Magicraft Meister Part 1

"Uu...... where am I?"

The old man asked Makina after he woke up and looked around.

When Makina answered, the old man slowly shook his head.

"The Unification Party (Unifiler)......, I see, I remember. I am the president of the Unifiler, Jules Rolland. I feel like I've been dreaming for a long time.

Jin thought through Makina that the shock of being beaten and being on the verge of life and death seemed to have broken his brainwashing.

"Originally, the Unification Party (Unifiler) was supposed to be a group that followed the ideals of the Dinaric Kingdom, and was concerned about the current situation where countries were competing with each other, and wanted to unify ideologically.

Jules Rolland muttered to himself.

"How did this happen? ......"

Jules is puzzled. Machina saw him and asked him a question.

> Jules answered in the affirmative.

Jules answered in the affirmative.

"Yes, I do. But it seems as if someone else was doing it. I don't know why I ordered that ......."

Jules' head reeled as he answered.

Jin, who was watching through the magic screen in Pegasus 1, decided to go ahead and give instructions through Machina's mouth.

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. Jules hears the word and reacts.

"Oh, you mean Elena?　Oh, yes, Elena. Yes, that was her instruction. Yes, I remember. Her orders were absolute. She was our queen. ......"

"I knew that Elena, the Golden Princess of Destruction ......, was the real mastermind."

Jules was surprised to see Anne say this.

"Are you an automata?　The blue-haired automata...... found in the ruins were all destroyed or destroyed by Elena's order, but ...... they still remained, didn't they?"

"Do you know where this Elena went?" asked Anne.

Jules pointed to the seat of the head of the board and behind it,

"If she's not here, there's a loophole behind her. Maybe that's where he slipped out.

He told them. He seems to be completely free from the brainwashing.

Leaving Rand 71 with Jules, the group searched for a loophole.

It was not long before they found it. They tapped on the floor, and found a hollow area. Land 70 found a hollow, which they lifted with their fingers and opened easily.

It was a steep down staircase. It was almost completely dark.

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Jin gave these instructions and the group went down the stairs. They went straight down the stairs.

The staircase, which looked almost pitch black in the bright light, was in fact lit by a few lights, and the group could see ahead without any problem.

I don't know of any hidden passageway like this. They must have built it later. So we don't know what lies ahead. Be very careful."

Ann warned as she descended the stairs. Suddenly the stairs disappeared.

Or, more precisely, the steps tilted and became a slide. Naturally, the group slides down.

However, no one panics, not even the humans. The first one, Land70, stuck its hands against the wall and came to a halt.

Naturally, the three following units hit Land 70 and came to a halt.

"It's a trap, isn't it? It would have worked on a human."

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Makina asks, and Lando70 nods in agreement.

"Yes, master Makina. It's easy.

The group began to descend again, leaving Lando to act as brake. Lando adjusted the force of his hands, and the speed decreased as they slid down the slope.

"It's a long way down. "It's a long way down. I think we've already passed the climbing point and gone underground.

The stairway, or rather the slope, leading to the basement was at an angle of about 45 degrees.

When it seemed that we were well underground, the end was finally in sight.

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When they were only about 10 meters from the end of the stairs, Makina ordered Land 70 to stop.

"Yes, Makina-sama."

Then Land70 decided to descend again at about one-third the speed of the previous descent. Reiko, Anne, and Makina followed, keeping an eye on their surroundings.

Finally, they arrived at the end. There is a door.

Reiko, who has the best hearing, listens carefully, but hears nothing. Reiko switches her vision to infrared, but finds no heat source near the door.

"Hmmm, what kind of trap would I set if I were you?"

Jin thinks to himself inside Pegasus 1.

Meanwhile, Rand 70 put his hand on the door.

At the same time, Jin thought of a possibility.

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Before Jin could finish his sentence from Makina's mouth, he heard a sound coming from the stairs, or rather from the top of the slope.

"It's a rock!"

Reiko, who was the first to notice the sound, looked up and shouted. Yes, a rock avalanche was sliding down the slope. The door was a dummy. As soon as she touched the door, a rock avalanche would start.

You're going to bury us alive!

The slope we descended was more than 50 meters long. The avalanche of rocks covered the slope.

Barrier.

Barrier!

Reiko has a pendant, Anne has a ring.

The magic barrier in them completely blocked the rock avalanche.

But we can't move at this point. Unlike humans, we do not have to worry about suffocation, but we cannot stay like this forever.

Makina-Hito concluded.

Yes.

The mana tank is a magical device that allows us to move without problems even in places where the concentration of free magical element (ether) is low. Reiko is the only other person who has this device.

Reiko removed the mana tank from inside the machina. It is a magi crystal of all attributes. They shine in rainbow colors even in the darkness.

The concentration of free ether is high enough that it will not stop the machina with its ether-converter.

"Yes."

The barrier prevents it from being crushed by the rock, but it also prevents those inside from touching it directly.

It is necessary to cut the barrier and quickly set the magi crystal on the rock.

In doing so, they had to work while supporting the rock that was about to collapse, but Reiko and Land 70 were able to hold the rock avalanche in place with their physical strength.

This was largely due to the strength of the two, of course, but also because of the frictional force exerted by the jammed rocks in the narrow passage.

Anne watched over Reiko and Land 70 as she prepared to put up a barrier just in case.

Reiko supports the rock with her left hand, while screwing the magi-crystal in her right hand into the gap between the rocks. Then the two put up the barrier again. All is now well.

"Yes."

Jin then evacuates the allies in the fort, just in case. With the resistance broken, it was possible to get out in a matter of minutes. Of course, Rand 71, Jules, and Donald, who was still unconscious, were also able to get out.

I order all the prisoners we've knocked out elsewhere to be taken out as well.

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Mana Explosion!

Reiko's most powerful offensive magic has exploded. This time at 100 percent.

When she defeated the Hecaton Cale before... it was 20 percent.

What is the difference? The answer is the conversion rate of mana.

When the conversion rate is low, it only breaks apart the bonds of matter containing magical elements (mana), but when the conversion rate is high, the contained magical elements (mana) are converted into energy.

In other words, it is a physical . Hence, it is a magical .

Magi crystals, which were used as mana tanks, are, so to speak, a mass of magical element (mana).

What would happen if they were to explode? The side where Reiko is is sealed by an indestructible barrier. The passage is a straight line.

The answer came quickly.

The Hecatoncale, a hundred-handed giant once defeated in the mountains north of the village of Kaina, exploded with a magical crystal more than ten times more potent than its magical core.

A large number of rocks clogging up the long ramp were all blown upward and aimed for the exit.

It turned into a cannonball of rocks and spewed out at once.

The force of the explosion smashed through the ceiling of the top-floor control room, sending it flying outward.

"Wow, that's more powerful than I thought it would be!

Jin, who was watching from Pegasus 1, was impressed to see that a part of the rock plateau had broken off and rock debris flew up more than 50 meters from the plateau.

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"What, what, what?　What is it this time?"

<, had escaped to a secret room behind a hidden door at the midpoint of the slope that used to be a staircase, and was relieved to have successfully trapped her pursuers.

At that moment, there was an earth tremor that shook the entire fortress.

Looking through the magic screen, which was still intact, I could see rocks shooting out like cannonballs from a part of the plateau that was the roof of the fort.

"What, what, what, what!　Don't tell me this is the work of that monster too!

Elena's exclamation rang out.

Elena's exclamation echoed through the air.

"You did well, Makina-sama!"

Anne was also impressed. Reiko, on the other hand, was listening intently after the barrier was removed.

"I heard a voice from halfway up the slope."

The ramp had been damaged by the impact and was uneven, so there was no difficulty in climbing up it.

So the group easily climbed up the slope and finally found the hidden door.