Industrial revolution starting with the undead

With a serious look, Eleonora looks at me.

I can't return anything to that word. All I've done for the last two years is run the territory. I've only been making strides in trying to save a rural area that gasps for poverty.

So I can't answer Eleonora's words. Two years after graduating from the School of Magic, Eleonora has been waiting for me to apprentice. That's all Eleonora expected from me.

But the truth is, all I've used for the last two years is this Creation/Skeleton, and Creation/Immortality (Nosferatu) for the villagers of Chris and Bath's villages. I have used life magic such as Magic Vision (Search) and Appraisal Eye (Judge Eye), but when asked if I have done other magic drilling, I completely refuse.

I mean, from Eleonora, I've been lazy for the last two years, too...

……

I can't answer it and bite my lips.

Eleonora was expecting me. Even so, what I came for was an imitation that would betray that expectation -.

Eleonora sighs heavily and approaches me without even trying to hide her grumpy appearance.

Let me see your hands.

"Hands...?

Let me see your hands.

"Yes..."

Follow Eleonora's words and show the palms of your hands.

Eleonora's soft hand touched there, and saw it as the palm, the back of his hand, before a large sigh leaked again.

"I knew it, or..."

"Duh, what..."

"I'll ask you again. What have you been up to these past two years?

……

Words like that, as if they were going to give you guidance.

Look at my hands, I have no idea what the hell Eleonora guessed. But I guess you found out that I've been doing very little magic drilling for the last two years.

So how should I answer...

"For two years, I've... been making skeletons"

……

"There were not enough peasants in the territory I inherited. The countryside has lost its young workers to bandits…"

"That's enough. Have you been making it?"

"Yes..."

Eleonora's, I can hear the toothpick.

And then Eleonora grabbed my right hand.

"How impotent have you been...?

"What..."

"I know your magic better than anyone. By the time I graduated from the School of Magic, your magic power was so immense that I wouldn't allow you to follow anyone else. One of the four witches on the continent, it was enough to reach Atashi."

"Oh, that's..."

I've never heard such an assessment before.

At the School of Magic, I heard it was the greatest amount of magic in history. But I can't believe it even extended to Eleonora, a mixed race with the Art.

How many magic bearers is Chris far beyond me like that...

"But Jin... now your magic power is beyond me"

"Heh...?

"Compared to two years ago, you'd have about 20% more. In such a short period of time, it's such a case of more magic, I've never heard of it. That's why I asked. What have you been up to these past two years?"

……

"Say it."

……

There is more magic.

That was something I wasn't aware of at all. In the first place, I've never heard of more magic. Because magic never changes from the amount you were born with in the first place.

That's why I don't remember you at all.

"What is needed for increased magic is natural recovery. When you use up your magic to the limit and your magic recovers, its bottom rises slightly. And then, by not using magic, the amount of natural healing is exceeded, and sometimes the upper limit is slightly increased. But it's all just a tiny amount. There is no such thing as an example of how magic has increased."

……

"I've been alive for 200 years. Even I've had a very small amount of magic since I was born. It has to be a day without magic, and I never use it enough to fall. That's why I said."

……

"You, how much magic did you use to restore all your magic?

I have an idea.

Just make one hell of a skeleton, and my magic can be shredded at once. If I build ten bodies, my magic will be completely emptied.

So I squeezed my magic to the limit and made a skeleton. Mine, Eleonora said, had a tremendous amount of magic, ten bodies at best.

That's why I was able to make skeletons in a row.

It's - from Chris, Magic Drain.

How many times have you been infiltrated with so much magic that you overflow from a vessel called me? And each time, how many times have you suffered from magic sickness? Chris was worried about me more than once when I kept making skeletons.

That one.

That streak.

I pushed up my magic...

"... me, ha"

"I can almost tell. Just make a skeleton, and you've cut the amount of magic without interruption. As soon as I inherited the territory, I discovered the magic books and sprinkled skeletons all over the countryside... there will be limits to how much you can make in a day. Still, I needed to make skeletons as soon as possible"

……

"Mostly from that kid, he must have absorbed magic drain. Even I can't see the bottom, it's too much magic. I know how awesome it is to be a pureblood Art. Even then, the magic that the child possesses cannot be taken by your vessel. What strikes me is a hell of a magic sickness. Didn't you?"

"... Correct. I was given magic by Chris."

"I knew it."

Eleonora's predictions are perfectly centered. Exactly.

It reminds me of how far I have no idea.

Totally disappointed - feeling that way, I can't see Eleonora's face.

But I don't have Eleonora.

"In the future, it is forbidden to be unscrupulous"

"What..."

"Unless you've been pushed so hard, you don't absorb magic power (magic drain) from that child. Well, in fact, I think it's a good means. If I don't have magic, I'll have to bring it from somewhere. So, there's an uninterrupted magic tank next door. Well, I'll use it."

"Well then..."

"Hmm? I don't know, Jin. You think I'm gonna break your door?

"Yeah..."

To Eleonora's harsh words, I was ready to break the gate.

I was also prepared to be completely disappointed and told that as a disciple I would no longer recognize him.

But Eleonora laughed happily at me, who would have looked like she was crying.

"Hey, I'm telling you, Jin. Let it go."

That, on the other hand, unleashed harsh words as a teacher.

Such a thankful smile that makes me sweet as a parent.

"You're the man I admitted to. I'm not going to grow up to be a top magician."

"Yes...?

"If you're going for it, it's superb. Like me, you know."

Swallow the sauce and spit.

Eleonora will show you the way I'm going. Eleonora will show you the way I need to go.

And I am.

As an apprentice of Eleonora, you want to be a superior magician...