Kiria’s figure flashed across the giant landscape of the moon, repeatedly hamring down against its broken surface. Every ti his hamr struck, there was a golden light accompanied by a soft chi that seed to echo in one’s soul. For those who were left on Deckan, they couldn’t even tell what was going on. All that they saw was a speck of gold flash within the distant moon.
There were thousands of fragnts that had been broken off in the wake of the golem’s laser, and Kiria struck at each one. Naturally, such a large expenditure consud a great deal of his divine power, but he was not worried. This was the first ti since he had ascended to beco a deity that he was truly using his divine power to its fullest, after building up a reputation with his many works scattered in the world.
That’s the last one, but where is Jas with the replacent ‘materials’? The God of Crafts asked inwardly, looking around. However, he soon got his answer as a strange ripple spread through the empty space. His dark-skinned custor appeared, pushing a massive asteroid that he had gotten from so distant corner of the solar system.
Oi, is that what you were talking about?! Kiria exclaid inwardly, before shaking his head. The asteroid that had been provided was at least half the size of the moon itself, so his reaction was understandable. The fact that Jas had been able to transport it through space was perhaps the most shocking thing.
His figure flashed again, and he struck the asteroid with his hamr. Another golden flash, and he gave a nod. Material analyzation completed, and everything’s been seeded with my power. Let’s see… they called this material Dinsium, right?
Closing his eyes, Kiria focused inwardly on activating an ability that he had developed long ago. Archive of the Craftsman. This was a power that he had once invented to help him work with new and rare materials. If it was sothing that he had never interacted with, most craftsn would have to struggle to adapt and learn their special properties.
With his Archive of the Craftsman, Kiria ford a resonance between a target material and a similar material that had been used in the past. He read the ‘mory’ of the material, learning how it had been treated and what the end result had been. This allowed him to get a tacit understanding of any sort of crafting material, so long as he was not truly the first person to have used it.
I see… so this material has the property to warp dinsions when fed with mana or spiritual energy, and can even create small microcosms with its residual energy. Kiria grinned as an idea ford in his mind, and his body soared into the black sky.
As the God of Crafts working on his largest project ever, there was simply no way that he could allow himself to just return the moon to its original state. His pride as the top crafter among all worlds would not allow sothing like that. If he was going to craft a moon, then he had to add in his own flair.
Material Forge. He drew a symbol in the empty space in front of him, and the fragnts of the moon seed to shudder. Stone broke away from dinsium, forming distinct layers and patterns, before a portion of the dinsium began to lt.
There’s not a convenient mana source on the moon, so I’ll need to get creative. Maybe when I’m done, they’ll set up a mana relay here to make it more stable. For now… convert solar energy to mana, and set up an accumulator array. On activation, trigger a spirit gate and funnel the energy to allow both to activate the dinsium.
Filter the energy through a coordinate receiver array, and establish a ten-second lock to prevent disruption. As he thought about this, nurous spell diagrams began carving themselves beneath the surface of the moon. Dozens of patches of blue light began to gather on the fragnts as they ca back together, forming a solid whole. Each patch showed the amount of mana that was being gathered by the sun’s rays, storing them for future use.
The moon is often a target for teors, so let’s create a barrier to protect these spells. A firm shield would use too much energy to constantly remain active… A low-power detection array that triggers another spell should work. It doesn’t have to destroy the teors, just shift their montum away from the moon.
The individual materials of the moon continued to churn beneath the surface, rearranging themselves until they had finally reached the ideal state that Kiria wished for. At that point, a massive hole opened up on the moon itself, over a thousand kiloters wide. The hole seed bottomless, an empty passage leading deep into the surface of the celestial body.
Off to the side, Jas tilted his head in confusion. Wasn’t he just fixing the moon? Why did it suddenly have another hole in it…? Do I have to get another teor?
The researcher wasn’t entirely sure what the ursa was up to, but knew that it wasn’t a good idea to interrupt him while he was working. Regardless of the outco, he was still creating a moon just as Jas had asked. It was a giant rock orbiting around the planet that would allow the world to maintain its ecosystem. Unless this giant hole was the sign of a thruster that would carry the moon away, he had nothing to worry about.
After over half an hour of steadily draining his divine reserves, Kiria was left with just under half of what he had started with. Nonetheless, he was confident that he had created a true masterpiece, sothing that would beco an icon of faith towards him. He turned to look at his custor, nodding his head to signal that he was ready to return.
By the ti he noticed that they had moved, they were already back on the surface of Deckan, with a small kitsune girl running up to him. “Okay, what’s the big deal? Why is there still a hole in the moon?” She complained indignantly. “And why’s it glowing blue now?”
Although the patches of blue light did not surround the entire moon when viewed up close, they mixed with the light reflected by the surface of the moon to give it a light blue appearance from the surface of Deckan. Like this, it almost blended in with the clear skies of the world, but would stand out even more in the dark of night.
Kiria grinned at her questions, not at all offended by her attitude. “I call it the Lunar Gate!” He proclaid, naming his newest creation. “I’ll give you the mana frequency to operate it. Once it’s charged up enough mana that it stops glowing, you can activate it.”
“Lunar… gate…?” The smaller kitsune blinked, processing his words. “You made it into a giant warp device?”
“That’s right.” Kiria admitted. “If you use the mana frequency I give you, and transmit a set of coordinates through the arrays, it’ll open a gate to your target destination. Just a warning, though, once the internal energy is depleted to the point where it begins glowing again, I’d say you would have… oh, about ten seconds to get to the other side before power runs out. And you don’t want power to run out when you’re halfway between dinsional spaces.”
“It’s my one-way gate to nowhere and everywhere.” Although he had never been one for space travel himself, he was familiar with the chanics behind it. Or at least, the theory of them. His domain helped him to fill in a lot of the gaps for any missing knowledge, supplenting it from other areas in similar ways to his Archive of the Craftsman.
In an age where space exploration and travel was becoming more and more rampant, a gate such as this would be incredibly useful. Not only would it allow ships to reach a far-off starting point for their journeys, or even directly reach their destination, it would also allow rescue vessels to offer tily aid when used in conjunction with the smaller gates installed on each ship.
With this gate, he had turned Deckan into the unofficial hub for space travel, whether he had intended to or not. “Does it allow transfer to other realms?” Chel asked, looking to explore the possibilities behind this new gate.
Kiria chuckled, scratching the back of his head with a large hand. “It accepts the sa format of coordinates as a high-level teleport spell. But given the properties of dinsium, I figure that it should be compatible with that, as well?”
Chel nodded her head again at that, while Jas spoke up to posit a question. “How long does it take to build up its charge?”
“That, I can’t tell you.” He shook his head, shrugging his shoulders helplessly. “It’s my first ti converting solar energy to mana on a scale like this. There’s an accumulator array and a refinent loop in the gate as well. Any ambient mana, like that produced from the solar gatherers, will be captured by the accumulator.”
“Once it hits a certain charge, it’ll begin to feed into the refinent arrays to form solid mana, which is stored in a separate dinsium space tied to the gate’s function. So once the moon starts glowing blue again, that’ll an that the solid mana has been used up, and it’s back to the basic accumulator.”
Chel nodded her head as she thought about that. It would take a lot of energy to power a gate that wide, so this couldn’t be used as a casual thod of travel. At the sa ti, the tong warp devices used a similar chanic to teleport their ships across vast distances through the use of runic coordinates. Although they were still in the process of perfecting interdinsional warp without the need of dedicated gates, that could be seen as sothing that would co in the future.
“What’s the minimum runti for a single activation?” She asked, running so calculations through her head.
Kiria blinked, thinking it over. “It’ll take about fifteen seconds to activate the dinsium rings, and they’ll last ten seconds after the power is cut off. That’s why you’ve only got the ten second window after the accumulators activate again.”
Chel gave another nod at his answer. Fifteen seconds was neither too long nor too short. It gave enough ti for a crew to prepare for transfer, or to activate an automated payload. Ten seconds… a ship would need to be moving fairly quickly to get through the gate in that ti, considering how they were moving through a gravity well.
Thankfully, the moon didn’t have an atmosphere to slow them down. And even if it did… well, it certainly wouldn’t after being blasted apart like it was. “Haah… at this rate, you might beco a new God of the Moon. At least, unofficially.”
The world did not currently have a faith system that would promote people to godhood based on the faith of the people. Although faith enhanced a deity’s divinity, it would never grant them a new domain. Not unless the Keeper purchased a system for such.
“Huh, that wouldn’t be too bad.” Kiria laughed boisterously, tilting his head back as he clapped his hands on his waist. “Anyways, I think that’s my work here done, right?” He asked once his laughter had subsided, producing a small crystal and tossing it to Jas. “The mana frequency to control the gate.”
Jas caught the crystal delicately, as if afraid that he might break it by accident. To do so would an that this had been for nothing, and that the hole in the moon was little more than a decorative piece. That was not sothing he was particularly keen on happening.
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