Level Up Legacy Chapter 1387 Artifacts of the Future

1387  Artifacts of the Future

After his lunch with Diana, Arthur would return to the research facility and continue working on the spells. In order to prepare the world for the upcoming challenges, he needed to create enough spells for the public to use.

As long as knowledge became power, it would be hard to monopolize. Arthur planned on distributing these spells among the public once things got out of hand. In the current state of the world, that wouldn't be far from now.

Monsters have always been the biggest enemies of mankind. Their savage nature and desire to kill humans always made them humanity's biggest threat. Although calamities are even stronger and more sentient, most people would never meet one unless in catastrophes.

"Greetings, sir!" the researchers and runemasters bowed as Arthur entered the research facility.

"How was your lunch?" asked one of them, a runemaster with golden gla.s.ses. Arthur recognized him as a former runemaster of the Twilight Workshop, Roy.

"Great," Arthur answered with a smile. "Where is Koby?"

"Master Koby is attempting a new experiment inside the observation room," Roy answered while pulling out some files for Arthur. "Please wait, Guild Master. I want to take your opinion on something."

"What is it?" Arthur stopped with surprise. Roy handed him the files, and Arthur skimmed them, understanding the gist of what they were.

"Is this an artifact?"

Arthur was interested since the artifact looked like two plates of paper that deciphered spells and visualized them for the user. If a normal person could visualize the spell inside their own body, practicing the spells would be a lot faster.

"This is genius, but we are a little far behind. We have yet to perfect spells for people to use," Arthur said, but his eyes still studied the artifact. "If we want to make this a reality, we would have to make spells safe to practice. But there is still one glaring issue."

"What is it?" asked Roy with confusion.

Arthur looked around and found a whiteboard. He picked a marker and began drawing the artifact and the runes that would be needed to make it work. All runemasters inside the workshop abandoned their work to come and watch Arthur.

Everyone agreed that Arthur might not have as much experience in inscribing runes as they did, but he was a natural genius in deciphering and writing them. Each runic line was flawless and perfect, leaving the crowd in awe.

Arthur placed down the pen and turned to Roy, who stood speechless just the same. Most artifacts would need years of work before the runes would be decided upon. Each one would be handpicked from many in order to suit the overall function. Arthur did it with just a concept and a graph.

"The two plates would need to be inscribed with runes that can read the spells as we write them. In order to better utilize the spells, a three-dimensional visualization would be necessary. That is the first issue you would need to solve."

"Me?" muttered Roy with confusion.

"It is your work, after all. I'm just guiding you to the finish line," Arthur said with a grin. "The next issue would be mana. The entire purpose of spells is to let people without skills wield more power. I have written here the runes and the mana expenditure they would need. The artifact is still far from efficient."

"Can we choose more efficient runes?"

"I can, but no one else would be able to do it," Arthur said with a shake of his head. "This artifact should be ma.s.s-produced."

"We can supply it with mana stones," added another runemaster, a woman whom Arthur had met before. Her name was Alice Jenov, another runemaster from the Twilight Workshop. "That would solve the issue."

"And it would create a different one. What kind of citizen would have money to purchase mana stones?" asked Arthur with a smile. "As long as mana stones can be used to grow stronger, they will be a rare resource."

"I understand the shortcomings of this project now," said Roy with a sigh. "But I still believe we can work around them. There has to be a method to make this artifact a reality."

"There is," a voice answered from behind the crowd. Everyone turned to see a young lady with long blonde hair and graceful attire standing behind them.

"We can use technology."

Arthur stared at her with surprise and didn't answer. Julia had already told him the names of the workshops that wanted to join Runera and work with its runemasters, and the Twilight Workshop was the only one to disband in order to join the research facility of Runera.

Many runemasters joined Runera after it opened its gates to the world, but Arthur was still surprised to see Emma again. She wore a white lab coat and a pair of gla.s.ses that she had never used before.

"What do you mean by technology, Lady Emma?" Roy asked with confusion. They still addressed her with respect since Julia gave Emma a higher position in the research facility.

Emma answered by walking toward Arthur, pa.s.sing him, and picking the pen. She began singling out different runes from the artifact until only a few were left.

"The runes here, like scanning and deciphering, can be replaced with technology," Emma explained before she wrote a different name on the whiteboard.

"And this brings us to our new invention: Mana-Electric Batteries."

"Mana-Electric?" muttered Arthur with surprise. "Is it efficient?"

Usually, runes that created electricity required more mana. That's the reason lightning users were rare, like Ilia Perli or Amelia. There had been theories about converting mana to electricity, but it's still under development by Orlan.

"If we succeed in turning mana frequencies into electric current, we can create short circuits of mana that generate current for a long time. Of course, there would be some loss. But a single mana stone could supply enough current for this device for a lifetime."