CH542

I can’t think of what to make. Why can’t I think of anything to make?

Ben felt like banging his head against a wall as he kept drawing a blank. He was still in the process of making things, pumping out weapons for the war to be spread across the world, but he was supposed to have finished his quota for the day, letting him focus on creating whatever he desired in an effort to help grow his skills. That was the time he was meant to be pushing towards making legendary items, but in that moment, nothing was coming to him.

It was hard to not be uninspired though. Every single day he’d been making the same general things again and again. Even if he was putting his all to it, it was boring. He needed something new and different to jog his spirit.

But what? I should be making weapons, that’s the obvious thing to go for since every legendary one I pump out will end up in the hands of someone who can put it to use, but I’m just not feeling like making more swords or spears or any of the hundreds of other things I’ve been putting together.

So what then? Maybe just something from Earth so I can get a bit of easier job experience? I could bring forth the world’s first legendary toaster. Or maybe a microwave, it’s so hard to appreciate those sorts of things till they’re gone. But even if I make anything like that, it’s only useful for me. Maybe a new gun then? I’m sure if I make something powerful enough an archer could manage with some practice. I could make some big, huge, powerful thing…

A big, huge, powerful gun that could be used with minimal training. Okay, decision made, I’m building a cannon.

The listlessness he’d felt in his indecision disappeared as a new burst of energy came to him with the idea as he began trying to figure out the design and how he’d put it together, where he’d do it and how he wanted it to go.

He could probably create something that would be akin to his gun rather easily, a weapon that would shoot out projectiles under the power of magic and mana, but he had a different direction he wanted to go as his minds moved to make it happen. After all, he didn’t imagine any simple projectiles would be enough to get it to legendary, it needed to be something more.

It was only when he was finished with the projects he was creating through his homunculi and had a design firm in his mind that he got to work.

Creating the body of the weapon was in itself rather simple, at least structurally. The problem it faced as he worked to construct it was that he intended it to release a huge amount of power when fired, at a level that would destroy it if not built well.

As he worked on making it, heating vast swaths of metal and preparing the enhances that would go into it, he kept the vision of the final product in his thoughts by the time it came to give it shape, the inner tube having numerous thin channels within it to create even more surface area for the enchantments it would contain, letting his main body get to work from there.

He felt the sheer density of the mana being placed upon it as he pushed himself, ignoring the headache he felt forming as his full focus was directed to the project to further refine his abilities, only stopping the second it was done. A cannon that fired out not projectiles, but instead an unending beam of energy, at least so long as mana kept being pumped through it, with rainbow mana crystals already embedded into it to help with providing power.

It was a masterpiece that had successfully broken into being a legendary item, with one single, small problem. He had no clue how he was supposed to test it.

It was in essence a laser cannon, or at least would be like it once fired, but if he was right then once a shot went off then it wasn’t going to stop for quite a while, even after passing through a few different targets. Knowing that, he couldn’t just shoot it in the woods, even if the odds of hitting something he shouldn’t were going to be slim.

So that only leaves me… Yeah, that will be fine.

He wheeled it out of the shop and pointed it in the only direction he knew would be safe; up. It wasn’t like the spell being shot would fall down after a while, leaving that as the safest option, even if it wouldn’t let him see its penetrating power then and there.

Still, it would be enough and without wasting another second he aimed it to the sky and poured his mana into it, watching a thick beam blast out of it, tearing through the clouds above as it kept going.

“Yeah, that’ll do.”

He stopped feeding it his mana before pulling it back into the shop, ignoring the looks of any passing townsfolk as he felt satisfied with a job well done.

“Hey Myriad, you around? I’ve got a fancy new tool that could use a good home.”

<Hmm? Sure, I can look but don’t you have somewhere to be?>

“I have time.”

<No, you actually don’t.>

Oh, might have gotten a little too distracted. Oops.

“Tell them I’ll be right there.”

He had only one other thing on his agenda for the day and with his god pointing out that he was in fact late, Ben rushed through the gate to Thera’s family home, giving friendly hellos to the staff as he ran past them before getting to the lawn outside where over sixty people were waiting.

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More than I was expecting.

<I explained it would be a good experience so try to keep them from suffering too much, please.>

Hey, they know what they signed up for.

With just what that was being connect training, same as he’d given to Nati and Xilly. Ben had brought up the prospect of doing it with Myriad back when that had been happening, and it was finally time to put it into practice, with a larger group there than he’d honestly expected.