Isaac

With Isaac's muttering, Magellan shakes her head excitedly and opens her mouth again.

“Operations is the hands and feet of Central. Prepare operations and dispatch operatives to achieve the target. The primary task is to plan and implement operations for assassination or kidnapping of general targets, information manipulation, public opinion manipulation, and the extermination of confirmed uninvited or renegade guests. Most of what is known as Central's work in the world has been done in operational countries. ”

In Magellan's explanation, Isaac strokes his chin as if it were interesting.

“Funny. The Surveillance Bureau collects information, the Bureau decides, and the Operations Bureau plans and executes it…… It's a pretty efficient system, but we're risking losing each other's bottom ranks." No, every department is a supercomputer, and there's one way to do it, and you're already running a neurological war? So what's the number one move in Operations? Hmm…… Dark Royal? ”

“ ……. ”

Scary bastard.

Magellan looks at Isaac in a cold sweat. There was a reason why analysts did an unbelievable analysis of the top talent they wanted to recruit from Libria alone.

He had an outstanding talent for figuring out what was going on underneath without accepting information as it was. What a talent analyst would covet.

‘Dammit! Isaac, he's a talent. The world is going crazy. ’

Magellan sighs deeply and says to Isaac,

“That's right. Unlike analysts and watchdogs, Operations was practically powerless. That is the Dark Royale. ”

“That's odd. I hear Dark Royale has agents embedded in analysts and surveillance. ”

“It's true. And the analysts and the authorities know about it. As you might think, the three departments work together to control each other. So it's natural for agents to infiltrate other departments. Analyst and Surveillance would have put agents in Operations. But I'm not just spying on you for control or harassment, so that's a warning not to do anything rash. ”

“Hmm... I see. ”

Isaac nods as if he understood, but Magellan is overwhelmed by vague anxiety that he may have made a big mistake in his appearance.

“But where are we going? Shouldn't we be out there? ”

After a long walk in the conversation, Isaac tilts his head as he goes deeper inside the Imperial Palace. It's been a while since I saw Arc Royal, servants, and maids passing by while walking. In Isaac's words, Magellan glances forward and says,

“Almost there. Just through that door. ”

“…… is that the door? Not the vault?”

In Magellan's words, Isaac looked up at the door that looked like a bank vault and said it was absurd, but the situation began from that point on.

“Mavlia Gelion Lancaster Hugh Gabelin, Head of the Foreign Strategic Materials Management Team in the Operations Country. ”

“…… What? ”

Magellan came close to the panel installed next to the door, but it was only after the triple process of iris recognition and fingerprint recognition that the thick bars would open quietly.

“I feel like I'm entering any bank vault, not a door. ”

“Sort of. It's an example of your world's security system. ”

“Why do you care so much about security? ”

“There is no technology in the world. ”

I understood what Magellan meant when I came inside. In the ceiling, a fluorescent light, not a magic lamp, has been emitting light for a long time. The square room with nothing had another entrance in front of it, which was also a familiar door.

“…… Elevator? ”

With Isaac in a daze, Magellan went through the same authentication process as when he approached the elevator and opened the door. 'The elevator door opened with a ringtone.

“I'm not surprised yet. ”

Seeing Isaac's astonishment, Magellan smiles and gestures into the elevator, and the elevator door slams shut as Isaac enters.

“…… there's only one floor. ”

“If there is an incident, there is an escape route for the Huanglongsa. ”

“Escape? So there's a separate way underground? ”

When Isaac asked, Magellan smiled and said,

“You'll see. ”

“... This is crazy. ”

It was just Magellan. Soon after he sensed the elevator moving, Isaac opened his door and saw the onboard platform and the oncoming train.

“I told you, most of the technology in your world has succeeded in implementing it. We're just waiting for it to come out. But there's no need to keep all this good stuff quiet, is there? ”

“But the subway.... ”

“Rather than a subway, well... what did the Queen call this? Electromagnetic? Wealth, wealth... ”

“A self-inflicted train?"

“Yes! A self-inflicted train. They say there's no noise and vibration at over 600 kilometers an hour in your world. ”

“Madness…… you succeeded in breeding superconductor? ”

When you think about the information obtained through the sea of information, the autonomous train is theoretically feasible, but it is not yet commercialized because it has not succeeded in developing materials that cause superconduction at high unit prices and room temperature to make superconductors. However, a self-injured train appeared before my eyes.

“Is this enchanted, too? ”

His magic is nothing if not impossible.

“Yes? Of course. What did he say? Did he invent a magical team that works on personnel and power? ”

‘…… Of course. No, it's dangerous. ’

Even if Yura is competent, it is impossible to develop the superconductor alone. Besides, there's not even a proper research facility here. When I caught the knights, I remembered the magic I used on the crossbow. A magician who pushes and draws away. It's a magician with magnet-like properties, so you won't need a superconductor if you apply it big enough. However, the application scale is different.

What if the expedition finds out about this information? The technology that required funding and development with just one magical application was simply solved. With this alone, the expedition will be forced to hang on to this central system even if they abandon the marquee.

Right now, powerful nations are moving in secret to gain exclusive control, but if they start to take action, it won't end with just defending the gate like they do now.

You have one more card for me, right? ’

While Isaac was wondering how to use it well, Magellan boarded the train and said to Isaac,

“Aren't you coming? ”

“Yes, yes. Here we go."

As Magellan and Isaac board the train, the train automatically begins to move slowly.

“Does anyone fly this thing? ”

“It's a top-secret facility, so who do I leave it to? You think I'm gonna let a Central agent fly a once-in-a-generation train? It's a waste of manpower. It's two places to go anyway, so one button should do the trick. ”

Isaac nods more appropriately in Magellan's explanation and walks to the end where the train is moving rather than around the inside of the train, a space that is not that wide. Through the glass window in the front, I looked out and saw a light bulb emitting light in the semi-circular tunnel, with a track on the floor, and the train was sliding silently along the tracks without any sound. The light bulb hanging from the ceiling could be seen as a beam of light, and it was moving at a rapid rate.

“This is one hell of a warp ride. ”

Isaac remembered that when the spacecraft moved in the SF drama, the stars turned into a swift line, smiling and sitting in an empty chair placed on either side of the train and saying to Magellan,

“Are you quitting here? ”

When Isaac asks, Magellan shakes her hand as if she wants to do whatever she wants, chewing on him like a bug, and Isaac grins and bites a cigarette on his mouth. After lighting a fire and breathing a puff of smoke, Isaac turns his head away and clasps his arms and leans against the wall of the train and says to Magellan.

“But don't you have to tell me where we're going now? ”

“…… going to Newport City. ”

“From here to there? It's gonna take a while, but you didn't just come in without snacks or drinks, did you? ”

“Who said anything about taking the train to Newport City? No, it's a long way from here. How do we get through the tunnel? ”

“Then what is it? You're not driving, are you? ”

In Isaac's words, Magellan looks at Isaac with a pathetic look.

“I told you. It's too early to be surprised. ”

“…… more surprising than a self-injured train? ”

“Of course.”

“... This is crazy. ”

Isaac just laughs. Where the train arrives is the border between the north and center and the rugged area where the mountain range from the Minolen Mountains meets the Adelin Mountains. On one side is the operation of a secret Central base.

“Node for resting and moving supplies and agents. ”

“Airports rather than Nodes. Oh my... I can't speak because it's ridiculous. ”

If there is a basin in the midst of the snow-capped mountain range and a small city is built on it, who would believe it?

Agents were also provided with recreational facilities to relax, with shops, restaurants, theaters and entertainment facilities, and airstrips with oval aircraft and propellers repeating takeoffs and landings. Isaac finally wraps his head around the plane as it takes off.

“This is crazy. I can't believe I'm going through Culture Shock here.... ”

Magellan smiles and shakes his head, staring at Magellan to see if Isaac is happy to see him suffer.

“Isn't this magic, too? ”

“Of course.”

“The word itself is magic, only one reason why anything is magic. ”

If the relevant experts saw it, they would rush to the mouth with a bubble, but all the explanations were two letters: magic.

“How many Node Cities are there? ”

“There's one for every major point on the continent. ”

“Structures that transport necessary supplies by train, integrate them and spread them by flight. You don't need a vertical takeoff gear or a runway to run a small, mid-size landing strip around a Node City? ”

With Isaac's muttering, Magellan swallows a saliva without my knowledge. Just one quick look at the application system. I'm starting to have a meeting about whether it's a good idea to bring Isaac into Central.

Maybe it's best to just sit in the middle of nowhere? I thought about it again, and then I shook my head. It's already over. The Supreme Committee's decision cannot be overturned. Especially if you come to the very backyard where the new department is being established and do something that wasn't there, you have nothing to say when you wake up with the general agents asking if they are joking. So it's best to control him as much as possible.

Can you do it? ’

Magellan recalls Libya. Despite being a reliable means of controlling Isaac, the prudent and knowledgeable Sword Master, Libya has seen too much of him swing. He said he was an inexperienced little boy, but wouldn't that still be the case? The experience of life itself is a different level, Isaac.