Chapter 66: Chapter 64: Rudintary Workshop
Allen returned to his dorm.
The room was spacious and quiet. Only the newly acquired Alchemy Equipnt reflected the faint light filtering in from the window. Allen had already set it up as a simple workshop.
Allen sat down at his desk. His mind, aided by DSeek, began to race.
He didn’t imdiately start thinking about tactics. Instead, he focused his attention on the variable of his "teammates."
’A person’s energy is limited; you can’t cover every base. Choosing to work as a team is the correct approach.’
’My team mbers are all the "misfits" who were left over.’
’They might have their own specialties, but their shortcomings are just as obvious.’
Expecting them to be like those elite squads, where every mber had an expensive piece of Witchcraft Tools or powerful Alchemy Equipnt, was nothing more than a fool’s dream.
Allen knew very well that a team’s combat effectiveness is determined by its weakest link.
If they lost a mber during combat, the difficulty of the remaining mission would increase exponentially.
He couldn’t entrust his life to his teammates’ unreliable financial situations.
’Since that’s the case, I’ll be the one to shore up that weakness. This isn’t an act of charity, but the most rational investnt.’
When Allen said he would provide so "little gadgets," he was actually referring to the fruits of his studies in the alchemy school over the past few days.
They were Alchemy Tools that combined design concepts from the grenades of his past life.
Of course, the Apprentice Trading Market offered better weapons.
For instance, there were all sorts of Alchemy Bombs, chanical Bodies, Small Golems, Magic Scrolls, and Witchcraft Tools, but they were not as cost-effective as his "little gadgets."
Alchemy Bombs were bulky, and items like Magic Scrolls and Witchcraft Tools were very expensive.
His Magic Missile was still a bit weak, and he also had to consider the Magic Power consumption.
So, Allen decided to make his own grenades.
He had also thought about combining Advanced Runes with the knowledge he’d learned in his alchemy class to create devastating weapons comparable to missiles or rocket launchers.
Unfortunately, he hadn’t been studying long enough. His knowledge base was too small, and his practical skills were lacking. If he blew up his dorm, he’d have to trouble soone else to collect his corpse, so that would have to wait for another day.
He looked at the "Artisan I" Small Alchemy Machine that took up more than half of his desk.
The main body of the half-man-high machine was a precise and complex black tal assembly, its surface engraved with fine Energy Circuits, possessing a strange beauty that was both magical and industrial.
At its core was a slot, the place where its power source was installed.
Allen took a Magic Stone from his Space Ring.
Unlike a Low-Tier Magic Stone, it wasn’t murky, but rather a pure, clear blue.
It was a Middle-Tier Magic Stone, worth one hundred Low-Tier Magic Stones on the market.
This was the power source he had prepared for the Alchemy Machine.
Powering such a precise piece of equipnt required extrely high intensity and stability of Magic Power output. An apprentice’s own Magic Power was insufficient for the task. Only a Middle-Tier Magic Stone could provide a stable and lasting source of energy.
Magic Stones were natural energy crystals ford when high concentrations of Magic Energy in nature combined with specific minerals under high pressure, allowing them to store energy for long periods.
They were divided into Low-Tier Magic Stones, Middle-Tier Magic Stones, and High-Tier Magic Stones, typically exchanged at a 100:1 ratio.
Middle-Tier Magic Stones could be used to power most small-scale Alchemy Equipnt and were also the mainstream currency used for trade among Official Wizards.
In addition, there were various rare Magic Stones like Attribute Magic Stones, Top-Grade Magic Stones, and Ancient Magic Stones, which were used to power Advanced Alchemy Creations and large-scale structures such as Wizard Workshops, Floating Cities, and Floating Battleships.
He inserted the Middle-Tier Magic Stone into the slot. The blue patterns on the machine’s surface lit up one by one, emitting a low, steady hum.
A pale blue energy field unfolded in the machine’s central work area, isolating that space from the outside world.
The very existence of this machine was the ultimate embodint of the "unscientific" nature of Wizard Civilization.
The machine had no traditional lathes, milling cutters, or drill bits. Its operating principle was "shaping," and he was about to put it to work.
Preparations were complete.
Allen closed his eyes.
DSeek’s interface unfolded in the depths of his consciousness, and countless weapon designs from his Earth era flashed by—from the simple M67 fragntation grenade to complex cluster bombs, and various pressure-activated and release-fused landmines.
To the Wizarding World, this was unheard-of "knowledge."
The Alchemy Bombs of Wizards were more focused on achieving a single elental effect. Their designs were clunky and unsophisticated, relying on piling up high-value magical materials to increase their power, making them both expensive and cumberso.
His previous life was in a magic-free environnt. Mortals could only dig deep into technology and theory within the limits of physical laws. Even the most minute fields were explored to their extres, giving birth to far more advanced disciplinary systems like managent, ergonomics, and modern military science than the Wizarding World possessed.
In contrast, in the Wizarding World, convenient thods like Runes and Magic Power concentrated great power in individuals. While the upper limits of developnt were extrely high, its underlying technology and foundational theoretical systems were far inferior to Earth’s.
The most direct comparison was flight. For humans on Earth to soar through the sky, they went through a long process of exploration from sky lanterns and hot air balloons to propeller and jet aircraft, and finally space stations, systematically giving rise to disciplines like aerodynamics.
But a Wizard only needed a single Anti-Gravity Rune or a broomstick to take flight. Why would they ever bother retracing that long technological path?
And the designs in Allen’s mind were the ultimate application of structure and chemical energy pursued by mortals—a pure art of killing.
"DSeek, using the M67 grenade as a base model, combine it with existing materials and knowledge of Runes to generate an optimized design. The shell must have a pre-fragnted structure, and the trigger chanism should be Magic Power infusion."
[Generating plan... Constructing model... Matching Runes...]
[Plan generated: ’Burst-Type I’ Alchemy Grenade.]
A three-dinsional structural diagram appeared in Allen’s mind.
He opened his eyes and cast Craftsman’s Hand, picking up an ordinary palm-sized iron ingot from a pile of materials he had bought cheaply from the trading market and placing it on the Alchemy Machine’s worktable.
Then, his Spiritual Power extended, taking control of the machine.
WHIRRR—
The iron ingot on the worktable slowly began to levitate, its form starting to change.
There was no lting, no ear-piercing sound of cutting.
Under the effect of the Rune Array, its internal structure was directly reshaped.
The iron ingot, like soft clay, was kneaded at will by an invisible hand.
It was stretched, flattened, and then split into two halves, an upper and a lower shell.
Even more ingeniously, on the inner wall of the shells, the machine automatically created a series of grooves according to Allen’s manipulation.
Upon explosion, these two outer shells would shatter along the grooves into hundreds of uniformly sized, astonishingly lethal, small fragnts.
The entire manufacturing process was quiet, efficient, and filled with an unscientific, magical beauty.
In just one minute, the shell components for ten grenades were finished, hovering neatly on the worktable, their surfaces smooth and their seams tight.
Allen nodded in satisfaction. This machine, worth 1,000 Magic Stones, was already worth the price for this tal-shaping ability alone.
Although it was called a Small Alchemy Machine, its functionality was already very powerful. A single device was comparable to a small tal processing plant from his previous life.
After a Magic Stone was inserted, the Rune Array carved upon it could shape non-magical tal materials at will, producing very little heat, noise, or vibration in the process.
This function alone could replace a whole series of industrial processes from Earth, such as cutting, forming, grinding, polishing, welding, and assembly. It was simply absurd.
’This can only be credited to unscientific Witchcraft and Runes.’
’If my old buddy Tetsuya had a device like this, there wouldn’t be a speck of that guy left. He probably could’ve wiped the headquarters of that whole pickled cabbage cult off the map while he was at it.’
Not only that, but compared to industrial equipnt, it was also much more compact, able to fit on a large table. However, this Small Alchemy Machine wasn’t omnipotent. Its processing precision was only at the milliter level, and there were limits to the size and strength of the materials it could handle.
But it seed the Wizarding World didn’t have very high precision requirents for low-level Alchemy Constructs anyway.
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