06. Midterm exam (4)
I am a beginner when it comes to guns. But if Yuna wants to focus on swords and not guns, I’m ashamed to say it myself, but I’m an expert in this field.
Until now, in Gunblade, I was trying to put the focus on the gun, or design the design to balance the strengths of the gun and the sword. However, if you focused only on the sword, the story would be different.
If you want to make a ‘sword’ using Klaproth’s skills… I thought I could help with that part.
“Can I use paper and pen?”
“Oh, yes. Sure.”
When Yuna gestured to a waitress nearby, the table in her drawing room was covered with white drawing paper. I quickly drew out the design I envisioned in my head on drawing paper.
“For now, let’s throw away the automatic pistol. If you shoot a gun by inserting a magic stone and charging it, you don’t need a magazine. I think it would be better to use a cylinder like a revolver. It is also the most common.”
“I understand what you are saying, but what are the advantages of switching to cylinders?”
“Before that, I want to ask you a question. I said it was a skill that shoots bullets by engraving a special imprint on a magic stone. He said that if you tinker a little more, you can create various effects. Is my memory correct?”
“Right. How is that?”
“Then you can also engrave attributes?”
Yuna was deep in thought, with her arms crossed and one hand resting on her chin.
“Hmm… Are you asking me to reveal the top secrets of our company? You want to know the details of a top-secret technology that is not even known to have such a technology yet?”
What? Does that happen? Seeing my expression stained with embarrassment for a moment, Yuna chuckled and smiled kindly.
“Just kidding. Well, if you don’t know much about this technology, you’ll have trouble making gunblades, so I’ll tell you more. Anyway, Jin Lee is not an expert on magic crafting technology, so even if I told you about it, you can’t take it, right? So, I can tell you if it is just a structure like this.”
Having said that, Yuna took out a fountain pen that looked classy at first glance and began to write something on her drawing paper.
“The structure itself is not much different from the workshop magic sword. Even magic swords have magical starting words engraved on the sword, so even if you are not a magic hunter, you can use magic, right? Of course, the downside is clear.”
“The durability of magic swords is terribly consumed. Because it permanently consumes the magical power of the sword itself.”
She remembered the brothers Kanghyeon and Kanghyeok from the same freshman support department. The two of them always struggled to solve the durability problem, a chronic problem with magic swords. The more you try to use strong magic, the stronger the sword must be to withstand the magic, but the more you use magic, the more the durability of the sword is consumed, which makes it even more difficult to make a tricky magic sword.
“Yes. But with this technology, you don’t have to worry about that at all. It’s because we engrave the imprint on the magic stone itself, which is consumable from the beginning.”
“You say all the engravings go into that small magic stone? Did you succeed even with nanometer-scale pores?”
“Ai really. Even Klaprotra can’t reduce the craftsmanship mark that much. Craft engraving is a language that contains magical power, but would that be impossible unless there is a technology that compresses magical power into particles? Instead, we developed a technique to break down start words in detail.”
Yuna raised her own slender fingers and folded them one by one.
“Let’s take Mana Bullet as an example. If you lengthen the starter word, it would have the meaning of ‘concentrates mana and shoots it forward in the form of a bullet at a certain speed.’ Here’s the attribute imprinting that Jin Lee just said… ‘Fire attribute’, ‘Water attribute’, or as I said before, ‘paralyzes the opponent’, ‘poisons the opponent’, etc.
Yes. That’s why magic crafting technology is very difficult and requires expertise. Not only dexterity and magic response, but also extensive academic knowledge in magic itself was required. I also tried to learn it for a short time, but I put it on hold because it required a high degree of professionalism.
Of course, I did not give up. There were many other things to do, so I put it off for a while, but I always had the intention of learning again if it would help me to make a sword. There were strands he had learned in the past, so it wasn’t to the extent that he couldn’t follow Yuna’s explanation.
“Yes. That’s why accessories engraved with magic or skills found in the tower are traded at a very high price. Because current technology can’t even imitate that.”
“Yes. Even so, it was limited to magic, and I couldn’t even dream of including skills. We haven’t even figured out the principle yet. Except for just one person.”
“… ….”
Yes. Incorporating a unique skill into an item is the realm of dreams with the current technology of mankind.
Except for me.
I succeeded in embedding my unique skill not only in the three-person sword, but also in the hammer I personally made, and also in the newly made golden lanyard (ver.2). Of course, Yuna only saw the three-person sword, but I don’t know about the rest yet… First of all, I don’t need to say this now.
Yuna looked at me for a while with the gaze of a greedy, greedy merchant aiming for the top bid, then suddenly came to her senses and regained her composure.
“Oops. The story counted elsewhere. Turning the subject back on, Claprot… To be precise, my father and the development team under his direct control succeeded in developing a technique to activate the effect by breaking and splitting this large and long starter word into small pieces. On the gun itself, start words such as ‘magic power’, ‘integration’, and ‘shoot’ are engraved, and on the magic stone, start words such as ‘aggregation’ and ‘bullet’ are engraved… In this way, the number of engravings to be engraved will be drastically reduced, right?”
“Such technology is possible?”
I doubted my ears. If Yuna’s words are true, it was a far greater skill than I thought. It was to the point where I thought that if this technology leaked out, it would literally bring about a technological revolution.
“It’s a skill I finally obtained by purchasing all the tower items with Claprot’s enormous capital, tearing them apart, and researching them. Is it top secret among classifieds? I can’t tell you exactly what the structure is, even if it’s binary. To be honest, I’m too specialized, so I don’t have the confidence to explain it to others.”
“Oh, wait a minute. Then Yuna, do you understand the technique?”
“Sure. I’m also kind of supportive. My major is magic crafting. Did you think I was just an ordinary young lady from a conglomerate family?”
I honestly thought so. When I first met Yuna, she handled that big gun like her toy and her memories of hunting her monsters were so impressive that I thought it was surprising when she reunited with her at the academy as an application and a class.
But you were a technician. Well… I thought it was a very unusual attribute to be a Young lady from a conglomerate in science and engineering. I said, tapping the blueprint drawn on the drawing paper with my finger.
“The bottom line is, it is possible to engrave attribute imprints, right?”
“We went round and round to talk about this, but… Yes. In conclusion, it is possible. Is it an important part?”
“It doesn’t matter. Much more than you think.”
And when I heard the technology I just talked about, it seemed that more diverse things could be possible. While revising the drawing in real time, I drew the idea in my head on the blueprint. Abandon the shape of a gun altogether.
What I am drawing is just a sword with only a cylinder and a trigger left. It’s a somewhat unusual shape to be called a sword, but its essence was clearly close to that of a sword.
“Binary. Wait a minute, this….”
As if Yuna noticed something in her after looking at the blueprint I drew, she fell into her troubles.
If you pull the trigger, there is no muzzle for the bullet to escape. An item that has given up its function as a gun, and is nothing more than a disqualified item as a gun. So where does the bullet go when you pull the trigger?
There are no bullets. In the first place, mana bullets are bullet-shaped aggregates of magical energy, so they do not have actual physical power. If so, the explosive power would be fully transmitted to the sword itself. Every time the trigger is pulled, the sword receives an intense impact as if it were about to explode.
“Is the sword exploding?”
“No. Well, maybe you could say it’s similar.”
The sword does not explode. I lack the skills for mana crafting, but I have learned enough skills for mana circuit engraving. By synchronizing magic with Yoon Seo-hee and making golden eggs, the technology improved even more, so I was able to come up with this design on the spot.
Put the magic stone with each attribute into the cylinder, pull the trigger, and use the impact of exploding magic as a recoil to fully load that power into the sword.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while.
This was sure to be a fucking weapon.