Epilogue Episode 21. An unstoppable future
“You guys are fiddling with gunpowder these days.”
“Hmm. No?”
Roman’s eyes twitched slightly as he drank his coffee.
It was a lie.
If she had the vision of a demon, she could easily tell if the other person was lying.
“Didn’t Schluss refuse to disclose the gunpowder production method and use up all the gunpowder he had already developed for fireworks? So I have no way of knowing.”
“I know everything, so speak the truth. I’ve roughly reached a certain level.”
“Well… We’re really not dealing with gunpowder…”
“I won’t force you to dispose of it, so blow it the right way. Before I run out of patience.”
“Yes. In fact, we are currently researching gunpowder that combines cotton fabric soaked in nitric acid and potassium nitrate.”
“······.”
It felt like her head was aching.
That’s smokeless gunpowder.
Hagisa Roman supplied potassium nitrate and sulfur to me when I was developing gunpowder, so he probably knew the basics of how to combine gunpowder.
But it is a smokeless gunpowder that not only imitates the black powder I developed, but is also much more advanced than that…
“Mr. Schlus.”
“What?”
“The face is scary.”
“Haa…”
How can we talk about this?
I had just said that I would not abolish it, but now I felt like I wanted to stop everything, including research.
If this continues, the Freya Empire’s army will be able to unleash enough firepower to hit most wizards with just a single long stick.
This means that we may be able to have military power that is incomparable to what we have had so far.
‘But will this be prevented by blocking it?…’
However, blocking research was not a problem that could be solved.
The development of science cannot be stopped no matter how hard you try.
On the contrary, if you try to prevent it, it can have the opposite effect of growing the world of darkness.
“Roman. Promise me one thing.”
“Please speak.”
“There will be no wars of conquest. There will be no more wars to bring other races under the control of humans. If something like that happens in the future, I won’t just be warning you with words like this.”
Just in case, I warned you in advance.
Because I don’t want to turn the Imperial soldiers into ashes in an instant with my own hands.
Still, there seemed to be no need to worry too much about the military power of the Freya Empire becoming excessively large.
Just as the Trud Kingdom established a spy bureau, the empire is teeming with spies from the forests and deserts.
I thought that perhaps other races would also perfect smokeless gunpowder in the near future.
“Yes. I will keep that in mind. By the way, Mr. Schlus.”
“What is it?”
“I don’t think that’s what you want to say to me.”
“What?”
“I am not the one who decides on war. If I had to ask, I think this is something I should say to the Empress…”
“It’s noisy.”
“I spoke quietly and quietly.”
“Shut up, man.”
Has Roman always been such a talkative and mean person?
I think I was quick-witted when I was the head of state, but after becoming a god, I was behaving like a local guy.
‘Okay. ‘Let’s strengthen surveillance.’
Meeting Roman today gave me confidence.
I am convinced that we need to expand surveillance on the imperial soldiers.
Until now, I didn’t even know that these guys were developing smokeless gunpowder.
“Ah. Now that I think about it, would you mind if I tell you a little about the idea of a new weapon that has been recently developed?”
“What is this?”
“We are devising a method of direct combustion using magic power as fuel. It is an idea based on the paper published by Schluss that magic power and mana also have material properties. The feasibility of realization is still unknown, but it is likely to succeed. “I think we will be able to develop an explosive that produces tremendous explosive power relative to its volume.”
“Uh…”
“We are also developing a weapon that uses gunpowder to fire bullets continuously. If this is developed, one soldier will be able to perform the role of hundreds of soldiers, so we expect casualties to be greatly reduced on future battlefields.”
“Uh huh…”
My vision became distant.
That definitely sounds like something an inventor did.
As far as I know, rather than reducing casualties on the battlefield, that invention would have created a terrible combat pattern called trench warfare.
“Hey. I’m misunderstanding something…”
“What is that?”
“Oh no. Just do whatever you want.”
“······?”
I just lay down on my back shaking my head.
It was a big enough intervention just to prevent a war of conquest, but on top of that, it was impossible to prevent research into specific technologies.
It is not something that will never be invented just because it is prevented in the first place.
It was just a natural trend of the times.
“And also, a bomb that generates energy equal to the mass lost according to the mass-mana equivalence law and magic-energy equivalence law proposed by Schluss-“
“That’s absolutely not possible. Stop the research.”
In an instant, my eyes became dark.
This must be prevented at all costs.
It is not as good as nuclear weapons.
Please at least…
***
“Huh, aren’t you the Hurt Locker?”
“Okay. Study hard.”
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“It’s an honor!”
Heartlocker gave a half-hearted reply to the young students who greeted him and hurriedly passed by.
If we didn’t hurry, we might have to suffer again as we were surrounded by students who came after hearing that the Hurt Locker had arrived.
Hurt Locker, who hastily left the school building and entered his deserted back alley, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
“Gosh. I thought it was some kind of urgent matter since you were looking for it urgently.”
It was a call from the home country using an emergency line.
His trip was abruptly halted and he arrived at the sending location, Trud Kingdom Military Academy.
However, as soon as we arrived, what the president said while bowing his head was absurd.
“Please become a professor at the military academy!”
“That’s it. How can I be a professor when I haven’t learned anything?”
“If it’s a degree, I can provide it as a three-month course, so please ask! There’s almost no research pressure, and they just need an instructor. There’s a shortage of people these days…”
“More than that, if you are the president of a military academy, aren’t you a general? What if a general bows down to a former soldier?”
“I wonder what’s wrong with that. I was also a non-commissioned officer until three years ago.”
“······.”
He made the leap from non-commissioned officer to general in just three years.
The Hurt Locker could not help but sigh at the reality that clearly showed the manpower shortage in the Kingdom of Trudeau.
It seemed somewhat understandable to ask for help from Hurlocker, who only had practical experience and little knowledge.
“I’m sorry. I refuse.”
In the end, The Hurt Locker politely declined the offer and left the military academy.
The president’s tearful face kept coming to mind, but he couldn’t help it.
The Hurt Locker had a job to do.
However, even the Hurt Locker himself did not know what it was yet.
Since relatively recently, he had always had the unfounded feeling that there was something only he could do, but he was certain that it was not his job as a professor at a military academy.
‘Anyway, there really isn’t anything in this country…’
Heartlocker, who was suddenly looking around the Kingdom of Trud, clicked his tongue in bitterness.
Is it because he stayed in the Freya Empire for a long time as an agent of the Secret Service?
He had a hard time adjusting to the underdeveloped infrastructure of his home country, where he returned after a long absence.
At night, the streets were mostly dark as there were no street lights, and when the sun went down, all the stores were closed, making the entire city quiet as if dead, and when you turned on the tap water, dirty water would often gush out.
I didn’t know it before, but every little thing was really uncomfortable.
However, the Kingdom of Trud was already in shambles, having fought a defensive war and a civil war with only a small national power, so there was no room for infrastructure development.
“What on earth is your Majesty doing?”
When he turned his head, the sun had just begun to set, but the royal palace, with all the lights on, already shining brightly, came into the Heartlocker’s field of vision.
From the beginning, the royal family is a group of people who believe that gold springs from the ground and practice extravagance, but this has become especially severe recently.
From what I heard, it is said that luxury has become more severe since King Trud committed himself to the Freya Empire and a puppet government was established.
Do you believe that the Freya Empire will stop you if you are about to be taken down?
“I write. Should I just be king?”
Hurtlocker, holding his chin, began to think seriously.
In the Freya-Trud War, he was the most important asset who fought as a wizard assassin, and after the war, he fought in the heart of the empire as an agent of the Secret Service. He has many records of participating in hand-to-hand combat with the demons, and also played a major role in ending the war with the demons. One of those who contributed…
After thinking about it carefully, he thought that The Hurt Locker’s specifications were truly incredible.
It was obvious that if such a young war hero were to speak out in the extremely dark Kingdom of Trud, he would become very popular.
In addition, the capital defense force, which Hurt Locker knew well, was extremely corrupt, so it seemed like Hurt Locker could easily subdue it alone.
“Huh? Should I really be king? Isn’t this a revelation from God?”
I have work to do.
The Hurt Locker seemed to have finally realized the identity of the ‘thing to be done’.
Originally, she would not have dreamed of doing something dangerous like a coup d’état because of her younger sister’s safety, but after marrying off her younger sister to a cult leader, she now had nothing to worry about.
“Good! Everything will be destroyed and I will be elected king!”
However, the Hurt Locker did not even understand the difference between a monarchy and a republic.