Chapter 282 – Vehicle.
"…."
"Okay. I know that I left you alone for quiet long time." – said "Kid".
"I know that you had build this giant castle slash laboratory of yours and stuff and that the fact that you had yet to fully start operating at full power, since it does requite a lot of work still…."
"But tell me. Why the fuck are those three girls?" – asked "Kid" as he, Shadow Mask in her causal clothing and Phantasia stared at the underground garden that was inside Phantasia base where the three newly born doll person were playing and enjoying themselves.
"This is divinity. And the one that belongs to the goodness Akima…. Why do they have it?!"
"…. Em… Do you remember that I had some of the goodness Akima divine beast remains? And the fact that I also asked for some materials that are high compatible with fire and light elements, with you recommended the dragon materials?" – said Phantasia.
"…. Oh... Oh….. WAIT A FUKING MOMENT." – said "Kid".
"You are saying, that you were FUKING able to fuse these or…. Wait, did you fused or did you just… I don't know, give birth?"
"Give birth if I were to give an honest answer." – said Phantasia.
"This is "Their" divinity now. It was made part of them alongside the dragon parts and the divine beast parts."
"So, they are not exactly fused. They are now "Them" as one."
"…."
"You motherfucker. I knew that you were crazy…. But this?! Hell! Our researchers can't do stuff like this with homunculus!" – said "Kid".
"Well, these girls ARE based on the homunculus, but they are not pure homunculus." – said Phantasia.
"I can fuking see that." – said "Kid".
"For crying out loud…. What fucking else you got? Some sort of bomb that can destroy the whole kingdoms?"
"Unforuntly not." – said Phantasia.
"…."
"Anyway, I've gotten the report you had written, about the divine beast body parts. Is it true?" – asked "Kid".
"Yea. I was trying to somewhat restore power to these dead body parts in order to make them useful, but while I was at it, I managed to find something thanks to my research and my [Chaos Blacksmith] and [Researcher Of Craft And Magic], these body parts aren't exactly dead, but also aren't exactly alive as well."
"You could say they are in something like "false hydronation state"?"
"These parts are dead, but with enough energy, you can probably kick start these with enough energy and resurrect these birds…. But the funny thing is, that no matter how much of an holy energy I used, they never revived."
"…."
"Divinity." – said Shadow Mask.
"Yeb. Its seems to be the missing fragment of the puzzle." – replied Phantasia.
"You can just shove as much holy power as you want, but as soon as the divinity is added, something may happened."
"…."
"I understand. I will make sure that this informations remains hidden." – said "Kid".
"Anyway, I heard you finally finished making "that"." – said "Kid".
"Yeb. Thanatos is already playing around with it." – said Phantasia.
"Come." – said Phantasia before then walking with Shadow Mask and "Kid" though the castle laboratory base.
"…"
"This is already quiet big base…. And it's not finished?" – asked Shadow Mask while looking around and noticing an group of a golems moving stuff around.
"Nope. This base will only continue growing." – said Phantasia.
"It will be growing in size. Factories will be set up. Different kind of laboratories will be build."
"I will be making equipment, inventing stuff, conducting experiments and creating soldiers. Just as we discussed."
"…. Yes. Per our deal." – said "Kid".
Phantasia led the group though the base, before then finally opening an door and having the group find themselves in the large underground open space that literally had nothing inside of it.
*VROOOM*
"WOOOHOOOO!"
"…."
"So… Is this finished product?" – said surprised Shadow Mask.
"Yeb." – replied Phantasia.
"THANATOS! HEY! THANATOS!"
"!"
The mechanical sound could be heard coming closer before moments later an metallic object drove towards the group and stopped nearby.
The metallic objected turned out to be something akin to the motorcycle, but with much more protection, especially around the legs that had an special guard protecting them alongside like reinforced front and back with also special tires.
The person driving the motorcycle was non other than Thanatos who took off her helmet with an big smile.
"Damn you! This thing is way faster than the last one! Not only that, but it can also take some beating in case its bumps into something!" – said excited Thanatos.
"Well, I kind of needed to add more protection, since the last prototype you drove kind of BLEW UP!" – said Phantasia.
"H-hey! I didn't knew that it was that delicate!" – said Thanatos.
"I FUKING SAID THAT YOU CAN'T DRIVE FAST!" – said Phantasia.
*Sigh*
"…."
"Still, the speed up and the protections are working, right? Did you hit the stuff I asked you to?" – asked Phantasia.
"Yeb. I intentionally caused some accidents like you said, but this thing is still in the perfect shape." – said Thanatos.
"It's also can ride way faster than before!"
"Still, did you changed seats?"
"Yeb. Is it bad?" – asked Phantasia.
"It is pretty annoying, you need to change them, or maybe add some adjustment option or something, it really need to be worked on." – said Thanatos.
"Got it." – said Phantasia while taking out his notebook and while he was doing that, both Elizabeth and "kid" approached the vehicle and began inspecting it.
"So, is this the motorcycle?" – asked interested Elizabeth.
"Yeb!" – replied smug looking Thanatos.
"…."
"So it runs on something?" – asked "Kid".
"What is the fuel of this thing?"
"Oh, that…. What was it again?" – asked Thanatos.
"…I fuking…. Wait, you weren't listening at all when I was explaining the stuff and instead you glued yours eyes to this thing?" – asked annoyed Phantasia.
"…. No?" – replied Thanatos while trying to avoided eye contact.
"…."
*Sigh*
"Anyway, let me explain." – said Phantasia before taking out some tools and began dismasting the bike, revealing an weird like device inside of it.
"This is an special mana engine I had came up with, its called Charge And Discharge Mana engine, or just CDM engine."
"This engine uses the mechanical works and its partially based on the magic guns, even though this engine and the magic guns are completely different things."
"Anyway, this engine has an special effect of charging and discharging mana, absorbing the shot out mana while also launching it, causing the mana to move and spin around, resulting in the generation of an energy that is able to move this thing around."
"The engine itself is very special. Most of it is made out of special mana steal that I can created used alchemy and blacksmithing, fusing together metals and magic crystals."
"The magic guns don't need mages to be operational…. But what about this thing?" – asked Elizabeth while checking engine.
"Yes and no." – said Phantasia.
"The engine CAN work like the magic gun, meaning that you can power it up with your mana without being an mage, but in case you don't have enough mana, you can give the bike somebody else mana."
"I'm also working on the special mana containing tank that will be attached to the engine, meaning that you can just fill it up before hand and don't have to worry about filling up while ridding it or when you don't have any mana."
"…."
"Fascinating." – said "Kid" with his eyes wide opened.
"I saw something similar in the dwarf kingdom, but their run on the special mana infused lava."
"But your inventions is same, but also completely different from theirs."
"In fact, yours is far better than theirs, since you don't need their lava in order to operate it!"
"…."
"Can this thing be attached to mechanical monsters like golems or for example factories machines?"
"…."
"Yes." – said Phantasia.
"However, the problem is that if you want it to work for something else, you need to change up a LOT of things."
"Its still being tested for stuff like an automatic factory and honestly I don't even know if it will be worth or not, but still, I'm testing and experimenting."
"But once I have somewhat…. "Useful" data, I will consider selling it to you."
"…."
"Heh. I'm looking forward to it!" – said "Kid" while malicious smile.
"…. Anyway, about the whole bike. Is this finished product?"
"Well, it still need some work, but as you could see just moments ago, it was working pretty well." – said Phantasia before approaching the bike and starting to put it back together while also repairing some minor damage on the surface.
"Still, at the current pace, the final blueprint will be finished and then we can also start on variant and possible other vehicles."
"…."
"Can I…. Can I ride it?!" – asked interested Elizabeth.
"…. Yea, sure. Thanatos. Mind helping her out!" – said excited Thanatos before then walking away with Elizabeth and the bike.
"…"
"Honest question." – said "Kid".
"Do you need to be some sort of extra specialist to create these things?"
"No and yes." – replied Phantasia.
"No. Because you don't need to be [Golem Maker] in order to create these…. But yes, since the engines are very hard to make. Even this prototype engine I showed to you IS quiet hard to make."
"…."
"Can they be mass produced and how fast they can go?" – asked "Kid".
"Pretty fast. If I increase power even more, then even trained horse won't be able to catch up. However, I still need to finish this thing up like said before." – replied Phantasia.
"As for the mass production. The main problem would be the people specializes in the alchemy and blacksmithing, an people that can handle both of these things at the same time and the second problem being access to the magic crystals or magic gems."
"We can go with an cheaper materials, but it would definitely affect multiple performances, but you would be able to mass produce them somewhat."
"However, the bikes also has some downsides compare to things like living mounts such as horse, so there is a lot to consider."
"Still, I think they will be worth it and as I continue this research… Maybe I will find out something more "Interesting"."
"…"
"Heh…. Hehehehe."
"Oh, this will be fun!" – said "Kid".
"Don't disappoint me after getting me so excited!"
"Oh, don't worry." – said Phantasia.
"I won't."