Trapped in Another World With No Magic

Chapter 50: The Mechanic and the Artisan

Wenlianna paces her lab back and forth. Daniel spoke of ways to track things over long distances, especially aircraft, in case they got lost or were shot down. She didn't really realize it, but she wonders if this is what ship owners and large merchants feel about their ships when they send them out to sea.

She glances at a floating magic crystal; a diamond that she was able to create by combining several different spells to create a crystal that defies gravity. She hasn't figured out the best use for it, yet, but it proved that she can layer rather complex spells onto a diamond and still retain powerful effects.

The magic artisan also has a small generator running off of water pressure from a water crystal. She's still experimenting with converting the electric energy from the generator to pure mana. If she can, Wenlianna can change the water pressure turbine to a water wheel and continuously charge crystals. But first, she has to figure out how to convert that energy.

The young woman collapses in the otherworldly chair, turning in a slow circle with a sigh. She reads through her notes once more. Wenlianna is juggling too many simultaneous projects in addition to the airship that successfully left a couple weeks ago to join the mission to find Daniel. Aramellianna hasn't told Wenlianna everything about it, but she knows enough to know that Aramellianna asked for a specialized weapon for a reason. Wenlianna has no idea how the airship's cannon will work. Can it stop a dragon? Is it lethal or non-lethal? She mainly wanted to only knock dragons out of the sky, but falling from that height could be deadly to even the mightiest beings of the world. Dragons have perished before, after all. However,...

"Why? Why did things have to change? Why did we have to do any of this?" She puts her head down on her desk, fidgeting with a pen.

Before she knows it, she's asleep.

When she wakes up, Wenlianna stretches with a yawn. Her face is a little sore from sleeping on her arm at her work bench. Fortunately, the chair is immensely soft, so it caused her no discomfort.

That said, as the magic artisan is clearing her brain out of drowsiness, she finds that she's covered in a blanket. It's possible Aramellianna came by, or one of the maids.

Wenlianna folds the blanket as she begins anew after her nap. She yawns and stretches a little, and then puts her glasses on.

I wonder if the airship has reached the Citadel yet. I hope they don't do anything rash and try to fight the dragons.

Wenlianna checks her generator, which is still running. I should see if I can find a way to quantify mana stored in a crystal. Salt crystals never really mattered, since most applications can last for five years, which is long enough to get their worth, I think. But, if the airship were to be airborne and suddenly lose power.

She ponders it for a moment.

That's it! Daniel's artifact! It has a meter for how much electricity it has! Surely there are documents about how such a feat is accomplished.

She walks briskly to the secure room of her lab, where she keeps the otherworldly device hidden and powered by Daniel's charger hooked into a generator he built.

Strangely, when she arrives, she notices something off about the room. She tries to look around, searching for what's out of place. The lights are normal. The window is covered with a metal plate. There is nothing but silence in the room and the special equipment that she...

Silence...

Wenlianna snaps her gaze to the bench where it should be. Where a generator should be running, powering a strange, small brick with two metal prongs and a strange string that connects to an otherworldly archive of wisdom.