Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126

Ciel’s eyes widened.
‘Wait, what?’
She blinked several times and looked again—but the number had indeed changed!
Arelin continued her explanation.
“Instead of horses, this is what will make the carriage roll.”
“…Pardon?”
“Since it rolls automatically, let’s just call it an ‘automobile.'”
Daniel let out a scoffing laugh.
“Who would ride in a carriage without horses? Don’t you know that for high nobility, a well-bred horse is a means of displaying status?”
“But surely, no matter how excellent a horse’s bloodline is, it must rest sometimes?”
Arelin smiled wickedly.
“My Mana Engine is infinitely powered as long as it has Mana Stones.”
“…Ugh!”
What had begun as a minor dispute between Arelin and Daniel drew the mages’ interest and transformed into a spectacular display of Illusion Magic that captivated the crowd.
“Look here, everyone.”
Passersby, enchanted as if by a spell, gathered around Arelin and the children, entranced by the automobile’s illusion.
“The automobile is different. If the Mana Engine can keep running? Days? It could travel for months on end. That’s what the automobile truly is.”
“Oh!”
“Now imagine automobiles like this traveling across all of Albrecht?”
“Ooh!”
“Many merchants could move between cities far more quickly than before.”
“Ooooh!”
The Illusion Magic now displayed the form of a massive cargo truck laden with goods.
Commerce traveling alongside such vehicles!
The merchants’ eyes gleamed with hunger in an instant.
“In other words, logistics flow rapidly between cities.”
Faster logistics meant more wealth creation. The calculating minds of the crowded merchants spun with frantic speed.
A carriage driven by a horse that never tired—the very notion seemed impossible!
“This is absurd. Such a thing couldn’t possibly exist!”
Daniel interjected.
“You’re fraudulently selling people on automobiles—something that doesn’t even exist yet!”
Fraud, he called it.
Arelin’s lips curled in disdain.
“This is what we call a vision of the future.”
Arelin spoke with absolute conviction.
After all, she had lived in such a world!
“And that’s not all. The things you can do with a Mana Engine are limitless.”
Arelin cast another Illusion Magic spell. The automobile instantly transformed into an airplane.
“You can make it soar through the sky.”
This time it became a massive ship.
“Or cross the seas.”
No matter how much Daniel denied it, the crowd hung on Arelin’s every word.
“Order today, delivered tomorrow! Faster shipping! We can make it happen. Thank you.”
“Oooooh!”
Thunderous applause erupted.
Everyone at the business exhibition was now listening to Arelin. Their eyes had turned to the vision she presented.
Even the Sperom Family itself!
“This isn’t just starting a new business venture.”
“It’s the scale of creating an entire new industry…”
“It’s worth investing in.”
“Though we’d probably need to rebuild roads to accommodate automobiles too.”
In a world with permanent Warp Gates and magic, the advancement of transportation had been inevitably slow.
High nobility found it faster to use Warp Gates or magic than to seek swifter means of travel!
But magic and Warp Gates were inadequate for moving massive quantities of goods.
Commerce had been unable to scale up precisely because of this chronic problem.
“Using gates for large-scale logistics simply doesn’t pencil out economically.”
“The amount of Mana Stones consumed per unit mass passing through the gate makes it inevitable.”
“But with automobiles…”
Gulp.
Someone’s swallow was audible—loud and deliberate.
“This seems like a venture too enormous for one or two people to monopolize.”
The kind of prize that any single person grabbing would choke trying to swallow it whole!
“Wow…”
Ciel’s eyes sparkled.
[RRR Mana Engine Mrk.1 (Prototype)]
[Value: 9902]
Arelin’s triumph was absolute.

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“Its Value skyrocketed!”
Ciel gasped.
“Five-digit Value only attaches to legendary objects that transform the world or shape its course. To be nearly that high… How? Is this even possible?”
‘Because everyone watching the Mana Engine right now perceives it as something of that magnitude.’
Value wasn’t determined arbitrarily. It absorbed not just objective metrics but also the subjective desires and yearnings of people en masse.
The Mana Engine was precisely such an object.
‘This is Magitech Engineering.’
The future of this world truly lay in Magitech Engineering.
“Just one more word…”
“The future of commerce…!”
Merchants, intoxicated by the unexpected presentation, wanted nothing more than to say a few more words to me, but the arrival of my guards and Fession’s iron-clad presence allowed me to maintain peace.
‘If this works out, maybe Halbern can take a step forward too.’
I’d have to tell Mehren when I got home!
I’d given an unplanned presentation, but that was fine.
Even if other people heard my vision, actually turning it into a business and making it profitable was a different matter entirely. I was confident.
After all, even in the modern world, automobiles were the pinnacle of cutting-edge technology!
Whirrrr—
“What? You want to be an automobile too?”
Ether kept projecting a powerful will, insisting that she too wanted to try being an automobile.
Ridiculous. You’re a weapon.
‘Or are you not? Can a weapon become an automobile?’
I ignored Ether’s insistent will asking me to help her swallow just one Mana Engine.
Though if Ether became a car, she’d probably be silver.
‘Wait—with Magitech Engineering, wouldn’t a Hover Car be possible too? A car that flies through the sky!’
Since ancient times, a flying car had been everyone’s dream.
As I considered the possibilities of a Hover Car, the mage who had submitted the Mana Engine approached me with tears streaming down her face.
“A-Miss…”
“Huh? Why are you crying?”
“You are my hero.”
A mage named Leven, introducing herself between sobs, expressed her gratitude.
“Everyone dismissed me as garbage, but you alone recognized the value of my invention.”
“P-please, calm down…”
“I’m just a low-rank mage without the Star’s Selection, without any great power, just trying to make things so that more people could benefit from Magitech Engineering…”
As she spoke, her voice broke and tears flowed freely as Leven continued to murmur.
“To be honest, I’d already decided to give up. What could a deficient mage like me, who isn’t even a Star-rank Mage, possibly create? That’s what I thought, but…”
Honestly, I didn’t know how to console a man older than myself.
“You discovered infinite possibilities in my invention that even I didn’t know existed!”
“Um…”
Well, I really had seen such a world.
“I realize it today.”
“R-realize what?”
“That the path I’ve walked wasn’t wrong.”
Leven looked at me with eyes burning with fervent passion.
It was overwhelming.
Leven bowed at a ninety-degree angle.
Even more overwhelming.
“I will repay this kindness you’ve shown me today. I promise.”
“Y-yes, okay…”
“Thank you, miss!”
After expressing her gratitude countless times, Leven withdrew, sniffling. I watched as the mages who had cast the Illusion Magic alongside her rushed to her side, cheering her on.
“That’s right, we can do this too.”
“Our inventions aren’t trash!”
“Let’s change the world!”
…I suppose as long as everyone’s happy, it doesn’t matter much.
As I turned my head away with that thought, a mage huddled and wrapped in her robes caught my eye.
“Excuse me, are you alright?”
Something seemed wrong.
Are you hurt?
“…doom…”
“Sorry?”
“…gate…”
What was she saying?
I tilted my head, and then I heard the voice more clearly—anguished.
“Doom… gate… doom…”
In that instant.
Whirrrrr—
Ether, who had been transformed into a button, burst forth as a translucent barrier.
And simultaneously—
Kabooooom—!
The landscape twisted violently as an explosion that shook the very earth erupted.

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