How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

“Here we burn coal to heat the water.”

A coal power plant that was introduced by contacting the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to understand the power generation method.

The manager of the power plant pointed to the huge machine and said.

“And steam is generated from the heated water, which turns a turbine and generates electricity with it.”

“It converts thermal energy into kinetic energy and converts that kinetic energy back into electricity. Is that correct?”

“you’re right.”

What I knew so far.

“Then what about nuclear power?”

Isn’t it something that makes electricity with the infinite power of nuclear power?

If that’s the case, it’s not like there’s no possibility of a power plant using magical power.

Then the manager said with a calm expression.

“It is the same.”

“···yes?”

“Nuclear power plants eventually use nuclear fission to boil water and use the steam to turn turbines.”

what.

Only the energy source used is different, but the principle is the same, right?

“What about wind power?”

“We use the kinetic energy of the wind to turn the turbine.”

“Hydraulic power?”

“Using the kinetic energy of water to make a turbine…”

“Sunbeam! Solar heat is different, right?”

“Similarly, a turbine that collects solar heat in one place and boils water….”

They’re all pre-riding turbines!

“Solar generators on cars and things like that don’t boil water.”

“It uses the photoelectric effect of metal, so the principle is a little different, but… Instead, the efficiency is not good. If it was that efficient in the first place, there’s no way the coal power plant would keep running.”

That’s right.

“The basic principle is the same for everything from the generator to the engine that goes into the car. Burn or explode to create energy and turn something with that energy.”

Then, in the end, it means to use the skeleton to turn the turbine…

“Actually, I’m thinking of an eco-friendly energy generation business right now.”

Then the manager said with a surprised expression.

“Really? how?”

“To put it roughly, it is using a skeleton to turn a turbine. Of course, I’ll have to think about it now. So I want to do an experiment, can you help me?”

If the coal power plant is a general private company, it may sound crazy to ask for help because a competitor is researching a better power generation method.

In any case, the power generation business has no choice but to be with KEPCO, and if a better power plant is developed, all the employees here will move there.

After all, wouldn’t it be better to work in a clean power plant rather than a coal power plant where the employees are full of smoke?

Sure enough, the manager nodded happily and said,

“I can help. By the way, perhaps the skeleton not only turns the turbine, but also replaces all the work of people?”

“Of course not. Skeletons produce, people manage. This is the basic policy of Seron.”

“That’s it. come this way I will guide you to the lab.”

The manager walks toward the laboratory like that.

The manager said with a smile on his face.

“By the way, a skeleton with infinite power could roll a turbine almost for free, right? I’m afraid of how far this theory will develop. hahahaha.”

it’s infinite power

This must be what ordinary people think of as a skeleton.

Of course, it’s annoying to explain, so let’s move on.

A small laboratory attached to a coal power plant that we arrived at after a long walk.

“Come in.”

*

A huge skeleton pushes hard on the pedals of a bicycle made of bones, and the research turbine connected to the bicycle turns.

“It comes out about 50kW.”

At the words of the researcher, the manager looked at me and said.

“Not bad. If there are many skeletons like this, it might be more efficient.”

Not bad.

Even if it’s bad, it can’t be this bad.

“Isn’t it roughly 7,500 won for 50kW?”

“It will be about that much.”

I checked and thought about the magic power going into the skeleton.

‘It consumes more than I thought.’

As much power is required to turn a heavy turbine, mana consumption for maintenance is also large.

Calculating this with the unit price of mana recently purchased…

“It’s a loss.”

It’s also overwhelmingly damaging.

Even with a rough calculation, the cost of purchasing magic power alone was dozens of times higher.

As expected, there is no answer using only physical energy using a skeleton.

“hmm······.”

I pondered for a moment, then opened my eyes and said.

“How about that? Making the turbine itself into a skeleton.”

After all, what is the reason for using a turbine?

This is to generate electricity by turning rods connected to turbines as efficiently as possible.

Then you don’t have to turn the turbine, you just have to turn the rod well.

“oh! Is that even possible?”

“I’m going to try it.”

I said, summoning a pile of bones from subspace.

“Let’s do it, Skeleton Turbine.”

*

“500 kW! great!”

As the skeleton turbine made of bones automatically rotated, the manager clapped and said.

“Efficiency has increased 10 times compared to before!”

okay.

right.

If you make a skeleton turbine and roll it, the efficiency will definitely go up.

Rather than rolling a heavy piece of iron with the power of the skeleton, it was much less power consuming for the skeleton to turn around by itself.

The problem is that even this isn’t enough.

“Even this is a loss for a long time.”

Although it has improved, it is still far below the original cost.

I thought about it for a while and said.

“Let’s try another way.”

Since then, I have experimented with all kinds of skeleton turbines, such as making a centrifugal force with a skeleton turbine built around a rod, or attaching legs to all sides.

Thanks to that, the efficiency has improved, but it’s just there.

I said with a disappointed expression.

“As expected, the skeleton power plant is no good.”

In this way, you have to make electricity at a cost several times higher than the unit cost of electricity production at the power plant.

In other words, there is no business at all.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

If it were possible, it would be possible to create perfect eco-friendly energy and at the same time, the Seron Group would be able to grow tremendously.

As I stood there with a disappointed expression, the manager cautiously approached me and said,

“Are you having any problems?”

“Actually, to operate these guys… no, that means energy bought from people is consumed. It’s not a completely infinite power like you think. But now the problem is…”

I told the general manager in detail to see if I could find a breakthrough.

Then the manager nodded and said.

“okay. It’s not infinite power, so the chairman deserves to make such an expression. Originally, energy loses a lot in the process of conversion.”

“Is there any better way?”

“I don’t know much about skeletons or abilities…”

“Whoa. okay.”

For now, let’s end here for today.

“Thank you for your cooperation.”

*

Since that day, the regret about the power plant has not disappeared.

I must have eaten the raw materials, but now if I just take up energy, there really won’t be anything lacking anymore.

“Really, if the efficiency goes up a few times more here… Are you too greedy?”

Other energy companies invest astronomical amounts of money to increase efficiency by 1%, but I have to increase efficiency several times, let alone 1%.

“I think we need one more groundbreaking thing…”

Then Deokbae Kim knocked on the door and said.

“President.”

“yes. Come on in.”

Kim Deok-bae came inside and handed over the documents.

“This is the progress of the auto skeleton automation process.”

Seron signed a contract with the era car in earnest and started laying a skeleton automation line in a new factory.

“The first coordination is almost finished, so I think I will have to go into the second process soon.”

After I installed the skeletons, Baek Sang-ho and the instructors coordinated the skeleton automation system.

“What is the secondary process?”

“It is the part that mounts the engine.”

“It’s an engine.”

The engine is quite heavy, so you’ll need to use a lot of mana.

“I’ll be going soon… um?”

wait for a sec.

engine?

“Come to think of it, the manager said while mentioning the engine, that it creates energy by burning or exploding the power source.”

Why am I obsessed with skeletons and magical powers?

I have another source of energy.

It is also an energy source optimized for explosions.

“fraud.”

From nob le mtl dot com

Morale is a source of energy for Necromancers.

I use this to move the skeleton and use it for attacks.

The reason why a lot of mana is required to move a skeleton with a strong output is because the skeleton has a strong morale and more mana is needed to control it.

I muttered as I took out a bone from the subspace.

“Wouldn’t it be possible to use fraud?”

In general, skeletons enclose morale in their bones and drive it by consuming mana to move it.

In other words, the total amount of morale in the skeleton is always maintained as long as it is not destroyed.

But the Bone Spear I throw blows the whole bone and then explodes the morale inside the bone to attack.

Even though doing so completely destroys the morale contained in the bones, instead, it can instantly emit power strong enough to completely shatter the ground.

“I was the one who compared fraud to gunpowder to Woo Do-hyun. Why didn’t I think of this?”

Skeleton turbine is a so-called self-rotating turbine that simply uses the kinetic energy of the skeleton to turn the rod.

Wouldn’t it be possible to maximize efficiency by adding explosive firepower using morale?

I guess this makes sense.

I jumped up from my seat and said.

“Chief Kim! Please prepare an experiment!”

*

The professor of Mechanical Systems Engineering grumbled.

“I never thought the day would come when I would participate in the Seron Group experiment.”

At those words, Professor Lee Do-jin smiled and said.

“no?”

“Is it because I don’t know? If I am an awakened person, I am a person who trembles.”

Do-jin Lee’s close friend and a science and technology professor, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, hated his ability to not even grasp the source of his power.

“I really hate people who talk about themselves as if they were proud through their own efforts. But even if the chairman is SS class and is trying to replace the machine, which is a product of science and technology, with a skeleton? Terrible, terrible.”

“But without those Awoken, the Earth would turn into hell.”

“I know, I know. So it’s not just talking in front of you. Don’t you see the need for the Awoken? It’s just that I’m uncomfortable with things that can’t be interpreted academically. At the same time, I don’t like that the importance of machines and robots is being pushed aside because of that.”

Then, Dojin Lee smiled and said.

“If it’s uncomfortable in that sense, then Chairman Han would be a little different, right?”

“Different?”

“You know that our department has now changed to the Department of Robot Skeleton Engineering, right?”

Then the qigong professor frowned and said.

“know. I never dreamed that there would be a department related to ability to live and live. Even Professor Lee’s four departments.”

“Because I’m not as negative about my abilities as you are. However, after researching the skeleton, my thoughts have completely changed. how to say The power to move the skeleton and things like that are still uncharted territory, but…”

Lee Do-jin said while looking at the Qigong professor.

“Everything else is grounded.”

“Is there a basis?”

“In this simple motion of a skeleton lightly extending and folding its arms, there is a command system to implement that motion, just like a robot. If the robot implements its movements with a computer, the skeleton moves with this command system.”

The qigong professor said with a tempting expression.

“okay?”

“huh. I thought it was a system devised by Serron’s researchers? But it wasn’t. The Seron researchers just received the command system from Chairman Han and put it all together. In other words, these commands were purely created by one president, and only a few years after awakening. I felt it there.”

Dojin Lee said with a grin.

“Chairman Han said that it might be the same fruit as us. The only difference is that we deal with robots and machines, and Chairman Han deals with skeletons.”

“Is that enough?”

“I’ll send you the data later, take a look. Incredibly massive.”

Then, the Qigong department professor, who was silent, spoke.

“Let’s check that later and then talk about it. Anyway, why did Chairman Han invite me?”

“well. What kind of energy experiment are you talking about? If there are any experts in the field of generators or electrical energy, please introduce me, so I recommended you. No matter how much I think about it, you are the best around me.”

Then the qigong professor smiled and said,

“It feels good to be acknowledged by Professor Lee, right?”

“It was nothing.”

Lee Do-jin, who was driving at that time, said.

“We are almost there, Seron Research Center. Surely you are not making a mistake in front of Chairman Han?”

“I told you, I’m only showing off to you. Anyway, the dean is also sulking in front of a president, what can I do? Besides, if I had really been walking around in all directions like this, I would have been beaten to death by the Awoken long ago? don’t worry.”

After arriving at the Seron Research Center, Lee Do-jin and Prof. Lee got out of the car.

Then Jihyeok Han came over and said with a smile.

“Nice to meet you, professors.”

Then, the professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering bent down and grabbed Han Ji-hyeok’s hand and said.

“Chairman Han! It is an honor to meet you!”

The giggling figure in the car is nowhere to be found, and the professor of qigong immediately went into flattery mode.

“To the glory.”

“Of course it is an honor! By being invited by President Han, it was as if my ability had been recognized. hahahaha.”

Seeing this, Dojin Lee burst into laughter and said,

“hahahaha. I think the professor needs research funds, President.”

“Professor Lee! Do I look like such a snobbish person? Of course, it is true that research funding is always insufficient, but is it really necessary to talk about it at such an important occasion?”

Then Jihyeok Han nodded and said.

“If this experiment goes well, there will be no money for research.”

“Really! As expected, Chairman Han has a big distribution!”

“I heard that you are a great person in the field of turbines and energy.”

“I’m not the best, but I’m proud to be at level A. hahahaha!”

“great. Then please come this way.”

Do-jin Lee and Professor Ji-hyeok Lee follow Han Ji-hyeok.

At that time, Do-jin Lee patted the professor of the Department of Gigong and said,

“you are good?”

“You should do well, you are the chairman of a conglomerate. You got a lot of support this time, but we don’t. I need to look as good as possible and receive research funding.”

“Yes, yes.”

Professor Lee Do-jin and Professor entered the research center like that.

What the two of them could see was Turbine.

A turbine made of bones.

The Qigong Professor’s expression slightly distorted.

“Could it be the Skeleton Turbine? Now you can even make electricity with your abilities?”

“Wait a minute. Let’s listen to the explanation and talk.”

Then Jihyeok Han pointed to the Skeleton Turbine and said.

“First, let me give you a brief explanation. I thought while buying energy from people this time. This energy is a resource that can only be obtained from people, so I wonder if there is anything else I can do with this resource other than maintaining the production of skeletons. That’s why I came up with this.”

When Han Ji-hyeok tapped the skeleton turbine, the skeleton turbine grabbed the rod and started spinning at high speed.

“In this way, a skeleton turbine using human energy as a power source is turned to generate electricity. But there was a problem. It was just that it wasn’t very effective. When a skeleton turbine operates, that much energy is consumed, and this cost is several times higher than the cost of electricity production. Then an idea occurred to me.”

Jihyeok Han took out the bone and said.

“If the rotational speed is insufficient, wouldn’t it be possible to increase the thrust? I do.”

When Han Ji-hyeok gestured, the skeleton turbine stopped rotating.

However, if you look closely, isn’t there a long rocket-like piece of metal hanging from the side of the skeleton turbine?

At that time, Han Ji-hyeok approached and inserted the bone into the open hole behind the rocket-shaped lump of metal.

“Have you seen it? The way I attack by bursting bones.”

“I saw.”

“It’s just using that explosive power.”

The moment Han Ji-hyeok snapped his fingers.

bang!

There is a tremendous roar from the metal of the rocket, and explosive power erupts from behind it, and at the same time, the skeleton turbine starts to rotate at a terrifying speed.

“What if I activate the original skeleton turbine here?”

A combination of the Skeleton Turbine’s ability to self-rotate, in addition to the thrust from the Bone Explosion.

The results were extraordinary.

Boom bung bung bung!

A skeleton turbine that rotates at an incomparable speed.

“It goes like this. Of course, this is a rough sketch to show how the concept works, and if you make a proper skeleton turbine, the method will be a little different. That’s why I invited professors.”

Han Ji-hyuk smiled brightly and said.

“How are you, professors? Is this a possibility?”