Strongest Hammer God

Chapter 365 Behold! A Сar!

”Hey, Boss, you know what a meteorite is?” Kyle asked.

”Iʼm not familiar with that word,” Theodor said. ”It also doesnʼt sound like Sandspeak.”

”Ah, never mind, then,” Kyle said with a grin.

ʼWonder if that works,ʼ Kyle thought. ʼA natural phenomenon that doesnʼt exist in this world. I wonder if there is a Fragment for something that doesnʼt exist.ʼ

”Inheritor,” Theodor said. ”Iʼve noticed that you have been using words occasionally that donʼt seem to exist in Sandspeak. From where did you learn these words?”

Kyle had received all his Sandspeak knowledge from the mirror Sulfur had given him.

However, Kyle could only use words that actually existed in Sandspeak.

Because of that, when Kyle referred to something that didnʼt exist in this world, he automatically used an English word.

Meteorite, smartphones, internet, computer, and so on.

Sandspeak sounded very different from English.

In the past, Theodor had simply ignored these words since he had believed Kyle to be an idiot who frequently made up words.

Yet, as more time passed, Theodor became more suspicious.

Kyle was no longer an idiot.

In fact, the speed at which he learned Spellcasting and understood Fragments actually meant that he had quite a good head on his shoulders.

And yet, he was still using these strange words.

Kyle furrowed his brows.

ʼIʼve never told him about my origins. I mean, it feels like I should keep them secret or something bad will happen.ʼ

ʼDo people not always keep this stuff secret in Anime or stuff like that?ʼ

ʼBut whatʼs the actual harm?ʼ

ʼI mean, some people might think youʼre crazy and not believe you.ʼ

Kyle scratched the back of his head.

ʼBoss and I have been stuck together for almost three years or something like that. I kinda stopped counting.ʼ

ʼBoss is just a stone in my brain that canʼt communicate with others.ʼ

ʼAlso, he has a vested interest in keeping me alive.ʼ

ʼWhatʼs the actual harm in telling him?ʼ

”Yeah, about that,” Kyle said. ”I kinda havenʼt been honest with my background.”

Theodor remained silent for a while.

”I thought as much,” he said. ”To be honest, your background doesnʼt make a lot of sense.”

”You are a half-dwarf. Yet, you only inherited the positive traits of both sides. That seems too good to be true. Additionally, you didnʼt know the bare basics of some things while also knowing some scattered but advanced concepts.”

”You had a basic understanding of economics, but didnʼt know what techniques or Cradles were. It makes no sense.”

”Iʼve been trying to decipher your background for a while now, but nothing seems to fit.”

Kyle snorted. ”I would be surprised if you managed to guess my origins. They are literally out-of-this-world.”

”You believe I couldnʼt guess them?” Theodor asked with a snort.

”Yeah, the fact that you didnʼt react to my carefully chosen words just now tells me as much,” Kyle said with a chuckle.

Theodor thought back to Kyleʼs words.

”Out of this world?” he asked.

”Yep,” Kyle said. ”Iʼm not from this world.”

Silence.

”Youʼre saying youʼre from the Winterfire Kingdom?” Theodor asked.

”Nope,” Kyle said. ”Iʼve spent my first 24 years or so outside of this world, in a completely different world. Like, a place in a different… space and time? Can I phrase it like that? Kinda feels wrong.”

Theodor remained silent for a while.

”Explain,” he said some seconds later.

Over the next minutes, Kyle told Theodor about Earth, his origins, and the Magic Lady.

”So yeah, Iʼm actually not a half-dwarf. Eating random stuff to grow stronger? My amazing instincts? Not my stuff. I got all of that from the Magic Lady.”

Theodor had been silent for a while.

”Can you prove your claims?” Theodor asked.

”I dunno,” Kyle said. ”I mean, I could come up with some stuff we had. I have an improved mind. I bet I can reverse-engineer some stuff from Earth.”

Kyle hummed for a bit.

”Hey, do you guys have oil?” he asked.

”Yes,” Theodor answered. ”A burnable liquid that occasionally exists in the ground. It is considered a hazard, and when it is discovered, it gets burned.”

”What a waste,” Kyle said. ”Thatʼs like one of the most valuable commodities on Earth.”

”Why?” Theodor asked.

”Ever heard of a steam engine?” Kyle asked with a smirk.

”I have never heard of that word before,” Theodor said.

”Wait a sec. I should still have some iron,” Kyle said.

Naturally, Kyle had long since understood how iron worked, which meant that he could change its shape with his will.

A steam engine was relatively simple, but it was also a bit complex.

Thankfully, Kyle had an improved mind, and he knew what the goal of a steam engine was.

You need water, a boiler, and fuel.

The goal was to make something move forward.

After a bit of experimentation, Kyle reverse-engineered a steam engine.

Then, Kyle just thought about what cars did.

He had seen gifs of a motor before. There were things going up and down.

They pulled in fuel, and the fuel exploded, moving the big sticks up and down.

The big sticks were attached to the insides of a wheel.

Thanks to his metal-shaping skills, Kyle made a shitty bootleg steam engine.

”Look at this,” Kyle said as he put some wood into the space below the boiler.

Then, he lit it.

After a while, the water inside the boiler started to heat up and move along the pipe.

Slowly, the cart started to move forward, shaking back and forth.

”Behold! A car!” Kyle said.

It was barebones.

There was no space for a human.

It looked horrible.

It constantly shook.

BUT!

It moved.

Slowly.

And shittily.

”Now, imagine that thing like a thousand times better and going like a hundred times faster,” Kyle said.

”And guess what, if you had gas, as in refined oil or something like that, you could make that shit move for hundreds of miles.”

”Make space for a human, and there you go. People can now move at speeds that only Fighters can reach while not even being able to lift 200 pounds.”

Theodor remained silent.

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