The Economics of Prophecy

Eleven Stories: First Half Legacy Code

I was at the Knights of Warcraft training ground with Mathills. Changes in the position of the head of the regiment do not seem to change the quality rigid atmosphere, if the proudly raised silver fringed kingdom flag next to the flag of the regiment is called a change?

"It's been a long time since I touched you.... Ricardo ready!!

Maityle with the gold cylinder turned to me.

"His Royal Highness Maitir. I can't cooperate depending on my attitude towards seniors..."

Meer said pale to Mayteer.

"Just kidding. Here."

I opened my hand, where the hasty Maitille was holding the magic wand. Her palm is filled with IG-1.

"I would, but don't do the same to His Royal Highness the King if you're wrong"

"Well, Ricardo would be fine."

Mathier broke his face about what was funny.

"Seniors totally believed that was a joke earlier. Much more while I can't get my face over here..."

"... how are you getting ready?"

Distract your gaze from Meer staring at me.

"... I'm doing it. Go ahead, Your Highness."

Noel gave him a silver hexagonal object. It is made of magic guided silver and has holes the same size as the magic guides. Inside, there's a glass bottle with a solution of two magic catalysts. And there's an indentation to put in demonic crystals. We call it a cartridge. It's a magic wand attachment. Mathier bound it behind the magic wand.

The sound of chatter led the light to the intricate pattern of the magic wand from the simple geometry engraved on the surface of the cartridge.

"Are you ready?"

Craig came along with Fulsey, a large area that took over twenty knights. The Knights Against Demons and First Knights armor are mixed. A man who has demonstrated only a few qualities in using a magic wand. Of course it's incomplete, Craig says it's no substitute for a firestone, it just could be activated on.

"Here you are. Now let's start testing the prototype."

Mathier pointed to the target prepared at the end of the cane.

Maitille with a magic wand toward her target. There was a tinnitus called Keane, and the ambient temperature dropped clearly. The magic wand sorts the surrounding gaseous molecules, and only those with high energy are sorted and enriched. Are you more comfortable than the last time I saw you in Kurt Height......

A red helical light was seen at the tip of the cane.

Humph!.................. Gah, gah!!

A hundred meters away the armor of the Demonic Gold was torn apart. Smoke-lifting armor rolls with rattling noises. The knights, who were watching, surrounded the Lord in unison, as if their armor had stopped. When Mathier looked at it and shrugged her shoulder, she lowered the tip of the cane.

"The power has increased slightly, but the magic required has been halved and the time to activate has been greatly reduced. If you get used to it, you can have a little more range. It's working."

Mayteel said as he removed the smoked cartridge.

"Above all..."

Running his hands would be confirmation that he did not need a magic guide carved into his own hands.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Your Highness."

Craig approached us without fear.

"Ah. If Ricardo and the others were here, I could have done nothing about the kingdom."

Without worrying about the tightening of the sights of the knights around Craig, Mathier let go.

"Ha. If so, I guess I'd have been a prisoner by now."

"Totally."

Stop it, you two are the only two that seem funny, and the people around you, including me, are enduring tension. Meer doesn't really move her expression, but how hard Noel is.

"This is the secret that the magic wand itself is no stranger."

"Yes. It is made of magic silver, so it can be produced with some efficiency using the mould of magic gold."

Noel explains the cartridge with a blue face. Seems like she's the one who's trying to push all the credit to Fulsey, Mathier and Meer. It's a total waste of effort. If we get this far, Noel is the most essential part of production.

"With Noel, the future of magic in the kingdom would be cheap. Let me count on you, future head court magician."

"Hih! It's a waste of excessive words..."

I'd say don't bully me too much, but it's still underestimated. The basic technique of helitis, entropy manipulation of air molecules, has applicability up to viciousness.

"Oh, this is amazing," "I flew, look"

As if they were the first kids to buy a toy gun, the knights are testing the magic wand. Compared to Mathier, I don't rely on it, but I'm starting to feel like it.

"As Tenberg's concern suggests, we can't take all the humans who can get trump cards or take care of the warcraft of catastrophe. Half the time is good."

Craig said.

"In such a small number His Royal Highness the King himself enters the realm of the Warcraft."

"What, Ricardo will accompany you. Whatever. At least it's better than sitting and waiting for a bunch of warcraft."

"There will be no differences in the second half."

I intend to make further improvements in the data from this test. I glanced at Mathilde and the others.

"Hmm. That's right. There's one serious problem left..."

Craig gets a rare, poorly toothed look. Problem? No, the problem is piling up. I had no idea Craig would look so serious.

"What was Alfina saying about this one?

"Huh?"

I was plunged into the void.

"... come on. Master Alfina will be busy preparing for the pilgrimage."

I turned away reflexively.

"... this is just a general theory. It's very important for a knight to go to battlefield to have a conversation with his partner before he goes out."

Craig says. I suppose that's fair. At least it wouldn't be anything comparable to a disaster or a flying dragon. Of course, it matters to me...

"I'll do you good."

"Mm-hmm. I advised you as commander of this unit."

I managed to answer that.... No, seriously, you look like you've done something serious. Most importantly, aren't you the one who's married to Oodle Sauce?

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"I mean. By linking the magic guidance characters here and here..."

"Then tune the circuit, let it loop here"

"Shit, how does that happen? I mean..."

"Circuits are only elements and elements, that is… and… connected by lines. Abstractly that relationship…"

"... it would be amazing if you could. It is possible that we have been able to break the limits of the control of the Wizard…"

"Um, to make that happen, the precision of the circuit..."

We're back in the lab. Mathier and Meer, as well as Noel, are arguing in front of the cartridge and the magic wand. Mathier said we should be able to improve more.

The three conversations have already crossed my understanding. Maybe, but Maityle explains the specific behavior of the circuit, and Meer interprets it into a mathematical "topological," and Maityle suggests an improvement.... Noel is actually hurting his stomach when he needs to think about making a circuit.

"I'm a demon leader in the first place. I kind of get the lines and the switches, but what's this letter or pattern that makes up the majority? How do you realize the complexity of manipulating gaseous molecules..."

I asked three of them. In the diagram spread out in front of me, a Sanskrit-like pattern lines up narrowly.

A mechanism that does a mess called entropy manipulation of air molecules. Air conditioning, engine, refrigerator. It's a technology that can make anything.

If the user does not fully understand themselves. I've always wondered how it was developed.

"…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………"

The two of them are silent. Mathier said.

"I'm talking about telling me because I have no idea what the intention is or what it is. I know you do, but I can't use magic."

I went.

"... it was"

Noel said what he thought.

"Well, everything from wavelength measurements to magic catalysts starts with Ricardo's meals."

Mathier sighs, too. Then point to the enlarged view spread over the desk.

"This pattern. Magic letters aren't what humans think. It appears to be in the body of all sorts of warcraft."

In other words, the warcraft that lives by magic seems to have created it in evolution. For example, is the manipulation of air molecules connected by humans with reference to their effects? So in a way, biomicry technology.

"Especially since this magic guide, which makes up the central surgical formula of spirulitis, has patterns similar to those of all sorts of warcraft. Like flying dragon wings."

Maityle pointed to a spiral-like pattern.

"Oh well, if you're a flying dragon, do you have a magic circuit that manipulates the flow of air..."

Assuming you can sort high density air under the wings, low density air over the wings, Fei Long can easily rise. This is the same thing the aircraft is realizing in the form of wings.

"... hey, really... Well, fine. By the way, the pattern engraved on the reins that serve the horse dragon originally belonged to the parasitic warcraft of the horse dragon."

Mathier wrote a diagram of an organism like Kai Ashi stuck to a fish. It's an organism with two protrusions like a spring. I see......

"In other words, did humans make magic guidance letters originating from warcraft with their respective effects as programs… circuits side by side"

In the program, there's a function library that only knows the effects, and they call it in and use it. Naturally, the contents of the function are black boxes.

Does it feel like I'm typing it on and off and parameters with a line and a switch? Just thinking about it gives me a headache, I guess the Wizard senses some sensory flow of magic, but the wiring doesn't hold back?

"Then the more complicated it gets, the harder it will be for the designer. It's supposed to be a spaghetti code."

"Spaghetti code?"

"Look, like that tea soba, why don't the circuits get tangled up and the designer's head hangs on at the same time?

"You say good things. So, how do we work this out?

Mathier asked me with a serious face. Talk about assumptions I know something about, as a matter of course.

Even in the previous world, the code was complicated not by the immensity of the program, but on a scale that the humans who program could not understand. For that reason, it was more of a problem to make the programmer understand the program, not the computer chip.

For this reason, the program was structured so that it could be understood by humans. Functionalization is one of them. Then next...

"Maybe we can use an object-oriented idea."

"Object-oriented?

"Oh, yeah, I'm not too sure either. This function... sets the pattern and the parameters that are entered into it... Right. It's a way to manage it like combining parts."

Well, how do you explain it? When I heard about it in my last life, I imagined an RPG game program.