safe, I would have the messenger take a different route and be escorted by Neurath and Schunzel. I would leave the rest to those in charge.
By the way, Norbert, well need the spare room in the back.
Of course, Frenssen has already made the preparations.
Norberts eyes seemed to be indicating that I was going to do something weird again, but I intentionally ignored it. I was just testing a hypothesis from the large number of magic books I have read. I doubt that there would be an explosion or anything like that as its just a small experiment. Probably.
Im sorry, but I need your help.
Lily and Frenssen replied affirmatively to my request.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
A lot of tools, including magic tools, were lined up in the room, making Lily somewhat curious and Frenssen slightly bewildered.
For me, it looked more like the elementary school laboratory of my previous life. I imagined an old man with glasses and a lab coat bringing out a cardboard air cannon or something. If there was some bubbling liquid on the desk and a video camera in front of it, it might have been perfect.
Lily asked cautiously, As I rarely visit this area of the mansion, I dont know what goes on here, but the things are supposed to not go out of control, right?
As if having fun, Frenssen immediately added, I think the only one who can make a magical tool go out of control is Welner-sama.
An expression of astonishment appeared on Lilys face when she learned from Frenssens reply that I intentionally made my magical tools run out of control.
Come to think of it, I hadnt told her about it. I guess she was surprised because of how dangerous doing something like that was. Moreover, intentionally destroying expensive magic tools was simply unthinkable to her.
It will be all fine. Dont worry. First, can you put the activated wind making magic tool inside that big light-weight bag and seal the bag? (Welner)
Frenssen asked, Sure. Once activated, all it needs is a magic stone to power it up and the magic tool will do the rest, right? I dont have to tinker with it, right?
Thats right, you can leave it as is after activating the tool and sealing the bag, and Lily, can you use the water magic tool on that side to pour water into a cup for me? (Welner)
I understand. So there is also a magical tool that produces water. (Lily)
While Lily was pouring water into the glass cup, Frenssen responded to her query with wonder, Yes, they exist but the amount of water that can be produced is simply inefficient compared to the magic stone consumed, which is why there is not much research going on with that magic tool. Moreover, produced water tastes weird and makes you slightly uncomfortable.
But I think there are many places where just having clean water is great Taste doesnt matter much, but I am not sure about the uncomfortable part It would be great if the kingdom improves magic tools.
Lily was right, but it all boiled down to priority. Research and development was mostly focused on products used by nobility and the military.
And since royalty and nobles have priority to use water even when there was a water shortage, priority of research on magic tools that make water with weird taste and possible unknown side effects was inevitably less than others.
That was unless the knights and garrisoned soldiers needed it, but so far it seemed that there were no cases of water shortages to that extent. One reason might be that the number of soldiers was only on the same level as in the medieval times of my previous life. If the time comes when soldiers numbering in the hundreds of thousands move, research in that area may progress.
While I was thinking about all of this, the bag with the activated wind magic tool was expanding from the inside. To be fair, it was more surreal than I imagined seeing a sealed bag inflate on its own from the inside.
For the time being, I lit a candle using a small but powerful fire making magic tool and then inserted the lit candle into a simple lightweight stand which I had someone prepare beforehand.
When the bag was inflated to a certain degree, I had two people turn the bag upside down and told them to wait for my signal before opening it.
They nodded their heads and followed as instructed.
Next, I tied threads into the hooks of the bag and then tied the other end of threads to hooks on room walls. It was done to keep the bag in place upside down while in the air.
Then I told them to open the upside down bag only enough, so the wind magic tool could be retrieved, by making it fall out of the bag.
Then I hooked the stand, which had a candle lit by a fire making magic tool on it, to the bag in a way that the opening of the bag was aimed at the opening of the magic tool, creating a heat source from underneath while making sure the magic tool fire didnt make contact with the bag.
(T/N: Please search for hot air balloon with candle for reference.)
Hold it hanging for a while.
Will something happen with this?
Well, well see as we go along.
I didnt know what would happen. But after a while, the bag slightly lifted, releasing the tension on the threads supporting it as it floated. Lily and Frenssen looked surprised at the result.
Its floating?
Welner-sama, this is
Ah, to put it very roughly, warm air is lighter than cold air. Youve seen dead leaves on a campfire float up in the air, right? When the air in the bag warms up, it floats up similar to that effect.
It was like a prototype of a hot air balloon. It would be tedious to explain the details of buoyancy and such to the two, so forgive me if my explanation was a little sketchy. Or rather, I didnt even have enough brain cells to give a detailed explanation because my mind was running full speed on other things.
When I blew out the candle, the bag that was by itself was heavy unlike a plastic bag, so it only floated for a moment before falling down, which I immediately caught. I then smelled the air inside. It was odorless.
Then we repeated the same experiment with a candle lit by normal matchstick and the result was the same. So, it proved that if something (like candle) was burned by a fire making magic tool, fire on that burning thing (candle) behaved like how a normal fire did.
Well, Welner-sama? You seem to be making a difficult face
Yes, I am just thinking of something
I responded to Lily while thinking to myself that this was not the answer I was looking for, then took a sip of the water made with the water making magic tool. It certainly didnt taste good, and also it felt strange on the tongue, but it didnt seem undrinkable.
It would be better if I could check the ingredients, but there was neither the means nor the technology to do that in this world.
This time, I plunged the tip of the fire making magic tool into the water in a container and activated it there. It was a strange sight to see a fireball forming at the tip of a rod plunged in the water. A fireball stationary in the water would only be possible to produce in CG.
I tried to stick a straw into the water with my left hand, but the fire did not spread to the straw even if I let it touch the magic fire.
I have no idea about the theory behind magic, but it seems that my imagination was right. There were a lot of things in this world that I didnt know, or rather, couldnt understand with my knowledge from my previous life. Magic was one of them, but it was not the only priority.
For now, I stopped the fire making magic tool.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺