Nathan looked at the na card while standing in front of a small store. "Is this the place? Maybe she doesn't live here?"
Nathan raised his head, looking at the signboard.
'Black Angel Store.' It had the sa na as the one on the business card. "Maybe I should wait here until she opens the store in the morning? I don't know anyone here, so that's the only thing I can do—!"
Nathan abruptly stopped the mont he heard a bell on top of the door ring as though soone had just opened the door.
Still, he was the only person outside, so whoever it was must open the door from the inside.
"I heard a familiar voice, and look who we have here." lissa erged from the store while leaning sideways. Her eyes were half-open. "Did Vivian dump you?"
Nathan smiled wryly. lissa barely wore anything, making it hard for Nathan to look at her.
He politely bowed. "Hello, Miss lissa. I'm glad that you rember . I apologize for coming at such a ti, but is it possible to—!"
"Wait!" lissa raised her voice as if she wanted to complain about Nathan's behavior. However, her gaze soon shifted to the side as she hurriedly ca out of the store while extending her hand. "What is this?"
She let the ash fall on her hands and started pinching it and slling it. In that instant, her expression turned grim.
"Ash?" She raised her head, finding the cloud covering the entire sky. "Did a volcano erupt or sothing? But that was weird. There was no volcano around here that was supposed to erupt. Was it the one that produced the sound that repeatedly shook this place?"
lissa couldn't help but rember that Nathan was here. "Did you co because of this? Vivian must have sent you, no?"
Nathan nodded.
lissa thought for a mont and opened the door wide. "Co in. Let's talk inside."
"Yes."
…
"Here you go." lissa placed the coffee on the table. She then sat down while warming her hands with the heat from the glass.
Nathan looked around the shop. Surprisingly, he couldn't sense any presence in this store.
"Are you looking for my disciple? He dared to talk about the forbidden topic with , so I kicked him out. Besides, this store has been enchanted to mask one's presence. Even if he's here, you can't notice."
"Ah!" Nathan scratched the back of his head.
"How dare he talk about marriage to … Gosh. I just want to have fun, research things I like, and die by myself without making others sad." lissa clicked his tongue.
Nathan only chuckled, not really interested in her personal life. He just focused on explaining the current situation. "Well, the situation is like this…"
After explaining to a lot of people, Nathan only took ten minutes to tell her about everything they had in store.
lissa's expression turned grim the mont she learned everything. "I see. That's indeed possible. If you can actually create a weapon that can shoot the sky and disperse the cloud, then it's possible.
"So, Vivian wants to recruit ?" lissa crossed her arms.
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"I don't think so. It's just having another researcher with us will be good."
lissa thought for a mont. "That ans she wants sothing from my ntor. The world is going cold soon, so sothing related to cold or heat.
"Well, in this scenario, food scarcity will be the biggest problem, and the aliens are pretty much annoying in one way or another. They aren't affected by the environnt, so while we're getting weakened severely, the aliens will continue their onslaught like normal.
"The key point will depend on whether we can tackle the food problem or not." lissa pinched the bridge of her nose. "Let think. Sothing that can be shot into the sky and disperse at a certain altitude… doesn't seem to be easy to create.
"We have to consider the altitude, the gravity, and even the velocity. I don't think we have that kind of ti to make such a thing.
"How about sothing else? That is easy to make with the current technology. lissa tapped the table a few tis before asking, "How about a bow and arrow?"
"A bow and arrow?" Nathan tilted his head in confusion.
"Yes. You can shoot the arrow up with a bow and choose the altitude depending on how you pull the bowstring.
"In addition, you only need chanical things, which are easier to create with the current technology. Also, the arrow can return to the ground. All we need to do is use a kind of parachute to slow down the fall. This way, we can shoot it over and over again.
"This 'arrow' needs an enchantnt to produce a wind. However, this is the biggest problem."
"What do you an the biggest problem?" Nathan tilted his head in confusion.
"Ah?! Now that I think about it, you're not a researcher, right?"
"Yes."
"This is basic knowledge of a researcher. You must be thinking it will be easy just to inscribe the magic circle in the 'arrow,' right?"
"Yes."
"However, that's not the case, especially if we're going to use elents. For example, you inscribe this magic circle, but do you think you can shoot a wind just by supplying the ena?"
"You can't?" Nathan tilted his head in confusion.
"Nope. You need a material that contains a wind elent, mostly from familiars. Hence, I'm assuming Vivian is only planning to disperse that ena to create enough shock wave that will blow the cloud. This is possible, but the thod is not very effective. She must be thinking hard on how to maximize the efficiency right now."
Nathan squinted his eyes. He thought that they would only need a wind magic circle, but it seed he was wrong.
"Still not understand? I will use another example. You know that familiar can wield elents, right?"
"Yes."
"In that case, do you think their heart, the organ producing the ena, will produce the elent as well? Then the answer is yes and no. It's the sa organ, but a different location, which ans the elent and ena aren't originally coming out as a single thing."
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