Numerous hypotheses filled my mind, making my previous inclination to give up on researching the new magic stone seem trivial.
‘Up until now, magic stones naturally possessed magic, so they functioned like jewels that just needed to be equipped.’
I stared at the ancient languageengraved pebble I held in my hand.
‘Artificially made magic stones are different. They need to keep moving and receive active energy to generate magic.’
I started crafting something frantically, like a madman.
It was a device that continuously rotated, like a hamster wheel, with the pebble inside.
I placed the pebble engraved with ancient language inside the newly crafted device and turned it. Then, as it rotated at a constant speed, the ancient language began to glow.
I shuddered as I watched this scene.
It was a realization I had not had until now. I had made a new discovery.
However, the magicgenerating pebble quickly lost its light amidst a hissing smoke. I could tell its lifespan was up.
‘Wait, it’s this shortlived?’
Even the original magic stones could not be used indefinitely because of their low magic capacity. But artificially made magic stones were even worse.
‘If I install it in K01 at this rate, it won’t be able to fire even a single shot.’
I needed more potent magic.
‘How can I do it?’
My mind started to spin rapidly. I had discovered something new, and I began to look at everything from a completely different perspective to see if I had missed anything.
That’s when a thought I had pondered earlier came to mind.
‘Why is Askan specifically able to use such a powerful ability?’
Not everyone became as strong as Askan after undergoing the same experiment.
If I could figure out why only Askan was capable, it seemed possible to amplify the magic generated by the pebble engraved with the ancient language.
‘Why…… why only Askan…….’
It wasn’t because Askan had particularly abundant active energy. If so, adults older than him, a boy, would have had the advantage.
Perhaps it was a genetic influence.
Although Askan might not know, his physique was highly likely to be very suitable for receiving fire abilities.
‘Genetics, huh…….’
Pebbles are not living beings. Therefore, if genetics played a significant role, I couldn’t recreate that.
Tap, tap, I paced around the same spot, mulling it over.
Then a thought occurred to me.
‘The pebble that just exhausted its lifespan was picked up from the valley. Although it’s different from human genetics, what if I used a pebble closer to fire?’
I began to check each pebble collected by people so far.
Finally, one caught my eye.
It was a volcanic stone.
To be precise, it might be called a pumice. A stone made from the lava of a volcano in this world, it had a reddish tint, unlike in modern times.
Swallowing hard, I began to engrave the ancient language onto the volcanic stone.
Only two words were carved into the red stone in the ancient language.
[Flame]If it was to be according to Askan’s tattoo, it should have been engraved [Unquenchable Flame], but I was afraid it might overload if I infused too much power.
As long as it could generate magic related to fire like a normal magic stone, it was successful enough, so I boldly excluded the ancient language [Unquenchable].
After preparing like this, I inserted the volcanic stone into the rotating device I made a while ago.
As I pressed the operation button, the volcanic stone began to rotate at a consistent speed.
Whirrrr─
It was different from the pebble earlier. The ancient language on the red volcanic stone emitted a brighter light and began to capture the magic of fire.
My heart welled up with emotion.
It was a success.
I took out the magicfilled volcanic stone again. It looked like an ordinary pebble when it wasn’t rotating, but at this moment, it was charged with magic.
If I continued the research, it might be possible to keep charging magic instead of throwing it away when it ran out of use.
To fill in the areas I felt were lacking, I began to inscribe magic formulas onto the volcanic stone.
It was a completely different approach than before.
Originally, magic formulas were inscribed on weapons equipped with magic stones to exert proper power.
But I had inscribed the formula on a volcanic stone to replace the magic stone. Since it artificially contained magic power, it was a completely different approach than before.
On the completed volcanic stone, numerous magic formulas and geometric patterns were densely engraved like mathematical formulas.
To others, it may look like a strange stone, but this was the new magic stone I had completed for the first time.
I held the red volcanic stone in my hand and smiled contentedly.
‘A new era of magical engineering will now open.’
There were still points to be improved, but I could sense it. If I completed this, I could create a new magic stone.
[This is the time separator]After a few days, when I opened the door of the lab, something was stuck.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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