Chapter 123 – Over Technology (3)
Chapter 123 – Over Technology (3)
“Tina. Here are the new reports.”
“From the Great Forest?”
“Yes.”
“Wait a minute.”
Tina, an elder elf who has started to age. She, who is in charge of records at the meeting, has recently expanded the category of records.
Through her own eyewitness accounts and Serenian’s testimonies, she recorded and thought about what, when, and how the sky bestowed them.
Elfs also had a history, but it was a human-like behavior that was completely different from the existing customs that were handed down by word of mouth without detailed recording due to the characteristics of being a long-lived species.
“Actually, I don’t know either. Why do we obsess over it and try to make it known. Maybe we instinctively look for stories from the past in order to gain more experience, given our short lifespan. So I don’t think that writing history is bad.”
Hans, Pia’s butler and human being, who had recently become close to Tina, told her his opinion on it, and Tina agreed with it.
“Let’s go to the dwarves first. If it had been urgent, it would have been overturned already.”
After putting down her report on the Great Forest for a while, Tina headed to the dwarves with Hans and Pia.
It’s because something came down again shortly after a strange cube meteorite called a powerful magnet fell from the sky.
“I overheard the dwarves admiring that the sky god is also in charge of the machine god.”
“What exactly is that machine? Are all geared wheels machines?”
On the way to the mountain terrain planter, Hans told a story he had heard. Pia, who had been listening quietly, asked what exactly a machine was, but in fact neither Tina nor Hans knew exactly what a machine was.
“That, that is a machine.”
Instead of going through the portal, Hans showed ‘it’ to Pia instead of explaining himself.
Literally a machine. It is a machine of a different class that transcends the dimension.
The dwarves finally calmed down the confusion after some time and bowed down in front of the device with a reverent heart, raising their thanks to the sky.
‘There are no quiet days.’
Tina quietly unfolded her wad of paper. I couldn’t leave out this event in recording what happened in Eden.
“I think you may have seen it first. The process in which we heat up the flames in the blast furnace to melt the iron ore and process the metal by hammering it.”
“I must have seen it.”
“This heaven-sent machine is a miracle.”
After the work of posting a thank-you note is over. A time when the Dwarves put their heads together to discuss the composition of a new workshop in order to use machinery in earnest. One of the dwarf artisans told Tina, who was unfamiliar with the machine, why they called it a miracle and admired it.
“So, to sum it up, a miraculous device powered by the power of the sky allows you to do hard work effortlessly?”
“Yeah, you can understand it that simply.”
The dwarf, who had lengthened his speech, suggested to admire and praise the beauty of this device more, but Tina’s understanding was not wrong.
Because that was the problem Seunghyeon wanted to solve in the first place. From the perspective of the dwarves, everything from the solar panel that converts the sun’s power into electricity, the motor that runs on that electricity, and the light plastic that makes up the frame of the device were just inexplicable mysteries.
“To be honest, I don’t know. Other than that the miracle God bestowed is just as great.”
“Me too.”
“But this is not the end.”
After completing all of her records, including the interview with the dwarf craftsman, Tina moved her position.
Apart from the soldiers standing guard in the dungeon, most of the dwarves started full-scale construction to use the motor device. At the entrance of the mountain heading to their village, a group of people were discussing something with serious faces.
“Well then, let’s light a fire.”
There were people, including Serenian, who were conducting several experiments by carefully taking a very small amount of black powder and placing it on the floor.
“I can’t believe it.”
“f*ck, exploded?”
Not only Tina, Hans, and Pia, who took a step back and watched, but everyone at the scene were surprised. Even Serenian, who directed the action.
Even the dwarves, who were unable to explain solar panels and motors, were able to recognize and apply the mechanism itself using gears and gears. In the first place, they were also using similar technology.
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But gunpowder was different. It was not even primitive gunpowder, but rather gunpowder produced in modern factories, and it was difficult for them to guess the identity of this powder that dared to cause fire and explosions.
“I have seen kites and the black powder used by alchemists burn with a bang when lit.”
“Is that that?”
“No. It looks completely different to me.”
At least, Hans remembered something similar from his own experience, but that’s all. Serenian looked at the gunpowder with slightly shaky eyes.
The gunpowder that fell from the sky in a pill capsule big enough to fit even the tallest elf was such that when Seonghyeon called Serenian separately, he asked in detail and strictly how to use it.
Serenian, who had memorized the words without knowing English, realized with his own eyes why he was so serious.
“Queen. Please tell us what this is. What is this?”
“I-I don’t know either.”
Overcoming the shock, Aaron clung to Serenian and asked about the identity of the gunpowder. For them, Serenian, who had heard the name of gunpowder and how to use it, was their only hope.
The problem was that she was just repeating what she heard like a parrot.
“I just relayed the oracle I heard. I have one request, so if you don’t have the confidence to handle this gunpowder, please seal it as it is. It’s a dangerous item that could injure and damage your allies if you don’t.”
She caught her spirit and warned Aaron. If you’re not confident in handling gunpowder, just don’t use it. A catastrophe would happen. This warning was also a direct translation of Seunghyeon’s words.
“It is a blessing from God for us. You have to prove your qualifications, and if you give up, you are giving up that favor.”
But Aaron smiled and fiddled with the gunpowder he had removed. As a dwarf, he could feel it instinctively. The contents contained in this gunpowder were not different from the minerals they were dealing with.
“I will study the methods you mentioned. Maybe even more.”
“If you judged so, so be it.”
Theory coveted gunpowder. Not greed in the evil sense, but pure interest and awe. Serenian, who recognized the sincerity, stopped worrying. She was too accustomed to taking her risks to get something from her.
“Blessings bestowed by the heavenly gods. They were all blessings that could solve what the Dwarves needed the most.”
“It always has been. Ever since I was alone, he has lent me strength as if he were fighting alongside me.”
After the meeting with the dwarves. On the way back with Tina, Serenian smiled faintly as he recalled the past few months.
The first help I received. It was the first metal pipe that could fight the ants that came to attack him.
“If the problem with the dwarves has been resolved to some extent, I can now fully focus on the Great Forest.”
Tina spoke carefully. Although she has just won the war, the Great Shurin is still in the clouds of war.
Even if the expeditionary force was defeated, the real enemy, the Kingdom of Delos, and its ally, Ersilla, the general, would be fine. Rather, they must have been stimulated by the victory in this battle, so there was a good chance that they would try to counterattack more vigorously.
Is it because I imagined it? Serenian frowned and sighed.
It is never an easy battle to fight the existing strong players even if you prepare thoroughly with countless help.
“Don’t worry too much. It is we who have won the battle that will be a turning point. Now that our name has spread, more of our hesitant people will support us, and if we join forces with them, we will be able to prepare more thoroughly.”
“…That’s what scares me the most. Wouldn’t it be better to fight the enemy and risk your life? Will I be able to guide a large number of my people well?”
Tina comforted her, but Serenian laughed bitterly at her.
What the young queen was most wary of was not fighting the enemy. A job that gets heavier day by day. That in itself was fear.
Because her enemies and antagonists, who could not endure her karma and fell, clearly exist.