Chapter 1722 – Of Course There’s a Catch

Naturally, there’s a catch. Of course. Unlimited mana? It goes against the very nature of the entire world! If I could provide unlimited mana to myself, then I could wander freely around the Dungeon, even going all the way to the surface, as a tier eight monster! I could cast literally endless spells. Gravity well after gravity well, never run out of juice, and that’s just the basic stuff.

I could create a pocket of hyper-ultra dense mana just by spitting it out of myself over and over again. I could theoretically recreate conditions from an entire stratum down. Or even two, if I kept at it long enough.

However, that’s not the case here.

After pumping in a frankly absurd amount of mana, the reaction begins, and I checked, it can be self-sustaining, feeding the liquid mana back into the Well to keep the reaction going. Of course, more came out than went in, and the organ continued to heat up as the seconds ticked by. In the interests of science, I kept feeding in more and more energy, giving the Well what it required in order to keep going. Eventually, the Well grew so hot I felt as if I were going to get burned from the inside out. Just when I thought the Well was about to catch fire, it stopped accepting more energy, eventually petering out and going dormant once more.

What remained behind, clinging to the outside of the Well in defiance of gravity, is the ‘profit’, all of the energy it spat out that I couldn’t put back in. Suffice to say… there’s a lot. Extremely dense, I couldn’t even try and break down the numerical value in MP this much would represent, but it’s a lot. Thousands at least.

While I wait to see how long it takes for the Well to cool down and start working again, I try to think of the implications that this organ will have.

Having a huge amount of mana available is nice, but how significant is it in the long run? As it turns out, quite a lot. There’s an almost infinite supply of energy in the Dungeon as a whole, but there is only a limited amount in any one location, and when a fight breaks out, the participants start competing over that supply immediately. Especially when there are proper magic users around. Monsters suck in mana by their very nature, but when groups of trained mages clash, fighting for control of ambient energy is literally the first thing they do.

I, on the other hand, can walk around with a backup supply worth thousands of MP sitting inside my body, where nobody can touch it. Even foes who are able to manipulate external energy far beyond my own level of skill won’t be able to cut me off from mana so long as I have this thing inside my carapace.

More to the point, the thing hasn’t been mutated a single time. I’ve no doubt I can increase its efficiency, or make it run for longer, or perhaps even change the type of mana it spits out. Maybe I can get it to the point where it gets close to running all the time, becoming a near permanent supply of energy.

Who knows?

From what I can tell, this organ is already extremely strong. Before I muck around with it and start adding mutations, I think I’ll play with it a little longer, but I’m already looking forward to the potential it holds.

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The Everflowing Well of Living Waters.

It’s Anthony approved.

The other big ticket item I need to test is the industrial manifold now housed in my expanded commercial empire. Obviously I’m not doing that in the nest, and I wasn’t prepared to try it out in the tunnels where it might deliver a horrific and painful end to some delvers that I’m trying to profit from. Now that the tunnels around the nest have been cleared out, I’ll give it a try the next time I go out there.

I mean… considering it has all of the effects of my previous acid organs, along with the energy of Theorazzn providing unexpected benefits… I’m genuinely a little concerned about the kind of product my business enterprise is now capable of delivering. Hopefully, it’ll all be fine.

Hopefully.