I Became a Genius Mechanic at the Academy – Chapter 38

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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Power is like a living organism.

To survive, it constantly devours prey to grow, digests what it doesn’t need, and excretes it.

In ‘El Pandor Runterra,’ there are hundreds of families that have been devoured by power.

A representative example is the ‘Ventink’ family, which rose to prominence during the Great War seven years ago.

The Ventink family was traditionally known for its abundant wheat farming, and they were only a baronial house when food was plentiful, but as food shortages worsened due to the war, the family’s position rose rapidly.

The emperor promised immense rewards and paid a high price for the Ventink family’s wheat.

In addition, the rival of the Ventink family, the Trosen family, suffered a major defeat in battle and incurred the wrath of the emperor.

The Ventink family absorbed the Trosen family by taking advantage of the situation.

A rural baron had instantly become a powerful earl.

From then on, the Ventink family became a hot topic in the social circles.

Everyone tried to form a marriage alliance with the Ventink family and tried to introduce their daughters to the still unmarried youngest son of the Ventink family.

At that time, the Ventink family was a star that shone so brightly that even the great ducal families took notice.

But….

-Behead the criminal, Andersen Ventink.

But who would have known?

That the Ventink family, which had shone so brightly, would fall in an instant.

The culprit of everything was the youngest son of the Ventink family.

As countless people entertained him by introducing their daughters to that spoiled brat, he fell into luxury and debauchery.

As a result, he ended up touching a woman he shouldn’t have touched.

The guy, who thought all the women in the world were his, drunken and high on drugs he attended a social gathering and committed the atrocity of embracing and groping Isabella, who was also attending the social gathering, from behind.

At that moment, Isabella felt an unbearable humiliation, and her eyes turned black.

She cast a high-level curse on him.

As a result, he burst into mad laughter, picked up a knife that was used to cut steak, and ran amok, eventually stabbing the daughter of an earl.

And it was the belly of a pregnant woman.

Fortunately, Isabella, who came to her senses late, was able to save the woman by healing her in time, but the child was eventually miscarried.

Even with healing, unless it was a top-tier healing like Elena’s, a perfect cure was impossible.

After that, the Ventink family went downhill, and in the end, the youngest son was beheaded, and his family gave up their titles and positions and went into the mountains.

After that, no one knew of their whereabouts.

‘They were digested.’

However, I, who knew the TMI of the game inside and out, knew that the Ventink family had become a sacrifice of power.

Several families who were displeased with the Ventink family had plotted to corrupt the youngest son and make him fall into debauchery.

Of course, they had never imagined that Andersen Ventink would molest Isabella.

They just wanted to tarnish the honor of the Ventink family a little, and they had no idea that they would hit such a big jackpot.

But whatever the intention, the jackpot had been hit, and the Ventink family, which had become the prey of many nobles, was digested as it was.

The rising star had been discarded as excrement.

In that sense, I was at the center of power.

Eleiya had already come to see me, and in a week, people from the ducal families would come to evaluate me under the pretext of an equipment demonstration.

In addition, faculty members representing various noble families would also attend the equipment demonstration to judge me, who was being sponsored by the Princess and Elena.

Seven years ago, it was the Ventink family, and this year, it was Edgar Fix who was in the eye of power.

But I wasn’t a pushover who would be easily taken down like the Ventink family.

I had played this world for a long time, and I knew the TMI of the game in detail.

So, it wasn’t me who would become prey, but the guys who coveted me.

Right now, I was crouching down for an opportunity, but someday, I would devour all those who tried to harm me and rise to the top.

To do that, first…

“Air conditioner.”

I had to make an air conditioner.

Now was the time to become the god of summer.

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Thursday came again.

It was time to develop to my heart’s content.

Therefore, I immediately shut myself in the laboratory.

Since the equipment demonstration was on Monday, I had to develop the air conditioner within that time.

-*Pah!*

First, let’s take a look at the structure of the air conditioner.

I used the hologram, a sub-skill I had obtained when the level of ‘Engineering Mind’ became 3.

Like Fix, which I had obtained when my Dexterous Hands skill level became 3, this hologram was also one of the overpowered skills.

Because I could see the structure of an air conditioner that I had never even made before.

“Hmm… it’s roughly what I thought it would be.”

However, this hologram wasn’t omnipotent.

At the very least, I had to understand the principles or structure of the object I was thinking of.

Only then would I be able to look at it in detail like this.

In that sense, I already knew the principle of the air conditioner.

The air conditioner, which was divided into an indoor unit and an outdoor unit, discharged cool air through the indoor unit and hot air through the outdoor unit.

In other words, it took the heat from inside the room and discharged it outside.

Then, how could it take the heat from inside the room?

The answer was ‘refrigerant.’

The refrigerant that flowed through the ‘L’-shaped pipe inside the indoor unit of the air conditioner.

This guy took the heat from inside the room and turned it into cool air.

It was like the sweat that flowed through our bodies.

Sweat.

When our body temperature rises, our body releases sweat.

Sweat absorbs the heat from the skin and evaporates, lowering the body temperature, which is defined as ‘latent heat of vaporization’.

In other words, our body uses the latent heat of vaporization phenomenon in which liquid absorbs heat and becomes a gas.

This was also the reason why the water sprinkled on the asphalt in the summer would disappear when left alone.

It had absorbed the surrounding heat and evaporated into a gas.

For this reason, the refrigerant that flowed through the pipe was a liquid with a high latent heat of vaporization.

It took away a lot of heat from inside the room.

Therefore, the air that had its heat taken away by the refrigerant was cooled, and when this air was discharged to the outside through a propeller, cool air came out of the air conditioner.

“Alright, let’s make it.”

Having understood the principle of the indoor unit, I immediately started working.

I made an ‘L’-shaped pipe through which the refrigerant would flow, and I made a propeller that would discharge the cooled air to the outside.

“I should make an outdoor unit too.”

The outdoor unit compressed the refrigerant and gradually cooled it down.

In other words, the outdoor unit processed the refrigerant so that it could be reused.

Therefore, I made a compressor needed for the outdoor unit and a propeller that would cool down the heated refrigerant.

With this, 70% of the air conditioner was complete.

“Now, do I just need to make a temperature sensor?”

Temperature sensor.

A temperature sensor was essential to control the temperature inside the room.

To lower the temperature inside the room, more refrigerant had to be sent to the indoor unit, and to raise the temperature inside the room, less refrigerant had to be sent, so a temperature sensor that could measure the temperature inside the room was needed.

I solved this with a mana stone.

I engraved the ‘heat preservation’ spell on the mana stone to make it remember a specific temperature.

Thus, I created 15 mana stones that remembered each temperature from 18 degrees to 32 degrees.

Then, after designing and engineering the mechanism to allow temperature control from 18 degrees to 32 degrees by pressing the button on the air conditioner, I applied it to the air conditioner. .

With this, I had made an air conditioner with temperature control.

“Phew! Fix, you did well!”

“Weeeooong~!”

So, on Saturday morning.

I was able to complete the air conditioner in just 3 days.

In just 3 days, I had completed a state-of-the-art facility that encompassed fluid mechanics, mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, and mana mechanics(?).

Now it was time to inject mana into the core power magic stone and check if the air conditioner was working properly.

Without hesitation, I immediately turned on the air conditioner.

-*Whoooooosh…*

As a result, it worked.

The sweltering laboratory quickly became cool.

It was turning from hell to heaven.

“This is life.”

The uncivilized medieval people.

This was the greatness of Willis Haviland Carrier.

I leaned back in my chair and fully enjoyed that greatness.

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Monday again.

Today was the day of the equipment demonstration.

It was the day to verify my skills as a special admission student through technical screening.

However, I asked to change the equipment demonstration, which was scheduled for 11 PM, to 1 PM.

To experience the proper performance of the air conditioner, 1 PM, when it was the hottest, was the best time, and since the next class started at 2 PM, 1 PM was the most suitable time.

Fortunately, under Elena’s leadership, I was able to change the time without any problems.

All three judges dispatched from the ducal families and the faculty members had agreed to attend the equipment demonstration at 1 PM.

“Shall we begin?”

Now all that was left was the setting.

After finishing the first class and having a simple meal, I began to set up the air conditioner in the VIP room where the equipment demonstration would be held.

I set up the indoor unit on the outer wall, and with Fix’s help, I took the outdoor unit outside.

Fortunately, since the equipment demonstration was held in the VIP room on the first floor, I was able to finish setting up the outdoor unit without difficulty.

-*Beep.*

After finishing setting up the air conditioner.

I immediately turned on the air conditioner.

The stuffy air inside the sweltering lecture hall began to circulate.

The temperature inside gradually began to drop…a miracle was unfolding.

“Test is running smoothly.”

After finishing the test, I closed the curtains and set up the lighting.

Since I was going to have an equipment demonstration, I wanted to prepare properly.

People were easily influenced by a plausible atmosphere.

That’s why aesthetic cafes and stylish phones sold so well.

There were 20 minutes left until the judges and faculty members arrived.

In a little while, an innovation rivaling that of a smartphone would be announced.

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Three judges were dispatched from the ducal families of the Empire.

They were all big shots who held important positions in the ducal families.

The Grand Dukes of the ducal families, who had heard rumors about Ed early on, had sent those they trusted to assess Ed’s skills.

“Hmm, for a mere commoner to adjust the time as he pleases. I must rethink Edgar Fix.”

“I agree.”

However, they were expressing strong displeasure.

How dare a mere commoner make them, who held important positions in the ducal families, adjust the schedule as he pleased? Even if he was being sponsored by Professor Elena and Her Highness the Princess, changing the schedule like this the day before the demonstration was out of line.

Moreover, it was the middle of the day.

To put respected professors of the academy and the main vassals of the ducal families in one room on such a hot day, if he had any sense, such treatment was unthinkable.

It was a long-standing custom and common sense to hold demonstrations or events at night in this hot weather.

‘It’s strange. According to the young lady, he shouldn’t be such a foolish person.’

That was why Butler ‘Bilson’ of the Graham Grand Ducal Family had some doubts.

According to Miss Isabella, Edgar Fix was a once-in-a-millennium genius.

But for such a genius to make such a stupid choice, he couldn’t understand it.

In this sweltering weather, if he invited them to see his product, would the judges be able to give him a good score?

No, even if the product was outstanding, it would be difficult to get a good score.

What the judges wanted to evaluate was Ed’s qualities, not his product.

‘I’m sorry, young lady. As of now, it will be difficult to give him a good score.’

Therefore, Bilson shook his head and moved.

Miss Isabella had earnestly asked him to give him a perfect score, but he had come here as a representative of the Grand Duke of Graham, so he had to be careful and strict in his evaluation.

Exceptions were not allowed.

“Ha, is that the product?”

As he was walking in disappointment, a professor pointed to a strange object.

It was the outdoor unit of the air conditioner that Ed had made.

“This is absurd. Do you see the hot air coming out of here?”

“Haha, surely he didn’t intend to introduce such a product?”

“It’s very different from what I heard. It looks like a worthless item.”

The outdoor unit was emitting air that was much hotter than the average temperature.

The judges and faculty members frowned and hurried their steps.

They were already hot, and they didn’t want to feel the hot air from the outdoor unit any longer.

It was when they entered the building and stood in front of the door of the VIP room.

‘I should finish this quickly and leave.’

‘There’s nothing more to see.’

‘I just want to drink some cold ice water.’

The judges and faculty members opened the door of the VIP room, thinking of finishing it quickly.

If he had prepared a white lump of scrap metal that just emitted hot air, they were ready to turn on their heels and leave without a second thought.

“……?”

However, the moment they opened the door.

The air of heaven touched their skin.

The quality of the air was completely different from the outside.

There was life here.

“Thank you for coming all the way here. I am Edgar Fix, S-class number 37 of the Imperial Academy.”

And on the platform of the VIP room, a handsome black-haired boy was introducing himself.

He introduced himself with the perfect etiquette of a noble, then pointed to the table and comfortable chair in front of him and said.

“Before the presentation, I have prepared cool beer and comfortable chairs for you, who must be tired. Please sit comfortably, quench your thirst, and listen to the presentation.”

Air conditioner wind + cool beer + a comfortable chair that makes you sleepy + soft lighting.

The judges and faculty members looked as if they had just had an orgasm.

As if they were collectively under hypnosis, they each moved toward the cool beer.

Ed smiled as he looked at them.

‘It’s a pass.’

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