I Became a Genius Mechanic at the Academy

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Lord of Hell, Baal.

He is a Grand Duke with the power to manipulate the natural world, able to control the wind.

Thanks to this, he could travel at high speed riding the wind and even blend his body with it to become invulnerable.

He possesses disaster-level might that is virtually impossible to counter.

“Everything you have built, I’ll blow it away in the storm.”

In Baal’s eyes, Ed’s resistance was nothing but a joke.

No matter how massive a barrier one erects, how could they stop a typhoon directly approaching from the coast?

Furthermore, the artificial typhoon he would create would be a colossal storm unprecedented in history.

Having never shown his power throughout all the chapters Ed has endured, Ed would surely be caught unprepared.

He would helplessly watch as everything he created gets destroyed by the enormous typhoon enveloping the sky.

“Melfirn. Contrary to your concerns, he will kneel within a day.”

-Whooosh……

At last, Baal raised his arms high and released his magic.

The sun’s intense light heated the sea surface, causing it to bubble and emit steam.

Baal’s magic intervened artificially to generate even more steam.

-Gurgle… Gurgle…

As an enormous amount of steam rose, it met cold air and became droplets.

These droplets coalesced into clouds, the seeds of the typhoon.

The tremendous heat released in this process warmed the surrounding air, lifting more air and steam upward.

Continuous updrafts are generated.

-Whooosh────!!!

When this process is repeated countless times, cumulonimbus clouds develop vertically.

Finally, the ‘initial typhoon’ is created.

“It will become an unstoppable disaster.”

With a twisted smile, Baal released more magic.

Then the steam met low pressure, releasing latent heat.

This latent heat warmed the surrounding air, causing further updrafts.

The updrafts pulled up the steam to create new cumulonimbus clouds.

This process repeats nearly infinitely, causing the cumulonimbus clouds to accumulate and gain power.

-Whooosh────!!

Thus, the typhoon moves.

However, the typhoon, now strengthened by Baal’s magic, devours the surrounding steam with even more ferocity.

The cumulonimbus clouds stack and stack.

And then stack and stack.

Repeating this process, it grows in size with a terrifying momentum, becoming an immense typhoon.

“Edgar Fix, you will not escape destruction this time!”

Thus, the typhoon formed by Baal prepared to head north toward Ed’s territory.

All that remained was to suck in all the steam along the path towards Ed’s territory, causing it to grow even larger.

And if it absorbed all that steam, his typhoon would be the worst disaster in history, spanning a diameter of 1,800 km.

The winds accompanying the typhoon would blow everything away, and the hundreds of millions of tons of water it carries would be scattered, submerging most buildings.

“This is the end.”

Baal twisted his lips, imagining Ed writhing in agony after losing everything he loved.

Unbeknownst to him, Ed’s warship was approaching in the vicinity.

***

Four hours ago.

Having learned of Baal’s abilities and intentions, Ed focused on assembling a dream team.

Knowing that Baal would unleash a typhoon from the rear, he prepared a list of elite specialists to counter it.

“Everyone gathered well.”

So, Ed called all the specialists he had assembled.

Elena, who wields powerful telekinesis.

Lucas, who can manipulate space at will.

Claire, who provides a solid buff on any battlefield.

Isabella, who has become a master of ice magic.

And Edgar Fix, the strong and enduring battery, formed the dream team.

Ed spoke to Eve.

“Eve, have we pinpointed the location?”

The location.

He was asking about the anticipated point of the typhoon’s origin.

Eve projected a hologram and pointed to a spot marked in red.

“This is the most likely place. There’s no better spot for a typhoon to form at this time.”

Eve pointed to a specific point in the vast ocean.

……However, accurately predicting where a typhoon would occur was practically impossible.

There were no precise observation instruments in this world, and no GPS to provide critical information for weather forecasts.

Still, Ed and Eve could infer a rough location based on scientific common sense.

First of all, typhoons occur in tropical oceanic waters between 5° and 25° latitude, where water temperatures exceed 27°C.

Depending on the season, it’s also possible to deduce the convergence points of the northeast and southeast trade winds.

Moreover, the order in which drones were destroyed revealed the likely path the Lord of Hell took, helping them guess which ocean he might have entered.

Crucially, Ed, by using his ‘power’ to datafy the convection currents, could pinpoint an accurate location.

In this world, the power of ‘abilities’ was the absolute strength to ‘destroy probability.’

“Time is of the essence. We need to move quickly.”

However, the situation was urgent.

If a Grand Duke could manipulate the wind, the rate at which the typhoon grew would undoubtedly surpass all expectations.

If they didn’t respond swiftly, the fortress they had worked so hard to build could be devastated.

Ed had perfect responses to physical attacks, but he found it impossible to address disasters occurring in nature.

-Whooosh!

Thus, Ed and his team boarded the fastest maritime transport available.

They boarded a small yet highly mobile high-speed warship.

-Whoosh……

With that, the high-speed warship carrying Ed and his team cut across the sea.

As they drew closer to their target, the weather grew dim and the winds intensified.

Despite their rapid response, the typhoon had already gained significant strength.

“This is chilling. If we had been caught unaware, the damage would have been irreparable.”

Ed suddenly felt a shiver run down his spine.

He knew that if this typhoon grew larger and moved northward toward his territory, the millions of tons of water held within the cumulonimbus clouds would inevitably flood his lands.

If that happened, his territory would be completely submerged.

Countless debris swept away by the ferocious winds would create a hellscape floating on the water.

They would encounter a complete loss.

“But fate is on my side.”

Despite everything, Ed had a premonition that destiny was favoring him.

This was because Edgar Fix had awakened and could deploy drones across the globe.

Thanks to this, he could infer the Lord’s abilities by observing the destruction path of the drones.

With this information, he could now counter the Grand Duke’s surprise attack.

“This time, it’s different.”

Furthermore, this time all the main characters had awakened.

Isabella, having abandoned her negativity, became a master of cold magic.

Lucas broke through his limits, surpassing Adella.

Claire regained Bernhardt’s true power thanks to her connection with Lucas.

And of course, Enya also overcame the world’s prejudices and perfected the absurd swordsmanship known as ‘Blade Arts.’

-Kugugugugugugugugugugu!

Thus, Ed’s high-speed warship reached near the Lord of Hell’s location.

A gigantic wave seemed poised to swallow the ship whole.

“That’s him.”

And Ed could see the black figure manipulating the convection inside the eye of the storm.

Lord of Hell, Baal.

He was dispersing his magic while artificially inflating the typhoon.

“He still hasn’t noticed.”

However, Baal was unaware that Ed and his crew were closing in.

Due to taking a slight detour from the typhoon’s path to approach from behind, they had remained out of his sight.

Ultimately, Baal hadn’t even entertained the thought that anyone would come to stop him.

He assumed Ed wouldn’t know of his existence because, throughout all previous chapters, he had never revealed himself nor demonstrated his abilities.

“We’re going according to plan. Everyone clear on the details?”

Thus, Ed checked if everyone understood the mission.

As everyone nodded confidently, Ed immediately gave the signal.

The mission was a go.

-Swish!

Lucas initiated the operation.

He deployed one of the techniques he devised upon awakening, ‘Area Seal,’ isolating a region from the outside world.

At this moment, the area Lucas sealed was about half of the typhoon.

In an instant, the typhoon was split in two, segregating the typhoon within the barrier from the one outside.

“Ugh! Cough, cough!”

However, using such a massive spell inevitably brought side effects.

Capturing the typhoon itself required an enormous expenditure of mana.

As a result, Lucas collapsed, coughing up blood.

Claire hurried over to him, administering first aid.

Through ‘Mana Transfer,’ she provided her mana to help Lucas maintain the barrier.

“Edgar Fix… how… did you find me…?”

At that moment, Baal, floating in the air, looked at Ed and his crew with a shocked expression.

He had never revealed his identity nor done anything but ride the wind to reach this ocean.

How on earth could they possibly know he was here and come to thwart him?

Ed twisted his lips and said.

“Did you doze off in your second-year science class?”

“What…?”

“Thermal radiation and convection phenomena are basic knowledge learned in second-year science. If you wanted to enter a humanities high school, you had no choice but to memorize it.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“…Ultimately, it boils down to physics again. The second law of thermodynamics states entropy. In the end, convection occurs to establish thermal equilibrium. Wind is just a natural phenomenon arising from the entropy law seeking thermal equilibrium.”

“…Are you insane?”

“I’m saying I entered a freaking Korean humanities high school. Furthermore, I committed the utmost mistake of becoming a physics student, which led me to graduate school. I worked under Professor Han Myung-jin. While working with him, you naturally pick up this fundamental knowledge.”

With those words, Ed glanced at Isabella.

Isabella nodded and began to prepare a massive ‘cold’ spell.

Ed looked back at the Grand Duke.

“So, here’s a question. What happens when a cumulus cloud, isolated from the outside, instantly meets the cooled sea surface?”

“What…?”

“Goodbye. Let’s see if the typhoon can disappear. One, two, three, zap.”

Isabella’s frost began to seep into the ocean below.