User blog:Pollux83/Beyond Light and Darkness, Chapter 8

Short chapter with laboratory work. Don't worry, the lab work does not last forever. But every hero needs some preparation time.

Chapter Overview

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 Whoever needs a miracle can pray and begin to wait or he takes his fate into his own hands and creates his own miracle.

A machine, an ancient machine. The plans were over 1000 years old and come from a long forgotten time. Probably still from the sophisticated culture of the elves. This also explained the required materials.



 The king used all the country's relations to gain the materials. The good trade relations with the Order and some Mamono helped very much. Nevertheless it took 7 months until we had everything. I myself was in neighboring kingdoms for a few months, always accompanied by Kai. He helped me wherever he could. Kai seemed to enjoy traveling to foreign countries. Back home, he had many new stories to tell and not just that, he also developed a talent for foreign languages. On the other hand, I did not understand a single word without our interpreter. Fortunately, people mostly spoke the language of the Order, so I rarely needed him.



 We started with the construction. I had my own laboratory for this purpose. I, the magician of the circle, scientists for magic and alchemy, and 2 engineers. Even if no one of us knew what we were building, we took the challenge. I had a special role to play here. I had to get the experts to cooperate constructively. It is unbelievable how often such intelligent people can be of different opinion.



 The materials alone, however, were useless. They also had to be enchanted. With very complicated spells. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention and we were inventive. Nearly half of the spells we had to improvise somehow. I was glad that I knew something about alchemy. This made the work much easier for me. We had temporarily nearly all magicians of the country at the same time in the laboratory, just to integrate a few small runes into the metal. A small mistake and we could repeat everything.



 What mad genius had come up with the idea of constructing such a device? I did not even understand half of what the device was doing. But there was no other way. It did not help, despite the difficulties we went on undeterred.

Building the device cost all one or two nights without sleep. Just the enchantment of the individual components. It was terrible. But we slowly learned more and more about the functioning of the machine. It was like a puzzle with 1000000 parts.



 I found relaxation at home after work. Eleana grew every day bigger and began to talk. And, of course, was her first word mama, what else. It won't be long until we could celebrate her second birthday.

Time passed. The months went by. From time to time I worked in the barracks. But I did not have to move out often. Since the fall of Lescatie, the situation had calmed down again. It was even more peaceful than usual. Probably the order had something to do with that, but these were just rumors.





 After more than a year it was finally time. The device was finished. It was relatively large and just fit on thelaboratory bench. And it looked rather odd, somehow scientific. If I had to guess, I would say that the energy from the environment is absorbed by this thing here. Then it goes along here. Into ... whatever that is and in the end then ... oh what I am talking about, I had no idea how the device worked. Nobody knew it.

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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%"> We activated the device. Everywhere it began to shine and the runes began to glow. Everyone was eager to see what would happen. For my part I just hoped that it did not explode. A loud buzz was heard before a bright, fluctuating light appeared in the center of the unit. The whole hall cheered and it took a load off my mind. It worked and was not exploded. Juhu.

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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%"> The device actually collected the spiritual energy of the environment. Even if the light pulsed dangerously and we did not know whether the device would be full sometime, the work was worth it. We could actually collect energy.

Even if it was the wrong energy, alone the fact that it was possible gave us all new motivation. Now only one thing has to be done: To reprogram the device so that positive "Holy Energy" is collected instead of neutral spiritual energy. And that without the hint of an idea how the thing worked at all. There was only one solution: We just had to try everything that came to our mind.