Chapter 204 - Cecil’s Plans

Cecil was still a little troubled however...since the marble only adhered to one piece of clothing. Then what would happen if the next day that person was wearing something else?

Seeing the worry on his face, Tars smiled warmly and whispered, "I know what you're worried about, but don't mind it. This room is equipped with the marble's sensors. So if a person walks into the room without one, we'll be immediately notified."

"Ok...but, is there a possibility that it'll be deactivated?"

"Don't worry about that, although there's a possibility, but the King had arranged people to secretly keep an eye on everyone individual inside of this room. This includes me as well," Tars reassured.

He had already heard the problems that Cecil was facing because of the Empire. Since the young man was so willing to share his knowledge, it was only natural that he as the receiver of said knowledge should help him out.

It also had something to do with his pride as an Artificer, but Cecil didn't understand anything about what it meant.

Artificers themselves had worked on, created, and developed their own Magi-tech over the years. Of course, many of them would want to monopolize the crafting methods and techniques for themselves so that they could reap a profit from it if it was a convenient and much needed tool.

For someone like Cecil who had gained the knowledge of long lost ancient magi-tech to go ahead and willingly share them, was something that a modern artificer would never do. Only an idiot would do such a thing, but Cecil wasn't an idiot.

Indeed, Cecil did say that he would share the magi-tech knowledge with the kingdom...but they didn't specify what it was that he had to share. Cecil decided to share all the knowledge except for the ones regarding the teleportation gate, the magi-tech cannons and weaponry.

Zephyr and everyone who had been inside the trials knew of Cecil holding the knowledge regarding the teleportation gates, but no one knew that he had taken the magi-tech weaponry's knowledge with him.

If the kingdom or empire did pressure him for the teleportation gate, then he would just simply give it to them, but since no one knew about the other, more dangerous magi-tech inside his magic tome, he just wouldn't say a word about it.

It was better for everyone if they didn't know about it. If the Empire knew that he had gained knowledge about long lost magi-tech weaponry...then they might even start a war just to acquire them.

Of course, this didn't mean that it would stop him from trying to develop those ancient magi-tech weapons. He still wanted to experiment and create them. And if at all possible, perhaps further upgrade the weapons.

If the illusion from the World Tree that he experienced was indeed the future, then Cecil might as well prepare for it. He didn't need to save everyone, just the people close to him.

Cecil needed more experience and knowledge, the ancient knowledge regarding magi-tech crafting wasn't enough. Just the 2 days he had been together with the Kingdom's top artificers had broadened his horizons by a lot.

He needed to learn and experience everything that he can from his seniors, only then could he try and acquire his own private workshop and start doing things on his own.

It was a little bit selfish of him, but what did he care? He's not part of the Kingdom or anything, and after the school year Cecil had already decided that he would leave and head on over to the Midgard Continent to look for his family, if they were here on Alterna that is.

He'd scour the entire planet if he had too. Cecil would make sure of things before settling down somewhere.

He wanted to take his friends with him, but that seemed impossible since many of them had direct affiliations with the kingdom's of Urrugdrasil. Eli was the Princess, while Ainz was from a Duke House. Velicia was also a part of the Kingdom's aristocratic families and now, Lucia was as well.

Fina was the Princess of the Neftersea Oceanic Empire and Yuna was in a Pact with Lucia. For now, he'll do all he can while still remaining in the Kingdom. The only problem was...how to break it to his party members that he would be leaving.

Should he just leave quietly? Or should he tell them about his plans before then?

"Ahem, Cecil?"

"Eh? S-sorry, I was spacing out earlier, haha!" His train of thoughts was broken when Tars spoke up.

He remembered what he needed to do right now. Cecil turned his attention towards the many artificers in the room and spoke.

"Uhm, as you all know, I'm the student who brought back the lost knowledge of the ancient magi-tech from the World Tree's Trials. Over the next month or so, I'll be tasked with sharing all these with everyone here and together we'll be developing new magi-tech for the Kingdom."

Cecil paused and took a look at all the artificers in the room; some were listening seriously while others were a little uncaring or greedy, some also had eyes full of yearning.

'Heh, how pure,' Cecil thought before taking note of the uncaring or greedy looking ones. 'Whatever, I'll have Tars do the explanations while I'll only do the translations and hand him the blueprints.'

Right now, Cecil had a lot on his hands. It wasn't only the magi-tech. There was the knowledge of runes that he had also taken from the trials' library.

The runes and runic circuits from the magi-tech went hand-in-hand. If studied a bit more, he might be able to develop new runic circuits for the magi-tech. This was another thing that Cecil had no plans on sharing.

The ancient runes were much stronger than the new era's runes. It'd be a hassle for him to give a copy of all the knowledge he had about the runes. This time, it wasn't because he was selfish, but simply because he was too lazy.

He'd share it with his foster mother, but he wouldn't go out of his way to tell it to anyone else. While all the other students were cultivating, Cecil alone had been off collecting knowledge. Selfish or not, it was his privilege and choice to share it with others. If he didn't want to, who could blame him? Obviously, no one, not even Lucia or Serilla knew that he had been recording down knowledge while he was within the library.

Despite seeing him taking down notes inside his magic tome, Lucia, Serilla and all the other students who had seen him had only thought that the boy had recorded down the ancient history and knowledge from the 1st floor of the library.

As for all the other floors...no one was the wiser. They also didn't think he'd go out of his way just to do all that. Not to mention it'd take years to transcribe all the books inside the library down into his magic tome. A month or two just wasn't enough.

Cecil let Tars take over. He then returned to his seat and quickly brought out stacks of doc.u.ments from his spatial ring. The large stacks finally caused every artificer in the room to turn serious.

Cecil had spent the last couple of days translating the ancient language into the current common language. He had Anna's help with this, despite the woman supposedly being busy with the Kingdom's negotiations.

Cecil of course found it odd that his foster mother was able to dip her hands into the Kingdom's affairs, but he didn't care to ask.

"These are some of the translated doc.u.ments. This will be the first batch, and the Kingdom has required that we first develop a prototype of every magi-tech tool before we continue on to the next batch." Cecil informed.

Cecil had separated the magi-tech tools into 4 different batches, each batch being more difficult to create than the last. The Magic Fountain was relatively easy to produce and Cecil had placed its blueprints into the second batch.

The first batch was all just simple tools that had little to no use in the current era, but since the Kingdom wanted it all, Cecil naturally obliged. Who knows, maybe the artificers in the room might have a stroke of inspiration and develop a magi-tech tool that had actual use.

Cecil would be the one that would benefit since he could just simply jot down all the new blueprints into his magic tome. This was one of the agreements that he had with the kingdom. The useless ancient magi-tech might be transformed by the modern artificers into something more useful and he would reap the rewards.

Tars had his assistants quickly duplicate the doc.u.ments using magic and hand them out to all the artificers. All of them were intrigued when they read the doc.u.ments. Although the tools had very little practical use, the runic circuits and the crafting methods were unique. This was what attracted their attention.

Tars smiled when he saw how serious everyone had become. "My boy, you've done this kingdom and its artificers a great service."

"Yeah..."

"Don't worry about the Empire. The Kingdom won't let its benefactor down!"

Cecil only smiled. He then moved over to one of the empty work benches at the side and sat down. Tars followed after him.

"I want to create a freezing and cooling box."

"Hmm...Don't we already have those?"

"Yes, but they're not efficient. The current ones require a magician to periodically channel their mana into the runic circuit to supply it with power. I want to create one that'll run on an energy source just like with our previous Magic Sink and Shower."

"Ohoho~ I like this idea. Normally, monster cores and magic stones are used to power magic arrays, act as supplement materials during forging or crafting and other stuff. The demand is low, so they're pretty cheap to buy and sell. Only the high-grade ones are worth any sort of fortune," Tars said while tapping his chin. It was a habit he always had while deep in thought.

"Yup...and do remember that the monster core we used for the Magic Shower and Magic Sink was only a low-grade core. Even after a week, it's still able to supply the two magi-tech tools with energy!"

"...alright then, let's do it!"

"Here, the ancients also had a cooling box. Theirs is a little big, but we could probably do something about that."

The two's heated interaction naturally drew the attention of the other artificers in the room. To see a young kid and the best magi-tech artificer speak to each other as equals...this was a little unusual to some of them, while some others were disgruntled.

"Hmph...What could a kid know? Just because he was lucky enough to get all this, doesn't mean he'd be able to understand anything inside of it! Does he even know how refined the runic circuits of these blueprints are?"

"Yeah! Despite the uselessness of the tool, the methods used to craft them are very refined and advanced!"

It was sad that these artificers didn't know that Cecil was able to learn all there was to know about ancient magi-tech creation in only a month's worth of time. He had also created an ancient MID that wasn't like any of the MIDs in modern times. Heck, he even upgraded and added more functions to the ancient MID.

There were only 8 of these unique MIDs found in Alterna and they were all in the hands of his close friends. Cecil was also planning to create a down-graded version of his upgraded MID so that he could give it to Lucius, his foster parents, Radon, and all of his other close acquaintances.

This way even if he did leave for the Midgard Continent later on, he'd still have a way to contact them.

The two were still in discussion, but unknown to them, one of Tars' assistants was secretly holding a small dark marble and pointing it at Cecil and Tars' direction.