Chapter 115 - Rotational Wheel and Bearing (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

To be honest, after meeting this metal egg, Gawain finally realized how lucky his present circumstances had been: he hadn’t lost his memories; he landed in a world that was similarly dominated by humans; he even had an identity that allowed him to smoothly integrate into the current world (though this identity consisted of some scary and occult elements to some extent) and a satellite vision that might come in very handy. Most importantly, he possessed the memories of Gawain Cecil.

The last point was particularly important. It was precisely because he owned memories from two different worlds that he was able to face this universe, whose physics differed greatly from that of Earth, more easily and that he was able to use ‘this world’s’ experience to overcome difficulties when he was unable to resolve problems using his experience from Earth.

However, Nicholas Egg was completely unable to do the same. This metal ball’s circumstances, compared to Gawain’s, were virtually at another extreme end.

He lost his memories; he had no experience and knowledge that could be effective in the present world; he was captured and treated as a test subject the moment he arrived here. And the most, most important of all, he landed in a place belonging to the scary homo erectus1 with the image of an egg lifeform…

If Gawain having to plant fields and develop technology in a world with different physics was already hell-like tough, then this ball had practically crashed through the ceilings of all the kings in hell and then rolled into the cauldron of the Lord of Hell. The flavor of the soup inside was even mala1 and durian.

Therefore, Gawain could not help but admire this ball’s adaptability and the extent of his mental strength. After encountering such a despairing situation, he actually could still live so peacefully and became an outstanding joker… Could it be because the nerves of metal lifeforms were tougher?

“Hey, hey, why did you suddenly stop talking?” Nicholas Egg’s voice jolted Gawain from his thoughts. This big metal ball circled and floated around the latter. “I still want to hear your suggestions. What do you think I can do? Honestly, I really want to find something to do right now…”

Gawain immediately gave it some serious thought. As a matter of fact, he had been thinking of this before today. This metal ball that came from an alternate world and had intriguing abilities was probably only an experiment source material in the eyes of those Gondor Master Mages, but to Gawain, he was a potential high-technology talent. Only, knowing that this ball had just awakened from a deep sleep and might need some time to adapt and adjust his mentality, he didn’t rush to force him to get to work. However, now that Boss Egg had taken the initiative to mention it, he explained while tidying his thoughts. “You have the ability to control the flow of magical power and metals. These two abilities could both be turned to good accounts here, but I still don’t know the specific parameters of your control over magical power and metals, so it’s not easy to make arrangements.”

“I’m actually not too clear about my control of magical power either,” The metal ball replied. “You people call those energies magical power, but such a thing doesn’t exist in my world at all. When I am affecting the flow of magical power, I am actually just vibrating my own magnetosomes. This is a kind of organ in my body that produces high-frequency magnetic fields. In my world, we can form a protective barrier around our body surface when we vibrate magnetosomes, but I realized that the barrier doesn’t appear here. Instead, I am able to affect the kind of energy called ‘magical power’ that you people speak of and make it ineffective temporarily…”

Gawain cut off the other party right away. “You said magnetic field? You were actually using a magnetic field to influence the flow of magical power?”

“Yes, including the time you mentally conversed with me using magical power. Actually, I used magnetosomes to sense magic fluctuations… but it’s pretty regrettable. Although I can sense magical power and also use magnetic fields to influence it, I am unable to use it to produce spells like those ‘mages’ of yours. That female mage… called Heidi explained to me about spiritual power and spell molds, but I couldn’t understand a word of it.”

Gawain wasn’t bothered by the latter half of the other party’s words. His attention had been completely captured by the truth of ‘magnetic fields affect magical power’, and he sank into a massive dilemma. “Are you sure the ‘magnetic field’ you produced was really the kind of ‘magnetic field’ that you and I know of? You must know, the same noun could be referring to two entirely opposite phenomena in two worlds!’

“That I can really confirm.” Nicholas Egg exerted energy and floated up and down for a moment as if imitating the human action of nodding. “A magnetic field is a magnetic field. Of course, the people of this world seem to have no concept of magnetic fields. They only know about magnetic force, the kind of magnetic force where natural magnets are able to attract ironware. But I’ve confirmed, the magnetic fields that I produce using magnetosomes are the same as the natural magnets of this world… What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know where it went wrong.” Gawain opened his hands with a bitter smile. “I’ve done quite a few experiments using magnetic fields. I never discovered that it could affect the flow of magical power. Could it be that the magnetic field I used wasn’t strong enough?”

He still had another half of his sentence that he’d yet to finish — other than using magnetic fields to influence magical power, his experiment using a magnetic field to produce electricity didn’t succeed either…

“Strength? I don’t think it matters. The magnetic fields produced by magnetosomes aren’t strong.” The metal ball said as he swayed here and there. “Perhaps it’s because of the frequency. You didn’t use a high-frequency magnetic field, did you? I remember a thousand years ago, those ‘Master Mages’ had used an oscillating magnetic field to scan me. How high was the frequency again…? Millions of oscillations per second? That seemed to be the highest frequency they could get out, but it wasn’t even a tenth of the magnetosomes’ frequency. Why don’t you try putting in some effort and increase the frequency of the magnetic field a little?”

Veins in Gawain’s temples bulged. In such an atrocious place in a medieval era where the technology of various periods was lost to them, where would he go to make a high-frequency magnetic field at tens of millions of hertz?!

Nicholas Egg was probably the only high-frequency source in this world that could produce a magnetic field of that frequency!

Knowing that they could not create a test environment that matched the criteria at this moment, Gawain silently noted this down in his heart. Following that, he wanted to ask the other party about his ability to control metals. However, just as he was about to speak up, he suddenly saw the door of the brick-kiln yard being pushed open. A doofus… fireball launcher… Iron-Headed… Rebecca dashed over in a haste.

“Lord Ancestor! Lord Ancestor!” The Viscountess shouted excitedly while she ran. “Come quickly! Quickly follow me!!”

Watching this girl’s excited manner, Gawain’s first reaction was to dodge to the side. He feared that this doofus would suddenly go crazy and swing seven to eight big fireballs at his face…

When Rebecca arrived before him and finally managed to catch her breath, Gawain then took his time to ask her, “You finally blew up Heidi’s laboratory with a fireball?”

“Huh… Ah?!” Rebecca was startled by Gawain’s words when she’d just gathered her breath. She quickly waved her hands forcefully. “No, no! I’m very careful — listen to me, the Magic Powered Engine that you proposed, we’ve assembled it!”

Gawain’s initially rather calm expression was instantly replaced by shock and surprise.

“Already completed?! Has it been tested?”