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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
Kousuke was meeting with Schmidt and Dulles to discuss a certain magic tool.
The magic tool was literally a Magic Box.
The shape could be anything from a small purse to a large carry-on bag.
Of course, the capacity of the box was proportional to its size.
Magic Boxes undoubtedly would sell well, as they were in demand by everyone from adventurers to peddlers.
The problem would be that there was currently no one who could make such magic tools.
In the past, advanced magic tools were developed, and some items have survived.
However, most of those items that have survived were items that were classified as national treasures of some other country.
The magical tool craftsmen who existed in the past, along with the skills they possessed, were lost in the wars of the past.
However, Kousuke had already succeeded in developing them.
Despite the success, Kousuke had no intention of making money solely from the production of magic tools, so mass production was not an option for him.
It was only natural that Schmidt approached Kousuke, who had succeeded in developing the Magic Box, asking if he could mass-produce it at any cost.
Kousuke was now meeting with Schmidt because the prospect of mass production was in sight to some extent.
Even though there was a good prospect, it did not mean that there were no problems.
The biggest problem was the magical treatment of ordinary pouches and bags to make them into Magic Boxes.
“Are you a space magician…?”
Dulles frowned at Kousuke’s question.
A space magician would be a wizard who could use transference magic, etc., which would mean that they would generally be a property held by the state.
It would be natural to assume that the presence or absence of wizards who could use transfer magic could make a big difference in the outcome of any war.
There would be no way that such personnel would come to work just to make magic tools.
Above all, there was no doubt that the labor cost would be significant.
Kousuke knew this, so he made the next proposal he had been considering.
“If you are no good, how about slaves who can use magic?”
Schmidt and Dulles looked at each other at this question.
In this world, it was only natural for them to be able to handle either divine or magic power.
“Even if there are magicians among the slaves, it doesn’t make them users of space magic, okay?”
If anyone had such a talent in the first place, they would not have become a slave, or they would have already been sold to the highest bidder.
But Kousuke had his own ideas.
“You don’t have to use space magic to make a Magic Box.”
At Kousuke’s words, Schmidt and Dulles exchanged a blank look.
Normally, it was common knowledge that magical tools should be endowed with magic that their creator could use.
“Well, what are you talking about?”
Kousuke started to explain to Dulles, who asked for a detailed explanation with a serious expression.
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Upon receiving Kousuke’s proposal, Dulles and Schmidt immediately purchased slaves to suit their purposes.
Kousuke insisted that Crown would not treat slaves as commodities, so even though Crown had become a huge organization, it did not directly deal with slaves.
Some of the slaves expressed the hope that Crown would start treating them as commodities, but that possibility would never come to pass.
There were several slaves, both male and female, who were purchased.
They vary in age.
The oldest was a woman, who was over 30 years old.
The next oldest was a man, but he was much younger, not even 18 years old.
All together there were 10 people, and the remaining eight were girls aged just over 10, the youngest of the group.
The one thing they had in common was that they were good at manipulating magic.
Simply put, they could use common magical tools more efficiently than ordinary people.
To put it bluntly, as slaves, they had little value.
In the first place, magical tools were designed to be used by anyone.
Otherwise, it would have no value as a tool.
Being able to use a flint tool more than others would be considered worthless, so to speak.
But that, in Kousuke’s opinion, was a terrible mistake.
That would be what he was about to teach them.
They were on the 47th floor of Amamiya Tower, where the Moon Altar was located.
The Moon Altar housed Jin and his disciple Rin, and he had built a place for them to live right next to the Moon Altar.
They would be the craftsmen of important magical tools to be sold at Crown in the future.
Crown already had a development department led by Isnani, but separately from that, they would be involved in the production of highly confidential magical tools.
To be more precise, it would be the production of magical tools that could be mass-produced using the magical tools developed by Kousuke.
Kousuke thought that the 5th Floor would be fine, but when Kousuke told Schmidt and Dulles about his plan, Schmidt and Dulles decided that it would be better to keep it a secret, and they decided to train them on a different Floor.
The reason was that they did not know what kind of attitude other organizations would take if their existence came to light.
It would be hard to imagine that anyone would try to steal technology from the Tower, which was God’s home, but stealing technology was a common practice.
The reason for the isolation was to prevent such things from happening.
Kousuke handed a certain magical tool to the assembled slaves.
This was another tool developed by Kousuke, which could further develop the power of magical manipulation, the most important aspect of magical tool creation.
Schmidt said that this alone could be sold, but for now they did not intend to put it up for sale.
Or perhaps they might create it in this place, but even if they do, it would still be some time in the foreseeable future.
“So, I’ll have you train with this for a while. When you can handle a certain number of them, I’ll ask you to actually make something.”
The older group of 15 years old and above had a puzzled expression on their faces when Kousuke told them this.
Perhaps amused by the looks on the faces of the older group, the younger group meekly fiddled with the magical tools they had been given.
Incidentally, it was explained that Kousuke was their master, but not to the extent that he was a living god.
Schmidt, who had accompanied them this far, suggested that this could be decided only after they were trusted to a certain extent.
Even for Kousuke, he had no intention of going out of his way to blab about it, so he left it at that.
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What Kousuke was trying to do with them was to aim for greater precision in the manipulation of magic power when creating magical tools.
Since that was what he was aiming for, he asked those who had reached the level Kousuke was looking for to start making tools.
The Magic Box that Kousuke devised was designed so that it could be used even without the use of spatial magic, as long as a certain reaction was stimulated by magic power.
In other words, by exploiting the properties of the material itself, a magical tool with the desired ability could be completed.
When Dulles heard this for the first time, his face turned pale.
To put it bluntly, this concept completely overturned the fundamentals of magical tool creation, but Kousuke felt that it was too late to get to the bottom of the matter.
To begin with, some of the magical tools in use today were made using similar or different manufacturing methods.
It was simply that the people who were making them were unaware of it.
The slaves who developed as intended became the core of Crown’s magical tool production.
The magical tools developed by Isnani’s development department were eventually created by them as well.
