Chapter 11: Chapter 10: Preventive measures

-Alan POV-

When I opened my eyes, the otherworldly creature was already dead.

Hikari seemed to have dragged me to the cave into the bed for me to rest.

I pulled myself together, and I did not waste a second more.

I ran out of the cave and used one of the warehouse stored logs as a pillar.

Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician from the past, managed to calculate Earth's radius by using the shadow position and angle of two pillars located in different places. With this information and trigonometric equations, he was the first human being to find out, with a low failure margin, the Earth's size.

The accurate and actual Earth's radius is 6.371 kilometers. So I am going to repeat the same process Eratosthenes used and draw to an end this matter.

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After I planted the second pillar, a few kilometers from the cave, I waited while methodically recollecting the necessary data I deemed useful for the calculations.

Eventually the night came.

I processed the thousands of numbers I took note of, and later engraved on the nearby trees.

Hikari looked worried at me.

But now is not the time. I went for hours, each minute getting a closer range of values, and after what seemed a fleeting moment, the results came in...

• The radius of the planet I was residing in: 8.567 kilometers

Conclusion: I was on another planet.

All the adrenaline lying inside of me was banished at the moment. I looked at the sky. It was very clean and neat. If I had thought rationally for a minute, I probably would have realized this fact a long time ago.

I wasn't an astrology expert, nonetheless, I should have noticed at least that the Ursa Major, one of the most famous constellations, couldn't be even found. I was careless. Both as an engineer that fellow humans constantly depend their lives on, and as a person who thought of himself as a careful and attentive guy.

I think Hikari was able to understand my feelings at this moment. She went to my side and sat down. She was also looking up.

Conflicted emotions arose within me. Desperation, anger, self-blame... There was no rescue team going to save me, I would not be able to eat again with my sister, and I wasn't going to achieve my dream of becoming the best engineer in history.

My future faded away before my eyes.

...

No. That can not be. A person who aims to become the greatest engineer in the world isn't going to be defeated by some fairy tale-like story!

I stood up, I am sure if someone looked at me right now, burning flames of determination would be coming out of my eyelids.

I will bring it back. Everything. From mankind's life-improving technology to the most modern weaponry advancements.

"Be prepared world! Because an engineer who doesn't believe in your illogical magic will be coming at you!"

I will unfold the secrets of the unnatural phenomena surrounding this world, give them a scientific explanation, and use it to my advantage.

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I am going to find a way out of this crazy environment. I promise.

Now, I wasn't thinking of investing point three of the list in that 'aspect' so early, but I am left with no choice...

This 'point three' I am talking about is the industrial revolution.

It is about time I take a more undiplomatic approach to this matter.

If this world wants to take me down with magic, I will counter-attack with science.

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As I previously mentioned, Alan was not your ordinary engineer.

He has ginormous intellect and talent for engineering, which means both the positive and constructive type... And the 'weaponizable' type.

Now that he has seen the imminent threats waiting for him, he will start closing up with the second option.

For good or bad, the final decision on this world's people depends on him. Because no one, neither the empires, the tribes nor the goddess will have enough power to stand a chance against him soon.

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-Goddess POV-

"I think I felt a bad omen for a minute there..."

I thought so for a second, but I left my fantasies aside and went back to the problems popping up everywhere in the mortal realm.

The hero was completely useless, but still, he managed to lower the already low expectations I had for him.

I summoned him and told him, as best I could do, the dire situation my world was going through... But that walking donkey seemed not only not giving a crap about the empire citizens or my words, but at the same time, he was making their lives worse and worse!

"Ahhhhhh! That egocentric bastard!"

When he arrived, he went right away to the king, to ask him for political and legislative power, thinking that with his otherworldly knowledge, he was going to improve everything easily. He underestimated the government's duties.

Sadly, the already despaired king accepted the demand, thinking of him as his ray of hope...

The results were already starting to show off.

"Goddess-sama! Some unidentified being is trying to access the planet coordinates and other biological data!"

"Go away! I don't care, I already have more than enough with what's happening down there!"

"But..."

In quite a short time, HE managed to make me cry for the second time.

"Where did you end up, Alan!?"

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