My Reincarnation Skills Are “Playing With Dolls” and “Playing With Clay”, but What Am I Supposed to Do With These? C193

Episode 193: Genius engineer at the military port

"Hey, stop! What are you guys doing!"

Suddenly, several soldiers came running towards me. 

What he has in his hand is a gun. 

It feels more modern than the one held by Pirate King Balzac's henchmen. The one I saw at that time was something like a matchlock gun, but what can I say about it? It looked like something out of something like The Three Musketeers. 

“Ah, I heard that a Parthea Navy mobile ship is anchored here.”

"You're a spy, don't move!"

In no time, soldiers gathered and numbered more than ten.　

It doesn't seem like it at all. But I don't think he would say that the spies "came to see Parthea's mobile ship"? 

"Excuse me. I am Warrant Officer Buccini, attached to the Parthea General Staff, who has been ordered to take office today. I would like to ask the person in charge of the Parthea naval unit stationed here to intercede."

Who's saluting? This one. He looks like Butch, but he must be a different person. 

The soldiers also stopped moving unexpectedly for a moment. 

But he looks suspicious. Well, if a girl who looks like a gal suddenly introduces herself as a military officer of a certain rank in another country, people wouldn't usually trust her. 

"Of course, they're Garris soldiers, not Parthea."

Looking at the emblem on the uniform, Lucien whispers softly into my ear. 

Surrounded by soldiers with guns, I took a quick look at my status. 

<Warrior LV8> <Scout LV6> <Sailor LV5>... 

The level of the 11 soldiers in total was not as high as in the capitals of various countries like Deba and Partepolis, but higher than in rural towns like Scutari. I guess the reason why the jobs are so different is because there are soldiers who don't work at sea to guard the port. 

Was one of the soldiers running somewhere to seek instructions from his superior? There are no wizards here who can use long-distance speech. 

“The sign probably said that you are not allowed to enter here without permission!”

It seems like there was also a no trespassing sign in the area where there were a lot of signboards from earlier. 

I didn't notice it though. I mean, I wish things like that would be more prominent. 

The reason why the LV8 warrior who looks the oldest turns to me and says this is because I am the only male among them. Or does this mean that discrimination against demi-humans is becoming stronger in Garis? Butch introduced himself as a Parthean soldier. 

"I didn't notice the sign. Also, as I said earlier, the two girls were instructed by the Parthean government to come here, and we are their escort."

“You guys are the guards?”

"Are you going to act as bodyguards for the young monk and the woman?" reaction. The LV6 scout whispers to the soldier. That's right, someone who can see the status should tell me. 

"Corporal..."

"What! She's level 19... What about that cat woman?... 13!?"

After hearing that he was in a higher rank than me, his reluctant but arrogant demeanor subsided a little, but on the contrary, he seemed to have become more wary. 

We were ordered to dismount from our horses, and since we didn't want to cause any trouble, we obediently handed over the reins to the soldiers and were surrounded at gunpoint. 

It wasn't the soldiers' superiors who broke the stalemate. 

"What, what are you doing?"

The soldier who was supposed to have gone to report was a middle-aged man with messy hair who didn't look like a military man at all. 

What he was wearing was not a military uniform, but rather an expensive-looking costume like that of an aristocrat, but it was tattered and dirty, making it look like work clothes. 

"I'm sorry, Corporal. I couldn't get hold of the Captain, but Dr. Geraldson just came and told me that there was someone visiting the Parthea mobile ship, and he said he would deal with it..."

A young soldier reported to the LV8 warrior who was in charge of the scene. He asks with a much more polite tone than the warriors used to ask us. 

"Doctor, do you know each other?"

I heard the name Geraldson somewhere... 

"Aren't you the inventor of the mobile ship?"

Nolte seemed surprised and made a small noise in my ear. 

That's right! It was the name I heard on board the Tebinisa Navy's mobile ship, the Torpedo. 

I told Butch and Maggie about it. 

Geraldson narrowed his eyes and looked around at us. 

Apparently, this guy also has discrimination skills. And it's called <Master Craftsman>, which is the first job I've ever seen. Although he has very biased skills, it's clearly not a combat-type job, but a production-type job. 

<Thomas Geraldson, human male, 47 years old, master craftsman (LV17)

Skill Innovation (LV10)

Metallurgy (LV10) Appraisal (Advanced)

Crafts (LV10) Blacksmithing (LV3)

　　　　　Intelligence increase (large)　　Strength increase (medium)

Dexterity increase (large) HP increase (medium)

Item Box Fire Resistance (Small)

Discrimination (intermediate) Hammer technique (LV3)

Horse riding (LV2)

Butch was the representative and repeated his name from earlier. 

``Dr. Geraldson, I am Warrant Officer Buccini, attached to the Parthea General Staff, who received orders from Parthea's home country today.I have been ordered to board the mobile ship Miphrudates III, which was developed by Dr. Do you know where the person in charge is? 

"...Hmm, I see? It was named Miphrudates. Ah, I've just been called to confirm receipt, so come with me... Hmm, Corporal, no problem, I'll take care of it." Let me show you around.”

The second half was a reply aimed at LV8 warriors. 

"Hah... if the doctor says so. I'll check your ID just in case. Hey, Vence, take two people with you and escort them."

"teeth!"

Apparently, Geraldson is quite a VIP. 

We simply showed our respective guild certificates and were loaded into a large two-horse carriage with Geraldson and three guards. 

Continuing along the stone-paved road along the quay, I saw iron rails that looked like steam locomotive railroad tracks running parallel to the road. Unfortunately, I didn't pass the train, but Geraldson noticed me staring at the rails and called out to me. 

“Are you also a reincarnated person?”

It seems like he was noticed. 

"It seems like you have some unique skills, so I thought so."

"Mr. Geraldson... you're also a doctor, right?"

"Thomas is fine, since he's one of the few reincarnated people. Where did he come from?"

The soldiers looked on in surprise, perhaps because the doctor suddenly allowed them to call him by his first name, or because he was called a reincarnated person. 

"I'm from Japan. What about you, Thomas?"

"I was an engineer in England. It's been over 20 years now."

"I see, I've only been here for about half a year, but I was a student over there...I heard that Thomas-san made all of the steam locomotives and the Stirling engine for mobile ships a reality in this world. That's amazing."

"Oh, did you know about the Starling Institute? Yes, it took a lot of effort to get here..."

When it came to talking about technology, he immediately changed his mind and started talking with a big smile on his face. 

Thomas, who lost his life while helping others, says that when he was reincarnated, if he wished to do something like ``become the King of Inventions,'' he was given a bonus skill called ``Innovation.''

This seems to be a skill that allows you to understand the combination of materials and processing methods necessary to realize the technology or product you have envisioned, and greatly improves your overall ability for processing and manufacturing. 

Perhaps because there is no engineer job in this world, he started out as a ``blacksmith'' job, but after some difficulty, he changed to the higher-level job ``master craftsman''. 

Fortunately, my talent was recognized by an influential nobleman in Garis, and I was placed in a position similar to that of an engineer in charge. From then on, I was given the necessary materials and personnel, and I built a factory using steam engines, and sold my inventions to make a huge amount of money. It is said that he brought wealth to the nobleman, and is currently being held as a knight. 

He laughs at himself and says that in his former world, he worked for a manufacturer that was not a very large company, and that he was just an engineer who could do the work he was told to do at a low cost and meet the deadline. 

"So, in this world, I'll be like Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers, and use my technology to change the world. Well, it's already starting to change..."

To be honest, Thomas seemed to be only interested in technology and being praised by the people around him for his accomplishments. 

If you look closely, you'll see that he's wearing different shoes on the left and right, and one of the buttons on his clothes is off.Even when I talk to him, I think he's definitely an intelligent person, but he's clearly a mad scientist or something of a weirdo. is. 

Suddenly, I saw that balloon from the window. 

Landed somewhere like a plaza? Several men are folding up the huge balloon. 

“Is that balloon also Mr. Thomas?”

"Oh, that's right. You've really noticed that. Next is the sky. The elemental technology is difficult to realize, so we're still working on airplanes, but I'd like to create something like an airship in the near future."

According to Thomas, the reason it takes so long to create advanced machines and devices is because the basic parts and processing technology that form the basis of them are not available in this world. 

For example, making a car requires tens of thousands of parts such as engines, tires, and speedometers, but there is no alloy that can withstand the high heat of the engine, and there is no technology to process them into a shape that allows the pistons to move without gaps. And there are no instruments to measure the temperature. 

At first, it required development from a single screw and tools such as a screwdriver and pliers, and it took 20 years to finally reach the point where the industrial revolution could be achieved. 

That's a lot of tenacity. 

In the first place, wasn't this person the right person to be reincarnated into a medieval fantasy world of swords and magic? I feel like that though. 

It seems that our conversation was almost incomprehensible to everyone, but Nolte, a girl who likes mecha, and Maggie and Butch, who might be involved in the mission, were listening intently. 

The carriage eventually stopped at a place where I could see a stone building on the land side, and on the sea side there were many huge ships with large chimneys, probably mobile ships, moored there. 

It's an important facility from here. 

A long wall that could be called a castle wall stretches out, and there is a gate with much tighter security than the first gate. There was something that looked like a magic device attached to it, like a surveillance camera, and there was a lookout tower on top of the wall, and a large multi-barreled gun like the Gatling gun I saw on the way was installed there. 

The coachman and his escort were talking about something with the guard at the gate. 

“Is that so, Miphrudates?”

Lucien exclaimed. 

It's the huge ship in the foreground that is docked on the quay beyond the gate. 

Since it's a ship that you can look up at even from this distance, you can't see the deck from the angle, but there are many gaps cut into the belly of the ship, and cannon tubes peeking out from there. 

There are probably more than ten guns on this side alone. 

Beneath that cannon, something was drawn in golden decorative letters on the crimson-painted hull. 

《Miphrudates III》...It is definitely the name of the Emperor of Parthea. 

It's probably even bigger than Tebinisa's ``Sea Thunder''. This is the mobile ship that Maggie and Butch board.