146 – The long-awaited moment
Humans are weak.
Whether it is seen in terms of muscle strength or instantaneous acceleration, it is infinitely inferior to other animals.
Even when compared to the same primate, the orangutan, their strength cannot be compared to that of humans.
The physical ability itself is significantly inferior to that of other animals.
····However, these humans also have abilities that are superior to other animals.
This is the throwing ability.
Not surprisingly, even chimpanzees, who throw stones with the greatest precision other than humans, have a hit rate of less than 10% against a target the size of a plastic bottle from a distance of 2 meters.
This is far behind compared to humans who can hit a baseball into the correct strike zone at a speed of 145 km/h.
Humans are also excellent at managing heat.
While other animals must simply cool off, humans use a water-cooled cooler system that releases something called ‘sweat’, which is why they show superior abilities in endurance activities such as long-distance running.
With these points in mind, we can define humans this way.
‘A long-distance dealer with good endurance’
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In other words, ‘Iron Man’ is the final form of evolution that humans can reach.
It can be seen as the peak form of ‘tool’ and ‘energy management system’.
“Whoa…”
A lengthy monologue that continues to Iron Man based on human physical superiority.
The reason I am taking a deep breath while attaching meaning to Iron Man is because today is such an important day.
We are just a few days away from finally holding the key to the ‘final version’ of the suit.
[Lv.3_Hand Skill – Required Experience 0.1%]
[Lv.3_Engineering Thinking – Experience required 0.15%]
It’s not that it’s not, but as you can see, it’s only one step until ‘manual skills’ and ‘engineering thinking’ are upgraded to level 4.
Even if you create just one piece of equipment by applying ‘new material’, your experience level increases and you level up.
‘As expected, a new material was the answer.’
Manual skills and engineering thinking remained at level 3 for several months.
The two skills that did not budge even when the dreadnought was built began to increase in experience as soon as they made equipment using ‘new materials’.
It’s only been ‘one month’ since we finished the exploration and returned to the empire.
‘It’s worth it.’
And this rapid growth is not the product of any trick or coincidence.
When the ‘stealth’ function was added by applying the newly obtained materials through ‘decomposition/synthesis’ to the suit, a large amount of experience was gained as compensation.
That’s because applying new materials to the suit required elaborate manual skills and technical agony.
‘It wasn’t easy.’
The suit’s hiding function.
I thought about all the sh*tshows I’ve put on to make this happen.
It was a series of days of hardship that made me lose my head just thinking about it.
No matter how many times I tried to combine the leather or shell of a monster with a hiding function with ‘iron’, I kept failing.
So, I thought about the basis for the success of ‘Iron Egg’.
I looked for any gap between my initial success and my current series of failures.
‘·····Possible possibility.’
As a result, I was able to conclude that it was a ‘likely possibility.’
So, I instinctively knew that this was possible for eggshells and iron powder to combine, but I could not guess the possibility for iron to combine with the shell of a monster with a stealth function.
Because while I knew that the main ingredient of egg shells is calcium carbonate, which is similar to cement, I knew nothing about the hidden monsters of this world.
To begin with, I am only fluent in modern knowledge and have never done proper research on the monsters of this world.
‘I was complacent.’
So I reflected on my complacent attitude.
As a scientist and engineer, I reflected on my attitude of trying to take the shortcut of ‘decomposition/synthesis’ and decided to properly understand the mechanism.
We began research on hidden monsters.
As a result, I was able to find out that the way monsters hide is not by changing the color of the skin itself, but by changing the light reflected on the skin.
So, whenever force is applied to the skin, the lattice structure of the nanocrystals of the red vesicles in the cytoplasm of the skin cells changes, selectively reflecting light of a specific wavelength.
-It’s a f*cking mechanism.
And as soon as I realized the principle, I was able to intuit it.
Applying the stealth function to my suit is not as easy as I thought.
This is because absorbing and emitting specific wavelengths so that they can be identified with the surrounding environment requires a certain amount of brain computation.
In other words, the key to hiding was not ‘skin that can refract and reflect light,’ but a ‘computing device’ that could detect surrounding colors in real time and emit light.
-Ah!! My head is exploding!!
That’s how my personality got worse.
I looked so harsh that even Elena noticed me.
But on the other hand, I was able to have time to cultivate myself.
Perhaps the reason I was able to come this far was because I had ‘mechanical design drawings’ and ‘modern knowledge’.
Of course, even that is by no means an easy task, so I am not disparaging my past actions… But it is true that I had become complacent with reality at some point.
Steel mills and shipyards. And didn’t you mistakenly think that you had grown tremendously by making the dreadnought?
In fact, it is just an imitation of modern knowledge.
‘It’s natural that experience points don’t increase.’
I accepted it.
Growth must be accompanied by a certain amount of pain and agony, and you can only move forward when you gain enlightenment at the end of it.
An engineer who does not struggle can never make progress.
-I will do it no matter what.
So, I began to focus on creating a ‘computing device’ with great enthusiasm and vehemence.
By mixing together all modern engineering and magic engineering, I looked for a way to recognize changes in light in real time every time I move and transmit that value.
-f*ck finally!!
Three weeks have passed since I was called by the nickname ‘Black Ed.’
I was finally able to create a computing device.
By applying the ‘ancient technique’ that Elena recently began researching, the ‘real-time light detection’ problem was solved.
-What is left now is new material?
What remains now is a material that can absorb/emit light by receiving the values from the computing device.
However, I recalled the ‘possibility’ and thought about whether ‘a material that can emit light at will but is also hard’ is possible.
Is there any material in the world capable of such a complex mechanism?
‘It’s impossible’
No.
It is impossible to create new material like that cheat key.
So, I thought differently and came up with ‘a new material whose properties change depending on the time.’
In other words, the idea was to think of a material whose hardness weakens when hidden, but returns to titanium alloy when hidden.
Anyway, if perfect hiding is possible, there is no need to be attacked.
After thinking of a new material that allows stealth mode/normal mode, I placed the collected monster shell and titanium alloy.
And I attempted synthesis using all the ‘entropy’ obtained by disassembling various objects.
Then─
-Tiring
[Obtained Ghost Switching Titanium Alloy!]
I was finally able to obtain the new material I wanted.
Titanium alloy with different properties depending on the purpose was obtained.
-Tiring
[‘Trinity’ achievement achieved!]
[Modern engineering and magic engineering. And the technique is perfectly interactive! Gain a large amount of experience!]
And when we changed the suit to a new material and connected the computing device, we were able to receive a message that we had achieved an achievement called ‘Trinity’.
This is thanks to the growth in the right direction required by the system.
“Whoa…”
And now.
I am approaching level 4 of manual skills/engineering thinking.
As long as you complete the ‘Invisible Chainsaw’ that I am currently developing, you will reach level 4 with increased experience.
-Tick.
So, I applied the magic scroll and completed the ‘Invisible Chainsaw’.
Then, golden light burst out with a message that the experience level had increased.
[The level of ‘Hand Skills’ has risen to level 4!]
[The level of ‘Engineering Thinking’ has risen to level 4!]
Soon, the message that appeared in front of me was that both skills had reached level 4.
With a pounding heart, I waited for the results of my level increase.
When I reached level 3, I got ‘Pix’ and ‘Hologram’, so I couldn’t help but be excited this time too.
-Tiring
[As the level of hand skills increases, more precise work becomes possible. ‘Remote control’ is activated, enabling nanoscale control.]
The ability gained by increasing the level of hand skills is ‘remote control.’
After reading the rough explanation, it was a technology to create equipment by remotely controlling holographic hands.
In other words, since it is not a physical hand but a hand that can change its form at any time, it can work precisely down to the nanoscale.
-Tiring
[You can add ‘instances’ as your level of engineering thinking increases! You can activate the ‘Edgar Fix Avatar’ by utilizing the brain’s imagery power as a virtual memory.]
And the message that appeared one after another said that I could add my virtual avatar.
In other words, we can upload another person like me into our brain and discuss it with each other.
In addition, it is said that it can be run in ‘deep consciousness’, which is the background of the brain, so I can tell the avatar in my brain to solve a problem and then do something else.
It is true that work efficiency increases several times.
“If this is enough…”
Soon, you will be able to reach the longed-for ‘perfection’.
Rather than relying on a three-dimensional maneuver device, it can fly freely and increase its mobility to the limit.
-Tiring
But I had no idea until then.
The ‘remote control’ and ‘instance’ that I had just seen were just a taste.
The key reward, which can be called the main dish, is the message that appears after it.
[Both your manual skills and engineering thinking have reached the maximum level!]
-Tiring
[As a reward, all of Edgar Fix’s attributes will be passed on to the summoned robot ‘Pix’, greatly improving performance!]
-Tiring
[Collaborative robot ‘Pix’ will be upgraded to Android assistant robot ‘Eve Pix’!]
Android wifu get….DAZE!!