Kyle kept constructing more and more Formation Arrays.
At some point, he gathered enough materials to create a Formation Array over a thousand kilometers wide. Sadly, that was still nothing compared to the size of Kyle's Planet, which had a diameter of over a million kilometers.
However, the Formation Array didn't need to cover the entire Planet to fulfill its purpose.
Kyle looked at it with a smile and slapped it.
The next moment, the Formation Array traveled through the Planet. Whenever metals appeared inside its vicinity, they flew towards its center, gathering there.
Hours later, the Formation Array reappeared from the opposite direction. It had made one trip around the Planet, and it had gathered an ungodly amount of cheap metals.
Kyle dumped all the metals into Storage Formation Arrays, which supplied the Fusion Formation Arrays.
Finally, Kyle no longer needed to gather materials, and he could focus fully on creating Formation Arrays.
He sent the Gathering Formation Array on its way again and resumed construction on more Formation Arrays.
BEEEP! BEEEP!
Until one of the Formation Arrays made an alarm.
When Kyle heard the alarm, he groaned and shot towards his Gathering Formation Array, which was halfway across the Planet.
When he got there, he saw a humongous chunk of dense metal blocking the path of one of the Nodes. The Gathering Formation Array could only travel through Transcendent-Grade Materials. Primal-Grade Materials were ignored, unless one of the Connections or Nodes collided with one of them. At that point, Kyle would have to go there, grab the chunk of metal, and return.
The Gathering Formation Array was sent on its way again, and Kyle returned to constructing Formation Arrays.
Some months later, Kyle automated almost everything, except for the construction of more Formation Arrays.
Formation Arrays needed to be infused with Laws, and only a being with a will could do that. This process couldn't be automated since Formation Arrays weren't alive.
When everything was automated, Kyle began paying closer attention to the Gravity Wind.
If he understood it better, he could make his Gravity-Wind Conversion Formation Array more efficient, which would give him more Energy.
Kyle took out his hammer and swung through the Gravity Wind. He remembered how his strikes had been able to split the Gravity Fire into its components. If he could do the same thing here, he would be able to learn much more about Gravity Wind. After five years of swinging, Kyle learned a bit more about Gravity Wind, and he refined his Formation Arrays further.
At the same time, he also used the accumulated materials to create more Gathering and Fusion Formation Arrays.
By now, over twenty Gathering Formation Arrays were flying through the Planet.
'My Energy Source is at its limit,' Kyle thought as he looked at the Gravity-Wind Conversion Formation Arrays. 'I need to build more or make them better. However, to build more, I need more materials, and to make them better, I need time.'
'Could I use something else as an Energy Source?' he thought as two of his Gathering Formation Arrays returned to deliver their goods.
When he saw them, he blinked a couple of times.
There were a lot of materials there,
'If I keep going like this, I will convert the entire Planet,' he thought.
Then, his eyes widened as he got an idea.
'Actually, why not?' he thought as he created another Gathering Formation Array. This one was much larger than the others, but it required fewer materials. The reason was that this Gathering Formation Array wasn't of a high level.
Its only purpose was to turn rock into Energy.
Rocks could have different densities and levels, just like metals. Yet, when compared to metals, they were much lower in Energy Density.
Rocks could be converted into Earth Energy, which could be used as an Energy Source.
The issue was that the conversion rate was lower than 0.01%. Only one ten-thousandth of the Earth Energy stored in the rock would turn into usable Energy.
'But who cares?' Kyle thought. 'The Planet is big enough, and I don't need so much space. Also, if my Planet gets smaller, I also don't need as many materials to fortify it.'
Finally, Kyle placed his artificial Gravity Core in the middle of the Formation Array.
All the surrounding rocks were pulled towards the Formation Array, and they were converted into Energy, which was fed to a separate Gathering Formation Array within the first one.
Any trash rocks would be converted into Energy, while the more valuable materials were gathered.
Kyle watched as a gigantic storm of rocks fell towards the Gathering Formation Array.
It almost looked like he had created a black hole inside the Planet.
Humongous empty spaces appeared inside the Planet, but they were quickly filled again by falling rocks.
It was quite a spectacle.
'Just gotta make sure that I don't get rid of the lowest layer. Don't want all the Gravity Wind to just disperse into space.'
The extra Energy Kyle generated via this maneuver was much greater than he had anticipated.
He constructed a couple more Formation Arrays to keep everything in check, and then, he looked at the mountain of materials his Fusion Formation Arrays had gathered.
Naturally, he hadn't used all of the accumulated materials since he was saving them up.
When he saw that he had enough, he grabbed all of them and created the biggest Formation Array he had ever constructed.
It took a lot of math, planning, and materials, but Kyle managed to create a Barrier Formation Array around the Gravity Wind Law Well.
While the Planet was over a million kilometers across, the sphere of Gravity Wind was only about 100,000 kilometers across. It was still massive, but nothing when compared to the entire Planet.
When he was done, Kyle sighed in relief. 'At least, my Law Well is safe. Would suck if an attacker just bombarded my Planet to force me to come out. I mean, they can still force me to come out, but at least, I will still have a Law Well after the fight.'
'Now, I need to accumulate materials again for more Formation Arrays. I want this to be a fucking fortress!'
As more of the Planet was converted into materials and Energy, Kyle focused on learning more about Gravity Wind. The more he knew about it, the more Energy he could harvest.
Years passed.
The grace period for new Organizations ended. If any other Organization wanted to, they could send him a declaration of battle.
Luckily, there were no declarations of battle, for now.
Kyle kept looking at Gravity Wind, and his Gravity Wind Conversion Formation Arrays became better.
It had been 30 years since Kyle had arrived on his new Planet, and the impact of his presence could already be seen from space.
His Planet had shrunk by almost 10%.
And then…
Kyle received a declaration of battle.
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