CH868

Once work was done at his factory he returned to the shop, making use of his warehouse and all of the clones he kept within as they started to move and make, leaving his true body to sit at the heart of it all and think.

Every second of the day he could feel a million different ideas forming in his head as different bits of knowledge were put together in a puzzle with no final form. There was so much to do and test and he needed to start somewhere, with part of that focus being directed first to a different bit of growth.

All of the parts of himself in his realm were actualizing up there but there was no reason not to do the same down below as well and he let different constructs flash in and out of existence as fast as he could think, creating what would look like a shifting blob to anyone with a standard thought speed as animals and structures and abstract shapes flashed in and out of existence, the goal he was feeling there clear.

As of a bit earlier that day, he’d become a contender for his esoteric actualization and that was something he could try to push beyond its limits. As far as he could see, it had no risk of merging into his connect or his enchanting if it somehow reached the third tier and it was something he could do on the side as he focused on his real work, but at a volume that would destroy its barrier to the third tier. It was a skill dependent on his mind and with the new shape of it, experience for it would come in almost endlessly, meaning acquiring the growth bonuses for it would be easily possible.

Which means I should consider taking the master actualizer job for my next run. He told himself. Although, I should have more than a few other new ones too, possibly some I can’t currently guess at. Really hope they get back to me about the setup soon.

While he did that though there were other tasks to work through and experiments to run, with Ben making something unlike anything else he’d created in the world until that point. A toy car, left to spin around the floor as it went, but what separated it from anything else that world held wasn’t the design but the power source. Using the information he’d acquired since coming to the world, what he’d built wasn’t a toy to be run with mana but instead chemistry, the reaction taking place with its batteries producing electricity.

For a result that was instantly worse than any of the base magic materials in the world. Sure, it ran just as fine as it would have if he’d constructed it with mythril and enchantments but that was only for then. Unlike magic materials which seemed to absorb and potentially even generate their own mana, a chemical reaction would run out, leaving them to die in the end and creating waste for that fact.

About as severe of a drawback as something could have in that world but not an overwhelming one. The vast majority of enchantments weren’t powered by a piece of mythril or mana crystal after all but by the user’s own store, filling whatever tool it was to power until it would run out and then needing to be topped up again. Even with all that Abrus seemed to endlessly produce, they were still rare enough for any common folk that left price as a prohibitive entry point. He himself could increase the overall flood farther with his materializers but a proper battery factory would be able to help plenty for so many items a person might not want to waste their mana on if they didn’t have to.

And it wasn’t like they’d have to necessarily become waste either. He was sure he could build a tool that would be able to break a chemical product into its base reactants again which could be a place where it would make sense for mythril to be used, either a household having that one mythril tool to in essence recharge their spent batteries or instead let them take them in to a central hub to be recharged, eliminating the need for then to turn to waste.

But batteries weren’t the only option. As much as he enjoyed using rainbow mana crystal, considering the amount of power it held he couldn’t deny how much of it was wasted on individual items but what about instead of that, any town or city were to have a central repository of it where the mana would flow to each home to be accessed through something akin to the electrical plugs of Earth, charging items with power for when they’d be needed and allowing them to be plugged in again when they weren’t? Such a thing would be just as sustainable, even if it would be a bit more work to remodel any buildings that were already around to take advantage of it.

“But then, how much do any of these ideas even matter?” He asked himself as he laid back, materializing a thin cylinder of white mana crystal as he did. “This is basically one of the first things I solved coming to the world, it just needs to be applied. Even if it would be expensive, everyone could have one or two mana batteries to insert into enchanted items if they’d only be made to hold them and then if one was in use, they could just use their own internal supply like they currently do for power. Building the crystal into an item has always been wasteful but… Well, I can worry about trying to change the way the planet sees magic materials in the future. For now, other things to try.”

Attempting to create a functional battery had been more of an application of his understanding of the world’s chemistry than anything else, using concepts he’d been taught and extrapolating from there to see if it was actually possible as a way of verifying his understanding and the rules of it he’d learned, with a different test coming next.

Materializing again, this time three items were made, one being both a receiver and a transmitter while the other two sat in his hands filling similar roles with different desired outcomes, two things he’d never thought he’d hold again as he looked at the two simple phones he’d created.

“And now for if it works,” He muttered as he pressed a button on one, getting no reaction from the other to tell him the call was being sent or received and left him to hang his head back. “Well, based on everything I know about the universe and how it functions, that should have worked, which means there’s either some part of physics I’ve got wrong or incomplete. Lame, I’ll need to think of a few more tests to have run then.”

Even if that hadn’t worked he was sure he could have successfully created something like a landline but given not only the invading demons but also the native life on the world, he doubted that such a thing would hold up for even a few days before something came to destroy it. He was sure he could make it possible on a small scale, having phone systems set up within any town or city but using them for worldwide communication would be a far bigger challenge.

“And if I wanted them to be functional for both terrestrial and aquatic races then that’s going to be even harder. Ugh, subterranean too I guess, why does it feel like I need to skip a couple major technological steps to make this work to the degree I want it? This really seems like it should be easier.”

“It seems so but this universe appears to have some annoying and hard to observe hurdles that are getting in the way of certain points of progress,” A voice beside him said to his rhetorical question, Quilith making an appearance that forced Ben to sit up.

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“Oh, hey, I wasn’t expecting to see you today.”

“Considering your rise to godhood, it was easy to decide that a proper congratulations needed to be made,” The alien said with a thin smile, dwarfed by the grin on Ben’s face.

“You all heard about that, yeah?”

“You have earned yourself more than a few fans on my world, the instant you started bleeding and your bones were breaking without rhyme or reason a large number of eyes started watching to see just what you’d done. I had faith, of course, but double godhood was more than even I’d expected.”

“And I’m going to let the fact that I’m being so heavily watched slide for now since I’ve at least gotten some privacy from the gods. Yeah, sacrilege and my mind have both grown but is that really what you’re here for?”

“I suppose a part of it is out of curiosity about the scale of the change you’ve gone through, though with neither being particularly visual skills it seems like it will be hard to judge.”