You cant rember?
Most likely because I was silent, elder Uwe asked that.
YYes. I cannot rember.
Hmm Alright then.
Just that? No other comnt? Maybe he really had so sort of lie detection magic (but not perfect one). After all, my answer was technically correct.
Maybe the reason you cant rember is that the story originally has no title. Maybe there is an external factor that caused you to forget, or maybe you just simply forgot with ti. For now, I cant be certain of the reason.
With a calm but cynical tone, elder Uwe continued, If the reason you cant rember the na was simply because you forgot, there is nothing else I can do.
So calm? This old man was a character made based on the sage character stereotype. Once hermits and sages lost interest in sothing, they wouldnt bother with it anymore, no matter how seemingly great that thing was for others.
Anyway, lets focus and think about the current situation. Laura beca part of the heros party even before elder Uwe, so it was safe to assu that she had already reported the map to the royal family. Since the royal family had not taken any actions against so far, it was unlikely that they would do anything now.
Since things had beco like this, I would definitely get the information that I wanted from him.
What do you an by external factor?
Have you ever thought that the current world is strange?
That depends on your aning of strange.
After I said this, the elder silently thought for a while, then he opened his mouth.
Hm Sir, why do you think killing demons made us stronger?
Why, you ask? In the ga, the answer was simple. Killing the demons gave the character EXP and when that EXP reached a certain threshold, the character would level up and get stronger. But in the real world
You can call it with any na, but for the sake of the explanation, I will call it the origin mana. You see, every natural thing in this world, plants, animals, and even minerals have origin mana. Absorbing more origin mana makes us stronger.
Even minerals?
Yes. The rate of absorption differs based on the source of the origin mana. For example, so demons get stronger by eating tals, which ans that for that type of demons, tals are the best source of origin mana.
Right, the Iron Toad got stronger by eating tals.
This origin mana absorption is the reason why people can now use a powerful magic that they couldnt use before or can cut through the skin of demons that they felt was too tough before.
So that ans we can also absorb origin mana from killing our enemies?
Yes, or to be more precise, killing our enemies is one of many ways to absorb origin mana.
By absorbing the origin mana, we could get stronger bit by bit Wait, that ans
Do the knights also have the ability to absorb origin mana?
Of course.
I see. So the high-quality equipnt wasnt the only reason the knights could fight with Gezarius in the capital. After fighting with the demons in the demon outbreak, in Hilde Plain, in Finnoi, and winning, the knights got stronger to the point they could fight Gezarius.
If the knights had the sa strength they had at the battle against the demon outbreak, would they beco helpless when the Four Heavenly Kings attack the capital? While I still held this question in my mind, the elders next words surprised .
But on the other hand, under certain conditions, the origin mana could dull the mind.
Dull the mind?
Well, the words sharp mind can be interpreted as many things. A powerful mory, a great comprehension ability, a great judgnt ability, soone with any of these characteristics could be called soone with a sharp mind
Yeah
Sir, you have seen the demons that beca unafraid of humans, right? That too was the effect of origin mana.
Yeah, I had seen demons beco unafraid of humans both in the Veritza Fortress battle and in the aqueduct protection mission. I made my plan for both events based on the fact that demons were unafraid of humans. Wait a minute.
Does that an that if humans absorb too much origin mana, their sense of danger and sense of caution becos dull, just like how demons beca unafraid of humans?
Yes. A simple example will be the adventurer. When the adventurers fight against an opponent they could barely win, they will fight while aiming for their opponents weak point and such, but when an adventurer is really strong, they will just defeat their opponent with brute force.
That was true. Using a ga analogy, when the ga character was strong enough, the player would just use a big magic to kill the opponents fast without bothering to think about the opponents weak point.
In other words, what elder Uwe wanted to say was.
Because of the influence of the origin mana which is stronger in our era compared to the era of Ancient Kingdoms, humans gradually stopped thinking about important things like technological and academic advancent?
Hmm Did you draw that conclusion based on the information about origin mana that appears in that story, Sir?
No, that story didnt ntion the existence of origin mana.
I said that statent to ensure that possible lie detection magic would make it clear that I didnt have any important information other than the map.
I also explained to elder Uwe that I drew my conclusion based on my earlier hypothesis that astronomy and architecture was quite developed in the era of Ancient Kingdom, yet it barely developed in this era. After hearing my explanation, the elder looked at with a rare impressed expression.
I see. Then, you should understand this example. If a person is a cloth, then the origin mana is a dye. Absorbing the origin mana ans the cloth will be dyed with origin mana. Well, if the result of the dyed cloth is beautiful then thats fine, But
But?
If the cloth is dyed using a muddy dye, then it can make the cloth unusable.
So, there are 2 types of origin mana?
Yes, although it is still just a hypothesis of mine. You see, I think that perhaps a different type of the origin mana originating from the demon king might exist.
Did that an the reason science was quite developed in the era of Ancient Kingdom was because this demon kings origin mana didnt exist? What was exactly the demon king, then?
It is possible that the reason you forget about the title is because you have been affected by the origin mana, Sir.
If that is really the reason, can it be cured?
I dont know.
Seriously, old man!? Just I dont know!? Well, it was true that you couldnt exactly spread this to other people carelessly, so there should be almost no opportunity to research about this. I an if he spread this knowledge to other people carelessly, there might be soone who tried to kill others because that guy has been deeply affected by the demon kings origin mana so he should be eliminated!
Plus, an experint to prove this also sounded almost impossible.
The effect of origin mana might also differ from person to person. Think of it as an infectious disease. There are people that died from an infectious disease, but there are also people that survived although their body weakened or people that are completely fine.
I see So youre saying that there are people whose mind might not be dull even after being affected by the demon kings origin mana.
In other words, the demon kings origin mana made people who were unwilling to think about difficult subjects increase, which made the technological developnt of this world gradually stagnated and even fell.
This demon kings origin mana, was it a virus that destroys brain cells or sothing!?
Did His Majesty and His Highness know about this?
Well, I have told both of them about my hypothesis about the demon kings origin mana.
So they knew. Still, this thing wasnt sothing that could be announced carelessly.
There is another thing. Perhaps realizing the effect of the origin mana, the people that lived at the end of the Ancient Kingdom era, after the invasion of the demon king, did so experint in order to transfer the knowledge and the mories of the past before they were lost.
Transferring knowledge and mory?
Was sothing like that even possible? But wait, since he said experint that ans
Did their experints fail?
I didnt find any record that said they had succeeded. At first, I thought you had obtained the stone record with transferred mory and knowledge.
Ah, I see But
Stone record?
Well, the record of the mory and knowledge was said to be shaped like a stone, so thats how I decided to call it.
That ans
Was the core of the demon general
A stone record? Thats possible. I regret that I never thought that kind of thing actually existed.
If the cores are the stone record, that ans the demon king was using the technology of the Ancient Kingdom.
Yes, though I dont know if the demon king used the exact sa technology or not.
Well, I guess no one could know without any proper research. But if the core was really the stone record, that ans the sa demon king that destroyed the Ancient Kingdom used the Ancient Kingdoms technology. It was also possible that retaining the mory of the original owner of the body was one of the applications of the Ancient Kingdoms technology.
Wait a minute. I felt that there was a contradiction with that hypothesis, but I couldnt think of what kind of contradiction it was. Ah My head hurts. I was tired. I think my brain reached its limit.
In the end, all of it was still just a bunch of hypotheses.
Thats right. Ah, one more thing.
He then began to write sothing, then pushed that writing into my hand.
This is?
I want you to give this to His Majesty. You seem to be quite competent, Sir, so I want you to investigate the Ancient Kingdom in the capital.
Pardon!?
T/N: This chapter makes wonder about who exactly is Welner and where exactly is the world Welner was reincarnated into. In the beginning, we know that Welner was an office worker from modern Japan but for so reason Welner knew a lot of things that an office worker usually wouldnt know. Is that just the common sense of a story thing or is it part of Authors foreshadowing? In the first place, is the world Welner reincarnated into really a ga? And was Welner really a person reincarnated from modern Japan? Go throw your theory in the comnt!
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