I Became an Academy Mechanic Genius chapter 12

12 – Self Surgery

After releasing ‘Blue’ back to the dragon habitat.

Elena returned to her office and pondered.

About all the appearances Ed has shown so far.

‘A genius who can be dyed either way… that would be the right way to see it.’

A genius who can be dyed either way.

In other words, depending on how he leads in the future, he could become a hero who will lead the empire. Or he could be the worst villain ever.

He had such qualities and potential.

Whatever it was, it was clear that he would become a person who would leave his name in history.

‘I… I have to lead well.’

As a result, a sense of mission began to spring up.

As a teacher, he feels a sense of duty to present the right path so that the disciple does not fall into evil.

Even so, Ed’s idea was dangerous.

They did not respect life, disrupted discipline and order, and were highly likely to come up with ethically reprehensible ideas.

Certainly, his inquisitive mind may have opened up new paths and expanded the realm of knowledge, but when misused, it could cause irreversible disaster.

So he needed a lighthouse to guide him so that he could use the power and knowledge he would acquire in the future.

‘I, I have to do it!’

And that lighthouse, only you could be.

This is because he is the only one who will not abuse Ed’s power for personal gain.

-Sue.

So, Elena put a letter requesting Ed’s ‘special admission’ in the letter envelope.

The letter envelope was engraved with the mark of the imperial family painted with gold powder.

And to the recipient of the envelope—.

[Sephilia Juliseus Kindel von Orserk]

The name of Elena’s favorite disciple and the princess was written on it.

Elena ordered her servant to post this letter secretly.

***

Now that you’ve succeeded in figuring out the blue dragon’s mechanism, it’s time to implement it.

The time has come to select the materials, trim them to the right length and weight, design them into an engineering structure, and assemble them.

‘Once the ingredients are done.’

All materials were already secured.

Thanks to Master’s support, he had easily obtained mana stones and various rare minerals.

Thinking back, having Elena as his teacher was a godsend.

‘The blueprint is perfect. I have nothing more to touch.’

And the design was also perfectly prepared.

Since it was a blueprint made with great care over the past three days using ‘engineering thinking’, there could be no error of 0.1 cm.

It means that you have been thoroughly prepared.

‘I also trimmed all the ingredients.’

In addition, all materials were processed.

Of course, it took a lot of hard work to make a device that could purify the poison emitted from the mana stone, but in the end, I was able to make a device that perfectly purifies the toxic substance, just like the blue dragon’s organs.

Now all I have to do is implant all these devices into my body.

“Master.”

After completing all the inspections, I went to see Elena.

Elena was also waiting for me with a face that seemed to have finished preparing.

“All preparations are complete. All I have to do now is the surgery.”

“… are you okay? I wouldn’t be able to endure it with a tolerable mentality.”

“Because I’m anesthetized anyway.”

“No, not like that. You cut your body yourself. It is on a different level from cutting the body of a dragon.”

Elena looked at me with a worried face.

The reason she worries about me like this is because of the ‘surgery’.

It is difficult for me to accept the idea of operating myself.

“it’s okay. Master will help you when something happens. Most of all, Master’s telekinesis will assist me, so I won’t make any mistakes.”

“…”

However, Elena was silent with a face that seemed to be thinking a lot.

After all, did it seem very strange that he would do the surgery himself?

Still, this was the only way for me to become stronger.

“Ed.”

after that some time has passed.

After thinking, Elena called me.

She opened her mouth with serious eyes.

“Let me ask you one thing. What is your reason for wanting to do this? Is it just out of curiosity? Want to see if humans can use mana with mana stones like the blue dragon?”

…Helena’s voice gained weight.

It’s not just a question to get information.

This was probably a question to test me.

Depending on my answer, it may or may not help with the operation.

“I am·····.”

So, this time I have to answer well.

Elena has to give a good reason.

If you answer incorrectly, the surgery will be skipped.

“Actually, I’ve been dreaming for a long time.”

“···· dream?”

just a dream? A wrinkle formed between Elena’s eyebrows.

It looks as if it says ‘What kind of weird thing are you trying to say again this time?’

I continued without hesitation.

“Yes. It’s a dream. It’s actually a nightmare. It is a dream that the empire will perish.”

flinch!

Elena’s body trembled greatly.

As he often dreams of the empire being destroyed, he was shocked by my answer.

“In that dream… everyone dies. My father, the chieftain, the villagers… everyone, everyone will die.”

Elena’s mouth opens slowly.

Her two shaking eyes stare at me.

“The sky is thick with black smoke. There are countless monsters roaming the streets, and monsters in human form are eating people.”

“…”

“I don’t know when it was. But before I knew it, I started having nightmares like this every day. The problem is that the dream is so vivid that I keep thinking that it might happen someday.”

Elena was completely immersed in my story.

It was only natural that he was talking about a dream that was almost the same as his own.

“So I did something. Craft new equipment or gain knowledge. or gain strength. If you do one of those three, you won’t have such a dream. I feel relieved.”

Elena nodded.

In fact, if it wasn’t for her, it would be an excuse to scold her, saying that it was a dog dream, but Elena took it seriously.

This is because we feel the beginning of a disaster in the depths of our subconscious.

“Then you move with a sense of duty. We have to protect the empire.”

“Hmm… It’s not such a grandiose reason, but I feel like I have to keep doing something anyway. hahahaha… I don’t even know what I’m talking about. I wonder if this can be explained by only dreaming…”

“Nope. i guess i know I understand you 100 percent.”

Elena smiled as she said that.

It was a smile full of heartfelt emotions, as if meeting an old friend.

Do I feel the same pain?

This, I don’t know if it’s because I tried to pass her test with 100 points, but my liking increased too much.

Couldn’t it be that ‘Elena’s courtship’ is activated?

“yes. What can you do about such a terrible nightmare? Are you going to do the surgery right away?”

“Yes, I will do it now.”

“great. Let’s go straight to my personal training room.”

***

When we arrived at the personal training room, we started by carving the spell into the mana stone.

If Elena tells me the spell, I will engrave the spell on the mana stone.

“You really… how do you control that minute thing…”

However, what I am doing now is a difficult task that no one can follow.

It was because the magic formula was carved into a mana stone the size of a human fingernail, and it could never be done without great concentration and sophistication.

In particular, spells made up of lines of various geometric shapes do not activate even if the proportions are slightly broken, or the performance is clearly degraded, so it was impossible to engrave a spell on such a small mana stone without me.

Dig!

However, I was able to succeed in engraving the spell on all 37 mana stones.

It was not just a simple spell, but a complex one with a mixture of multiple spells.

‘If it wasn’t for the hand technique, I wouldn’t have dared.’

Hidden grade skill ‘hand technique’.

Along with ‘engineering thinking’, which allows you to understand all the knowledge required for engineering technology at once, it is one of my open-air skills.

Thanks to this hidden skill called hand technique, I was able to trim all the ingredients without a measuring tool and without an error.

“… that’s great. All 37 work flawlessly.”

Before long, Elena, who was checking that the spell was working properly, looked back at me with an admiring expression.

Now that everything is really ready, it’s time to go into surgery.

“Then let’s begin.”

I said that and took off my shirt.

I lay down on a pre-prepared surgical bed.

A mirror was installed above me.

It is to see my body and perform the surgery.

“Are you ready? I’ll link you.”

“Yes. Please walk right now.”

link.

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Link is Elena’s unique skill, a skill that connects her senses with others.

It is a technique that was mainly used to awaken the senses of the academy students.

Now, he used that skill to hand over control of his telekinesis to me.

– Dig!

When Elena linked it, I was able to use the telekinesis she invoked as I wished.

It wasn’t too difficult to use her telekinetic powers, as I’d guessed several sums in the previous practice.

I immediately lifted the scalpel on the operating table and looked at it.

Booung-.

It sounds fine.

Even if I swing it here and there, it moves perfectly according to my will.

“I will start with anesthesia.”

The anesthetic injection was lifted by telekinesis.

The injection was placed in the palm of the right palm.

The throbbing pain spread, but soon the sensation was blocked.

“Whoa…”

I took a deep breath.

I took a scalpel and stabbed my palm.

The senses were completely blocked.

Immediately, with telekinesis, I lifted the scalpel and cut the previously marked cut.

As the blood flowed, things like internal skin tissue and tendons began to be seen.

Ordinary people might feel panic about looking inside their bodies, but ‘engineering thinking’ triggered me, so I only focused on planting mana stones.

Pooh!

Then blood splattered.

You hit the wrong artery.

With blood gushing out like a fountain, I calmly said ‘heal’.

Elena then chanted a spell to restore the affected area.

“I will go again.”

As such, the operation is somewhat of a fist-fight.

If you get fucked while doing housework, restore it with a heal, and then if you touch something wrong, restore it and cut it again.

It is the countless iterations of that process.

I am not a specialist, so this mistake was bound to be repeated.

At least there was a cheat key called ‘magic’, so I was able to perform such a freaky operation.

“Uh… you have no feeling in your hands?”

I succeeded in planting the mana stone in my palm like that, but there is no feeling in my hand.

It must have touched the wrong tendon.

“I will cut again.”

***

Elena thought Ed was crazy.

Where in the world is there a madman who slices his own body and inserts mana stones?

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Looking inside someone else’s body is unbearable, but Ed’s expression didn’t change even when he looked inside his own body.

‘It’s superhuman mental strength.’

However, such a terrible thing continued for 18 hours.

The process of planting mana stones all over the body, such as the palms, soles, wrists, elbows, shoulders, chest, stomach, thighs, and calves, continued without hesitation.

“heel”

But Ed did not lose his composure.

Even when he vomited blood due to touching an organ incorrectly, when his eyes suddenly turned over and made strange noises, or when he lost his senses due to wrongly touching the nervous system, he believed in his ‘heal’ and proceeded with the surgery without hesitation.

In the end, Ed was able to place all the mana stones throughout his body.

And in the center of Ed’s chest, the core mana stone that can control all the mana stones was revealed.

It was a circular mana stone that emitted bright light like Iron Man’s arc reactor.

“…getting it done in the end.”

“Thanks to Master. I would never have been able to do it without Master.”

Ed said that and got out of bed.

He checked his body condition by turning his shoulders and opening and closing his fingers.

There was nothing wrong.

“Then, let’s try mana conversion.”

gulp.

The long-awaited moment has finally arrived.

Whether or not a human who handles mana through the medium of the mana stone like the blue dragon will be born is all at stake.