10,000 Ether blocks. Gone, just like that.
Indeed, Daneel had just used a Ker Gem to power the explosion. The results were impressive, to say the least, but the burden they put on his pocket was too much to bear.
After Kellor checked the poor sect leader's body, he looked up to say, "He's barely alive, My Lord. Can I ask what that was?"
"Oh, nothing. Merely a trump card I plan to keep for extreme circumstances. Take him to the cell and heal him there. We can't afford to take chances with him."
Understanding that the King was unwilling to say more, Kellor picked up the sect leader's body using telekinesis and led him outside.
Sighing, Daneel looked around at the destruction that had affected the room.
It had a taken a full Ker Gem to get this much power, but it had still been insufficient to kill an Eminent Warrior level Fighter at close range.
Over the past month, he had been experimenting with parts of Ker Gems and Ether blocks.
This had been his final test.
This discovery had been the result of a small experiment that had been born after Daneel remembered a thought he had had long back.
Ether blocks and Ker Gems were stored forms of Energy, which were found in nature.
The principle of exploding trinkets was that Energy from mages was used to draw a special enchantment that made it so that this Energy was released explosively.
This had made Daneel curious, as these forms of Energy reminded him of the explosive materials used back on Earth.
Radioactive materials were just sources of immense energy which needed the right conditions to be set off to result in an explosion. If used correctly, they could generate energy to be used.
Why couldn't Ether blocks and Ker Gems be the same?
Hence, he had set out experimenting with the simplest method that was also used on Earth: using extreme amounts of heat to result in the explosion.
Initially, there had been many failures, as he had been repeatedly trying things such as increasing the temperature while the Ether block was inside the globe of fire, etc.
This had been his fascinating side project which he spent most of his time on when he wasn't training in the inheritances.
In fact, it was during a session of training the Basilisk's Breath that he had noticed the method to excite and erupt the Energy stored inside the items.
Using the Basilisk's Breath, he had utilized the slowed-down time to carefully examine each and every minute change in the swirling Energy in a Ker Gem while increasing the temperature around it.
While doing so, he had noticed that the swirling waves tried to exit the boundary set on them by the gem as a reaction to the increased temperature.
Only, the waves moved slowly, which Daneel figured out to be because he was gradually increasing the temperature around the Gem.
It was like a wave of water whose power was higher the more acceleration it managed to achieve.
And in this case, instantaneous acceleration was needed.
After figuring this out, it was simple.
Using the Basilisk's Breath, Daneel focused his mind to create a globe of pressed fire hot enough.
Then, he created a hole to its center and threw the Ether Block or the Ker Gem inside, resulting in the explosion.
Of course, the first time it worked, he had gotten his face pletely blackened in the process.
Still, his eyes had been shining bright with the delight of discovery.
This whole process of finding something out by himself had been very rewarding and enlightening.
All in all, it had made it so that his training wasn't monotonous in any way, and that he now had a very powerful, albeit expensive trump card tucked up his sleeve.
Daneel didn't dare call it an "invention
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