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

Conference room in the basement mansion of First Willidis.

I was looking at a map of the continent. Early sits in the next seat, and Mr. Bell pinches the doughnuts in a mannequin too.

Deecy was totally keeping her own and taking a little distance from us along with a bunch of doughnuts.

It is the time of the afternoon when the sun falls. I'm getting a cup of tea from Mr. Eckleen. It's getting routine these days.

"Moving east and west of the continent is quite a bone breaking job"

I told you, Early looked down at the map, too.

"Depending on the location, it's not uncommon to take more than six months lightly if you walk. We at Willidis own an aircraft, and we can get there in dozens of hours, even days."

"Breakthrough speed!

Early laughed small.

"You're slightly above our common sense."

"In the future, this will be common sense"

I frown.

"If the war against the Great Empire begins and we try to win while using the Union, even the last few decades or so of travel are slow"

"We don't have a lot of people here."

Mr. Bell grabs his freshly fried doughnut.

"This country and the Union, there are not enough troops on those two fronts."

"The Great Empire also has an air fleet"

That speed of movement far exceeds the common sense of the military in this world, even if we are no match for the Willidis army.

"While we exceed the speed of the Great Empire's march, we need further means of travel to move and deploy quickly."

"Portal"

Early took a teapot and poured some tea in my cup. - Thank you.

"If we put the portal in various places, we'll figure it out about the speed of travel?

"We will solve the problem of movement, but there are also shortcomings. The portal can't be transferred unless you go directly to the site and install it."

In advance, I need to go to all kinds of places and set up a portal.... In fact, the fact that I was fighting the Great Empire in the Union, I did it to the countries on the front line to deal with a vast area of battle.

"Run if you have enemies to the north -"

When Mr. Bell stretched his chest, he told him to sing.

"If there are signs of advance to the south, launch an attack, and if you call to the east and west, go to the top. Well, it's been a good day."

"Thanks a lot for the sarcasm"

I used to go back and forth to the battlefield for all the professional baseball pitchers I threw first except the day the game ran out in the rain.

From the Great Empire, Jin Amiwool appeared wherever he attacked, with the result of being trampled and crushed by the army. Come on. It must have been a nightmare.

"Well, for that matter, we have to be careful where we put it."

Mr. Bell takes his next donut.

"Being able to move this way means being able to do it from the other side. If the enemy pushes us to the portal, our home base will be attacked at once."

"You're setting up a portal temple, that's what you're doing."

I moisten my lips with tea.

"Though... I have so much to do this time, I can't afford to be on the ground"

"That's where you use the portal pod, isn't it?

Early puts her finger on her own jaw.

A descent pod with a large reconnaissance aircraft (poinix) suspended and a portal planted to drop to the ground. The portal can be fixed and installed among vehicles and contents. If it's a deployed portal, you can move it without me going.

This is a technique that can be done by keeping the portals connected to each other, and does not work without one entrance or exit.

"It's just that once you drop that pod on the ground, it's hard to collect or transport. As Bell said earlier, it would be troublesome to install in the wrong place."

So...

"I've made a small portal"

Ring about a meter in diameter. I've never played, but at first glance it's a hula hoop.

"This would be slightly bulky, but I can carry it alone and it's easy to get around. The neck has a small portal, which means one person at a time can finally get through, but even if the enemy uses it, a large number of people can't get in and out at a time, so if you manage the entrance and exit properly, you can destroy it to each one."

"Heh..."

Early gets the portal ring. I'm not expanding the portal right now, so it's just a circle. "I see," she laughed, taking a seat and trying to twist the ring around her own body.

"Interesting, this"

Early, with her eyes narrowed, looked at me.

"You brought this to the Shapeshifter operatives and sent it to the Union. Right?"

"Oh, it's big enough for the operatives to send reports to Willidis or, conversely, to send orders from here."

I broke up.

"If you're going to deploy troops, I'll have to go on the ground eventually, but it's still huge that my travel time is almost gone"

If there is a portal ring on the ground, if I crouch it, it will arrive immediately, rather than by vehicle to the portal installation location.

"That's very innovative, isn't it!

Early seemed to have fun.

"I guess this changes the concept of transport."

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"Because even if Jin doesn't bother going, the portal connects in all sorts of places, right? For example, fresh fish just taken from the sea can be handed over on the spot."

Peace. But I know the idea. If you talk to the merchants, you'll probably get a similar answer.

"Building a network via a portal"

"Huh...?

I shrugged my shoulder.

"Since I was in the Union, I have been thinking about transport and communication networks using portals. Just as Mr. Bell said earlier, there is also a risk when it is used by hostiles. For example, using a portal to send troops to the country's capital all at once."

"It depends on how much you spread it. We'll talk about how much Jin has to build a portal."

We've only known each other for a long time, and Mr. Bell understood. I saw Early get a hard look and I smiled softly.

"It's not a bad idea. In fact, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

However, military use comes first. Behind the grin I think about that.

Send troops to enemy capitals. It's not a bad story strategically or tactically.

Now we've created a portal ring that can be carried by individuals, but if we can have a huge portal that can be passed by an airship, it's not impossible to get every fleet into enemy hubs with warp, which is common in SF warfare.

Most importantly, if I were to get in first, if I could make a ring that would let me deploy a giant portal without me, I'd have to figure out how to hide it, so it wouldn't be an immediate hire.