From the technology and knowledge Jin had inherited from the 《Magi Craft Meister》, Adrianna Balbora Ceci, there was no magic to create food from nothing.
He made clothes for himself. The sewing skills he had refined wasn’t just for show. He had used a suitable fabric he found on a shelf.
In regards to magic, he was able to get the knack of using magic after using it once, but it takes some time to look up magic he hasn’t used before.
So, back to what was being said. There was no food stored in this research facility. Rather, he definitely wouldn’t eat even if there was food from 1000 years ago. No… he probably wouldn’t eat.
If one was to say what Jin was doing, it would be repairing the 《Automata》, or more precisely he was restoring it.
「My predecessor sure was amazing. The frame is almost identical to a human」
In place of the organs there is an 《Ether Converter》and a 《Mana Drive》, and in charge of thought processes is an elaborate 《Control Core》.
With that said, using a light metal found in the underground storage room, he rebuilt the frame. Although rather than build, it was quite easy as it was simply processing it with magic to the same dimensions as the original.
「Putting the 《Ether Converter》 like this will increase the efficiency… also doing this will downsize the 《Mana Drive》」
「Should I make new 《Magic Fibre》 and 《Magic Skin》 or should I keep them as they are? No, 《Magic Fibre》 seems to have room for improvement… as for 《Magic Skin》, if it were to change then the appearance would be altered. Ah, but I’ll need to apply a lasting 《Reinforce》」
「Finally the 《Control Core》, huh? It looks like it could break at any moment… and there wasn’t any in the storage room was there…」
「Here they are, there sure is a lot isn’t there? Well then, let’s use this lovely guy」
「Transfer the information of the old 《Control Core》… great, it worked. This one is large so there is probably still some room. Should I try to copy my knowledge?」
「… 《Transfer Info》…urgh, my brain endured considerably well. As I thought, all my knowledge was impossible, well I guess this is fine」
For the whole day, Jin had spent it all on assembling the 《Automata》.
Trying to put on the clothes, its magic power had shaken off and scattered the dust on its body, and now the 《Automata》 was naked. It was extremely tempting in various ways.
Because he made clothes for himself, none of the fabric he found remained.
He used fine threads to weave underwear and thick string to weave the outer-garments. It was even able to weave lace, as one would expect of his predecessor.
Searching for dyes, he quickly found them. He chose a translucent blue. In fact, this was a magic dye which had the effect of warding off demons.
Rather than maid clothes, he finished clothes that were more suitable for an Alice. As a matter of course it was natural, the design was the same as the clothes he made for the dolls for the girls of the orphanage.
Jin was satisfied with what he had finished.
To activate it, he poured his magic power into the 《Mana Drive》 but the 《Automata》 laying before his eyes did not move.
He checked it, but there was no defect in the performance of the magic circuit.
At that moment, as though to remind him, his stomach rumbled.
And so, we return to the opening line.
「Aaaa… so hungry…」
「At this rate I’m going to starve to death in this research facility…」
「Hmm… if I remember correctly, there’s a 《Warp Gate》 I can use to easily travel around.」
「Also, the 《Warp Gate》to go outside should be on the 1st floor」
「Oh well, any of them will do, let’s just take the 5th one then」
He takes 5 gems from the store room to exchange for money. They were small rubies. He judged that it would be difficult to convert into money if it was too big.
He gets on the magic circle of the 《Warp Gate》, and pours in his magic power. The magic circle immediately operates…
Jin had forgotten. The 《Warp Gates》 were setup more than 1000 years ago. In a 1000 years, towns can perish and the geography of land can change.
「Su-re-ly-it-wo-nt-go-out-of-co-nt-ro-l?」
「This… is… bad…」
He was unable to get off, and just as the magic circle malfunctioned, Jin’s figure disappeared from the research facility.
「… fa…ther?」
The reason why the activation was so slow was because for its body that had a tremendous magic power capacity, it took time to convert the 《Ether》 in the air to the quantity of 《Mana》 the 《Mana Drive》 needed to activate.
Having its creator gone, it was the most serious matter for the 《Automata》.
The 《Automata》 faced its search for its own 《Raison D’être》, Jin. Readying a new 《Warp Gate》 to return with, it was now prepared,
And now another disappeared from the research facility.
All that remained were the golems that dug out resources single-mindedly.