The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

Magic Source Stone is the only widely used energy source in this world.

"In fact, the magic source stone was discovered hundreds of years ago, but at that time everyone just thought it was a harmful thing. Even if they dug it out, they would just find a place to bury it again."

"This young master does know something."

Because the spiritual energy released by the magic source stone after activation will interfere with the fighting spirit and magic power in the human body, people in the past believed that this kind of stone was pure garbage.

"Two hundred years ago, the Magic Guild suddenly developed a technology that could convert psychic energy into magic power. Oh, that was truly an epoch-making invention."

Useless stones suddenly became energy that could drive magic, and a large number of fixed magic arrays no longer needed manpower to start and maintain. After this technology developed rapidly for several decades, spiritual energy factories that could output large amounts of spiritual energy were built on a large scale.

"Although the speed at which the magic source stones release spiritual energy is very slow, as long as there are enough of them, a spiritual source factory can be enough to stably supply the daily needs of a large city of 500,000 people."

"Wait, I heard that if too many magic source stones gather together, they will explode. Isn't something like the Spirit Source Factory very dangerous?"

"It will indeed explode, but... do you know how to activate the magic source stone?"

Aarons had never seen the magic source stone before, so he had no idea what the specific characteristics of this dangerous energy source, which was similar to the nuclear energy in his previous life, were.

"The Magic Source Stone will not suddenly release spiritual energy on its own. It must be activated by inputting a certain amount of magic power. And even if you use level 5 magic power, you can't make the Magic Source Stone explode."

——This characteristic is somewhat different from the nuclear energy that Aarons knows.

People will use the psychic energy released by the magic source stone to cast level five magic, and then use these level five magic to activate other magic source stones to complete the cycle of psychic energy production.

The most crucial point is that even if many level five magics are used at the same time to activate different magic source stones in the same place, there will be no chain reaction between these magic source stones.

"If any level 5 magic can detonate the magic source stone, then there will be dangerous areas everywhere on the continent."

"Then what conditions are needed to detonate the magic source stone?"

"You should also know that the larger the mass of the magic source stone activated at one time, the faster the spiritual energy is released. Of course, everyone wants to improve the efficiency of spiritual energy output, so at that time some people began to try to use magic above level five to trigger a larger mass of magic source stone."

——After modifying the output method of the magic array and stacking or chaining a large number of level five magics together, people quickly created a super array that could release level six magic.

"The array of super magic is not only ridiculously large, but also consumes psychic energy a hundred times higher than level five magic. At the time, someone estimated that if this kind of magic was used to activate the magic source stone, the speed of releasing psychic energy would also be a hundred times higher."

"…But this one hundred times exploded in the end, right?"

"Yes, the super magic did activate five tons of magic source stones at once... but those magic source stones also evaporated a city in an instant."

——Since then, using super magic to activate the magic source stone has become a recognized taboo on the continent.

Although some people keenly discovered that this special phenomenon might be used in the military, due to the huge size of the super array and the long time required for charging and preheating before launching, the novel concept of this strategic weapon was quickly denied by various practical factors.

"The super array is huge and expensive. Not only does it require a large number of level 6 monster cores and skeletons as the basic framework, it also requires at least five level 5 magicians to draw the magic array at the same time."

A normal country would go bankrupt just to produce such a thing. The key point is that it is still very difficult to actually apply this thing in military applications - no enemy would remain unmoved when seeing several tons of magic source stones and preheated arrays in front of them.

"But it is said that the Empire seems to have developed a simplified version of the super array ten years ago. Although it will be scrapped after one launch, it is slightly cheaper and smaller in size. Since then, Cadia and Collins have dared not invade the Empire's territory on a large scale again."

——It turns out that the reason why Marquis Moti voluntarily gave up his military power was also related to this outrageous technological development.

"So it's okay... I'll teach you something. If I have the chance, I will definitely visit the Lingyuan Factory to learn from it."

"Hahaha, the magic source stone mine will not explode casually anyway, you can rest assured."

In order to make the other party maintain their misjudgment of him, Aarons first pretended to wipe the sweat from his head, and then deliberately put an expression of lingering fear on his face.

After noticing Aarons's timidity, the mercenary leader Kuran quickly changed the subject.

"Also, you can stay in a safe place and observe our actions for a while. You don't have to go there and command the battle yourself."

"Oh, that's good."

"Because the journey is quite long, you should take a rest first. If you need anything, please tell the driver to stop."

After saying that, Kuran turned around, opened the door, and jumped out of the car. After watching him leave, Aarons finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This was about the extent of his knowledge of the Magic Source Stone, and Aarons did not think that he would have the opportunity to experience a psychic nuclear explosion in the future.

And this man who is always superior to others is the one he needs to concentrate on dealing with the most right now.

"Karin, are you sure you want to go with that group later?"

"...Yes, Master."

"I don't know much about fighting, but you can't deal with a warrior with fighting spirit right now, right?"

Ordinary weapons and fists and feet can hardly destroy the barrier constructed by Dou Qi, so as long as you can release the Dou Qi from your body, you can gain a defensive power far beyond that of ordinary people.

But Karin is unable to use Dou Qi now, so she has no way to break other people's Dou Qi defense.

"Even if it doesn't work, I still... want to try to see how far I can go."

Since the two were sitting side by side, Aarons did not notice the gloom on Karin's face.

"It's up to you. Just be careful. After all, I don't have any fighting ability. If something happens, I can't save you."

"Master, you... No, nothing."

"Anyway, I know... Even if I'm called incompetent, it's better than losing my life."

——Although it might have been unintentional, Aarons' words once again deeply hurt Karin's heart.

If I still have the strength, if I can take on more responsibilities, if I can get what I expect...

Although she herself was not aware of it, a strong and turbid emotion had quietly begun to evaporate in her heart.