CH.354 Star Titanium
With Einar and Mariina’s evolutions now over, I was happy to level Eline up again. I know this will most likely result in her evolving like Einar did, but the evolution tanks are ready to go, so she can evolve as she wants.
For my own part, I put what I thought about One of Every Race into action and imdiately noticed so differences. My body just … operates better when I am of the correct race for the task. I think the two it is the most noticeable with are magic and swordsmanship. I always used to train both as a Dragon Hearted, unless I was specifically going for Spirit Magic, but now I was using Swordsman (Advanced Human) and Sorcerer (Advanced Human) respectively.
And it made a huge difference. My body just moved … differently. It felt like I was a lot more optimized for those actions. For swordsmanship, it almost felt like my body itself was correcting small mistakes I was making. Sure the big ones would still be ones that I couldn’t correct, but the small ones, I really didn’t make many of them, as they almost auto-corrected themselves. Even my instructing monster was impressed.
The sa went with magic. My Mana Control just felt supercharged when I was a Sorcerer. To the point where it reminded of sothing that happened in the past. The ti I eliminated the rogue core of HoBase, well back then it was still dungeon 27_001.
At that ti, a System window inford of sothing interesting. It said:
The rush of power from the core has advanced your mana circuits. Mana Control speed increased.
I did notice a change back then, especially when using Telekinesis. But the difference with magic wasn’t as great. But the difference between being a Dragon Hearted and using Space Magic, compared to being a Sorcerer (Advanced Human was about the sa as the boost I got to my Mana Control at that ti.
… Didn’t I promise Alice I’d look into if I can artificially cause an effect similar to what I experienced when eliminating the rogue core? Or do I recall that wrong? I’m not sure. But it still is sothing I should look into.
There is just one problem. I don’t really have excess SS-rank monster cores. I an, I only have two of them in Storage, and one of those is to be sold to Marquess Oroco when he gets the paynt for it ready. So all I have is the behemoth’s core, and I’m not sure I want to use it.
Sure if I do manage to sohow advance Alice’s mana circuits, it would help her a lot. And that is her core to do with as she wants. But I also don’t want to use my last SS-rank core in case I need it for sothing else.
… maybe I should just spawn an SS-rank monster with the Chaos God Core? Then defeat it and claim its core. Or I could just make an artificial SS-rank monster core. Well, I’ll put designing a mana circuit advancing device on my Todo list and call it a day for now. Because with all the excess mana HoBase has, I might even be able to make one without having to use an SS-rank core.
“... yeah. No.” I quietly said to myself after testing the first prototype Mana Circuit Advancer. I had it in mind, and while I was thinking of pushing it to another day, I instead decided to work on it right now.
And I failed. Badly. Well, sort of. Because in a way, it also does work. Let recap.
My idea was simple. Push a massive amount of mana through soone’s body. Their body would have to quickly adjust to the surge of mana, thus advancing their mana circuits. And in theory, and actually also in practice, it works.
But if it works, why is it a failure?
Simple. Because it hurts like hell. Doing that is basically the sa as strapping soone to a high voltage electric line and forcing all of that electricity to run through their body. Well, mana is a bit less deadly than the electricity would be, but the fundantal problem is the sa. Using this thod, you are basically breaking soone’s body with a massive overload of mana, in hopes that they survive to see their powered up mana circuits.
Aka. it is a torture device that very well might kill you. Sure if you survive, you’ll get a boost, but I cannot use this. Let’s just scrap the entire idea and start again from sothing else.
And so, because I didn’t want to work on sothing I knew would fail, I ended up doing sothing just as important, but also completely different. Well, I suppose this also has to do with magic, so it isn’t completely different.
What I began working on were magic stones. I already know how to fill a monster core with magic, that part is easy, but I still don’t know the ‘compression’ part that happened at the end, when the core was filled with mana. I had to rely on Dark Sage or one of my other high level Spellcasters for that.
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But that is an interesting thought. Stardust. Stardust titanium = star titanium? Probably not, but maybe?And since stardust is just mana compressed in a specific way, I should be able to make a stardust generator. Or should I call it mana compactor? Nah. Stardust generator sounds better. Well, let’s first test if stardust Ursa Major’s claw titanium make star titanium first, then let’s check if I can simplify the process even more.
I told Karl and Wilma to take it easy with the star titanium for now, as I didn’t want them to waste more materials until the stardust situation was dealt with. That was the idea, but.
“No. Let us continue. Brian. You can summon that monster that can use this ‘stardust’, right? Can’t you do that right now? I know if we have that, we will succeed.” Wilma insisted.
“I an I can, but that won’t solve everything.” I argued.
“Master. I believe it would be good for us to try.” Karl said. “The two of us won’t be able to rest if we don’t.”
“...”
“Would you? Please?” Wilma asked.
“...”
“We will succeed this ti.” Karl agreed.
“... fine. But if this doesn’t succeed, I’m ordering a pause until I’ll have a stardust generator ready for you.” I told them. “Actually, even if this does succeed, I’m still going to put a pause on the star titanium process until we have a better way of using stardust. And I’m not going to hear a no from either of you.”
“Yes Sir.” Wilma answered.
“Let’s do it.” Karl added.
I called out almost every monster ntioned on the report about how they made their star titanium. I said almost, as I’m not calling Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon here, even if they used his light breath to heat the titanium in the Factory. That just won’t work here, as the workshop isn’t equipped to handle that. Instead, I have Silent Magician LV.8 who will be using light magic to ‘emulate’ that effect.
Other than her, I of course had Sorcerer of Dark Magic and Quintet Magician here. They were in charge of making and handling the stardust. Cosmo Queen was here to make a barrier that would keep oxygen from getting to the ingot and of course Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu was here to do so smithing.
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And to add to the crew, I even called Guardian Angel Joan here. Her job was to make sure Wilma and Karl could operate at maximum power for the entire ti.
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With the entire crew here, I let Wilma be the one in charge, while I stood back and out of the way. But this ti, I’m going to observe and if anything goes wrong, I’ll stop this process.
“DONE!” Wilma called out, as they finished the ingot of tal.
They weren’t done with making a sword, or anything like that, but what they had done was convert a piece of titanium, with a bit of Ursa Major’s claw and so stardust help, into star titanium.
“Quintet. Bring it to .” I ordered my monster, and he did as ordered. He used magic to bring the finished piece of tal to and I quickly took it into Storage for analysis.
I waited for Tahlia to analyze it, and once I got the report, I announced it to the room.
“It is an ingot of high quality, stable, star titanium.” I told everyone. “Well done.”
“... is … is it really?” Wilma asked, almost questioning herself.
“Yes, it is.” I confird.
“... YES!!!!” Wilma called out loud enough where I think most of HoBase heard it, despite the fact that the workshop is sound insulated for obvious reasons.
“I believe this calls for a stiff drink.” Karl said, almost exceedingly casually.
“I think you an a party.” I corrected him. “I’ll get so drinks ready. You all, thank you.” I said to my monsters. “I’ll call on you again, as I do. But the ingot isn’t a sword yet, so that will be next.”
“As you wish, Master.” Quintet Magician answered as the representative of my monsters, and I then unsummoned all of them.
As I said earlier, I threw a small celebration for the accomplishnt of my workshop team. It was honestly more of a drinking party, but I don’t mind. Sotis just drinking can be fun, though I had to keep Einar, Eline and Valoa from the adult juice. Not that two of them even wanted it, but Einar seed like he would have liked to try. In a few years. Promise.
The party was honestly quite fun, and Cailie being spoken into performing a song didn’t make it any worse.
And as the party was going on, Wilma ca to talk to .
“... Brian. There is sothing private I’d like to discuss. Would it be possible?” She asked.
I looked around and deduced that the party doesn’t really need us now, so I agreed and teleported the two of us to my office.
“... so, what is it?” I asked.
“I … I’m not sure how to explain it.”
“I can’t help, if I don’t know the problem.” I told her.
“It isn’t a problem. … just … I’ll … Status Open.” Wilma said to open her status.
Maybe she gained a new skill or sothing?
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Na: Wilhelmina
Race: Craftswoman (Dwarf) ?
Level: 64 [ 4]
HP: 2036 [ 148]
Mana: 2000 [ 140]
Strength: 1168 [ 64]
Defense: 1068 [ 64]
Magic: 655 [ 20]
Skills:
Advanced Crafting LV.3 (racial) [ 2]
Item Box LV.3 (extra)
Appraisal (extra)
Blacksmithing LV.7
Crafting LV.7
Hamr Technique LV.2
Shield Technique LV.4
Strength Boost LV.2
Mana Control LV.5
Enchanting LV.5
Earth Magic LV.2
Fire Resistance LV.2
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Wilma didn’t have any new skills. That much was obvious. But she did have a mysterious little ? -mark at the end of her race. And that can only an one thing.
“Well, well, well. I suppose I must congratulate you again. System Support Holder Wilhelmina.” I jokingly said.
“... What do I do?” Wilma asked.
“What do you an by that?” I asked.
“I an, I hold the System Support now. Doesn’t that an that I am… so sort of a … priest or sothing?” Wilma asked.
“... Wilma. Do I look like a priest?” I asked her.
“Well no, but…”
“And you know I also have the System Support.” I reminded her.
“Well yes, but…”
“Then what is there to worry about?” I asked her. “You are a System Support Holder. And even more than that, you are my worker. No one will ever force you to do anything as long as you work for , so don’t worry. No church, no country, not even the Goddess will do anything to you, if you don’t want to. Always rember that.” I reassured her.
“... thank you, Brian.” Wilma said, as she cald down.
“Anyti. And if you need to talk to about your new System Support, you know my office is open. But let’s get back to the party before the others assu sothing is actually wrong.”
“... Yes.” Wilma agreed, and I teleported the two of us back to where the others were.
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