Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Volume 4 Chapter 3 Part4

Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Volume 4 Chapter 3 Part4

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!





Another release.





DISCLAIMER: There is no
guarantee that my translation is 100% correct. Please correct me if I was
wrong.





Author:





Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)





Translator:





Yukkuri Oniisan





Editor:





So-Chintzy





Enlightenment Arc





Chapter 3: The Core of CoReform D





Dungeon core.





It is said that it exists in the far
reaches of the lowest floor of a dungeon, that it maintained the peculiar ecosystem
of the maze and governed the entire dungeon. ...... It is “said”, because it was
just a deduction. There is a dungeon core inside the dungeon, and destroying or
stopping it will prevent new monsters from appearing, and the ecosystem inside
the dungeon will collapse. With no monsters or wildlife, it will become a 『defunct
dungeon』 (There were cases where the wildlife from outside the
dungeon will settle inside after it became a defunct dungeon). From this fact, they
said that it might be the core function of a dungeon.







The adventurers of this world were
exploring dungeons as their livelihoods, but their final goal was to stop this
dungeon core and to conquer the dungeon. Because the dungeon core was used as
Royal Voice Broadcast Orbs, if they brought this back, then they would be
granted huge riches and honor from the country. However, there was a tendency
that as one approached the deepest place at the dungeon’s lowest floor, the monsters
that appeared became stronger, and so a successful dungeon conquest on the
continent as a whole seemed to only happened once every several years, or even decades.





Hence, why it was commonplace for
ordinary adventurers such as Dis and Yuno to obtain their daily bread by
escorting the travelling merchants or trade caravans from bandits or dangerous
creatures, or to exterminate monsters coming from the dungeon or Demon Lord’s
Realm. Even if they entered the dungeon, it was to sell the materials from the defeated
monsters or to sell the occasional discovered relics (there was no convenient object
like a treasure box).





Now let's return back to the
dungeon core. Unless the dungeon core’s function is stopped, it would produce
endless numbers of monsters (along with powerful ones on the lowest floor), and
it seems that there has never been a case of a Core being brought back from a
Dungeon in a functional state. Supposed they brought it back in a functional
state, (let’s ignore how it would be carried along the way) it would be
disastrous if it turns the Royal Castle into the Demon Lord Castle. In other
words, the dungeon core was only studied in a broken state.





In the example I gave earlier, it
was like if you had only fixed the camera function of a broken handphone and
used it in that state. Then, you may think that it would be better if they
could research it to seek out the other functions…… But, let’s think about it. A
mobile phone won’t produce monsters. So for argument’s sake, let’s suppose that
I knew that the handphone had a self-destruct function that could blow away
anything within 100 meters surrounding it, would I think about searching for the
other features? This was the reason why the research on dungeon core didn’t
progress at all.





「In
the first place, it is impossible to operate the stopped dungeon core with the
current technological capabilities of this world. We don’t even understand how
to operate it.」(Ginya)





Ginya shrugged her shoulders as
she mentioned this.





「In
this regard, you could understand how they supplemented the explanations with “it’s
magic”. It’s the fear of the unknown.[1]
Since they are afraid of something that is incomprehensible and unexplainable to
them, they just explained it even with a rather forced ‘fact’, and made it
become ‘understandable’…… Or rather, it would be better to say: make it feel ‘understandable’?」(Ginya)





「So they
decided this mysterious element to be magic…… correct?」(Souma)





「That's
correct! My my~, I’m really saved since the King is a person that can
understand this. If this place was the Lunaria Orthodoxy Empire, then I would
be thrown into a prison for saying this, or in the worst case, perhaps I would
be burnt at the stake.」(Ginya)





「Burnt
at the stake……?」(Souma)





「In
this world, there is an penchant to think that magic is the grace from the G.o.ds
and the Spirits. This idea is more prominent as the faith strengthens. Much
more for that country which is a religious state. The G.o.d and the Spirits are the
authority itself. They wouldn’t accept a researcher…… whose research tearing
off that veil of mysteriousness.」(Ginya)





「……」(Souma)





……This might be true. In
countries where the power of faith is too strong, sometimes those who unraveled
the mysteries of nature are suppressed. Those who have unraveled what is
contrary to the doctrine would be treated as heretics, or at the worst, be
killed. Even Galileo couldn’t help but to amend his theory…… How stupid.[2]





「I won’t
create this country in such a way. I won’t let it happen.」(Souma)





「I am
very glad to hear that word.」(Ginya)





Ginya happily accepted this and
smiled.





「I am
a member of the Maxwell House. Believing that there is 『a
principle other than magic』 in this world, I kept researching. The dungeon core certainly
could recover some of its functions by using magic power, but I believe that the
purification process of the Core itself seems to be an engineering or mathematical
process. Not a mysterious force, but a functional one that could be
investigated at any time, so I felt that the truth is out there. For the
convenience’s sake I call that 『different principle』 as 『Over(Obaa)-Science(Saiensu)』」(Ginya)





「Over-Science……」(Souma)





「Or
obasan for short.」[3](Ginya)





「……
Please stop abbreviating it like that.」(Souma)





「And then
my family, the people who study that 『Over-Science』, I dub us, 『Over-Scientists』!」(Ginya)





After saying this, Ginya made a
proud smile as if saying, “How’s that”.





「Have
you heard about Mad Scientists from Ludwin?」(Souma)





「I
wish for you to stop using such an uncool term.」(Ginya)





「I don’t
see the difference!」(Souma)





Over is cool and Mad is uncool?
…… How should I know? Then, Ginya stood up and spoke up.





「Now
then, since the King seems to be a person with good understanding, I wish for you
to see my invention.」(Ginya)





「Ah,
I definitely want to see it.」(Souma)





「I
understand. Then, can you follow me this way?」(Ginya)





After she said that, Ginya went
outside the house. It seems that the so-called inventions that she wanted to show
to me were outside. Then, it might be amongst the cloth-covered objects that I
saw on the lowest floor. Ludwin said, 「Ah, geez」 and pursued Ginya while scratching his head. Liscia and I were left in the
house. Liscia was going to follow the both of them, when I spoke to her.





「When
I saw the might of the Imperial Army back in Van, I……  I thought that it will be bad if nothing
changes at this rate.」(Souma)





「Souma?」(Liscia)





Liscia turned back and I weakly laughed.





「Until
now, we managed to make do somehow with “things that already existed”, but from
now on, I believe that we have to create “things that do not exist yet”. To
invent innovative technologies, incorporate them, and advance this country. If
we can’t do this, then no matter how much time pa.s.ses, this country will never
be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Empire.」(Souma)





「……
That’s true.」(Liscia)





「And,
the method for the advancement... ... I feel like I have finally found it.」(Souma)





「The method?」(Liscia)





Liscia tilted her head, and so I nodded
deeply.





「Sometimes,
people who preempt their era appear in the history of humanity. Those who have foresight
and can destroy the established concepts, their existence themselves could
alter history…… Well, in many cases, people like these were ignored by the flow
of time, or were culled out.」(Souma)





For example, the 『Universal
Genius』 Leonardo da Vinci. As the creator of 『Mona
Lisa』 and others, he was well-celebrated as an artist, but besides
that works of art, he also left various design notes as an engineer. It is said
that there were designs for mortars, diving clothes and even helicopters in those
notes. Even if we set aside their feasibility, if these inventions were
properly and continuously studied, then the entire history of Europe might have
been changed.





In addition, other than those astonishing
inventions, he also had left behind an accurate anatomical drawing of the human
body. In a time when the influence of Christianity was strong, he purchased
corpses and dissected them (an act which was condemned as sacrilegious to the
dead by the church)[4] to
know the structure of the human body. If these anatomical drawings had been
published, it would have contributed a lot to the field of medicine. But fearing
the church’s authority, these anatomical drawings were sealed for a long time
and so they couldn’t contribute towards mankind’s history of medicine.[5]





I looked into Liscia’s eyes and
said.





「These
kinds of people would be lamented in the later eras as 『people
who were born too early』. However , what if the rulers during those times
correctly recognized them, took them into patronage, and gave them important
positions? And then, not just the people in power, but if we could make the
whole nation recognize them, then perhaps would they have been able to greatly advance
the world?」(Souma)





「Do
you mean…… to change the flow of the era, with the people who preempt the times?」(Liscia)





「That’s
right, I’m glad you understand.」(Souma)





「After
all, haven’t we done many things together during the last half a year?」(Liscia)





Liscia said this while laughing,
but she immediately made a pensive face.





「But,
if that's the reason, then shouldn’t Souma be the one leading this? The world
where Souma came from is far more advanced than this world, right?」(Liscia)





「…… I
can’t do that. I am not a person who preempts the times, since the world I was from
doesn’t lie on the same track of line as this world.」(Souma)





In the world I was from, there
was no magic. Because of magic, I felt that the technology structure of this
world was uneven, but that is just the way this world has progressed. Some
technologies, such as the Royal Voice Broadcasting Orbs, had already surpa.s.sed my
previous world. Perhaps from hereafter, this world might go into a different path
of progress from the world I was from.





「There
is a danger that I could delay the development by interrupting things halfway. That’s
why, I believe that the people of this world should be the ones who advance
this world’s progress.」(Souma)





「…… I
understand Souma's line of thinking.」(Liscia)





Liscia might have replied to me
like that, but her face showed that she couldn’t accept it. Or rather, her face
looked angry and sad. Liscia then grabbed my hand tightly.





「I
understand your thinking, but there are parts that I can’t agree with.」(Liscia)





「……
Which part?」(Souma)





「The
part about “the people of this world”! Souma is already a part of the people of
this country!」(Liscia)





Liscia pulled my hand and placed it
on her cheek.





「As the
daughter of the King who had separated Souma from your original world thing, it
might be presumptuous for me to say this…… but your words just now…… are too
sad.」(Liscia)





「Ah, I……
am sorry.」(Souma)





「Please,
don’t differentiate “yourself” from “us” ever 
again.」(Liscia)





「……I
understand.」(Souma)





Liscia said these words while her
eyes had slight tears in it. She was irresistibly lovely, so I placed my other
hand on her other cheek, and……





『Hey,
Your Majesty ~. Come here quickly~.』





……we were called by Ginya from
outside. We exchanged a look at each other and made smiled wryly.[6]





☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽





Ginya is really a natural flirt-flirt time
breaker.





NEXT CHAPTER: Ginya’s literal MINDBLOWING invention.