Chapter 195.2
Next, I placed a lit candle in the middle of the plate and then poured water into the plate. After that, I turned the empty glass jar upside down and placed it over the candle.
(T/N: Please search for burning candle in the water experiment.)
It was going to take a while, so I decided to ask them both a question.
Lily, Frenssen, what do you think a magic stone is?
Well, um, its something you get when you kill a monster, right? I dont know enough to make any comments.
Im guessing since its something you need to activate magical tools It probably contains some sort of power.
In the game, you could get gold coins directly when defeating a monster, but in this world, that was not the case. Instead, you get magic stones, which could be thought of as magical dry batteries, which could be sold at various prices, so it was practically the same as getting money.
I have experimented with this before. The simple answer I got was that there might be two kinds of magic power.
I briefly explained my previous hypothesis that there might be two types of magic powers Human (body) mana and Nature mana.
Humans have Human mana, while nature has Nature mana. Humans use their Human mana to interact with Nature mana and consume it to cast spells. Recovery potions recover Human mana. Magic tools also consumed Nature mana to operate.
Then what kind of magic power is contained in a magic stone that powers magic tools themselves?
Thats the thing I am having trouble figuring out.
More like I was trying to figure it out.
I think my previous hypothesis is not wrong, but its somewhat lopsided because it cant completely explain what a magic stone is.
At first, I thought that the primeval magical power that Old Man Uwe mentioned was the true nature of a magic stone. Then I thought that I may contain Human mana. However, both hypotheses would not explain why there were magic stones inside demons but no magic stones in humans.
The simplest answer would be to say that there was human magic, natural magic, and magic stone magic, but then it would be strange why most demons that have magic stones in their bodies did not use magic. There was the same issue with the hypothesis of magic stones containing Nature mana.
In short, something felt wrong, but I just dont have any idea what to make out of it.
I looked at the glass and saw that the candle had gone out which would mean that the oxygen inside the cup fueling that candle had burned out. More importantly the water had been successfully sucked up into the glass, changing the height of the water.
I wondered if they would be able to understand my knowledge in this area.
Still, my mind was thinking about magic stones, and I felt a sense of discomfort, a sense of something missing.
Hmm.
I groaned unintentionally while confirming the results of the experiment up to this point. I consciously ignored the two people who seemed to want me to explain what was happening. But you know, it would be really hard to explain things like change in atmospheric pressure between the inside and outside the cup.
And above all, it worked the same as how it did in my previous life, which was unexpected as I thought there would be some difference because of magic.
Lily, please write down what Im going to say. Ill make a clean copy of it later because I havent fully summarized it in my head. Even if you dont understand what I mean, just write it down as I describe it.
Ye, yes.
Lily sat down on a table and immediately prepared a piece of paper, and Frenssen sat down next to her, probably to make sure she didnt miss anything. I would leave the follow-up to him and just say whatever comes to my mind.
Burning usually requires combustibles, air (oxygen), and a temperature above the ignition point. Thats why you cant light straw on fire when it is wet or in water.
The three elements of combustion, as they called it. I avoided using the expression oxygen in this world, just in case.
Even so, it would be impossible, to my knowledge, for a fireball to be created in water unless water was broken into its elements which was normally impossible. So I could only say that it was the result of magic.
Ice can be created from nothing by Ice Magic. The Ice is all clear, pure ice, with no visible impurities.
Earth, water, fire, and wind each have their own magic tools. In other words, water, wind, and earth were all separate entities, and fire created with fire magic tools became a mysterious phenomenon. I had no idea whether magic should be called a phenomenon or not, but lets just call it a phenomenon for now.
Anyway, snowstorms and icicles created by attack magic may be water or ice without impurities. Therefore, the water produced by water magic tools should be 100% pure water.
Accidents rarely happen in the mines. There are accidents due to a lack of fresh air. It is recorded that it happened because the air was stagnant.
I just wasnt sure if this was a buildup of carbon dioxide (AKA lack of oxygen) or other toxic gasses. There was no way for me to find out at this stage, or rather there was no way to distinguish between the two. And also because I couldnt go to the site of the accident.
So, this was just a hypothesis, but from the point of view of the 100% pure water and 100% pure fire, the wind making magic tool that was generating wind in the bag just now became a mysterious entity as well.
When heated, the air inside the bag becomes lighter. The air created by the wind making magic tool behaved just like ordinary air.
There existed a kind of air conditioner using wind making magic tools in nobles mansions. Perhaps that was the reason why they did not feel suffocated in the underground library and dungeons, it may be because of some wind making magic tools made in the ancient kingdom period that were active.
But the fact that accidents never happened because of the magic tools meant that they were producing 100% pure atmospheric air or oxygen. But, pure oxygen was also dangerous. However, there was no way to check because of the lack of measuring equipment.
This further complicated the situation.
Earth magic tools are used to repair roads. Because it produces soil that is less prone to weeds, etc.
I couldnt get my own earth magic tool even if I wanted to experiment with it, because it was mostly used for construction work, but then the object that this earth magic tool produced was even more of a mystery to me.
There was more than one kind of soil that I know of. Depending on the geology, it could be a fine mixture of quartz, feldspar, and various other things. I didnt even know what was considered as standard soil, so I would like to ask, What is the composition of this 100% puresoil?
Well, fire, water, and wind making magic tools were all producing their own versions, so there might be some combination of various minerals that could be called standard soil.
The candle went out under the cup, because without air (oxygen), fire goes out. On the other hand, fire created by fire making magic tools can light up even underwater (AKA without oxygen).
While my common sense wouldnt work with something made by magic, there was one area where my common sense did work. There were known phenomena like dust explosions, which would mean that some kind of material similar to carbon dioxide must be present, seeing as how the water was sucked up into the container.
However, air created by air making magic tools behaved like normal air when heated unlike fire created by fire making magic tools. It was contradictory.
In the first place, I couldnt really determine whether this world actually worked in the same logic as my previous world.
In other words, the fire of a magical tool appears to be a normal fire but is different. However, if something is burned using a fire making magic tool, the new fire behaves like normal fire. Of course, I have only done preliminary analysis. It may very well be the 3rd type of fire. Other being normal fire and magic tool fire. What about water, then? Is the water created by magic tools different from the water that I know?
The taste of water depended on the impurities such as minerals dissolved in it. Perhaps thats why water made with magic tools tasted different from normal water.
To be fair, 100% pure oxygen was dangerous for humans so maybe the same went for 100% pure water? Perhaps that was the reason for discomfort?
On the other hand, the fact that it created 100% pure water might be an advantage in a sense that no pathogens would get into the wound cleaning process because of infected water, but I would leave that aside for the time being as I didnt know all possible side effects.
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