A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 82

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 82

Tie’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Battery?”

“That’s right, battery!”

But no matter how she looked at it, the object Berukon held out didn’t look like a battery at all.

It might have made sense if it looked like a flat donut or wrist guards that athletes wear.

“Isn’t this a torus?”

Berukon furrowed his brow.

“I don’t know what a torus is, but take a good look.”

Then he flipped the object over to show a small golden disc embedded in the center.

“This amulet here acts as the battery. This is the component that stores and absorbs magical power. The rest of the ring part becomes the circuit. How about it, isn’t the operating principle exactly the same as a battery?”

Tie’s eyes spun in circles.

What was an amulet, and what was a circuit?

In any case, it seemed certain that Berukon had drawn much inspiration from batteries.

‘How did the Factory Manager make something like this in just one day?’

As she was secretly admiring it to herself, Berukon spoke.

“Also, this device here. It could be said to be equipment that would be very, very helpful to a mage. Do you know why?”

“…Um, why?”

“In theory, this device supplements the stability of permanent summons.”

Permanent summons.

That was the term the Agavert unit members used to refer to Kamang.

When Tie looked puzzled, Berukon laughed heartily.

“I heard you also fight mainly with summoned creatures. Since you’re dark attribute, you summon all sorts of things.”

Tie thought of her bone friends, the shipwreck, and her subordinates, then nodded.

“Yes.”

Berukon made a bright expression as if to say ‘see?’

“Then, have you succeeded in summoning permanent summons too? The unit members said you do carry something around with you.”

Permanent summons…?

The term from earlier came up again.

However, Tie couldn’t answer and just rolled her eyes around.

Honestly, she still didn’t know exactly what that was.

‘Summons are like pets. But what does permanent mean…?’

Anyway, Tie nodded her head.

If it was something she ‘carried around,’ she did have those.

Namely, Lucalion and Ppupppu.

Then Berukon’s face immediately brightened.

“I knew it! How is it, are they in a stabilized state?”

‘Stabilized…?’

Tie’s eyes spun around.

The more they talked, the more unknown things kept appearing.

Just then, Raul’s welcome voice was heard from below the stairs on the right.

“He’s asking how long your summons have been maintained stably, Unit Leader.”

When she turned her head, the Agavert unit members were walking up the dormitory stairs.

The bags they were carrying were full of new weapons and equipment.

Shock appeared on Tie’s face.

“Everyone went to buy weapons without Tie…?”

“Sorry. You were sleeping so soundly we couldn’t wake you.”

Veil said playfully and shook a bag in front of Tie.

“But don’t worry, I bought the Unit Leader’s share too. Look, there are poison needle bullets here, and I put in everything you wanted to buy last time?”

Tie’s face melted as she looked inside the bag.

Meanwhile, Basto asked Berukon.

“What brings you here, Factory Manager?”

“Ah, I came to give your Unit Leader a gift.”

Berukon held out the equipment he had been showing Tie to the unit members.

“I got some inspiration from something. I tried making equipment that would supplement the stability of permanent summons.”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

“Equipment that supplements the stability of permanent summons? Is that possible with equipment?”

Berukon made a “hmm” sound and furrowed his brow.

Well, from his perspective, he could understand why the unit members were surprised.

The summoned creatures that mages could summon today were broadly divided into two types.

‘Permanent summons’ that lasted from the moment of summoning until the summoner’s life ended.

And ‘temporary summons’ used only temporarily in specific battles or operations.

But summoning magic itself was such high-level magic that there was barely one in ten mages on the continent who could summon even ‘temporary summons.’

‘Come to think of it, the Commander King became famous thanks to that too.’

The Commander King had summoned dark attribute skeletons far too easily at the Gateway.

He had demonstrated without any special techniques what other mages achieved with difficulty while coughing up blood and falling into mana depletion.

‘But those were temporary summons.’

What Berukon focused on was the ‘permanent summons’ aspect.

“It’s been theoretically possible all along. It’s just that we didn’t know how to materialize it, so there haven’t been any proper results until now.”

Berukon showed the equipment he brought to the unit members in detail.

Specifically, the amulet embedded in the center of the ring-shaped main body.

“I just explained to the Commander King, but this is the device that stores the summoner’s magical power.”

Then he traced the ring part that surrounded it with his finger.

“But the key is this. It’s a kind of circuit that makes magical power rotate infinitely within the equipment while minimizing leakage.”

Raul, who had some knowledge about magical tools, frowned.

That was because Berukon’s idea was very revolutionary.

Berukon smiled proudly and added.

“I even named it – battery.”

More precisely, it should be called a rechargeable battery with built-in circuits.

Berukon continued speaking while looking at the unit members.

“Aleric, who’s considered the most capable mage in the current Empire – you all know him, right?”

Basto furrowed his brow.

There wouldn’t be anyone who didn’t know Aleric, the mage from Trevaga.

“Even he can’t easily handle permanent summons. I heard he succeeded in summoning recently, but rumor has it that due to low stability, it spends more time in a dormant state.”

Permanent summons were literally ten times, no, a hundred times harder to maintain than temporary summons.

This was because they required constant magical power input from the summoner to last eternally.

But there was an even bigger problem than this.

‘The fact that mages are inevitably human.’

When a mage’s physical condition or mental state became precarious, their magical power control declined.

Then naturally, the permanent summons they had summoned would also frequently enter a dormant state.

As a result, while being ‘permanent’ summons, there were cases where their summoned state was sometimes shorter than even temporary summons.

“Think about it. Has anyone overcome such problems with permanent summons until now? No one has. That’s why mages kept becoming laughingstocks.”

Veil found himself nodding unconsciously.

He was well aware of the mockery directed at mages regarding permanent summons.

Society had even created the slang term ‘wall of permanence’ as a standard for evaluating mages’ competence.

‘They said he was a once-in-a-century genius. But it seems this mage couldn’t overcome the ‘wall of permanence’ either.’

‘Hahaha! At this point, shouldn’t we just eliminate the term permanent summons itself? There’s a reason mages are perpetually rear-support types.’

Naturally, the other unit members would have known about this social phenomenon too.

But the reason they deliberately didn’t mention it was….

Veil’s gaze turned toward Tie, who was standing there blankly.

‘Because they knew the child wouldn’t understand what was what anyway?’

However, now that the topic had come up, there was a question that arose.

Veil looked down at Tie and casually asked.

“Danzu, isn’t your permanent summon also a bit unstable?”

It was because the black dragon that Astie carried around suddenly came to mind.

“Its name was Kamang, wasn’t it.”

That thing was so cheeky that it made one wonder how such a creature could have been born from the cute Astie.

“Come to think of it, I think I only saw it once when we came to the Weapon District and haven’t seen it since. Judging by how it keeps appearing, it does seem to be a permanent summon though.”

Meanwhile, Tie, who was listening, gulped nervously.

‘Another emergency…?’

And for good reason, since Kamang wasn’t Tie’s summon to begin with.

It was a powerful spirit hiding its identity, just like Tie.

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