"So help me, Graemen."
"... Master Ars, my name is not Grahamon."
"Sorry, sorry. But we're going to build a new castle. After all, I thought it would be best to ask Gran to make things."
"Ah, is Ars appreciating the selfish so much? I'm impressed."
"Well, I can't ask anyone but you."
"... except for the awkward? Why not? There will be no one but the handicapped who knows architecture."
"Some of them have architectural skills. The castle I want to build this time is impossible for anyone else. I can't beat the Archbishop in the format of a cathedral because I want to build a strange castle."
"Are you sure you want to use the stained glass made by Ars against the cathedral? It seems difficult to build a castle that cannot be beaten, but do you have any ideas?
"Oh, I'm going to build a clock tower."
"Is it the clock tower?
"That's right. A castle with the same stained glass already exists in Balka. Even if the same thing seems to make a difference, only the size and so on can be changed. So make a difference in another way. I thought I'd set up a big clock tower in the castle for that."
"I see. So, did you bring the story to me?"
"Oh, yeah. Gran told me that there had been some progress in watchmaking. I wonder if you can do it, what is the exact watch that uses crystal and magic steel?
A new castle is to be built in the city of Fontana.
This castle must not, at least, lose to the new cathedral to be built.
However, compared to the cathedral that decided to build on the newly rebuilt and expanded exterior walls of the city, there are limits to the land that can be used.
We need to use our craftsmanship to make a castle, but that won't be enough.
Everyone wants to make a castle amazing.
That's why I thought about using a watch.
The idea is to set up a huge clock tower in the castle so that anyone who lives in the city of Fontana can see the time.
You might want to try ringing the time bell.
After inflating such an image, I brought the idea to Grand, the only one who could possibly implement it.
Gran was asked to make a watch by depositing a strange substance called Magic Electric Steel that he had acquired in the winter.
It is a clock that carves the exact time like a quartz clock with crystals and electricity.
However, even though it is a very difficult technology, you can definitely stop sticking to quartz watches.
I thought a Zenmai clock would be fine if it had some degree of accuracy.
But Gran was reporting faster than I was going to suggest such a compromise.
The design of watches using crystal and magic steel has come to an end.
... is it true?
Sometimes I ask myself to say something like this, but I thought the quartz watch might have gone a little too far.
No matter how much grand it was, I was reflecting that it would be impossible to make such a high-performance thing just a little bit.
"Fufufufu. Don't underestimate me, Ars."
"Even so, you haven't made anything yet, have you? Are you sure you can make it?
"Of course it is. I have studied a lot since then. And I'm glad I finally found it. Another ingredient needed to make the watch that Ars asked me to make."
"Another ingredient? Well, you did say that Magic Steel would study how mud was moving as a mud doll. Did you find anything interesting in your relationship?
"... it wasn't possible to use magic steel to move objects"
"Oh, yeah. It would have been interesting if I could do that."
"I wanted to realize that too. But I couldn't. So I decided to find out if there were any other materials I could use."
Other materials? I wonder. Was there any unusual material you could use to make a watch?
"The trigger was vibration, Ars. The electricity emitted by Magic Steel flows into the crystal to produce fine and regular vibrations, but how can it be used to move the hands of the watch? It was solved by using materials with a co-vibration phenomenon."
"Covibration? What's that?"
"I'm not surprised to hear that. It's the corner of Valkyrie, Ars. The horns growing on that Valkyrie's head had unusual properties. Touching a crystal that vibrates against the exact same shape of the Valkyrie's corner may transmit the vibration to another angle that has been processed into the same shape that should not have touched the crystal. I didn't decide to call it a co-vibration phenomenon."
What is that?
Was there such a strange trait in the corner of Valkyrie that I hatched from the beast's eggs?
... well, maybe it's not strange.
Because Valkyrie is born with a unique magic called [sharing].
Thanks to this [sharing], I was able to use Fontana and Barca magic in addition to the first Valkyrie I named, and I also share magic throughout the herd.
It wouldn't be strange if there was a synvibration phenomenon.
Gran discovered the phenomenon and decided to apply it to clockmaking.
Simply put, Magic Steel is used to generate electricity, which flows to the crystal.
The crystal then vibrates regularly.
At that time, they should leave the processed Valkyrie's corners in contact with the vibrating crystal.
Valkyrie's angle, which senses the vibration of the crystal, vibrates another angle machined in the same shape by a co-vibration phenomenon.
Surprisingly, this is going to happen even at a distance.
They use this vibration to turn the gears of the watch parts.
The point is to make the shape of the angle used as a part into a shape that turns the gear efficiently by vibration.
It seems that there is a technique for processing into a special shape to control vibration so that it becomes a power for moving the watch well.
However, at this stage, the finished form can be seen.
And then I can actually make what I want just by moving the gear and moving the hands on the clock.
No, it's not.
Gran will make more watches than I asked for.
Because the co-vibration phenomenon is not a one-to-one relationship.
Multiple angles can receive the vibration of the crystal as long as it is processed in the same shape.
That means that multiple corners perform exactly the same movement.
It is even possible to create a device that turns the gear at the same time without going crazy for a moment.
So Gran created a technology that exceeded my expectations.
A new castle with a clock tower that fully controls all clocks.
Using the revolutionary technology brought about by Gran, the new castle was to be built as a "castle that governs time" that had never existed before.