The hero magician wants to relax. He was too active and targeted for his life, so we'll start over.

As the development of the new power suit progressed, I had a certain problem with my head.

It is a serious floating stone shortage.

Although we regenerated the ancient civilization-era Shizne-class small boats that were half-dead in Elf's treasure trove, the floating stones on board remain empty.

There was a ship core, but due to the lack of floating stones, the current flight capability was very low and the fuel consumption was not very good.

As it stands, the floating stone mounted on the Trovaon fighter, Draken fighter and Wasp II ground attacker is complete, but cannot be mounted on a new fighter aircraft to be built because there is no room.

Large reconnaissance aircraft (poinix) have been flying around lately, but as far as I'm concerned, I want more high-altitude reconnaissance and observation aircraft.

"Why don't we make it without it?

That's what Deesy says when she's comfortable.

"Then you make it."

"I can't."

The dungeon core looks like a girl with dark hair, with a thin grin.

"A creature can't make me a crazy object."

Well, as for the floating stones, they couldn't even be reproduced in Safilo or Granathe, an artificial dungeon core from the ancient civilization era.

When it comes to searching for the ruins of an ancient civilizational era that could be anywhere and looking for floating stones that we don't even know if there are, we can't say for sure. But I want a floating stone. That too, as soon as possible!

"If not, you'll have to take it, Jin"

Mr. Bell rattles his nose. That's all I think, too.

The Diggrattle Great Empire maintains an aerial fleet and puts floating stones on its fleet of flying ships. That number is more than 200 ships, and the number is still increasing.

"... where the hell does the Great Empire get such numbers of floating stones from?

Can you get over a hundred floating stones from one and two ruins? We were able to get dozens from the wreckage that was in the high altitude floating group, but did we pull even that kind of lucky hit...

"Wherever and how they're getting it, they found it. You just have to take it away from him."

Become a manufacturing plant for the Great Empire's aircrafts and infiltrate the vault of floating stones to rob it. If you're trying to get a certain number, you can't let a few SS infiltrate and sneak in, either. We need to work out a full robbery plan.

We headed to the basement office to select a target. To review floating stone related materials in the room where the SS Intelligence Department has stored classified information about the Great Empire.

Even so, Mr. Bell is not very good at reading these materials, and Deesy is suspicious that he can read the letters in the first place. I had taken the cake out of the dining room and decided to be totally busy.

Early and Mr. Daska instead helped me review the material.

Early, who was reading research on the levitating stone, found it, looking for us to attack.

"Hey, Gin. This replica floating stone seems like it can be made."

"Replica -"

Speaking of which, once, I read the dossier.

It's called having a device that artificially makes floating stones, and if you throw a lot of magic into the device, you can make floating stones.

That being said, although it is a dream device, the floating stones created can be considerably inferior to pure floating stones.

So I saw the material at the time, but didn't care much.

But that reminded me of one thing. To the answer to where the Great Empire is getting the floating stone from.

Most of the ships use the replica floating stone. That is one of the reasons why their fleet uses floating stones but does not reach all the ships of the ancient civilizational era.

That's why I underestimated it. I had no other replica floating stone in my eyes but to build a low-performance ship.

"As a matter of fact, how capable are replicas?

In response to Mr. Daska's inquiry, I reviewed the floating stone materials again.

The measurement confirms that it floats up to a maximum altitude of 10,000 metres per replica floating stone. Floatable by weight There are limits to altitude, and the heavier the weight, the lower the floatable altitude -

"This means that pure floating stones can almost ignore weight, whereas replica floating stones vary in altitude that can float depending on weight,"

The old magician puts his hand on his chin and thinks.

"How did you measure...?

"The measurement method is the length of the rope built on the floating stone... I guess you mean I got a rope 10,000 meters long to fly, this"

I give you a face from the material. Hi, it looks like you flew unattended and measured height, not manned.

Indeed, we know that the main flight altitude of the enemy airship is about 3,000 meters. It rarely goes up more than that, probably because of the weight limit on replica floating stones.

Depending on the weight, however, you can also fly at high altitudes...

"I thought it was a replica and I insulted it, but this might work..."

For example, a floating stone that is on an air-compatible power suit silphide or something. The weight of the power suit is known, so I can turn the replica floating stone and distribute the pure floating stone to another thing.

Replicas can be said to be sufficient for fuselages that do not require large continuous distances and high altitude performance.

"All right, the first thing you take from the Great Empire is a replica floating stone - its manufacturing device."

I like that it can be produced. Just taking away the finished product doesn't increase, but if you can make it, you can mass produce it.

"Now the replica manufacturing apparatus in the Great Empire..."

It's in three places.

Early gave me the paper she had. The location of the replica floating stone manufacturing device was noted in the report.

They were all cities with factories and factories producing mechanical parts, not imperial. Three locations: Arval, Dhur and Ihar.

"Let's get one device out of this"

If so, a survey of the city in question was just carried out. An order was issued to SS Intelligence via the portal to identify the enemy's security system and the location of the device.

As a result of the investigation and consideration, it was decided to attack the industrial city of Arval, which is relatively close to the imperial capital.

There are construction plants and repair docks for the aerial fleet of the Great Empire, and we also produce our own parts for each of them.

Although it is an important base, the geographic condition of being on the mainland of the Great Empire, but also close to the Imperial Capital, makes it the least manned.

But it's not entirely thin, it's got a 24-hour security system. The manufacturing plant was also equipped with guarded warcraft.

Now, attack this, because we need full force of war, and it's going to be war with bees, so we'll just secretly take away the replica floating stone manufacturing equipment as part of a covert operation.

When I said that, Mr. Bell frowned.

"It's an enemy base, isn't it? Why don't you take the stuff and smash down the other facilities?

"It's the mountains that want to do that..."

If we think that the end of the war will be opened after spring, it is not sensible to crush the production base of enemy forces. Even if you can't crush it, it's definitely worth doing just bringing delays to its production capacity.

"But I don't want to draw the attention of my enemies too much."

When the enemy consolidates the defense of the mainland, it becomes harder to operate even here, and next time, even if you want to take something away, you need to break the enhanced defense.

"If possible, I want my enemies to stay on monkey guard."

Besides, where we hit the munitions facilities of the Great Empire, we don't occupy this one, so any of it will be restored.

So when people ask me if there's any benefit to this one, if there's any delay in the Great Empire's invasion plan, it's not.

Assuming you want the Union to spill Willidis' weapons to reinforce its armaments, you might be able to buy time, but I don't intend to.

We plan to have all our armaments ready by spring. If you need a postponement, you can do it then.