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He finished the smaller projects he was working on through his clones and gathered them all together. While what he was thinking of making could have been accomplished through his true body alone, leaving the four to carry out different projects for the experience, the moment the idea popped into his head he knew he wanted it built and tested as fast as possible.

There were plenty of things he wanted to make in life, so many of them getting closer to within his grasp, with one in particular that he thought just might be possible with his current level of skill. Since the quick end of the first wave, he’d had the chance to learn so much more about magic and apply his knowledge to the things he’d made, with all of it leading up to now.

He was going to make a personal gate.

The ones that were part of the world’s network were huge things, not just to let many people go through with ease, but also to support the massive enchantment that it needed to work, but thanks to his efforts the size of the magical component had already shrunk so much and would only shrink more. All of his time reading at the library hadn’t been for nothing, he could already see himself reducing the scale on a massive level as he went to the storage room to grab the various materials he would need, he and his clones filling their arms with dozens of them as metals were heated and various alchemic enhancers were prepared, grinding and extracting what he needed as he got to work.

He could feel his many hands, each moving expertly as different parts had whatever they needed to be blended with were perfectly managed while hammers clanged to prepare what materials he could before using his magic to aid in the more delicate aspects of the task, pushing it to blend what he needed to in order to ensure that every piece would be able to show its maximum function. Thanks to the homunculi he was able to inhabit, he was a workshop unto himself, a single man yet a full team working in harmony to bring a vision to creation as he was able to let his various concerns slip away while he got lost in his goal.

By the time the first piece was cool enough to touch, he stopped smithing with his main body to let it do the one thing the others couldn’t; use his mana. He was already connecting with his rings, grabbing hold of the enchantments on them to use as he saw fit while he freely blended and weaved all he could, making a thick tapestry of interlocking rings on each piece as it all strained against the magical load.

Strained, but didn’t break. He knew his limits, there was no need to gamble by trying to push any component farther than it needed to be. By the end, each would act as greater than the sum of its parts so long as he was correct in his construction.

Even with five bodies at his disposal, it wasn’t quick. Faster than it had any right to be, but by the time all of the enchantments were done a few hours had passed, leaving him with the final step, assembly.

With over a hundred parts of varying sizes, he picked up pieces in a constant stream of movement, connecting together what he could, fitting what he had to and spending just a bit of his mana to link a few places until it was finally complete. Before him stood what looked like two door frames, and with the final piece put in place for both, gates formed, creating a portal from one to the other.

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