Half an hour later, Tony and Yuno, who had sent Nanoha home, were on their way to the hotel.
The atmosphere was a bit awkward. Tony originally wanted to lecture Yuno about dragging Nanoha into dangerous activities, but when the words came to his lips, he found that he seemed to have no right to say it. To put it bluntly, he had to bear some responsibility for this matter.
"Yunuo, do all the kids in your place have to start working at a young age like you? Where are your parents?" Tony spoke up, breaking the silence.
"Our society is different from here. There is no concept of parents. Newborns are raised by the tribe as a whole." Yuno began to explain, "After being able to use magic of a certain level, people in the tribe will automatically have the concept of adulthood. Of course, because of the Time Management Bureau Act, for individuals under the age of 18, they can also ask the tribe to raise them until they are 18 years old. However, the expenses in between will be borne by the dependents themselves and will have to be repaid in the future."
"Huh? Doesn't your tribe encourage learning magic?" Tony asked back.
"How could that be? The clan leader wants everyone to become an adult before the age of eighteen, and everyone works very hard to learn magic." Yuno was puzzled as to where Tony's question came from.
Tony nodded. He had long understood that the thinking states of different races were different in most cases. This kind of thinking state would produce many special policies that were incomprehensible to others. At this time, there was only one thing to do, which was to shut up and change the subject.
"By the way, can you tell me about the so-called holy stone seeds? Do they all look like this thing?" Tony asked, holding up the box in his hand.
"Of course not." Yuno looked at the box and remembered Tony's plan to send this thing to the sun not long ago. "The specific situation of the Holy Stone Seed is unknown, but I guess it should be the legacy of a lost civilization. It has huge energy and can realize the owner's wishes to a certain extent. The original appearance is a gem similar to a diamond. This should be a Holy Stone Seed that has been contaminated by some emotions or energy."
Tony blinked. Another gem? Why did it feel like the treasures in every world had similar appearances
"In fact, this level of pollution can be easily solved by using the Heart of the Rising Sun in Nanoha's hand. It can be sealed with just a light tap..." Yuno tried to convince Tony.
"No need, I'm enough." Tony showed no sign of wavering.
"But we can't really throw it into the sun. If there's a chain reaction or some unexpected situation, then this galaxy or even this world will be in trouble!" Yuno was a little anxious. He couldn't understand Tony's insistence at all. For their clan, potential means responsibility, which is a responsibility that exists since birth. Besides, Nanoha is ten years old, not young anymore.
"No way, you don't really think that I, Tony Stark, have only one solution, which is to use stars as garbage dumps!" Tony said, tossing the box in his hand, as if telling Yuno not to underestimate him.
"I admit that your classical mechanical manufacturing is very good, but you can't even sense magic. How can you deal with the Holy Stone Seed? That's absolutely impossible!" Yuno seemed to look down on Tony very much. In his eyes, the pure technological product made by Tony without the so-called magic added might be outdated, even though he might not be able to beat even a Ranger in a one-on-one fight.
Tony stopped when he heard this and looked back at Yuno, who also looked at him without any hesitation.
Tony leaned down slowly and said, "You know, this world is very, very big. It's not good to be a frog in a well."
"A frog in a well is much better than a self-righteous person!" Yuno was very tough and just stood firm.
"Since you are so confident, how about a bet?" Tony looked at the stubborn Yuno and slowly stood up. He now treated Yuno as an adult.
Although Tony thought that this magician who could transform into a ferret was not yet an adult, as he had said at the beginning, it was necessary to respect the culture and thinking of other ethnic groups.
"What do you mean?"
"In one day, which is the time it takes for this planet to rotate once, I will turn this thing into the Holy Stone Seed you mentioned." Tony knocked on the box. "Of course, you have to cooperate with me and let me record some data about magic power and seals. If I succeed, then I win."
"I won the right to own the Heart of the Rising Sun. At the same time, you can no longer constantly instigate Nanoha to become a magician, and our affairs are written off."
Yuno understood what Tony meant, but he didn't think Tony could do it. "What if you lose?"
"That won't happen." Tony's eyes were shining with confidence. "But since you asked, I'll make it clear. If I lose, I will never interfere with your influence on Nanoha again. Also, for the next three months, I will accept your orders! I will help you collect the seeds of the sacred stone and find the guy who cast the curse."
"Deal!" Yuno high-fived and swore, his face full of joy.
Tony smiled at his status, the adult world is not that easy, it's okay to take this small loss, if he can't react, then Tony thinks he needs to adjust his attitude towards Yuno again.
The bet that the two parties just made, from beginning to end, has no terms that are disadvantageous to Tony. After all, no matter whether he wins or loses, Tony will find a way to find the culprit who indirectly caused the complete destruction of his spaceship!
In the case of a technological gap, many things in the spacecraft were customized from the main god space, and the price was painful for the pioneer alliance! Someone must be responsible for this loss.
As for not interfering with Yuno's influence on Nanoha, this did not stop Tony from influencing Nanoha. From this brief contact and Jarvis' investigation of the network environment, compared to Yuno's racial thinking, the human thinking in Nanoha's world is closer to Midgard where Tony originally lived.
Besides, even if it really doesn't work, Tony still has a trick, which is a bit embarrassing, and that trick is - home visit!
He still didn't believe it. Would Nanoha's family support her to participate in such a dangerous activity? Most likely they would be against it. It wasn't like Nanoha wouldn't listen to her family. Although it was a bit mean, in their mindset, children should stay away from war!
After returning to the hotel, Tony compensated for the losses, checked into a presidential suite, and then started taking Yuno to conduct various tests.
After this test, Tony actually discovered something different. Although the magic here has the same name as the magic on the mysterious side of the world of A Certain Scientific Railgun, its essence is completely different.
The magic here is more like a catalyst that works in the vast majority of cases, causing matter and energy to react in a new way.
According to Yuno, this catalyst is widely present in every world he has visited, but the concentration and activity of the catalyst itself are different.
The magic concentration on Earth where they live, which is what Yuno calls the place that manages the outer ninety-seven worlds, is not very high, but the magic concentration in Nanoha's body is terribly high. This is because her "potential" causes the catalysts in the surrounding environment to enter her body in reverse concentration and continue to accumulate.
After this, Tony finally understood. No wonder Yuno said he had no potential, because this kind of magic seemed to not exist in Midgard, and their bodies naturally would not evolve a mechanism to absorb this kind of magic.
"Well, it will be much easier next." Tony looked at the small ball of magic power extracted from the special container with the help of Yuno.
Yuno's potential is not very good, and the magic power in his body has reached its limit and can no longer absorb more magic power, but he can rely on some magic to mobilize the magic power in the air, which is also the basic principle of the magic device.
"Um... um..." Yuno stammered behind Tony.
Tony turned around in his chair and looked at Yuno. Tony knew that this guy probably understood the problem in the bet.
"Forget it, I'm going to bed, but don't go back on your word!" Yuno faced Tony, but was still too shy to suggest changing the bet. He turned and walked towards his room.
Tony smiled, turned around and entered into research mode.
The next morning, Yuno woke up from his dream, and the warm sunlight shone on his face through the window.
Yuno touched his abdomen subconsciously and realized that his injury had been healed by an unknown medicine.
When I walked into the hall, I found Tony still sitting in front of the table, fiddling with something.
"I stayed up all night... Did I go too far..." Yuno lowered his head as if thinking about how to comfort Tony who had gained nothing.
"You're awake." Tony turned around and looked at Yuno who was standing behind him in a daze.
"Ah, yeah."
"Next." Tony threw a small transparent box to Yuno.
Yuno took it clumsily, "What is this..."
He paused before he finished speaking. In the small box was the seed of the holy stone, which was shining brightly and contained surging magic power that could not be faked.
"I win the bet for the Holy Stone seed you asked for. Also, don't open the small box. The pattern on the outside is a sealing array that I modified." Tony said as he continued his research. He found that magic power seemed to be able to effectively enhance all current technological products, and he is now doing further research.
"You...how did you do it?!" Yuno felt that his three views were destroyed. How could a person who could not sense magic power seal the seed of the holy stone
"It was quite troublesome. It took me more than half an hour to design a sealing device before I could get it out." Tony pointed to a new device as big as a small printer lying on the ground next to him.
"But, but, can't you sense magic?!" Yuno still didn't understand. This was completely contrary to the education he had received since he was a child. It was as if someone in the universe suddenly grew a new organ that could sense the ubiquitous magnetic field.
Tony turned around slowly, took off his goggles, and half-leaned in the swivel chair.
"Humans have never been a race that relies on racial talents. Compared to energy life, our sensory organs lack direct perception of various energies. Compared to spiritual life, our communication organs have poor information transmission capacity, with only one to ten bits of information output per second. Our bodies are extremely fragile compared to those silicon-based life or higher-level life..."
"But we can stand firm among many races because we are good at learning and making tools. Isn't it just magic? With the data you provided, I can naturally find it in the world just like finding oxygen. It's just that the extraction is crude and needs to improve the technology."
After Tony's explanation, Yuno suddenly realized what was going on. Then, after thinking for a few seconds, he realized something was wrong.
How can you compare like that? Does it mean that if the human race is not the best in one aspect in the multiverse, then it is not good enough? Isn't this nonsense? And most civilized races know how to learn and make tools, which is not the same thing at all.
Tony looked at the changes in Yuno's expression and suddenly felt relieved. I told you not to trust Nicestark, so you deserve to be fooled.
"Okay, don't think about it. It was just a joke. What I really want to tell you is that there is nothing new under the sun. Don't be surprised." Tony continued.
Hearing this, Yuno was silent for a long time, looking at the transparent box in his hand, and sighed deeply.
He didn't know if there was anything new under the sun, but he knew that there are always people better than you. Nanoha, who used magic for the first time, surpassed him in both skills and magic power even though he had studied it for ten years. Tony, who knew magic for the first time, became a person who understood magic better than him in just one night.
"Stop sighing. Sometimes people can't be compared. Also, don't use your own weaknesses to challenge other people's strengths." Tony continued to preach. He finally understood why Alice liked chatting with her past self. It turned out that preaching was such a pleasant thing.
"Well, among the friends you know, how many can go from knowing nothing about magic to being deeply involved in it in one night?" Yuno asked in a low voice, as if he wanted to see where he ranked in Tony's circle of friends.
Tony looked up and began to think. Needless to say, Lin Zhengying and Alice, the fourth-level mysterious characters, could find and experiment with a new element in minutes. As for Kai and Luo Yi, the masters of the physical body, as long as they wanted, their bodies could even separate these elements directly from the air they inhaled. Dr. Banner and Noah Osborn were also elite scholars, although they were not as good as him...
If you think about it this way, the person who is most obviously unable to do it seems to be standing in front of Tony.
Facing Tony's somewhat sympathetic gaze, Yuno simply shut himself off. He shouldn't have asked, because if he did, he wouldn't have known the fact that he was actually a waste.
"I... I'm going to find Nanoha." Yuno found an excuse and tried to walk away from Tony.
"Remember the bet, and she is in class now." Tony said without turning his head.
"I know." Yuno said, turning his body and turning into a ferret.
By the way, I can also turn into a ferret, but they can’t. They are the losers, wuwuwu, I am not, wuwuwuwu┭┮﹏┭┮.
Tony was a little confused listening to the ferret's crying and laughing sound. Why was it suddenly laughing and crying? Did it have a brain injury