I Became a Genius Mechanic at the Academy

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Laboratory.

I skimmed through the list of this delegation.

Overall, it was a satisfying composition of members.

Elena, James, Charlotte, Enya, Isabella, Claire, Clarice.

All of them were capable members who could perform their roles in this delegation mission.

“I reviewed nearly every student, and the result was predictable.”

However, upon picking the members, it turned out that I only selected the main NPCs.

Elena, Enya, Isabella, Claire.

These were NPCs who excelled every time I retried the game dozens of times, and now they were included in this Dwarf Alliance Kingdom delegation.

At least, some extras I hadn’t known before had joined.

Charlotte and Clarice.

Originally, these two were extras from the game that I had no previous knowledge of.

I only happened to meet Charlotte during the entrance ceremony, and this was my first time seeing Clarice.

But even though she was a newcomer, the shock of encountering her still lingered in my mind.

I couldn’t help but wonder why such a person hadn’t become a main NPC.

“Please introduce yourself.”

“I’m Clarice Lianther. I’m half-human, half-elf.”

She was a hybrid of human and elf.

As I listened, it became evident that she had the kind of exquisite beauty that screamed elf hybrid.

Her classic elf-like pale skin and long, wavy blonde hair stood out strikingly.

“What’s your motivation for applying?”

“I’m going to meet my youngest uncle.”

Her youngest uncle was Altaerion, the legendary archery expert of the Eldar Kingdom.

And Altaerion was famously known as the only elf friend accepted by the stubborn dwarves.

The only elf friend accepted by the dwarves was none other than Clarice’s youngest uncle.

“Wait, so… Clarice is… related to an elf princess?”

Plus, Altaerion was also the younger brother of Gideon, the king of the Elf Kingdom.

In other words, calling Altaerion her uncle means Clarice’s mother is the king’s sister.

Clarice honestly acknowledged that fact.

“Well, that’s right? But I’d like it kept a secret. My family has its own reasons.”

However, she asked me to keep her being the daughter of an elf princess a secret.

It seemed like there was a family matter she wanted to hide, so I decided not to pry any further.

Anyway, it was time to move on to the next question and explain why she was essential to our mission.

Finally, Clarice answered.

“I can use some elemental magic. Furthermore, since my uncle is currently in the Dwarf Alliance Kingdom, it might make this mission easier. As you know, my uncle is a close friend of the current Dwarf King.”

Her uncle being close friends with the current Dwarf King was an offer I simply couldn’t refuse.

We decided to actively utilize this opportunity and accepted Clarice as our final member.

And as I accepted Clarice, I thought to myself.

“The reason Clarice is just an extra might be related to the fall of the Eldar Kingdom.”

The Eldar Kingdom.

This small kingdom, home to around twenty thousand elves, would face disaster approximately one year from now.

An ancient calamity, sealed for a millennium, would awaken and consume the World Tree that could be described as their very essence.

“Clarice probably fell victim to that calamity as well.”

As a result, my thoughts naturally wandered toward Clarice’s demise.

Her imposing lineage as a royal bloodline made the fact that she was merely an extra baffling.

She must have died before any major events even took place.

For some reason, she was staying in the Eldar Kingdom, only to meet her end along with the kingdom’s destruction.

Coincidentally, the period after a year was when the number of missing or deceased cadets gradually began to increase.

“A year, huh? It’s tight.”

The Eldar Kingdom, which had walked on the path of destruction each time I retried this game.

Could I really change that fate within a year?

The ancient calamity was one of the worst creatures that would be a burden even to Elena.

Moreover, the second year was when the devil’s minions began to emerge sporadically, complicating things for the Empire.

“…First, I need to deal with immediate matters.”

But there’s no use in being impatient.

If I steadily work through what I have to do, a path will definitely reveal itself.

As evidence of that, even though my ‘Engineering Thought’ level is still stuck at level three, I successfully implemented a primitive structure of a computer.

I created an arithmetic logic unit capable of basic input and output by applying the ‘Von Neumann Architecture’ proposed by the father of computers, Von Neumann.

Von Neumann.

He was one of the greatest geniuses in human history.

Unbelievably, he could mentally calculate eight-digit numbers at the age of six or seven and taught number theory to Eugene Wigner, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, when he was just eleven.

By the age of twelve, he had already surpassed the level of a mathematics major.

With his monstrous abilities, he could speak seven languages and mastered a medical course that usually took seven years in just two weeks, contributing to various fields of study including economics, quantum mechanics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, computer science, geometry, numerical analysis, and statistics.

He was, quite literally, a walking computer.

Let me share a shocking anecdote.

It was during his time at the University of Zurich.

At that time, his professor was one of the brilliant mathematicians, Paul Erdős, who introduced a challenging theorem one day.

It was a tremendously challenging theorem, akin to the ‘Riemann Hypothesis’ or ‘Poincaré Conjecture.’

Back then, it was one of the unsolved problems that no one could prove.

However, five minutes later, suddenly, Von Neumann raised his hand.

He then came to the front and started writing something on the board.

He proved the unsolved theorem in just five minutes.

Paul Erdős later recalled his feelings from that moment.

“From that point on, I began to fear Von Neumann.”

“……”

Anyway, he was an extraordinary person.

Thanks to his ‘Von Neumann Architecture,’ modern humanity has rapidly entered the information age and benefits from it.

“Is he someone who reincarnated from another world?”

His anecdotes can leave anyone gaping in disbelief.

Did he perhaps have a status window or something?

If you touch a hologram floating in the air, you could use some overpowered cheat abilities, like ‘Engineering Thought.’

Primitive modern folks, haha.

…Anyway, I’m standing on the shoulders of giants.

Relying on the accumulated knowledge of countless scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, I am gradually completing the devices that will save this world.

I have become the Von Neumann of El Pandor Runtera and the Willis Carrier of this realm.

What will I become next?

If I spread the concepts of classical mechanics into this world, I might become Isaac Newton, or if I prove that time flows differently along the axis of space-time, I could become Albert Einstein.

If I prove the Big Bang theory, I might even become Dr. Stephen Hawking.

However, I am not here to achieve academic accomplishments.

The salvation of this world.

It is my only mission and goal to save this world, which has never been saved before.

Of course, the reason I aim for that is the hope that clearing the game might allow me to return to Earth.

I miss the modern infrastructure where I can have chicken delivered in fifty minutes with just the press of a button.

“Wooo~?”

At that moment, Fix approached and called out to me.

It seemed like he had made some discovery.

I immediately followed Fix to check on the data he had found.

It was the research material on how obsidian absorbs ‘feelings of hatred’ and transforms them into energy.

“As expected, mana absorbs brainwaves and vaporizes them.”

“Wooo~!”

After skimming through the material, I nodded and petted Fix on the head.

This was because I had almost uncovered the secret of obsidian.

So, what experiment could I conduct to further understand obsidian’s secret?

To understand the phenomenon, I needed to reproduce that phenomenon precisely.

So, I got permission from Elena and acquired a Fury Potion, then fed it to a lab rat.

I wanted to confirm whether the core mana stone of obsidian absorbed ‘hatred.’

“It really didn’t work.”

As a result, it was a failure.

The lab rat squeaked and wreaked havoc inside the test tube, but no reactions occurred.

Simply consuming the Fury Potion wasn’t enough for the mechanism of obsidian to activate.

“Sorry, little guy.”

I then anesthetized the lab rat and gently made an incision on its head.

Then, I carefully took an emerald mana stone that I had acquired and very finely shattered it to implant it into the rat’s brain.

So it could handle mana.

“Shick!! Siiiiick!!! Zzzzz!”

Afterwards, I reinjected the Fury Potion into it.

The rat began to dart around the test tube madly, spewing out rage and hatred.

And when I performed ‘Mana Transfer’ on it…

“Shhhhhh…”

A red haze began to rise from its body.

Simultaneously, obsidian started absorbing the red haze and generating black mana.

By injecting mana into the lab rat, the mechanism of obsidian was set into motion.

Based on this result, I was able to prove the hypothesis I had set.

The hypotheses were as follows:

1. ‘Red haze’ is a byproduct generated when mana combines with feelings of hatred.

2. Obsidian secures black mana as an energy source from this byproduct.

Now.

Having successfully proven my hypothesis, it was time to go deeper into this hypothesis.

I decided to start with the first one.

I would study how emotion and mana combine.

However, I had a rough idea of how to do this.

BCI.

That is, the technology that connects the brain and the computer (Brain-Computer-Interface) was already known to me.

So how does one connect the brain to the computer?

Surprisingly, our brains convey all information through electric signals.

Therefore, if you convert the digital signals of a computer into electrical signals and shoot them into our brains, we would be able to ‘interpret’ that electric signal.

In other words, if the computer sends an image of ‘Enya’ as an electric signal to the brain, it means that even if I’m not looking at Enya, I perceive as if I am looking at her.

Hence, I set up this hypothesis.

What if the Fury Potion has some property that combines brainwaves conveying hatred with mana receptors?

And could it be that when mana combined with the emotion of hatred was circulated throughout the body, it generates the byproduct of the red haze?

I instructed Fix to study my hypothesis.

Then just now, Fix perfectly demonstrated that hypothesis and showed me the results.

He had done something so commendable that I wanted to give him a kiss right there.

“Now… I just need to combine positive emotions and mana.”

Now that I had somewhat figured out the principle, it was time to change it so that positive emotions and mana would combine.

Originally, the obsidian that dwarves proudly boasted of was a holy sword that absorbed courage and valor, emitting powerful holy energy.

“If I could change obsidian back into a holy sword and display it at the upcoming Iron Hammer Exposition…”

No need to say more.

The reaction from the dwarves would be predictable.

The Empire and the Dwarf Alliance Kingdom would switch back to amicable relations.