The activation of the Dragon Heart Stone was complete, and as everyone began to create something with its magic, Silvia arrived at the tower’s laboratory.
Irene greeted Silvia joyfully, as she had essentially become family now.
“I’m here, Irene!”
“Oh! Silvia, you’ve come!”
Silvia was not a wizard.
But magic was as common as air in this Other World.
Just like air, it was everywhere and anyone could feel it like the wind.
Even Silvia, who wasn’t a magician, was awestruck by the sight of the Dragon Heart Stone.
…If only the people connected to it weren’t there.
“Woo! Wow!! Wow!!! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!!!!”
“This is the world! This is the truth!! This is what grandpa was talking about!!!”
“Ahhh… I can see time, Yuren!”
“I AM THE KING OF THE WORLD!!!!”
Connected to the Dragon Heart Stone were Jiren, Julia, Sora, and Yuren.
The four were using the Stone’s magic to boost their own abilities and create the spells they desired.
The problem was their appearance.
The magic channeled through the Dragon Heart Stone glowed red, and the users’ eyes turned crimson.
And they were feeling extremely high, their energy levels skyrocketing.
The Dragon Heart Stone didn’t pose any life-threatening side effects, but this excitement could be considered one.
As Silvia watched the four become warrior-magi, emanating red light from their eyes and cackling madly while crafting spells, she became very, very worried.
“I-Irene, is this really okay?”
“It’s fine, Silvia. When someone uses the Dragon Heart Stone for the first time, their magical control boosts and they get excited. They will calm down over time.”
“Is that so? Then I’m relieved.”
With Irene’s explanation, Silvia felt comforted.
Sure, if the Sage said so, then it would be fine eventually.
However, after 30 minutes of watching the four work, their madness showed no signs of stopping.
“Yoohoo!!! Yoohoo! Yoohoo! Yoohooouuuuu!!!”
“Truth!!! I win!!!! Father!! Mother!!! Please watch over me!!!”
“Damn that Einhardt!!! Do you even know the trouble you’ve caused me?!!!”
“Let’s rock, baby!!!!”
Their crimson aura expanded even more, and the sounds coming from their mouths became wilder.
It looked like a chaotic ritual of dark magic and destruction, lacking only blood, making both Silvia and Irene’s expressions freeze in place.
“Irene… are you sure this is okay?”
“It’s… it’s true, it was fine before…”
With the increasingly violent responses to the magic, Irene was left pondering whether to keep her disciples or intervene.
Even as she contemplated, the four continued to get higher.
“Wawawawawawawawawa!!!!”
“Gggggggggg!!!!”
“Bbibbibibibibibibibi!!!!!”
“Yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!”
Eventually, ten minutes later, when the voices of the four ceased to sound like humans, Silvia couldn’t just stand by anymore; she switched off the magic, halting the Dragon Heart Stone.
It was a frenzy of madness.
*
After extracting the four from the Dragon Heart Stone, the examination revealed that they were physically fine.
Just as Irene stated, they were simply overly excited, with their blood rushing to their heads.
When they were seated and allowed to rest for a moment, they quickly regained their senses.
“So, is everyone okay now?”
“Yes… Silvia, I’m a bit shaky still, but I’m fine.”
Sora still looked somewhat dizzy.
As for Yuren, Julia, and Jiren…
“That was magnificent.”
“Indeed. Truly magnificent.”
“Absolutely, Master.”
Recalling the delightful sensations from the Dragon Heart Stone, they were in ecstasy.
Silvia thought she must keep them away from the Dragon Heart Stone for a while.
“What did everyone create?”
At Irene’s words, they all smiled proudly.
They had connected to the Dragon Heart Stone for about an hour.
Though a short time to create ordinary magic, it was ample time with the support of the Dragon Heart Stone.
Jiren was the first to step forward.
“Wait a moment. I need water for my magic.”
Water and a cup were brought to Jiren.
As he poured water into the crimson crystal, a fragrant liquid began to gather in the cup below.
Jiren handed it to Yuren.
When Yuren took a sip, he immediately realized what it was.
“This… is alcohol?”
“Yes! I made a magic that turns water into alcohol!!”
“Isn’t that quite common?”
Turning water into alcohol was surprisingly a popular magic.
However, it’s short-lived effects and generally poor taste made it a spell for those wanting to get drunk cheaply.
“Master, you’re misunderstanding. This alcohol is the Empire’s finest, ‘Jainski’!”
It seemed that Jiren had conjured the image of the drink he had tasted before into magic using the Dragon Heart Stone’s power.
It was impressive but raised concerns for Yuren.
Because selling magically made famous alcohol could result in hefty penalties.
“If you sell that, you could get arrested, my disciple.”
“It’s fine. I made it for myself to drink.”
If that were the case, then it was all good.
While everyone nodded and looked at Jiren’s alcohol crystal, a shadow stealthily approached and snatched it from him.
“Karen!?”
“Jiren, I’m taking this to the Saturday storage.”
“Ah… no!”
It turned out that Jiren had promised Karen he’d only drink once a week, on Saturdays, due to his previous overindulgence.
The storage where the drinks would be kept was only opened on that day, and Jiren’s alcohol crystal was on its way there as soon as it was born.
“What did Julia create?”
Julia, wearing a triumphant smile, brought her golden crystal closer to the pot.
Suddenly, the pot transformed into gold!!
“I made magic that creates gold!”
There was already magic for turning objects into gold.
Yet, the speed and minimal mana required for Julia’s spell were something even Irene had never seen before.
So…
“Seized.”
“No!! My ‘Gold Rush’!!”
Yuren confiscated Julia’s magic crystal.
Silvia looked at Julia with a genuinely worried expression and said,
“Julia… if you get caught making gold with magic, the minimum is life imprisonment. Didn’t you know?”
“W-What?! My dream is life imprisonment?”
“Are you short on funds, Julia?”
“Money isn’t the issue! It was my dream!!”
Julia’s dream of creating a magic to generate gold had come true, but it ended up unrealized.
Counterfeiting currency was a serious crime in any world.
“What did Sora create?”
“I made this.”
Sora’s crystal emitted a blue glow.
Yuren examined it closely and asked,
“What is this?”
“Behold! It’s the ‘Blue Shock Dead Cat’!! When this magic is used on a cat, it’ll seek out and kill those responsible for the Blue Shock!”
Before Sora could finish her sentence, Yuren brought out a sealing talisman, attached it to the crystal, and confiscated it.
“Discarded.”
“Waaaah!! My magic!!!”
“Creating and using killing magic can lead to the death penalty, Sora.”
Thus, the Dragon Heart Stone had yielded one trip to the storage, one life sentence, and one death sentence.
Now, they were waiting for the last turn.
“Now, Yuren my disciple, what magic, no, what game did you create?”
“Fufufu, everyone’s going to be surprised.”
Yuren activated his crystal.
Then, an astonishing sight unfolded.
There appeared a city.
A shining new city constructed of red stone with sparkling buildings, familiar to everyone.
“Is this…?”
“Irene Land!”
Finally, everyone understood what Yuren had created.
Yuren had manifested Irene Land.
“Wow! Master! You created a city?!”
“Fufufu, just kidding.”
In just one hour, normally a task that would take at least a month involving image creation, system setup, and capacity optimization, Yuren had formed the city of Irene Land in the crystal.
The detail was so impressive that even Lauren, responsible for graphics, was in awe.
“Wow… you really crafted the city’s detailed parts in such a short time. Amazing, Yuren!”
Everyone was astonished at the sight of a character wandering around Irene Land.
It was remarkable that they had built such a vast world in such a short time, but the real issue was the mana consumption.
The Irene Land Yuren had created was a living, breathing city.
To achieve that kind of realization would typically require a special crystal made with high-quality materials like in “Galactic Craft – Real Version.”
However, what Yuren produced was just an ordinary crystal, yet it operated flawlessly.
While all marveled at such overwhelming performance, Noirin spotted a familiar building.
“Yuren, did you make a bank too?!”
Of course, a city must have a bank, and Yuren headed straight for it.
Once inside the bank, everyone was astounded that even the interior of the building was rendered.
“Awesome! Is there content related to using banks in this game?”
“Using a bank? What are you talking about?”
“Weren’t you going in to use the bank?”
Silvia imagined a game content involving business at the bank.
But what came from Yuren’s mouth surpassed her expectations.
“No, I’m going in to rob it.”
“…Huh?”
Unbeknownst to them, the player’s hand on the screen was holding a shotgun.
The player pointed the shotgun into the air and shouted.
“TARGET!!!”
“Hand over all your money!!!”
At the same moment, a strange star symbol appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, and the inside of the bank turned into chaos.
Everyone’s jaws dropped at the unrealistic scene, and Yuren’s eyes sparkled with joy as he looked at the star in the upper right corner.
“★★★☆☆”
