Chapter 475
Chapter 476 of "Chaotic Craftsman Worships The Cube" starts with dramatic events: With his bookmaking done, Ben went out to start the day, putting his main destination... Discover what happens!
With his bookmaking done, Ben went out to start the day, putting his main destination on hold since it was still early, to instead visit the church he had set up, wanting to give it a look.There was not much need for cleaning. Given the evaluation of gods in that world, anyone who went in, even those who didnāt necessarily give his god any faith, made sure to show a certain level of respect and kept the place in top shape, and he was fairly sure that Sachel would occasionally visit to dust.
He wasnāt there to inspect the level of cleanliness though; making so many books had reminded him of something his god had once mentioned and heād decided to put it into practice as he rearranged the space.
Despite how big the church was, having two stories along with both a basement and a sub-basement, only the main floor was open for public use, with the rest of it being left for whatever he personally felt like storing, but that was going to change as he began lugging up piles of the books he had down below to the top floor, moving the shelves as well before he organized it all to create a proper library.
It had taken a couple hours thanks to the sheer volume heād been accumulating and while heād been doing it heād been making books as well, with texts covering what could be done with the first tier of each of the ten affinities being made, along with a couple that covered a few of the more prominent non-affinitied magics.
He was able to make about two books like that without Thera around so long as his mana pool was full and it took him less than fifteen minutes to refill it, so even if he wasnāt as fast as he had been in the morning, he was able to chip away at it all as heād worked, with the public library of Myriad complete.
It still needed a sign, both out front along with inside to point up the stairs and remind people that if they wanted to use it they should at least offer a prayer, but he couldnāt help but feel a small sense of pride by the end.
Heād originally shot down the idea because he didnāt want to risk losing any book he hadnāt yet read when his god had suggested it, but that was no longer a problem. There was nothing there he hadnāt consumed and the nature of his mind meant he could bring it all back to the front of his thoughts so making it a resource for the town as a whole felt nice.
He asked up to the sky.
With that little side task done, he moved on to the main one, walking through the busier streets now that people were up and enjoying their day to get to his research center to see what progress had been made since heād last been in.
He made his way through the halls before finding the one in charge. Kufno was busy talking with some of the others as they scribbled down notes, using the cube that contained a section of the summoning spell as a table to do it.
āKufno,ā He called out, getting the manās attention and giving him a grin. āSorry itās been a while since Iāve been in. How have things been going here?ā
āI would say rather well, Ben. While we donāt have many theories, testing is at least ahead of schedule,ā He told him positively. āCan I assume youāre here to go through the books?ā
āThat you can, Iāll be back in a bit to talk about how it looks after.ā
After giving his greeting he passed by, going to a shelf at the back where hundreds of notebooks were being stored, each of them on the examination of different fragments of the monumental spell.
It was a lot, but not so much he couldnāt handle alone, even without his clones there to speed up the process. He pulled out as many as he could read from the shelves, letting them hang in the air as pages turned, a few of his staff turning to watch in surprise, none of them having seen how he absorbed information before with pages fluttering before his eyes and knowledge condensing in his head.
There were a few ideas mixed into the various pages of observations but one he felt had real potential, even if he wasnāt yet sure of what to do with it.
Mana modifiers, certain arrangements of power that seemed subtle but had a tremendous impact on the final product. It matched what they were seeing, but beyond just having a name for the phenomenon they didnāt have a way to predict them, nor judge their ultimate purpose.
His hope when coming to see the research for the ridiculous spell was to see if any small breakthrough would have something relevant to brace creation, and while it didnāt yet, that didnāt mean it never would. From all of the notes heād gone through, he was sure theyād discovered around fifty modifiers so far, but had plenty left to check for more. Within it could be something that would enhance the effects beyond what he could currently accomplish, he just needed to wait and hope.
With what he had so far though, he needed to properly test.
āCan I get someone to pull me down a finished block?ā He asked, wanting to fiddle with the enchantments that had already been examined and had two earth mages there to accommodate him before he got to work, taking the sealed sheets apart to begin his experimenting while Kufno came to join him.
āFind something?ā
āMaybe. Someone jotted down the idea of mana modifiers and it's a good one. From what Iāve seen within those notes I believe thereās fifty different arrangements that have been discovered, just gotta see how they work.ā
He was altering areas that seemed like they had certain modifiers on them already to have different ones before resealing the block and adding a mana crystal to test it, seeing the change in output.
Heād added a light enchantment at the end, something that should have given him plain white light but the original modifier had turned blue, only thanks to the new one it ended up red.
Seeing he was on the right track only motivated him even more and he got to work to keep it up, wanting to see what else would come as he spent hours thoroughly testing each one, taking the block apart each time to modify the contained spell, only to come to a conclusion by the end of it. They hadnāt found fifty modifiers, theyād found around two hundred.
Heād come to the conclusion after around a quarter of the modifiers seemed to either alter only the output that was shown or caused it not to work at all, making him re-examine everything heād seen in the different sections and found that many, though not all, of the sections that didnāt work had modifiers on them as well. Heād assumed up till this point that part of the issue was the way he had to cut the spell to test it, and while that was still likely true, it implied that the faulty output was continuing on to be modified by a later modifier as well.
It was a lot and it was going to be exhausting, but at the same time, it was progress. A huge leap in progress even. Testing all known modifiers against different spells and affinities was something he could do in a day, and by the time he was done he could come back and remove any spell blocks that only had those modifiers on them, meaning the workload would shrink. He was sure there were going to be plenty more to discover too, but he could feel everything being chipped away, letting him get closer to the goal of mastering that mad spell.