Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"Even though it's not burning... the tree went black..."

"Yeah, well, I was making charcoal."

"Hmmm... can you make charcoal like this?

and Lucia turns her emotional gaze toward Oki, who has gone black and considerably shrunk.

In her head like that, she didn't seem to think she could really do charcoal.

"... yeah, that's about it, right? You can stop the magic now, okay?

"Ok......"

"... Could it feel uncomfortable?

"Hmm, I don't know... 'Cause I've seen you make charcoal before, and then you stuffed a tree in a big kiln, and you put fire in it, and you burned it, and you made it? Besides, I wasn't blocking the air... and it was hot... But this charcoal was made in a completely different way... after all, I don't know..."

"Yes... there are big and small differences, but the phenomenon that was happening in the kiln, and the phenomenon that happened in front of Lucia's eyes, is exactly the same thing."

"What...?

"If I start to say the details, I'll skip them because they won't stop, but the kiln walls also serve to block the air trying to get in from the outside. So, you're gonna pack a tree full of it, right? If you do, the central part will have bad air. All you have to do is heat it up and steam it... well, the same thing that's happening here right now, so..."

"Hmmm......"

And, listening to Waltz explain, Lucia shows an indescribable reaction, even though she didn't know she understood.

Waltz then lifted the red stone that was there......

He opened his mouth again as he turned it toward Lucia and said:

"We're not done yet, are we? I'm not selling charcoal..."

"Ah... you did"

"Maybe you can sell charcoal, but I think profits will go down, so let's make iron, huh?

"Yeah. You use alchemy?

"Well... maybe you can say alchemy"

Waltz said so, then nodded.

Float the mined stones into space in large quantities as well as the red stones in your hands......

And they're...

Dogagagagagaga!!

And I started bumping into him.

"Uh, this? I'm shattering it now. If it stays a big stone, it will make it easier to get uneven on the reduction... so you don't know if they say" reduction "..."

"Yeah......"

and Lucia in response to Waltz's inquiry with some unfortunate look on her face.

Apparently, she felt somewhat that her understanding was not able to go about Waltz's explanation.

Waltz then gave no further explanation to Lucia as to whether he had guessed it.

Instead, I said this to her, mixing the charcoal I could with iron ore and shattering it too.

"Well, more proof than a theory, huh? After heating this, we should be able to do iron."

"What..."

"Look, try it?

"Ugh, yeah......"

"You know what I mean? (It has a large thermal capacity...)"

"Well, let's go, huh?

And Lucia, with an unconvincing look on her face, pointed her hands at the red and black powder that was floating in the universe.

Dgowwwww!!

And, again, it started heating up with fierce momentum.

Yes, with fierce momentum, is.

"Fluffy..................!

"We're almost there. It's iron. It won't melt that easily, will it?

"Mmmmmm..................!

and Lucia exercising fire magic, turning her face bright red, to powder that is red-hot.

But this time again, the fever never comes to her...

Apparently the waltz is creating a vacuum wall to block the heat.

Then a few minutes later, the colour of the powder passed through the red and changed to a colour close to the white….

Watching how its glare (blinding) liquid (...) body (...) was now dissolving everywhere, Waltz said to Lucia:

"That's enough, huh?

"Puha.................. I'm tired..."

"Yes, you're annoying. So, from here on out, I'm gonna do the final step, right?

Waltz then starts multiplying the force field by the gravity control system against the bright red liquid.

Specifically, stretch the liquid vertically, whereas...

"Here, goo!

and applying supergravity longitudinally.

As a result, small changes come to the appearance of the liquid that has become rod-shaped.

"... that? It was white until just now... suddenly colored?

As Lucia said, the brightness was different between the top and bottom of the liquid.

The top part is slightly blackened white.

And the central part is white......

The bottom was divided into bright reds, dark reds, etc., as if striped.

What the hell did Waltz do to the minerals that dissolved in them?

… the separation of components was carried out using supergravity.

A common way to increase iron purity after reducing minerals is to oxidize and remove impurities by spraying oxygen etc...

For Waltz, who is free to manipulate gravity, it just seemed like a simple task that would be finished if it was multiplied by a great deal of gravity.

"Subdivide this..."

Waltz extracts parts of different colors, each of which is subdivided according to its words.

In doing so, the most significant portion is poured into the template using the gravitational force field….

It deforms into the shape of the so-called ingot.

After layering it like a building block...

"And then there's this remaining part... well, let's just feel right... Yes, done!

And it was the moment Waltz said so.

Bwah!!

"Hot?!

Because the walls of the vacuum that surrounded the metal were gone, the enormous amount of heat that leaked out of the molten metal was released into the surrounding space.

Because of this, ambient temperatures have risen rapidly and Lucia seems to have been surprised by it unexpectedly.

"I'm sorry, Lucia. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine... but it was true that heat wouldn't be transmitted without air..."

"It's easier to understand with yourself than to explain poop, isn't it?

"Yeah...... Is this... iron?

"Yeah, iron? I'm not sure it's glowing because it's still hot, but when it gets cold, it turns to an iron-like color, so I guess I'll get a real feeling then?

"Oh well... I might be looking forward to it!

"Well, it takes a while to cool down, so you'll be able to touch it... maybe tomorrow morning"

Two people still floating hot metal in the universe and walking out toward the tavern with such an exchange.

In doing so, I saw Lucia tilting her neck with a curious eye for the metal that was floating in the universe...

After all, she didn't seem to know exactly what Waltz was doing.

Perhaps you decided that it was all alchemy.

Needless to say, not a single ”alchemy" has been used in Waltz's work.

It's all ”science” in her knowledge (database).