Chapter 145: The first blueprint I can truly call my own

"Ha…! Finally done!" 

A shout of jubilation escaped from my lips, only to soon fade, turning into a small shriek if not a shrill by the end of the last word. 

Even though assembling the devices wasn't the kind of work I would classify as a hard manual labour, it was so repetetive, so boring, it brought me to my mental limits. 

'If not for Claire being here with me, I would've gone insane…' I thought as I gently placed the device down before staring at the array of its siblings displayed on the floor in a nice, perfectly well-organized square. 

In the end, we've managed to complete just below a hundred of devices, each of which many times more potent than the prototype I was so proud with.