CH 48.2

Chapter 48.2. The Bottomless Girl

-Kazamichi’s POV-

“Right? The eradication is lukewarm. Magic is the keystone of the current power structure and protects humans from monsters. We cannot afford to reduce the number of magicians. Some commoners don’t understand this point, and it’s a problem.”

Kazamichi shrugs his shoulders. On the one hand, the old man’s words are correct. In modern society, magic technology is inseparable from science and technology. And since magic technology can only be used by magicians, magicians who possess magic technology, which forms the basis of society, will inevitably become powerful people.

Magicians are also essential to fight against monsters. Monsters use an unreasonable power that isn’t bound by the world’s physical laws. Even an attack with a mere punching power of 30 kilograms can penetrate through thick steel armor. Conversely, even nuclear fire can be used by monsters, and some even absorb it as energy.

People developed nuclear missiles in the past. They thought it to be a trump card against monsters, but the nuclear missiles’ development got canceled because some monsters absorbed the energy and became more vicious. In the first place, radioactive nuclear energy was much more dangerous than the energy of monsters’ magic stones.

In the past, some countries tried to use magicians as slaves and tools. This was in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It was a time when guns were so advanced that even ordinary people could easily kill someone with a gun’s trigger.

The development of weapons technology and the mana drive technology to extract energy from magical stones, which triggered the Industrial Revolution, led some countries to try to manage magicians on a national level.

Management is just like the name. Magicians are managed like slaves and used as a trump card against monsters for magic technology advancement. The country claimed to have become a democracy with all citizens.

A magician is only a man when he runs out of mana. They cannot compete with ordinary people with guns if they run out of mana. Therefore, the magicians obeyed. The commoners welcomed them with open arms and cheered for the democratic nation.

The result was the collapse of the country.

The strong magicians fled the country, and the magicians who followed were weak and unable to resist the monsters.

As a countermeasure, the country was thinking of making it common knowledge that magicians were slaves, which would be good in the long run. This way, even strong magicians would not question it.

However, people began to hide the fact that they were magicians. No one wants to be treated like a slave. As a result, the number of magicians decreased drastically. And so the country collapsed, suffering heavy losses in the face of the threat of magicians flooding the dungeons.

The people realized the importance of magicians and the folly of trying to manage them.

Moreover, many people in that country married commoners who did not have mana. That was because they had lived their lives hiding that they were magicians.

As it turned out, almost none of the children born to commoners awakened to mana.

That resulted in a decrease in the number of magicians. The verification that set in motion the destruction at the national level led to the modern recommendation that magicians marry other magicians. It sounds good to say “recommended,” but it’s more of an unspoken agreement, almost a compulsion.

Magicians are human beings, but they are not human beings. They were to be treated with care, and people were to be reminded that they were the protectors of the people and the users of magical techniques, resulting in the supremacy of the magician.

If dungeons did not exist and there was no threat of magicians, the story might still be different. However, the existence of demons led to this outcome.

However, in modern times, it’s rare for a family to throw out a child because they haven’t awakened to mana. Most of the time, because of their love for their family, they let them help with their own business and get them out of noble society, but other than that, they’re an ordinary family. They don’t do harsh things such as expulsion.

Well, it is also true that the number of children who did not awaken to mana was almost zero. Especially among high-ranking nobles.

“However, I never thought my granddaughter would be born as Yoshiyuki’s daughter who never awakened to mana…”

Kazamichi mutters in bewilderment as he reaffirms that it was the right thing to do and that it is common sense.

Yoshiyuki’s a person who did not awaken to mana, and the person he married is also an ordinary human. She’s the daughter of a large company, but there are no magicians in her family.

That is why he thought that his granddaughter would not become a magician.

“They’re born about once every 500 years. So, Kazamichi-dono, do you know about the recent story?”

“It’s the reason why Enraku-dono visited? What is it?”

The content of Enraku’s story told with a grin and amusement, caused Kazamichi to gasp and look up.