06-12 Jin’s Golem Manufacturing
Jin talked with Beana until the materials for the golem had been brought.
Like that, he hinted at ideas.
For some reason Reinhardt joined in the conversation.
“In short, it’ll be fine as long as you expose the wind to something cool?”
“That’s right, in that case here should be…”
And just like that, while waiting for the delivery of the materials the three finished a prototype air cooler.
“Oh…It’s done.”
“…Is this okay?”
“Isn’t it fine? I only took part to the extents of a hobbyist.”
“Th..Thank you very much, Reinhardt-sama. Thank you, Jin!”
“It’s fine. At any rate, Beana has the makings of a good Magi Craftsman.”
He said. Beana wondered aloud if that’s so, while looking slightly happy and blushing.
“Now then, let’s build a golem!”
“Now then, let’s start the repairs!”
She wondered if the design wasn’t yet finished, as Jin hadn’t started the work yet. On the other hand, Reinhardt had started the manufacture of the Control Core.
To not to miss the procedure, Beana stuck to Reinhardt.
And like that, the Control Core was completed.
He couldn’t get the golems he saw on Kunlun Island out of his mind. Reinhardt wanted to make Schwarz Ritter even more highly efficient.
He wouldn’t let the Control Core be overwritten by a strong magical force from the outside a second time. Ever since then, Reinhardt had been continuously thinking about countermeasures.
And then, when he took a look towards Jin he wondered just when Elsa had come, as she was sitting next to Jin.
When Reinhard said that, Elsa hmphed and looked away.
While saying so, he returned his gaze to the materials in front of him, looking for a particular one. For now, there was Armor Turtle’s shell, Grand Lizard’s leather, and Helm Eagle’s feathers.
“It’s hard to do it alone… Hey, Elsa, can you help me for a bit?”
Reinhardt let out a strained laugh, and turned to nearby Beana,
He said, asking her for assistance.
Reinhardt then made roughly the same sized samples of all three of the prospective materials.
He placed them on Beana’s hand, and on top of that placed a Plate.
“Got it.”
It was accidental, but asking Beana to assist was the right choice. If this was Jin, no matter what the material was, he would be able to write it.
And if it was Elsa, since she can’t use Craft Magic she would obviously have to use regularly invoked magic for the experiment, and since the invocation time would be so short observing the Magic Energy would be difficult.
“Hmm, so Armor Turtle’s shell lets Magic Energy through it the least. I should be able to use this.”
Schwarz Ritter’s insides weren’t simply hollow, but every important point was was stuffed with various things.
Spongelike stuff filled most of his body.
Beana didn’t stay silent at the sight of an unknown material, and asked Reinhardt.
But it very easily lets Magic Energy through it, he finished the explanation.
Reinhardt then took the Magi Device out from inside the Gulaschwamm, and set in the Control Core he had constructed just now.
He returned the adjusted Magi Device back into the golem, and covered its surroundings with the shell of an Armor Turtle. Since Schwarz Ritter was a heavyweight to begin with, there wasn’t much of a difference.
99% of the work was done, and Reinhardt started on the maintenance of the external wounds Schwarz Ritter had suffered.
“Alright, I’ve decided.”
Simultaneously, Reiko who had been silently by Jin’s side until now stood up too.
“Hmm, first I’d like some iron and zinc.”
Elsa who had been only watching until then raised her voice when she heard an unfamiliar word. Jin heard it and,
He gave a simple explanation. Brass was already made in this world.
Jin didn’t know what would happen if he mixed zinc with iron, but he did know that a zinc coating prevents corrosion.
“To start with, let’s mix carbon to the iron to make steel.”
Even though it was called a skeleton, it was a much simplified version of a human’s. For example, there was no ribcage or pelvis.
The same result as with quenching and tempering was achieved through Craft Magic, furthermore the strength was increased with [Hardening], and zinc plating added to the corrosion resistance.
The aim was to build joints that were nearing human composition. By building an endoskeleton and making the armor shaped around it, it was possible to have it behave similarly to a human.
“It’s a little eerie.”
Elsa gave her honest impressions of the skeleton.
The simplest golem that was hollow inside that made all its movements utilizing Magic Energy had a surprisingly bad Magic Energy efficiency.
They were similar to using pure Magic Energy for the movements in a so-called telekinetic fashion, but when utilizing the Magical Muscles the Magic Energy was used to expand and contract the muscles instead, the efficiency was higher.
“I know of those.”
The reason Elsa knew was the leather was a specialty of Shouro Empire.
Jin tore it into thin strips and bundled them up to make Magical Muscles.
Precisely when Jin was done with that, Reinhardt finished the repairs and remodeling of Schwarz Ritter, and came over to see Jin’s state of affairs.
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