Chapter 419: 419
Currently, Draco was only a little bit off from the Expert Rank of Magical Engineering . It had taken him about 60 days, but he was now just 31% off from entering the Expert Rank in Magical Engineering .
Even for Common Tradeskills, this was unbelievable . To climb one whole Rank in just 2 months for an Epic Tradeskill was unheard of, even for the residents of this Treasury .
The reason Draco could do so was compounded . Being a Control master, the availability of top-tier resources in the treasury, his high State of Being, the Ultima Sunt's Pinnacle Intelligence passive skill, and obviously his reliance on the Enlightenment potions .
Even though the potion's effects only lasted one hour with each consumption, Draco had set many of them up for auto-crafting in the past few days . Of course, he didn't and couldn't afford to drink them like water .
In fact, Draco was considering trying his hand on a Legendary variant that should have a higher increase rate coupled with a longer duration, but that was for later . Right now, his goal was to smash into the Expert Rank of Magical Engineering with a bang .
Draco got the materials for the Basic Knowledge Compression Device ready . However, instead of a typical core device made of Maether to act as the central processing unit, Draco used a scale from his Dragon Form to craft it .
Not only that, he changed the central storage unit from a cylindrical metal tube that used an empty medium-grade Aether Crystal to a fully-charged top-grade Aether Crystal .
He also engraved it with runes just like he did for his Advanced Spatial Creation Device, dictating how it should generate and store energy . Instead of a typical computer relying on AC power to stay on, he was making something like a laptop that had a suitable battery .
As for the issue with the data storage, he was not savvy enough to solve that yet . That's why he had to rely on a roundabout trick to reach his goal and hope it succeeded .
Draco was done in under 30 minutes with his new craft . Assembled, it looked like a military-grade laptop, only much uglier due to the materials used to compensate for modern tech .
Draco took a deep breath and waited, but nothing happened . Then, Sofia came into view . She normally left Draco alone since he used Magical Engineering a lot nowadays and he needed to focus, but she was compelled to this time .
"As I told you the other time you tried something like this, you have unwisely tweaked many features of a very dangerous device, so you will have to activate it for its effects to be seen . " Sofia reminded in her robotic voice, though Draco heard a tone of rebuke in it .
Since this was the exact same message she had uttered last time he did this, Draco was doubly reassured that success was smiling upon him . He walked over to the completed device and switched it on .
It was exactly because he was distracted by thoughts of grandeur and ideas for a catchy name for the device that Draco mounted no defense when the megaton explosion occurred .
BOOM!
The whole super mini small world shook like it was about to collapse . Tress got destroyed and a huge crater appeared with the epicenter being the location where the new device had formerly been .
Draco had been sent flying, smashing through many a tree until he reached the edge of the super mini small world, where he crashed against the 'barrier' that formed its edge and was subsequently blasted back into the ground, digging a long trench in it with his body .
In this devastated super mini small world, only two things remained intact, Pair Dadeni and Mjolnir . They were protected by the system as Auto-Crafts and Batch-Crafts could not be disturbed by any stimulus except the directives made through the Grandmaster Menu pertaining to it .
Draco slowly dragged his body out from the grave of sand he himself had dug, his armor cracked in various places and his face pale beyond belief . He spat out blood that coated his teeth and chest .
His bones were twisted in some places and one of his eyes had been destroyed . Truthfully, he should not have been alive after eating a country-destroying level explosion point blank with no defenses, and then crashing through so many things, rebounding off a wall at full force, then crashing through the earth a little more .
As one could imagine, the only thing that could have saved him was…
「System to Player Announcement
You have entered an invincible state for 1 minute . 」
Yes, the new Divine Seal of Camelot had bailed the suicidal lunatic from certain death… possibly even deletion given the scale of this explosion . Without it, Draco would have turned to ashes in one hit, not be blasted to some corner .
Dragging his broken body up . He took out an Angel's Kiss potion and drank it, watching as his body patched itself together and his numerous debuffs left one by one .
Sighing with remorse, Draco realized that he had become too conceited . Thinking back, it was luck that he had succeeded the first time, so why did he provoke fate and try something even more outrageous?
If it had been Blacksmithing, Alchemy, or Enchanting, it would have been possible if he tried to do something like this, but Magical Engineering? Who the hell did he think he was, Boundless' Leonardo Da Vinci?
Rising from the ditch, he walked over to the area where Pair Dadeni and Mjolnir were, still working on their tasks as if nothing else that happened had anything to do with them .
Draco was certain that if the tools had mouths, they would be snickering and muttering for months about how stupid he was, but lucky he was spared that due to circumstances .
Face going black from shame, he quickly used his State of Being to reset the super mini small world back to its original state . In a few seconds, it looked brand new, no longer as if a nuke had just been dropped .
Draco sighed and checked to see that he had, as a matter of fact, broken into the Expert Rank, now at level 41, 2% . It seemed even his catastrophic failure had touched the AI's heart and made it decide to give him a small consolation prize .
This made him feel simultaneously relieved and frustrated, but he stifled it down . He simply checked what new designs had come with his Rank upgrade .
「Advanced Personnel Identification Device – Design
Rank: Rare
Effect: Learn how to craft the Advanced Personnel Identification Device .
Price: 57 Medium-Grade Aether Crystals」
「Advanced Area Cloaking Device – Design
Rank: Rare
Effect: Learn how to craft the Basic Area Cloaking Device .
Price: 69 Medium-Grade Aether Crystals」
「Basic Bestial Automaton Device – Design
Rank: Rare
Effect: Learn how to craft the Basic Area Monitoring Device .
Price: 1 High-Grade Aether Crystal」
「Master Mana Conversion Device – Design
Rank: Rare
Effect: Learn how to craft the Master Mana Conversion Device .
Price: 3 High-Grade Aether Crystals」
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