“Magic tools can be manufactured, and the act of using magic can be imitated using those tools. Whether it is offensive magic or recovery magic, it can be transmitted. In other words, it can be reproduced using tools.”
The fact that it could be reproduced would mean there were rules governing magic in this world, and I was not sure what those rules were. On the other hand, there were also the rules similar to what I had learned in my previous life, such as the rule that air becomes lighter when heated.
“Poison is extinguished by antidote magic. But if you cast antidote magic on the poison powder itself, the powder does not disappear.”
I had this thought when I was dealing with Clara’s case and then I verified it later.
“If that is the case then there is some kind of rule that governs magic, such as the rule of removing poisons. Magic used for that cause will only have an effect within those rules.”
What exactly was Magic, I could not determine at this point. But it would be strange if I didn’t think about it. For example, lead could be harmful to the human body, but lead ingots would not disappear when treated with antidote magic. In other words, magic itself would determine what was considered as harmful or poisonous substances on its own.
In the same way, even if you used antidote magic on a monster with poison, the poison would not disappear from the monster’s body.
The antidote magic was something that worked within some rules that determined what was considered as “poison” and in what “situations”.
The application of magic had a set of rules that someone had decided upon. It would be like not being able to put an image on top of text data in my previous life.
For now, I had to hold off on the rest of the project because I didn’t have enough magic stones, but I would like to experiment next time to see if carbon dioxide could be dissolved into magically created water.Anyway, I did not know if magic was certainly just part of the rules of this world or something supernatural. But confirmation that magic followed some unknown rules also made me feel a little uncomfortable.
Just as magical attacks have minimal reaction to normal armor, the rules of magic and the laws of physics might essentially be two different things, and they seem to be oddly, or rather awkwardly, parallel to each other.
“What are the “Rules” governing “Magic” in the first place?”
In writing, the meaning of Magic could be changed, and when it comes to powers related to Gods, I could only think of divine arts or sacred rituals.
The fact that the word “Magic” and “Demon” were basically similar in writing instead of “God” or “Divine” suggests that it might not be related or under God’s influence.
(T/N: In the above paragraph, he was talking about native language of this new game-like world.)
“And…oh, no, that’s not it.”
Dangerous, very dangerous. The whole thing about primordial magic was still a secret, in case anyone was wondering. But there could very well be a scarier possibility far from what could be imagined when I get to the bottom of this.
One of my assumptions was that what we call magic might be under the control of the Demon King and the Demon Race, and the use of magic itself might be promoting the contamination of the primordial magic power. At this point, it remained more of an imagination than a possibility, but a little caution might be necessary.
But if so, what about the existence of priest-based magic used by priests? In the game, the recovery magic used by enemy (demons) characters had the same name and effect as that of the player, as in the case of the oracle, but what if it was the same in this world?
In this world where demons could also use the same recovery magic as priests, could the God they believed in still be considered the same God? I think that maybe the Gods and the Demon King might have only been a separate entity because of humans to make a distinction between magic humans used. If so, what exactly were demons?
(T/N: Author tends to use demons and monsters interchangeably. Both refer to the same thing.)
I scratched my head and broke off my train of thought.
“I’m sorry. I’m getting confused. I’m going to have to call it off for now. I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to leave the cleaning up of these tools to you two.”
“Yes.”
“Leave it to us.”
I took what Lily had written down for me. I laughed a little at the “no conclusion” at the end of the note.
It may sound cool to leave the cleanup to my vassals and indulge in contemplation, but the truth was that my mind was still in a state of confusion. As a result of having my experiments, I ended up with more complicated questions than answers.
I went back to my room first and continued my thoughts while looking at my notes.
At this point, it seemed that the rules of this world were established first, and then another set of rules called “magic” was added on top of them. It was as if the rule that the air rises as it heats up was established first, and the 100% pure air created by magic tools could not overcome that rule and behaved like normal air.
The fact that fireballs and icicles created by attack magic disappear by the end of a battle would make sense if one considered that they could not maintain their existence for a long period of time because of the energy rules.
However, water made from magic tools existed and was drinkable. It made more sense to think that there was a completely different rule for it.
In any case, I felt that two, three, or even more rules had been strangely intertwined in the current world and Old Man Uwe’s words about the contamination of primordial magic power strangely fits in together.
And then the existence of a Demon King who suddenly appeared in the ancient kingdom period. I wonder if it was my imagination that there was a strange coincidence in this regard. If it was the Demon King who brought in another set of rules, I wonder what his intentions were.
*Knock *knock *Knock
“Please come in.”
“Excuse me, Welner-sama, we’ve finished cleaning up.”
“Oh, thank you.”
I was so deep in thought that I gave a blank response to the knock, but because Lily brought me a pot full of tea, I stopped my train of thought.
“Thanks for your help. Oh yeah, I met Mazell and the others, they seemed fine.”
“I see, that’s good to hear…”
She brewed me a cup of tea with a relieved expression on her face. I could understand her relief, but I didn’t think there was any need to worry about Mazell and the others.
“It’s good that Mazell is progressing more than I think…”
“Was there something on your mind?”
“It’s just that things are getting more and more complicated.”
That was all I could answer as I sipped my tea. The answer itself was not a lie, but there were some problems that were very troublesome to explain to others, which made things complicated.
This time, I did some science experiments to confirm some basic things. However, it only made me further confused. Explaining what was wrong to people of this world would be hard as the existence of magic was common sense in this world today.
“Umm, Welner-sama? Is there something bothering you?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
Well, from my reaction, it might not have been a “nothing” response. I think my poker face was starting to fall apart. I hadn’t considered that possibility at all before, but now that I thought about it, I couldn’t just ignore it.
What if the person who called me here was the Demon King, and he was also a reincarnated person from a different era? What if the Demon King brought magic into this world?
Conflicts with different cultures and the development of technology had been an integral part of human history. And in this world, or at least on this continent, there were no other cultures.
From the perspective of different cultures, different technologies and different ways of thinking, wouldn’t the Demon King and I be the same kind of existence from this world’s point of view?
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