Chapter 165 – 1. Talos, and the Spear and Shield (19)
When they saw Roa next to Yuria’s coffin, looking down at it with a very sad expression and stroking it with a deep gaze, her companions always felt pain.
Isn’t that what human psychology is all about?
No matter how much Yuria likes cold rather than hot, that doesn’t mean she likes cold.
Otherwise, she couldn’t like hot springs and soaking in warm water.
In the cold winter, she enjoyed eating stew with warm soup, and enjoyed warming herself by watching the flames by the stove.
But now she was so cold and frozen as if she had frightened her before, and now she was asleep in a coffin that kept her cool.
Where did his warm and soft skin go, and only his body, frozen to the bone and hardened, was welcoming him.
At one time, he faced YuRia’s body, but now, with the children’s dissuade, he swept the top of the coffin endlessly outside the coffin like this.
It was because of the children’s words that, although it wasn’t so weak that the freezing magic on Yuria would happen if I swept it away with her hand, it would not be good for Yuria’s frozen state if she kept getting warm.
At the words of the children that if her body’s frozen state is not maintained, it will have a bad effect on her Yuria, so after that, Roa did not open her coffin and put her YuRia over her coffin. Messed up
Her party felt sorry for Loa as she fell asleep while touching her coffin with her eyes almost like tears every day, but there was nothing they could do.
* * * * *
To get to the small continent, they had to go a very long way.
There was only one ship going to the small continent, and in order to go to such a kingdom, you had to cross Gash, cross the Sorbi Empire, and cross the Galton Kingdom.
Fortunately, crossing Gache was no problem.
The problem is the Sorby Empire.
Can Talos be used in the Sorby Empire, which does not recognize magic?
I know that the Empire has been conditionally permitted to use the magic storage amidst the recent war with Crimson Ant, but will the use of Talos be permitted?
Should I say it again? The use of Talos within the Empire was forbidden.
Just as I was contemplating what to do, a priest from Thebenoa told me how to do it.
It meant moving along the border, loading Talos on the train from the area where the train station was, and going to the border of Galton.
I tilted my head at what a train was, but Tia explained.
A means of transportation that reacts with a magic stone of fire attribute to boil water and generate steam, which moves with that power.
“Didn’t the Empire not use mana?”
“It’s not that I don’t use magic-like abilities, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t use magic power itself. Even in the case of alchemy, it is partially projected. It would be easy for Mom to know what I’m talking about… That’s too bad”
At Tia’s words, Roa grinned and looked at Tia.
“It will be easier to understand when you see it for yourself. If I have to explain it a hundred times, the misunderstanding will only grow.”
After going round and round along the outskirts of the empire, we finally arrived at a train station near the border.
And there, at the same time, to help the Empire, which was conducting a defensive battle against the Crimson Ant, although it could not wield the plasma with the tip of the sword as before, the entire torso, including the weapon and shield, had the same strength as the Crimson Ant’s strongest mandible. No, it was impossible to do with Talos, who, according to Yuria, had been processed and made more solidly than that.
As long as YuRia was asleep, she couldn’t do proper maintenance in the future, and she could only do abbreviated maintenance by relying on her children.
No matter how you look at it, the Empire looked like it was trying to step back from here.
It was dangerous for her to leave Talos and move on like this.
More than anything, if you were thinking of going to that small continent called the Devil’s Land.
Although they fought within the limits of keeping Talos intact as much as possible, helping the Empire helped the Loa understand why the Empire had the strongest army.
Quagga River!! Quagga River!!
A black cylinder that continuously spews flames like rain and the black metal spheres shot from the cylinder pounded and shattered the bodies of the Crimson Ants.
In the midst of the imperial soldiers’ attack, he drove Talos and swung his sword at the ants who came too close to use that strange weapon.
If Talosi was severely damaged while YuRia was coldly asleep in her coffin, she had no one to repair it for, but her children could do it for simple maintenance, so Loa went into battle, taking care of the condition of her body as much as possible.
Of course, I had something to believe.
Based on the powerful output that was helped by Yuria, it was a fuselage that actually maneuvered like a person and endured even if it moved.
Of course, it was difficult to perform such violent maneuvers several times, but it was the current machine that was made to withstand such ruthless maneuvers after fighting several times and improving it in the middle.
However, there is no way that the aircraft will be unreasonable for such a low-output maneuver.
In addition, this aircraft is damaged by Crimson Ant?
Even if it wasn’t so, it was the current Talos that made the material of the mandible, the most solid part of the Crimson Ant, repeated improvements to Yuria’s, and made it even stronger than the original material.
Unlike when he moved with tremendous strength and speed thanks to Yuria’s power, now he was moving slowly like that huge body, so it was difficult to see wear and tear on the aircraft.
After buying time against Crimson Ant and contributing to the subjugation, we were able to board the train bound for Galton with Talos with the help of the priests of Thebenoa who came later.
Train.
I got the feeling that the train that Tia said you would know when you see it for yourself is really great.
The long, endless railroad and the huge carriage slowly slowing down on it. No, the train looked really intimidating.
His own Talos was the same size, but the Empire’s train was so huge that even Talos seemed small.
The train, which stopped and spewed water jets, attached a cargo car to transport Talos, and Talos was firmly fixed on top of it.
Soon, numerous cargoes were said to have been introduced by the empire before,
No, to be exact, Tia gave permission and a lot of cargo began to be put in haste at the entrance of the subspace warehouse that Yuria and her company were using.
And the loa, who got on the train among the numerous imperial troops, got on the carriage with a little worried expression, and the train started to depart.
Despite coming here and seeing it stop, loa stared blankly at it in disbelief when the massive thing really started to move.
“Tiaya, it seems that no matter what you explained, I think you only got the wrong idea.”
“According to the knowledge my mother gave me, even this is a very primitive means of transportation.”
What about Tia? Roa looked at Tia.
Then I gave this to the people of the empire as a tiara, but is that okay?
“I didn’t tell you. It’s just that they’ve been induced to come here over tens of thousands of years. That’s why I forbade all kinds of superpowers to them. I knew from my mother’s memories that humanity must have no superpowers in order to make such progress.”
Sometimes it was hard.
Humans who gave up their superpowers in order to develop science and technology were so weak in this world that they had to give up again and again, but in the end, Tebenoa succeeded.
It developed in a different way in some parts from her mother’s memory, but it was only a result of the change because there was another energy source called mana.
Even if mana was used, after all, magic and science were completely different fields.
It was really hard and arduous days leading this weak species called humanity and coming here without even the power of supernatural powers.
“It’s a bit uncomfortable. Yuria is in the cargo hold with Talos, but we’re the only ones in the cabin like this…”
“… 」
Tiado at Roa’s words. Hosea and Joshua too.
And Nuri and Delis also felt uncomfortable.
“Still… Rest your body for now. In order to bring her mother back to life, it is also important to maintain her physical condition.”
At that, Loa nodded his head and leaned against the wall of the train, quietly munching on the food.
Roa closed her eyes and fell asleep without realizing it.
And Nuri and Delis also smiled a bit bitterly as they saw the children sleeping next to Roa, leaning their bodies on Roa’s body.
Well, I must have been tired.
Nuri and Delis also quietly closed their eyes, leaning on each other’s bodies.
The long journey ahead had only just begun.
* * *
A journey with nothing to do.
It was a schedule to just get on the train and wait for the train to reach the destination, but the daily life on the train was getting tiring without realizing it.
Substantial noise that rattles, rattles, and is always constant and is only barely perceptible.
All of that insinuated tiredness.
Even if it was a carriage trip, it was the same, but unlike a carriage trip where there was a break in between, there was no such thing with this thing called a train.
During the day and night, it continued to run without rest, stopping at several stations in the middle to drop off cargo or soldiers, receive another cargo, and pick up soldiers, and the train never stopped running except for those times.
The mysterious feeling at first turned into boredom as she got used to it, and that boredom turned into something that made her heart heavy thinking that Yuria would lie in a cold coffin for that long.
“Are you okay. Mom is more comfortable than I thought.”
“Huh?”
“The method is different, but there were times when she moved in a frozen state like now when she left for a very long journey in her mother’s memory. Even though she was frozen for her injuries, from her mother’s point of view, she would just sleep for a long time.”
Tia’s words made Loa hard to believe, but she decided to believe it anyway.
Hopefully God won’t lie.
Above all, Tia was the only one who could properly examine Yuria’s condition among those present here, so she had no choice but to trust and rely on Sun Tia’s words.
Inside the limited and narrow train.
It was very embarrassing to Delis to have her soldiers suckling the children inside.
Having to expose her breasts in the presence of so many men was a situation that made her feel intimidated no matter how careful she tried.
Somehow, with the consideration of the soldiers, Nuri and Roa were given a seat in a corner of the train, and in the space that Nuri and Roa spread their cloaks to cover, they breastfeed Tia and her child and adjusted their clothes. The diaper problem of children in the environment was also a very big problem.
At least since Tia was born, she had a mature mind, not a baby, so she didn’t need diapers.
No, she is a body that doesn’t use the toilet itself from the beginning…
Since her own child was not the current body of a god like Tia, it was a series of embarrassing things in many ways.
They couldn’t stand the environment of the train and got sick, or they often burst into tears, frowning the imperial soldiers around them…
Even though he knew that he shouldn’t be compared to Tia-nim, he was in a situation where he could be compared to Tia-nim.
But even so, it was inevitable that she could not give up the child.
Child too. This journey too. Both were elements that could not be given up.
Rumble rattle.
Delis sighed as she silently washed her poop with a small amount of water in the shaking train today.
The reason why you can enjoy this much luxury on the train is that you are the founder of Euro Corp., The owner of the subspace in charge of logistics here on the train.
It was because there were actually the owners of the euro guild, Lord Roa and Miss Yuria.
Of course, her own owner, Lady Yuria, is asleep in that cold coffin, but the lady and Lord Loa are virtually the same person.
It was as if he was monopolizing the privileges they would have.
“Whoa…”
Isn’t it a nuisance to come to help?
Now, I kept thinking that my own value would be a nuisance other than breastfeeding Mr. Agi.
Delis, who had been absent-minded for a moment, finally made up her mind.
Near the end of this journey, she decides to drop herself.
The journey within the empire would pass quickly, but considering what happened in one empire, it was expected that Lady Tia would grow up enough to eat baby food.
The speed at which this object called the train was running was extremely slow compared to that of Talos with the help of Lady Yuria, but at least it was slightly faster than when it was running only with the strength of the young masters and Lady Tia.
Above all, thanks to the non-stop running, the overall moving distance is more than that.
Although crossing the empire was not the shortest distance, considering various factors, it would take less than a month to reach Galton Kingdom.
‘Indeed… Is it an empire’
Dellis knew it intuitively.
Even if the distribution speed was increased to some extent through the magic warehouse, this would only be a cost reduction, and the speed of transporting logistics and troops throughout this vast land before would have been no different from now.
How many trains can this powerful machine pull?
If you think about it, maybe it has more power than Talos?
Of course, considering that it can only run on the limited space of railroad, there are many disadvantages, but considering its powerful power, it was not something that could be ignored.
Why didn’t Lady Yuria touch something like this?
If you think about it, it seems that this knowledge also came from the knowledge that Lady YuRia passed down to Agi Tia. Now Delis was unconsciously finishing the laundry and struggling.
Lack of time?
Listening to Lady Tia’s words, she said that she led development over tens of thousands of years and reached what it is now.
But even so, looking at what Lady YuRia did, I didn’t feel that way.
“Delis must have thought it strange.”
“You don’t seem to think Tia-sama is strange.”
“In fact, her mother’s reaction is so natural.”
Delis tilted her head at Tia-sama’s words.
Even in the midst of drying and drying her laundry, Lady Tia was watching over her child’s condition while beckoning to her baby and giving her light divine power. I didn’t know what to do.
“Your mother’s standards are too high.”
“Yes?”
“From her mother’s point of view, her mother’s standards are so high that she can’t feel the difference between things from the Empire and things from other kingdoms.”
Delis couldn’t understand what she said.
“Can you feel, for example, that there is a huge difference between people who run in leather shoes and people who run in wooden shoes in Dellis?”
“Yes?”
“It’s like that from her mother’s point of view. Even the enormous technology of Talos is so insignificant from the mother’s point of view that even if there seems to be a huge difference from our point of view, from the mother’s point of view there really seems to be no difference. So, right now, you don’t have a good sense of how to go about achieving good efficiency.”
Tia-sama was spinning in the air as to what she was doing, and continued his words while twirling his fingers.
“Idiots cannot understand the thoughts of a genius. But vice versa. Even geniuses can’t understand the thoughts of fools. Things that are so natural for geniuses are absolutely not natural for fools.”
Tia-sama’s words didn’t reach Delis yet, but he was able to understand at least roughly.
It is so outstanding that it is unimaginable that it does not come close to their standards.
That’s the problem of Lady Yuria.
Fools have their own standards and superiority and inferiority exist, but from Lady YuRia’s point of view, they are all bad things, and what is right and wrong among them. You mean you don’t understand what’s better?
“Answer. If it wasn’t for the sanctions on the law of causation, would Mom be a miracle of God in the eyes of Delis now? She must have been making things that she couldn’t think of outside. That’s why this world is too uncivilized, barbaric, and uncivilized for her mother.”
It’s a miracle of God…
「It’s one of the maxims that existed in the very ancient times in her mother’s standards, in her mother’s knowledge. They say that highly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Lady Tia, who paused for a while, added a word to him.
“Then, wouldn’t technology that has gone beyond the level of advanced development to the extreme and even surpassed its limits be distinguished from the miracle of God?”
“…”
A world where things like miracles of God are taken for granted.
Is that the world that Lady Yuria lived in?
Roa and Nuri, who listened to Tia’s words to Delis from the side, also fell into deep thought.
The long train journey had come to an end, and the Loa who arrived in Galton pondered over what to do for a while.
Talos’s cargo compartment attached to the rear of the train car was separated, and seeing the cargo car pulled out of the train station tied to several horses, Loa thought that the imperial system was well organized.
“Can I control Talos from here on out?”
“Originally, it wouldn’t have been allowed here either. But, since Thebenoa has temporarily mitigated that restraint recently, it’s possible from here.”
At the words of the priest of Theban Noa, Loa quietly opened the cockpit of Talos and boarded Talos with his children. Nuri and Delos also got on top of Yuria’s coffin, which was firmly behind Talos, and prepared to leave for a long journey again.
Coo… Coo…
Nuri and Delis, who were riding on top of YuRia’s coffin, didn’t know much at first, but thought it was strange inside.
I wonder why Talos, which thumps the ground with a thump, is more comfortable than a train that runs on smooth, flat roads called railroad tracks.
Then, suddenly, Dellis remembered what Tia had said.
To YuRia, all of these skills seem insignificant.
A head-to-head fight between incomprehensible idiots.
Suddenly, it made sense.
How many amazing technologies were applied to Talos?
Even though it can’t produce as much power as a train, can it really be seen as a level of technology?
From Lady YuRia’s point of view, that train must have been a very insignificant and insignificant technological stage that was not worth going through.
“So… What kind of kingdom is the Galton Kingdom?”
At the words of the loa who was manipulating Talos, Delis sighed and thought for a moment.
“I don’t know the detailed information because I don’t have anything to do with Shelton. However, based on the time I was active in the Empire, the Galton Kingdom’s evaluation is like this.”
It’s an incomprehensibly antinomic, introverted, self-contradictory state.
