Episode 211 Hades' generation change
Speaking of the biggest company on the continent of Surada.
When asked that question, everyone answers that it is the Hades conglomerate. It originated from the Hades Group, which was founded in the year 246 of the sacred calendar, and later became a conglomerate by acquiring one of the banks of the Western Cities Federation.
The Western Cities Federation began when the aristocrats of the former Great Empire of Sbarokia made their territories independent and turned them into city-states. However, because they are originally nobles from the same country, they join forces. It later became the Confederacy. However, due to the confederation, it became necessary to build a planned economic network, which led to the creation of banking groups that connected cities. The Banking Law was promulgated to organize private banks in each city, and banks operated under this law came to be called United Banks.
Shu noticed this and first acquired one of the banks. It is a secret that ``Takame'''s information manipulation and economic manipulation were carried out at this time. By investing the Hades Group's financial power, they expanded their banking business and succeeded in weakening the other allied banks. After that, the Hades Bank came to be responsible for the economy of the Western Cities Federation, although the form of the Federation Bank remained.
In the year 266 of the sacred calendar, the Hades Group became the Hades Conglomerate, and transformed into an organization whose capital was the Hades Bank. Of course, all the funds Shu had earned as a ``Shinigami'' were also invested in this. By expanding without fear of failure and with abundant funds, it quickly became the largest economic organization on the continent. It is said that its total assets easily exceed the national budget of a small country.
Erebos, who was the first president of the Hades Group and also the first chairman of the Zaibatsu Group, is now a legendary figure.
In the 300th year of the sacred calendar, she announced that she would be handing over the chairmanship to the next generation, causing a huge uproar in the world.
``As of this month, I have decided to retire as chairman of the Hades conglomerate and hand over the position to my daughter. From now on, she will have all the authority.''
What was shown on the TV screen was the press conference footage of Erebos, now an old woman.
The video then switches to a summary of the great things that the Hades conglomerate has done.
``The Hades Group, the predecessor of the Hades Conglomerate, was founded in the year 246 of the Holy Calendar, and released the Sorcerer's Ring approximately ten years later. Sorcerer's rings, which are common today, were treated as groundbreaking at the time.''
Footage from the time of a magician using a staff and a magician using a sorcerer's ring is shown.
Additionally, advertisements and commercial videos from the time of release were included.
``The Sorcerer's Ring became a revolutionary tool for magicians, and the term ``magician'' was even born later. When wands were still the mainstream, magicians were called ``magicians'' in honor of their training. They were scholars who also worked on improving and developing magic. However, the Sorcerer's Ring can help even those who are not magicians...in fact, even those who have magical power but have never used magic to perform magic. Therefore, the word ``magician'' was born to mean someone who uses magic.''
You will be able to use programmed magic without any special education.
This was surprising. Along with guns, which were generally recognized as general-purpose weapons, the militaries of various countries began to include Sorcerer's Rings as standard equipment. Also, many magic users focus on training their magic equipment rather than magic. In other words, it is attractive to be able to use a certain amount of magic while spending time on magic equipment. In the wake of the Lumen Inc. scandal, the demon religion began to promote sorcerer rings, and every country purchased Hades Inc.'s sorcerer rings.
From there, Hades Group began further market expansion.
``Hades Group's groundbreaking development will not stop. By developing a magic power accumulation technology that uses magic crystals, even people with little magic power can now use magic by storing magic power in their sorcerer's ring. Although it wasn't as easy to use as a magician or wizard, it was a revolution for ordinary people.''
The magic crystal is based on a magic stone that was once developed by a sage from the Armand Kingdom. He has been making improvements to allow him to accumulate magical power, and implementing this technology was not that difficult. By the time the Sorcerer's Ring began to spread to the militaries of each country, the technology had been perfected, and Hades began building production factories across the continent for general sale.
Then, from the year 286 of the sacred calendar, general-use sorcerer's rings began to be sold.
``By this time, the Hades Group had become part of the Hades Conglomerate. As a commemorative project for the company's 40th anniversary, the Sorcerer Device was released. This has now become a necessity in our daily life. When it was first released, it was simple things like phone calls, emails, and magic activation media. However, technological progress is remarkable, and various applications will eventually be developed.''
The sorcerer device released by Hades was named Trident because it had three types of functions. Like the Sorcerer's Ring, it is a ring-shaped tool that allows the creation of virtual displays through magic. New versions of this Trident were later announced, and now the seventh generation, Trident Seven, has been released.
``Following Hades, other companies developed sorcerer devices, but Hades' trident was in a class of its own. The reason lies in the world's first sorcerer device app, World Map. Hades Group has installed a map app on Trident Two. This map app uses observation magic to display your location on a map, and incorporates GPS, which is indispensable today. Furthermore, it is also possible to display monsters that can be observed around you, which has led to its explosive popularity. This can be said to be the biggest factor in why our sorcerer devices have become overwhelmingly at the top of the list compared to other companies' sorcerer devices.''
In fact, there were various political interferences in installing this map app.
This is because a detailed topographical map of the surrounding area is comparable to military secrets. The problem was that if you wanted to, you could use the observation magic of the map app installed on the Trident to find military bases.
However, it was the demon religion that silenced this.
There is no point in fighting between people or countries. There's no need to fight. Therefore, there is no problem in publishing military bases on a map. That's how I silenced him.
There is a conspiracy theory that pressure from the Hades conglomerate was behind this, but the truth is uncertain.
``The Hades Group is a great company that has created the foundation of today's advanced information society. Even more amazingly, all of this accomplishment was achieved by the first president, Mr. Erebos. Her retirement will surprise the whole world, and there are higher expectations than ever for the second Erebos to succeed her...''
The screen disappears and the sound disappears.
Even now, in the president's office of Hades Group's headquarters in Magia, Erebos, now an old woman, was sighing. Sitting with his back straight on a high-quality leather sofa, he doesn't seem to be old.
And Shu Arklight was sitting on the sofa in front of her.
“I was lifted quite a bit.”
"That's the extent of the accomplishment."
“It is true that I have been running the organization, but it was our God who decided on its management policy… wasn’t it you?”
"Huh..."
Shuu smiles slightly.
The process up to this point has been nothing more than a development of technology pulled out of the memories of my previous life, relying on my financial strength, and I don't think that everything is my own idea. That's why it's like self-mockery.
"Besides, with this, Erebos can finally return to his original form."
"Yes. I'm tired of being surrounded by illusions all the time."
When she says that, her appearance changes from an old woman to a beautiful woman.
The concept of old age does not exist for Erebos, a forest fairy high elf. However, living in the human world is accompanied by old age. Therefore, he used illusion magic to make him behave in a manner befitting his declared age.
It is a complete lie that the Hades conglomerate will be passed on to the next generation, and the old woman Erebos will simply return to her original form.
"Anyway, you've done well so far. Almost all of the companies invested in by the Hades conglomerate have been replaced by people from Fairyland. The continent's economy is free to do whatever it wants."
"Ha! Thank you."
“Also, the 300-year sacred calendar project… In other words, we should have had the right to recommend the Gluttonous King’s subjugation strategy, right?”
"Yes. Are you using it?"
“Please recommend this guy and me with the name of a company that you can arbitrarily cut down.”
Shu operates the device and sends personal data to Erebos' device. She also opened the screen of the trident she was wearing and viewed the data she had received.
"Naraku...is that you? Who exactly are you?"
"It's the black cat's 'Ryuu'. Even though 'Hawk Eye' is manipulating information, I don't know where his true identity will be revealed. Let me recommend him from the point where he can be discarded."
"I'm sorry. Please leave it to me. Also, Shuu-sama's recommendation. Is it okay for Iris-sama to accompany you?"
"No, this time I'll go alone. It's my job as the Grim Reaper. Besides, he's developing something like the secret technique of magic equipment in the fairy land. If things go well, Iris' magic equipment will be... It will reach the magical level. I am also in charge of supervising research on black hole phase transition. It is an urgent task to complete the technology that has the potential to mass-produce the Philosopher's Stone."
Matter converges to a single point in space under extreme gravity, becoming a black hole. The area from which everything, including light, cannot escape is called the event horizon, and it is thought that information is accumulated at a high density within this area.
This state is considered to be one of the states of matter such as solid phase, liquid phase, gas phase, and plasma phase, and is defined as the black hole phase. In other words, black hole formation is a type of material phase transition under supergravity.
A black hole phase shift is the intentional creation of a black hole phase in which information is accumulated in an unimaginably dense manner. This phenomenon also applies to magical power, and it is said to be the reason why magical power is dyed black at high density.
In other words, the magic stone that emits the color of magic is a magic laminated substance, and the black-stained Philosopher's Stone is a magic information condensate that has undergone a black hole phase shift. Based on this hypothesis, Fairyland and Hades have been conducting experiments for decades, and have only been able to create experimental products.
Shu sees value in this technology and prioritizes research on it.
"Anyway, I'll ask you for a recommendation. I've said it before, but if you get any information about Agera Norman, please let me know first."
"Ha!"
After saying that at the end, Shuu disappeared by teleportation.
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