บท 14: New discoveries and going out in style
It has been a week since I bought that school. It was actually rather cheap, the school headmaster was a greedy one that wanted status and offering him a position in my company made him practically give me the whole school instantly.
The joke is on him, his position of management is of production of agricultural additives, in other words, cow poop. I think he might be realizing this soon, but by then it will already be too late as his old job will already have a more competent individual there, a Kaiba Corp and Spirit Hall approved educator that will slowly but surely indoctrinate them in following Spirit Hall.
If there is one thing that dictators in the past knew and that no one in this world seems to understand is how important publicity and education of kids are. Given enough time and with this plan succeeding alongside my artificial spirit ring working it will mean that practically all spirit masters will grow up being intrinsically connected to Spirit Hall before any other power.
Anyway, I am now studying this next lab rat. No, not a literal lab rat as I would never lower myself so much, but it is not much distant from a rat as it is a poor kid. He is one of the students of the academy, we paid him and a few others to bring them into Kaiba Corp's lab to let me analyze their spirit rings.
I have been working on it the last few days non-stop, my body already adapted to not needing to sleep for more than one or two hours a day and be able to spend long periods without sleeping at all. I guess this Torso Spirit Bone had some extra surprises, after all, it seems like its adaptation goes beyond what I expected, need to sleep, eat, and even headaches for dealing with stupid people for too long, all of it is solvable by this Adaptation skill.
If I had this in my previous life I would have accomplished so much more, it even scares me to think about it... oh, who am I kidding? I would abuse this skill so much that I would be recorded in history for eternity even more!
But what I failed then I can get it now!
Anyway, I am starting to see the basic forms and differences between different types of spirit rings. Spirit rings can be classified in beast or plant types with plants being quite uniform and all relatively similar in structure but beast types can be divided into poisonous, primates, insects, felines, canines, birds, reptiles, and fish types. It is quite interesting really, they also can be again divided by type of basic energy used: fire, water, earth, air, wood, poison, dark, light, soul (illusion for instance), and neutral. I can already design the basic outlines of most basic aspects and general abilities, the problem is that the more mystical skills are more separated and each of them is completely different from other spirit rings and would require specialized focus to create them.
Now that I can see this clearly I can already start designing my own brand of artificial spirit rings. I already even produced one, it was a 50 years old spirit ring with a very basic fire-breath ability that I based on a reptile, fire, and air mixed together. The user was a little kid from the academy, he was willing to test it out after we paid him enough which again proves that money can solve most problems and those it can't solve can be solved with a strong enough fist.
This type of world just seems tailor-made for a powerful douche to enjoy himself, so I guess I could tell Obelisk thanks for bringing me here.
Anyway, the experiment was a success. Now there is just one tiny problem, I don't have enough raw materials.
For the creation and use of Artificial Spirit Rings I need to build a proper facility, it would have the skills separated in various pillars and when someone pays for it the crystal would activate and generate the spirit ring for production, but the problem is that the pillars are not built with simple rocks or steel, it needs to be made with unique and rare metals that I currently have a limited amount of.
The only group with a decent enough amount of this metal are three that I don't want to deal with in the slightest.
One is the mountain where Clear Sky sect is, there are large amounts of these materials there and in its surroundings but there is no chance of me getting any since Clear Sky hates Spirit Hall and would never make financial deals with us, especially since that is their 'sacred mountain' or some nonsense like that. The only thing that is sacred in this world is money, and whoever says otherwise can go and believe in whatever the hell they want while being stupid.
The second one is Blue Tyrant Dragon Clan, and considering how arrogant they are in the belief of their own superiority and also how they said that they would only make any deal with Kaiba Corp after I accepted the fact that I am a part of their sect, it is clear that talking to those fools is useless.
That leaves me with but one option, the Star Luo imperial family. They are also arrogant pricks but it is still possible to talk with them at the very least and the last messenger I sent there told me that they are willing to open trades with Kaiba Corp and even will take responsibility in opening paths for the products to travel faster and escort all the needed metals, as long as go there to talk to them personally.
As I finish analyzing this kid's spirit ring I already have written down the characteristics of this program and how to try and perfect it further, thankfully this kid and his brother are a special case in which both have the same spirit and same spirit ring with the only difference being age. The one I just analyzed has 90 years old while his brother had 110 years old. It was already stretching for me to analyze a 100 years spirit ring even if one of the weakest, but the results are promising.
"Master Kaiba, what are the results?" A weak and seemingly dead voice said from my side and even without turning to look I know it is Lingling. Since a while ago she has been helping me with this artificial spirit ring project of mine, proving that even a kid is better than those 'wise sages' that can't do shit about anything.
"It is intriguing. The age doesn't change much but the fact that it reaches the 100 years mark makes its basic power grow almost to twice the level of the 10 years mark. Even the program doesn't change much, the only thing that truly changes is this part, the regulator. This small part is from where it regulates the entry of spirit power, the power in the release, and controls the speed with which the skill can be used by the user. It is what regulates cooldown time to prevent a spirit ring to overcharge and be damaged as well as limits the amount of energy that can be added to a spirit ring.
"I think that as long as we can modify this part correctly we could potentially change an artificial spirit ring that already is installed from 10 years old until perhaps even 100.000 years old. The skill would not change in natur as the program would still be the same in its basis and it would depend on the user to get to the point where the body can even handle this sort of pressure, but it is not impossible by any means and the power of the skill would increase appropriately. This would be highly interesting, but for that, we will need more time to study and more raw materials." I said, mostly to myself really. I do love the sound of my own voice.
I guess there is no other chance but to go towards Star Luo Empire. At least one good thing about this trip is that I finally managed to complete my project.
The One Strength Clan and the other Blacksmiths called me crazy due to my designs, but I still completed them anyway!
Moving towards a piece of art that I developed I can only smirk, this project of mine took most of the time of the higher level blacksmiths under me and the time to create the programing and the place to store pure Spirit energy took me a hell of a long time, but I pulled through and now I have it.
A 20 meters tall and shiny war machine that let me all giggly just from looking at it.
I mean, just the fact that we of Kaiba Corp build a Dragon Robot Tank already means we are better than everyone else. After all, it is a replica in giant proportions of my old XYZ-Dragon Canon! I build the three parts (X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Head, and Z-Metal Tank) and made them capable of recombining themselves to create this war machine!
It is capable of traveling in about 400 km per hour, has firepower that would endanger even a Spirit Sage (Rank 70 - 80), it is possible to be divided again in case of emergency to escape, and the most important is that it looks like a dragon, and a tank, and a robot. God this thing is cool.
This will be the test drive, the command system is quite simple so even a child can use, and no I don't count myself since I already am above all adults of this world as far as I care. Giving all the paperwork to my assistants to complete I left to the meeting with Star Luo Imperial Family, but not before going to visit Renxue. I only hope she doesn't get too mad at me, she did ask me to go visit her last week and her birthday is just in a few more hours.
Well, as the motor of my XYZ-Dragon Canon is activated and wings are released we launch to the sky, everyone in the ground looking in awe as we travel to our destination.
As I saw the mounts and villages pass me by I start to think. Maybe I could try and develop other duel monster-based robots for the time war against the empires and the Dark Gods starts. I did always wonder how the Ancient Gear monsters would look like if in large numbers, maybe Chaos Ancient Gear Giant or Ancient Gear Golem. Of course, the pilots would be using blue clothing to indicate their association as under my Obelisk command and they all would wear masks to lessen their individuality further. Maybe I can call the Obelisk Force, perhaps it could be interesting.
Food for thought.
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