Volume 6 Chapter 55 When Stuck, Do Something Else
It has been 3 days since the teleportation gate was brought up from the bottom of Rail Taiga to the port town of Victor.
A small hut was immediately built for analysis, and every day Ellie and Liz take turns working on this analysis, but so far, there hasn't been much progress.
Even so, with the help of the dwarf master Gaston and others, the analysis is slowly but surely making progress.
The hut built in the corner of the port.
At first glance, it looks like just a storage room, but in reality, it is as sturdy as a small fortress.
The runes placed by Liz and Ellie reject intruders.
Therefore, only Randy, Liz, and Ellie can enter here.
Even Gaston can only enter when he is with Randy and the others.
It's no wonder that the makeshift hut has become fortified.
After all, inside the hut is filled with the teleportation gate placed in the center and various scattered notes around it.
Randy doesn't understand the contents of the scattered notes, but if someone who can comprehend them sees them, they would likely be incredibly valuable scrawls.
In this lab-like atmosphere, Randy is gathering and organizing the scattered notes.
"Randy, please get that note over there."
"Okay."
Fully committed as an assistant, Randy has already been trained enough to prepare the desired notes with Ellie and Liz's vague directions like "that one" or "over there."
To be precise, Liz and Ellie are only using their mumblings to judge what they are analyzing right now and to locate the notes related to that.
Still, he is desperately focusing and acting as a background support to help their analysis.
With Randy's assistance, Ellie murmured, "I see," and turned around with a smug expression.
"Did you find something out?"
"Yes, I will summarize what I've figured out so far."
What Ellie has figured out is that this teleportation gate is a so-called sub-gate, and it only starts moving when it receives energy from the main gate.
Also, even if energy is supplied, the door will remain closed until someone passes through it.
"It seems they create a door with energy, and they open it with the magical power of those who pass through."
"So, that submerged incident means someone tried to go through the teleportation gate, right?"
"Or maybe they did go through."
Hearing Ellie's words, Randy looked with her out to the great river visible through the window.
If they had passed through, they would either have been eaten by a water beast at the river bottom or washed out to the sea by now.
This means it is confirmed that the other side intended to send some kind of assassin through this gate.
"They probably won't use it again, though."
With a snort, Ellie nodded in agreement with Randy.
"Since the other side is underwater, of course, they would close the door and lock it."
Randy smiled wryly as he knocked on the teleportation gate.
"Depending on how it's used, it can be a door filled with dreams."
What Randy remembered was the pink door given to him by the blue cat-shaped robot.
Even though the shapes were different, a door that removes distance is indeed something dreamy.
It's only natural that Randy doesn't want to use this door for war or related things.
Of course.
Ultimately, it's those who use it who decide how it will be used.
(In times of emergency, it's easy to send people through. No matter how you think about it, military use is unavoidable... but I hope it's to help someone.)
Shaking his head, Randy tried to chase away the slightly sentimental feeling he had.
He was still in the middle of explaining what they understood, and there was also a major issue to deal with.
Randy decided to shift his thoughts to pursuing that matter.
"In the end, you can't use it without the main source, right?"
This is a matter before even the purpose of usage.
If it can't be used, whether it's a dream or reality, it makes no sense at all.
"You're right, for now, it can't be used."
Ellie nodded, but she told him she was currently working on analyzing the so-called 'receiver' engraved on the gate.
Pointing to one of the complex runes and magic circles drawn on the gate, Ellie explained to him that the receiver was there.
"Oh, I don't really get it, but if we make this able to receive signals both ways, can't we activate it from either side?"
Ellie nodded at Randy, who was poking at the receiver part, saying, "That's right."
It seems that Liz is already working on the design of the magic circle for the two-way receiver in her mind.
Just hearing that makes one think, "That's quite advanced," but there seem to be many other mysterious parts, and for some reason, the analysis in that area isn't progressing perfectly.
"You're a teleportation magician, right? How is that different?"
Ellie sighed dramatically with an exasperated look and said, "You see..."
"No, no. It's still the same teleportation, right?"
With a furrowed brow, Randy looked confused as Ellie grimaced and said, "Not at all different."
"Listen. Teleportation magic is a kind of magic that moves the caster instantaneously."
Ellie, puffing up her chest, vanished and then appeared right behind Randy in an instant.
"Like this, everything depends on the caster's perception and will."
Before Randy could react, Ellie appeared right next to him.
"With my perception and consciousness, it completes instantly; that's teleportation magic."
Ellie came back in front of him and asked with a proud expression, "Do you understand?"
"Yeah... for now, I understand that short teleportation looks cool."
"You don't really get it."
With a big sigh, Ellie continued, "Well, it's the uniqueness of the teleportation gate."
Unlike teleportation magic, where everything is done instantly, the teleportation gate receives a supply of energy and continuously opens the gate.
Of course, a stable magical power circuit is necessary, and there needs to be a mechanism to fix the teleportation function in the gate itself.
And the biggest difference is the different principle of connecting teleportation gates.
The theories themselves are completely different.
If teleportation magic is a distortion of dimensions by the caster themselves, then teleportation gates create a tunnel of magic.
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