Chapter 268. a (17)
The mage's chanization. To think such a cruel technique was pioneered just to obtain a perfect army.
It's a ridiculous story. Won't this just end up wasting the budget?They say the Beta beings have pushed in from above again...Phew.Hmm.Still, they usually get good results. Let them be.There's no benefit in rumors spreading unnecessarily. Keep this quiet.After all, the planet's dood anyway—what's there to lose?
Murmur.
A mont later, as the eting ended, the marine creatures gathered before the leader all exited the room in unison.
Although the minutes were filled with approvals and affirmations, the atmosphere among these highest-ranking nobles was far from bright. As murmurs drifted down the corridor, it was clear they had only half-heartedly tolerated the eccentric's plan out of desperation. Had it not been for the Beta beings' invasion threatening the extinction of their race, they would never have allocated funds to such a ridiculous and absurd project.
But as expected, life is sothing you can never predict. The powerholders who had been chatting soon ca to fully support the eccentric scholar's actions. Because a reason why the plan absolutely had to succeed had soon arisen for them.
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The reason the highest ruling class suddenly applauded the eccentric's invention was simple.
In an even-numbered year, a prodigy appeared on this Alphaut planet who could surpass the limits of future eternity.
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Green blood. Long legs. And the very figure, who as they grow, will co to have three eyes.
The innate magical talent of this green-skinned man was so remarkably outstanding that even the deep-sea people, who had poor eyesight, could imdiately recognize it—it was truly fearso. Compared to the spells built instinctively, the magic of others was nothing more than a crude and vulgar structure, akin to beasts of the natural world.
Moreover, there was the incident where he killed the dean by flaying him alive just to graduate from the training facility. From his very first mission, he personally slaughtered over a hundred Beta beings. The opponent had achieved jaw-dropping feats even before reaching adulthood—so who would dare to doubt his talent?
Amazing.
He was an unparalleled genius. When that green-blooded deep-sea being appeared, the ruling class who knew about the controversial plan imdiately sprang into action and insisted on it.
I've never quite understood the phrase "to a terrifying degree" before, but this ti, it seems like the perfect expression to use.Indeed, I've seen his magic firsthand on the battlefield, and it's truly hard to believe he's from the deep sea.His talent is too much.If he naturalizes to another country later, that would be a huge problem. Didn't you say they did so kind of preproc essing on his brain when he was young, whether it's terminalization or whatever? Listen, hurry up and proceed with that id. Just knowing such a monster exists makes uneasy!
He said it was obviously going to fall before, and now he's all fired up about it.
Everyone, calm down.
The leather-skinned scholar waved his tentacles at the power-hungry nobles scolding him. A brief flicker of irritation crossed his mind, as if thinking, "Did these guys storm in while I was eating my lunch?" But he didn't show any emotion outwardly this ti either. After all, it wasn't a situation worth getting angry over.
As I said last ti, extraction is impossible right now.Why!At the very least, we have to wait until all the organs fully develop. To be honest, my technology is like a newborn of art, so naturally there are so inefficiencies. For example, when transferring the heart to a machine, about 17% of the original is lost...
The fearful ruling class panicked as if struck by lightning from the sea upon witnessing the birth of a strange figure, while the eccentric faction viewed this as a benefit for the entire planet and only voiced positive opinions.
If we try to proceed with chanization on an immature individual, the chance of failure skyrockets exponentially. We absolutely must wait until he reaches adulthood.
On the other side of the distant universe, in a ruled world by mammals, such an event once occurred. When listing individuals of exceptional intellect, his na was always ntioned, and after this extraordinary genius scientist—renowned in his history for his unparalleled brilliance—died one day, people displayed his brain in a museum. Such was the intensity of sentient beings' fascination with genius.
But then, this scholar nad ■■ was just as deeply fascinated by others' innate genius—so much so that he might even sell off his own goal of "immortality" in pursuit of it. He had devised a technique to preserve sothing in a steel-bound body. And in the deep sea, a newborn monster with a fragile form had erged. A fellow of his own kind, no less—one who was surely destined to be a genius.
Are you laughing all of a sudden?
The bubble burst. Today, a marine creature wearing red skin like a mammal suddenly laughed.
Why are you laughing?
The laughter didn't stop for quite a while. This eccentric, possessing above-average intelligence, roughly anticipated what was about to happen in Alphaut.
First, there's one thing I'd like to clarify. It was during my own youth—while still underage—that I personally ushered in the age of healing potions.Of course I know. That's the greatest achievent of your family, after all.But even with such talent, I carry a deeply humble heart within my chest.
Profound humility. Upon hearing this, the fellow countryman's blood suddenly shifted to a slightly less saturated hue—a sign of anxiety.
Ahaha.Of course, true to his reputation as a notorious eccentric, he paid no mind and continued his explanation.I understand your reaction. You seem surprised that soone who claims to have changed the era would talk about humility, huh?Hmm.My point is this. At least... I clearly understand my own limits.
Soone waved their tentacle through the empty air.
I'm only good at a narrow field that I'm truly interested in. No matter how much I try to act all high and mighty, in the end, this world is full of geniuses far better than .
Bang.
I even hit a nearby workbench with the tip of my arm to express my feelings.
Moreover, the problem is that all those damned geniuses are mortal beings with limited lifespans.
His voice trembled. But it wasn't anxiety in a bad sense. Throughout the conversation, the scholar fairly experienced joy using the unique overlapping speech pattern of the Alphaut people.
Do you know?Tell .When I was a child, I had this thought while reading biographies of great figures my parents gave .What do you an?It's such a sha that so many geniuses passed away so early—Oho.If all those great figures were still alive today, the world would be completely different—like a paradise! Today's magic would look like primitive child's play compared to how far everything could have advanced.Of course.But now, at last, I have the chance to realize the dream I had as a child...
The Alphaut continued the conversation in an excited tone.
The chance to preserve a one-of-a-kind genius for eternity! So don't run it—just wait. Please, give ti.
So the eccentric waited patiently for the genius's brain to fully grow.
Several years later. The green mage's adaptation to the academy.>As you can see, the situation has changed drastically.Oh...This is not good.Even to , a complete outsider to combat magic, this is definitely a bit...This won't work.
Originally, a servant was supposed to be assigned to keep an eye on him, but by chance, the leatherworker ■■ belonged to the sa institution—the Academy—and was able to easily keep up with the war hero's news. Without even trying to change out of the white leather outfit he had worn just the other day, he delivers the news to the nobles.
It seems they can't afford to wait until his brain fully develops.
As expected, do you all also feel that this is dangerous?
Because they've co to know what kind of magic this war hero is developing.
Golem control.
Strictly speaking, they're not sure if it's right to call this "developnt."
But one thing was certain. If the war hero fully masters that, they are dood. Despite having all kinds of drugs applied to his brain, he would embarrassingly fail and suffer defeat.
The green mage's research topic was that dangerously risky. The deep-sea man said his main goal was simply to put a higher-performance behavioral protocol into the golem's brain to improve its function—in other words, at most, to reduce the citizens' ntal chores.
You're lying!
Surely, the true value of golem control magic shines not on the battlefield, but in military operations? What was even more frightening was that the green mage's goal did not seem at all ridiculous. The genius of the century was arrogant but that word applied only to his personality flaws. Generally, highly intelligent beings often possess tacognition—the ability to think about their own thinking. The green mage, following a similar principle, was quite keen at discerning what he could and couldn't do.
I might have understood if he wished to control all the seawater on this planet. But considering the current golem exterior design technology, the power of core-utilizing magic stones, and the various theoretical ideas of inscribing spells onto inanimate objects to make them work...I believe it would even be possible to raise an unmanned army in this era.A truly excellent controller... if only one existed.
The atmosphere is getting chaotic.
No matter what, there must be limits, right? At best, it would just be an automation that convincingly mimics a knight's movents. Honestly, there's no way it could move better than a golem directly controlled by a sorcerer following a pre-programd set of instructions...Is this really a matter of direct control versus automation?So, that guy's research draft is...I couldn't steal it. Looks like so rat has been spreading rumors, but lately that green one has been tightening his personal security quite a lot. Still, whatever it is, it's definitely a form of magic with a wider scope than the machinery techniques I possess.Not a single line of text, nor a single word, was I able to bring back.This is the proof.Of course. If soone that young can protect their own research results, it makes sense they could realize their imagination. Ahhh, I can already picture them moving like hundreds of golems, shedding the flesh and bones of their own kind!
The spread of fear. Those who survived the great war, having lost all their predecessors, no longer had courage in the hearts. They shallowly forgot that they were discussing a mage who wouldn't even live past twenty years.
Even if he is an unmanageable genius, is it truly right to force a single individual into a state akin to a lifeless device through chanization research? Such ethical discussions never even took place.
He hadn't committed any cri yet, nor had he hard any noble, but still... a potential rebel whose overwhelming power was far too great to simply overlook out of pity.
There is no way to stop him once he rises.We have no choice...
The weak egoists are soon in control.
Let's hurry and get started before wasting any more ti.
Originally, they had planned to patiently wait until the deep-sea creature's body stopped growing and began to decline, but since they had no respond so hastily, the chances of the plan succeeding were now rock-bottom. Therefore, they also took into account the possibility that the marine creature laying the golden egg might go into shock and die during the surgery, and decided to sohow secure whatever final profit they could.
The spies we planted in the neighboring country's magic tower have been growing properly. Let's use them to incite the internal atmosphere. After all, those ungraceful things have been impatient to expand their water area since before the Great War. If we slowly reveal our weaknesses, he will quickly take the bait.
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So what...
From now on, be more careful in every way. I've heard everything myself, so consider this a warning.
To sum it up, the reason the orange guy subtly rejected the eccentric genius was also...
Let's do that.
The fact that the ruler acted overly indifferent during the treasure vault negotiations, the magical hunts at the Magic Tower, and the unfortunate timing of that incident happening just as the orange giant compatriot was visiting his ancestral ho for the holidays, and so on.
In fact, when you know the truth, all those things seed strange or went too smoothly in order were exactly because such hidden forces were at work behind the scenes.
A skin-changer. A weird. And an Alphaut known by titles such as the leader's right hand.
[This crazy.]
They discovered this green compatriot at about two years old and have been watching his intelligence closely throughout their entire lifeti.
Furthermore, the green genius did not know that his major organs had been pre-processed before he even left the training center. He had no idea.
He excelled in most fields, but there were just two exceptions.
Age and malice. Those were overwhelmingly lacking compared to the other planet's people.
The reincarnator of a distant future once said that the series of disasters happened as a result of arrogance. But was it really just his negligence or carelessness? When he was young and soft.
At that ti, when he still knew nothing of magic or dicine, the planet's highest advanced spell was inscribed on his body. And the green when he was a young child, even if the Alphaut concealed their ruthless nature that kills without hesitation when necessary, since he was born a genius, everyone would have feared the intelligence of that young man.
[Ha, hahaha...]
Now, the gaps in his mory are slowly filling in.
Several hundred years after the end of the Middle Era, the green guy finally realized why he had been speaking in honorifics and working as nothing more than soone else's tentacle cleaner.
That was because the damn researcher's device-making plan had succeeded.
[■■ / ■■ This b*stard deserves to be skinned down to the last scrap of leather and ground to dust!]
The forr rulers ambushed the deep-sea archmage as he was returning from defeating the enemy nation. And they got what they wanted. They extracted the genius's brain, heart, and additionally the spine and so proteins, then sohow managed to weave this factory of the mind into machines. They gave these machines titles like "Magic Master" a rank originally reserved only for high-ranking Alphaut.
First Magic Master! So people say that the title they were proud of was actually a kind of derogatory term.
However, the green mage at the center of this incident continues to take pride in his stature even after reincarnation. After all, back then, there were still a few living though the chanized ones "dead" wouldn't be quite accurate) Magic Master among the Alphaut. And even if he hadn't been caught up in such an absurd event, he was confident he would have naturally claid that rank on his own.
[Yeah. I rember everything now. Today's Magic Masters are a kind of recognized rank, sowhat like Archmages. No way, then what year is it exactly now...]
At first, the engineers were protecting the genius with nothing more than a simple cylindrical device that would respond when spoken to. But as ti went on and technology advanced, it seems they now grew the green mage in the jar as a golem pilot.
[Thank you so much, I feel like my blood's about to turn cold. Damn these b*stards]
Of course, all of this was the result of stealing the genius's research directly from his brain.
No wonder life had so few ups and downs. The arrogant man believed the reason he had no rivals in his life was simply because he was too strong and capable. But later, he realized that it was actually because the planetary rulers had already done their utmost to protect themselves against him.
It's shocking.
[Ugh.]
No matter how crazy a sorcerer is, hardly any would consider up their own head. He never even had a chance to notice the clever pre-processing that was similar to his internal magical energy.
[my tentacles... that glossy skin has all turned into hard machinery...]
Therefore, he was helplessly taken advantage of by a an trick.
Wait a mont, let's correct that. Now that I think about it, the nation's top leader has changed to ■■. Based on this information, the Archmage recalled so more of what he did in the past.
[Hmm.]
Around the ti when his genius was nearly stolen in deep-sea territory. Back then, despite being in a chaotic state, he fought against the invading mages and resisted in every way he could. But towards the end, he learned that the ruler had approved this crazy act and cast a decisive magic spell on the royal castle...?
[...Co to think of it, how many major mountain ranges were there in this sea region? Did such deep ocean trenches even exist in the Northern Hemisphere originally?]
It was around the ti when the chanized archmage muttered a strange story.
There wasn't!!
Suddenly, a voice answered from sowhere. Although the appearance was completely different, the tone of voice that maintained the old form made it imdiately recognizable. The leader of the skin-changers, who had triggered this entire situation, was approaching.
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