Fossil
-Yukikaze-sama's Sapientia will now land at the fourth landing port. Workmen, please take your positions-
A broadcast loud enough to be heard even from inside the airship is echoing throughout the imperial capital.
"Does this airship have a name?"
"Yeah, you can't call it a prototype airship forever."
In the current imperial capital, airships are treated as strategic weapons.
Technological innovations are happening every month.
Prototypes appear one after another
It is repeatedly improved, formalized, and discarded.
"Everyone has gathered to salute us, they must be busy."
"We have a position as leader, so it can’t be helped, you know?"
That's right
I feel sorry when I see all the people lining up covered in oil and dust.
The airship landed safely under Yukikaze's control.
The door on the side of the airship opens and the stairs extend to the ground.
I'll return the salute to everyone outside as soon as I get to the entrance.
Yukikaze gives them instructions.
"Leave the airship here for today."
"Is it okay?"
"Yeah, please store and maintain it at noon tomorrow."
The reason is that only me and Yukikaze go out.
The remaining three are currently sound asleep.
They are sleeping happily with lustrous skin.
"Shiro-sama..."
"Hmm?"
A mechanic talks to me.
His expression looks uneasy.
"Your eyes have dark circles, are you okay?"
"Oh, this? It's okay, it's okay. I'm just a little sleep-deprived."
The reason goes without saying
I tried my best.
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"Warm tea seeps into my body..."
The sweet and bitter taste of the tea echoes through my tired body.
"You look very tired, Sensei."
Yukikaze went straight to directing the airship development team.
She said that they had accumulated a lot of things because she had been away for quite a long time.
So I
"I'm better off than you. Are you getting enough rest? Zelius."
Eating together in front of me is Gaizelius Ulfrika Kusuief Myunik IV.
The current emperor
"I don't have any physical problems at the moment."
"I see, if you're feeling unwell, let me know. You're not that strong after all."
When he was a kid, he would often get fevers and stay in bed.
"Well, shouldn't you be more worried about Tyler-dono than me?"
"There's no need to worry about him. His mind is stronger than mine, and he is Olasha, right?"
"Oops, excuse me. Oh, and I found some interesting material."
Don't hand out documents while eating, it's bad manners.
But since it's handed out, it's probably best to take a look.
"A copy of the diary?"
"Yes, the original itself is over 200 years old and is in tatters."
It's all about when, where, and what was caught.
"Where was it?"
"It's in the mud of a fishing port in the north. The mud had dried out and looked like bricks.''
According to reports, a villager found a diary with horns sticking out of the mud.
"What is noteworthy is March 5th, the fourth time."
The page says that there will be a poor harvest that year.
For this reason, many fishermen set out on boats far out to sea.
It says there was an abnormality in the area where the fishing port was almost out of sight.
"He saw a ship in the distance..."
"We had scholars observe it, and it is estimated that it is over 500 kilometers away from the continent."
"Even if a fisherman says he has good eyesight, can he see that well?"
"Normally you wouldn't be able to see it, but it's written in detail in the diary, and when you take that into consideration, it's inevitable."
What is thought to be the case is
"Does that mean there's something ridiculously huge out there?"
"Yes, but there is one problem."
"What?"
"With current ship engineering technology, we cannot go to that place."
"What about the airship?"
"We determined that we could go by airship, but this time an unknown problem arose."
Airship heading north
Suddenly, the phenomenon of mana draining from the furnace occurred
A mysterious situation occurred in which the furnace became stable again when it returned to a specific location.
"The scholars marked the dangerous area on the map, naming it the [Magic Discharge Line]."
When I turn over the document, a red line is drawn on the map.
North and West of the Empire. North and east from the continent of Lola
West of Geldarinne and the Holy Kingdom
That is, outside this world
"Does that mean there's something outside?"
"Yes, and even after traveling all over the world, we still haven't found the stronghold of Elfriade, which caused the collapse of the continent."
In other words, there is Elfriade's territory outside.
"The problem is how to go outside."
"Well, since we rely on mana, we won't be able to sustain our lives in the Magic Discharge Line."
The solution is really simple
"We need a furnace or generator that doesn't rely on mana."
"Yes, as you and Yukikaze-sama said, the completion of the heat turbine is an urgent task."
"The problem is the fuel. Charcoal and wood are too inefficient."
"Currently, no oil or coal has been discovered."
"I guess it doesn’t exist in this world after all."
"It existed in another world, right?"
"Yeah, it seems like it was the main energy in Earth."
How we're going to get far away from the continent
That is the current issue
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