"They won't accept my resignation either. I tried pretending to be crazy, running around in my underwear, but the female researchers told me to take off my underwear too. This country is probably doomed."
"——O month X day. The deadline for the design is today. What should I do? I can't say that it's still blank. Who told me to give up and drink all the advance money? As I was worrying about the blank design, a spider I hate suddenly appeared on the paper. I screamed and used the nearest thing to smash it. The spider is now stuck on the drawing paper… The economy is so bad these days, and this high-quality paper is very expensive, but I don't have money to compensate the country if they ask me to. Oh well, I'll just submit it like this."
There's a lot of content, but everyone looks at each other in confusion. Aqua and Kazuma even burst out laughing at certain points.
In the journal, a high official gives the protagonist the task of building a mobile weapon, but the budget is severely insufficient. The protagonist tries various methods, including pretending to be crazy and resigning, but none are accepted.
In despair, he accidentally kills a spider, which unexpectedly becomes the inspiration for the design, making his design praised, even though he didn't really participate in the design.
Afterward, he was afraid that the kingdom would really make such a thing, so he deliberately made an impossible request, which was to use the legendary Coronatite as a power source.
However, to his surprise, the other party actually took out the legendary ore. In this way, he could only bite the bullet and use that ore as the core and install it.
Unexpectedly, an accident still happened. The mobile weapon went out of control and ran wild, destroying everything along the way. Because extremely powerful formations were engraved on it, it couldn't be destroyed. The country was destroyed, and all the high-ranking officials and the king ran away.
In the end, the protagonist decided to spend the rest of his life in the mobile weapon, giving up on himself.
All of this has nothing to do with Roa, but in the middle, he found what he wanted.
Roa stands in the corner, reaches out his hand, and uses the Steal skill.
Roa is lucky, and his skill is quite high. In the next moment, a heating core appears in Roa's hand.
Coronatite, this is the core of the entire fortress.
It is the treasure of that vanished kingdom, and it is covered with an energy fluctuation, but the magic power inside has already dissipated, and the patterns on it have been slightly damaged.
The dissipated magic power is a small matter, but the key is that the thing is constantly glowing and heating up, giving people a bad feeling.
It seems that it will explode in the next moment.
Roa thinks for 0.01 seconds, and Roa's magic power instantly wraps the entire ore. A purer and more decisive magic power directly wraps the Coronatite, and the Coronatite is instantly suppressed.
Roa plays with the ore in his hand, thinking about its use.
It must be said that this thing has excellent magic power conductivity and can store a large amount of magic power. It can be taken back and left to Paul and the others to deal with possible emergencies.
It's just that the stability doesn't seem to be very high.
But this is not a difficult task for Roa. His magic power can simulate any kind of magic power. He only needs to inject magic power with the opposite nature into it to control the Coronatite.
At that time, he only needs to engrave the patterns of that world on it, form a complete formation, and then inject magic power into it to get a decent magic item. This level of magic item can withstand even Megumin's Explosion magic and Iris's slash, so you can see its horror.
However, the Coronatite is more like an energy ore with a high upper limit than a magic item. Perhaps it can be made into something else besides a magic item.
Roa thought for a while and looked at the Coronatite again.
The Coronatite, which was originally emitting heat and white light, became less violent and cooled down instantly.
It seems that the problem should not be very big.
Naturally, Roa will still take this kind of prop.
The power of the elements gathers and quickly wraps the slightly damaged crystal core. Roa's element quality is far beyond what ordinary people can compare.
Almost in a short while, the small crystal core was directly blocked. The damaged hole was very small, and Roa casually rubbed some mud into it, trying to block the gap with a try-it attitude.
It had little effect. How could mud fill this gap?
Roa was also amused by his own somewhat peculiar brain circuit.
Roa thought again for a moment and looked at the outer shell of the mechanical fortress. The magic power conductivity of the fortress also seemed to be good, otherwise how could it transmit magic power to all parts of the body to cast a barrier.
Roa didn't waste any words. He reached out and directly carved out a portion of the massive fortress's outer shell. Then, using magic, he began to control and modify it, eventually forming a very small fragment.
Roa enveloped the fragment with magic and began to micromanage it.
The effect was good. This time, after injecting magic, there was no overflow.
The only issue was a slight stiffness in the conduction of magic, possibly due to two different reasons.
However, this stiffness was only slight and within acceptable limits.
"Good enough," Roa thought, not demanding too much. After filling it with magic, he casually pocketed it.
"This thing might be useful. It's better to keep it myself. After coming all this way, it's impossible to leave empty-handed.
That's definitely not happening. I'll grab something before leaving.
This thing is quite suitable."
However, just as Roa stuffed the Coronatite into his bag, the flashing red light and warning sounds overhead abruptly stopped. Everything returned to normal. Everyone was stunned and looked at each other, seemingly not quite understanding what had happened.
At this moment, Kazuma Satouu narrowed his eyes slightly. He pretended to be deep in thought, putting on a thoughtful expression, and began to analyze earnestly, "Coronatite, Coronatite, it must be the Coronatite that caused this change."
Then, he looked around and noticed that one person was clearly missing.
Roa had run off at some point.
"The alarm has stopped. Does that mean the danger is over?" Megumin asked.
"Probably? To be safe, let's go down and wait for a while," Kazuma said uncertainly.
"Okay."
The group didn't stay up there for long. They quickly went down to the ground. After a few glances, they saw Roa.
Roa was standing there leisurely. When he saw the others coming down, he waved and greeted them, "Yo, you guys came down?"
"Isn't that obvious?" Everyone was speechless.
Kazuma didn't give Roa a chance to change the subject and asked directly, "You didn't use some special means to steal the Coronatite, did you?"
Roa was quite honest, "Coronatite? That thing explodes. I found a way to dispose of it."
"I knew it," Kazuma said, not seeming too surprised by Roa's answer. However, since Roa admitted it so directly, it seemed that the thing was indeed quite dangerous.
"What do we do next? Go back?" Kazuma turned his gaze back to Roa.
Although Roa only gave everyone a general direction, most of the decisions were actually made by Roa.
Roa pondered for a moment, his eyes moving as he took out a map and looked at it.
This area was actually quite close to the Crimson Demon Village.
The town wasn't too far from the Crimson Demon Village to begin with, otherwise Megumin and Yunyun wouldn't have appeared near the town.
After thinking for a moment, Roa decided to go to the Crimson Demon Village to take a look and pick up some goods.
Magical items were naturally better the more you had. In any case, the Eris in this world wasn't of much use to him. Taking it out of this world would just turn it into a pile of waste paper. Using it to exchange for magical items was a good idea.
Besides getting some magical items, he could also take a look at the Demon King's Castle.
That's right, the Demon King's Castle wasn't too far from the Crimson Demon Village either.
The distance might be a bit much, but it wouldn't take Roa too long to get there.
Legend has it that a great magician of the Crimson Demon Tribe used some magical knowledge to create a telescope. The telescope could see very far, and it just so happened to be able to see a room in the Demon King's Castle.
And that room just happened to be the Demon King's daughter's bedroom.
In other words, everyone could use that observation deck to spy on the Demon King's daughter's bedroom.
This wasn't even the most outrageous part. The more outrageous part was yet to come.
Because they could see the legendary Demon King's Castle, a group of Crimson Demons decided to develop it into a tourist attraction in order to make some money (many of them were really poor).
The result was that a group of people would come every day and gather at the observation deck to peep there.
Although the distance between the two sides was still quite far, this behavior was naturally noticed by the Demon King's daughter.
Then, the Demon King's daughter attacked the Crimson Demon Village with her subordinates in order to destroy the observation deck that could spy on her bedroom. After destroying the observation deck, she left in a fit of anger.
Of course, the Demon King's daughter didn't want to wipe out the group of Crimson Demons, but the problem was that this group of magicians was very cunning and hid as soon as they sensed something was wrong.
She didn't dare to push them too hard. After all, although the Crimson Demons were crazy, they had produced many famous great magicians. Who knew if they had any trump cards?
After destroying the observation deck, she simply warned everyone and left.
However, since then, no one in the Crimson Demon Village has ever tried to build such a thing again.
Of course, these are all stories for later.