The Magic Academy's Physicist-Chapter 46: Your Paper’s Kind Of Awesome (5)

The first round fired from the scroll where it had been aligned straight along the plane. Flare, unrefined, burst through the output unit.

The amount of elements needed at this moment was minimal. Although the time required to activate it increased as much as the decrease in necessary elements, it didn’t matter. This considerably lowered the chances of the user experiencing mana-deficiency like last time.

The flame elements which composed Flare passed through two optical devices in order. They were the Fabry–Pérot interferometer and a polarizing filter respectively.

The lights containing several wavelengths were filtered out as they passed through the interferometer leaving only the red. And when it passed through the polarizing filter, the polarized light changed from a straight line to a circle. It was a circular polarization.

Flare traveled through the output unit in this circularly polarized state. If it ended here, it became the Flare with low efficacy from the first test.

That wouldn’t be enough to take down a Calamity with one shot, so the pulse needed to be amplified.

Hence, I had asked Freyr to make one other thing.

[Manifest : Chirp Pulse Amplifier]

The Femtosecond laser turned into an ultrafast monster with ultra peak power output (PPO) as it passed through the pulse amplifier. Energy reaching 1040W/cm² struck the Homarus directly between the eyes.

Crustaceous beasts had mana stones on their heads, the same as the dinosaur or bird types. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it hit the mark.

Instead of shrieking ‘Kieeehhhk!’, the Homarus stumbled forward emitting a mechanical sound with consistent frequency.

It was but a moment.

As soon as the beam of light finished, a great explosion erupted from the head.

When a high-intensity laser hit heavy metal, it produced plasma. And from that plasma, many charged particles became excited and accelerated.

In physics, the acceleration of a charged particle was significant because it caused the release of electromagnetic waves with high frequency bands.

Vast amounts of gamma and x-rays burst forth, their strength far exceeding the unit of terahertz.

Some gamma rays collided with the nitrogen or oxygen molecules in the air and produced an EMP. There was no chance that a beast made 100% of machinery could withstand this EMP containing such massive energy.

The laser, which was the core ingredient of Flare, pierced through the surface of the armor and that impact penetrated the inside. Since it was a laser, the penetration itself wouldn’t have been effective but Flare was a magic that carried enough output to bypass that.

The strategy of destroying the inner circuitry by frying the penetrated area with the naturally occurring EMP and plasma was effective. It was the moment that proved Flare to be the means of sending a Calamity to hell with one blow.

To prevent any radiation damage, Freyr pulled up the ground in the foundations and formed a giant concrete wall tens of meters tall.

“......!!!”

The beast let out a dying cry in its final struggle, causing an instantaneous sound pressure and triggered a landslide. The snow cascaded down from a higher elevation to the lower regions.

Unable to maintain my balance, I slipped.

“Are you okay?”

“... Yeah.”

Did the quake affect my head? It was only for a moment but my head spun. When I stood again with the help of others, there was black smoke rising up from the Homarus’ head. The blizzard then cleared the smoke, revealing that its head had flown off into the distance and was nowhere to be seen.

“...... Did we beat it?”

Nothing else happened. Even the cliché where some unpredictable crisis would ensue after someone spoke succumbed to the laser created by Flare.

**

We took the warp circle back to the clubroom and collapsed as soon as we arrived.

“What the hell! Do all the Golden-Eyed live somewhere like that?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. How could they when there’s nothing to eat there?”

The source of this c𝐨ntent is freeweɓnovēl.coɱ.

“Where we went was the northernmost part. I heard that most of the Golden-Eyed live as nomads in the southern mountains.”

Lotte was probably right since I had also spawned in the southern mountainous regions. The mountain ranges of Elankaya extended longitudinally so the climates of the southern and northern parts differed vastly.

“Let’s see, it was properly recorded on camera. Are there any damages to the scroll?

“There’s no problem.”

It was a miracle in some ways. Though it hadn’t been more than thirty minutes, the Academy’s first-years had made it back from a place near the land of demons.

Not only that, but we also defeated a Calamity. It was a ridiculous gap compared to our peers who couldn’t even handle a mid-level beast.

I immediately drew up the data and organized it. Even without my calculations, the hardcover had the whole thing automatically saved as a tree so it didn’t take long to sort them.

Lotte took care of arranging the equipment and Freyr ran out saying that she needed to get beer.

“Is this really how it should be.......”

Vermel mumbled to himself as if lost in thought while he put away the warp circle. Being a transmigrator, he probably had a lot to think about.

I wanted to tell him that we were the same townspeople but decided against it for now. He had yet to let down his guard so my judgment said it was better to just keep observing him for a little while longer.

[Isn’t it about time that you reveal it? That both of you are from the same world.]

No, I couldn’t trust that he’d always be friendly just because he was a transmigrator who knew the future. How would I deal with him backstabbing me if I told him that I was from the same world before we even became friends?

[Nah, do you really think that the elf would do that? Looking at what happened today, he tried to help you, Master.]

It was still going to take some time to find out. There had been more than a couple people I’ve seen who took a knife to someone’s back with a smile. Even Professor Hasfeldt had had a decent first impression.

Any time I made an acquaintance, I thought of it as a business relationship. I preferred making an agreement after knowing what the other wanted and confirming that we had the same goals.

Going any deeper than that? Well.

Since I didn’t know what Vermel’s goals were specifically at this point, I needed to tread carefully. We’d have to work together a couple more times at least before it was considered safe enough to disclose our respective situations.

[You’re bad at trusting people. Did you get scammed in your past life or something?]

“I don’t have a reason to tell you about my past.”

From this point on, I had to invest all my time and mental energy into this paper. I thanked all my business partners and returned to the dorms first.

[□ In development : Bethe–Feynman formula]Now was the time for discernment.

**

Time passed. It was now a month and a half since the freshmen had started school. The cherry trees were already in their summer clothes.

Around this time, the professors who taught undergrad classes became particularly busy. They were not only having to authorize all sorts of administrative processes but also needed to submit exam questions for the midterms.

Meriga was no different. It was an annoying task for any teacher to submit exam questions without a single mistake, even more so since they couldn’t just change the numbers of the questions on previous tests.

“Klais.”

“.......”

“Klais?”

“.......”

“Klais!”

“... What is it.”

Meriga poked at Klais’ arm as she sat half-absentmindedly next to her.

“Are you thinking about something else? Why did your pen stop?”

“... It’s none of your business. I can manage my own pace so don’t mind yourself.”

“Aha, must be that Flare again.”

It hit the nail. Klais’ brows drew together.

Her best friend couldn’t possibly not know that she hated being interrupted by another when she was concentrating. As such, it meant that Meriga had something important to say to disrupt her like this.

“Is there some kind of problem?”

“That Hybrid Magic we’ve been researching together, have you finished analyzing the data I gave you?”

“Not yet, it won’t be until after midterms, at least.”

“Ahh, you said you’d have it done for me by the beginning of April!”

“I apologize but that isn’t what’s important right now.”

Meriga didn’t nag Klais any more than this, because she could clearly see that voices would be raised if she took this any further. She clicked her tongue instead and let that speak for her.

That damn Flare, Flare, Flare!

Of course, Meriga knew that Flare was the earnest prayer of the Hasfeldt family. No, not just her but the absolute majority of the citizens of the Empire would know this.

The Hasfeldt family had been defending the northern front of the Empire over hundreds of years. For generations, they had wielded their staff in desolate lands to keep the beasts from collapsing the lines, and led the operations as they burned through hundreds of millions of beasts.

That may be why she’s obsessing over such a delusion.

Because they were the family that had encountered the most Cataclysms, the people who had seen the most deaths of their comrades. And, they were the household who had lost the most relatives to the Cataclysms.

Born as the Hasfeldt family’s heir, Klais was no exception. Any time they faced a Calamity that was beyond them, the words ‘If only Flare had been completed’ always fell from her lips. It was a habit of sorts.

It’s still excessive.

The time that she had poured into this one Ultimate magic was five years, yet there hadn’t been any meaningful progress until now.

Meriga peeked over at Klais’ desk. She paused working on the midterm exam and placed beneath it a yellowing paper with calculations and sheets used for research paper purposes. Klais was writing on the paper.

She should just concentrate on one thing at a time.

Klais smiled secretly as she jotted down an equation that Meriga had never seen before. She must have made a breakthrough. When she snuck a glance, it was a formula substituting magic element with energy and integrating with respect to time.

Does that work? Isn’t it too big of a leap?

Meriga questioned it, but let it go in the end. Because she was someone who researched Earth Magic, she decided to take a prudent approach in anything other than her specialty.

To get some fresh air, Meriga stepped outside. As she was about to take a walk around the central park, a familiar face came into view.

It was Aether, the Golden-Eyed girl who she had helped get into school. Meriga was about to wave in greeting, but stopped when she noticed something strange.

That place is.... not somewhere you’d go other than to submit a paper.

Aether went into the building where the Imperial Magic Society was.

With both hands holding a thick pile of paper.