42 I Power Up Even More Outside the Area

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/45/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I came to the edge of the home center, then there was a corner with a different atmosphere.
Lots of weird staves and such, though.

“This appears to be the quantum magic (Magimatics) supplies section.”
“Eh, quantum magic!?”

I was shocked at Ill-san’s words.
Because,

“Players shouldn’t be able to learn quantum magic unless they go to a special place…… is this okay, if I learn it.”

I’m sure there’s a magic school in Ortezeus. If you don’t enroll there, players shouldn’t be able to learn it.

“Of course Master is fine.”
“This is a cheat.”

I took a book and flipped through.

What’s this……

There, truly, spell-like things were written.

For example numbers.
σεδὴ (sede) (0)

ἄλφ (alf) (1)

υφ (yuf) (2)

σαμτά (samta) (3)

Words are like this too.
Ἅιρ (hail) (variable)

σιρῖς (siris) (decimal)

ἀτρά (atra) (atom)

“Why is it this complicated? Everyday conversation no good?”
“Because if magic activates in everyday conversation it would be bad. There were also activators like rings.”
“I see.”

Fair enough, maybe?

“But even alf seems like it would come up in everyday conversation.”
“The alf My Master is thinking of has quite a different pronunciation. In katakana it is close to ouruf, but even this is a little different. If you do not pronounce it properly, magic will not activate.”
“It’s completely language study, yadaa.”
“It is a language system.”

Memorize that much, is that it.

“But…… that’s exactly why it’s tempting. I want to swing a staff like Harry ◯tter and say Chiestooo!!”
“That person likely does not say chiest. Incidentally there is also a method of registering to a staff and omitting the chant to fire.”
“The instant my playing-at-wizard dream died.”
“No, if you have it memorized you can use it that much more diversely. However if you are wearing VR, saying it in your head is enough.”
“In the end, it died.”
“Even so, while a beginner, speaking it aloud is better than no chant.”
“I see, that part is the same as fantasy novels and such, maybe. Beginner chants, and master no-chants——come to think of it, doesn’t the Galactic Union have auto-learning devices and such?”
“They exist, but they are precious. This has not changed since the Star Cluster Empire era——they are more precious now, though.”
“Maybe the Galactic Union’s science is lower than 1,000 years ago?”
“Yes, civilization was almost destroyed once. After that, from a medieval-like state they excavated old-era goods, created spaceships, flew into space and found and revived various technologies on each planet, and recovered to current science. Even now they have player-sans do excavation.”
“I see…… then if I find an auto-learning device somewhere and submit it to the Union.”
“The learning devices themselves have already been discovered, but lost technology that cannot be reproduced is the problem. Please work hard at studying in a world three times VR.”
“Che……”
“Incidentally, to use magic a magic implant is necessary. By performing the implant, you become able to resonate with the magic quanta inside the staff. Implants have attributes, and the amount of resonance you can control with talent changes. Of course there are individual differences. Also performing multiple implants is difficult.”

Hmm, truly the “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing, huh.

“So in short, to learn magic you need talent, and multiple magics are hard to learn.”
“That is so, My Master. Talent can be measured with that box over there. If you put your hand in, a result comes out.”

Looking in the direction Ill-san turned, there was a machine like the one I saw when measuring status at the Strider Association.
Told that I try putting my hand in the box.
Immediately a result was output to my VR.

Generate photon (light) = 0%
Generate plasma (lightning) = 33%
Generate gas (wind) = 7%
Generate liquid (water) = 15%
Generate solid (earth) = 86%
Synthesize oxygen (fire) = 1%
Heat (heat) = 2%
Cool (cold) = 24%
Learnable attribute count 1
Creatable elements, 1, 2, first-row transition metals.

This is awful.
“Light 0%,” bullying?
No heat either, I laugh. Cold high, I laugh.
Fire 1%.

“Ill-san…… is this a personality diagnosis test?”
“I have never heard talk that magic talent reflects personality, so it should never be such a thing, but…… personality is coming out.”
“Ill-san called me a gloomy type, aaaaa!”

Waan!

“P-please do not cry, My Master! Master is just not very bright!”
“No, that’s the same meaning.——Even so, the letters in ( ) beside it assert ‘this is magic, you know!’”
“The founder’s hobby. The founder apparently loved Japanese subculture around Western year 2000.”
“I see……. Only the fire attribute is floating, huh.”
“People good at fire are often also good at promoting chemical reactions.”
“I wonder, can they speed up oxygen and carbon combining and such?”
“Yes.”

“——Learnable attribute count 1 means I can learn one attribute? Not much talent, maybe.”
“No. Indeed the number you can learn is few, but earth attribute over 80% is splendid talent. If you have 50%, that is the world of having talent.”
“That’s happy!”

Earth being exquisitely uncool is whatever, but. But earth magic is a cheat, you know.

“These creatable elements, periodic-table numbers?”
“Exactly.”
“1 and 2 are suihei, hydrogen and helium I get, but what’s 21 to 29.”

I look up the periodic table on my phone.

“Aah, first-row transition metals, huh. Lots of useful ones lined up. Around conducting electricity easily, conducting heat easily, I guess.”
“Yes, people who can handle from hydrogen to oxygen with low element numbers are many. And up to iron seems easy to make. Iron is too stable, so people who can make beyond that are rare.”

I’m a somewhat rare species, huh.

“If talent is fire and you couldn’t make oxygen, what happens.”
“It becomes a pitiful feeling,”

I-I see.

“But there might be people working hard like ‘the hero tale of me who had fire magic talent but couldn’t make oxygen and got exiled’……”
“There actually seem to be. A person who was expelled from a party because of that.”
“Hieh. D-do your best~.”

Good I was a rare species.

“Or rather me, if I can make hydrogen, can’t I use pseudo fire magic too?”
“What Master can make is solid hydrogen.”
“Hydrogen’s…… freezing point is how much.”

Somehow seems dangerous.

“The substances you create, they don’t disappear?”
“They do not disappear.”

I look at the periodic table.

“Tch, silver is second-row transition metal. Platinum and gold are third-row……”
“What are you thinking…… My Master,”

Bad things.

“That said, skill effects are far stronger than magic. For skill-holders, magic will only be an assist.”
“Heat from magic is weaker than heat from psychic ignition (pyrokinesis), or something?”
“Exactly so, My Master.”
“But even if it’s weak, combining with skills seems like you could do pretty vicious things. For example generate an iron spear in the air and fly it with 〖Psychokinesis〗.”
“I think that is a splendid idea. Normally even if you generate matter, flying matter with magic is difficult. And Galactic Union citizens can use magic but cannot use skills. Few players can use magic, so the possibility that only Master can do acts like flying a spear with psychokinesis is high.”
“Fufufuu.”

I raise my nose.

“However, shooting a gun is often stronger.”
“——Fu……――”

I looked far away. Near a thin fluorescent-light-like thing, a moth was buzzing.

“——Then people without 〖Psychokinesis〗, long-range attacks with magic use free-fall force, or explosions. Originally aggressive plasma attacks become the main, maybe?”
“That is correct.”
“How do I receive an implant?”
“If you drink the capsule sold there, nanomachines will perform the implant.”
“Dangers? Side effects and such.”
“None have been confirmed.”
“You can only make elements?”
“It is difficult, but compounds are also possible. Mixtures are impossible. Depending on the number combining, it becomes exponentially more difficult.”
“That’s…… seems hard. Then conversely, making carbon nanotubes made of only carbon, how’s that?”
“That is also difficult. A very precise image is necessary.”
“Things don’t go as you want, huh.”

I put a capsule written “earth magic” in the shopping basket.

Which staff shall I pick.

There’s one like an oak staff that looks every bit a wizard, and a conductor-baton-ish one Potter-san would hold.
There’s also a design with stars and hearts and wing-like things a magical girl would hold.
Others that become pendants or keychains and become an easy-to-hold size when you hold them.
And key-like designs, rings, brooms, swords, forks, spoons, penlight-like ones.

“Ah, I’ll go with this.”

I take a fountain-pen-like one. It doesn’t get bigger even if I grip it, but I can use it with a using-a-pen feel, and this is easy to carry.

“My Master, at that size almost no magic can be registered. Also larger ones have higher output as well.”
“But portability and convenience——. A tradeoff, huh. Then——I’ll buy both a big one and a small one.”

I put an oak-staff-like one in the shopping basket too.

And the total of all products, guns and staves and everything, 530,000 credits.
This means I spent 5,300,000 yen in Japanese yen——the register clerk-san was going round-eyed, going back and forth between me and the price many times.

I finished paying and went outside the store.
The products are all inside the <Key to the Spacetime Warehouse>.

I immediately took out the radio, turned it on, and looked through the magic text.
This magic text is paper, you know. In this world you almost never see paper.

“I see——‘ἀτρά (atra) (atom) Ἅιρ (hail) (vessel) υφ (yuf) (2) ροφ (rof) (6) ροτρο (rotro) (generate) μαχά (maha) (meter) ἄλφ (alf) (1) 【ω (o) χάλυψ (halyps) ω (o) χάλυψ (halyps)】(iron, be born)’ so I can generate iron one meter ahead, huh. Shape, you image while swinging the magic activator. And——or rather how do you pronounce ryu?”
“Ryu, My Master.”
“Ryu, huh.”

I immediately took out the magic-activator pen, faced where no one was, and

“ἀτρά (atra) (atom) Ἅιρ (hail) (vessel) υφ (yuf) (2) ροφ (rof) (6) ροτρο (rotro) (generate) μαχά (maha) (meter) ἄλφ (alf) (1) 【ω (o) χάλυψ (halyps) ω (o) χάλυψ (halyps)】(iron, be born)!”

and while imaging a sphere I swung the staff round.
Then an iron ball really was generated and fell kin.

“Uwa, uwa! What’s this!! It really is like a wizard, super fun!!”

Whether it’s useful or not, I don’t care anymore, it’s fun———!

These spell-like words are good too! This further draws out the magic feel!
Founder, nice!!

Only, I feel a little mentally tired. Does it consume MP? properly——but that’s good again.
Convenient or inconvenient, I don’t care anymore. Being tired is happy.

Anyway as a test, I try gripping the iron ball I created with magic with 〖Psychokinesis〗 and throwing it.
Iron flying through the wind byun.

“Okay, I can, perfect. Well, it’ll be useful for something.”

Actually I already bought one more pen.

“This pen is a pen that makes period 1.”

The one that made iron is a pen that makes period 4.

“And I have the power to make solids.”

If I made helium, solid helium should come out.
Helium, at 1 atmosphere, has a freezing point so low it doesn’t freeze even at absolute zero.
What happens if I make it.

“ἀτρά (atra) (atom) Ἅιρ (hail) (vessel) υφ (yuf) (2) ροτρο (rotro) (generate) μαχά (maha) (meter) ἄλφ (alf) (1) 【ω (o) ἥλιον (helion) ω (o) ἥλιον (helion)】(helium, be born)!”

A pure-white grain was born one meter ahead, fell while immediately evaporating and disappearing.
Then I got dizzy——I collapsed on the spot.

“M-Master!! Are you okay!!”
“U-un——I barely haven’t lost consciousness.”

Tremendous fatigue.
My body is fine, but an intense languor I’ve never felt is attacking me.
This is bad…… I move toward the edge of the parking lot and rest.
On the way I bought a dairy-product-like juice from a vending machine and sat down.
I took a sip of juice and let out a big breath.

“I didn’t think this much fatigue would come out.”

If making helium the size of a sand grain almost makes me collapse, making helium might not be realistic.

“Hydrogen I should stop too, this. One-chance, oxygen might be bad too.”

Let’s seal the pen that makes period 1.
Is there a way to raise MP? Is there in status-ups?

I opened a window and looked it up, there was. A status-up called 〖MP Up〗.
When I have spare merit points, maybe I’ll raise it.