The Dragonian Kingdom that governs the Dragon Continent.
Among the 5 races, the dragon race is the one and only race that lives here.
Completely contrary to the demon race; there are absolutely no other races.
Its because theyre so proud of their own race that theyre known as the one race with the highest pride among the 5 races.
And in that Dragon Continent, there is an extrely famous person: the magic tool inventor, iya Dragoon.
At 3 years old, iya could speak and write in multiple languages, as well as learned all sorts of mathematical binary functions.
She also had talent as a magician, having reached B-minus rank at the age of 15.
When she entered the magic tool departnt in a magic university, she skipped grades and graduated within a year.
At that ti, she invented the Rainbow Sword.
In those days, it was believed to be impossible for one weapon to switch between multiple types of magic stones.
However, by combining various tals and magical inscriptions, she made it possible.
Due to this invention, this discovery, her na spread worldwide.
Since then, she had beco known as the Magic Stone Princess to many.
iyas pride was, even among the dragon race, exceptionally high.
Nevertheless, the extent of her resourcefulness, beauty, status, prestige and wealth garnered looks of admiration from the populace of the Dragon Continent.
If limited to within the Dragon Continent she is as famous as the King himself.
There are even rumors of iya being in a relationship with the Dragonian Kingdoms first prince.
Speaking of the prince, his ability as a magician is certain and he wears a well-mannered, skillful mask. However, there is a facet of him that tends to sowhat go out of control. Nevertheless, he is popular with the people.
Since iyas parents were influential nobles, the two were actually childhood friends whove known each other since they were very young.
But the truth about the rumors is that its simply the first princes unrequited feelings.
One day, the publicly acknowledged genius iya, ca across a curious item.
The S&W M10 revolver and a box of .38 Special rounds.
iya was in her estates parlour listening to the rchant who brought it.
According to the rchant it would seem that it was a a miraculous magic tool seemingly created by a heavenly god.
Even dexterous craftsn from the dwarves couldnt manufacture such an elaborate thing, or so the rchant asserted.
And exactly because its such a magnificent magic tool, he first and foremost brought it to the worlds best magic tool inventor: iya the rchant flattered as such.
(You only brought it to , a known magic tool dilettante, since you thought you could rip off, anyways since you would only get a paltry sum from those nobles in the magic schools who strikes a hard bargain.)
However, though she was a dilettante, shes no re amateur.
Shes a publicly acknowledged genius in magic tool developnt.
Did he really think herself willing to buy inferior magic tools?
iya scoffed at the rchants sales pitch and crossed her legs.
However, without noticing the scornful look in iyas eyes, the rchant moved to the garden to demonstrate the ability of the S&W M10 revolver.
With a mo with its na and usage instructions in one hand, the rchant started explaining its functions.
The rchant shot a previously prepared brick from about 5 ters away.
Splendidly, the bullet smashed the brick.
The rchant continuously destroyed bricks one brick after another.
Arms crossed and being waited upon by a guard-cum-servant, iya who was watching in an arrogant attitude was surprised by the S&W M10s power, performance, rapid-fire capability, and so on, becoming unable to stand up on the spot due to collapsing from the shock.
All the maids on the scene rushed to her.
Though iya was still frozen on the spot, unable to stand for such a magnificent magic tool, she imdiately made the purchase without questioning the rchants unreasonable price.
Furthermore, she wanted to buy any other goods of the sa series that the rchant has for sale, as well as any information on its creator.
According to the rchant, there is one other similar magic tool, but he couldnt co to an agreent with the person who brought it about the price, so it seems it was brought to so other rchant.
iya was
Money isnt an issue. Find the other similar magic tool and gather information on its creator at once!
The rchant received paynt for the revolver and rushed out of the iya estate in a hurry.
While iya was waiting for the similar magic tool and information on its creator, she imdiately researched the revolver in her workshop.
First, with the mo that ca with it in one hand, she confird its na.
The small tal pipes in the S&W M10 revolver seems to called .38 Special cartridges.
The 6 cartridge rounds are loaded in holes in the part called a cylinder.
Below that is a part called a trigger; it seems bullets fly out when it is pulled.
It seems to be made of magic liquid tal thats harvested by killing tal slis.
To be able to create such a divine magic tool using that good-for-nothing magic tool..
Knowing the material its made from surprised her even more.
Continuing her research there were too many astonishing points: the cylinder that internally shifts whenever the trigger is pulled, small parts that cannot possibly be made with our present level of tallurgy, the ans in which grooves were carved into the interiors, etc.
This cartridge is a splendid item, as well.
She examined the empty cartridge in detail.
It appears that explosion magic is sealed within these small pipes, activated by the trigger and hamr operating together conferring a strong impetus to its rim.
Then, the chanism is such that the small piece of tal inside the pipe would be propelled out she determined as such.
To produce such a magic tool that uses so little to achieve maximum efficacy the person who made this is a genius above even !
iya Dragoon, who was exceptionally prideful even amongst the prideful dragon race, recognized the creator of the S&W M10 as a genius without a hint of hesitation.
If soone who knew her were there, they would probably faint while foaming at the mouth at the overwhelmingly shocking scene.
She was that prideful.
Without delay, iya ordered so magic liquid tal and tried to reproduce an S&W M10 herself.
However
this isnt going well at all. Was the S&W M10 really made of this stuff, I wonder?
On the very sa day that iya got her hands on the magic liquid tal, she started shutting herself in one of her hos workshops to try and begin production, but she was completely unable to make progress.
In the first place, magic liquid tal is an item obtained by defeating the monster known as tal sli.
Magic liquid tal is a special tal with a unique characteristic that if one touches it while imagining a weapon and pumps magic into it it will take the shape of said weapon.
It has the rit of being easy to carry around in small quantities.
For that reason, its a magic tool favored by assassins.
Its derit is that once its fixed into a certain form, it cannot revert back into its liquid form.
Without a clear image if you made a sword, it would be blunt; armor would have uneven thickness, and even its size would be wrong.
It is only situationally useful; difficult to handle; being a magic tool, expensive.
An item that has beco synonymous with the words unpopular commodity.
iyas judgnt is that its sothing that she cant help but hesitate to even call it a magic tool.
Magic liquid tal is so unpopular that nobody conducts research on it. As such, using magic liquid tal, how such strength was achieved; how such elaborate parts were produced; and how grooves were engraved in the tubes interior she was frankly unable to comprehend.
iya temporarily paused production using magic liquid tal.
With a different approach, she was going to once again try producing an S&W M10.
She requested a skilled dwarf engineer, whom she is the patron of, to make the iron tubes.
She decided to try using a rod to forcibly shave off interior grooves in the pipes in post-production.
The S&W M10s structure is complex, but the underlying concept is simple.
It was simply explosion magic propelling a piece of tal inside a tube.
Although she couldnt really understand how the cartridges explosion magic could be activated just from getting struck by the hamr
Even though she couldnt find traces of any special magic being applied on the hamr
Prototype #1 was completed before long.
It had the appearance of a short tal tube. Wood was attached beneath it for support.
Given that she didnt know how the hamr activated the explosion magic in the cartridge, the butt of the tube was made to be openable courtesy of a tal lid.
A small piece of magic stone was installed and magical inscriptions were engraved in this breech.
Its set up so that if one were to chant the preset incantation while touching the breech, the explosion magic charged into the magic stone would activate.
A tal ball loaded through the muzzle is used as ammunition.
It was properly made to be the sa shape as the bullets used for the S&W M10.
iya had thought of the possibility of an accident happening, so she fixed Prototype #1 onto an apparatus she prepared on the courtyard.
About 2 ters ahead, a brick had been placed as a target.
Without delay, she cramd a bullet into the muzzle.
Hmmm, looks like the size doesnt fit. Bring a different one.
As per iyas instructions, a maid brought out several bullets spread out on a tray.
On top of the tray was a cushion, and the bullets were placed on top of that so as to not let them roll around.
Eventually, after the third prototype, she used a rod to cram a bullet in.
The magic stone was already charged with explosion magic.
iya attached a tal thread which could transmit magical power onto the breech, and took a distance of approximately 5 ters.
By forcing magical power through the tal thread, it would be as if she was touching the tal lid directly.
Once everything was set up, iya gleefully chanted the incantation.
Explode!
BOOM!
Kyaa!?
Prototype #1s body literally exploded.
iya-sama! Are you safe!?
Uh, yes, Im all right
For the second ti, the maids gathered around iya who was on her behind, unable to stand due to surprise.
iya borrowed their hand to stand up, and approached the spot where the now-exploded Prototype #1 was placed.
The tubes body exploded from its base.
The tal bits were torn into long thin slices.
The magic stone affixed onto the lid was also smashed.
Sohow or other, the explosion magic was released in an airtight condition. The magic stone couldnt handle the shock and beca damaged, causing the stockpiled magical power within it to be released.
As a result of the explosion magic combined with the magic stones power running wild; the tubes body couldnt handle the strain, beca damaged, and things went to shit.
For of all people to even though its sothing so obvious if I had just given it so thought.
Furthermore, adding insult to injury, the fired bullet was found in a completely different direction from the target.
The brick target wasnt even grazed in the slightest.
The rifling marks on the bullet were distorted halfway.
Its probably because the internal grooves were crooked.
As a result, the bullet did not fly straight.
With regard to the grooves in adding rotation to the bullet, it would stabilize its flight. iya raised such a hypothesis.
It followed the sa principles as fletchings on arrows.
She had thought that it was an important part which was needed to gyroscopically stabilize the bullet, so she made it carefully. But the result was this sad sight.
However, she had no intention of blaming the dwarf who she had requested to produce it.
After all, for a first prototype, she had made rash demands such as digging out grooves inside the tal pipe
What I understood from actually trying to make prototype models the only I understood is that this S&W M10 is truly an extraordinary magic tool.
For argunts sake, lets assu that the Prototype #1 iya made was put to practical use.
Even supposing the main body could withstand the explosion magic, the damage to the magic stone couldnt be prevented.
For a magic stone of that size, depending on quality, it would cost about 1 5 silver coins (10,000 50,000 Japanese Yen) per stone.
To use magic stones as disposables on a magic tool that cant even accurately hit a target from 2 ters away is insane.
And yet, without using magic stones, the S&W M10 could fire multiple shots in succession, and with excellent accuracy, to boot.
Completely unable to understand how it was made, iya was at her wits end for a while.
Several months after purchasing the S&W M10, and after failing in researching on reproducing it, the rchant who sold the revolver ca bringing a similar magic tool and information on the creator.
Sa as last ti, they were in the parlour.
The rchant respectfully places a tube that was bigger and longer than the revolver.
Apparently, this magic tool was called an AK-47.
iya didnt even bother haggling and bought the AK-47 and the information on its creator with at the rchants asking price.
The first thing she did after the rchant left was look at the papers holding information on the creator.
The S&W M10 and AK-47s creators na is Lute.
Raised in an orphanage in Hod of the Aljio region in the Fairy Human Continent.
It seems the rchant got lucky and ca across and asked a forr resident of Hod.
Lute had been a genius since he was in the orphanage, having learned to speak, read & write as well as basic arithtic at the age of 3.
At 5 years old, he developed toys such as Reversi and sold the rights to it to a rchant. With the funds procured from that, he set aside a part of it to buy magic liquid tal for the developnt of the S&W M10 and AK-47.
At 10 years old, he graduated from the orphanage.
After taking a Level II quest as an adventurer, it is likely that he died fighting against a monster.
There was no corpse, not even bones. Suspected that it was already eaten by a monster.
This cant be To think the creator is already dead.
iya was dejected.
For the holder of such talent to die at the age of 10 for such a thing to have happened
How could the gods do such a cruel thing?
Next, she perford so test firing with the newly bought AK-47.
Sa as last ti, she went to the courtyard.
The maids placed down so bricks to be targets.
anwhile, iya looked over the instructions for the AK-47.
It would seem that it was a magic tool made to be able to shoot more bullets than the revolver.
Certainly, it makes sense
After shooting six shots with the revolver, one would have to take out the cartridges from the cylinder and reload it.
However, the AK-47 had sothing called a magazine which was loaded with 30 shots. Also, it seems that reloading could be done simply by replacing the magazine.
iya understood that, with this, one could fire a lot of bullets like those from the revolver; but with a much higher capacity.
Since preparations for the brick targets were done, test firing was about to begin.
Full automatic, which according to the mo was for firing a large number of bullets
Here goes nothing.
She grasped the grip without pressing the stock against her shoulder, and fired while just holding onto the checker ring.
Kyaaa!?
Surprised by the recoil from the 7.62mm x Russian shots, she was once again on her behind due the full automatics rapid-fire.
She lost her grip on the AK-47 and it tumbled onto the ground.
iya turned pale.
Because she imagined that the bullets would shoot out the sa way as with the revolver, the AK-47s full auto completely took her by surprise.
She was, once again, clueless as to its structure that allowed it to fire so quickly in succession.
It was even less comprehensible than the S&W M10s structure.
In the first place, the concept of such a magic tool didnt exist in this world.
Thats why she was all the more confused.
(This alien-like magic tool design orientation was created by a re 5-year-old child!? Th.. Thats impossible!)
However, the real thing was right before her eyes.
iya looked at the AK-47 as if it were a cursed magic tool created by a devil king.
But even more than the unpleasant thought, the realization that her talents could never match up to Lute, the genius who created this magic tool, was painfully clear.
Ever since the day when she test-fired the AK-47, iyas was greatly wounded and she drowned herself in alcohol in order to escape from reality.
Scattered around the bed in her room was a large quantity of wines, spirits, liqueur, and the like.
Theres no more alcohol Quick, bring more alcohol
, iya-sama any more than is bad for your health.
Tsu! , to that inventor! Are you saying Im inferior to Lute!?
Hii!
iya threw an empty alcohol bottle at the servant.
Since she was drunk, her aim was a ss and the bottle smashed into the wall.
The maid ran out of the room with a pale face.
Ri, right away maam!
hmph.
While waiting for the maid to bring back so alcohol, iya collapsed onto the bed.
When the maid ca back with alcohol, she snatched it away.
Gulp, gulp
With alcohol in hand, she forced practically all of it down her throat, so of it spilling.
And thus, she continued spending her days mostly drinking alcohol.
Not just the maids, but also people from outside the mansion were despondent for iya.
She was no longer the genius magic tool inventor that they knew.
Past the age of 20, you are just another person. While this parallel world didnt have such a saying, but nobody doubted that her talent had withered.
One morning, such as she was, a revelation ca she ca to realize the reason she was born into this world.
She realized that with the limited talent she was endowed with, her role was to make sure that the na and great exploits of the true genius who created the S&W M10 and AK-47 would be known by future generations.
Once she realized that, she was quick to act.
She ordered a maid to clean up her room and prepare a hot bath.
Dipping her body in steaming hot bath water washed away any alcohol left in her body.
She brought the S&W M10 and AK-47 to her workshop and imdiately started her research.
She started her analysis of the S&W M10 and AK-47s structure anew.
Since the revolvers basic structure is quite simple, making a replica shouldnt be impossible.
The problem is the AK-47.
Even now, she couldnt understand the principle behind its ability to fire so many bullets so quickly.
Even though she would like to disassemble the AK-47, it would be troubling if it turns out she couldnt reassemble it.
Now that God Lute, the true genius, is dead; another AK-47 will never appear again in this world.
Before starting on the actual thing, she decided to start off her research on the cartridges.
If she could only understand how the explosion magic charged inside the cartridge was activated by the hamr, the need to use magic stones as disposables would disappear.
Thus, she restarted her observations on an empty cartridge.
Explosion magic is sealed up inside a small pipe; when its butt is stimulated, a small piece of tal flies out.
A concept that didnt exist until now.
Furthermore, its power was at a level where it could easily kill.
For example, if it cos to be that mass-production of AK-47s and cartridges is possible, even non-magicians could overthrow a country if they got hold of it.
The existence of the magic tool created by God Lute once again sent shivers down her spine.
It seems that this sealed space is an important part of the cartridge, huh
By causing an explosion within the sealed space, it maintains the impacts directivity and thus, it attains its propulsive force.
Its by maintaining that directivity that the piece of tal can sublimate to a level where it can kill creatures.
Its a new concept where one maintains directivity on scattered energy.
She still didnt know the thod in which the hamr activated the explosion magic within the cartridge, but
I wonder if this concept cant be applied using magic stones.
Truly a train of thought befitting the Magic Stone Princess.
As a result, she started dedicating half her research ti trying to establish a ans to incorporate magical power through magic stones she called it the [Focused Mana Charging thod].
Putting a magic stone inside the tal tube, she held up both hands.
The mouth of the tube was widened, and it beca narrower to its butt. It looked like a funnel.
The interiors surface was sared with a special chemical that perfectly reflects magical power.
Thanks to that, when magical power is transmitted, the amount that leaks without being absorbed by the magic stone is drastically reduced.
Magical tool inventors everywhere praised iya for this innovation that overshadowed the rainbow sword that she invented in the magic university.
The people who propagated the rumor that iyas talents had withered all quieted down.
And people lionized her, saying iya Dragoon is the greatest magic tool inventor in history.
However, it was impossible for iya to be sincerely pleased with that evaluation.
She had simply stolen the idea from the true genius, the god, Lute.
Also, at the sa ti she was conducting analysis on the S&W M10 and AK-47, she was collecting information.
She had asked the rchant who brought her the S&W M10 and AK-47, as well as other rchants, to search for similar items in the world.
She recruited help in collecting information without minding the costs.
However, having caught hold of such talk, sly rchants and vice individuals sward toward iya as ants toward sugar.
Needless to say, the information and goods they brought were all fake.
Though they were counterfeits that simply imitated outward appearance, the resemblance was disgustingly uncanny, so she had her hopes up. However, she was able to imdiately tell they were fakes as soon as she picked them up.
Such days of parsing through a large amount of jumbled information continued, until one day a plausible piece of information ca.
Soone who grew up in the sa orphanage as Lute of the Beast races White Wolf tribe, a girl nad Snow apparently owned a magic tool similar to the S&W M10 revolver.
It was said that she was studying in a magic school in the Fairy Human Continent at the mont.
According to the rchant who brought in the information, he approached her to try and buy the magic tool, but he wasnt even given the ti of day.
So he visited iya in the hopes that she would at least buy this information for a high price.
Naturally, she only paid the rchant as much the price for the information.
iya instantly made up her mind to go to the Fairy Human Continent to visit the aforentioned magic school.
However, a one-way trip from the Dragon Continent to the Fairy Human Continent would take at least half a year by ship.
A round-trip would take approximately one year.
But she was one of the few people in the world who owned a private airship.
Her private airship looked visually like a regular ship, but it used a large quantity of magic stones to float.
With this, even a trip that would usually take half a year could be completed in approximately one short month.
Without delay, in order for her to et and directly negotiate with Snow, iya set her sights on a certain magic school in the Fairy Human Continent.
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