Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Dear Eon~! Happy happy happy birthday, darling nephew~!

I'm sooo~ happy to greet my precious nephew for the first time in all these years like this.

I have greeted you in letters before, but those were different from this one! This time, you are here... though I'm in the house next door, well; you are here~!

You are with us and for the first time...

...

...

...so, for my dear Eon's birthday gift, I have made a verrrrrry special thing.

It's in my lab somewhere.

Use formula #334251 HBD with the Stringuler Manablock detector.

It's something fun~! Happppppy birthhhhhhh dayyyy.]

"Wow..."

A freaking three-page greeting. And most of them are filled with those loooooong words.

I couldn't even read the whole thing and we didn't have time to read these long words, so he just read all the pages at once and the main thing in them was the last part.

He directly said the gift is in his lab... which is underground and is almost as big as one-fourth of the whole underground area.

Damn...

"It's good that he gave us the way to find the gift in that big lab but, how can we solve that absurd formula and operate that thing?"

First of all, the formula he mentioned was something very difficult and even on the academic level, we have to be on the academic researcher level to solve it.

And that was only the specific Stringuler Manablock formula. The general one.

I didn't even know what this specific one he said was!

To operate that Manablock detector, a special device similar to a metal detector or a GPS, coordinates were required.

This one device was able to search where the specific Mana block, the specific special part of the 'space' would be.

From what I can understand, he wanted us to solve the formula, find the place shown with the device, and the gift would be there.

This whole thing was absurd!

It was absurd... until we reached the underground lab and found the device that looked just like a metal detector with a floating magic display.

Then… he entered some code in it, and the device pointed at a specific shelf on the south side of the room.

We walked there, and he opened the drawer of a shelf and took out a pure black metallic box.

That was it... the box, this special black box... we found the gift!

"How the hell do you even- no. That's not even a question. You know, because you have seen and solved that #332451 thing."

"Of course. And we will have it in our first year if you select superior magic engineering as one of your subjects.

I heard uncle's master and best friend is the teacher for that class."

I looked at him as soon as I heard that thing. The wide eyes and shocked look in my eyes were something he already anticipated.

"You have no choice~. We would have done this eventually, subjects, but now that we have this chance, let's start magic engineering in morning training~!

It's not as difficult as you think, though.

Most of the things in that one area are for memorization.

If you just memorize three books worth of research, you will be more than good to top that class~."

There was a very calm, very positive, very very normal smile on his face. The devilish smile I hated the most about him...

'Fucking bastard...'

He knew I wanted to be with him most of the time, so we decided to be together for most of our classes. Practically all classes except three.

He would be going for cooking, high magic theory, and all energy utilization. And I would go for weapon understanding, energy beast research, and spirit bonding classes.

We can only have twelve classes every year in the academy, six of which are compulsory.

So, we can choose from countless classes which one we want to have as our core subjects.

There was no restriction on attending any class we want though.

You can only give exams in it, those twelve subjects, but you can attend any class in the whole of the academy you want.

It was a fun place, so, even though I didn't want to, magic engineering was something he wanted to do and I will have to do it with him.

Thankfully, he was a good teacher and the things he taught were easy to understand than those complex books.

As for memorizing... well, I have some years for that.

It's not like we will have to top the whole academy. Getting the highest in a single class would be a piece of cake~.

But for now... the black box.

"The box itself is a gift," he said with a smile on his face after his eyes turned blue for a moment.

I didn't understand what he meant but, finding out was easy.

'Eyes of truth.'

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▩[Compact material analyzer]

~~~> A magic equipment that can analyze the components of presented material with a 75% accuracy.

~~~> It is easy to carry in the storage space and can show the elements of presented materials.

~~~> It has the limitation of being able to analyze only the known elements. All the unknown elements would be recorded within it along with different collected data.

~~~> The analysis would take one minute to an unknown period depending on the materials, the configuration, and the complexity of the element.

~~~> Magic analysis is not possible with this device, thing, but all the basic physical matter could be vaguely deciphered.

~~~> It's a good device made by a great person who knows their work properly~!

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"It's... good?"

"Good?"

He lifted his eyebrow as he looked at me with a serious questioning gaze. And…

'He's actually serious this time...?'

It was just a small black metallic box that could analyze things.

I didn't know much about it so I couldn't actually understand the deep meaning of this thing but from the serious look on his face as I said that thing was a rare sight.

"Rein..."

He called out my name and then looked back at the box and lifted it in the air as if showing a trophy to the world.

"This is a masterpiece."

...

'The fuck?'

He said that as if he was genuinely admiring a great piece of art.

I was confused, thinking if my eyes didn't see the actual functions of this thing, things, it, but that was highly unlikely.

It was something made in the current time and it was a magic engineering artifact. It was different from the items of ancient times.

My eyes had never been wrong when it came to modern things so why the hell was this bastard this amazed?

"If I can create and program a suitable AI, it will become something that can learn by itself.

Something closer to a Ego.

It's too amazing, Rein. Too amazing..."

There were stars in his eyes and though I didn't understand what he meant, it was fun to see those starry eyes.

The rare sight, his excited heart, those amazing eyes, and his twitching smile.

He was too excited to even show it and I could feel it even if he tried to suppress it with all his might.

'He is excited about this thing, there's a cute smile on his face, what else do I even need?'

A smile covered my face as I watched him play with his new toy.

The machine was a rectangular box that you put things in.

Its surface was shiny. A metallic surface that reflected his pretty face like a mirror.

When he put a normal Mana stone in it, a magic display floated up from the surface of the closed box.

A blue holographic display snowing not just the information about the Mana stone but also all the other organic and inorganic elements in the stone. Its purity value and even the statistics about how it is a little above average in quality compared to the usual stones on the market.

This one actually was quite amazing... maybe Eon can make this even better?

He was amazed because he found this thing exciting and fun to play with.

And he played with it for a strong five minutes before his curiosity was fulfilled and he stored the box in his storage space and looked at the letter that was in the same drawer as the box.

It was most probably from his first aunt, my lovely friend Aug, from how the order was going on.

And… we were right!

"She's definitely different when it comes to writing something. Her words are different from my grandma but they are special at the same time."

"Right? She's amazing~!"

I couldn't help exclaiming at his words. She definitely was amazing, and so was her tea.

'Oh! Did she prepare some great tea for Eon for his gift? If so, it will be amazing if she brews the tea herself~. I would love to have some cups.'

"I don't think it's tea..."

He poured cold water on my excited thoughts... just like he does every time.

Bastard...

I looked at him and then at the letter in his hand and tried to read it while controlling my anger.

I would punch him in the face if this wasn't his birthday but I had to control myself today...

Though... tomorrow will definitely be different.