While Ebraham was reminiscing about his previous world, his hands did not stop working.
Currently, Ebraham was working on refining the Mithril ores by utilizing a magical furnace equipment. Multiple Master-Level magic circles engraved inside the furnace produced a finely tuned heat which was perfect for refining Mithril.
The 10 Mithril ores placed inside the magical furnace equipment had already turned into a hovering blob of molten metal. To produce a perfect result, Ebraham used his Telekinesis in this process.
After a few more minutes, the hovering blob of molten metal was separated into several parts. The most eye-catching part was a glowing blue molten metal. This was the perfectly refined molten Mithril, absences of any residue. Other molten parts were the residues which were separated into their own elements.
Ebraham transferred the blob of molten Mithril into the vacuum chamber while storing the other extracted elements in a secured storage for future use.
The vacuum chamber was activated by an array of magic circles.
Controlling the molten Mithril inside the vacuum chamber, Ebraham processed it into branching threads of Mithril that were thinner than hair. Then, the Mithril threads weaved between each other, turning into a square Mithril Silk.
The Mithril Silk was smooth and supple as if it was not a metal at all.
At the same time, while the molten Mithril was processed into Mithril threads, Ebraham engraved granular magic runes on each part of the threads by a specific pattern. And by the time the Mithril Silk was completed, multiple layers and intersecting magic circles were assembled as a whole.
The ensemble of magic circles pigmented the Mithril Silk with a complex pattern. Even to the untrained eyes, the pattern looked beautiful yet profound.
After rechecking the magic circles, Ebraham charged the Mithril Silk with magical energy he transferred from a magic crystal. Gradually, the profound patterns on the Mithril Silk faded and the Mithril Silk turned pure white.
Ebraham gently laid the Mithril Silk on the counter.
However, the Mind Projection Screen was yet completed.
The part that he had completed was only the screen. He had yet worked on the console of the device.
In order to improve the accessibility of the original Mind Projection Screen and enable someone that had yet learn any magic technique like Alicia to use the Mind Projection Screen, Ebraham had separated the device into two main parts which were the screen and the console.
The screen enabled the user to control the console via physical touch, while the console enabled the user to store their own Mind Projection in the console's storage, and view the stored data using the screen.
Ebraham could use the holographic screen by magic technique to control the console which was much easier to be done than creating a physical screen, however, that would beat the purpose of Ebraham creating the Mind Projection Screen as the intended user, Alicia, could not even execute any magic technique.
To create the console, Ebraham had spent much longer time on it than the time he used to create the potion and the screen combined. After all, the console was the most important and delicate part of Mind Projection Screen.
By sunset, the console in the form of a watch was completed. Ebraham had carefully took his time to create this console as this was his first time attempting the modification. So, he spent an entire afternoon for this console alone.
"Finished?"
The fairies immediately swarmed the finished products on the table after seeing Ebraham cleaned up the used tools in the workshop.
"Yes. This is Yesterday's Memory Potion and these two are the set of Mind Projection Screen" Ebraham answered the fairies.
He was very satisfied by the fairies' behaviour of not disturbing him while he was working just as they had promised.
So, he explained to the fairies the functions of Mind Projection Screen and Yesterday's Memory Potion while he tidied the workshop.
After their curiosities were sated, the fairies when on their way, leaving Ebraham alone in the workshop.
Since his work there was done, Ebraham when to see Alicia.
He did not go to the ward that Alicia stayed at, but went to the indoor park instead.
While he was working on the console, seeing that it was almost time for dinner, Ebraham had sent an instruction to the maid automata telling her to prepare dinner at the dinning area of the indoor park.
It was inappropriate for him to always disturb the families' privacy by going to their room, so a certain line must be drawn.
While dining was the best occasion to interact with each other, the location it took place must also be appropriate. And the only appropriate place for that was the dining area of the indoor park.
After yesterday's lakeside feast had ended, Ebraham had decided to keep the dining area he built for that occasion intact so that it could be used in the future. Today it was used again and it seemed like the venue would be in frequent use from now on.
The dining area does not only consist of tables and chairs, it was also furnished with an open kitchen that enabled foods to be prepared and served directly to the table.
Attracted by the smells of cooking, Alicia who was strolling the park with her babies went to the open kitchen and helped the maid prepare dinner.
Although the maid automata could not communicate with Alicia, she allowed Alicia to help her since Ebraham, who perceived such scene had instructed her to do so.
In the actuality, Ebraham was oblivious to the reason why Alicia had rushed to meddle in dinner's preparation at the given chance.
To Ebraham who spent most of his life in a war-driven environment, daily food consumption was meant for fulfilling enough nutrition intake. While his daily diet was very nutritious, it could not be categorized as delicious.
Furthermore, since a delicious meal was a powerful mean of increasing soldiers' morals that should be strategically used in crucial times, the armies' dining facilities usually only kept the food at a bare minimum of the taste of food.
The effect was further amplified as the Empire's aim in cooking was to achieve the highest nutrition level in the processed food so that the soldiers would be energized with a simple meal. Although cooking process had evolved to more complex by time, the Empire had climbed a strange branch in its cooking evolution tree.
With the army's provision of the tasteless Fasting Potion, being able to taste food was already a blessing for the soldiers. Even Ebraham was not exceptional to this treatment. The times he had ate a truly delicious meal could be counted with one hand.
Dulled with the not so tasteful diet for more than a century, Ebraham's standard of food was very low and easily contended with any food he could eat.
Consequently, although the repertoire recorded in the maid automata were delicacies in Krudianheim and were already very delicious to Ebraham, it was barely palatable to Alicia.
It was not that Alicia was a picky foodie, rather, it was just Ebraham's standard and even the whole Krudianheim's standard of delicious food was very low.
Now that she was given a chance to cook her own food, Alicia would not let go of this chance and intended to continue doing so onwards.
In her previous world, Alicia lived in the medieval era, so she was unfamiliar with the advanced kitchen equipment that was available in the open kitchen.
Nonetheless, every human world used similar cooking tools at the basic level, so Alicia was familiar with the basic cooking tools available. The only tools she needed were a knife, a pot and a fireplace. All that was left to make a delicious meal were ingredients and her cooking skill.
Since the maid had finished baking the bread for dinner, she offered herself to look after the twins while Alicia was preparing the food, in which Alicia gladly accepted.
The maid also taught Alicia how to use the cooking stove.
Although the cooking stove was a magic tool, it could simply be controlled by a touch of button. Compared to the magic tools that experts used by controlling the magic circles, the cooking stove was a type of magic tool that was meant for common people. Even an automata could use it.
With her babies tended by the maid and a convenient tool like the cooking stove, Alicia easily started cooking dinner.
Unknown to Alicia, the maid's actions were not on her own initiative, but under Ebraham's order instead. It was not long until she found out that the maid was not a living person.
After some time, a ginger chicken soup was ready to be served, and Ebraham arrived just at that moment.
"Smells delicious" Ebraham said while walking over.
"Sir Ebraham… I'm sorry if I had overstepped my bound" Alicia apologized with a bow.
Alicia's elated feeling immediately doused after she realized what she had done. Although she wanted to eat more palatable food, she might have overstepped her boundaries as a guest by meddling the maid's work.
"Oh, it's okay. Use whatever and whenever you like. If you don't know how to use it, you can ask me or this maid" Ebraham just laughed it off after seeing how flustered Alicia was.
"Even the things in this park, you can use it if you want. There are a lot of useful ingredients in here. Also, there is no danger, I can guarantee that" he continued.
Alicia was relieved by seeing that Ebraham did not mind her action. She even gotten the permission to use the kitchen whenever she like. This would relieve her from eating the maid's cooking.
"Then, I'll be cooking more in the future" Alicia said with a smile.
Ebraham was also similarly happy due to the fact that Alicia had mostly recovered from her depressed spirit.
But when he tasted the ginger chicken soup that Alicia had cooked, Ebraham was momentarily stunned.
"Delicious!" Ebraham suddenly exclaimed.
In his opinion, the ginger chicken soup was very delicious. It could even rival his herbal roasted pheasant which was one of his prided recipes.
"With this kind of cooking, we will be having feast everyday" Ebraham truthfully stated his opinion.
"Haha. I'm flattered" Alicia chuckled at Ebraham reaction. It was as if he had never eaten a delicious food before.
But seeing the usually calm Ebraham became like that because of her cooking, Alicia felt like she made a small achievement.