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(Blade of Dawn)

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It failed again. Lord Ancestor's design is really difficult.

Aunt, have you seen Lord Ancestor?

No.

You came at the right timing.

Rebecca, come try it.

Can you cut this magic crystal into fingertip size?

Sure.

This is...

And that is the application of the Explosion Rune,

please practice it well after class.

- Yes. - Of course.

Remember, every time a mission is announced,

the first ten persons who complete the mission to the standard

is rewarded with the right to learn magic.

Dismissed.

Why are you crying?

I never expected that there is hope I could become a mage

before I hit 30 years old.

You did well.

My lord, this...

Young man,

you have to understand that great power creates miracles.

You see, the sun is just a much bigger fireball.

Is it slightly too early to teach them this?

Philip, I'll have to trouble you to stress to them

about the importance of safe application of runes.

Yes, my lord.

Lord Ancestor!

What's wrong?

Aunt completed the prototype.

Heidi.

My lord, I've successfully developed

the communication device you designed.

This device uses magic crystal as power source

and doesn't need a mage to cast spells.

Those who don't know magic can still use it

to communicate over long distance.

One magic crystal can power it for three days.

Excellent.

Can it be mass produced?

Yes, however, it will take some time.

Is there a problem?

No.

Just a minor issue.

Thank you for your hard work.

Feed it in.

Insert the runes.

Light the fire.

Measure the time.

The momentum is going strong.

My lord.

How much metal have you smelted?

Thanks to the runes,

we've almost smelted half of all the ores.

That's powerful.

We managed to produce so much

because we used fire elemental runes to fuel the fire.

I didn't think us blacksmith could ever find use for magic.

Smelting iron with runes? Excellent.

Replace the runes.

Yes.

However, my lord.

Using runes to smelt iron is highly effective,

but as you can see, it consumes a lot of runes.

How many runes like this do you use in a day?

About a hundred pieces.

Philip.

At this rate, the remaining rune materials in the domain

will only last one month.

Chief,

we didn't find any markings like the one you mentioned.

Let's check upfront again.

What do you think that marking is?

According to the chief, it seems to be some sort of aberrant.

Commoners can use magic with runes

without having to rely on mages.

The price is the loss of runes as we use it.

This problem is really tricky.

My apologies, my lord.

That blacksmith was the first to be rewarded.

And he is responsible for the domain's armory, so I...

No need to blame yourself.

The domain's development has only just begun,

it's normal to be unable to control the costs.

However...

However, magic doesn't need to be stunning.

It only needs to last long.

I'm sorry, my lord. I recalled this phrase from your notebook.

It's fine, keep going.

The residents don't have magic foundation.

Even though they've learned some spells,

they cannot grasp the rule of magic.

This will lead to unnecessary wastage.

Just like this fire elemental rune.

The rune guides the flow

of the fire element to make fire burn fiercer,

but it can only last a while.

Is there any way to improve its efficiency?

Let me try.

Oh, fervent flames, please burn again.

A single element gets lonely and powerless, it needs a friend.

Oh, delicate wind, sleep no more.

Wind can keep the fire alive,

but something else needs to keep an eye on them.

Oh, solemn earth, please bury this deeply.

Burn!

This way, the wind aids the fire,

and earth will make sure the fire won't burn too fiercely.

The runes will last a lot longer.

Little Rebecca is really amazing.

But the rune materials will still be depleted someday.

If we can use a real magic formation instead

and implement self-charging, then that would be much better.

In that case, all industries in the entire domain

can be magically enhanced.

All to be magically enhanced?

But the mages are going to be drained.

After we solved the problem of efficiency,

we'll look into magic charging next.

Do you still remember the change that I talked about?

This is truly...

Genius!

Its name is Magic Network,

and it will solve matters regarding the charging.

- Magic Network? - Magic Network?

It's a formation that automatically extracts

magic power from nature.

It seems to be lacking something.

It lacks a magical medium that activates the formation.

In short, it lacks an activation device.

But where can we find it?

So this is the Gandor ruins that you mentioned.

The pathfinder team back then

fled to the north from the Gandor wasteland.

M-My lord, please slow down.

We gathered survivors from the wasteland

while we collected all kinds of resources.

As a result, the team got bigger

and in order to escape pursuit by the aberrants,

we hid important items that we cannot carry with us

in this facility that we found by accident.

Not good, run!

But as a secret base from the Gandor era,

the true treasure stored in here is much more than these.

What, what is this?

The usual Gandor gimmick, to repel thieves.

Just relax.

The magic crystal that we lack to build Magic Network is here.

This place is...

Gandor Magic Creator.

Galway Cecil,

you have really chosen death.

It is her.

Why isn't he leaving after that warning?

Gandorian mages used the rare crystals

from Deep Blue Well as its core.

They researched a way that can absorb magic power from nature.

Unfortunately, Deep Blue Well has long been destroyed.

Those rare crystals can only be found in Gandor ruins.

That's the one that ensures this place

have a steady stream of power.

Why did it store it back?

The defense mechanism is activated.

Has my identity become invalid?

This is troublesome.

Those Gandorians are truly merciless.

Attacks this frequent are something

that not even I can withstand for long.

We have to think of a way to shut it down.

A magic circuit.

All these mechanical eyes aren't working all at once.

A spell shot from one eye will enter another eye

and trigger this eye to shoot the next attack.

If no spell enters it,

these mechanical eyes would remain dormant.

I got it.

My lord, please get out of the way.

Spell Takeover!

Gandorian mages used this type of relay method

to achieve a powerful and continuous attack.

Since this mechanism activates

by relying on spells that are shot into it,

then as long as we exhaust these mechanical eyes of its shots,

then change the trajectory of its shots

so that it cannot be reabsorbed,

the mechanical eyes will then go dormant

and will not launch the next round of attack.

That should be how it works.

Explosion Formation!

Well done.

With this magic crystal, our Magic Network is considered built.

If I were a high level mage,

perhaps one powerful shot or a shield

would've been enough to resolve this situation with ease.

I knew I am not strong enough.

Those instantaneous magic balls from those spells

were beyond your imagination.

In other words, we were walking on a tightrope just now.

Miss Reckless Mage, that was your victory.

Having the people achieve development through magic

still feels like a dream to me.

It's not a dream. With an open mind,

we can achieve industrialization

and modularity through the use of magic.

But you are right.

The teaching of conventional theory of magic

to the ordinary commoners is very difficult.

That's why we need a faster

- and more convenient methods of teaching. - Lord Ancestor! Aunt!

Did you find it?

Catch!

But the residents have had a taste of the benefits of magic.

They would have a harder time accepting it

if we change the rules again.

What can we do? It is just too marvelous.

You sound just like a mage.

Heidi, when I said marvelous,

I did not mean its power of destruction

or how fancy it looks.

Then what is it?

Its marvel lies in the fact that it can cast away one's status

and allows any corner of this world

or any one person

to have the chance to be reborn again.

In some worlds, it is called elemental power.

In some worlds, it is even simpler.

It is called heat and electricity.

And what I can't understand is

that while it could be shared among everyone

yet it ends up as the privilege of the few.

So, I've decided to change it.

Look, Heidi.

It isn't a privilege

but progress.