Chapter 72 Magic Engineering Division – Lead Researcher
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
The next day, Ayumu sat at the wooden research desk assigned to him within the Imperial Court, bent over his design work. It was… complicated.
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Three Days Earlier — Emperor’s Chamber
”Even so… Lord Sanai, for my son—this has been a great service. Let me see… I shall grant you a reward,” Emperor Rai El Yugan said.
As a reward for saving Crown Prince Aare, Ayumu had been granted—or, perhaps, pressed into—the vacant title of Lead Researcher of the Magic Engineering Division. Of course, part of the emperor’s motive was likely ensuring Ayumu wouldn’t leave, since the Crown Prince’s recovery was still incomplete. But Ayumu had his own pressing concerns: the knights behind him seemed ready to strike at any moment. Grateful or not, he accepted the appointment.
Privately, he wondered about the alchemists attached to the Imperial Court—after all, they were colleagues… surely they wouldn’t actually cut him down, would they? Luckily, the knights didn’t attack, and Ayumu quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Being granted the post wasn’t entirely unwelcome. He hadn’t thought of any other way out, so he decided to compromise: this will do—for now. He simply didn’t want any further entanglement with the emperor’s family. Sometimes compromise is unavoidable.
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Looking back, that compromise might have been the right choice.
”Hmm? If I tweak this circuit here, I could channel the magic output more efficiently into the tools,” Ayumu muttered as he began his work.
The first thought he had while serving in the palace was surprisingly simple: This job is actually interesting! Though he lacked a budget for full-scale projects, he had memorized the basics of magical tools and examined past designs. Ideas started bubbling up.
Perhaps this was his true calling. With whatever materials he could find, he decided to construct a model of a magical lamp—popular in this world, highly demanded, and feasible with makeshift supplies.
He wasn’t building a functional lamp, of course. Constructing a realistic model would teach him the fundamental structures in a way no book ever could. Crafting anything without mastering the basics would lead only to strange, useless objects. One had to understand the foundation to innovate. Skipping the basics was simply unacceptable.
Ayumu left the wooden desk, and with his blueprints in hand, approached the alchemy slab. He gathered stones from around the workshop and, placing them meticulously on the slab, began imbuing them with magical energy. One by one, he shaped the pieces into replicas of the lamp’s components, studying and learning with every movement.
The room hummed softly with the faint glow of magic, and Ayumu felt a thrill—the quiet joy of creation, the thrill of discovery, and the subtle pulse of a world slowly revealing its secrets under his hands.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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