Chapter 6: About the Monsters
609: Anonymous Combatant
But Delnkeim has been quite active recently.
610: Anonymous Combatant
Likewise, Lost Fairies has also been actively fighting, so there hasn’t been major damage.
I saw on the news that it seems no one has died because of that strange person, the Hakase.
Instead, the town has been pretty wrecked, so it seems there are difficult situations in some areas.
611: Hakase
Well, it’s the policy of the leader.
Civilian casualties must be kept low! Since that’s what I was told, I must obey.
612: Anonymous Combatant
Wait, could it be that the Hakase is okay with some damage occurring?
613: Hakase
Originally I was hired by the previous warmonger leader. I don’t intentionally do terrible things, but even now the Monsters are rampaging and wrecking the town.
614: Anonymous Combatant
I keep forgetting but this guy is actually an evil scientist.
615: Anonymous Combatant
The Monsters don’t seem very strong?
616: Anonymous Combatant
Knowing the Hakase, it wouldn’t be surprising if he intentionally made them weak because he doesn’t want Fiona and friends to get hurt.
617: Anonymous Combatant
You can say that, but police guns and even military bazookas have no effect on them.
You all have gotten too used to Lost Fairies’s victories.
618: Hakase
I just normally create the Monsters, and they normally lose.
Let me tell you, I’m not the bad one, it’s poverty that’s to blame…….
619: Anonymous Combatant
Oh, it seems like the organization’s dangerous inner workings are going to be exposed again.
620: Anonymous Combatant
Busted.
621: Hakase
And as 617 said, firearms have no effect on my Monsters.
Don’t forget it’s thanks to Lost Fairies that we can defeat them.
622: Anonymous Combatant
An evil scientist who considers the righteous heroine’s position…
623: Hakase
Well, about the Monsters, they are created based on spiritual engineering but are a bit different from artificial lifeforms.
To put it simply, they are “tangible ghosts”. They are physicalized magical power in a humanoid shape with an artificial soul as the core, but they have no clear self-awareness. So Lurun chan, you don’t need to look so sad.
No matter how powerful the Monsters are, bullets have no effect on them since they are ghosts and thus immune to physical attacks.
Conversely, their attacks do work since they are physicalized. They are essentially an illegal existence.
624: Anonymous Combatant
So they obey commands but don’t actually think and act on their own, and only have that function?
625: Anonymous Combatant
The Monsters are impressive when you think about it.
626: Hakase
Then it becomes a question of what a soul is.
In our dimension, we view the soul as an “imaginary organ that generates the energy to move the body”.
The soul is an organ like the heart, just invisible to the naked eye.
And magical power is akin to blood. Magical power is generated by the soul and circulates throughout the body to move it.
You know how sometimes after an accident, the person’s body is unharmed but they don’t regain consciousness?
We consider that a state where the “soul has malfunctioned and is not generating magical power”.
However, magical power is fundamentally a massless energy that only works inside the body. It cannot normally be released from the vessel of the body, nor can it accumulate excessively and explode.
Your blood doesn’t explode just from increasing too much, right?
627: Anonymous Combatant
What’s up Hakase, you sound knowledgeable?
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628: Anonymous Combatant
But you said “fundamentally”, implying there are exceptions.
629: Anonymous Combatant
Has he been hijacked?
630: Hakase
I am a practitioner of spiritual engineering!
Damn, oh well. And yes 628, good observation.
Rarely, some individuals have souls of higher quality than normal people, with greater magical power storage and generation rate.
Those individuals can equip a “magic conversion device” that allows them to convert their internal magical power into phenomena.
This is called magic or supernatural abilities. I can use offensive and defensive magic, while my brother and Cat-Ears use supernatural abilities in combat.
Fundamentally it’s just organ function, so while techniques can be honed for efficiency, the magical power itself cannot be trained –
the quality of the soul you’re born with is everything.
631: Anonymous Combatant
So Lost Fairies has a magic conversion device too then?
632: Anonymous Combatant
And the Hakase can actually fight?
633: Hakase
Fuhfuh, among the four executives, I’m the weakest…..
If we fought one-on-one, I’d lose even to the newbie Cat-Ears (15 years old)………
634: Anonymous Combatant
The weakest, huh?
635: Anonymous Combatant
This is too much!
636: Hakase
Lost Fairies’s situation is probably different.
The magic conversion device is an item created based on spiritual engineering technology.
But before spiritual engineering advanced, there were beings called fairies that would contract with people, absorb their magical power, and grant abilities in the form of blessings.
Fiona and the others likely have high quality souls and high magical power generation, and gained the ability to convert their power into magic by contracting with fairies.
In our dimension, fairies are almost extinct now.
They became valued commodities that fetched high prices, leading to indiscriminate hunting. The previous leader in particular aggressively hunted them.
637: Anonymous Combatant
So that’s what happened to the lost fairies……
638: Hakase
I think you understand about souls and magical power now.
Spiritual engineering is about utilizing that, but of course we can’t handle human souls for experiments and research.
So in spiritual engineering, we create [artificial souls] and use the magical power obtained from them to advance our research.
And the Monsters each have one [artificial soul] as their core.
639: Anonymous Combatant
Ah, I realized something unpleasant.
So the powerful Monsters are using, you know, that expensive something?
640: Hakase
That’s right, producing Monsters costs an absurd amount of expensive……
Originally, one large artificial soul per research facility would be enough to supply magical power. But we’re using small versions, so of course it’s costly.
641: Anonymous Combatant
Whoa……
642: Anonymous Combatant
The world is harsh…
643: Hakase
I can’t call myself a development director while leaving this problem unaddressed.
For the organization’s Monsters, I’ve been using [simplified counterfeit souls] that I developed. Thanks to these, drastic cost reductions are possible.
Their attributes are no different from regular Monsters, so they are still immune to physical attacks. But their magical power generation is lower.
So while they can overwhelm normal humans, they are a bit lacking against Lost Fairies and her fairy’s blessing. The opinion that they are weak is understandable.
644: Anonymous Combatant
So the Monsters we’ve seen are the cheap version.
645: Anonymous Combatant
In the end, what’s needed to make the Monsters stronger?
646: Hakase
Money. Just money. Not ideas or technology, just money.
Simply switching from the simplified counterfeit souls to normal artificial souls would drastically increase their abilities.
……Anyways, the leader recently summoned me.
647: Anonymous Combatant
Oh, the Black Leader has arrived.
648: Anonymous Combatant
Another impossible task as usual?
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