Merlin stood up and snapped and his clothes changed once again back into the grey suit he wore previously. "Where we are currently is close to the school grounds and the door behind you will take you right to the auditorium where the entrance ceremony is going to be held though you may be a couple of days early for it. You are free to stay here until then, my library has a fully built training facility and the fridges are stocked as well. They should return in two to three days at most."
Merlin was walking towards a door in the opposite direction of the one he had told Regius would lead to the school grounds when he stopped
"Oh, I almost forgot! I watched the video of you in that lesser world from earlier and if I'm being honest as amazing a performance as that was don't you think you are biting off more than you can chew? The current you could be considered a Jack of all trades but a master of none if you want real growth in the short term maybe you should pick an area to specialize in."
With that Merlin walked through the door to who knows where Regius was left alone to ponder the words that Merlin had said as he exited. Regius had made his equipment to cover all possible situations that potentially made him weaker because he wasn't focused on a single aspect. Regius could evaluate it in time but for now, it was time to look at his spoils.
Regius spread his hands and strands began to form before him. His concept had not stopped throughout all of this and it had not even stopped when he was sitting here with Merlin. The space element had gathered and twisted itself into a thick silver strand and it was then that Regius noticed that this element was what he had replicated earlier through balance as well as the fusion of three elements.
He laid the strand back down for now as he looked at two more. One strand was a deep black symbolizing the dark mana that he had come into contact with twice now while the strand he had taken from Harry Heaton had an only black quality to it; the strand that came from Henry Zhang was much different in comparison. There were grey splotches that seemed to be spreading throughout the strand and at the same time, it had this putrid smell of rotten flesh that had made Regius sick to his stomach. Regius decided to tuck that strand away not knowing anything about it. It would be too dangerous to simply use it and anything else he acquired wasn't important enough to look at so he mixed the space strand into his armor giving it access to the space element.
He had no need to bind it to Stella Sanguis as with balance and the wide array of abilities that were opened to him he would be able to use the space element through a tri element fusion and for now, that was good enough. It would take him a while to replicate the space strands and apply them to the blade but he had time now. Regius sat on the floor and began to think back to what Merlin said as he started creating batteries to shove into his cell mana spaces.
If he focused on defense that would be a waste of time and talent and he had no interest in being some turtle shell that was just able to outlast people. He could focus on power and make it so that his attacks were too powerful for anyone to handle but what if he met a turtle shell that has some way of countering that. Regius was approaching the idea when he sighed loudly. Why was he sitting here pondering when he already knew his preferred way of fighting? It made no sense for him to act like there was another option after Merlin had pointed out his flaw.
The armor of the devil king floated out of his mana space and was suspended in the air in front of him but instead of one suit of armor, it came out as 4 distinct separate suits. The base form of the armor, the speed form of the armor, the defense form of the armor, and the final form the power form depicted by what looked like several arms that protruded from his back. The power form had allowed him to use several of his items at once but in the lesser world, he hadn't even used it. Regius looked at each of the forms in turn before hanging his head low. He had put so much time into all of these forms just for him to be abandoning them the moment he actually started his journey.
Regius grasped lightly and spoke out loud "Creation spell reconstruction." Regius made a pulling motion at every form other than the speed form and it became a storm of creation mana and strands as the forms broke down and he pulled out the mask of Owari and did the same leaving only the speed form for both as he then took all of the mana floating around the library as well as the strands and began to build it all into the speed form of the two pieces of equipment. He used the material from the defense form to reinforce the armor and to add friction resistance from moving at high speeds.
He took the materials from the power armor and reinforced the armor again overlapping the creation arms that came out of the back of the attack form so that his every swing would have the strength of four of his own arms combining their strength, and finally the basic forms ease of manipulating the elements to form the different boosts that the petal technique provided.
When he was done Regius took a single step back to inspect the armor. The longneck was no longer swirling gold letters but instead, gold lotus symbols seemed to drift down it. The lotus on the back of the haori had changed as well to look like it was several loti superimposed upon each other so it looked like many lotuses inside of one of a much greater size while a rainbow light radiated off of it spreading throughout the armor.
While the fool of Owari no longer held the visage of a snarling wolf but that of a snarling dragon. Regius had been more careful with that though his tracking spell was built into the helmet and he couldn't just be rid of it so he had taken the strand that composed that and twisted them into the nose of the menpo so the information would feedback there still allowing Regius tracking abilities to not falter they may just be a bit more difficult to read.
Regius took a single step back and looked at the armor as it collapsed onto him and equipped and Regius bolted around the room moving faster than he had ever before. Now that he was done with that and happy that the rest of the Empyrean items would not need changing he began to create batteries en masse using the spell he had devised called Mass creation. The quicker he was able to refill the cells the sooner he could go back to supercharging the empyrean creations Regius had to test what the space strand had done but saw no obvious effect, it wasn't until he went to put his hand in the pocket of his pants that were part of the armor when he realized that he had created spatial bracelets out of both of the pockets of the gear. Regius groaned aloud once again "That's it!"