Chapter 305: Project Initiation


    「Still, people of the ancient civilizations were strange.」


    「Right? They built a city in a ce that had an S rank dungeon and strong monsters living within it.」


    For the time being, I returned to the Sanctuary workshop, and I polished a n for a magic device that would support the control unit of the Sky Ind together with Laeva.


    What Laeva and I were thinking was to first improve the Sky Ind’s floats and barriers, and take the amount of magic power used for regting the climate from the atmosphere. We continued to add more and more ideas in.


    「Even so, this is a frighteningly efficient mana collection device. Fortunately, the Sky Ind didn’t stall in one ce and kept moving.」


    「You got that right. As the surrounding mana grows thinner, the resulting negative intake and output elerates.」


    「As part of the n, will we prepare auxiliary magic crystals?」


    「Well, simply put, it’d be like that.」


    As per usual, we will be transmuting several giant crystals, but that alone wasn’t enough this time.


    「For now, we’llbine it with the usual magic crystals, and it must be something that could be replenished by just Valkan-san and his tribe.」


    「It would be great if the intake and output bnces out in the end……」


    「It might not be possible immediately. It would be great if wee up with an idea though.」


    Preparing several magic crystals requires gathering materials, but that isn’t much of a problem. The problem is that when it’s just the Aligerous Tribe by themselves, replenishing the magic power would be difficult. Sophia and I could replenish a day’s worth of magic power by ourselves, but I’d like to avoid constraining everyone from the Aligerous Tribe to replenishing the magic power.


    「How about we structure it so it is possible to set magic stones to replenish the magic crystals with magic power?」


    「I see, the Sky Ind is connected to the base in the Demon Continent, so if they use that to hunt monsters, they would be able to secure magic stones.」


    「Yup, subjugating monster carries some risk, but the warriors that we trained could possibly stock up on tons of magic stones.」


    There was some risk to leaving the Gate connecting the Sky Ind to the Demon Continent base, but we had to think about the situation after we leave.


    From my discussion with Laeva, we decided to transmuterge magic crystals and a magic device that is capable of replenishing the magic crystal’s magic power using various sizes of magic stones.


    In front of our usual members gathered in the living room of the Sanctuary mansion, we announced our n to stabilize the Sky Ind.


    「I would like to ask for everyone to help but,」


    「We simply support you with what you want to aplish, Takumi-sama. Please tell us whatever it is.」


    「Yup, it’s just as Sophia-san said. Don’t be so reserved, Takumi-sama.」


    「We will follow your heart’s desires, Master.」


    Sophia, Maria, and Marnie would never say no to me, so it was just confirmation.


    「What do you want to do? Lulu and I have gotten to know more people in the Aligerous Tribe, so I’ve got noints with helping out.」


    「Lulu will help too, nya.」


    Akane had recently been sneaky with the Elven Princess Mimir, but she was close with Berkut too, so she said she would help out if it’s for the benefit of the Aligerous Tribe.


    「Mhmm, first off, I think I’ve talked about prioritizing the stability of the Sky Ind, but I want to prepare backup giant magic crystals for the dungeon cores.」


    「So we would like high purity magic stones that are asrge as possible for that reason.」


    Laeva unrolled the blueprint, and began exining the magic device that would link the 1m+ magic crystals to the dungeon core.


    「Large, high purity magic stones… you n to hunt dragon types?」


    Akane’s face cramped as she was shocked by the dimensions of the magic crystals drawn on the blueprint.


    「As expected, Akane. Actually, Queen Fraal told me that there were dragon-type dungeons.」


    「Wha! You’re serious?」


    Since I needed a ton of magic stones, I asked Queen Fraal for a suitable dungeon. Apparently, there was a very difficult dungeon where dragon species appeared in great numbers.


    From Lizardmen who were not much different to lizards, Wyverns, Earth Dragons, Thunder Dragons, and even Undead Bone Dragons Monsters appear. And if we reach the deepest part, an Ancient Dragon that would be too much to handle makes its appearance. Well, we aren’t going that far in though.


    「Magic stones asrge as they could be are much more efficient for transmuting, after all.」


    Incidentally, if we train the Aligerous Tribe on the shallow floors, securing magic stones would be a simple task to them.


    「<em>Haa,</em> fine I get it. Still, safety first.」


    「Of course.」


    「Master, that seems fun.」


    Kaede couldn’t help but find the thought of fighting dragons fun.


    Our full party and several of the Aligerous Tribe will go dungeon diving, while the remaining tribesmen would be asked to thin out the monsters left on the Sky Ind.


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