Ikitsuku Saki wa Yuusha ka Maou ka - Moto Hai Player ga Iku Isekai Kouryakuki - Vol. 3 Ch. 20 - Relics

[lordb1]

I hope he goes the demon lord route.

 

[Junpaku]

I seem to recall that the basic principles behind batteries are surprisingly old. They've found large and ancient egyption jars that were actually a primitive form of a battery... I no idea what they used them for though.
I'm sure that if these people were simply given the idea of mixing chemicals or using magnets (or whatever) to create a power source for such tech, they would eventually work it out.

That's pseudohistorical ancient alien nonsense from racist, often literally nazi conspiracists. Like for real I read a book from one of the guys they're getting this stuff from and he was a full on real nazi that insisted the white aryan progenitors were aliens that taught the egyptians that stuff and beer making, because beer is the epitome of German-ness and the lesser human races mustn't be allowed to lay claim to it, I guess. Fermentation and alcohol making is so easy it happens by accident, on the plant still even, so freaking often and this unimaginitive loser claimed that it must only have come from the progenitors of his oh so special "master race".

 

[lesseffective]

Unexpected cameo of Great A'Tuin, The World Turtle!

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

That's pseudohistorical ancient alien nonsense from racist, often literally nazi conspiracists.

I looked it up, and it seems what I was talking about was the "Baghdad Battery", not an egyption artifact as I had remembered - and it seems like they did indeed exist, though they're whereabouts after the iraq war is unfortunately unknown.

 

[CapnAndy]

holy fuckin’ lol at the Discworld reference out of nowhere

 

[Junpaku]

I looked it up, and it seems what I was talking about was the "Baghdad Battery", not an egyption artifact as I had remembered - and it seems like they did indeed exist, though they're whereabouts after the iraq war is unfortunately unknown.

Oh yeah, it still gets applied to Ancient Egypt though as what powers the "dendera light" which is a misinterpretation of a hieroglyph of a snake in a lotus that represents part of a creation myth (because people don't know smokeless or low smoke oil lamps exist, and flat out lie about not seeing any sign of smoke in the pyramids)
The jars though were more likely magic talisman jars or something. I know that probably feels weak but all the battery stuff is such reaches. Occams razor and all. Read all the info for yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Like Baghdad becomes a center of science and stuff eventually but that battery is a bit too soon.

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

Occams razor and all

Personally, I'd say the more simple solution is that they were using the electric currents for something, rather than as a talisman of sorts.
It might have been as simple as a very early electrotherapy, but who knows, we can hardly ask them, lol.
The mysteries of history, and all that.

 

[belt_34]

Amanda be like:

 

[Kaarme]

One could argue that if you can create fireballs out of thin air with no fuel and no ignition source, then then regular Earth chemistry is already out the window.

In all the fantasy works from east and west that I can recall, magic is only additive. It allows doing things our science (our reality) doesn't allow, but it doesn't really replace anything. In RL dragons couldn't fly with all of their mass, but if you add magic, they can counter their mass enough to fly masterfully. Perhaps one solid exception is the soul. Our religions may speak of the soul, but our science doesn't register it. So, in RL you can't do anything with or to a soul. In fantasy universes soul is often quite a concrete thing. If you destroy someone's soul, they are permanently dead (or even worse than just dead), even if their body was still in perfect condition. In RL, you absolutely need to do something to the body to kill someone.

 

[TheOne9387]

His answer encapsulates all I fear will happen if I go to another world

 

[Quarterdane]

Unexpected cameo of Great A'Tuin, The World Turtle!

holy fuckin’ lol at the Discworld reference out of nowhere

Considering the setup appears to be getting heavily damaged by falling apples, I feel like this is just the predecessor mythology that (GNU) Terry Pratchett adapted for his books. The falling apples presumably referencing the anecdote of Newton discovering gravity, and the destruction caused I'm guessing to be some sort of allegory for the old myths being disproven by scientific discoveries or somesuch.