The Great War of Rhodesia

17. Conversation Night I

Nata and Aksa, accompanied by Rafa, Lily, and Luque, were chatting in the front room of their tent. It's very late. Outside, there was only the sound of the humming of an electric generator. And also a crack of wood that burned in a small furnace at the end of the room.

"When are we gonna do that Particle Breaker, Nat?" Aksa asks in the middle of her show rewriting the technology catalog books she previously left behind when they were thrown into the past.

"For that we need more electricity. At least to turn on the monitor panel." Nata looked stunned next to Luque and Lily on the long sofa. He immersed his face in a ledger containing a list of the names of the soldiers and their skills, which he obtained from Caspian.

On the table the glasses are still seen reflecting faint smoke due to the herbal tea that had just been poured by Rafa before then the girl sat at the table opposite Aksa.

The region has just entered a season change. The wind blowing at the bottom of the ravine felt very cold.

"That means we need more power plants. So what's your plan on that?" Aksa still spoke without stopping writing.

"First of all I will train the soldiers on medical, survival, military terms, and sign language" Nata replied which left everyone confused to hear.

"You want to teach them Modern Warfare? And what does this have to do with the electricity we need?" This time Aksa stopped writing and stared at Nata.

"That's because I'm planning to take over the copper mines in the south, six months away," replied Nata again, who this time placed the book he read on the table.

"Six more months we're going to invade Saronia, Mr Nata?" Rafa looks surprised to hear the answer from Nata just now. "It was under the rule of the kingdom of Augra today. Wouldn't it be wise to add more enemies at a time like this?"

"Not to mention, we have to penetrate the territory of Vestralle to get to the place." Lily added. A large ceramic glass covered half of his face as the tiny rabbit blew a small nipple on the surface of the herbal tea to cool it.

"Are we short of tembang for electric and cable genarators, right now?" aksa asked after sipping tea from her glass.

"really. But we need to take over the mine not only because we need copper for the power generator or the cable," said Nata who now follows Aksa and Lily tasting tea from her glass. "It's time for us to create a communication network" he continued again after finishing tasting the tea.

"You want to build a Telephone cable network?" Aksa asked again. Now he seems interested.

"Is it like the Smarthphone that Miss Yvvone brought?" This time Luque asked. The girl was wrapped in a blanket between Nata and Lily.

"Yes, more or less like that. The point is we need to do long distance communication quickly. And as much as possible we also need to make a radio," said Nata who began to take back the book he had read.

"What is Radio?" Luque asked again.

"Is that related to the magnetic waves in the air?" Rafa tried to guess.

"That's right, Miss Rafa," Nata replied quickly. "So the point is we're going to create a tool to communicate over long distances" he then tried to give an explanation to Luque.

"Repart communication?" Luque looked increasingly filled with questions after hearing the explanation from Nata just now.

"You'll know for yourself after seeing it later. Because it's pretty hard to explain without an example." It seemed that Nata gave up on explaining further to the Holy Girl.

"Yes, I think we can make it now." Aksa. "For the transmitter signal amplifier we can already make an electron tube in place of the Arc Converter," he said later.

"Yep, that one," said Aksa quickly. "Now I'm excited and can't wait to make it, '" he added.

"You don't have to get too excited like that just because of the radio or the phone network, Aks," Nata said in response to the behavior of his best friend.

"Where might I not be excited, Nat? Because it indicates that soon we will change the subgenre. From Portal-Quest Fantasy to Gaslamp Fantasy. Steady, right?" answer Aksa who looks increasingly passionate. "And after that we will soon enter the subgenre of Steampunk Fantasy."

"What is Sabjanra?" ask Rafa later. The Seithr girl had never heard of the word before.

"And what exactly do you need the tools to communicate remotely?" Luque asked again before anyone could answer Rafa's question earlier.

"It is clear to win the war, lah," Aksa said quickly.

"One of them for that. But we also need speed and accuracy to share information in a region that will be wider with the enemies on each side." Nata gave the reason.

"Why don't you build more powerful tools or weapons to defeat them or prevent them from attacking, like you've done before?" Luque with his lush asked again.

"Information networks are a weapon that has far greater power than you think, Luq," Aksa said.

"What Aksa said. Information is a very scary weapon when used appropriately." Nata confirms Aksa's speech.

"Again we can not just make weapons that can have a bad impact on the population. Or that could destroy a territory." Nata spoke again. "Because here our goal is to take over land and power, not to earth scorched land."

"Yes, I think you have a point" Luque replied as he stuck his hand out of the blanket to grab the tea glass on the table.

"But can you make such a weapon? Which adversely affects the population, or which can destroy a territory?" luque asked again after sipping warm tea from his glass.

"Trust Miss Luque, the weapons in our world can be truly deadly," Nata replied trying to convince the Narva girl.

"Even without magic?" Luque still seemed hesitant to hear Nata's reply. "Did the weapon no longer use gunpowder?" ask again.

"No. The weapon uses certain materials that get a certain reaction as well" Nata replied later.

"The weapon is not only able to destroy a region, but also simultaneously poison humans who are around it to several descendants." Aksa.

Luque frowned in horror at the story of Aksa. "You're not making this up, are you?" The girl looked at Nata and Aksa in turn.

"No." Aksa answered lightly while returning to writing in his book. Nata just nodded slowly.

"Then don't bring that terrifying weapon into this world" Luque ordered.

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