New Life as the Kingdom's Youngest Son
Arcanum Machina

the testing day of the Dark Iron Cluster prototype and it succeeded the barrier was not exhausted because it continued to be replaced by new barriers, its incredible durability destructive magic can only do minor damage not to mention that the steel mixed with the titanium layer makes it very strong with a thickness of 600 mm armor, this is probably the world's first tank Aldric thought proudly

But there is a problem that the object must be pushed or pulled by 4 high-quality horses and Aldric only has four horses fitting while the Dark Iron Cluster there are 3 numbers added again it would not be safe for the horse to be in front of a machine that was supposed to protect anything behind it.

Aldric gave his opinion to the blacksmiths who worked there, all was very good but the lack of loading the machine was barely operational plus a horse with high quality is very sensitive (the horse shape is similar to a Belgian horse) to the temperature in the country makes the horse ineffective in the use as a towing animal.

After a long discussion, one of the blacksmiths gave an idea. "Maybe we could try replacing the towing system with a more powerful mechanism, like Arcanum Machina to replace the towing animals completely"

Hearing the blacksmith Aldric think kerqs because he doesn't know what they are, and Aldric tried to find it on the market and it turned out that it was a magic contraption working like a motor on a vehicle depending on the quality they could push a lot of weight.

But the economic situation of Aldric was not good repair of the barrier of the fort, the fort itself and the temple he was looking at was very expensive but he knew what he had to do, no.... More precisely he knew who he should meet.

The next day he headed to a place with a leier army he allowed the silverlance army to multiply considering his services and their abilities Aldric was unwilling to interfere with their training.

Aldric headed to the solar academy of knowledge to find a great magic mechanic and teamed up with them, he also captured the first prototype of the Dark Iron Cluster, which was towed by his four high-quality horses, however as he had expected the horse to easily experience overheating the cooling magic should be ramped up every 1 hour during the trip and it was really weighing them down on the way.

The prototype was covered by a cloth to cover it with his weight that Aldric was surprised he could last this long he thought his wheel would be broken in the middle of the trip or something.

They arrived and they were briefly detained by the guards there because they were suspicious of the Dark Iron Cluster which was covered in cloth but saw that the one in the horse carriage was Aldric they immediately let he's in.

On the road to a large magic academy like a castle that many residents were shocked and also asked what was pulled by 4 large and strong horses that were almost as high as the house and and shaped like a turtle shell is all they can understand from that thing.

Arriving at the academy's gate many of his students were drawn to the party until Aldric got off his chariot and many people started cheering for him, Aldric did not realize he had become popular in all lands because his services were widely spread by word of mouth by other traders and adventurers.

Aldric who saw many people cheering him became a little embarrassed not long after Lumetri came to greet him "Aldric long time no see !" Aldric with a "auntie smile... Long time no see either" they went to Lumetri's office to discuss Aldric's arrival to his academy that day.

"so... Why did you come here ?" before going straight to the point Aldric had asked a few things to Lumetri "um... This auntie necklace that aunt gave me didn't work shouldn't something appear to protect me ? When I'm in danger ?"

Lumetri nodded "oh that... Shield guardians would only be active outside the war area... Technically, you are in a situation that is declared a war situation so it will not be active... And as long as the user knows what to do eating the necklace will not be active"

Aldric listened to his aunt's explanation attentively and he understood it "um... And what about my scarf ? You know I got shot by three arrows why doesn't he protect me sometimes ?"

Lumetri thought for a while before answering "there may be some factors there may be too many projectiles hovering past you or even in the shot bending your bewildered scarf, or maybe the scarf has no wiggle room without injuring the troops next to you, and also maybe the scarf already doesn't see you as old.... Where it was impossible to see his still burning energy"

Aldric nodded in understanding now that he could more calmly know the lack of magic items he had "so what are you here for besides asking... Of course you didn't come all this way just to ask something as simple as that ?"

Aldric nodded "does auntie know anything about Arcanum Machina ?" Lumetri nodded "certainly... It is part of the Artificer subclass... But I lack depth"

Aldric looks a little disappointed "so yeah... Are there any students studying Arcanum Machina here ?" Lumerti nodded "of course there is" Aldric saw the hope in front of his eyes that was langsunf smiling "how many are there ?"

"only... Um... 9 people" considering the academy is a big sabgat and has thousands of students and only 9 of them learn Arcanum Machina is ridiculous and unreasonable but Aldric will still invite them.

"auntie I have to be honest, my arrival here was to get some students to work on the Arcanum Machina project for me... Of course I'll pay them if I have to" hearing this Lumerti nodded in understanding "maybe it's okay... But you have to get approval from the head of the class as well as student leader Arcanum Machina"

Aldric also met with the student leader of Arcanum Machina class he was a young man aged 19 years different habya several years with himself they shook hands and sat down to discuss the project he wanted to give to they were nine and the man became the representative of those 9 people.

The young man had blue hair his eyes were blue and his face was plain, he was obviously very awkward but the way he maintained his formality really deserved respect.

"introduce my name is Trinich" Aldric swdik slightly confused "why use a fake name ?" Trinich laughs awkwardly "um... Yes I prefer to be called by my nickname but if you want my real name is-", "it's great to meet you Trinich... So tell me... What about the people who study in the field of Arcanum Machina ?"

Trinich nodded "our father very often is not considered or even talked about as a mistake that we made a bad choice but still we keep Arcanum Machina in this school"

Aldric "was there always only nine students in the class of Arcanum Machina ?" Trinich shakes his head while looking down "no... At the beginning of the year olesson certainly ads a lot though not as much as other classes... It might be 50 to 100 students but most of them moved classes or even dropped out because most thought this was just a waste of time"

Aldric nodded "so you last nine survive ? And I heard you guys are in your 5th year (last school year) ? Do you know where you're going after this ?" Trinich did not reply he just shook his head Aldric could see the sadness in his eyes.

Empathically, Aldric respected Trinich's feelings and did not force her to share more information. Aldric too with a friendly attitude "I came here to give you a chance... It depends on whether you join me or not in the big project I'm going to do"

Trinich looks excited "what is that ?" Aldric nodded "take the rest of the students from Arcanum Machina's class into the field I will explain it there.

10 Minutes later, Aldric was in the field with the Dark Iron Cluster covered by a white cloth, not long before Trinich and the other disciples came there they were initially confused and Aldeic explained excitedly.

"i can only say congratulations to all of you who survived 5 years in the Arcanum Machina class and did not give up... I'm sure each of you will be a great Arcanum Machina... Here I have a project for you"

Aldric took off the white cloth and showed a large and very intimidating Dark Iron Cluster, the disciples were amazed "before I tell you what your task is, do you have any questions ?" no one asked but they were excited soot especially Trinich.

"well, I don't think anyone asked... Your job is to make Arcanum Machina strong enough to push this Dark Iron Cluster to 3 tons... And there's also plenty of room in it so I'm sure you can do it easily... It's still a protorype... So this isn't true yet so if you guys succeed I'll hire you guys in my town, and believe me we'll have a lot of great projects there I believe you can do it and I'll be back in two 3 weeks' time is that enough ?"

all agreed 3 weeks is enough time Aldric then give Trinich a bag of gold coins amounting to 200 gold coins as capital and for them this is quite even more, Aldric also pamin and he looked behind them immediately saw the design and entered the Dark Iron Cluster to check the interior Aldeic smiled to see their spirit in doing their duty.

Aldeic also left four of his best quality horses to them if they wanted to move them somewhere.