Sam observed the spirit stone powder in his hands while injecting the high amounts of spiritual energy.
After a few seconds, he felt the powder grains started forming bonds again and an irregular solid structure formed in his hand.
Sam was completely astonished as he stopped his spiritual energy and looked at the solid structure.
The structure is completely irregular and it isn"t even like a crystal when it was in its initial used up spirit stone form.
While he was observing the structure, suddenly it collapsed again and turned back to its powder form. He didn"t understand the reason at all and continuously conducted the experiments.
He tried to use the core of the stone along with it and he tried to make the structure better by controlling the powder neatly and he discovered something new.
His control over moulding the spirit stone powder is just like his control over moulding the spiritual energy. He was able to make all kinds of shapes with enough concentration.
With this, he used the core and started building the structure just like a normal spirit stone but he didn"t create any energy veins and injected his spiritual energy into the core.
But the result was same as before, it only sustained for a few seconds and collapsed.
Sam finally felt that he has an inkling to get this working, that is not because he got new ideas but rather, he found that there is something that he missed and that is making the energy channels.
He sat down and completely focused his attention and started making the structure again, but this time he didn"t make exactly like a spirit stone and he did the whole process he continuously injected the spiritual energy to keep on solidifying it as fast as possible.
Because, the energy veins might collapse if he delays it. Sam started the process and kept going on. After the construction is complete, he injected the spiritual energy.
This time the structure did sustain for some more time, but it still collapsed in the end.
Sam stayed in the tower for more than twenty days inside the tower and outside two days has pa.s.sed.
He conducted the experiments on and off to know how to make something out of it and he wasn"t able to make much progress.
Outside, Watt is still in the process of improving himself to pa.s.s the second phase of training. These two days, he stayed in the woods continuously training and his cultivation is also improving due to this. He is on verge of making a breakthrough to the level 2 Acolyte.
But the ability to control his attack properly is still far away. He wanted to ask Sam for some tips but the latter didn"t even come out of his room for the past two days. So, he is thinking of ways to himself while waiting for him.
Watt isn"t the only person who is thinking about Sam. There are some more people who are curious about him and they are none other than Jack, Philip and Kelly. Even Hawk was a bit curious. Out of four people Jack and Philip were even more anxious.
Because, they both know how vengeful Sam can get and they didn"t think that was the most of it. When they thought of the menacing expression he gave on that day and the ways he used to take revenge on his enemies, they were thinking what the other party is going to do to the people from the Marquis city.
Jack is in his room; he is meditating with the black meteorite sword in his hands. These days he is spending most of his time with his sword. He wants to build a relation with his sword and make it nurture its spirit.
A weapon with a spirit is a lot more powerful than normal weapons of the same rank.
Philip knocked the door and entered before asking.
"Should we go in and take a look?"
"I think it is better if we don"t. If we disturb what he is doing, we might have to bear the brunt of his rage. You do know how horrible it can get right?" Jack immediately declined.
"I guess you are right. But what do you think he is doing?" Philip also thought that and said.
This time Jack didn"t reply and just shrugged. But he was also curious to know what Sam is working on. Because, he clearly knew what Sam is capable of creating. His poison liquor grenades are so useful in sneak attacks that he was able to take down a Great mage and four Peak level Novices along with a bunch of other Novices all by himself.
Even though, he used the shadow mice, they are his pets and technically it is also his battle prowess.
Kelly is also waiting for Sam to come out. She is lucky that night because she is spending her time at her uncle"s place and Hawk is with his father. Otherwise, who knows what Zeke might have done.
While all the people are waiting for Sam to come out, the said person is busy inside the tower.
Days pa.s.sed outside and more than ten days went on. Watt is still trying.
Sam is sitting cross-legged inside the tower and he is looking at the formation he made in front of him. There is a book in his hands and there are more than three books similar to this beside him.
Sam took out the brush and wrote in the open book in his hands.
[ Experiment number 256 – Energy Cell
Structural arrangement of the spirit stone powder and energy cores model number 120
Creating the crystal structure – success
Placement of the stone cores – success
Creation of the Energy veins for internal circulation – success
Creation of the Energy veins to the atmosphere – success
Injection of energy – success
Formation set up – success
Self-sustained time – forty-eight days and still counting.]
Sam was finally able to get something out of this.
His first success was when he was able to make the created structure self-sustaining just like a spirit stone at his 100th experiment. Until then what ever he did was a failure.
The method is actually simple, but it is more time consuming.
After Sam made the structure, all he has to do was to inject the spirit stone completely and make a formation of spiritual energy. This formation continuously directs the spiritual energy to the structure and make it crystallize.
This process is almost automatic, the stone will only crystallize only after the long- term exposure of spiritual energy.
After the initial success, Sam got greedy. Even though the spiritual energy to create a structure is more time consuming and the energy required is slightly a little higher, there is a very big advantage in this.
He can make the energy veins which deviate the energy outside to the atmosphere. And he can control the output of the energy as he wished. This might not be useful if it is made of normal neutral spirit stones, but if he made use of the elemental stones and particularly with the elements he can control and have access to, he can have many uses.
And one of the uses, he got is from his 120th experiment.
In that experiment he made a crystal structure with the wind element stones. He used a single core and made a normal structure which is almost in same size of the spirit stone.
When he directed the energy out of the veins and converted it to the wind, and when he tried to manipulate the wind flow, pressure, and speed, he was surprised so much that he immediately got an idea and the Silver meteorite sand in his hands is suitable for it.
That is the reason he kept on conducting the experiments and the crystal structure he is testing now has more than ten cores. It is in the shape of an ice hockey puck. But the size is slightly different.
It is also a bit concave in nature. It is more like a section of a hemisphere. And it is also made of the wind element one. If this one succeeds, his idea will success mostly.
Sam named this energy crystal structures as energy cells and he is going to use them just like battery cells. They can be used and reused. And that is one of the most important features needed for his next project.
After another two days, the test on the cell is completed and he took it out to inspect it. After confirming that everything is alright with it, Sam wrote a big success on the notebook and closed it.
He immediately got to work to create another in sh.e.l.l in same size. This is the last cell required for the next project. After this one the other requirement for the project is to just make the forging of the metal. If he succeeds in this project, Sam not only would have a transport gadget in the streets and he didn"t have to walk.
Yes, the main concern is always to satisfy his vanity. He is tired of walking inside the city and streets. This made him sick and frustrated.
The second thing is he can also use it as a weapon in a group battle and hunts.
So, he is pretty much excited to finish this. And after this is finished, he has to start his journey ahead of the team. He has to go to the Marquis city as soon as possible. After all, if the debt isn"t collected in time the interest he wants to collect will be more and if his new found friends see him like that, they will not dare to stay near him.
They would even feel his legs shaking when they stood near him. Even though, he was pretty much a loner in his previous life, he wants to fulfil wish of Stella in this life. She always nagged him about getting some friends which he wasn"t fond of. But he wanted to give that life a try and he didn"t want to lose it now.
After setting up for the next energy cell, Sam came out of the tower for the first time after ten days, but he didn"t talk to anyone and immediately went to the woods. For, next process, he needs some wooden logs.
After a day of search, he finally found some quality wood from the trees named, Black Wood tree. This is very high-level from the Starwood tree and that is not even the main reason. The main reason is that it is highly heat resistant.
The resistance to the heat is very high that not even the heat required to make the highest- grade rank 3 metal will not even burn it. At most, it can just scorch the outer-most layer a little bit.
Sam started cutting the largest of the trees with wind blades and after getting two long cylindrical logs with more than a foot diameter and took them back to the mansion. As soon as he entered the room, he went into the tower.
The first thing he did was to make the surface of tree smooth.
After that he took out the silver meteorite sand and went to the cauldron. The Silver meteorite sand was at rank 3 now.
But it is not in the level where he cannot melt it.
Sam quickly made a mould and started melting the silver meteorite sand, He used up five cubes of the silver meteorite sand. A lot of pre-laid formations activated as started his fire, Sam didn"t want to exhaust his energy reserves that easily, so he made a formation which will constantly supply the spiritual energy to him and he made use of this energy to make the fire.
After more than five hours the sand finally became molten and he poured the metal inside the mould.
The mould is actually most simple one. All he is making is a billet rectangular in shape.
After it was done, he took out some normal ores he got from the Black pond which are used for making st.u.r.dy things more like modern day cast iron which is called Black iron. It is a rank 2 ore and Sam started melting it. This didn"t take much time and immediately became liquid.
He also made some moulds before and poured the metal.
These are also in rectangular cross-section. These pieces became solid faster than the meteorite sand.
He took out the blocks from the moulds and started welding. He made two frames. Each frame has two spike and each spike is slightly more than a foot apart.
After placing the frames in the place, he took the logs in his hands and they were inserted to both the frames with the help of spikes.
What Sam is making is a make shift rolling machine.
He needs to make a sheet metal and he doesn"t want to take risk of polluting the silver meteorite sand by making a large and thin mould.
He can do this by black meteorite sand when making a sword for Jack because, he used the technique which is used to make j.a.panese blades.
That is still okay because, he is making a sword but now he isn"t making a blade and this method may not be good to use.
Sam took out the solidified billet from the mould and placed heated it to certain extent. His hands are in elemental fusion mode as held the billet and placed it between the rollers.
Yanwu is on the other side of the rollers, he started rotating the roller while Sam pushed the billet. When the billet was completely outside, he noticed that the billet is a little thinner.
The process continued, he made some adjustments to the distance between the logs and made the billet thin and thinner.
Slowly the billet was formed into a sheet. The thickness became a lot less and became so less that it is in millimetres.
Then only he stopped repeating the process.
Now onto the next step. Sam has to make one of the main components of the product, The frame.
There are three main components of the product and one is the frame, the body and the final one the cells.
Now two parts are completed and the only part he has to make is frame. If that is done after the a.s.sembly and some additions, he will be able to complete his product.