Chapter 64: Sharp Sera

Chapter 64: Sharp Sera

Ryo was curious about something.

It was the relationship between the Great Tidal Bore and the Akuma.

Two days before the Great Tidal Bore reached the surface, a solar eclipse occurred in the City of Rune and Ryo fought with the Akuma Leonor in a place that seemed to be a subspace.

Leonor called it the 『Corridor』.

These two events were too much of a coincidence.

He didn’t know if the Akuma caused the Great Tidal Bore.

Maybe she came knowing that the Great Tidal Bore would occur.

Or perhaps the 『Solar eclipse』 was more relevant compared to the Akuma.

Of course, he didn’t know if that was the case.

It was natural that he didn’t know, but ... he was curious.

(I wonder if I can look it up in the library ...)

He thought about that while having lunch at the guild cafeteria.

Of course, not alone, but as four people from Room 10.

“Ryo-san, you seem to be thinking about something ...”

“Are you thinking about alchemy using the magic copper ore ...”

“A-at this point, I can’t return the money anymore. Even if it’s Ryo, I can’t!”

Amon, Etho, and Niles said in that order, but ... Niles, the oldest at 20-years-old, was the most ... pitiful.

“I won’t ask you to do that.”

Ryo shook his head with a bitter smile.

Niles had an overtly relieved expression.

Ryo suddenly noticed a gold chain coming out of Niles’s tunic pocket.

“Niles, what’s in your pocket ...”

“O-oh, well this is required as an adventurer.”

He replied and took out a pocket watch.

Clocks already existed in this world.

A big clock was installed on the tower of the square and the bell rang every three hours.

Many citizens relied on it, but a good proportion of adventurers had pocket watches.

That was because it would not good to be late for an interview with the client or a meeting.

In any world, no matter what kind of work, a person who could not be on time would be rated badly.

The clocks measure time by using something that moved at a constant speed, such as a water clock or an hourglass.

They were not complicated in nature.

The only problem was that it would be troublesome when you try to make it a portable size and with a portable mechanism.

On Earth, the issue was cleared by the invention of a ‘spring’.

That happened in the 16th century.

However, on 『Phi』, there was something not present on Earth.

That would be magic and alchemy.

In particular, the mechanism of using alchemy to keep track of time at regular intervals was not difficult.

With such technology, it was not so difficult to create a portable watch.

Still, each pocket watch costs more than 10,000 Florin.

For ordinary citizens, 10,000 Florin was by no means a cheap price.

If a person lived a very thrifty lifestyle ... that was an amount that might be sufficient for about half a month.

But that’s assuming they are not an adventurer that struck it rich ... although Niles didn’t strike it rich, he did purchase one.

Probably using the 300,000 Florin paid by Ryo.

Of course, 10,000 Florin was the cheapest model and there were also fully mechanical pocket watches that do not use magic or alchemy at all.UppTodated from nô/v/e/lb(i)n.c(o)/m

Those cost an eye-opening amount of at least millions of Florin.

Furthermore, at the upper end, there were pocket watches that cost more than 100 million with functions such as perpetual calendar, minute repeater, tourbillon, split seconds, equation of time display, and self-winding watches ... there may be a watch-making genius like Breguet in this world.

Elven adventurer Sera.

“Sera-san!”

Probably because Ryo’s words were mixed with joy.

Sera was surprised.

“Wh-What’s wrong?”

Thereafter, Ryo explained his circumstance.

Including the fact that he forgot that there was no librarian and came to the North Library.

Including how he was feeling a little hopeless.

Sera laughed softly when she heard that. It was a library after all. She kept her voice down.

“I’ll be glad to help. Records of past solar eclipses and records of Great Tidal Bores?”

There Sera meaningfully emphasized the solar eclipse and Great Tidal Bore.

“Ryo thinks that the solar eclipse and the tidal bore are related.”

Ryo was astonished to hear that.

(Sera-san is sharp. Too sharp.)

“There certainly was a major solar eclipse about two days before the monsters appeared in the Great Tidal Bore this time.”

The major solar eclipse probably referred to a total solar eclipse.

“In fact, in the case of Rune’s dungeon, my conclusion is that there is a high possibility that the solar eclipse and the Great Tidal Bores are related.”

Sera replied easily.

Ryo was surprised and couldn’t follow up with more questions.

“To be exact, there was always a solar eclipse before a Great Tidal Bore. However, they were not major solar eclipses like this time, but partial solar eclipses.”

Depending on the location, a total solar eclipse or an annular eclipse, in which most of the sun was hidden by the moon, occurred once every few decades.

However, in the case of partial solar eclipses, they occurred once every few years, up to once in two years at its shortest.

With that frequency, it was possible that the solar eclipse and the Great Tidal Bore would overlap by chance.

“Why did you conclude that they were related ...?”

“That, of course, is because I looked it up before.”

Sera’s burst into a smile. A very destructive smile.

(Wow, beautiful ...)

“But I’m curious why Ryo would focus on the relationship between the two.”

“Oh, no, I somehow thought of it ...”

As expected, he couldn’t say that he fought an Akuma ...

Maybe as an elf, she would have some information on Akuma ... but he still didn’t want to reveal that incident to anyone else.

“Hmm ...”

Ryo didn’t have much experience of being stared at by a pretty woman.

“Se-Sera, do you know the reason for the darkness of the color of a magic stone?”

He desperately changed the topic to try to distract her.

“Well, I’ll tag along with your change in topic.”

Sera said with a smile.

“Of course I know. The magic stones of monsters that lived for a long time are darker in color.”

“What was the color of the magic stones from the monster of the Great Tidal Bore this time ...?”

“Perhaps ... they were lightly-colored?”

“Yes. They were light. Why ...”

Sera replied, nodding.

“You want to know why I know they were light? That’s because I’ve seen records that the magic stones of the monsters that were subdued in the past Great Tidal Bores were also lightly colored. Moreover, since it is recorded on parchment, most librarians don’t even know it. Do you want to see Ryo?”

“Yes, by all means!”

“Then let’s go. Follow me.”

Then, Sera started leading the way.