Ben trains and does his jobs as usual after he finishes the prototypes. The designs that he made become hot commodities. After he gets the patent, many companies must've wanted to make contracts for the production of these machines.
Considering the use of lacrima crystals rather than mage's magic power, the new models can be sold to normal people. This means they will have a bigger market rather than just selling magic vehicles to mages. A bigger market means more profit too, so many companies will compete to gain the right to produce the vehicles.
However, Ben himself isn't bothered by that at all. He doesn't really care about money now because he knows power is more important in this world. If this were his past life, he would flip over in excitement, but now, power matters more to him.
Ben is fine as long as he has enough money to do and buy what he wants. Automotive is his hobby, so he will do it when he wants, but power is his need. This is a dangerous world, so he needs to get stronger while enjoying his life too.
This car project is one thing that he wants to do to enjoy his life. He has a dream car but never had the chance to build it. Now he will build that car using his own hands. And this car even uses magic, which is every boy's dream.
The next Sunday, Ben finally receives the patent. It takes a week for Roubaul's friends to finish the procedure. The patent will last for 20 years, so it's long enough for him to gain a lot of wealth.
'Hmm, it's the same as the average patent on Earth, 20 years.' - Ben
Then surprisingly, the first to want to make a contract with Ben is the Magic Council & the Kingdom of Fiore itself. Ben just leaves it to Roubaul's friends because he's not good with something like this. He will be satisfied as long as he can get the materials to build his own car.
A week later, Ben gets a bank account filled with money from the contract. There is 1 billion Jewel in it, that's a lot of money. All of it was just from the contract with the Magic Council and the Kingdom. He will still get more from the selling percentage, but that's not a problem that Ben wants to dwell into.
"It's strange for me to not have a big reaction after seeing such an amount of money. I guess with my priority changed, it makes me can't see money to be that valuable, huh? No matter how much money that I have, it can't buy a life. If it can, I will get as much money as possible to buy my family's life back." - Ben
Ben laments while looking at his overfilled bank account that seems useless to him. Bella, who lays on his head, pats him with her paws.
"I know, girl, there's no use to think about that now. I need to think about more useful things, right? Like these blocks of steel." - Ben
In front of Ben is a big stack of steel blocks. Roubaul's mysterious friends have sent the bank account together with these blocks. There are some blacksmithing tools too for him to process the steel blocks. As for how to heat it, he will do it with his hands rather than a furnace.
Ben never met these mysterious friends at all. Roubaul also never introduced them to him, and he didn't want to force it. It's not like he really needs to know them. As long as they don't have bad intentions and really help him & his guild, then that's enough.
Ben then starts to process the blocks of steel following his blueprint. Of course, he'll make the engine first to test it. He will build it slowly, without rushing anything. Besides, he'll just work at it on Sunday or his free time, so he can't rush it anyway.
Ben builds his car while training and doing missions like usual. Bella will always stay with him and help him take some tools like an assistant. Wendy & Carla also often come to watch him build his car.
There's also a shocking thing that happens in this period. Three weeks after she was born, Carla starts to talk. Then one week later, Bella also starts to talk. Carla usually talks in a complete sentence, but Bella just talks word by word, not really a sentence.
"Ben. Milk!" - Bella grabs Ben's feet when he's training in the cave
"You can take it yourself, Bella. Isn't that what you usually do?" - Ben
"Cold." - Bella said while shaking her head
"It's cold? You want me to warm it up?" - Ben asks, and Bella nods
"Alright, alright, princess." - Ben
"Princess!" - Bella is happy by how Ben calls her
Bella really likes to be called Princess since Ben told the girls about the story of some Princess stories that he knows. The three really like them and often play about it. They play-act following the story that Ben told them, and they even show it to the guild members at dinner, amusing everyone.
Ben continues his training and keeps pushing his limit. Ben always pushes his limit every time he trains. He always likes the growth that he gains after pushing his limit and surpassing it. Because of that, Ben grows a lot stronger than 4 months ago when he started to train in the cave.
Ben's stats 4 months ago:
[Name: Ben Cooper
Age: 11
Status: Alive
MP: 1547/9832
STR: 40
AGI: 34
STA: 41
INT: 37]
Current stats:
[Name: Ben Cooper
Age: 11
Status: Alive
MP: 271/18,729
STR: 57
AGI: 52
STA: 58
INT: 69]
Ben's overall growth is very fast, a lot faster than last year. However, the fastest stat to grow is his INT because he keeps receiving the knowledge from Roubaul's book of magic that the A.I Chip has stored.
His rapid growth scared even Roubaul, and it makes the old man worried. Roubaul worried that Ben's body won't be able to hold his rapid growth. Ben grows more in these 4 months than the previous 1 year. He is growing 3 or 4 times faster, so Roubaul has the right to be worried.
Roubaul's biggest worry is dragon slayer's trait after they become too strong, Dragonization. Ben's rapid growth that seems to be getting faster makes Roubaul worried that Ben will turn into a dragon before he even becomes too strong.
But Ben can ease Roubaul's worry by saying that his 'Dragon' who gave him the magic has created a countermeasure for Dragonization. Ben didn't know if he will turn into a dragon or not in the future, but he needs to ease the old man now. Besides, A.I Chip will warn him if something strange happens to his body.
Eight months later...
It's been 8 months since Ben started his car project, so it's 12 months or 1 year since his intense training. He worked on his car every Sunday, while training & doing jobs on the other days. And finally, today he finished his dream car after 8 months.
Ben's dream car is based on a Crush
Gear, Garuda Phoenix. But of course, he has made many changes to it. There's no way he'll have a Crush Gear with all its weapons to run on the road with many people around.
The most obvious changes are that it doesn't have any weapons, be it in front, sides, and rear. At least that's what's visible because those weapons are hidden. He places some spells that will release the weapons that have the same design as the real thing. He even adds some new weapons using his own spells.
As for the color, he changes the base blue-silver color into red-black color, with golden linings. Of course, he also made windows, doors, mirrors, and other parts of cars. The Garuda Phoenix is just the base design, so he didn't make one.
"Finally, it's finished, and it's right at the time for my first mission outside." - Ben
It's been 2 years since he arrived in this world, so he is 12 years old now. That means Roubaul will let him take outside jobs with Wendy & their cats. So his car really finished at the right time.
"World, here I come." - Ben grins