If I had to choose the greatest 20th century invention of humanity, it would be the transistor.
The transistor was the epito of a semiconductor. Every existing electrical device contained this component, and that was all that needed to be said to explain its status.
Did this book know that as well? The hardcover in my inner robe pocket vibrated minutely, as if it was declaring that this was the puzzle piece needed to go back to my original world.
[◆ Achievent]
[Unclassified Magic : 0/148]
This was what it must be related to. There was no way that this would be Elent Magic.
I didn’t think for long. After taking a breath, I opened my mouth.
“Then I’ll take ten batches first.......”
“We’ll take it all.”
Professor Hasfeldt was dumbfounded by my spontaneous behavior.
“That isn’t for you to decide.”
The fury in her voice stung my ears, yet that didn’t stop .
“If you don’t buy this now, you’ll regret it later. Owner, how much is it per piece?”
“O-one batch is one gold. There’s about a hundred batches in stock.”
A hundred gold to buy it all. It was the price of two ordinary slaves with change left over.
“That’s fine. We’ll buy them all.”
There were vessels popping in Professor Hasfeldt’s eyes, a signal that she was about to blow. I had to beat her to it before she could start.
“Stop this nonsense and stay.......”
“I won’t disappoint you, Professor.”
I cut her off at the perfect ti. Given my status, it was rude enough behavior that it wouldn’t be strange for to get beaten and tossed to the back mountains for it.
But I didn’t avoid it. I boldly faced the glare of the Empire’s highest-ranking noble.
I focused on Hasfeldt’s burning gaze. Irises the color of a red spider lily and of a calm sulfurous yellow clashed in midair.
“This is a stone that will change the world. There’s no ti to hesitate over a single gold.”
I intentionally changed my speech pattern and words to let her know that I was sincerely advising her as a fellow researcher rather than a slave.
Hasfeldt pulled out her pipe as if frustrated.
Fuuu. White smoke like cotton candy floated into the air. This was a positive sign; it ant that she was contemplating.
Hasfeldt was likely torn by the fact that soone who had always been respectful ran the risk of being rude to say this. If I had been casual with her all this ti, she might not have reacted the sa.
“The Golden-Eyed.... know what this is, you said?”
The fact that she was asking this was good. I nodded in response.
Hasfeldt’s throat shifted. With her chin in hand, she let out a short groan.
It didn’t take long after that for my sincerity to be acknowledged.
**
The people of this world weren’t stupid. If they had been, they wouldn’t have been able to build the Academy in a 20th-century Bauhaus style. I’d sotis mistake myself as being in the Belle Époque era whenever I looked around at the wonderful machine aesthetics of the architecture.
The developnt of civilization was proportionate to the accumulation of knowledge. The people of this world had also built a strong learning in their own way. They had dozens of geniuses, and thousands and millions of gifted, brilliant minds have been changing the world in incrents. That change was still in progress.
Ultimately, I couldn’t think that my knowledge of the other world made superior to anyone else. Those who didn’t continue making the effort tended to be left behind, after all.
Simply put, soone else besides could soon discover the worth of a transistor. We had to stock up on these in any way possible before that happened.
To make profit? Not at all. It’d be a loss no matter what price it was sold at.
The price was bound to skyrocket within a month. Even if I didn’t do it, soone else was going tol.
I received five bags from Professor Hasfeldt for now, and about 500 top-grade mana stones ca into my possession.
The market price of these stones amounted to five pieces of gold, a tempting value which any other slave would have gone and sold right away. Looking at it this way, Hasfeldt had lent an exorbitant amount of money to a re slave.
When we returned from the market, it was late into the night. It was the hour in which all the professors including Hasfeldt had retired for the day and the students were asleep in their respective dorms or inns. I was the only one left in the Fire Magic research wing.
I headed towards Testing Room 3 with the key that the professor had given .
[Testing Room 3 ─ Mana Amplification Elent Research Lab]
It was the equivalent of a place where research on semiconductor fabrication happened in the university of my original world. Simultaneously, it was where maximum output could be tested as well. Anyhow, I was able to use this place freely because it was within Professor Hasfeldt’s jurisdiction.
Click.
“Alright.”
I took out the hardcover that I now couldn’t be without.
[Unclassified Magic : Summary]
[Unclassified Magic is a special magic that can be used without an Elental’s blessings or scrolls. It is called ‘Innate Magic’ in mainstream academia.]
[Although the exact number of Innate Magic is unknown, there are 148 recorded in the latest books.]
I turned the pages one by one. I had to check all the pages to see what magic was related to the transistor.
Then I found sothing near the end.
[Innate Magic(Unclassified Rank) ─ Current Switching]
“Here it is.”
I could sense it from the na alone.
There were two main functions of the transistor.
The first was manipulating a small current into a larger current. Amplification, as it was called.
The second was cutting off or turning on a current, what experts commonly called ‘switching’.
The key to these two functions lied in ‘control’. With the introduction of the transistor, humanity beca able to control electricity as they wished.
One could ask what the big deal was to be able to control electricity, but well, it’d be ironic for them to be asking that while using a computer or smartphone.
A computer, hm. This era did have a calculator run by a scroll. It should be possible to build one with the help of magic engineers.
But that would be difficult to achieve for the mont; the only thing currently possible was a simple operation or test.
According to my experiences until now, the magic elents of this world tended to correspond to the electrical elents of the other world. This mana stone should be the sa.
Good. That was reasonable.
I’d probably be able to use Ultimate Magic with a single drag of mana grass. Millions of scrolls could be activated with minimal magic elents. That way, the mages on the northern battlefront would get so relief.
That wasn’t all. This mana stone could save the orphanage children from freezing in the winter for a low cost in the sa way that 1 g of uranium gave power to 23 million electric heaters in low-class family hos back in my world. Basically it could be used to support everyday life as well as combat.
And most importantly, it could help return ho.
“Three birds, one stone.”
Let’s see what prerequisite knowledge was needed to learn this.
[Innate Magic (Unclassified Rank) ─ Current Switching]
Description: [Any magic that amplifies or cuts off the mana flowing through a circuit or circle. It is known to be used by the Demon King that once threatened the Ahrens Continent]
[Upon casting, the user may have complete control over their own magic or the surrounding magic depending on the user’s capacity. The calculation required for control is greatly influenced by the caster’s mathematical abilities.]
[▷ This magic has not been mastered. Upon learning, the number of obtained ‘Unclassified Magic’ will change for the first ti.]
[▶ Knowledge required for magic comprehension]
[■ Required]
[Law of Magic Elent Preservation(Wanderer bonus : Consideration possible)]
[Theory of Mana Waves(Wanderer bonus : Consideration possible)]
[Kirchhoff's Current Law(Condition t)]
[Basic Theory of Semiconductors(Condition t)]
[Altered Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Equations(Condition t)]
[□ Optional]
[Fermi-Dirac Distribution(Condition t)] -- Required for handling fire and water elents
[Bose-Einstein Distribution(Condition t)] -- Required for handling of earth and air elents
[Shockley-Read-Hall Recombination Theory(Condition t)] -- Required for trap fabrication
[Boolean Algebra(Condition t)] -- Required for logic circuit fabrication >
There was nothing to be concerned about. The relevant knowledge had all been obtained long ago during my undergraduate.
I pulled out a magic paper–a fortified Light Arrow scroll.
I was sitting here in Testing Room 3 because there was a magic device that asured the intensity of mana. When I put the Light Arrow scroll to the device, the relative figures of the elents appeared.
[asure Target : Light Arrow]
[Class : Fire Magic / Scroll fabricated]
[Maximum output : 45 microsieverts]
[Average output : 23 microsieverts]
This was what it was normally. Twenty microsieverts was enough force to destroy a mid-level Magic Beast like an Iron Drake.
I took back the paper and after placing a few transistors in the appropriate positions, I reasured it.
[Maximum output : 275 sieverts]
[Average output : 241 sieverts]
“Oooh.”
Micro was a prefix to indicate one millionth. Tens of microsieverts becoming hundreds of sieverts ant that the output was amplified by a hundred million tis.
This outco alone was sothing remarkable. Like going to bed after investing a hundred won into stocks and waking up the next day to find that it had bloated to ten billion.... as if that would actually happen.
This kind of unnatural phenonon could be explained by the concept of magic elents. Since the Elentals provided the elents–although it might seem like conservation of charge wasn’t happening–it actually made sense physics-wise.
I was able to gather useful data from repetitive testing. It was fascinating and fun, a ti where I could enjoy being imrsed in. By the ti I snapped out of it, it was already dawn.
Soone else might think that this was enough and stop here.
That soone wasn’t . With that thought, I stuck a joint in my mouth.
“Fabricate, Sagnac interferoter.”
[Physics Item : Interferoter]
Description: [A device that uses the interference properties of a wave to amplify or offset its amplitude. Due to its sensitivity to the environnt, it cannot be applied to a regular scroll.]
Wave–the flow in which energy traveled. And in those waves, the physical quantity of phases existed.
When two waves with the sa phase t, the intensity grew exponentially. Waves with opposing phases offset each other and settled as if nothing happened.
Then let’s think about it. What if dozens of waves with the sa phase traveled together as a group?
[Maximum output : 66.1 kilosieverts]
[Average output : 34.9 kilosieverts]
The output was amplified by each one.
Kilo. A unit of a thousand. I didn’t even want to think about the change in ratio.
It was probably multiplied by about ten billion. It should be possible to go further than this.
“... I’ll play with it a bit more.”
**
[◆ Progress Change Announcent]
[Current Switching has been obtained.]
[‘Elent Operation’ has been derived from ‘Current Switching’ due to independent research.]
[This will be registered as Identifier ‘Aether’s’ Innate Magic.]
[Expert Innate Magic ─ Elent Operation]
[Progress change : 0 Innate Magic (Out of 148 total) → 2 (Out of 149 total)]
“Ah.”
I stayed up the night again.
“It’s fine, I’ll sleep when I die.”
That was what I told myself as I stepped outside, a rationalization that any graduate student would have done at least once.
One fortunate thing was that Professor Hasfeldt had said yesterday that I didn’t need to clean anymore. There would be no master to nag at even if I holed myself up in the lab.
But my life would be miserable if I only stayed in the lab. Should get so fresh air at least once a day.
Haaa, that was so nice air.
Taking this brief walk was truly heavenly.
Then as I was walking slowly along the school grounds.
“Excuse ! Senior!”
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