50 – Crudia Mountaineer Mercenaries – 3
A soft blue light gathered around Maris’ hand. it was mana Charles Jean Rochepole was by no means a competent wizard, but because he had learned a little bit of magic, he could understand the movement of mana.
And the blue light emitted from Maris’ hand gathered into the sphere Maris was holding. Maris, who had been injecting mana for a while, threw the sphere among the wooden dolls when the sphere started to glow blue.
– Took.
An iron ball fell between the wooden dolls. And Maris exclaimed.
“Keep down!!!”
After shouting, Maris turned her back and crouched down, covering her ears with both hands. Most of the nobles instinctively ducked at Maris’ action.
But 1 second passed, 2 seconds passed, and nothing happened. Finally, after 5 seconds had passed, Maris stood up as if wondering and looked at the iron ball that had been thrown aimlessly.
“what… ?”
As Maris looked at the iron ball with a puzzled look, curses began to erupt among the nobles.
“Keep down!”
“I was fooled by something stupid.”
“If you are a commoner then it is.”
Boos broke out at Maris among the nobles, and the examiner sighed. Maris was in tears and shed tears. What was embarrassing was the same for Charles. It’s strange. He must be a genius inventor, right?
The moment when Charles, who thought so, tried to review his actions to see where he went wrong, and the grader tried to note that he scored 0 points.
-Quaaang!!!
A huge explosion occurred between the wooden dolls. Maris was startled and leaned down, and the examiner quickly deployed the shield magic. And the cadets in the stands also began to bow down in embarrassment.
Pieces of metal exploded in all directions from the sphere Maris threw. And the piece of metal flew towards the spectators and collided with the shield blocking the spectators. and…
– Clink!
The shield is broken. Fortunately, no one was hurt because the shield had two layers instead of one, but there were several pieces of metal stuck in the second shield as well, so the cadets felt a chill when they saw the pieces of metal stuck in the shield.
“This crazy… ”
The cadets spat out swear words and inspected the location of the explosion. The wooden dolls that were around the center of the explosion were shattered, and pieces of metal were embedded in various parts of the wooden dolls.
“If that was a real human… ”
Some cadets shuddered as someone muttered.
After seeing the scene, Charles finally knew what the object was.
“success… ”
Charles murmured.
“It is a great success.”
If you take this to the battlefield, it will be great.
—–
Amazement flowed from among the cadets.
It was because he never imagined that the duo of a commoner and a fallen aristocrat would invent an artifact with such great destructive power.
Besides, gunpowder! Isn’t gunpowder a weapon used by the lowly? If you are a noble, you must use magic that draws power from the source of the world and causes miracles.
However, the nobles began to feel that their common sense was being broken while watching Maris, who created such great destructive power by mixing a lowly item like gunpowder with magic.
Especially the scorer, Mary de Courtine.
Arcadia Academy is a place where talented people gather from all over the world, but among them, the first year cadets were still just monkeys.
In the second grade, he still came up to the level of a chimpanzee, and in the third grade, he was still able to speak.
However, the fact that a mere first-grade child made an object with such tremendous destructive power broke Mary de Courtine’s common sense.
The examiner asked with a shocked face.
“Miss Maris.”
“yes!”
“What is the name of this artifact?”
Maris thought for a moment and then said.
“The official name is pluie d’acier, but I call it by a more comfortable name.”
Charles seemed to know what it was called.
“It’s a grenade.”
The only difference would be that it exploded with magical energy instead of a safety pin, but what he developed was a surprisingly primitive type of grenade.
Even the destructive power is stronger than the original grenade. It’s to the point of breaking the shield magic.
After the scoring was over, Maris was called to the examiner and discussed magic and science with him for a while.
And seeing as the examiner called only Maris by name and took her away, it was obvious who would get the highest score in this test.
—–
The grader’s grade was, of course, an A+. Maris scored well, and no one who actually saw Maris’ invention disputed Maris’s score.
But there was someone who looked at Maris’s invention more closely than anyone else. That is Lucrezia du Flos, the princess of the Principality of Flos.
Lucrezia du Flos thought.
‘It’s a mixture of magic and science. If only magic had been used, it would have required a lot of mana to produce this level of destructive power, and if only science had been used, the structure of the mechanism would have been quite complicated and would have broken down frequently. The right balance is great. This… ‘
Princess Leonia, who was watching this, evaluated it as having excellent military value, but Lucrezia du Flos evaluated it a little differently.
‘It will be money.’
For her, who grew up thinking only of money, money was the number one priority.
That’s why Lucrezia du Flos moved faster than anyone else.
Through Micheletto, I always knew where Charles and Maris were, and I got the right timing.
When Charles and Maris were drinking tea and talking about inventions.
“Oh? sir char. It’s a coincidence that we met here. May I sit down for a moment?”
He pretended to be a coincidence and said so.
‘It sounds like a coincidence.’
Charles was absurd. The fact that he kept attaching people was also known to Charles. Of course, it was difficult for Charles to grasp the movements of a first-class thief named Micheletto, but it was because Glacia informed him that he was following him.
I always wondered who did the tailing, but I knew it when I saw Lucrezia appearing as soon as I sat down to drink tea. It must have been tailing by Lucrezia du Flos.
Charles said while pretending to smile even though he knew all of this.
“It’s been a while, Princess. Have a seat.”
Charles and Lucrezia shook hands, and Maris stared blankly at the scene with an expression of envy.
“Are there any stars of the day?”
When Lucrezia said that to Maris.
“yes? Are you a star?”
Maris was puzzled
‘Aha, is that the real purpose?’
Charles immediately recognized Lucrezia’s purpose.
And Lucrezia continued.
“Right now, the academy is burning with stories about Maris. Rumors are spreading all over the place that a commoner-born wizard invented an amazing thing. Was it famous among the cadets as well as the professors?”
“Princess Lucrezia is well known for her rumors.”
“Information is life for merchants. Information is money, and money is life.”
Charles had heard of it somewhere. Come to think of it, it seems to have been the Flos family’s proverb in the game. A family name is a word that symbolizes the family, and contains the history of the family.
“So, did Princess Lucrezia also come because she wanted to meet the hot topic?”
“I hope so, but in fact I have other business.”
“It’s for business.”
“pluie d’acier”
rain of steel. The official name of the grenade developed by Maris.
“I want to handle this item in the Flos family. What do you think?”
“Yes Yes? What do you mean?”
Maris asked in surprise.
“I want to commercialize grenades. They gather engineers, mass-produce them in workshops, and then sell them at high prices to mercenaries and armies all over the world. I’ll sell it for a lot more than the original price, but the nobles will have no choice but to buy it. Because the technicians in Taspiria are the best in the world. It’s a weapon with life at stake, so of course you want to buy the best one, right? And the net profit will be shared between Maris and the Flos family. how about it? Don’t you think you could make a lot of money?”
As expected, she is a woman who smells like money. When I saw the grenade, I thought it would make money, so I immediately came to buy it.
Maris asked Lucrezia.
“So, can I make money?”
The level of the question was too low. There are smart people in the world and there are stupid people, but this guy was both smart and stupid at the same time. And Princess Lucrezia smiled like an angel.
“You can earn like a mountain.”
“Well, then can you pay the tuition?”
“I had a lot of trouble with my tuition. So what about this one? If you transfer the grenade technology, I’ll pay all of the tuition and living expenses for three years as a lump sum, and I’ll even add an extra money to it. You won’t have to worry about tuition any more.”
“really!?”
Aha. If you divide the net profit, the more you sell, the more money you will have to pay, but if you get the technology transfer as a lump sum, it’s a calculation that you can hit it cheaply. Anyway, there are more guys.
However, Maris’ expression, which had been flattered, suddenly hardened and looked at Charles. He realized that half of this object’s authority belonged to Charles.
“Charles… how will we do it? Half of it is yours.”
I was a little sorry to pay only 27 ducats and exercise half of my authority. Because at least a few hundred ducats were moving plates.
‘then… ‘
thought Charles. Maris ended up splitting the proceeds of the invention in half because she owed me twenty-seven ducats and a few coins. If that’s the case, it would be better to make sure that Maris doesn’t get tricked by Lucrezia into transferring the technology at a cheap price. To do that…
“Miss Lucrezia.”
“Yes, Charles.”
“How much do you think about the price of technology transfer?”
Conversely, it was necessary to turn his back on Lucrecia.
How long have you been looking for it, customer?