Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 82

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 82

 

 

 

44. Alchemy Genius Dane Sogress (3)

 

 

If Little Sister is someone who’s only warm to me, Big Sister is someone who actively engages with everyone.

Their personalities are complete opposites.

Mother used to say this.

How could they be so different?

Big Sister was like that even now.

“Hey, you bastard! How could you do this! How many times have I told you. Be careful when handling 4th grade magic stones!”

I had come to find Big Sister while holding the mana stone I created with the amplification stone.

Of course, I didn’t just barge in recklessly.

However, it seemed the timing was a bit awkward.

Big Sister’s assistant, that extremely timid-looking person, hung his head with an expression as if he bore all the world’s sins.

“S-sorry. Lady Arabella.”

“Does being sorry end your assistant duties?”

“I’ll work harder!”

“No. You need to do well. Okay? Let’s do well.”

And if Little Sister is quietly menacing, Big Sister is openly menacing.

Watching her scold him reminded me of my superior from my previous life who would constantly berate me, making my legs feel weak for a moment.

Big Sister finished her scolding and approached me.

“Dane, sorry. We’ve been getting too many orders lately.”

This place is Big Sister’s workshop and research lab, and at the same time, where Big Sister practically ‘lives.’

What I mean is, she practically lives here.

Because she’s too busy.

I felt it when I brought Karnas too, but Big Sister was truly a workaholic.

More precisely, addicted to research and invention.

“Is this your first time coming while I’m working?”

“Mm-hmm. It’s okay. I can wait longer.”

“No. I’ll finish quickly. It’s important research.”

Big Sister is both a mage and an inventor.

The compact crystal orb for communication that I carry around, the subspace ring, the illusion generator, etc.

All of those were invented by Big Sister’s hands.

Simply put, there’s practically no one in this field who can match her.

No wonder various magic towers offered enormous sums of money, personal research labs, and unlimited invention material support as basics to recruit Big Sister.

“Hmm… If we do it like this, it seems like there’ll be a mana short. This, we need to lower the mana pressure here a bit.”

“Mana pressure? If you lower that more, the reactivity will drop completely.”

“Didn’t I tell you? If reactivity is low, use a catalyst. If we calculate here… this would be good.”

“Dulmen? I didn’t think of that at all…”

“Just try it.”

And the assistant who had questioned Sister’s words soon jumped up in shock.

“It, it works! The reaction is stable!”

“What did I tell you.”

“Lady Arabella is really…”

Watching the assistant mutter with a moved expression, I could understand why so many people sought out Big Sister like that.

“Don’t be relieved by that and keep running it. What is invention?”

“The product of effort discovered after countless attempts.”

“That’s right. Remember that.”

Big Sister finished her guidance with that wise saying and entered the inner Second Laboratory with me.

Only then did Big Sister plop down on a simple chair as if she could finally breathe, leaning back. Unlike me, her silver hair with a mysterious blue tint flowed down in waves.

“Sister, are you really sure you have time?”

“Of course. Naturally. When our youngest came, I have to make time even if I don’t have any. Our genius youngest.”

Big Sister smiled gently and patted my head.

“So next you’re getting certified by the Magic Association too?”

“…”

“The Magic Association has this special certification system too! Just like summoners, you’d get mage qualifications. How about it?”

I couldn’t disappoint Big Sister’s expectations, but since I had no such plans for now, I vaguely deflected.

“After learning more later. It’s good now too, but I want to learn more and ideally leave a record as the best ever.”

“That’s a good idea.”

It seems she was bothered by Little Sister who had excitedly teased that I had more talent in summoning arts than magic.

“You can’t be better at summoning arts than magic…”

I burst out laughing at Big Sister’s muttering.

The mage special selection system.

I don’t know what conditions they’ll set there, but for now I plan to focus on training ancient magic power and optimizing my circles.

If you rush things, even what should work won’t work.

By the way, the requirement to become a mage is to receive association certification and get issued a certificate as an official mage.

As a student, it doesn’t matter since it’s a learning process, but after graduation, using magic without certification results in punishment as an ‘unlicensed mage.’

“Anyway, so Dane, you made this?”

“Yeah. How is it?”

“It’s an insane item.”

Big Sister’s tired appearance from moments ago was nowhere to be seen as her eyes sparkled while she held up the mana stone I had transmitted.

“As you well know, for everything in the world to move, ‘power’ is needed. Mana can also be called that power.”

The ‘power’ as mana that Big Sister was talking about is usually operated in the form of mana stones.

Structures, inventions, weapons, etc. – except for cases where people directly cast magic, they mostly utilize mana contained in mana stones.

“In that sense, the efficiency of mana stones is extremely important. What determines the grade of mana stones and their corresponding price is precisely power efficiency.”

Simply put, depending on the power efficiency of mana stones, the range that can be operated with the same amount of mana changes entirely.

“But… the mana stone you made right now is just insane.”

Big Sister activated the mana stone I made using the amplification stone with her mana as a trigger.

Then she placed that mana stone on a considerably large device positioned in the center of the Second Laboratory.

Whirrrrrr!

Then the device began reacting.

It was a cylindrical device, and the axis inside was rotating fiercely.

“This is a mana accelerator. It’s used for analyzing mana too, but it’s a very important experimental device that separates objects into different components and increases reaction speed. But this consumes enormous amounts of mana.”

“How much does it consume?”

“If you run it all day, it uses 2 grade-1 mana stones.”

“That’s no joke.”

I clicked my tongue.

Grade-1 mana stones start at a minimum of 10 crown gold coins.

While there are very slight quality differences between magic towers, you have to pay at least 10 crown gold coins.

Moreover, mana stones are all single-use.

Simply put, it means throwing away 20 gold coins per day.

“But if my calculations are correct, the mana stone you made, Dane, can maintain this for two days with just one.”

“Two days?”

It consumes 2 grade-1 mana stones running all day.

Then for two days, that’s 4 stones.

But the mana stone I made can last two days with just 1.

There’s a limit to the amount of mana that can go into a mana stone.

In other words, simply calculated, the efficiency is 4 times better.

“This is a revolution, Dane.”

With that one statement from Big Sister, I realized anew.

The fact that my ancient mana is tremendous.

“Mana stones are disposable. Once used, they can’t be recharged. That’s why efficiency is more important than anything.”

“If you connect them in parallel, the efficiency drops even more.”

“That’s right. But if you connect several in series, the stability decreases.”

Simply put, it’s best to use only one mana stone, and the mana stone I just made has tremendous efficiency compared to any existing mana stone.

“With the same amount of mana producing this kind of efficiency… every mage in the world will flip out. There’s so much you can do with just this one thing.”

After that, Big Sister poured out words that were hard for me to understand.

Something about continuous mana stone usage according to Helegand’s Law, or the law of reactivity based on mana stone efficiency…

I interjected at an appropriate moment.

“Anyway, it’s an incredible item, right?”

“Yes, yes!”

“Then tell me when you need it, Sister. I can make it anytime. It’s not even difficult to make.”

“Really?”

Big Sister was overjoyed, almost jumping.

“With that, I can make this too… That’s right! The ‘ultra-mini crystal orb’ that I put on hold for a while…”

She seemed excited already, thinking of things to do with the mana stone I made.

“Sister, can you do me a favor in return?”

“Of course! No, not in return – if it’s our youngest’s request, I should grant anything! Just say it! Is some professor bothering you?”

“It’s not that.”

I opened my subspace, took out the mana stones I had crafted and laid them out, then said.

“Can I sell these?”

Big Sister’s eyes widened.

“You want to sell these…?”

As if she never expected such words to come from my mouth, Big Sister was momentarily flustered.

But only for a moment.

“…Certainly, if they appeared on the market, they would cause tremendous repercussions. With mana stones of this efficiency, things that were impossible before would become possible.”

I picked up on her words.

“That’s why I’m thinking of hiding that I made them.”

“Hide it?”

“Yeah. If it’s revealed that I’m the creator, it seems like it would become troublesome.”

If I put such tremendous items on the market, there would be big waves as Big Sister said. But then everyone finds out I made them?

The Karnas situation was unavoidable, and I let it pass since I didn’t mind, but this situation is a bit different.

Above all, there’s another reason.

“Items made by unknown creators originally sell well.”

The battlefield is a place where various people gather.

Thanks to that, in my previous life, I met various people and learned various things.

One of them was ‘marketing’ that a certain merchant told me about.

He claimed he created this word ‘marketing’ himself and taught me various ways to sell things well, one of which was ‘mystique marketing’.

“You give it a story. An unknown mana stone creator hiding their identity is selling only very small quantities of mana stones.”

Along with the accompanying ‘luxury marketing’.

An unknown creator.

And luxury goods produced only in small quantities.

“…Dane, when did you learn such things?”

“From books.”

I answered simply and continued speaking.

“Since mass production is difficult right now anyway, I’ll distribute them in small quantities. Through trustworthy people.”

“Trustworthy people… That’s right. Certainly, that’s important.”

The price will probably be beyond imagination.

Simply calculated, it’s four times the efficiency, and according to Big Sister’s explanation earlier, you can name your price.

That’s why what’s important is someone who can maintain complete secrecy during this distribution process and help with the ‘marketing’ I’m thinking of.

“Ah, you can’t do it, Sister. It would increase the possibility of deduction. If they say Big Sister made it, that would be problematic in its own way.”

Big Sister expressed doubt for a moment.

“…You seem more mature than before since coming to the Academy?”

Well, that’s because I reincarnated.

Anyway, as I was pondering what to do, I suddenly thought of a good person.

A trustworthy person.

There’s one, isn’t there?

Someone I know, Big Sister knows, any mage would know, and who formed a brief but significant connection with me.

“Sister, can you transmit items right now?”

“Huh? What are you going to send?”

“This. The mana stone.”

“What? That? To whom? Maybe Father? Mother?”

“No.”

Big Sister prepared the material transmission device with a puzzled expression.

Standing in front of the transmitter, I put the mana stone in a mana-shielded box and placed it on top, then immediately input the transmission target’s code.

Whooooom!

The transmitter operated with vibration, and the mana-shielded box containing the mana stone disappeared without a trace in an instant.

And how much time had passed?

Buzz buzz buzz!

Sure enough, the communication crystal orb vibrated.

I grinned and received the communication from the crystal orb.

An astonished voice immediately came through.

[Hey, you little brat! What the hell is this thing! Where did you get something like this! This is a mana stone, right? This is a revolution, a revolution!]

It’s a voice I haven’t heard in a long time.

“You haven’t had any trouble, have you?”

[Dane, thanks to you little brat, it looks like I’m about to have some trouble now. I heard the news. You became a Summoner? Through special admission too!]

Wow, rumors spread really fast.

[No, that’s not what’s important. What is this thing you just transmitted? What kind of item is this? How does a mana stone produce this kind of efficiency?]

An excited voice came pouring out rapidly.

It seems he tested it in various ways as soon as he received it.

As expected.

Just like a Magic Tower Master.

[Where did you get this? Ancient ruins? Or did you uncover some secret of the Ancient Magic Kingdom? It’s unbelievable, but if it’s you, little brat, it’s possible!]

The person currently pouring out words non-stop from the crystal orb is…

The one whose life I saved.

Who was once my magic teacher.

And now, the right person to distribute these mana stones.

The Magic Tower Master of Nirucsion, Sidrain.

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