[S/R] Containing The World's Energy

[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

Saber leaned back against his stone table, his eyes staring forward on the floor as he twirled a knife around his fingers. The throwing knife was perfectly balanced and danced on his finger with ease, not even wavering in his motion as it spun about its axis. The Assassin toyed with the metal object absent mindedly as he stared off into space. His thoughts were elsewhere and he focused them on something he had been contemplating for quite some time; the flow of energy. It was a tough subject but Saber was starting to grasp such things a lot more easily these days. His mind was becoming a lot sharper when it came to theoretic problems and he was also getting better at solving said problems. After wandering around the world of Elder Tale and observing the various different combinations of the magical and the physical, Saber was starting to grasp several different concepts. One concept that was bothering him the most at the moment, however, was something basic; containment.

The amount of free flowing magic power and living energy in the air was immense and almost infinite. Mages thrived off said energy and if one was smart, they would be able to cast spells without stopping. With the aid of mana potions they could increase that time even further. However, what if someone wasn’t a mage? Saber, an Assassin, had very little control over the magical side of things and it put him at an extreme disadvantage when it came to high physical defense enemies. The fact that he was a soloer put him in an awkward position when those enemies appeared. Rather than play the off-tank and let the Mage do the high damage, Saber had to create weaponry to minimize his class’s weaknesses. Weapons that had high piercing, life-steal, and ones with physical damage switched to magic damage were the best. The combinations he could make with those were perfect, for most fights. Yet, he still didn’t have anything that was fully magic. With so much free energy around him, it was also a waste not to make use of it.

So, Saber was trying to come up with an idea. For the past few hours, Saber wandered around his underground library, trying to find the best way to make his idea become real. He needed to create something that could pull the magic out of the air and materialize it. If he couldn’t materialize it into an object, he needed to store it into something. Granted, there were mana crystals for that and Saber could easily put mana into such things. However, the crystals were fragile. Saber needed something strong that could withstand a bit of abuse.

“Specially designed crystals?” No, that would require more work than he needed.

“What about metal…?” Saber’s eyes narrowed a little bit and he snatched his knife out of the air. Metal could work, in theory. It was a conductor for electricity and electricity flowed easily through its atomic structure. However, magic was not electricity. Magic required a different kind of structure to flow through. If it was similar to electricity, then everyone would have the ability to control magic because magic would be compatible with everyone. Obviously, that wasn’t the case. Mages had a lot more compatibility with magic than the melee classes, which meant that the inner structures of the different players were fundamentally different.

“…Wait…” Saber sat up and opened up his crafting menu. He scrolled down through it and tabbed to ‘Artisan’. He had recently nabbed the class for grins and it didn’t really have much on the list. To Saber, that meant there weren’t a lot of active Artisan players. And for those who were Artisans, they most likely weren’t using their classes effectively. Although there was one thing that Saber’s mind began to wrap around; the crystal ball. Specialized crystals would be difficult to obtain because of their rarity and Saber would have to go digging into the mines, but the Crystal Ball? The Crystal Ball was a hardened material similar to glass, and it was compatible with magic. If he needed a storage device, the ball could be an option. He could probably make it work if he tried hard enough.

“Might as well.” Saber pushed himself up and sheathed his knife, stuffing it into his thigh holster before walking towards the circular staircase. He made his way topside and then headed out into the streets, slipping out of his rundown shop quickly to ensure that he wouldn’t be spotted. He wasn’t an expert at crafting by any means, so he wasn’t always prepared. With the idea of a crystal ball came the problem of a lack of materials. The ball itself required refined mana crystals that were pretty much purified, and sometimes the process was a pain. Saber didn’t wish to deal with that process and instead he went to the magic shop. He didn’t bother talking to any of the mages in the shop and quickly purchased what he needed; Purified Crystals. Saber bought a decent number of them and after paying the fee to the merchant, he returned to the streets and escaped from the public eye.

Just as quickly as he left, Saber slipped back into his building and pulled open the hidden door to his library. He closed the stone wall behind himself and descended. Saber never bothered putting the bag of crystals away into his inventory, and he held the brown sack firmly with his right hand to keep them from spilling out. The Assassin only put down the sack once he reached the stone table and it didn’t last. Saber quickly untied the rope, opened the brown container, and then spilled out the crystals onto his messy table. On the top of the table, Saber still had a bunch of various books and papers all tied to different topics he was doing research on. They were all important, but just not now.

With the crystals all in place, Saber gathered them up in small clusters. The crystal ball was an object mostly held together by the energy which flowed through it; it was also a crystal ball. With enough power and with the help of the crystals themselves, forming the spherical object wouldn’t be extremely difficult, he just simply had to do it the right way. Similar to metal, he was going to have to do it with a lot of heat and tempering. As a blacksmith Saber always had a forge ready to go, and unexpectedly he was going to be making use of it as a completely different class. The forge was alive and rumbled quietly to itself behind the Assassin, but that silence was about to be broken.

Taking one group of crystals, Saber made his way over to his forge and placed them on his anvil. Quickly, he added oxygen to the flames within his forge and also added more coals to fuel the fire. The coals inside crackled and snapped at him, the air swirling around aggressive within the stone walls of the fire pit as Saber disturbed the demon inside. He tended to the flames and coaxed them to burn hotter and hotter until his face reached the desired temperature. Yes, his face. After working with the flames for so long, Saber began to judge the temperature of the furnace by how hot his face was when he stood in front of the open gate. It was a useful and useless trait, but it made things easy. With the desired heat reached, Saber placed the crystals on a pan and then slid the metal pan on top of the coals. Immediately, the crystals reacted.

The slender objects glowed faintly as the heat encompassed their hardened shells. The magic within the shards swirled aggressively, pumping through the invisible veins and arteries almost out of fear and question. Saber stared at the crystals for a few moments, watching their bodies pulsate slowly. Then, he shook up the pan. He moved the crystals slightly and twirled them around on the metal sheet as if he was cooking food. The heat needed to be distributed equally for the fusion process to work correctly, thus the crystals couldn’t sit in one place for their entire bake time. Said bake time was short though, and Saber pulled the metal sheet out after only a minute or so. He brought the metal sheet over to his anvil and tightened his grip inside of his heat-resistant gloves.

Saber gathered up the magic shards and held them within his palms. They weren’t large and they fit nicely together, but their shapes were weird and jagged. Saber had to fix that. Now that their bodies were heated up, the crystals were a little easier to mend but it had also made them more fragile. Saber closed his eyes and focused, gently pumping his own mana into his hands. Being an alchemist helped Saber understand the flow of his own magical abilities and now, it was paying off. Everything he had done so far was paying off. His control over his own mana was superb and was far better than how it had been when he first started. With ease, Saber was able to fuse the crystals together and formed them into a small orb that fit just within the palm of his hand. It looked like an oversized marble and was slightly smaller than a tennis ball, and even more so… it was the perfect size.

Saber didn’t need the large size of the regular crystal ball. No, what Saber needed was an orb. He needed something medium sized that he could easily grasp and roll around in his hand. It was also something he could use to put inside other things. The orb Saber held in his hand was a small containment piece, a magically imbued crystal storage orb. Specialized crystals it was, apparently.

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:Item Researched:

Crystal Orb -- A smaller version of the Crystal Ball, it's size makes it less potent in combat but it is made in a similar shape. If necessary though, a mage could potentially use several of the smaller orbs at once to make up for its lack of individual strength. Rather than control one Ball, they may be able to control two or three Orbs at once. However, this object is much better when it comes to being used for crafting than in combat. Do not judge the orb by its small size. In its core, the magic pathways are much more condensed and efficient, allowing for more mana to be stored within it than the ordinary Crystal Ball. This increased efficiency and storage space makes it much better than mana crystals when it comes to containing energy and the structure of the orb is also much stronger. This object was created by the Funeral Parlor and is open for use by any Artisans.

[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

With his method of storage crafted, Saber shifted his attention to the next stage of his work for the day; the source. The current method of gathering mana and energy was to take one’s own and store it into a fragment, but that was extremely inefficient. The amount of mana that could be gathered was limited to the amount a single player had. Not only that, but how much of that mana was actually stored? And how much of it was lost because of a poor connection? Saber didn’t know the exact percentages but if he could guess, there was somewhere between a twenty to forty percent inefficiency rate. In other words, out of one hundred mana points pumped into a fragment only about sixty to eighty of those points actually made it, the rest were wasted. Deep down in his core, Saber hated that kind of stuff. If it wasn’t one-hundred percent than he didn’t want anything to do with it as it wasn’t worth the chance. It was one reason why he didn’t work with any sort of scientific research anymore.

However, now Saber had a way to increase that efficiency number. It was going to be a bit of a pain in the ass to make it but if he wanted to advance technology further, Saber needed better tools than his own two hands. Thus, he was pulling together several different ideas from various different alchemists. Several considered the potential of larger storage objects with better ways of storage or more efficient interiors to make the storage more complex, but the problem was the same as with the mana fragments; not all the mana would actually make it into the object. Another, and very lonely alchemist, theorized taking the energy from living beings because of the high amount available, but the amount was still limited based on the creature the mana was sapped from. It was also inhumane to do that. There were countless other arguments and theories that varied from absorption of the environment around the alchemists to attempting to make it just appear out of the air. However, there was one very small and lonely theory that was discounted by all of the other alchemists; compression.

In the world, mana flowed freely through the air and connected everything whether it was dead or alive without exception. That was the power of life, and the alchemist Saber read from theorized that if it was true that such power flowed freely through the air then harnessing it would be the best way to increase the amount of mana being gathered. The only problem was how? Well, he spoke of three different ways. By following the rules provided by other alchemists, one could simply absorb the mana into an object by creating an empty void. By creating the void, mana would flow freely into the space to fill it however it would not be a one-hundred percent flow, as there would be other things as well as the mana flowing in to fill the space. The second way was to make the mana by replicating the mechanic of life, which was obviously impossible as one would be playing God. In alchemy, something must always be sacrificed in order to achieve a goal. By making something simply appear, you would be violating the rules of life and the universe itself. The third option was compression.

Compression was a simple concept at its core, but it was a lot more difficult to make it work than expected. The alchemist theorized that if the mana in the air could be collected, it could be squeezed down and separated from the other impurities in the air. Once separated into its purest state, it could be pressed down further into either a solid object or be used as fuel of sorts for another object. The dangers were its instability. By creating a pure form of mana, deadly radiation could pour out and cause damage, it could even explode. Thus, the alchemist suggested using it as fuel rather than making a solid object. It was safe that way and it also allowed the mana to be used for various different things. This was discounted as being too difficult to do and several alchemists believed it way too close to playing God, as there was no exchange of material. That was untrue, and Saber could see it.

The mana flowing in the air was its own entity. It was completely separate from everything else in the sense that it could be used in a singular manner. Mana alone fueled magic and magitech, nothing else. Sure, one could make fire by using wood but you could not use that same wood to create a fireball; you had to use mana. If that was the case then magic could be thought of as being its own property. It was a state of matter all alone, and that made it malleable. By taking the air, compressing it and separating the mana from it, everything else would be returned without a loss. The cost would be the loss of the mana in the air but it would simply be converted from one state of matter to another; it would shift from being invisible and free flowing to either a solid or a liquid depending on how high the pressure used was. Of course this was all theoretical but it was probable. If a human being could separate oxygen from the air and use it to fuel the body, then why was mana any different?

Saber accepted the thesis provided by the scientist and even though the others ignored him, Saber decided to follow his ideas. His name was Theodore Aktavion, and he had lived almost a hundred years prior to where Saber was now. He could never physically create anything that could perform the necessary steps in the process, but he provided a checklist of things that might be needed. First, Saber needed a storage piece; he needed something he could put the mana into and it had to be strong. If it wasn’t, he risked a bad reaction. Next, Saber needed a tool to gather up the air and store it in some kind of container. Third, Saber needed to create a high pressure system that would separate the heavy air from the light air and he needed to create more than one space to do it. The higher the pressure, the more mana Saber could get out of the air. Fourth, Saber needed a way to get the separated mana into the storage device whether it was by injection, mitosis, or some other way. Fifth, Saber had to ensure that the storage device did not leak. If purified mana leaked out into the air it could be dangerous.

Saber had his storage device, now he had to work on his compression machine, and he already had an idea.

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[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

Following the rules set by Aktavion, Saber planned on creating a few different things. For one he was going to create an object that could contain air without any sort of leakage. In the other world, oxygen tanks were used to contain purified oxygen, propane, and even nitrogen in some cases. The same sort of process was even used for fire extinguishers. By creating a large cylinder, a sealed cap, and requiring a specific tool to fill the space, one could contain air with ease. Recreating that would be step one, and step two would be taking the air out of the container. Saber could sort of tell that the step was unnecessary, but he could also see why it would help. Without the container, Saber could easily just pump air into the system with either his breath or some sort of vacuum. However by providing the container, Saber could limit himself on how much mana would be sucked i---

“Stop.” Saber stopped in his tracks as he started to walk towards his forge, his eyes opening up slightly. A vacuum? Could he use that? Instead of creating an external storage device for the air, Saber could instead keep it all internal. He could create a vacuum of sorts that would suck air into the system and force it through without any medium. Then, by using circulation, he could swirl the air around in the system until the mana was fully harvested and then he could return it all back out into the air…

“Aktavion you damned genius.” This was what the alchemist had meant! By using a vacuum based system, the damage done on the surrounding environment would be minimal because of the immediate containment and release! Not only that but Saber could regulate how much air he needed at any given time and he wouldn’t have to worry about using too much or too little! By monitoring the system directly, Saber could take in the specific amount needed, cut off the system, and immediately do the compression process! He wouldn’t have to store extra air and he wouldn’t have to strain the system around him by taking a large amount at one time and could instead take it in only when necessary. It was brilliant!

Saber hurried over to his forge and quickly began to work, gathering up various different pieces of metal all around himself so that he could work without stopping. In his mind, Saber had a vision and he was going to make it happen just like he did with everything else. As he grabbed his hammer and dropped the first piece of metal into the forge, he got to work. The first thing Saber crafted was a large, four-by-four foot square block of iron. It was hollow and empty with one side hinged so that it could be used like a door. Saber carved out a decently sized hole on the metal door, allowing him to see into the block; that wouldn’t last. One the left side, Saber opened up another hole. Saber filled that hole with a copper tube. That tube was sealed off by a valve, which could be opened and closed by simply twisting a pin. On the top of the slot, Saber created a small circular indentation, and then attached four bars that he could insert an object into.

Next, Saber created four smaller hollow iron cubes. Each cube had two holes cut out of its sides and had a small slot cut out of its base. Using copper once more, Saber filled the larger holes with tubes and also made extremely thin strands of the material, attaching the strands in coils to the base of the blocks. With the cubes made out, Saber fabricated sheets of metal that could hold the cubes and then attached the sheets to the inside of the main iron block. He placed the cubes inside, keeping them slightly off from where they should have been placed so that the copper tubes wouldn’t get in the way, and then ran the copper strands up to the top of the main iron block. He pushed the wires through a small hole and then knotted them together, keeping them from falling back through for the moment.

With the main setup ready, Saber created four screw-like coils. Each one was about a foot tall and took the same basic shape of a screw, but Saber increased the distance between the layers of the metal on the screws as well as the angles of their coils. The first screw, which he inserted into the first iron cube at the top left of the system, had the smallest angle or the lowest pitch. It also had the lowest number of thread. The second block had a screw with a higher pitch and more threading, along with the third block and finally the fourth. The ever increasing angle of the threading as well as the increased numbers would allow for higher pressure in each cube, and would ultimately pull more and more air downwards. However, Saber also needed to separate the air that would be pulled down. Thus, he twisted the second cube as well as the fourth cube. He pointed the second screw to the left, and then the fourth cube to the right. Quickly, Saber modified the cubes and gave each block a third cylinder pipe which would run to the back of the main block. The pipe was placed high in the blocks, allowing for the lighter air to flow out of the cube while the heavier air would be pulled downwards. Saber also dented the bottom of the fourth cube, creating a small basic for the collected mana to gather. Out of that basin, he ran the exit pipe.

Saber then created a small, hollow cone with only a large hole at the top and cut open the tip. The tip was connected to a small copper sphere which was then connected to three tubes. The tubes ran down a short ways and curved until they were all pointed at a central location. Saber pulled out the small crystal orb he made and carefully adjusted the tubes to ensure that they would connect with the orb. When they were correctly placed, the orb would snap right into place and the three tubes would have their ends touching the object directly. When Saber shut the door to the system, he would still be able to retrieve the orb and could see the three copper tubes, allowing him to put in and take out the orb when necessary. With that final touch, the basic system was set.

Saber had created a large iron block with a swinging door. It had a tube with a valve in the top of its left side, a place at the top to hold an energy source, two tubes sticking out the back to release unused material back out into the air, and had a place where the finished product could be retrieved. Inside its core there were five parts; four compression cubes and a cone which would hold the gathered mana. The cubes were placed so that they were all connected with copper tubes; one entrance tube and one exit tube, only the second and forth cubes had an extra tube as they were the separation cubes. The exit-tubes were closed off with pressure valves, restricting air motion under the inner pressure was met and then they would blow open once enough heavy air was gathered. Once the mana was compressed enough, it would gather and flowed through the fourth cube’s lower basic and into the collection cone. From there, the gathered pressure from the system above would push the mana out and into the storage device.

Saber checked the notes from the alchemist Aktavion and did some extra modifications to the system. He adjusted the threads of the screws and even applied reinforcement enchantments on the system to increase its mana fortification. Doing so would hopefully increase the system’s efficiency. The final product, however, still wasn’t in his grasp.

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[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

Even with his shell of sorts, Saber still had a few problems he needed to tackle. For one he needed to get the drills to spin. Using magic as a powersource would actually be kind of funky, as he would be using mana to generate more mana however it seemed quite viable. By using mana, he would be able to create an almost completely independent system. All he had to do was refill the power source every now and again. Though, setting up the drills to move in the first place would be a pain. The second problem he had to face was actually separating the different parts in the air. Adding pressure to the air wouldn’t separate the mana from the other parts of the air, it would simply pull the air down into the system. Saber needed to create a way to filter out the impurities and to do that, he was going to use even more mana-based things; field generators.

By harnessing mana and displacing it through the air with a consistent amount of power, Saber could create a protective shield of sorts. By changing the frequency by which the mana flowed through the air, Saber could theoretically repel certain things, much like how magnets repelled each other when their polarities matched. By using the same concept, Saber could force the molecules in the air to separate and would ultimately end with mana being the last item. By using pressure to pull the air down, Saber would pull the air down through the fields and ultimately force the different sections in the air apart from one another. Unfortunately there wasn’t any ‘universal’ frequency that repelled everything except for mana, as far as he knew, so he would have to create multiple fields.

To generate those fields, Saber was going to have to make some magic happen. He pulled up his menu and pulled out several mana fragments as well as a few chunks of crystal. He placed the crystals into his furnace to heat them up and make them easier to work with, but unlike his metal materials he only had to leave the crystals in the heat for a few moments. After pulling them back out, he carefully used a heated rod to mold and extend the crystals into long, slender rods. He created four of them, and then he used the crystal to create four small circular disks that were each two inches deep. Once their basic shape was made, Saber bored into the disk-shaped objects and created a slot all the way through for a cylinder shaped object. He then notched the edges of the disks, allowing for the crystal rods to be connected to them.

The crystal frame would create a mana circuit of sorts and by generating enough power, mana would eventually flow out into the center of the square. By pumping enough inside, the mana fragments would create connections and would generate a field between one another. By tampering with the amount of power flowing into the fragments as well as the strength of the fragments themselves, Saber could control what sort of field they generated. The stronger fields would resist everything, while the weaker fields would resist smaller objects and materials. Because of its makeup, the mana field would also act like a magnet for the mana in the air, absorbing some of it and helping with the continuation of the field, depending on how strong the force generated was. If too much, all of the mana would be absorbed by the fragments so Saber would have to use some trial and error when making his setup.
With the frame made, Saber needed to form the power sources. He picked up his mana fragments and very carefully began to chisel out small cylinders out of the fragments. He broke them down into several pieces and then smoothed the shards into their necessary shape. The cylinders slipped into the corners of the crystal frame and acted like anchors in the field. For the first field, Saber used larger fragments in order to block out the heavier materials. As he went on from there, the fragments gradually shrunk down in size. Each box had two fields for a total number of eight throughout the system. But first, he wanted to try his luck… And it sort of worked.

To test the fields, Saber used his own mana and pumped it into one of the squares. The fragments in the corners illuminated and the crystal frame began to glow, the light getting brighter and brighter the more he pumped mana into the square. But then, something strange happened. After Saber injected a certain amount of mana, the crystals began to pulsate on their own. Saber cut off his connection and watched as the fragments began to generate their own power. The field sucked in energy from the air and slowly a blue hue began to fill the space within the square. Saber continued to watch and wait as the field became stronger until there was a constant shade of blue tinting his view. Saber leaned in close and blew on it. As he blew, Saber put his hand on the other side of the field. The air which left his lips was warm, but his hand only felt cold. It was working, somewhat but nonetheless, the air pressure had changed from one field to the next. To him, that was success. They would need to be tinkered with to get the correct field generation, but that would come in time.

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--Items Created--

Field Generators -- By harnessing the power of mana, a field can be created within a system to reflect specific materials, elements, or even solid objects depending on the strength of the field. The field itself is shaped by placing mana fragments into a crystallized shape and by forcing mana into the crystals. The shape and size of the field can be altered by creating a different shaped frame or by making a larger crystal frame. However, the mana fragments must be symmetrically placed in order to create the needed polarity. To generate the field, enough mana must be supplied to power the field initially. Once the ignition requirement is met, the field will build upon itself by absorbing mana from the air. The steady flow of mana through and into the system will cause the field to build up to its maximum efficiency and will be sustained for as long as the mana fragments last. Should one of the mana fragments break, die out, or should the crystal frame be damaged, the field strength may be weakened or completely shut off. This was researched by the Funeral Parlor.

[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

The next issue Saber moved to tackle was the drills; he needed them to move. The simple answer was to just make motors that would make them spin but Saber didn’t have those. The craftsman didn’t have the ability to create motors like a regular person could because of his game limitations. Instead he had mana and metal to rely on. With that in mind, Saber decided to develop something similar to a DC Motor but one that he could use as an Alchemist; a Mana Motor. Oh god that sounded stupid, but that was all Saber really had to go by so he rolled with it. Saber pulled open his menu and summoned forth several pieces of nickel and cobalt alloys that he had found when mining deep underneath Londinium. Initially Saber didn’t plan on taking them at all when he found them, as the need for magnets was close to zero. However he grabbed them anyways just in case, and now he was happy with his past self. If he hadn’t snagged them up, he would be running out to go get them.

“Safe.” Saber pulled out his chisel again and gently started to tap out blocks from the metals, creating chunks of the material that he would be able to put into a small object. Once he had the right sizes, Saber used mana to energize the electrical properties within the pieces. Eventually, the pieces began to attract one another. Just to ensure that they were actually magnetized, Saber did play with the metals a little. Okay, maybe a lot. He stood there like a little child, attaching the magnets to one another and then eventually walked around the forge, throwing the metals at other metals to see if they would stick. But, Saber eventually stopped. Why did he stop? Because one of the magnets slipped out of his hand and he accidentally ended up launching it across the library. It slapped against a bookshelf with a terrifying thud and the man quickly ran back to the anvil he was working on, as if to hide from the invisible eyes that would most like be staring at him.

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[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

“Not safe.” A light rumble escaped Saber’s throat as he dropped a small piece of iron into his forge. He allowed the metal to heat up and left it in the flames until it eventually reached its necessary temperature. Just as the metal began to glow a bright orange, Saber pulled it free and took it to the anvil. Quickly the blacksmith worked to mend the metal into a cylinder. Once he finished the basic shape, he closed one end of the cylinder and left the other open. Another piece of metal was tossed into the furnace and retrieved right after and this time, Saber created a metal shaft out of it. He took the shaft and shoved it through the core of the cylinder, mounting it directly in the center. The shaft stuck out of the closed end for a few inches and was thick, allowing a heavy object to be attached to it without any trouble.

The object took up the shell of a motor but now, he was going to use science to fill it. Inside the walls of the motor, Saber placed the various magnets around and locked them in place with metal braces to keep them from falling back out. For the shaft, Saber created a copper harness that would hold an additional group of magnets. These magnets would have their polarities initially set to attract their counterparts. However, once power would be applied, the polarities would shift and the magnets would be repelled. This repulsion would cause the shaft to spin, generating the needed power coming out of the motor. With that in mind, Saber attached the harness to the shaft and then carefully applied a hot coal to the attachment points, essentially welding the harness to the shaft. The magnets instantly locked with one another once they were slid into the space, causing the motor shaft to twitch. Saber gripped onto the end of the shaft and wrenched down on it, forcing the magnets to spin. As the magnets moved around, they stuck themselves to the others directly across from themselves. When Saber sent mana through the shaft, forcing the molecules to react, the shaft began to spin on its own. Though, Saber only sent energy through for a brief moment. Any longer and he would probably lose his hand or snap a bone.

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--Item Researched--

Mana Motor -- Based off the physical Direct Current Motor (DC Motor), this object harnesses a spinning motion to generate power. However, instead of using electricity and brushes. this motor uses mana and magnets. Inside of the motor several magnets are placed along the walls of the motor as well as on the shaft. Initially, these magnets are attracted to one another and attempt to stick together. Once mana is sent through the motor, the polarities are reversed and the magnets begin to repel. In doing so, the magnets on the shaft begin to swirl because of the opposing magnetic field, also causing the shaft itself to spin and generating the outgoing power. The more mana that is fed into the motor, the faster it will spin. This was developed by the Funeral Parlor.

[Saber]

Do you believe in ghosts?

FINALLY, WITH ALL OF HIS CRAP MADE… Saber had all of the tools he needed to finish off his initial project. But damn, it was becoming an annoying task that he didn’t really even want to do anymore. With the making of new things, he was growing tired and bored. Then again it was all his fault in the first place. Seriously, he was doing this all in one day rather than spacing it out and stuff. That probably would have been the smart decision. Space things out, take his time, and work out all the kinks but no that would have been too easy. He was going to do this and he was going to do this right now dammit.

So, he took his mana motor and used the crafting system to generate one for each of the other drills he had. He took the drills out from their slots and carefully carved into their bases, boring out a small central slot for the motor shaft to be injected. With the motor slot made, he heated up the base of the drills, bored out small holes, and forced a pin through them to create a sort of lock. He lined up a set of holes on the motor shafts as well, allowing Saber to lock the drills onto the shafts. By adding some mana, Saber ensured that the drills spun without flying off the ends of the motors. Satisfied, Saber pulled the pins out, placed the drills back into their slots, reinserted the motors to mount them, and then reset the pins to lock the pairing in place. He took the copper strands and coiled the strands around the motors, allowing for energy to flow into them so that they could be powered.

Once the motors were connected, Saber also ran a copper strand from the top of the box down into each of the four. Because of the way the system would be set up, Saber wouldn’t be able to key each of the field generators by hand. Instead he attached them to the main power supply at the top of the box. By doing this, Saber knew full well that a large power source was going to be required but thankfully, it would only be for the first run. After the first run, Saber was going to be able to make the machine almost completely self-contained. How? Well, Saber came up with another modification and began to work it through the machine. That modification was an overflow valve.

At the top of the collection cone at the bottom of the system, Saber banged out a hole and ran a copper pipe. He attached the pipe to a side basin just off to the side of the main cone and then ran wires from the inside of the basin up to the motors and the field generators. Saber attached a second pipe to the bottom of the cone and also ran it to the overflow basin, but he closed this pipe off with a valve. He closed the front door and aligned a small lever with the valve on the door. By flicking the lever, Saber would be able to open and close the valve without having to open the door. This system would take advantage of any extra mana left in the cone as well as keep the overflow from being wasted.

With the overflow valve built, Saber moved to the back of the main box and cut out two additional holes. While going through the process, Saber realized a major error in his creation. By placing only two exit valves in the system, Saber risked over-pressurizing the first and third cubes. To avoid this, he quickly connected two valved pipes to both cubes. He adjusted the valves to match the two estimated pressures and then moved on.

The final touch that Saber made to the system was a simple polishing job. He went through each section of the system with a careful eye and finally attached the pressure cubes together. With a file and a chisel, Saber smoothed out any imperfections in the copper tubes and also used a heated coal to melt the connections, sealing them shut so that they wouldn’t come apart. As a test, Saber used his own mana to key each of the cubes individually. As expected, the drills moved and the barriers began to light up, showing that they were preparing to start up. Saber went a bit further with his tests and did benchmarks on each cube, pumping as much of his mana as he could into each cube. The stress test on each was successful. None of the drills went flying off their motors and all of the fields activated accordingly. Satisfied, Saber quickly forged lids for each of the cubes and sealed them shut. He gave everything one more painstaking look over before he finally shut the door to the system and pulled out an oversized mana fragment. He filled it to its maximum capacity with mana and then inserted it into the holder.

Due to Saber not putting in any kind of on or off switch, the system started up automatically when the fragment was connected. Saber felt the ground rumble beneath his feet and he listened to the muffled sound of the drills working. The valve to the top left of the box didn’t open but with a glance, Saber could see that it was ready to tear itself right off the hinge. Saber waited an extra moment, giving the field generators inside his system a chance to turn on. After about twenty seconds of listening to the aggressive sound, Saber flipped the valve lever. The metal snapped open with a loud bang and nearly torqued itself right off as air rushed in. Saber winced a little and took a step back from the system. He looked down at the base to where the hole was and wiggled his nose. Nothing yet.

That was when he heard a loud bang. Immediately, Saber yanked the mana fragment from its holder, cutting the power instantly. Saber opened the door and looked inside to see that one of the boxes had been blown open; it was the third box. The Assassin rumbled and pried the box out of its place. It took some force but he was able to finally get it out. When he did, Saber immediately knew what had happened; inside the pressure had become too great and the box had essentially imploded on itself. Saber set the box down and pried off the top. Inside, the drill was fine but the field generators were shattered and the walls were bent inwards. Saber wiggled his nose again and then pull out the motor and drill. Swiftly, the Assassin tossed iron into the furnace and heated it up. When he pulled it free, he quickly molded it into another box just like the one that had been compressed. This time, however, he increased the thickness of the walls and made them sturdier. Saber also took the time to create a second box; a replacement for the fourth cube in the system. He removed the fourth cube, shifted its components from the old cube to the new cube, and then placed both the fourth cube and the third back into the system. After resealing the pipes and reconnecting all of the wires, Saber shut the door and tried again.

This time, however, the machine rumbled to life without sputtering once Saber placed the mana fragment back into its slot. The motors whistled and the drills performed their jobs well. When Saber opened the main valve, the metal still snapped open but it did so with a satisfying thud. Saber waited a few moments and listened for the familiar bang; it didn’t occur again. Saber moved to the back of the system and placed both of his hands carefully in front of the two air-release valves. The second pipe was already pushing the extra air out for a few moments before the valve closed shut. However the fourth cube’s pipe didn’t open. Saber heard a sloshing noise inside of the system and then suddenly, he heard a snap. Out from the pipe, air blasted into Saber’s hand. It was frozen cold and stung. The Assassin moved back and clutched his hand, staring at a small black spot in his skin as the game worked to remove the injury.

That was a pure blast of nitrogen. Saber wiggled his nose and walked around to the front of the system. That was when he also saw it; out from the tubes, a pure dark blue liquid dripped and seeped out. It took a minute for Saber to realize what it was and by then, it was a little late. Saber summoned forth an orb and then shoved it into the slot. The pure liquid mana was absorbed by the crystal and began to pool up in its core. The crystal started to glow brighter and brighter as the amount of mana increased more and more. Oncei t reached half way and didn’t seem to want to stop, Saber pulled out a second orb. Once the first was almost full, he switched them. Then, he switched the mana fragment at the top with the orb. The fragment was nearly drained due to its inefficiency but soon, the system began to run without tapping into the orb very often. As the second orb filled, Saber removed the power orb and then inserted a third empty container into the lower slot. The orb filled to the brim before Saber opened up the machine.

With it working the way he wanted to, Saber detached the copper pipes from the bottom of the cone and quickly valves to the bottom of the cone. He connected the valves to a single lever which would open all three of them at once and then reconnected the pipes. Pulling out a vial, Saber collected as much of the spilled mana into the glass object and then placed it on top of the machine once it was all clean. He placed a cork into the mouth of the vial to keep the mana from spilling out or from converting back into the air. He then closed the iron door, attached the level to the cone valves to the door, and then carried his three mana-filled orbs to his table. He walked back to the system, placed the vial into his pocket, and then lifted his mana conversion system off the floor. He carried it over to a table along the side of the library wall and then placed it down there. He snagged his orbs from the tbale, placed them beside the system, and finally sat down at the table.

“Son of a bitch…” Saber rumbled as he placed the mana-filled vial onto the table.

Now that, was a pain in the ass.

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Coded By Saber of L33T T3@M

--Item Researched--

Mana Compressor -- A four foot-by-four foot cubed system which converts mana in the air to a liquid form. The system uses a vacuum to pull in air from the outside and forces it down into a system of four cubes (each with an increased amount of pressure than the previous cube). Within each cube there are multiple layers of Field Generators, each tuned to restrict different particles from reaching the next cube. By doing this, impurities are filtered out of the air until finally only pure mana is left. In the fourth and final cube, the extremely high pressure causes the mana to liquify and gather at the bottom. The liquid mana flows into a pipe and down into a cone where it is forced through three pipes into a storage container. Should the cone overflow, the excess mana is drained into a connected basin. Once the cubes reach a certain pressure level, exhaust valves are forced open and the cubes are emptied of air to protect them from damage. When the low pressure returns, the valves close. The entire machine is powered by either a large mana fragment or by another mana source. When the excess basin reaches a certain level, it is possible for the system to be triggered and run simply off the mana inside. This system was theorized by Theodore Aktavion and was implemented by the Funeral Parlor.

Mana Orb -- A crystal orb that has been filled with purified mana. The object is strong but is extremely volatile. It can be used as a reserve fuel source for spells as well as a mana source for magitech.