*Congratulations on completing the first stage of hidden preparation for the future quest: 10,000 prime credits received*
*14,170 credits available*
He looked at the notification surprisingly. "What a surprise," he thought, as he did not expect to receive this unexpected reward from the system to place emphasis on technology. He smiled as he looked at the notification before he walked to the forging table.
"Time to forge a suitable armor and a suitable weapon for himself," he thought, as he saw the six pieces of dark ore he had already refined. The next thing was to shape them into their required form.
He started work and in the evening, he had already forged a full set of slim body armor that suited his body with six different holes in their body. He looked at the headpiece he had already forged but had not put into its place. The headpiece covered his head and the front of his face like a mask to his nose. It did not spread to his mouth but stopped at his nose, leaving his mouth and jaws unprotected. It had two earpieces by the side of his head and also holes for his eyes, but the holes would be imbued with special lenses.
He carried it to the dining room and took a magneto board he had already programmed before. He took it and inserted it into the hole he had created and put two special lenses that connected to the magneto board, which he had already forged, into the eye hole of the helmet. He then placed the dark helmet on his head.
"Little Snail," he called out.
"Yes, master," the robotic voice answered him.
"Check the structure integrity of this helmet," he asked, and within a second, a series of information appeared in his sight.
"A helmet imbued with nano-bio technology but incomplete."
"Good," he said, as he put down the helmet and went back to the forging room.
"It's time to complete the armor." He took out the circuit cores he had already forged before and inserted them into the holes on the armor.
After the six circuit cores had been fixed in, the surface of the metal flowed like water and it quickly closed around the circuit before glittering with dark light. He had imbued it with only two runes, the mana amplification rune and the defense amplifying rune, which showed that the armor only focused on two things, defense and extreme defense. If he input mana stone into it, or input his mana into it, the defense would be multiplied.
It is also not like the mecha that is large and cumbersome, this one is just two feet taller than him and also a little bit wider than him, so that people will not determine his real size. It also has wings folded on its back equipped with mana thrusters that will let him fly and also control his body in the air like a bird. The wings are also equipped with up to ten throwing knives which he can use his mental energy to control anytime.
"Armor, equip" he said, and the armor dislocated into parts that flew towards him and merged with his body. Very soon, a dark suit was equipped on him, the suit covered every part of his body to his neck except his palm.
That's the unique part of the armor, using Echo he can communicate with it and he will be equipped with it automatically and that's just one of the features of the nano technology. The nano technology he imbued into it allows the suit that's just forged from metals of over fifty kilograms just be like a normal cloth on his body.
That's where he will start working on in the future, he will own a tele-communication company and also armor company that utilize nano-technology. He engaged the wings that spread out to a span of one meter and rose into the air, he quickly rose to the ceiling and performed a series of movements in the air before he landed. He also performed a series of movements. It does not hinder his movement and it feels as if he is not wearing anything.
In the future, if something happened, it will be easier to escape. If he didn't have spatial teleportation last night, he might have been buried with the mecha. He soon unequipped the armor, he is not going out tonight because he needs to finish forging his weapons and also forge a glove for his palm.
He took out a piece of silvery iron weighing almost fifty kilograms and quickly performed refinement and extreme refinement on it before turning it into the weapon he would need. Within an hour, he had finished forging a three-meter-long and slim white sword. The sword does not have any peculiar design except its terrifyingly sharp blades and the three circuit cores embedded in the hilt of the sword which makes absorption and transferring of mana to every part of the sword easier.
The first circuit core enhances the sharpness of the sword ensuring that it can cut through most metals. The second circuit core enhances the durability of the sword and its recovery ability while the third circuit core allows it to be able to form sword aura - extremely sharp sword energy from mana.
After he finished the sword, he dropped it at one side and started forging another weapon. Within two hours, the weapon finally took shape. The weapon he forged now is a bow that is forged from one of the two meteoric gold he obtained.
The weapon is slightly golden with white striations all over its body. The white striations arose from him imbuing the circuit core of the weapon with the energy he extracted from one of the four one thousand year old natural plants he received - the Frozen Heart, which is known for its ice element.
Imbuing the circuit core with this gives the bow one function; it does not need any specialized arrow. With just water element in the air imbued with a little bit of mana, he will be able to form an extremely sharp arrow that can pierce through any metal. How sharp he wants the arrow to be will depend on how much mana he can imbue into the arrow.
If he uses all his mana at once, which is not even the limit of the weapon, he will be able to form an arrow that will be able to pierce into his mecha but won't reach the internal component, and the arrow can dissolve to form a cold mist on top of the mecha. Talking about human skin, if he can use all his mana, then he will be able to injure a rank 40 magico if he catches the latter unaware, but injuring them is easier said than done.
Apart from the fact that most of them are fifteen times stronger than an ordinary human, their body is not one of the terrifying aspects about them, but the amount of element they can control. It's said that breaking into a rank 30 magico allows an ordinary mage to be able to tap into more of their life palace elemental representation.
The more a mage breaks through, the more advanced their mental energy is required from them, and the more elemental awareness they get. A rank thirty magico's ability to communicate with a summon element in the atmosphere is far more than a rank twenty-nine mage's ability, and that's because the mental energy required for them to break through, which also deepens their elemental awareness in their mage palace.
He looked at the bow he had just forged and sighed, it's been almost two months, and he is already moving forward in this world little by little. From a small boy that was killed by his villagers and dumped into the ocean, he has transformed to one of the rare mages in the world and also a rare blacksmith.
With the status he has now, he doesn't need to worry about resources or money again, he will just forge a few metals and hundreds of millions of dollars will come knocking. He knows that all these things are just external, what system, what money, what talent, everything is just resources for him to enhance his strength.
Just a little bit of carelessness and he will die, leaving these things behind, he understood it first during his assassination attempt and the explosion the day before ingrained it into his memory. He's been living his life without much contact with humans, but starting from after he undergoes his second evolution and also breaks through to rank twenty, he will have to start planning because by then, he will have strength that is equal to a rank 50 magico.
At least he will have the strength to protect himself inside the city and the academy he is going to. As for outside the city, he needs to become a magico because that's when he can finally be able to start his battle armor and his mecha. With those two combined, at least a magus is required to make a move before he can be killed. Strength is what he needs now.
****************************************************** NOTE: Apart from mana, mental energy is also a barrier in breaking through. The mental energy is what allows the mage to be able to communicate with the elemental manifestation inside their life palace which in turns deepen their connection with the element. Mental energy rank and the stage required for them
1-500: None
501-5000: Psyche beginner and a psyche beginner of more than five hundred is required to break through to magico realm
5001-50000: Psyche Domain realm and its required to break through to magus realm
50001-500000: Psyche overlord and its required to break through to overlord realm
500001- ...…..: Soul and it will be known in later part of the novel
(End of chapter)
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