Chapter 618 – 618. Preparing for School Opening (2)
Kaaang!
The place Cecilia arrived with Eleanor and Lily was a smithy filled with the sound of hammers hitting iron incessantly throughout the workshop.
“… That’s awesome.”
The heat inside and the aftermath of the shock caused by the collision of the hammer and iron were transmitted through the air and made Cecilia’s body tremble.
“This is it.”
The destination we finally arrived at was a room on the upper floor of the forge.
When Lily finished her guidance and opened the door to the room, cold air flowed from the room.
“Uh…”
Cecilia instantly felt a sense of incongruity.
The downstairs was filled with the heat from dozens of furnaces, the smell of sweat from many people, and the noise of the noise, because the atmosphere changed in an instant as soon as I went up to the second floor.
The hallway is quiet as if nothing had happened, and it is filled with fresh air that makes you feel cool.
No matter how different the number of floors is, how can the atmosphere be so different in the same building?
“Why is that?”
Eleanor, who was about to enter the room Lily had opened, asked, puzzled by Cecilia’s hesitant reaction.
“That is… The atmosphere is so different from the first floor.”
“Ah, it deserves it.”
Eleanor smiled as if she understood.
However, this forge was a place where Eunhyeon personally participated in the design and dozens of dwarves and humans completed the construction after months of construction.
At first, both Eleanor and Lily showed a surprising reaction as to why a completely different environment could be created just with different layers.
“Shall we go in? He is in here.”
“… Yes.”
Cecilia, at her Eleanor’s urging, followed her and Lily.
“What is the current consumption of iron ore? That’s enough?”
“Uhm, I still have room, but I can’t say it’s enough.”
“Adjust the amount of equipment produced. Making things is good, but making too many items is not good.”
“I will.”
Doran, the representative of the dwarves currently residing inside the Duchy of Armitas, nodded at Eunhyun’s words.
Soon, Eun-hyeon, feeling the presence, turned his head toward the entrance.
Eunhyeon spotted the three women walking from the entrance and greeted them with a smile.
“You have a guest.”
“Customer?”
At Eunhyeon’s muttering, Doran also turned his head and found Eleanor, Lily, and Cecilia.
“I brought you.”
“Great job. Two people. Miss Cecilia. Long time no see.”
Cecilia took Eunhyun’s outstretched hand and accepted her handshake.
“… Yes. Long time no see. It’s the first time I’ve seen you since the wedding.”
“Yes. I’ve been a bit busy lately.”
“I thought you would.”
It’s not empty words, Eun-hyun is really busy.
There was no news about his external activities at all, but most of the cases he was involved in, both officially and unofficially, were all heavy and bloody, so the word no news is good news really fits the man.
Cecilia looked around the workshop on the second floor and went straight to the point.
“I heard you have something to tell me.”
“You’re right. Doran.”
“Yes. You are a field farmer.”
“Bring it.”
“… Do you mean that?”
Doran asked with a surprised expression.
Seeing the dwarf looking at Eun-hyeon and herself alternately with her short body wide-opening her eyes, Cecilia is quite taken aback.
The dwarf race she had never seen before also made Cecilia perplexed, but what was even more disconcerting was that she wondered what Eunhyeon had ordered her to bring and that the dwarf was making a surprised expression.
“Okay. I will ask this person for it.”
“Ah! That’s right! This person! I will bring it to you quickly!”
Understanding Eunhyeon’s words, Doran ran across her short legs and disappeared.
Cecilia was very concerned as she had no idea what the hell she was asking for.
She seems to be able to hear the story of her doll named Emilia, so she suddenly accepts Eleanor’s offer and comes to visit her, but she is even anxious that she may have been deceived.
“… What the hell are you asking for?”
“You will know when you see it.”
“You’re a farmer! I have it!”
Unsurprisingly, there was a box in Doran’s arms, who often ran at a fast pace.
After receiving it, Eun-hyeon placed it on top of the central table and opened the box.
What caught Cecilia’s eyes was a metal in the shape of an ingot.
“… Mithril?”
After graduating from Aether, she had very basic knowledge as a wizard and recognized the magical power of the metal ingot.
Unlike ordinary steel, the metal ingot that holds her magical powers was only Mithril in Cecilia’s knowledge of metals.
“Unfortunately, this is not a mithril. This is the stage where ordinary iron evolves into a metal with the properties of mithril.”
“It’s just iron… Mithril?”
“Yes.”
Cecilia gave her a look of disbelief.
Even though she was new to metallurgy and blacksmithing, she knew that was not possible because she was well versed in her branch of alchemy.
“… That’s impossible.”
Mithril is not a type of metal that can be artificially created.
This is because Mithril is a metal that, after being exposed to a vast amount of magic power over several decades, naturally absorbs that magic power, becoming harder and increasing the conductivity of magic power.
Cecilia denied the possibility, saying that it was nonsense that she would create mithril, which was created naturally in a mine containing high-quality magical power over a period of decades.
“It was impossible. Until now.”
Regarding the origin of Mithril, there is no properly passed down story among humans, and even among Dwarves, it is only transmitted as a tradition, and there has never been a single attempt to make the metal called Mithril itself.
However, Eun-hyeon was trying this.
If you try and succeed, and if you can mass-produce mithril, you can get a lot of things that are incomparable to the present based on that.
The honor of having succeeded in making mithril artificially for the first time, and the enormous profits that could be gained by selling quality equipment made with that mithril.
In the end, it was a project that Eun-hyeon had to succeed, as she was aiming to improve the power of the Kingdom of Pernias in the war against disasters that would happen someday.
“But the potential is there, and it has to be done. In this study… I desperately need Cecilia-sama’s help.”
Cecilia’s advice in the other field of alchemy is sure to be of great help.
However, Cecilia, who actually received the request, responded with a shudder.
“… You are better than me.”
Cecilia was well aware that Eun-hyeon possessed knowledge and abilities that easily surpassed her even in the fields of alchemy and pharmacy, which were her specialties.
It was none other than Eun-hyeon who developed and provided a medicine to treat a new drug that had previously been circulating among the high-ranking children of Pernin.
The reality is that he is stuck at this stage, but is there anything special about him?
“Isn’t this a different field from pharmacy? And what I want is ideas that are created from the ideas and mindsets of researchers like Cecilia. Cecilia-sama might be able to come up with an idea that I couldn’t come up with.”
“…”
Maybe that’s overestimating yourself too much.
“Furthermore, we cannot focus all our attention on this research. For now… I want to take care of my wife too.”
“… Wife?”
Cecilia looked at Eleanor, not understanding.
Seeing her face needing an explanation, Eleanor replied with a wry grin on her face.
“Iliana-sama’s delivery date is getting closer and closer.”
“Ah.”
He put on a belatedly realized expression and sighed a little.
It’s a bit of news, but she realizes that quite a long time has passed since she heard the news.
“Ha.”
Cecilia let out a small sigh and put on a look that couldn’t be helped.
If you’ve been asking for something like this, even if you want to refuse it, you can’t.
“On the contrary, it won’t be a bad story for Cecilia-sama either.”
“… What do you mean?”
“I believe she got her story from Eleanor.”
“…”
Eventually, she belatedly remembered her purpose for coming to Eun-hyeon.
“No, that’s right! Eleanor-sama brought up the story of Emilia… !”
Cecilia didn’t listen to Eleanor’s story behind it and accepted it at once, so she came here to meet Eun-hyeon.
“Yes. In exchange for conducting this research, I will teach Cecilia the techniques for making dolls.”
“Yes? Are you paying for the progress?”
Cecilia had a surprised expression on her face at the condition that she was quite unconventional.
The price for conducting the research, not for making the research successful, meant that he would pay the price regardless of whether the research on this metal ingot succeeded or failed.
“That’s a very favorable condition for me…”
“It’s okay. I believe that Cecilia-sama will work with a sense of responsibility, and I also have an obligation to pass this knowledge on to someone else.”
As the successor of the puppeteer, Eun-hyeon was able to learn Emilia, her many dolls, and doll-making techniques because of the wishes of her old friend, Archis.
He hoped that the profession of ‘puppeteer’ he had, and the technology and knowledge of ‘puppetry’ would not be interrupted and properly passed on to future generations.
Therefore, just as Archis passed on many things contained in the profession of puppeteer to Eunhyeon, Eunhyeon also had an obligation to pass on the responsibilities, skills, and knowledge contained in this profession to someone in the future.
So, Eun-hyeon thought that her successor puppeteer would be Cecilia, who was well-versed in the field of alchemy.
While revealing the profession of a puppeteer on the continent, there was also a desire to help in the war against future disasters.
“And there is another reason why I want to teach Cecilia-sama how to puppeteer.”
“… What is that?”
In fact, this was also the main point.
And this research, which artificially infuses ordinary steel with magical properties like mithril, is also related to the reason for trying to teach Cecilia puppetry.
“I’m thinking of making a new heart for an old friend.”
What Eun-hyeon is planning is to entrust everything to herself and revive Archis, who stopped functioning as a doll and fell asleep.
From the moment she was passed on her knowledge of puppetry from Archis, Eun-hyeon had been thinking of resurrecting her one day.
The reason why he couldn’t put it into practice right away was because he needed time to completely make the puppetry skills and knowledge he received from Archis his own.
Now, she wondered if it would be right to wake her up again after she fell asleep, but she needed at least one more powerful power like Archis in her future disaster and war with demons. .
As Eunhyeon greeted the new successor puppeteer, she began preparations to revive her friend.
“Before school opens, you will probably be very busy completing this study and mastering puppetry. Would you mind anyway?”
“… Great.”
Cecilia accepted Eun-hyeon’s proposal with her eyes shining brightly.
Originally curious about puppetry, known as an ancient technique, she did not intend to miss this opportunity.
She has about three months left before the opening of the school where she plans to be a professor.
However, I felt intuition that those three months would be a series of busy times in which I could not eat properly, let alone sleep.
‘Let’s do something.’
She thought that during this time of three months she was dead and when she made up her mind to do her best, she said Eun-hyeon followed her.
“Ah, but I have to get off work on time at 5:00. Like I said, I want to spend time with her wife from now on.”
“…”
Cecilia could not refute the power of her boss, Eun-hyeon, who was her senior puppeteer, who naturally laid the foundation for her.
