Animation Producer in a Fantasy World

Recently, the Empire’s magic tower has been maintaining an atmosphere that is both extremely quiet and bustling at the same time.

At first glance, “quiet” and “bustling” might seem like contradictory words that can never coexist, but.

Paradoxically, there were no other words that could better explain the current situation of the magic tower.

Naturally, since a magic tower is basically a place for studying the discipline of magic, it must maintain silence.

In other words, it’s similar to how one should basically keep quiet in a library.

Especially since Aris, who is in charge of the magic tower, basically dislikes noisiness, it was even more so.

However, recently, a moment has emerged where this implicitly observed rule within the magic tower could be legally ignored.

That moment is none other than.

“Come to think of it, wasn’t today the airing day for ‘Sky of Destiny’?”

“What? That’s a big problem. I still have a few papers left to write that are due tomorrow…”

“Haa? Are you saying you won’t watch ‘Sky of Destiny’ live because of that?”

“No, that’s crossing the line. You can write papers tomorrow or the day after, but you can never watch ‘Sky of Destiny’ live again once today passes…!”

On weekend evenings when ‘Sky of Destiny’ airs, it has become implicitly allowed to freely discuss animation-related topics.

In fact, there was an atmosphere in the magic tower that seemed to avoid Ragna’s animations.

This wasn’t because the magicians thought Ragna’s animations were uninteresting.

No matter how detached from the mundane world magicians might be, they weren’t psychopaths incapable of feeling pleasure.

So, it was more like there were many aspects that irked them while watching Ragna’s animations.

“Damn, have you ever seen an animation called ‘Machine God Chronicles’?”

“Ah, I’ve seen it since it’s so popular among the Empire’s citizens these days. But why?”

“The settings in ‘Machine God Chronicles’ are just so absurd. Huh, what? Magic doesn’t work at all on life forms called External Gods?”

“Ah, you mean that part. Actually, I had a few points I wanted to protest to the director about too. Especially the dimensional field barrier used by the Machine Gods, it’s a concept that’s impossible in current magical theory-”

That’s right.

In the eyes of magicians, Ragna’s animations had too many aspects that were extremely detached from reality.

The various magical concepts appearing in ‘Machine God Chronicles’ only seemed plausible on the surface, but in fact, were full of nonsensical theories that would make magicians vomit blood if examined closely.

In ‘Book of Life and Death’, supernatural beings called Shinigami (death gods) and a ridiculous item called the ‘Book of Life and Death’ they use appear.

Okay, let’s say we can somehow overlook such absurd settings because it’s just an animation.

But the real big problem was none other than the fact that in both of those works, magicians were not just poorly treated but outright ignored.

In ‘Machine God Chronicles’, magic doesn’t work on External Gods at all, so magicians are nothing more than useless burdens.

In ‘Book of Life and Death’, the Book of Life and Death, a cheat item that far surpasses the concept of magic, appears and shows even great magicians instantly dying in pathetic ways.

So how could magicians feel pleasant watching Ragna’s animations?

Of course, they still watched everything while complaining.

At that moment, following ‘Machine God Chronicles’ and ‘Book of Life and Death’, a work called ‘Sky of Destiny’ came out.

All magicians couldn’t help but cheer at this amazing news.

Because.

“Do you know? I heard that Director Ragna’s new work ‘Sky of Destiny’ is an animation related to magicians!”

“What! Is that true?”

“Moreover, I heard that Tower Master Aris cooperated in the production of this new work.”

“Kuu! An work where magicians appear as main characters and the historical accuracy of great magicians is included? This is absolutely irresistible!”

According to the released PV, ‘Sky of Destiny’ will feature seven magicians who summon heroes from the past to fight in modern times.

Also, Aris hinted that among the past heroes summoned, a great magician would be included.

So the magicians of the magic tower watched ‘Sky of Destiny’ with somewhat excited feelings.

And finally, in episode 9 of ‘Sky of Destiny’, the great magician they had been so looking forward to appeared.

“Fufu, what an interesting little one. I like you.”

“This can’t be. Are you perhaps…”

Yuri, standing in the middle of the night sky, is shocked as he looks at the long-eared woman smiling seductively at him.

Because this woman was someone that no one claiming to be a magician of the Empire could not know.

The great magician Psyche.

The first tower master and a magician who was even called a ‘witch’ in the mythical age when magic was commonplace.

According to legend, Psyche wielded magic powerful enough to repel the moon falling towards Earth.

Such a legendary great magician finally revealed herself in ‘Sky of Destiny’.

At least for magicians belonging to the magic tower, it was impossible not to feel their hearts swell at that scene.

“Ooh, has the first tower master, Lady Psyche, finally appeared…!”

“Chris? Achaemenes? Those guys are all just ordinary people, aren’t they? Even monkeys can swing swords around, so of course the great magician Psyche should be incomparably stronger than such heroes!”

But then.

“Huh, what…?”

“What… is this?”

The magicians watching the television with somewhat excited hearts eventually blinked their eyes.

Because.

“I-Impossible! Such powerful anti-magic that nullifies my magic as soon as it touches the body…!”

“I was a bit nervous since you were said to be a great magician whose name remains in history… but is this all you’ve got?”

The moment Psyche’s magic touched the body of the knight… the girl summoned by Yuri, it was instantly nullified.

“Heroes summoned to this ritual basically have powerful anti-magic. So the weakest one in this ritual is you, witch.”

The girl speaking to Psyche in a very calm tone.

Of course, this could be called a kind of balance patch.

If there wasn’t a setting where heroes have ‘anti-magic’ that nullifies magic, ‘Sky of Destiny’ would become a work where great magicians dominate unilaterally.

To put it bluntly, if they could shoot magic equivalent to instant death attacks from far up in the sky, who could win in a fight against a great magician?

So Ragna included the ‘anti-magic’ setting to maintain the tension of the work and immerse viewers, but.

Naturally, this was a setting that could only make the magicians of the magic tower foam at the mouth.

However, unfortunately, the pain that magicians had to feel didn’t end there.

“My body is breaking and shattering.”

“Fly, Claiomh Solais!”

“Kyaaaaaah-!”

None other than the fact that all of Psyche’s magical barriers were pierced by the ‘arrow’ shot by the unidentified archer, and she also suffered fatal wounds.

At this point, the magicians who had been full of expectations upon hearing the news of Psyche appearing in the animation couldn’t help but make extremely disappointed expressions.

“How could this be…. Lady Psyche… not only unable to block that girl, but even the arrow shot by the archer…”

“Of course, that arrow is a powerful attack that could pierce through the defense of the great hero Achaemenes and wound him… but still, this is a bit…”

Despite coming out with the title of first tower master and great magician, far from showing any impressive performance, she suffered a humiliating defeat from the start.

Don’t tell me… is that Ragna planning to portray magicians as incompetent even in this work ‘Sky of Destiny’?

“Ragna, you bastard! You could be called a magician yourself, yet you set magicians to be this weak?”

“Ungrateful jerk! As Aris-nim’s disciple, shouldn’t you set Psyche-nim as the strongest in humanity… no, the strongest in the universe?”

Just as the magicians were gnashing their teeth and pouring out criticism towards Ragna.

“…I apologize, my master.”

Psyche, who had returned to her base, bows her head towards the man who could be called her current master and calmly reports what had just happened.

“That girl and the archer. I moved with the intention of dealing with one of them on the spot… but I failed. Please, forgive me.”

“That’s not your fault, Psyche.”

The stern-looking man, Psyche’s master, shook his head and opened his mouth.

“You, summoned to the present world, have become a body that cannot generate magic on its own, unlike when you were alive. Because of that, you couldn’t properly use the magic you had when you were alive. With such a weakened body, facing both the girl and the archer at once, your defeat was natural.”

“…”

“If you had the same power as when you were alive, you would have taken down all six others by now and still have power to spare. So I won’t blame you.”

The man, though extremely stern, also offers words of comfort to Psyche in his own way.

At the same time, the magicians watching this scene also felt a little comforted by the man’s words.

“I see… So that’s how it was. Now that I think about it, I can somewhat understand why the great magician was defeated.”

“Of course. Without such a setting, how could those ignorant sword-wielders ever defeat a great magician!”

But just then.

“So Psyche. Did you use up all your magic in this battle? Do you need me to supply you with magic?”

“Ah… Yes, please. My master.”

At that moment.

“…..”

“…..”

All the magicians watching the television froze.

What? Magic supply?

Magic supply occurs between a man and a woman?

Does that mean… that kind of scene is coming?

At nine o’clock on a weekend evening, at this time when even teenagers might be watching the animation?

Ragna, you bastard….

You, you know something, don’t you?

The great magician’s defeat was actually build-up for the magic supply?

Yes, then… I guess we have no choice but to acknowledge it.

So the magicians expectantly awaited ‘that scene’ that would come one second later with somewhat excited hearts.

And then.

Smooch.

Seeing the scene of the two people shyly kissing, the male magicians gathered here cheered.

“There it is, the kiss smooch!”

“Hehe! This is it!”

“Hmm, but didn’t Aris-nim say? That there’s something even more amazing than kissing for magic supply between a man and a woman…”

“More amazing than kissing…? Ugh… I don’t know much about that…”

“…There’s something more amazing than kissing in this world? Haha, that’s a lie. If there was such a thing, I wouldn’t still be single at this age…!”

“I don’t know anything. So don’t put trash information into my brain…!”

The male magicians existing in the magic tower.

Despite being over 25 years old, they were still forcibly maintaining their purity.