"… I think I heard moans of pain in the room where Kaneki is, did something happen?" Ryoko asked hesitantly, as if she was afraid of angering Lucian with her question.
"Just by treating him, the pain was caused merely by the overdose of vitality," Lucian explained. He had refined the blood just enough so that Kaneki would not be transformed into a demon, but the great and aggressive vitality was still fully present and spreading rampantly.
And such an amount of vitality ends up causing the uncontrolled division of cells, which in more fragile organisms causes cancer. In fact, Kaneki being half ghoul was the only thing that prevented him from ending up with a tumor.
'Although I didn't just put vitality into it, hehe…'
"Where are we going now, onii-chan?" Hinami expressed her doubts, uninterested in the topic of Kaneki.
"We're going to my beautiful residence, the Infinite Castle!" Lucian cleared his little companion's doubts, with his arms wide open, striking a pose extravagant enough to be worthy of the grandeur of his castle.
"Pfff Hahaha!" Both Hinami and Ryoko couldn't help but laugh as they saw this exuberant performance, "Is this 'infinite castle' big?"
"Yes, as the name suggests, it is infinite. You could walk your entire life without ever finding the 'end', it has corridors that are as long as hundreds of kilometers, others as short as one meter. And there are as many rooms as you can count," said Lucian, explaining the grandeur of the infinite castle in an easy-to-understand way.
This is how the infinity castle works, the more you try to move through it, the bigger it becomes.
It's similar to counting numbers – as long as you have enough determination, you will eventually come up with a gigantic result. Because just like N+1, for every room someone sees, a new one is created.
"… Is that even possible?" Seeing that Lucian wasn't joking, Hinami was perplexed at the possibility of such a thing existing, she may be young, but she still knows how things work.
"The laws of physics and common logic do not apply to demons." He smiled as he saw both of their expressions mixed with confusion and disbelief, 'I can't help it if expressions like that are so interesting…''
As they chatted as they walked, it didn't take them long to enter a dark, quiet alley.
"There! I think it will be a good place."
"An alley?" At this point, Ryoko even thought that she and her daughter were about to become a meal, 'After all, the ghoul world is cruel… the demon world too? But it's better to become food than to become a quinque…'
After all, she's learned to expect the worst from people... though she doesn't do it as well as she should.
"Yes, it's time for the 'magic' to happen," he replied and with a snap of his fingers, a sliding door made of wood appeared.
"Come on!" Lucian walked through the door.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Hinami and Ryoko also entered, instantly becoming amazed at what they saw – a sight that would only appear in their wildest dreams.
Buildings and objects that in themselves should be impossible – whether due to gravity, resistance of materials and the impossibility of humans or ghouls building something like that.
"It's amazing, right?" he asked them, all the while bragging about… the architecture?
"… You were right, demons cannot be judged by common logic." Ryoko continued to stare in wonder, her words revealing how shocked she was.
"In time you will get used to it. Nakime, prepare their rooms."
Receiving orders, Nakime simply nodded and with the sound of his biwa two doors appeared in front of them. Behind these doors were already furnished rooms.
Minimally decorated, but completely ready for use.
"Later I will grant access to the infinite castle and create a connection to your rooms, for now you just need to go in and start putting your things away," Lucian said, signaling that they could begin their tasks.
"Right!" Hinami and Ryoko nodded, before entering a door each.
"I'll let you handle the rest, I still have things to do in the normal world." Lucian delegated one last task to Nakime, before leaving the castle.
In the blink of an eye he appeared on top of a building, sitting down, he began to prepare for the operation he would do that night.
"Considering using '10BP' per demonic creation, my 1020BP would grant me at least 102 demonic creations… using nine hundred and ninety meters to avoid error in 'reception and transmission'… I think a thousand kilometers is enough for now." He calculated.
The difference between a demonic creation and a familiar lies mainly in the ability to act. A familiar is almost a living being, being able to move and execute simple commands.
While a demonic creation is an object, just like Devil No.1, they are incapable of receiving orders, only performing the limited functions for which they were created.
Thus, they are also much cheaper to manufacture and maintain precisely because they are completely inanimate.
"Although I will still have to put some family members in this system so that they can serve as 'operators'…", lamented Lucian, sad about the work he would still have to do.
"It's a good thing I've already designed the 'towers', now I just have to start my 'production line'."
After all, the hardest part is usually the designing part, just like a ship – it may be difficult to design the first one initially, but after that it is easy to create an entire fleet, as long as there are the necessary resources for it.
However, it is worth highlighting the growth in his powers since he came to this world, which was exactly twenty units of blood power.
"Considering my 90% absorption rate I would have to devour at least twenty-two humans, but in these few days that I only devoured a few humans and occasional ghouls I obtained this gain. In fact, the simple fact that the humans of this world possess RC cells ensures that the gain obtained from them is greater."
"One thousand and twenty, minus one, multiply by twenty, then add two hundred. A beautiful formula capable of measuring my strength, proven by myself, although many others cannot be as efficient in the relationship between BP and strength." Lucian calculated.
"20,580kg." [ (BP(which is 1020 in this case)-1)x20+200=20580 | you guys calculate in the future hahaha]
"That's a very good level of strength."
Of course, Lucian was still nowhere near satisfied, his goal was to become strong enough to oppose entire worlds alone, but that was still nothing more than a distant dream.
"Although when I become a 'dragon' I will definitely become a city-destroying danger. Now I'll stop stalling."
Then he positioned himself, bones mixed with muscles began to grow out of his back, twisting into a small, five-foot spiral tower.
A simple square base to keep it upright, a spiraling body in which several veins could be seen that every now and then glowed with a crimson hue and its tip seemed sharp enough to pierce the sky.
"I'm sure I'll use this for other things in the future." He nodded, appreciating the beauty of his creation. While it might be rare, there would undoubtedly be another occasion when transmitting signals over a long distance would be necessary.
"This is somewhat similar to Pain's black rods..."