A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 82

Chapter 82

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Translated by Sylph

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Tie’s eyes widened.

“A battery?”

“Yes, a battery!”

But no matter how he looked at it, the thing Velugon held out was not a battery.

If it had looked like a flat donut or the wrist guards athletes wear, that would have been one thing.

“Isn’t this a donut?”

Velugon narrowed the space between his brows.

“I do not know what a donut is, but take a good look.”

Then he flipped the object over and showed the small golden disc embedded in the middle.

“This amulet here serves as the battery. This is precisely the part that stores and absorbs mana. The remaining ring part becomes the circuit. What do you think, the operating principle is exactly the same as a battery, isn’t it?”

Tie’s eyes spun round and round.

What was an amulet, and what was a circuit?

At any rate, it certainly seemed that Velugon had taken a great deal of inspiration from batteries.

‘How did Factory Manager make something like this in just one day?’

As he was secretly admiring him inwardly, Velugon spoke.

“Also, this item, you see. It could be called equipment that would be very, very helpful to a magician. Do you know why?”

“…Um, why?”

“According to the theory, this item supplements the stability of a permanent familiar.”

Permanent familiar.

That was the word the members of Agabert used to call Kkamang.

When Tie looked bewildered, Velugon laughed heartily.

“I heard that you also fight mainly with summoned entities. I heard that since you have the dark attribute, you summon all kinds of things.”

Tie recalled her bone friends, the wrecked ship, and her subordinates, then nodded.

“Yees.”

Velugon put on a bright expression as if to say just look at that.

“Then, tell me, have you also succeeded in summoning a permanent familiar? According to the members, they said you do carry something around with you.”

Permanent familiar…?

The term from earlier came up again.

However, Tie could not answer and only rolled her eyes around.

To be honest, it was because he still did not know exactly what that was.

‘A familiar is like a pet. But what is permanent…?’

Anyway, Tie nodded.

There was something that he ‘carried around,’ after all.

Namely, Lucarion and Ppuppu.

At once, Velugon’s face brightened.

“I knew it! Then tell me, is it stabilized?”

‘Stabili…?’

Tie’s eyes spun.

The more he talked, the more things appeared that he did not know.

At that moment, Raul’s welcome voice came from below the stairs on the right.

“He is asking how long the familiar has been maintained stably, Commander.”

When he turned his head, the Agabert members were walking up the lodging stairs.

The bags they were carrying were full of new weapons and equipment.

Shock appeared on Tie’s face.

“Everybody went to buy weapons without Tie…?”

“Sorry. You were sleeping so soundly that we couldn’t wake you.”

Veil spoke teasingly, then shook one bag in front of Tie.

“Still, I bought yours too in your place, so don’t worry. Here, there are poison dart bombs too, and I put in everything you said you wanted last time.”

Tie’s face went all soft as she looked into the bag.

In the meantime, Basto asked Velugon.

“What brings you here, Factory Manager?”

“Ah, I came because I thought I might give your little commander a present.”

Velugon held out the equipment he had been showing Tie until just before.

“I got some inspiration from something, you see. So I tried making equipment that would supplement the stability of a permanent familiar.”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

“Equipment that supplements the stability of a permanent familiar? Is that possible with equipment?”

Velugon made a humming sound and narrowed the space between his brows.

From his position, after all, it was understandable that the members were surprised.

The summoned entities that a magician could summon in this age were broadly divided into two types.

First, ‘permanent familiars,’ which, once summoned, lasted until the very moment the summoner’s life was cut off.

And ‘temporary familiars,’ which were used only temporarily in a particular battle or operation.

However, summoning magic itself was such a high-difficulty form of magic that, on the continent, there might not even be one magician in ten who could summon a ‘temporary familiar.’

‘Thinking about it, that must be why the Necromancer King is famous as well.’

The Necromancer King had summoned a dark-attribute summoned entity skeleton at the gate far too easily.

He had demonstrated without any particular spell formula a level that other magicians attained only with difficulty while coughing up blood and falling into mana exhaustion.

‘But that was a temporary familiar.’

What Velugon had focused on was the part concerning ‘permanent familiars.’

“Up to now, it was possible in theory as well. It is only that there had been no proper results so far because no one knew how to materialize it concretely.”

Velugon showed the members in detail the equipment he had brought.

More precisely, the amulet embedded in the middle of the ring-shaped main body.

“I just explained it to the Necromancer King, but this is the device that stores the summoner’s mana.”

Then he traced a finger along the ring surrounding it.

“And this is the key. It is a kind of circuit that makes the mana rotate endlessly inside the equipment while reducing leakage to the minimum.”

Raul, who had a little knowledge of magic tools, furrowed his brows.

That was only natural, since Velugon’s idea was extremely groundbreaking.

Velugon, smiling proudly, added:

“I even gave it a name, battery.”

To be exact, it ought to be called a rechargeable battery with an embedded circuit.

Velugon continued speaking as he looked at the members.

“Aleric, who is considered the most competent magician in the current empire, you all know him, yes?”

Basto narrowed the space between his brows.

There would be no one who did not know Aleric, the magician belonging to Trevaga.

“Even he cannot easily handle a permanent familiar. They say he recently succeeded in summoning one, but according to rumors, because its stability is low, its suspended state is longer.”

A permanent familiar was, true to the word, a summoned entity that was ten times, no, a hundred times harder to maintain than a temporary familiar.

That was because, being everlasting, it required a steady influx of mana from the summoner.

But there was another bigger problem.

‘The point that even magicians are still only human.’

When a magician’s physical strength or mental state became precarious, their ability to operate mana declined.

Then naturally, the permanent familiar they had summoned also often entered a suspended state.

As a result, even though it was a ‘permanent’ familiar, there were cases where its summoned state sometimes became shorter than that of a temporary familiar.

“Think about it. Until now, has there been anyone who overcame such problems with permanent familiars? No one. That is why magicians became the object of ridicule whenever the opportunity arose.”

Veil nodded without realizing it.

He knew well the ridicule aimed at magicians over permanent familiars.

To the extent that among the public, there had even arisen the slang term ‘Wall of Permanence’ as a standard for evaluating a magician’s competence.

‘They said he was a genius without equal in the century, yet it seems this magician also could not overcome the Wall of Permanence.’

‘Hahaha! At this point, shouldn’t the term permanent familiar itself be abolished? There is a reason magicians are forever rear support types.’

Naturally, the other members would have known about this social phenomenon as well.

Even so, the reason they had not brought it up on purpose was….

Veil’s gaze turned toward Tie, who was standing there blankly.

‘Because they know the little squirt wouldn’t even understand what was what anyway?’

However, once the topic had come up, there was a question that did arise.

Looking down at Tie, Veil asked casually.

“Commander, isn’t your permanent familiar rather unstable too?”

That was because the black dragon Astie carried around had suddenly come to mind.

“Was its name Kkamang.”

That fellow was so cheeky that it made one wonder how such a thing could have been born from cute Astie.

“Come to think of it, I think I only saw it once when we came to the weapons district, and then not again. Since it keeps appearing, I guess it really is a permanent familiar.”

Meanwhile, Tie, who had been listening, swallowed hard.

‘Another emergency…?’

That was because, from the start, Kkamang was not Tie’s familiar.

It was a secretly capable spirit hiding its identity, just like Tie.