Golden Experience

The first thing Lyla did to help Dr. Acrazio in the lab was to 'use' Acrazio's research assistants.

There are virtually no disadvantages to activating a Mission against the NPC. This is also evident from the fact that there was no sign of him when he activated his most important alert, Acragio. Except if there is a problem of character that hesitates to assign it, or if there is a reason that it would interfere with family members.

The assistant Henri was a skinny elf man who seemed to be alive for quite a long time.

I thought that Lyla would be awkward if she was related to an unfortunate female elf, but it didn't seem that way.

The next thing I did was get Perlita, the guard soldier, to resign.

During the journey, I was willing, and now I can call myself my best friend. That's why I decided to work in the lab to suit Lyla Octavia. That explains it to Acrajeo.

Originally, the rider tied to the Armored Beast Rider - who seems to be a professional at steering the Armored Beast Rider - could not basically leave the army. This is a natural mechanism. The rider leaves the army, meaning that the tied Armored Beast Rider can no longer be used as a combat force. There is even a risk of spillover if you succeed. There is no way that it can be admitted.

But here, the benefits of working with Acragio come alive.

She used her authority to change Perlita's affiliation from military to lab affiliation.

When I was in the army, I was always obliged to report where I was, and there were restrictions such as having to go under the command of the nearest unit when something happened, but basically, I just had to do the work of the laboratory. The rider is also a valuable sample for the lab.

Naturally, the tiger-shaped "Macaron" that she was riding would also come with the lab.

I decided not to send Perrita back to the army, but to let her work in the lab to keep her private room with me.

I can't imagine leaving the avatar unarmed while logging out in the unknown area of Dr. Acrazio.

Perlita is a marker to return to this laboratory. It is desirable to be in the same room in order to travel without discomfort.

This is a role that a male researcher, Henri's assistant, cannot play.

No, there's nothing I can't do, but it's uncomfortable to get caught up in extra prying.

Even Lyla is seen in the lab with tinted glasses as the director's hideout.

"─ ─ Is this the new model?

"Oh, the code name is" Suertodios. "It's still rough and unfinished, but as long as it's finished ─ ─ No, that's fine.

Your job is to retrieve this core material. "

Sitting in the center of the lab's separate building, the largest lab, it looked like a blend of primates and quadrupods based on the dinosaur type, to put it mildly, "made a centaur out of dragon parts." Is it as big as some of the bigger bishops?

Compared to that, it seems simple and strong.

When I tried "appraisal" lightly, it was like a quasi-disaster. This is an armored beast rider with a power comparable to the True Dragon under Lyla's command. At least it's unlikely to win in Abigail. Speaking of which, I haven't seen it recently, but are you feeling better?

"Armored Horse Core, we call it the Core, but this Core has certain traits.

Oops, before that, did you know that the Armor Beast Rider and the Rider are going to be paired? Armor Beast Riders paired with riders cannot be boarded by other humans. To be precise, even if I could get in, I couldn't get in tune. "

I know that very well.

The other day, I just lost my noble life for it.

"At this time, the rider will actually be out of tune with anything other than the paired riders."

It is my first time hearing it.

In other words, there is a limit of one riding per character, which is the content.

Does that mean that if Lyla was about to register the dinosaur-shaped armored beast horse that she gave away at that time, some error would have occurred and she could not register it? Lyla has already paired with Bechmos, who would be in the same category of content, even though it is unclear whether it is the same technology.

I haven't heard that from Perlita, but it's probably common sense for military personnel.

However, this means that active riders can only move their own horses, so that Perlita, who was an army member, rarely helps with research.

"But then, putting Perlita in the lab didn't do you any good. Why did you help her move? I suppose it's one way of thanking you for my cooperation."

"It's not like that. Anyway, I haven't seen anything useful about you yet. It's not worth it to you right now.

By the way, do you know how to get a paired Armored Beast Rider back free?

Very familiar. Kill the rider. It's a simple story.

I understand what Acragio is trying to say.

"... I see, so if you destroy the paired Armor Beast Rider, the rider will be free."

"It's good to know. That's my daughter.

In fact, there's no need to destroy the Armor Beast Rider itself, just destroy its core components. The Rider's soul is tied to this core. "

The part where Lyla collects the material.

If you have only one test rider to research and develop new riders, you will destroy the core of the rider you tested last time you constructed the new rider.

I don't know if the core is mass producible, but either way, it will soon run out.

If you're going to use Perlita as a test rider, you're going to destroy Macaron's core. Does that mean that there is no problem in the arrangement with the military? Probably not. This woman will shut you up.

"─ ─ Look. That's the core."

The chest of Suertodius was opened in front of Lyla and a blunt red fist-sized gem was removed from it. Suertodios is enormous, and even in a bent state, his chest is about a few metres above ground level. Because it is not something humans can do, staff wearing work clothes ride armor beast rides shaped like giraffes and perform dexterity work.

The giraffe type was different from the actual giraffe, and the legs were thick and full. They are made to stand more stably than to walk. It also has a crane game arm attached to its head, so it feels like it's for work.

From what I've just told you, this staff member can't ride anything other than this giraffe. This is a lifelong job. It feels like it's hard.

Regardless of the life of the staff, I knew the core of Suertodios.

He has a terrible color like blood, but it looks like an angel drop item, a clean heart.

However, when I sneaked up on the "appraisal", the displayed name was ─ ─

"That core says," Dirty heart. "You can get it when you defeat a demon.

This heart is subtly different for each demon individual, and depending on that individual, the nature of the core varies.

It used to be thought of simply as compatible, but it's not. It turns out that the original owner of the core heart, the cavalry of a shape similar to its shape, cannot perform fully without it. "

Acragio is good at explaining, but he talks quite madly.

I know that Lyla actually came into contact with the devil, and I am in Magnum, but I can communicate normally. It is not sane to use materials taken from such creatures to make weapons that are very similar to what they were before.

And as far as Lyla knows, demons are plain people. The aliens of this continent are stranger.

"... aren't there many humanoid demons? All armored beast riders are shaped like beasts."

"Hmm. The human devil's heart is the easiest thing to get. I'm weak. But that's not enough power to move a horseman with more combat power than people. The Armored Beast Rider will always be bigger than a man, so long as he has to ride in concert.

As you can see, the demons on this continent are evolving in many ways. That's a good point. "

This continent means that Acrazio knows another continent.

This is unusual considering that the young staff officer did not know anything about the other side of the tree sea.

And it's easy to get a human demon's heart.

At least Lyla hasn't seen a human demon since she came to our continent, but where did she see Acragio?

No, more importantly, the problem now is that the shape of the Mount Armor Rider and the appearance of the Devil as a core material must be similar.

"... so maybe the material I'm supposed to retrieve is the devil's heart, which looks exactly like this Suelt."

It's like making bespoke glass shoes first and looking for someone to match them. Something's wrong.

"I wouldn't say such a thing.

The important thing is that the devil's figure is burned in this heart as information.

Considering that all newly born demons are closer to people, it is easy for demons to acquire the form if properly treated. And the result of the mutation is remembered in the heart.

All I need is a heart. Even the heart should be able to engrave the information, even if it doesn't fit the shape of the devil.

So I came up with the idea of combining the hearts of multiple demons and creating new hearts that inherited their respective properties. "

She walks to the mysterious equipment in the corner of the lab.

It's a familiar form of equipment. It's like a siphon with two glass tubes lined up, or it's a small Archem extractor.

I touched it lightly and didn't know what it was capable of. It doesn't seem to be an artifact.

"Appraisal" shows that the name of the device is "Cardiac Synthesizer." The effect, as the name suggests, is able to synthesize items of the cardiac system. It would mean that the application was too limited to reach the artifact.

However, the fact that this can be made may mean that Acragio can even build an Alchem Extractor if it wants to.

The fact that the Great Demon was a female body.

Acragio must have enough brains to produce at least quasi-artifact items.

It's as if you know what a newborn demon looks like.

And Nuance's testimony that it's more efficient to change only the heart.

It was probably this woman who created that army of demons.

Dr. Acrazio created the Great Demon and used equipment like Archem Extractor to mass produce the Malformed Demon. And using the filthy heart I took out, I created a weapon called the Armored Beast Rider. That's what I'm talking about.

The Armor Beast Cavalry was created more than a few hundred years ago, according to a chat with the youth staff. The name of the developer is not left behind. Detailed materials were lost in the history of the struggle, and no one now knows.

If Dr. Acrazio had been a developer, he would have been alive since then. It can be said that life is unusually long, but if it is a magic spirit, it may be that much to live for. I don't know because I don't have a sample.

And if mankind uses the devil's heart to manufacture weapons, the devils will not stop the war. It's not just because they're invading the habitat, it's because they're deprived of their dignity as life.

If so, is Dr. Acragio's aim simply to create a strong armored beast rider?

No, I feel like it's just a means.

If this hypothesis were correct, most of the sparks of strife on this continent would have been created by this woman. If this woman hadn't done anything, she wouldn't have needed an Armored Beast rider in the first place.

Acragio had a purpose, and for that he created the Devil and the Armored Beast Rider. I wonder what that is.

"─ ─ I just removed my heart because the matching didn't work at the start of the test. Failed to secure the required stat calculated from the constructed Rider.

I don't really want 100% reproducibility against theoretical values, but I would like you to break through at least 70%. At best 40% now. This is not very complete.

Well, you already know.

Your job is to hunt down demons and collect dirty hearts. It's so powerful that you even resisted my "appraisal". Isn't that the number of demons?

In a typical demonic heart like this, even if you synthesize some, you don't have enough power to make it the core of the Suertodius.

I want you to hunt more demons and retrieve their hearts. The laws of genetics when synthesizing are still largely unknown. I don't have many samples. However, we know that efficiency tends to increase the percentage of matching as long as the number of things falls.

However, the number of hearts supplied to the lab on the regular route is very insufficient to increase the matching rate in the synthesis. "

In the sense of an Armored Beast Rider Engineer, we already have someone named Henri.

Henri had been Dr. Acrazio's assistant for a long time, and now he has been tasked with building rides.

He's been working on the plan since the design stage. It is difficult to build the same one because there is a black box part that Dr. Acragio designed independently, but he said that design is not impossible if it is a mass production type that limits such unclear functions and reduces costs.

If so, the reason why Lyla is helping Dr. Acrazio in this part of the world is thin.

We should return to Behemoth now and get on it and return to the Central Continent.

I can make horses. I don't care what happens to my core's dirty heart.

In other words, Armored Beast Riders can be mass-produced.

But I wonder what Dr. Acragio is up to.

He said the goal was to complete the Suertodios. Even if it is true, what will you do after completing it? It can't be for the sake of your country. In the first place, the war was her fault. That redemption is more unlikely. It's not such a winning quality.

What happens when Acragio's wishes come true?

Does it mean that the effects will spread to the central continent?

To confirm that, Lyla decided to continue her cooperation with Dr. Acrazio.

She will not be dealt with immediately, of course, because if the destination of the research seems to be useful, it will be taken from the side.