Lord of Training - Chapter 95



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94. Foundation work.

“So, you’re not the originator of magic engineering?”

“This was originally a world where only spirit magic existed. But at some point, a dimensional gate like yours appeared. Still, thanks to the labyrinth gate, we were able to block dimensional monsters a little more effectively.”

“Tell me in detail from the beginning.”

Iris frowned as if trying not to remember.

But when he saw my curious eyes, he started telling a long story.

She said it started about 100 years before she was born.

One day, a dimensional gate appeared, just like the one I live in now, and dimensional monsters came out of the gate and attacked the elves.

Elves, like humans, were divided into several races and kingdoms, and each began to respond to the monsters.

The elves were initially defeated by the dimensional monsters, but in their world, the dimensional mana and energy suddenly increased, and magic knights began to appear, awakening their magic.

The early elves’ weapons were mainly bows and swords, so they did not have much power.

However, the magic knights gathered their strength and gradually drove away the monsters, and even entered the gate in the opposite direction.

And then a red dimensional gate appeared.

The red gate was said to have been connected to a world that had already been destroyed, and was a place where traces of a fierce battle with dimensional monsters remained.

And the elves who entered the red gate were given a riddle-like mission to find an unknown heritage.

This is why it was named the Labyrinth Gate.

The elves were able to return to their world by completing the mission given at the Labyrinth Gate, and bring back the legacy of the destroyed world.

The elves, who were studying the legacy of that ruined world, learned the principles of weapons from that world, such as rifles and cannons, and entered the gate connected to the spirit world to create their own magical weapons using new resources such as magic stones, fire stones, and floating wood.

“It’s embarrassing, but I’ve heard that the ancestral elves were arrogant and selfish. They used magical weapons made from the legacy of that ruined world to subdue the dimensional monsters to some extent, but then they fought each other to expand their power.”

Iris made a bitter expression.

“Then, as the number of dimensional gates increased and they became larger, and stronger dimensional monsters emerged from them, the elven kingdoms fell one by one. And later, when the elves came to their senses and joined forces, as you can see······.”

“It’s too late.”

“ha!”

Iris’s sigh was deep.

“But if you humans follow us, the end will be no different from this.”

Iris was looking at a part of the jungle that had been reduced to ruins by the breath of the Dimensional Dragon.

Her eyes looked sad and empty.

How empty it must be to wake up after 1,000 years, with no family, no colleagues, and no trace of life that would have recognized your existence all gone.

Her lonely feelings were clearly reflected in her eyes and facial expression.

However, the reason Iris did not collapse was probably because of the hope that the descendants of the elves survived in the other world.

I had a feeling that Iris was not okay.

“I’ll give you all of this back too.”

I took out the Iris Dimension Sword and the Dimension Rifle.

Iris wore the dimensional sword on her waist.

“You have that dimensional rifle.”

“huh?”

“I don’t even have a subspace warehouse, so how am I going to take all this with me? And dimensional ammunition too.”

“Okay, I have it. I can use it if I need to.”

“You figure that out. Weapons are meant to be used.”

She only took the Dimensional Sword and the Iris Dimensional Sniper Rifle.

“Is the High Elf base far from here?”

“It’s incredibly far. Even if you fly fast, it’ll take a week.”

“Then it would be better for you to go out with us first and come back later. You won’t be able to get everything you need by yourself anyway.”

Iris thought for a moment and then nodded.

“Okay. I think I’ll need a subspace warehouse to store all my stuff.”

This is the secret base of the high elves.

How many things can you pack in there!

I don’t need spirit bullets right now, and I’ll have to go with Iris and get them all later after the Nubua War is over.

Suddenly, endorphins started rushing through my body.

There must be a lot of high elf heritage, right?

Are there any external filaments there?

“Is there a maze gate left in the elf world?”

Iris looked at me with a dumbfounded expression.

“I thought you were smart, but you’re stupid! I’ve been asleep for a thousand years, how would you know it still exists? Even if it did, you would have cleared it long ago.”

“Wasn’t there something like an S-rank labyrinth gate? A labyrinth gate that doesn’t disappear even if you clear it.”

“Is there something like that? I don’t know about that.”

Iris looked really clueless.

It seems a little different from the labyrinth gate that appeared in our world.

“You go to sleep too! You’ll be flying all day tomorrow.”

“okay.”

Iris climbed up a healthy tree on one side and took a seat.

I opened an alchemist’s workshop right away.

‘What was engraved on that capsule earlier was definitely an external filament that absorbs dimensional energy!’

The evidence was that there was a dimensional core inside Iris’ body.

That meant I could make Yeonseongjin too.

Of course, it would take a considerable amount of time and effort to get to that level, but if I start now, by the time I become an S-rank alchemist, I will be able to get to a considerable level.

And the basis of external ductility is internal ductility.

If you raise the level of your internal synergy in advance, you can use it right away later.

In a word, it is about laying a solid foundation.

The first decomposition space was chosen.

First, I need to break down the air around me.

[Air Decomposition (lv.1) Affinity Device is ready.]

I chose the second manipulation space.

Of course, dimensional energy is extracted here.

[Dimensional Energy Extraction (lv.1) Linkage Device is ready.]

The last one was the construction that was the problem.

Since dimensional energy is mixed in such small amounts in the air, it would take an incomparably long time compared to extracting mana liquid from a magic stone.

Should I make it into a liquid? Or should I make it into a powder that I can eat like mana pills?

[Preservation (lv.1) linkage device is ready.]

The conclusion is that it is preserved as a pure dimensional energy state.

And then I placed an empty miniature dimensional core behind the last soft device.

So that dimensional energy can naturally permeate the dimensional core!

It won’t be of much help right away, but if you just raise the level of Air Decomposition and Dimensional Energy Extraction, it will be quite helpful when making external fusion lines later.

‘Should I make a Destruction Linkage and level it up in advance?’

When I was on Earth, the first thing I tried to create with an external sphere was a weapon-destroying sphere.

Even though I became an A-class hunter, that was the only ability that could protect me.

So I tried a ductile iron that could destroy metal weapons.

Of course it was an ignorant thing to do.

Because I lacked dimensional energy, I could only make enough to slightly bend metal weapons before I reached S-rank.

But now it’s different.

Because we can continuously supply dimensional energy with the dimensional core in the workshop.

Separation and disintegration devices already exist, but they are too slow unless you specify a target.

Because speed is everything for external ductility.

[Metal Separation (lv.1) A flexible device is ready.]

[Metal Destruction (lv.1) Amplification Device is ready.]

Now this ductile iron separates and divides the metal, and destroys the separated metal.

The basics were three stages, but the intermediate stages could be increased or excluded, so it was shortened to destruction right after separation.

Finally, a build-up effect like extinction or vaporization is possible, but again, anything complicated would take too long.

Since it’s a metal weapon, it’s enough to destroy it rather than turning it into powder.

‘Isn’t there any metal that can be put into the soft clay?’

While searching through the alchemist’s workshop, I came across a broken steel battle doll.

This was placed in the stomach of the Dimensional Dragon and was crushed and broken by the influence of the gravity field generator, so it did not move even when the Dimensional Core was charged.

I put the whole battle doll in.

And in the future, I need to find metal and put it in the workshop.

That way, we can keep turning the Yeonseongjin.

As I slowly began to think about returning to the other world, I began to worry about how I could end this war quickly.

“Oh right!”

Suddenly Iris jumped up and screamed.

She came down from the tree.

“why?”

“There is a secret base to the west.”

“what?”

“It’s a forward base, so there might be more useful things like spirit bombs. I should go there and come back.”

“How long does it take from here?”

“At my flight speed, it would take a few hours.”

“Then I’ll go with you. We’ll need a subspace warehouse.”

“okay.”

I woke up Major Phelps right away.

“Phelps, I’ll be at the Oasis base by noon tomorrow. Meet me there.”

“Yes! Have a nice trip.”

Paaaaang!

Paaaaang!

We flew at full speed.

It happened so suddenly, like roasting beans in a lightning flash.

But I can’t stand farming.

***

We entered a large cave.

After going down for a while, we found an elf base.

But the base was completely destroyed and looked like it had been there for a long time.

The other bases were well preserved, perhaps due to the elves’ magical engineering skills, but this one was in a truly miserable state.

Iris slowly looked around.

She seemed to be looking for some trace.

But so much time had passed that nothing remained properly.

‘Then let’s get some scrap metal.’

Since I couldn’t waste this time, I put all the rusty metals I saw here and there into the alchemist’s workshop.

After searching for a while, Iris suddenly ran over as if she had found something.

I ran after her.

She pulled a relatively neat-looking, long metal box out of the corner.

And then I opened the box.

Inside was a sword kept in a clean condition.

‘Huh? Are you crying?’

Suddenly she starts crying.

“what’s the matter?”

I asked cautiously.

“I was just thinking about old times.”

It seemed like there was a story.

While I waited for Iris to calm down, I put the scrap metal around her into the alchemist’s workshop.

Iris was just around the corner.

“This is Sister Ethiel’s sword.”

You had a sister.

Iris said that the dimensional core was at the bottom and she went into a charging capsule, and that her older sister, Ethel, decided to take her out.

But seeing as the base has become like this, it must have been attacked by a dimensional monster.

“Take this sword. I have one. I’ll give it to you.”

“Thanks, but I use a rifle?”

“Then you can give it to someone else.”

Iris gave me a sword.

There was no need to carry two swords anyway.

And her sword that summons the black dimension is just made of dragon bone.

‘If you give it to Lieutenant Colonel Nicole, he’ll put it to good use.’

Nicole’s sword was ordinary, so I thought it would be good to use this sword.

“Let’s go!”

Iris said.

“You can stay a little longer.”

“No. Now that I’ve confirmed it, you can go.”

She walked ahead.

I turned on the dimensional detector to check if there were any remaining dimensional cores, but there was no response at all.

On the way out, I swept up scrap metal here and there.

Iris asked why he was taking care of such things, but it was all for the external connections that would be active someday.

I also looted that broken elf base.

***

The next day at noon.

We arrived at the Oasis secret base on time.

“What? You even have a dimensional gate generator!”

“okay.”

Iris’s mouth opened wide.

“We only made two of those!”

So there’s one more?

I have one, and the one I found at the old lab was unfinished, so that means there’s another one out there somewhere.

That shouldn’t fall into someone else’s hands······.

“Let’s talk about the details later. Come on in.”

We went down into the basement through the ventilation shaft.

“Chung! You’re here!”

The agents were waiting.

“Phelps, is everything okay?”

“A radio call just came in from Lieutenant Colonel Audrey. He wants you to come back as soon as possible.”

“He said he was going now.”

“That’s what I said.”

But what’s urgent?

There was no word last night······.

“Everyone, enter the gate!”

“yes!”

We entered the E-class dimensional gate I created.

***

It was dark and then the surroundings gradually became brighter.

“Wow! This place is so nice!”

Dadadak!

Iris, who came out first, was already running around the gate.

It looks just like that with flowers in your hair.

Still, it’s nice to see you smiling brightly after seeing you so droopy.

Well, it’s nice here.

There is a small mountain behind it, and there is also a waterfall.

And there are palm trees, white sand beaches, and emerald seas.

It was a truly beautiful island.

‘When the war is over, should we make this a resort?’

End