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    Seeing Erika happy made me happy as well, although Evelyn annoying us in the back was certainly something distracting, I enjoyed Erika''s show of affection. She was rather happy with her new ring. It was made exclusively to help her in her own problems.


    "With this you''ll hopefully not feel as sickly when you don''t take enough sunlight." I said with a nod. "I''ve already charged it with sunlight by using some special sunlight-imbued materials."


    "I can tell! The moment I put it on, I felt a warm energy reaching the interior of my body…" Erika said. "It feels so warm… And nice."


    "Good for you then." I said, giving her a head pat. "Now that we''re done here, we should go take a small break with everyone before thest sses."


    "You''re right!"


    Like that, we walked back to the cafeteria, where everyone talked about the sses they had. They seemed slightly tired, but the meals we had quickly gave everyone enough energy to push through thest sses of the day.


    "See you in an hour!" Erika waved her hand as she flew towards thest sses of the day.


    Like that, I quickly walked into the Machinery sses made by Alberta''s Uncle. The group that joined me now was the same except Elfriedden, who was taking a different set of sses instead of machinery today.


    I thought Erika would had joined me this time, because I imagine her abilities could go well with machinery, as she can control dolls, which are like golems at the end. However she went into apletely different ss at the end.


    Well, she has never been that good at production-based sses, she had barely learned a few basic steps of alchemy, and never seemed totally interested in it, despite having seen many times how great it was.


    The rest of my friends were practically the same except Eric. And now Alberta joined us, she was really into production-based sses, so she took all the ones I did, the same as Eric.


    The moment we stepped into the sses, all students, me included, found ourselves… inplete dark. The sses werepletely dark, there were no lights at all.


    "Huh? What''s going on?"


    "Is the teacher not here yet?"


    "Can someone turn on the lights?"


    "Huh? I heard something moving there…"


    FLASH!


    Suddenly, amp shed with bright light to the left of the ssroom, then, we all saw as several circuit-like cables transmitted the electricity and light towards anothermp, and another, and another…


    And then…


    FLAAAASH!


    The entire ssroom was lighted in a mere second. We were all greeted by a ssroom like no other in this facility. The walls, ceiling, and floor were all decorated with a variety of metallic tes, circuits and cables,mps everywhere, and even big, robot-like arms and tools hanging from the walls.<novelnext></novelnext>


    And as if that couldn''t get any more futuristic-like. There was a big screen in the middle of the ssroom, which lighted and showed several moving images. Many of the students were amazed, they had never seen something like a TV or a Computer before.


    "W-Woah…"


    "What is this?!"


    "Moving images?"


    "Is this some sort of magic?"


    "But an item is recreating them, not projection magic!"


    And from within the screen, there, it showed the face of a big and burly dwarf man, with a long fiery red beard and orange eyes, alongside a tanned skin, having simr features to Alberta. He was wearing an eyepatch in his left eye.


    "Wee to the Machinery sses, younglings. I can see that this year we''ve got a few less than the previous one. My name is Hellburn, I am the instructor that will be teaching you all about cksmith and Machinery… in two separate sses, of course."


    "You may be wondering what is this, exactly? This is named a Projection Screen, a special type of magical artifact we''ve developed, which allows people to see moving images we''ve called "Records". As you can tell, I am actually not talking to you in real life right now, this was prerecorded, for your own amusement!"


    "…After all, I am right here."


    Suddenly, we heard the voice of the dwarfing right from behind us, as he showed up in the ssroom''s door while the prerecorded video suddenly stopped, turning the screen ck.


    He looked slightly different than in the video, as he was smaller than I imagined, he was in fact slightly smaller than Alberta herself, who was already small.


    And above all, aside from his eyepatch missing, which was now reced with some sort of bionic, red-colored eye, he also had a mechanical hand and his old legs were reinforced with mechanical support tightly wrapped around his hips and strong, muscr back.


    "Uncle!" Alberta said happily.


    While everyone else was gasping in surprise, Alberta greeted Hellburn from afar.


    "Oh, Alberta! I am d to see you here. But don''t think because you''re my family I''ll treat you any different! You''re going to go through hell as well as anybody bold enough to join these sses, gahahaha!"


    Hellburn quickly walked towards the center of the ssroom, greeting all the students by surprising them with the amazing magic technology that the dwarves had developed, which even surprised me as well.


    The spirits within my Spirit Orb were also surprised, my old friends were amazed as they never imagined they would see such advanced technology in this rustic medievalesque world. Truth be told, I had not expected this much when I heard long ago about the dwarves developing magic technology.


    But the flying airships, and the many trains and other moving carriages we saw in the big city of Stronghold, they were all seriously advanced for this world''s presumable age. I suppose Dwarves in this world are truly amazing inventors and technicians.


    "In these sses I shall try to teach you all about the machinery techniques of our country of dwarves. All of you, I assume, must have some production-rted ss, yes?"


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