Tbate-The Reincarnates

Goodbye Two Digit Numbers... Three Digit Numbers From Now!

From the point of view of Lancelot Winey

As I predicted the trial went quite smoothly, as soon as we arrived at the castle garden Fluger intended to jump.

"Wait," I said quickly. "Where are you going?"

My speech made the gaze of my parents and Sam focus on me, since the end of the trial we had not talked, everyone seemed immersed in their thoughts and how the betrayal of the king of dwarves impacted this continent.

"I have my own training to do." He responded by jumping off my shoulder.

"Training why so suddenly?" I asked, moving to stand beside him.

"Our next opponents are not people we can face at our current stage, they are the highest echelons of power."

"Fine, just be careful out there. The world is a scary place for a little bird."

He turned his bright eyes on me mockingly. "Ha. Ha. Hilarious."

I watched as it darted north its wings quickly taking it out of our sight.

"Lancelot." Someone called my name I turned around to see Nettie Anning and Emily Watsken, "can we take some of your time?"

"Mom..."

"Sure go talk to them, we're going to meet Priscilla and Iris now."

"Okay, see you later" I said separating myself from them

Nettie, Emily and I sat in one of the far corners of the castle garden around a large tree.

Wind swirled around us to keep any sound from leaking out no one needed to hear what we were going to discuss.

"We would like you to explain us more about that project of yours that you mentioned to us last time." Nettie said getting right to the point, loved the fact that she never stalled or wasted time in conversations.

"I think you called it the Heaven project." Completed Emily.

"I wonder what kind of weapon that will be?" Nettie murmured.

"Project Heaven is more like a company that will make communication technology the most powerful weapon."

"Wait can this really be used as a weapon?" Nettie said hesitantly.

"In war the ability to communicate can totally overcome a numerical disadvantage. For example if one of our soldiers sends the information in real time we can win completely if we play our cards right we can, it is not unthinkable to win the war with the minimum spillage of blood." I explained.

"But we already have the communication scrolls to do that." Emily argued.

"Yes, but for that we need soldiers specialized in stealth and we can't waste that with reconnaissance missions, to replace these soldiers make golems capable of communicating with all the soldiers of Dicathen in an instant, in short I want to create a completely artificial intelligence for control them."

That last part wasn't totally true at the beginning I really thought about creating an artificial intelligence but that would take a lot of my time, and Fluger was right I need to get stronger, so I'll put Moonlight in charge of this function after all she is also an artificial intelligence.

Moonlight's existence isn't something that should be revealed to the general public yet so I lied to Emily and Nettie.

"Expect to create multiple golems would be too expensive and practically unfeasible, but making artificial intelligence is impossible."

"I agree with Nettie, Lancelot, creating a thinking being is totally impossible." Emily said reinforcing her friend's speech.

"I agree with you Nattie, making golems is expensive so we have to find the black jewel of humanity, to cover expenses, currently the most advanced mineral we have is coal."

"Oh, you mean Combustium?" Emily said with shining eyes.

I raised an eyebrow. "Combustium?"

"Master Gideon told me he would need a mineral with definite characteristics, capable of powering the steam engine we designed, initially I think he called it coal? Anyway, of the currently known minerals, which are not many, just one of them produced the amount of energy needed to fuel an entire ship efficiently. The characteristics are a little different from the coal you mentioned, so the master decided to name it something else. Anyway, this material is amazing. Five kilos of fuel can fuel a ship whole for about twenty kilometers at top speed!" Emily said.

"Leaving Combustium aside, what is this black jewel you mentioned?" Nattie said being unable to contain her excitement.

"It's a raw material called oil."

Oil was one of the centerpieces of the earth only in 2021, the revenue arising from oil and gas activities reached the figure of R$ 104 billion.

Fossil fuels involve economic, environmental and political issues – the maintenance of energy security and the dispute over oil control were often associated with conflict factors in several countries.

After all, generating energy is one of the fundamental needs of the industrialized world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, coal (affectionately known here as Combustium) was an important source of energy for the First Industrial Revolution.

In the 20th century, the use of oil and its derivatives replaced coal as the basis of the world's energy matrix, and this will also happen here in Dicathen.

If I was able to find a large oil basin I could easily get the resources needed to get the Heaven project up and running.

"What is oil?" Emily asked.

"Basically, petroleum is a complex mixture of organic compounds generated by the slow decomposition of small marine animals, which were buried, in an environment with little oxygen. The formation of petroleum occurs by water pressure, where phytoplankton are transformed into petroleum, in a slow process and under special conditions. This fossil fuel is found at the bottom of the oceans, as well as in the soil, in sedimentary rocks."

"That's a lot to take in."

"What are you talking about." Kathyln's voice sounded behind me.

"About Lancelot's new project." Emily said innocently.

"Really? What kind of project would that be? Honey." From the tone of her voice Kathyln is a little annoyed that I haven't shared this project with her, deciding it was best to avoid a fight I sighed and explained everything I had just said to Kathyln.

"I will start my search for oil tomorrow at sunrise, if you want to come you are invited, wait for you at the Etistin teleport gate until 7 am, Emily also talk to Gideon I bet he will love to participate in this adventure. "