No matter how narcissistic and prideful he is, he has to admit that the sect ID card is better than his creation. He also has to admit that he only knows the formations in the ID card, how they work, and how they interact with each other, but he still can't make the ID card yet
To be honest, his schematics are sorely lacking compared to the structure of his ID card. The ID card is capable of so much more than his armament and should be objectively considered more beautiful.
But he drew his armament, not the ID, so he can't be objective. At most, he will admire the structure and intricacy of the ID card. It deserves that much from him. But he won't consider it more beautiful than his armament because it is not his creation.
His feelings for his schematic are like those of a mother for her baby. The schematic is his baby. Therefore, it is the most beautiful thing in the world.
After admiring his handiwork for some time, he began the next stage. The next stage after the third stage of drawing schematics is making prototypes. For that he will need larger pieces of the silver pine tree and his tools.
He grabbed his lens and said, "I have my lens. and my pills, and my engraving pen. So I'm sure that everything will be fine."
Then he got to work making the prototypes.
He was just being optimistic when he said everything would be fine, but everything about making the first prototype was mostly fine. He encountered some problems with the execution of his idea, but he didn't run into a dead end.
This meant that his idea was feasible. All he had to do to get it working was to make a few changes.
Even so, this part was the most painful part for him to execute. He didn't run into any dead ends, but the full reality of how difficult and how stressful making the armament would be kept hitting him in the face real hard every moment.
Every moment that he was working on the armament, his enthusiasm slipped away little by little. In place of his enthusiasm, he became more and more frustrated.
Perhaps the most frustrating part was perhaps figuring out how to slice green pine leaves into thin layers that contained mostly the green part responsible for photosynthesis.
But the part where he had to layer these paper-thin leaf parts against the other layers without breaking them was also a big contender for the title of the most frustrating part.
On the other side of the spectrum was the easiest part, which was shaving logs of the silver pine tree into the paper-thin portions that he wanted. In fact, he was able to make them thinner than he wanted.
He was able to get them so thin that they became translucent, which is something even paper can't do. This part was to be the harvesting layer that was to be placed in between the conversion layer, so the fact that he was able to get them so thin easily uplifted his spirits.
He had thought that engraving the formations would have been the easy part because he was so good with formations. But he was very wrong about that.
Even though he was good with formations, engraving on paper-thin structures was difficult and added to the problem of keeping the said paper-thin structures intact. So engraving the formations trailed behind the first two contenders for the most difficult part.
All in all, it was a tedious six weeks of work. He had thought that it would take four weeks or so, but he spent 50% more time on it than he expected.
After that came fine-tuning the prototype and making better versions. The first version was nowhere near perfect and needed a lot of changes to make it more effective.
The main problem wasn't converting internal energy into electricity or capturing the produced electricity. The main problem was keeping the layers alive and maintaining their structural integrity over long periods of operation.
This shouldn't be a problem when the armament becomes his foundation. It will have access to his life energy and will be able to survive that way, just like any of his internal organs and just like the previous life seed.
This was one of the reasons why he didn't account much for keeping the layers alive in his design. But as he tried out the prototype, he realized that if he didn't try to fix the structural integrity problem, the life seed would consume a lot more life energy to maintain itself, which would cause the grade of the armament to drop from top grade to high grade.
So he wanted to fix the problem. Unfortunately for him, wishes aren't horses. People just can't ride them into reality however they want.
In order to maintain the structural integrity, he needed to add the feature on the formations. Which meant that he needed to engrave new formations. Which meant that he needed to create a better version.
But the problem didn't end there. He couldn't be sure that his adjustment was effective without testing the new version. So he had to execute various suites of tests again.
After testing came more improvements and more versions. It was all very stressful. The only bright side was that his creation was getting better and better while he was also getting more proficient in creating it.
Aside from the improvements done to maintain the structural integrity of the layers, he also made some improvements to the transformation layer. It was a necessity in order to achieve his goal for the final current and voltage output of the armament.
His optimal goal for the final output is at least 100 million volts for the potential difference and 30 thousand amperes for the current.
These two values are just the minimum values that he wanted to achieve. Unfortunately, they are currently too high for someone of his level to achieve.
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