I Became an Academy Mechanic Genius chapter 32

32 – A Marine with 10 DEF that has Irradiate on the Defensive Matrix but doesn’t have enough HP.

Gracia couldn’t help but doubt her eyes.

A boy standing in front of him with a nonchalant expression.

In other words, Ed’s mana volume was a strange shape that had never been seen before.

‘It’s as if the amount of mana was calculated with a ruler. How can a human body have such a volume of mana…’

Ed’s mana volume reflected in Gracia’s eyes.

It was 37 mana volumes evenly distributed as if measured with a ruler.

In other words, exactly 50% of the mana capacity was in the chest area, and 1.38% of the remaining 50% was divided into 36 equal parts for the other 36 mana volumes.

He had seen countless people’s mana volumes, but this was the first time in his life.

‘Compared to normal cadets, the number of mana volume is much higher.’

The surprising part was not only this.

A whopping 37 mana volumes.

Even himself had only 20 mana capacity.

However, since this common boy’s body had such a myriad amount of mana spread evenly throughout his body, it was expected that he would be able to make more detailed movements.

‘The amount of mana they possess… is much higher.’

Where is that?

The black-haired boy had nearly the same amount of mana as Enya.

Not only the number of mana volumes, but also the amount of mana itself was innate.

If there is only one question, it is that this ridiculous mana capacity and mana boy had acquired mana awakening for the first time in history.

How could he have awakened this amount of mana and mana volume…?

Perhaps, to uncover the secret, he would have no choice but to collide with the imperial family and Professor Elena.

The boy is being protected by the Archmage and the Princess.

“You are… a very peculiar case. This is the first time that the mana volume has been evenly distributed.”

After grasping Ed’s mana capacity, Gracia calmly expressed her feelings.

Then he continued with serious eyes.

“But… it doesn’t have anything special to say. Mana is so evenly distributed.”

However, if you ask if it’s good to have this much mana capacity, it wasn’t.

It was because the mana was dispersed too finely in the wind with a whopping 37 mana volumes.

“The number of mana volumes in your body is 37… Except for the mana volume in your chest, all of them have a uniform mana volume. It’s an optimal state for a well-balanced battle. But you won’t be able to use your own special move. To be honest, I can’t help but see it as the worst form of a prosecutor.”

Therefore, in Gracia’s judgment, Ed’s case was the worst case.

Even if the mana volume in the chest is large, there is no particular place to use it.

At best, it was just that it was easy to transfer mana to all parts of the body.

“…the ability to control mana is excellent. It was so controlled that it could evenly contain mana throughout the body without any loss of mana. But… it must be difficult to make use of his unique traits as a swordsman. Like me, if your right hand is full of mana, you will use a slash, if your legs are full of mana, you will use a quicksword, and if your head is full of mana, you will use magic swordsmanship like Illaya… In your case, none of that applies.”

Gracia felt sad inside.

Having learned mana a posteriori, and already controlling mana so well, his natural body is unsuitable, so his limits as a swordsman are clear.

He patted Ed on the shoulder.

“But don’t be too disappointed. The answer is to find out for yourself. Until next week, come up with training methods and weapon skills that will compensate for your weaknesses. This will probably be the hardest homework for you.”

Gracia sent Ed back with those words.

However, the expression on Ed’s face as he returned was not at all disappointed or discouraged.

Rather, it was a confident expression that even smiled.

‘Nothing to worry about, Gracia. I’ve already found the answer.’

***

Thursday.

The long-awaited Thursday has finally arrived.

The hellish schedule of taking classes from 9 am to 10 pm every Monday to Wednesday is over.

However, in the case of this week, the schedule was not that tight.

Since this is my first class, I ended up just explaining the outline of the class in a simple OT format.

Gracia was the only professor who taught classes by filling up the time.

“By the way, most of the NPCs have followed you.”

Anyway, after attending all the classes until Wednesday, I noticed that some NPCs were following my schedule.

It’s not because it’s not easy to ‘coincidentally’ match the subjects that each other took among the 53 subjects.

Even if you look at the probability, the probability of 1/53 happened several times in a row, so I could only see that I followed my timetable with intention.

“Anyway, that’s it, finally!”

But I decided to think about it later.

The most important thing to me right now is to develop an enhanced suit!

The long-awaited Thursday has finally arrived, so the time has come to focus on the development of reinforced suits during the empty classes on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

It is to complete the Defensive function that was envisioned earlier!

“Hey fix.”

“Woooooooooooooooo!”

When I called my assistant ‘Pix’, who was pretending to be a research facility, he changed his form and turned his head cheerfully.

I said while stroking the head of the guy I hadn’t seen in a long time.

“Damn it, have you been bored for a while? How have you been doing your research?”

“Woooooooooooooooo!”

Fix has been secretly carrying out the research I ordered.

Maybe it produced successful results during the three days I was away.

Pix’s skills are the same as my skill level.

If you repeat the same experiment for as little as three days, the results are worth looking forward to.

Now is the time to check the result.

“Wow wow!”

In time, Pix immediately spun the wheel and took me somewhere.

The place he arrived after following him was none other than the space where he studied magnetic fields using magic formulas and superconductors.

“Also···!”

And I was able to witness the research achievements that Fix had made.

The magnetic field perfectly confining the wide-spreading plasma spread out in front of my eyes.

In response, I smiled brightly once again and stroked his head.

“Nice work Fix. After all, you are the best assistant.”

“Woo Woo Woo~♥”

Pix turns his head around once again as if he’s in a good mood.

He took out a heart mark from his chest and played some music.

It was the music that played whenever I complimented him.

[Hidden Naaa~~~of~~~♬]

“Hey Fix, turn off the music.”

“Wuuu…”

But now it’s time to check the results of the research, so I decided to accept Fix’s joke next time.

I asked Fix to show me the journal of his research.

Then, the research records of the past began to be listed on Pix’s monitor.

Among them, I clicked on the ‘Notable Records’ marked separately by Fix to take a look.

Again, it was as I expected.

“As expected, it works like this. Good work Fix.”

“Wow wow!”

Research results that came true as I thought.

Again, in order to confine the widely spread plasma, the ‘release’ technique and the ‘form preservation’ technique had to be properly mixed and used.

Realizing this as an ‘engineering accident’, I asked Fix to find a way to stably confine the plasma by adjusting the ratio of mana used in the ‘release’ technique and mana used in the ‘form preservation’ technique. In the end, I was able to find the perfect mana ratio for the two spells.

“3.45 versus 6.74.”

And the ratio is emission:conservation = 3.45:6.74.

In other words, when 3.45 mana is invested in the discharge technique, 6.74 mana must be invested in the form preservation technique.

And if you substitute plasma into this ratio, you get a ratio of 1:3.45:6.74.

In other words, in order to stabilize the plasma with 1 mana input, 3.45 mana must be input to the discharge technique, and 6.74 mana must be input to the form preservation technique.

“Whoa. Now I just need to put a plasma shield on my mana shield.”

They succeeded in confining the widely spread circle-shaped plasma with a magnetic field.

Even if you don’t have modern technology in this world, there is a cheat key called ‘spell’.

So now it’s time to overlay this plasma shield on your mana shield.

If that is the case, a ‘Marine with 10 DEF that has Irradiate on the Defensive Matrix but doesn’t have enough HP’ will be completed.

In other words, while it functions as a shield, it can also deal great damage when approaching the enemy.

“I’m looking forward to Gracia’s reaction.”

The other day, Gracia had said something like this to me.

I have the worst body that can’t make use of my characteristics as a swordsman.

So think of training methods and weapon skills that will compensate for my weaknesses.

But I was already well aware of my strengths and weaknesses.

The reason I have this body in the first place is simply because I intended it to be like this.

“I am just a battery.”

I have no talent for magic.

In the first place, you can only use the 6 spells engraved on the core mana stone.

Even so, if you ask me if I have talent in weapon skills or moving my body, it wasn’t that either.

This is because I have never held a sword or learned how to handle a sword.

“But I can make suits.”

But I can make a damn suit.

I can create my own suit by mixing the engineering and scientific knowledge I know with the mana and magic of another world.

So what I will do is the role of the battery.

It is enough to effectively provide the power to operate the suit.

“Fix, let’s complete the defensive function within today.”

“Ugh~!”

So, I plan to complete the reinforced suit to some extent before the class next week.

For the role of the battery to be rewarding, the suit I wore must be as good as that.