The Magic Academy's Physicist-Chapter 205: From Master to Slave (6)

When the Demon King appointed the Four Heavens, he didn’t do it based on just one kind of strength.

One would specialize in one-to-one attacks, and another would be at their strongest against Elementals. And if there was someone who specialized in battle against multitudes, there would be another who had stupidly high defense.

Out of the four, Aether had the most asymmetrical power.

It was true that all Four Heavens were asymmetrical in power, able to take on thousands of trained mages. Not one to a hundred, but a thousand.

Except Aether was on another level.

Her body itself was relatively weaker, but she could wipe out an entire region with a few pen strokes.

The power to create powerful weapons. The ability to turn the tide of battle in an instant with it.

Being in the back line, she could unleash a nuclear winter if her comrades bought her time.

“If you buy me time, then I will uproot the whole World Tree.”

Aether spoke with certainty.

“So what are you going to do?”

“You don’t mean that you’ll drop the bomb that you showed the other day, do you?”

Aether nodded, unperturbed. But the reactions of her comrades were frigid.

“We are also capable of that kind of explosion.”

“It’s true. Shattering glass and creating heat? Is there any dumbass among us who can’t do that? Uhahaha!”

Their words were basically mocking Aether in a roundabout way.

It might have been different if she had been making good progress developing the nuclear weapon, but it was because what Aether had presented until now had been so-so.

She hadn’t had a particular track record before Pasmo and Gliach got sealed, even. Aether had been going through a dry spell with her research at the time. Although she had fought in the Great War, she hadn’t contributed much compared to Spring or Summer Heaven.

“Stop that.”

Jǫrmungandr cleared her throat and spoke as Spring and Summer Heaven were laughing heartily.

“Because of whom do you think that we can use Elec Magic?”

“What is this, Autumn. Defending her because she’s a comrade?”

Gilach snickered, holding his stomach.

“Elec Magic? Ah, thanks to the King, of course. If it wasn’t him who did the research and development, who would’ve?”

“You fools, that is what it seems like on the surface, but it was that child who actually did all the work.”

Jǫrmungandr continued while pointing to Aether.

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“You wouldn’t have known since you were occupied with slaughtering Elementals. Have you ever gone to the labs to see what Winter had been doing?”

Jǫrmungandr had gone to see what Aether was doing every so often.

Curiosity? It was more out of her dragon habits, periodically checking on comrades to see how they were doing.

“She alone built everything starting from the basic equation making up the Elec Realm, even after the Demon King was sealed. The number of spells we could use with mana grass increased by several with each book that Winter put out. Did you know that?”

Autumn Heaven laid into the two Heavens while rubbing at her severed horn. Pasmo and Gilach couldn’t say anything as if a cat got their tongues.

Aether, who had only been watching, tapped Jǫrmungandr on the shoulder.

“It’s too heavy a subject to talk about at this meeting. Let it go.”

“Comrade, this one cannot stand by and watch the slandering of our own.”

“I’m fine.”

After a bit of soothing from Aether, Jǫrmungandr finally lowered her voice.

The meeting soon got back on track.

Akasha spoke.

“Let’s remind ourselves again that this meeting is for one purpose: how can we acquire the Wind Lodestone? My sister’s idea is simple, but it’d probably take a while. If you guys are against it, isn’t this why?”

Spring and Summer Heaven nodded at Akasha’s question.

“How long would it take to produce one of those bombs?”

“I’ve asked Tertius to make the initial batch. He said it would take a month for ten of them.”

“How many are you planning to drop onto the World Tree of Verdure?”

“At least a hundred and fifty.”

“H-hundred and fifty?”

Gilach’s brows furrowed at the unrealistic number.

“It’s going to take a year plus a season?”

“That’s madness.”

Aether also had to nod at this.

She had planned to resurrect the Demon King and wipe out everything within a year if possible. But without ‘Dark Day’ developed, this was the limit of the explosion.

“I’ve finished most of the calculations. The plan definitely won’t succeed without this many.”

“Then you better find a faster way.”

“I plan to.”

Aether gripped the leash attached to Klain even tighter.

“As I said last time, don’t bother me unless it’s something important. I intend to finish something in three months at the least.”

“Then what is your schedule after the three months?”

“Excuse me?”

“I just happen to think of a good idea, too.”

Gilach said cheekily like he had something up his sleeve.

“The infiltration we were just talking about, I think you might be the right person for it.”

“Don’t be ridiculous.”

“I’m not. There is no Heaven as good at hiding malice as you. Just look at how you calmed Autumn a moment ago and calmly took my taunts. How about it? A preliminary survey of the enemy territory for the sake of the King’s resurrection.”

What Gilach was saying was infiltrate Iliad Academy.

“You want me to enter Iliad?”

“It would be easier to keep an eye on the World Tree from there. It’s the riskiest but all the more rewarding.”

“I can’t be bothered. You go.”

“I can’t, I’ve given up on studying. An academy? Why would I go somewhere like that?”

Although he was saying that, Gilach was already disqualified; he’d freak and throw himself at the slightest hint of an Elemental.

Pasmo and Jǫrmungandr were even less qualified. In the first place, the two looked like Beasts.

“You are also the one who looks most human out of the Heavens. What the humans and elves commonly call a humanoid Beast.... Yes, that’s right.”

Her appearance was a pass, first of all. From the outside, it was difficult to distinguish if she was a human or Beast.

Personality?

Aether did beat up people all the same if they disrupted her research, but she was still better than the other Heavens at hiding her intentions and controlling herself.

“Not saying that you can’t do something this easy, are you?”

Gilach was strangely goading Aether, trying to get on another’s nerves with a sleazy smile.

It was a method he used often since a millennium ago. There was no particular reason to react.

As such, there was no need to set foot into Iliad Academy either, she thought.

However.

“Fine.”

Aether answered confidently after calculating all the pros and cons in less than a second. That confidence had Gilach’s brows twitching.

“If it’s just a map of the layout of Märcherm, it can be completed within a month if I go with Akasha.”

Three months for the superconductivity research, a month for drawing the map. A total of four months up at this point.

“Completing Dark Day and White Night, and burning down the World Tree by the end of the semester would be just about right.”

That would be a total of six months.

And.

“If we spend the remaining six months in a Great War against the Elementals...... Even that will be more than enough.”

With this calculation, that completed the max one-year plan.

“That should do it, right?”

“If there are no other thoughts, meeting adjourned.”

The meeting ended with Aether and Akasha getting up first. Having ended up losing control of the conversation, Gilach laughed hollowly.

Pasmo snickered, poking Gilach with his long arm.

“If Winter’s plan succeeds, she’s going to be favored greatly by the King.”

“......Damn it.”

It might not mean much to anyone else, but for Gilach, who was of noble High Elf origin, those words deeply wounded his pride.

No Elementals, another Heaven, or the Goddess could be above him.

There was only one person who could stand directly above him.

The Demon King.

Unless it was the King, not even another Heaven could be better than him.

A High Elf with gold eyes like me.... falling behind in performance?

He didn’t want to admit, nor should he. If that happened, it would be a disgrace to the name of his race.

Muttering something, Gilach stood from his seat.

“How unpleasant. You.... what was your name?”

Then he suddenly called Wilhelm who had been about to leave. Wilhelm responded respectfully, the machine gun on his head clacking.

“I’m Wilhelm Von Schudelgeiger.”

“I see, Wilhelm. I heard that you’re the overseer of this facility.”

“That’s correct.”

“It seems you enjoy torturing the captives and such, would there happen to be any Elemental Mages?”

“There are.”

“Good, if you could take me there, please.”

“Pardon me, but what are you going to use it for?”

Gilach glanced at Aether and Akasha in the distance. There was a collared human slave who was being dragged away with them.

“I’d like a toy like that as well.”

“An Elemental Mage who’s resilient?”

“Exactly! You sure know your stuff! Uhehehe!”

Gilach’s mouth curled as he slapped Wilhelm’s wide chest.

“Then there is one that may be useful amongst the ones in the basement.”

“Oho! Who is it?”

“A unique human with two Greater Elementals who has lasted here for a few years.”

“Is that so?”

Gilach’s eyes flashed like he’d discovered a fun toy.

Not an elf, but a human with Elementals? And two of them at that? That meant that they possessed incredible character.

And they even lasted three years. Sounded like they had great mental fortitude as well.

Most of all, he liked that they had Greaters. He might’ve considered a bit if it had been two Elites, but there was no way that he’d lose as long as they were ‘Greaters’.

Grinning, Gilach urged to be led the way.

“Let’s get going!”

“Then come this way, please.”

Although he had orders from Aether to produce the initial batch of atomic bombs, Wilhelm thought it wouldn’t matter if he put that off for the moment.

Because either Winter or Spring Heaven were both superiors far above him.

Aether’s bomb was far, and Gilach’s hook was closeby.

Well, whatever they say, goes.