Chapter 11: The Healing Magician Develops
We returned to our country, the Panacea Kingdom, and got to work. Still, since I put political issues in Ellen’s hands, what I’ve been doing is little, as usual. Yesterday I met my impersonator, and he already had everything ready. I adjusted his appearance with 【Transformation Heal】, but his behavior and expressions were directed by the intelligence department and Ellen.
Well, it was quite a rigorous job.
It was like looking at myself in a mirror.
In that case, anyone who didn’t know me well enough could be fooled.
Thinking about that, I sat up in bed, and as I yawned from just waking up, I felt something warm and soft squeezing me from behind.
“Hey, Kearu, since you changed your name I feel like you’ve become more gentle. Yesterday I thought so too.”
Eve murmured, hugging me from behind. She was naked because we made love last night.
“I just stopped pretending to be so tough.”
Essentially I have not changed. Although I went back to being Kearu, the days I spent as Kearuga have not disappeared, and those days are what made me who I am today. I was just forcing myself a bit when I was Kearuga.
“No, you have changed. By loving me, you made me feel calm.”
“I see.”
I don’t feel bad about being praised by my lover. Also…
“When we did it yesterday, Eve, I knew, it seems that my personality wasn’t the only thing that changed. It felt better than usual. It seems that our compatibility improved.”
“…Kearu you are a pervert.”
I was a bit more sensitive, but it suits me better. Eve also flinched more than usual. Also, my tastes in my night side changed a bit. Or, rather, it contained me in a way and my interests were more focused on my satisfaction as a man. However, since returning to this form, I love more deeply, and my interest has become more focused on foreplay and pleasing her. Good or bad, Eve and Kureha were more pleased with it, but since Setsuna and Flare have a more masochistic character, they put on a dissatisfied face. Well, if you want I can do it again as before, and although my tastes have changed, I should just do it as I did before from time to time, since I might get bored of always making the same type of games.
“Hey, kiss me. Give me a gentle kiss like yesterday.”
“Yes, I will do whatever you want.”
But, if I can please Eve with this me, I will continue with this way of loving. We’ve been apart for a while, so I want us to convey our feelings through our skin.
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After a good morning romp, I went to work in the castle’s underground workshop. The underground workshop was enlarged and no one except my women and myself is allowed to enter. This place was built so that I could invent whatever I wanted. I realized several things after finishing my revenge, and one of them was the fun of inventing things.
Apparently, creating things seemed to fit my character better than destroying them. There was a reason to make my workshop underground.
…In my head were the knowledge and experiences of countless heroes, sages, and alchemists, so I can create unthinkable things. This was necessary so that nothing came to the surface. Now I have started working on an aircraft. It took us more than ten days to transport us to the last World Meeting because we went in a carriage, it was like throwing all that time down the drain. Of course, I worked inside the same carriage, but it was too inefficient. Ever since I became king, those kinds of annoyances have increased. Therefore, to shorten the time of the transfers, it was urgent to complete the aircraft.
“How hard it is to be human, without those things you cannot fly in the sky.”
Eve said, spreading her proud black wings as if appealing to them.
“Your wings can’t fly for more than a few minutes, right?”
The Black Winged Tribe could not fly freely in the sky. No matter how it was achieved, even if humans did grow wings, due to their shape they would have a lot of wind resistance and, compared to birds, they had more mass per volume.
In short, it is physically impossible for humans to fly.
The Black Winged Tribe can only fly because they use magic through their wings. Therefore, it generates a large consumption of mana to fly, in the case of Eve, she would be exhausted after a few minutes.
“Fufun, I told you once, didn’t I? After getting used to the Demon King’s power I became able to fly as much as I want. It’s great, isn’t it?”
“…Ah, so that’s why you came by yourself.”
If she came back overland it would take a tremendous amount of days. No matter how long she leaves her understudy and Carol, she can’t leave the castle for that long. She thought that a dragon knight would come for her, but it seems that she will fly back with her own power.
“Yes that’s how it is. I’m very fast. I am confident that I can return in half a day from here.”
“That is incredible. Even with a dragon materials airship it would take two days from here.”
“If you can’t wait to finish that airship I can take you to the demon territory carrying you like a princess if you want.”
Eve looked proud.
Despite her tone of voice, which made it seem like there was no other, her attitude rather seems indicate that she wants to fly carrying me as a princess.
Air travel with just the two of them sounded pretty fun.
However…
“Enough, being carried as a princess and carried by you doesn’t sound appropriate… Also, I want to have it ready so that I can come to see you whenever, not just this time. That’s why I need the aircraft. I can’t make you pick me up every time, right?”
“You’re obsessed with weird things, you know?”
“These are men’s things.”
I started to work while saying that.
The first time the airship was based on the dragon material I got previously. That was a magnificent thing that I completed due to time pressure. However, I have collected data from many flights and came up with several ideas to improve it.
With that in mind I finished the new plans. There is only one point that worries me. Last time I was able to use a light and stiff dragon material, but this time I was only interested in materials that could be made in the human world. Because I am focusing on mass production. As a result, the material was heavier than dragon materials, and the weight of the fuselage was increased by 30 percent.
“Even if I were to use a super rare and precious metal like mithril, I could hardly make it.”
At first I thought of doing it without using some kind of expensive magical precious metal, but gave up because the performance was too low. At the moment, if it’s made of iron, Freya or I could make it fly and it would fix the weight problem, but it’s not very fast, and the response to commands would be poor. First of all, it’s a fatal flaw as a mass product since an average wizard can’t make it fly, and if he made it as a single product he’d honestly use dragon material. Another idea was to get rid of the defense power and by using wood or something I could make something lighter and cheaper, but if you increase the speed a bit the fuselage would creak and it would be powerless against enemy attacks. I don’t want to ride in such a fragile flying coffin, much less put my precious women there.
The result was a ridiculously expensive toy that uses mithril. With the money to make this aircraft you could hire a hundred mercenaries for a year. However, I decided to do it because it would be profitable. Anyway, the dozens of days I would save a year on travel alone are worth a hundred mercenaries. Furthermore, in the event of a war, he will do the work of more than a hundred mercenaries.
“Although it’s an incredibly complicated process, it seems incredibly easy to do.”
“It’s thanks to the magic of alchemy. As long as I can imagine the shape clearly, I can create it as is. That’s why this time I worked hard on the design specifications beforehand.”
Just because alchemy magic is so convenient doesn’t mean it can do everything. It’s just a convenient processing technique. A clear image was only possible because I had perfectly written down what I had to create. And one of the advantages of alchemy magic is that you can erase the join marks if you wanted to. It is convenient because it strengthens the union between the parts much more than screws or welds.
“You said you were too busy to come see me, but when did you design this?”
“It was in the carriage. To be honest, the preparations for everything related to politics had been completed before I left, so I completely focused on these designs. Though of course, even I couldn’t have finished the designs in just two or three days.”
One of the few good points about the carriage is that I can work on things I don’t usually have time for. If I was in the castle, I would have thought of doing other tasks with higher priority.
…In that sense, the carriage wasn’t too bad either.
“Well, it’s finished.”
I reshaped the materials with alchemy magic according to the design drawings and the job was just putting them together, so I was done in less than two hours.
“It is more beautiful than the dragon airship. It has a silvery sheen.”
“After all, most of the parts are mithril. It is not visible to the naked eye, but the performance is also good. It is less light than dragon materials, but the toughness, especially magic resistance, is superior.”
“Wow, that sounds interesting. Who do you think is faster, this or me?”
“If you were the old Eve, then the airship, but… with the current Eve I don’t know.”
“So we compete? To the demon territory.”
“Good. From the beginning I was planning to go there when the airship was finished… So, what if the loser has to do whatever the other says?”
Although we had made certain preparations even in the demon territory to obtain this peace, it is undeniable that everything was even more unstable over there. That’s why I decided to go. I heard from Carol that there are some disturbing movements between races closely related to the former Demon King.
“Whatever!? Are you sure?”
“Yeah, whatever.”
Eve was breathing very heavily. What the hell is she planning to ask me? And the interesting thing is that I don’t plan to lose even once. Well, it’s understandable. I said that with the lighter dragon material, it would take two days to arrive on the airship. In response, Eve said that she could be back in half a day. If you think about it normally, an airship made of mithril, heavier, couldn’t win.
…However, Eve was forgetting something important. That this aircraft is an improved version.
“Fufufu, of course. I am looking forward to the moment! I won’t make it easy for you, eh?”
“I don’t plan on doing it either. The departure will be in five hours.”
“You’re taking quite a bit of time, aren’t you?”
“Since I was planning to leave today, I planned to prepare a feast before leaving. Also, I want to get two more ships done.”
“Thank you, I am looking forward to the banquet. But what will the other two ships be for?”
“One for Freya and the others to use, and the other will be a gift.”
A gift for the Breed Prince of the City of Water.
This time, we had to give it enormous power in exchange for allying ourselves with that great country. One of his conditions for cooperating with us was the export of an aircraft. I remember how excited he was when he first saw the aircraft. You probably well understand its strategic and commercial value. That’s why I wanted a finished product. It was a little painful to hand this over to him, but it was a necessary sacrifice.
“Oh I see. Would you also give one to me?”
“I wouldn’t mind producing it, but if you already have the dragon knights, the demon territory doesn’t need it, right?”
“That’s true.”
Eve nodded as her stomach growled. Speaking of which, is it almost time for lunch?
“In the meantime, let’s go eat.”
“Y-Yes.”
Eve blushed sheepishly.
Such a sweet gesture suits Eve very well. Unlike with Setsuna, who is not embarrassed, but instead appeals to the rumble her stomach makes when she is hungry. I took her hand and we headed to the dining room where the banquet was being prepared.
“I prepared many delicious things for you, Eve. Eat all you can.”
“Wow, I’m looking forward to it.”
…Eat a lot so that you gain weight and thus increase, even a little, my chances of winning the competition. The game has already started. I also want the privilege of her doing whatever I ask of her.