Chapter 89: Resin Fra
Grey went through the blueprints rapidly. It took practically no ti for him to scan every single one.
What he didn’t know was how abnormal this was. Amunet was still as stiff as a board to the side, feeling like things could go sideways any mont now. But Esralda’s pupils were constricted—well, at least one of them was.
’This child’s Neural Fra resonance speed is frighteningly fast. Is this the last gasp of the chanical Jaw?’
She didn’t know exactly what Grey was doing, but she could feel a Neural Fra activating when it did. Whatever Grey was doing, it seed like he had so sort of way to sort the blueprints.
The three piles grew larger.
One of them was significantly grander than the rest, taking up what must have been over 90% or so of the more than 200 blueprints. This pile was unsurprisingly the fraud pile as assessed by Grey’s Cyber Space.
The second largest pile was the pile of blueprints that were valid, but far too powerful for Grey to ever make sense of or understand.
The last and smallest pile with just two blueprints were the valid blueprints of the Proving Class tier.
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Blueprint: Ball Bearing Eye
Weight: 2.3kg
Face: 1,002
Raw Materials:
Twice Tempered Purified Steel: 930 Faces
Resin L-Fra sh: 61 Faces
Aura-laced Aurum Nullite: 9 Faces
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Blueprint: Glass Rotating Eye
Weight: 2.1kg
Faces: 987
Raw Materials:
Twice Tempered Purified Steel: 916 Faces
Resin R-Fra sh: 58 Faces
Aura-laced Aurum Nullite: 13 Faces
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’For eyes they’re so heavy.’
But Grey could see why from their blueprints alone. The eyes at the Vanguard Class were heavy for an eyeball as well, but they were still just 0.2kg. The reason for that was because all of their components were concentrated into the eyeball itself.
For the two Proving Class blueprints, they were more like face plates with an eye in the middle. To use them, at least half your face would have to beco a mask of chanical parts.
But considering half of Esralda’s face was scarred beyond recognition, Grey highly doubted she would mind. And even if she did care, he quite frankly didn’t.
’Alright... now what?’
Grey pushed all the other blueprints away, letting them slide off the table without a care so he could clear so space. He stared at one and then the other, his eyes starting to twitch as he realized that narrowing it down to which ones were actually valid didn’t make the blueprints any easier to understand.
Both blueprints were extrely similar. Each was a face plate that ford to half the face and a larger portion of the forehead. They were both made of almost identical materials and had very similar Face totals.
’Form... Load... Intent...’
The first step should have been to shape the raw materials properly, analyzing, purifying, and then modifying them into the correct configuration.
This was definitely the easiest step, at least for Grey who had great spatial awareness. But the problem was how complicated the configurations were.
The form of the outside was fine, but the real problem was always the inside.
For the iron jaw, it had been simple. It just had a few connecting points to his Neural Fra. So long as they were connected at the proper nodes, it would work.
But these two blueprints were on a completely different level. The face plates were similar to the iron jaw in that they had protruding points that inserted into nodes of the user’s Neural Fra. However, the closer you got to the eye, the more complex those patterns of protrusion beca until instead of protrusion, they began complex spiralling networks.
Just looking at the blueprints themselves made Grey feel like he was going dizzy, a fatigue pulling at his mind.
’First let
lay out the raw materials.’
Grey quickly found what he wanted. Twice Tempered Purified Steel had a similar shimring color to dical grade steel, while normal Tempered Steel had more of a matte finish to it.
Aura-laced Aurum Nullite had a delicate glow to it that normal Aurum Nullite hadn’t had. Much like Twice Tempered Purified Steel, it felt like an upgrade to the raw materials Grey had used in his own Iron Jaw.
The most difficult raw material to set aside was Resin R- and L-Fra sh. Both of them looked completely identical. There wasn’t a single difference to be found between them.
Even when Grey used the Cyber Mat to analyze, he got Resin Fra sh back. He used his Cyber Space to analyze, but it too ca back as Resin Fra sh.
This left Grey a bit baffled. Why could his Cyber Space analyze blueprints of the Vanguard Class and yet had so much trouble with a material that was supposedly of the Proving Class?
’Fuck .’ Grey ran his hand through his hair, ignoring the slimy worms again and exhaling a heavy breath.
He knew the answer to his own question. His Cyber Space wasn’t "analyzing" blueprints, it was just docunting like it said. But now it had to actively classify sothing.
To test his theory Grey reached for a tal he had felt had a particularly tingly sensation when he touched it before. As expected, his Cyber Space ca back with a direct error.
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[Error. Item is too high Class to analyze]
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Grey took a breath and exhaled. ’Here we go again. What do I do now?’
There was no way the valid blueprints would have a mistake in them. That ant there was either a way to process this material himself, or a way to differentiate them that wasn’t obvious right now.
Grey turned toward Esralda. "Do you not have any L- and R-Fra Resin sh material?"
Esralda’s eyes narrowed. "Whether Resin Fra sh is L- or R-oriented is dependent on the thods of the crafter during the crafting process. Do you not know this?"
Grey’s lip twitched. "Never mind, then."
’Fuck .’ He cursed for the millionth ti.
Grey analyzed the blueprints in his Cyber Space again, hoping and praying for so sort of clue. As he did so, he subconsciously rolled the raw material through his fingers.
’Tingling sensation—!’ Grey suddenly jolted.
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