I Became an Academy Mechanic Genius chapter 179

179 – Resonance

In a way, the World Tree is like a bathtub.

Just as when you pour hot water into a bathtub full of cold water, the two combine to create lukewarm water, the memories and souls floating in the World Tree also have the characteristic of mixing together.

When looking at this, the inside of the World Tree was like another nature.

Just as heat is emitted into the atmosphere and is dispersed in all directions to create an even heat state, for souls that enter the World Tree, their memories and souls are broken into pieces and become entangled.

〔Don’t be fooled by other people’s memories. The moment you feel attracted, it’s over.〕

So, I repeatedly cautioned the cadets who looked into other people’s memories.

The more I looked into the fragments of that memory, the more my memories and emotions became intertwined, so I had to stay alert at all times.

Once you start losing your memories, you will also lose your self-awareness and your ego may disintegrate in all directions.

〔Uh…Uh…〕

However, it is not easy.

As I said before, this world tree is like a bathtub.

This place full of cold water is trying to mix us, the hot water, somehow.

The force is so strong that even a cadet who has gone through arduous training would find it difficult to withstand it.

〔Phillic! Wake! I’m going to go have a beer with Edwin!〕

However, if one person is fascinated by the memories of the World Tree, other group members catch him.

It returns consciousness by stimulating the memories an individual has.

〔Ah… Sorry. I was mesmerized for a moment.〕

In that way, we moved forward, stimulating each other’s memories so that they would not dissipate.

Charlotte, who is not in the same group as me, is also moving forward well by sharing memories with the members of the f*cking Club.

It seems like we have become very close while working together in the lab.

‘···More than that, Enya and Isabella are unstoppable.’

Enya and Isabella have never faced a crisis even though they have been wandering the world of consciousness for quite some time.

Maybe being in the same group as me helped.

No matter how much the world tree is, it is bound to avoid me, who is full of memories that are difficult to handle.

In addition, Isabella also lived a very difficult life.

From the world tree’s point of view, it would like to discharge us, which is like very thick black ink, rather than mix it with us.

-Paaa!

But then.

Several balls of light approached us.

Then countless fragments of memories began pouring out to us.

All kinds of voices and video images were mixed together, confusing our five senses.

〔Use your mana!〕

However, we have been training in preparation for times like this.

Using the mana imprinted in the soul itself, I defend my memories and emotions.

Accordingly, as we had trained, our contingent recalled ‘memories of using mana’ and raised the mana contained in memories and emotions.

The mana was used to form a barrier to prevent other people’s memories from penetrating.

-Shooooo!

Then the light balls retreated again.

No matter how much they spewed out their memories, they couldn’t integrate with them, so they withdrew.

〔It’s too early to let down your guard. They will come again.〕

···But this cannot end.

The will of the World Tree will continue to attempt to destroy or disintegrate us.

In fact, not long after we warned the dispatchers, we were surrounded on all sides by light balls that were several times more numerous than before.

-Paaa!

And then huge balls of light began to explode.

Countless fragments of memories filled the space and overwhelmed us.

-Mom! I think I know what magic is now!

-Brother. That’s all you get for it, right?

-I don’t think you should do it like this… If you do it like that…

-Humans cannot be trusted. I trusted them in the past…

-Puhahahaha! No… I’m not doing it like that… Kekekekeke…

-I’m sorry, if you say it that way…

Fragments of memories pouring out all kinds of information as if hundreds or thousands of channels were turned on at the same time.

Slowly, I began to see children who were overwhelmed by those memories and their minds began to collapse.

Every time that happened, Elena stayed with them and helped her come to her senses by supplying her with mana.

Elena possessed a shocking amount of mana even in her soul state.

〔Uuuh…〕

〔·····Quok〕

However, this time Enya and Isabella seemed to be having a hard time.

As more and more information poured into my area, it became difficult to handle it.

It seems that the World Tree is trying to neutralize me, who has the most terrible memories, and Enya and Isabella are also suffering because of it.

I shouted desperately as I looked at Enya and Isabella, whose eyes were starting to tear up.

〔Resonance! You have to use resonance! Use resonance as you learned!〕

···Resonance.

Here, resonance means matching each other’s hearts.

It can be said that only the three of us form a group to open our hearts and prevent other memories and emotions from interfering.

〔Enya! Isabella! Hurry!〕

However, the hearts of the three of us were not connected yet.

The other group members achieved resonance and found stability, but we were the only ones unable to come together and were swept up in other people’s memories.

This is because Enya and Isabella did not open their hearts to each other.

-Paaat!

At that time, light burst from Enya’s soul.

This is proof that Enya opened her heart to both me and Isabella.

Now all that was left was Isabella, who rarely opened her heart.

Even though the ego is on the verge of collapse, it holds on to the end.

〔Isabella.〕

Her

Her By her I called her.

I held her hand and pulled out a keyword that would open her heart.

〔One day out of 49 days.〕

〔······.〕

〔It’s okay to take just one day here. Your denial will not have any negative effects in any way, so you can take a break for a moment.〕

〔······.〕

〔If I hold on like that, I won’t be able to get Graham’s position as the head of the family.〕

···Isabella began to worry.

Even after saying this, her heart was closed so tightly that she still hesitated.

-Paaat!

But no matter how firm her resolve is, she is not willing to risk losing everything.

I guess Lee Dae-ron decided that it would be difficult to hold on any longer, and soon a bright light burst from Isabella’s body and ‘resonance’ occurred.

All doors were opened so that each person could look into each other’s memories and emotions.

‘It went as planned.’

And this is a plan I have been thinking about for a long time.

This resonance allows you to get a glimpse into the memories and emotions of the person you most want to look into.

This is my goal that I have been thinking about for a long time.

‘Then let’s go.’

So I closed my eyes and focused on the memory of the person I wanted to look into the most among these three.

And the owner of that memory was none other than ‘me’.

***

B.

Ironically, I don’t know myself very well.

And this is not some metaphorical expression or philosophical exploration, but just the dictionary meaning, it means that I don’t know what the heck I’m doing.

Because I did not regain my complete memory.

‘Now is the time to take it back.’

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But now the time has come to regain my true self.

As ‘Edgar Fix’, he has walked the path closest to the right answer, so he is ready to deal with the truth that he has sealed away.

-Sssssibly.

That’s the memory of the person I want to look into the most.

So, I traced the memories of ‘Edgar Fix’, the person closest to the original.

Then the following status window appeared.

[Would you like to unlock the memories sealed by the user?]

“······.”

A memory that I sealed away.

I pressed the ‘Yes’ button without hesitation.

I, who have lived as ‘Edgar Fix’, am better than everyone in the previous rounds and am confident because I have walked the path closest to the correct answer.

When the self-sealed memories were unlocked, the pitch-black background turned into a snowy field.

In the snow, a tall, muscular man sat astride a large rock, immersed in his agony.

‘····It’s more serious than I thought. Hundreds of years have passed… And since all of our children have died…’

And surprisingly, I could hear the man’s thoughts.

It seems like that man is the original version of me.

Come to think of it, it was the face of Edgar Fix, who was about 40 years old.

‘····But there’s no way my kids have forgotten me. ‘He must have left a gift for me somewhere.’

And my reasoning in the past was quite plausible.

In fact, the sea wall and the imperial palace are spaces prepared in preparation for my return.

‘···But we can’t move hastily. The moment the power is used up, the barrier that binds the Archduke is also released. ‘You have to write carefully.’

However, in the past I was cautious.

This world is still too weak to handle the power of the devil, and the moment he uses up his power, the barrier that imprisons the Archduke is released.

In other words, in the past, I had to increase the power of the world while also using my power effectively.

‘····Regression.’

The method I came up with to be released from the seal was ‘return’.

This is because there is no more efficient means than ‘return’ to learn about this world and use your power efficiently.

‘···Okay. ‘Let’s go back.’

About 60 years ago now.

The past me, who was sealed with the Grand Duke, began to regress as soon as the seal was released.

However, 20 years is the maximum number of years that ‘section repeat’ can last while consuming all of the power, so the era had to be chosen carefully.

60 Years ago, no matter how many times we tried to go back, there was no answer, so we had to let the next 20 years go by.

So, I started looking for a way by repeatedly going back from 40 years ago to 20 years ago.

‘No. Even at this time, there are no talented people.’

But it was the same 40 years ago.

There is no such talented person.

‘Let’s move on to the next generation.’

20 More years passed by like that.

When the power was exhausted, it moved on to the next generation in order to find the best era to deal with the demons.

So, I started repeating the 20-year regression from 20 years ago to the present.

In the meantime, my past self became involved with a completely unexpected person.

“·····Huh?”

She became involved with Lucas’ mother, Adela.

At that time, I was a mercenary and Adela was a princess of the Grand Duke’s family.