Jobless Reincarnation: The King with a Mental Problem

"Mua! It's time to say goodbye."

After giving little Aisha a big kiss, the Shadow King had to say goodbye again...

Little Aisha clung tightly to me, not wanting to be separated...

"Daddy, don't go..."

How could I not wish to stay a little longer?

But someone always has to do the hard work, and this is something that can't be entrusted to anyone else...

And even if they stay...

Even I, the king, cannot rest easy...

"Daddy is a true Shadow-level powerhouse, a true hero, the strongest in the world. So Daddy's going to save the world. Little Aisha, you understand, right?"

"Hmm... I understand, guga..."

"Then let's give Dad a kiss too."

"mua~"

[After a period of time - Fitoa territory]

I have returned to this place where I was imprisoned...

Besides myself, there is another familiar of Per here—Shivalier.

She... must be a Celestial, because she has a pair of black wings on her back.

She is responsible for helping me here.

The main reason is that she can fly, so she can collect some information with Almanfi and also take care of me a little.

But... do familiars need to eat too?

At first, I didn't care about this matter; at most, I just thought it was because her functional design was more advanced.

After all, he seems to be much smarter than my Alucard.

When Alucard doesn't bother him, he's like a Buddha, finding a place to lie down and sleep, daydream, or look at the sky.

It also occasionally goes to eat some grass.

actually......

Alucard couldn't digest those things...

He doesn't have that ability; he only needs to consume magic to live.

Because he is just a weapon, he does those things only to fit his character, so every time he returns to the inherent barrier, I have to help him clean and repair it.

But... what's wrong with Shivalier?

The reason I am asking this question now is because the summoned familiars should not need such a thing.

The scope of summoning magic is quite broad.

First, in a broad sense, and most commonly: magic using scrolls or magic circles.

After all, this is a technique that summons magic after injecting magic power, and this technique is the mainstream among the world's top magicians.

Ultimately, it is limited by magical power, chanting, and the difficulty of learning.

Casting high-level spells requires an excessive amount of magical power, and chanting is merely an auxiliary means. Therefore, most people, limited by their magical power and talent, may never learn to chant and use a holy-level spell in their entire lives. However, if one learns the magic circle of the spell and then infuses it with enough magical power, one can use it.

In comparison, magic circles do not test magical power and talent as much, but rather one's intelligence and financial resources.

After all... magic stones cost money...

Therefore, magic stones, like oil in the previous world, are a form of hard currency.

The reason this technology developed so quickly was because of the needs of war.

Ordinary magic, up to the advanced level, is mostly used by adventurers, since the number of enemies they can deal with is limited, and it mostly just provides some countermeasures.

The battlefield is different; it requires enormous destructive power and scope, which led to the development of battlefield magic, which is like a strategic weapon.

Those are the secrets of each country, and also their trump cards.

Typically, a specialist is responsible for drawing a huge magic circle, and then directing a large number of magicians to provide magic power at various points, ultimately unleashing their power on the battlefield.

It should also be considered a kind of wisdom that developed among the people because individuals lack strong power.

That's actually quite impressive, but it still can't reach the level of the gods...

Having discussed summoning magic in a broad sense, let's move on to actual summoning magic.

This summoning magic is also divided into two categories.

First is spirit summoning.

The familiars summoned by Per are products of the spirit's summoning.

But this is less of a summoning and more of a creation.

These sprites can be designed by the summoner, including their level of intelligence.

How convenient!

I wanted to create an intelligent AI, so I kept cutting my own soul apart, but in the end I only created a fool...

I still remember the first time I saw Alucard act foolishly, the expression on his face... I don't even know what emotion it was...

It's just very complicated.

Perhaps they're wondering why a weapon created from another world is so stupid, yet this idiot is unreasonably strong.

There's no way around it, having no bottom line is just too much for a supermodel.

The other type of summon is the normal summon.

This kind of magic is the magic of summoning a creature somewhere in the world. Of course, the summoned creature is alive and real, just like when Mambo was summoned. A corpse, of course, cannot be used.

Of course, it can also summon some inanimate objects.

However, based on some ancient covenant, it is impossible to directly summon creatures whose race contains the word "human".

I really don't know why it was designed to be so complicated... and on the other hand, this setting seems to be completely useless.

Because transfer magic is actually a reverse application of summoning magic.

The basic principle is to use two magic circles to summon things that exist in the other magic circle.

Those who enter the magic circle will be summoned to another location in reverse.

The individual being teleported may subjectively feel as if they are teleported instantly, but in reality, it still takes some time.

The principle seems to be to transform all the items and life forms within the magic circle into some unknown thing, and then these things can be quickly teleported to another place in some way, and then reassembled.

It inexplicably resembles quantum states and the principles of quantum computers.

Computers typically operate on a binary system, meaning they use only 0 and 1 for affirmation and negation.

Quantum computers introduce an intermediate state, which can be transformed into either certainty or negation.

But the key point is [time].

This is also the difficulty that Per is currently facing in his research on anti-summoning spells.

Under normal circumstances, transfer magic and summoning magic do not consume much magic power.

However, this magical calamity overhead, capable of swallowing the entire territory of Fituia, only summoned a mortal.

Magic is consumed not only in traversing the world, but also in time.

Per's idea was that the time it takes to be converted into [intermediate state] matter is fixed. Based on this principle, he created a freezer that can freeze time and a familiar that can stop the other person's time.

It sounds impressive, but it's actually incredibly weak, because that familiar can only stop time for the opponent it touches, and it will also stop time for itself at the same time.

LOL...

Therefore, I didn't even remember that guy's name.

Sorry, I've gone off on a tangent.

Normally, the time is fixed, and then it is unfrozen again after a period of time. In its view, it should be like traveling to the future.

And Qixing...she...

The current situation is that we've traveled back in time from the future...

Because the divine child who summoned her, that bastard divine child, was 500 years after the Ankylosaurus calendar in the previous timeline.

It is both the past and the future, and it also involves another world...

This involves a host of grandfather paradoxes, parallel universes, an uncertain future, and various possibilities...

I really hate these kinds of stories, because when it comes to time travel, there's never a simple explanation; it always gets more and more complicated...

Furthermore, I also despise those who are love-struck, like those who, because the person they love died, want to destroy everything and then create a world with Rin...

Oh......

That's incredibly irresponsible...

Six months later

"Feel sorry......"

"Per?"

Look at your disheveled appearance...

What's there to apologize for?

If anyone should apologize, it should be me, the king. If it weren't for my occasional visits to my family...

"I always kept the promise of being with you, maybe..."

I'm not being polite. When I first saw Per, he was incredibly energetic.

But now...

His once cool-looking golden eyes were now bloodshot, which was somewhat frightening, and his hair was a mess.

Even the once-pretentious robes were gone, replaced by simple shirts that allowed for easy movement, just like mine. We busied ourselves together for a very, very long time...

And now, I am finally able to sit face-to-face with him on the sofa and rest.

On the coffee table in front of them was tea brewed by Shivalier.

But neither of us went to drink, because we both slumped on the single sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling.

It's less about rest and more about utterly giving up...

The current research progress is indeed firmly stuck...

The King and Per spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to sort out this mess of dog poop mixed with chocolate...

However, the current progress...

Quite desperate...

The King and Per have truly done everything they could...

I really gave it my all...

But completion is still a long way off, and the sky is almost overflowing with magic orbs...

It involves too many messy and inexplicable principles.

If we compare this thing to a running program, it's like a mysterious program.

Sometimes, after painstakingly cutting out a piece of code, it is later added back in from other places, and the entire structure can still run again.

At its core, it was still the so-called power of the divine child that forcibly made this pile of incomprehensible and nonsensical code run.

Oh......

Oh shit......

That damned divine child! She'd better pray she doesn't get found out by me!

Do not!

She'd better never have been born!

Otherwise, I will definitely capture her and turn her into a biological CPU for writing code and running programs!

In short...

The plan to counter the summoning spell has completely failed...

"Sigh..." X2

Right now, I and Per are holed up here, having an EMO session.

"You are just a human being. Even if you are some kind of god who has crossed over from another world, your level of focus is still far inferior to that of our dragon race. This is due to the difference in brain structure. For you, rest is necessary."

It's impossible for them to be like me, devoting themselves wholeheartedly to research and spending so much time on it.

It's my problem...

I was known as a user of god-level summoning magic, which made me feel arrogant and satisfied...

If I hadn't been content with that and had continued my research for another century, I certainly wouldn't have achieved what I have today...

You're already very impressive; to have achieved this level in less than two years...

Humans...

That's really impressive...

And you said I'm sloppy? You're not much better yourself, are you?

I still remember how you looked when I first met you. Back then, you acted like you were the most important person in the world, full of confidence. And now?

"Your hair is so long, how long has it been since you got it cut?"

"Hmph... I did it on purpose... With a little grooming and a new hairstyle, I can become a handsome man, like Alucard, the kind that makes people swoon. Besides, I've only grown my hair; I don't look as unkempt as you."

"cut......"

"cut!"

You cut, I cut too!

Anyone can do that...

Originally, my hair was considered long for a boy. At least in my past life when I was in school, it was the kind of hair that would definitely get caught by the teacher and forced to be cut.

Now, her hair has grown past her shoulders, so she needs to braid it to avoid interfering with her work.

Actually, I have considered cutting my hair, but...

The barbers I know are long gone, and I can hardly trust any other unfamiliar barbers.

So I'll keep it for now, and strangely enough, I think it looks pretty cool, as long as I take good care of it later...

"Hmph! If I hadn't lent you Shivall so she could take care of you a little, you'd be even dirtier than me."

"Speaking of which... I'd like to ask, is Shivariel a familiar you summoned? Why does she seem different from your other familiars?"

"Huh? You just realized that?"

"I already figured it out. What kind of familiar would stare at someone else's food like that? I was just too lazy to ask before."

"Hmm... Isn't your Alucard the same way? He's always eating grass, but he's always watching others eat. When you ask him if he wants to eat some, he says he can only eat grass, and that it's the creator's setting or something... The person who created Alucard has such a twisted sense of humor..."

"Well... my Alucard is just a little bit slow..."

"Shivariel... she really wasn't a familiar I designed, because she was a living being. She was from the Battle of Laplace hundreds of years ago..."

"Alright, alright! I don't want to hear your old stories from hundreds of years ago. I just want to know why she's different from the other familiars."

Per, like an old man, always wants to boast to me about his past glories.

But I know very well that when we finally fought the demon god Laplace, the first Northern God was just a roadside idiot, but Per wasn't much better off. It was all thanks to the previous dragon god Ulpe that we were in the C position.

It's hard to say whether Rachel Rudd, who made the contribution or the one who launched the sneak attack, was more influential...

"...What an rude guy...but..."

For some reason, Per suddenly fell silent...

"What's wrong? Speak your mind. I'm not good at reading people's expressions."

"Sigh... the reason I apologized to you in the first place was... I was leaving..."

The magical calamity is now nearing its breaking point; it is absorbing magical energy at a slower and slower rate, and it is unknown when it will begin.

It is speculated that it not only absorbs the magic power within the body, but may even directly absorb flesh and blood and convert it into magic power...

If I were to be affected, I might encounter danger.

I also have a vow—I must kill Laplace completely to avenge my dead friends.

Therefore, I cannot take that risk. I must live, live until the day I can fight Laplace again...

So... you'll have to face this alone...

"What's there to apologize for? Wasn't this the original plan? I'll handle it."

"..."

At the very least, the impact range of magical disasters must be significantly reduced...

In the original work, the magical disaster even scavenged a large area of ​​land, which is one of the reasons why the territory of Fituia is difficult to rebuild.

Because the topsoil has been stripped away over a large area, exposing the deep subsoil, the land will become extremely infertile in the short term, requiring significant investment to restore its cultivation potential...

"I...I know how determined you are..."

"Hmph ╭(╯^╰)╮"

"However, before the magical disaster begins to approach an uncertain tipping point, there is still some safety period. If you want to see your family again, you should hurry up."

During the safe period, I will have Shivalier take care of you for a while longer, but she will leave after the safe period ends because she is special...

"Hmm, because it's a real life form, it can't be summoned back after it dies?"

"Yes...she is a real life...just like your Alucard..."

Alucard...

Is it really considered life?

[Hidden Setting]

The most primal magic in this world is the so-called [intermediate state] power.

It's somewhat like the setting in quantum mechanics and the intelligent atoms of the Witrum.

Although its magic exists, it remains in this intermediate state unless it is observed and assigned attributes.

This [intermediate state] can be assigned attributes and activated in two ways.

Let's use quantum computers as an example:

Faith—the power of my thinking ≈ [1] in computers

Intelligence – a theory based on certain rules ≈ [0] in computers

True magical research first requires using two forces simultaneously to imbue [intermediate state] magic with properties, which is the most difficult step.

Once this step is completed, all magic will inherently possess this property.

Learners can easily activate this trait if they have sufficient intelligence or faith.

Chanting usually represents faith, while magic circles represent intelligence.

However, people in this world do not have a clear enough understanding of this point.

For example, Silphie thinks her intelligence is sufficient, so she can use healing magic without chanting, while the protagonist and Rudy cannot, because their faith is insufficient.

Rudy also tried to simulate a nuclear explosion using fire magic, but failed because he lacked the intelligence to do so.

The magic created by the protagonist can now indeed be reproduced as long as someone has enough faith or intelligence.

The researchers, despite their intelligence, lacked faith, and the protagonist was constantly lying and concealing information.