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I Reincarnated As The Greatest Genius of a Prestigious Family!
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Chapter 82: Alchemy Genius Dane Sogres (3)
If my second sister, Clare, was warm only to me, my eldest sister, Arabella, was friendly with everyone. Their personalities were polar opposites, to the point that my mother had once wondered how they could be so different.
Arabella was still like that to this day.
“Hey, you punk! How dare you do this?! How many times have I told you to be careful when handling the 4th Mana crystal!”
I came to find Arabella holding the Mana Stone made with the Amplification Stone.
Of course, I didn't show up without permission. However, I think my timing could have been better.
Arabella's assistant, who looked very timid, lowered his head with an expression that seemed to carry guilt for all of the sins of the world.
“I’m sorry, Lady Arabella.”
“Do you think your life as my assistant will end if you don’t apologize?”
“I will try harder!”
"No. You have to do well. Understand? Let's do well."
While Clare was quietly fierce, Arabella was openly fierce.
As I watched her scold her assistant, I suddenly felt a chill go down my spine as I remembered the person who often scolded me in my past life.
Arabella finished scolding her assistant and approached me, saying, “Dane, I’m sorry. I’ve just been getting too many orders lately.”
I was in Arabella's studio and laboratory. It was where she practically 'lived' because she was so busy.
As I felt when I brought her Karnas, Arabella was a true workaholic. To be precise, she was addicted to research and inventing.
“This is your first time here while I’m working, right?” she asked.
"Yes. I can wait a little longer," I reassured her.
"No. I'll finish it right away. It's important research."
Arabella was both a mage and an inventor. The compact communication crystal ball I carried around, my subspace ring, the illusion generator, and more—all of these were invented by Arabella.
To put it simply, no one could compare to her in this field. Why else would magic towers from all over the world offer huge sums of money and unlimited support for her personal research to recruit her?
“Hmm… If I do this, I think there will be a magic short circuit. I guess I need to lower the mana pressure a little here.”
“Mana pressure? If we lower it any further, the responsiveness will probably drop completely.”
“Didn’t I tell you? If the reactivity is low, use a catalyst. If you do the math here… This should be fine.”
“Dulmen? It didn’t even occur to me…”
“Just give it a try.”
The assistant, who had been questioning my sister's words, soon jerked up in shock.
“I-it works! The response is stable!”
“What did I say?”
“Lady Arabella really is…”
As I watched the assistant muttering with a moved expression on their face, I thought I understood why so many people were looking for Arabella.
"Don't be reassured by that. Keep going. What is ‘invention’?"
“It is a product of effort, discovered after countless attempts.”
"Yes. Keep that in mind."
Arabella finished her guidance with that famous quote and led me into the second research lab. Then, she collapsed onto a folding chair. Her silver hair, which had a strangely blue tint to it, flowed with her movements.
“Sister, are you sure this is a good time?” I asked.
"Of course. Our youngest is here, so I have to make time for him even if there isn’t any. Our genius youngest." Arabella smiled softly and patted my head. “Next time, you have to get certified by the Magic Association too, alright?”
“…”
“The Magic Association also has this special certification system! You can become a mage just like you became a summoner. What do you think?”
I couldn't let Arabella down, but I didn't have any intention of doing so right away. With that in mind, I just tried to gloss over the matter.
“After I learn more. I’m fine now, but I want to learn more so that I can be remembered as the best of all time.”
"That's a good idea."
It seemed that Clare’s excited teasing about how I was more talented at summoning had gotten to her.
“You shouldn’t be better at summoning than magic…”
I burst out laughing at Arabella's muttering.
A special certification for mages, huh? I didn’t know what the conditions would be like for that, but for now, I planned to focus on honing my ancient magic and optimizing my circle.
It wouldn’t do to rush things.
For reference, the requirement to become a mage was to be certified by the association and receive an official certificate. It didn’t matter if you were a student because it was a learning process, but if you used magic without certification after graduation, you’d be punished as an ‘uncertified mage’.
“Anyway, Dane—you made this?”
“Yeah. How is it?”
“This is great stuff.”
Arabella, who had been tired just now, looked at the Mana Stone I had sent her with sparkling eyes.
“As you well know, everything in the world needs ‘energy’ to move. Mana can be considered one of those energies.”
The ‘mana energy’ that Arabella talked about was usually operated in the form of Mana Stones. Other than cases where people directly cast magic, such as magic circles, inventions, and weapons, it usually involved utilizing the mana contained in Mana Stones.
“In that sense, the efficiency of Mana Stones is extremely important. The power efficiency is what determines the level of the Mana Stone and its corresponding price.”
Simply put, the range that could be operated with the same amount of mana varied depending on the power efficiency of the Mana Stone.
“But… The Mana Stone you made is just crazy.”
Arabella activated the Mana Stone I made. Then, she placed the Mana Stone on a fairly large device located in the center of the second research lab.
Whiiiiirl!
The mechanism began to respond. It was a cylindrical device with an axis inside that was rotating violently.
“This is a magic accelerator. It’s used to analyze mana, but it is also a very important experimental device that separates objects into their individual components and increases the speed at which they react. However, it consumes an enormous amount of mana.”
“How much does it consume?”
“If you use it all day, it uses up two Grade 1 Mana Stones.”
“That’s a lot,” I tsked.
A Grade 1 Mana Stone cost a minimum of ten gold crowns.
There was a slight difference in quality between each magic tower, but it should be at least ten gold crowns. Considering the fact that Mana Stones were all single-use items, it meant throwing away at least twenty gold crowns every day.
"However, if my calculations are correct… Just one of the Mana Stone you made, Dane, can last for two days."
“Two days?”
A device that consumed two Grade 1 Mana Stones a day—which meant four in two days.
But the Mana Stone I made could last for two days with just one?
There was a limit to the amount of mana that could be put into a Mana Stone. That simply meant that my mana was four times more efficient than normal mana.
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“This is revolutionary, Dane.”
Arabella's words made me realize something new: my ancient magic was great.
“Mana Stones are disposable. Once used, they cannot be recharged. That’s why efficiency is of the utmost importance.”
“Parallel connections lower efficiency even further.”
“Yes. But if you connect multiple of them, the stability will decrease.”
Simply put, it was better to use only one Mana Stone, and the Mana Stone I had created was more efficient than any other Mana Stone in existence.
“With the same amount of magic power, this kind of efficiency… mages all around the world will go mad to get their hands on one. There’s so much you can do with just this one thing.”
After that, Arabella started spewing out words that I had difficulty understanding—the law of continuous use of Mana Stones according to the law of Hellegand, or the law of reactivity according to the efficiency of Mana Stones.
I interrupted, “Anyway, it’s something incredible, right?”
“Yes!”
"Then, when you need some, just tell me. I'll make them for you whenever you want. It's not hard to make."
"Really?" Arabella was jumping for joy. “If that’s the case, then I can make this, too… Yeah! The ‘ultra-mini crystal ball’ that was on hold for a while…”
Just thinking about what she’d be able to do with the Mana Stone I’d made already had her this excited.
"Sister, can you do me a favor?"
"Of course! If it's a favor for our youngest, I have to grant him anything! Just tell me! Is some professor bothering you?"
“It’s not like that.” I opened my subspace, took out the Mana Stones I had made, laid them out, and continued, “Can you help me sell these?”
Arabella's eyes widened. “You want to sell these…?”
Arabella was momentarily flustered, as if she had never thought those words would come out of my mouth.
“…It will certainly cause a huge stir when these hit the market. With a Mana Stone of this efficiency, things that were previously impossible will become possible.”
“I’m going to hide the fact that I made it,” I stated.
“Hide?”
"Yeah. It would be annoying if it was revealed that I was the producer."
If I were to release something this amazing into the market, it would cause quite a stir, just like Arabella said.
And if everyone knew that I made it?
The Karnas thing was an unavoidable case, and I could let it slide since it didn’t concern me directly, but this was a slightly different situation.
Above all, there was another reason.
“Items made by unknown creators sell well.”
The battlefield was a place where diverse people gathered. Thanks to that, I met many different people in my previous life and learned many different things.
One of them was what one merchant called 'marketing'.
He—who claimed to have coined the word 'marketing'—taught me various methods of selling things, one of which was 'mystical marketing'.
“We’ll create a story—the mysterious Mana Stone creator who creates and sells them in very small quantities.”
Plus, the 'luxury marketing' that accompanied it.
An unknown creator.
Luxury goods produced in small quantities.
"…Dane, when did you learn that?"
“From a book.” I answered simply and continued, “Since mass production is difficult right now, we’d have to distribute in small quantities through trustworthy people.”
“A trustworthy person… yes. That’s certainly important.”
The price would probably be higher than we could imagine. The Mana Stones were four times more efficient by simple calculation, and according to the explanation Arabella gave me earlier, they were priceless.
Thus, it was important to have someone who could keep this distribution process completely confidential and who could help with 'marketing'.
“Oh, you can’t do it. That would increase the possibility of inference. If we said you made it, then that’s a problem in and of itself.”
Arabella looked puzzled for a moment. “…Since coming to the Academy, you seem more mature than before?”
Well, that was due to being reincarnated.
Anyway, I was thinking about what to do, and suddenly a good person came to mind.
A trustworthy person.
There was one, right?
Someone I knew, and Arabella knew. All mages knew him, and I had a short but deep connection with him.
“Sister, can you help me send an item now?”
“Huh? What are you going to send?”
“The Mana Stone.”
“What? That? To whom? Father? Mother?”
"No."
Arabella prepared the material transporter with a puzzled expression on her face.
Standing in front of the transmitter, I placed the Mana Stone on the magic shield box and immediately entered the code for the transmission target.
Whooooong!
The transmitter vibrated as it was activated, and the magic shield box containing the Mana Stone disappeared without a trace in an instant.
After some time, my communication crystal vibrated as I had expected.
I smiled and accepted the message.
An excited voice rang out immediately.
⸢Hey, you little brat! What the hell is this?! Where did you get this? Is this a Mana Stone? This is revolutionary, simply revolutionary!⸣
It was a voice I hadn’t heard in a long time.
"I hope everything is fine on your end."
⸢Dane. Thanks to you, brat, something big is about to happen. I heard the news. You became a summoner? And by special selection!⸣
Wow, rumors spread really fast.
⸢No, that's not the point. What is this thing you just sent? How does a Mana Stone have this kind of efficiency?⸣
Excited voices burst out here and there. It looked like they did various tests on it as soon as they received it.
As expected of the head of a magic tower.
⸢Where did you get it? Is it an ancient relic? Or did you uncover the secrets of the ancient magic kingdom? It sounds absurd, but if anyone could do it, it’d be you, little brat!⸣
The person who was talking nonstop right now was someone whose life I had saved.
He was once my magic teacher.
Now, the right person to distribute this Mana Stone was一
一the head of Nixion magic tower, Cidrane.
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