Leon's actions left the genie of the artifact in horror because it had assumed that he would use it for some sort of unimaginative fashion like it's previous to wielders , only for him to ask for a material that he had no business even knowing about. the worse part was that as a being of pure creation the genie also had the knowledge of what leon could possibly use the stuff for which is where it's horror came from. a house key sized piece of this stuff weighed nearly half a million tons on remnant while leon summoned an entire brick of the stuff.
This meant that this single brick weighed about ninety million tons the moment it was exposed to remnants gravity. leon had expected this however and flipped a switch on the wall that sent out a pulse throughout the room. literally everything not nailed down immediately began to float in the air as leon had effectively cut off gravity to this area. before anything could start floating towards the dwarf star metal because it no had the greatest attractive force in the area leon quickly sealed the brick in an isolation box with it's own gravity nullifier inside it.
Flipping the switch again everything floating crashed down onto the floor making a bit of a mess but leon didn't mind. after that leon began to abuse the hell out of the artifact of creation by spawning in frankly insane materials and even special predatory animals that hunted grim as their main food source. the god of light was really starting to regret not putting restrictions on what the artifact of creation could make being imagination and knowledge. even though leon stopped using the artifact after creating the new species of "grim eaters" he had still basically made the greatest threat to humanity a joke now.
This new species would constantly be pushing the grim back in addition to the work that the hunters already do. This effectively meant that humanity will immediately gain a huge amount of breathing room the moment leon released this new species. "watch , he's going to kill off those creatures in just a moment." alex said after seeing the look on the others faces. "why would he make them then?" yang asked confused. "because he knows we're watching him and he decided to fuck with us" alex said with a chuckle as just as he expected leon snapped the two new animals necks immediately.
"Actually killing off his own source of growth like that might help humanity but his goal will always come first so he has no intention of truly erasing the grim." alex explained calmly. "a rather audacious mortal isn't he?" freya said in amusement. she had seen plenty of mortals in her time but those who spite the gods , especially when they know they are being watched by them were an extremely rare commodity. in most cases it could actually be considered downright foolish of the individual in question but in this case leon is clearly aware of what lines he can and cannot cross.
Leon didn't waste the corpses of the two animals however as he disected them to learn how they consumed the grim they would have eaten. the answer was in the form of a small gland located next to their saliva glands that produced a substance that mixed with the saliva to break down the goo that filled grim into something edible for them. leon basically just gained the formula for a poison that would actually work on grim in exchange for the free labor of the genie of the artifact.
The best part was that thanks to the nature of the poison being organic leon simply needed to break down it's chemical composition to replicate it. he would never USE the stuff but it would sell like hot cakes to the militaries and hunters. a single bullet laced with this stuff could effectively cause any grim shot with it to break down from destabilization. against hordes where the number of grim is the biggest problem this was a game changer as people would need to waste far fewer resources to quickly deal with the threat.
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