Yugioh Card Summoner

CH.565 Perfecting Life

Now that I at least knew we could theoretically birth mabuki in the real world, I went to work on perfecting how they should be made. And that means making their body out of something that isn’t cornstarch water.

Or more specifically, I wanted a liquid that either was metal, or at least contained a lot of metal, as that should be optimal.

To make something optimal, I ran through tons of Factory tests. Now that I, as well as the System, knew about the problems with the mabuki, I was able to run much better simulations in the Factory.

At first I just tested blood, and while it worked okay, it did have the problem of the mabuki only being able to possess weapons made of blood iron or vampiric steel.

I then tested blood, but I mixed in more metal powder, and while it still worked, the mabuki became even more specific about what kinds of weapons they could live in.

After that I tried to just mix metal powder into water, but that idea was doomed. The mabuki couldn’t stay together and just fell apart.

So next, instead of water, I tried it with oil. Sadly, the only oil I had easy access to is crude oil, but it was decently useful. Some metals mixed decently with it, and I think it is definitely an option for the body material for the mabuki.

Next was liquid metals. Stuff like mercury and gallium. As the body material, they were fantastic. The mabuki made from them were able to do a lot of stuff. … except one. When they merge with weapons, they cause problems. 

Gallium mabuki would break or damage the weapons they merge with while mercury mabuki are toxic to the person holding the weapon. So neither are really something we can use.

Then I thought about something from back on Earth. A super thick ‘liquid’ that contains metal. Some might even call it a paste. Which should be perfect, as it can still be spread around and moved, but it will also keep together extremely well.

I think the stuff on Earth uses some sort of silicone grease as the base and some sort of aluminum oxide as the metal part. But I don’t have easy access to silicone grease, so I decided to start with resin from a treant. It is naturally nice and thick, so I didn’t need to worry about that part. Instead I need to make it so that it wouldn’t harden when in contact with the air, but that wasn’t too difficult.

I then mixed powdered orichalcum and star titanium into it, thus making this world's first ‘magic paste’. Yes. It is based on thermal paste.

The stuff I made was honestly quite fantastic. Even for stuff outside of my little project. You could use it to effectively link magic lines together and it was a fantastic material for painting magic circuits, since it transfers mana so dang well. 

Which is actually kind of the opposite of thermal paste. Thermal paste is non-conductive to electricity. It just conducts heat well. While my magic paste transfers heat just decently well, but transfers magic extremely well.

But that is kind of what I was after. The mabuki live on mana and miasma, so they need to be able to absorb the stuff from the air. So they need to have a decent mana transfer capacity.

I then created a few mabuki with the magic paste as their bodies, and they really were perfect. … with one little problem. They didn’t like low tier weapons or weapons made of low tier metals. They really only liked stuff made of legendary metals. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Which isn’t really a problem, as the living weapons are going to be made of the best materials anyway. And I could always make worse magic paste, using different metal powders mixed with the treant resin. 

Because I think the mabuki like weapons that are made of the same material as their body, or as similar material as their body, as possible.

And the best part about all of this is that while the mabuki do need legendary metals, and while star titanium is no problem, we don’t have unlimited orichalcum, they don’t need that much of it. Only a bit over 100 grams of metal per mabuki.

And naturally treant resin is no problem. I can harvest as much of it as I need. HomeBase has 6 floors worth of treants, so we won’t be running out.

So with the new body material figured out, I made some of it and teleported to Janina. We then made our first mabuki, and it actually stayed together. We have successfully created life. 

… Well, something close enough to life.

I brought our creation back to HomeBase and showed it to Wilma. She wanted to name the mabuki, but I asked her to instead make it a body. Her choice on the weapon. And then we’d name both the weapon and the mabuki, as they’d hopefully be one.

Naturally Wilma’s first living weapon was going to be a hammer. Because that is her main weapon of choice.

But we quickly ran into a small problem. Our first mabuki didn’t like the hammer Wilma designed in the Factory. 

… oh right, I guess I should mention that. The mabuki can just come and go from the Factory. They are something akin to demons and spirits, so their souls aren’t that well attached to their physical bodies. And as long as I guide their soul, they can transfer between realms like that.

But back to Wilma’s hammer. She wanted her hammer to have the hammer face, as well as the back spike, made out of adamantite. Which is understandable, it is the most durable material available, so it is perfect for striking weapons like hammers.

Just two problems with that. One, our first mabuki didn’t like it. Because as I kind of figured out earlier, but I didn’t know it went this far, mabuki only like weapons that match their body. And since our little mabuki is made of orichalcum and star titanium, it doesn’t like the orichalcum and adamantite hammer. But luckily we can just make a new mabuki for Wilma’s hammer, and make some other weapon for our first mabuki.

Second problem, we don’t actually have adamantite. Sure I can make it with the True Core, but I’d rather not if I don’t have to. The legendary metals are costly to produce, so I’d rather secure it through a more natural method.

Luckily, between me using Metal Magic to study the stuff in the Factory, and Wilma’s Knowledge of Legendary Metals, we knew what metals made up adamantite.

In all simplicity, adamantite is a tungsten, cobalt and nickel alloy. So we just need all of that, and we can mix it together in our new alloy furnace, something I made after the entire dwarf visit and them commenting on our equipment. I even got HomeBase its own eternal flame from Ninatia. And it does help when making alloying legendary metals.

But back to the materials for adamantite. Nickel is easy to come by. It is commonly traded and I can buy it pretty much anywhere. No need for us to specifically go after it.

Cobalt is much more rare, and the most common uses for it are as a dye, not the metal itself. Cobalt blue and all that stuff. But sadly the common cobalt ore contains a lot of copper, so usually the copper is prioritized, and most of the cobalt is discarded. 

But that is also a good thing for us. If we can just get that discarded material, we should be able to refine the cobalt out of it with Metal Magic. Especially if Athena is willing to show us how it is done. And considering that we kind of just figured out living weapons, I’m sure Athena will help us out.

So that just leaves the tungsten. It is the material we need the most, but sadly it is also the most rare. There are only a few mines in the world that dig and refine the stuff, and only one of them is located in one of the three Kingdoms. But it produces so little tungsten that it won’t be enough for our needs. There are two more up mines north, in what is now land owned by the United States, and there is one in the Crystal Empire.

While we could probably get some from the Empire, I don’t know if we can get the quantities I want us to get. And I don’t want to touch the States with a pole a mile long until they do something stupid again. And after they do, I’ll drop a nuke on them. … okay, maybe not a nuke, but a Divine-Beast instead. But those are basically the same thing.

… I got sidetracked. Again. 

Whatever. So tungsten. In all my wisdom, I decided we’d just make our own mine. We learned how to mine from the dwarves, so we can make a mine. And with a little help for Wilma’s title and Athena, we should find a place with a lot of ore that can be refined into tungsten. 

And naturally, like any time I need to dig up a ton of earth, I decided to do it in the ever forest. It is a non-man’s-land, so no one will care if I uproot a large part of the forest and leave a giant hole in the ground.

With Athena’s help, we located a few areas that contained high amounts of ores. Not just the tungsten we needed, but also stuff like gold, palladium and platinum that we could mine for orichalcum.

And since Athena was with us, we used her, I mean asked for her help, to make the beginnings of our mineshaft. 

… okay, we didn’t make a mineshaft, we made a huge hole in the ground. More of a quarry than a mine. Because I summoned Gaia, did a little synchro with her and we ended up making a giant hole. And when I say giant, it really was big. About a kilometer in diameter and over 250 meters deep. Large enough for any of my B.E.S. ships to land in with a ton of space to spare. 

It would be our mine’s center, or something like that. And from there, with Athena’s guidance and Super Vehicroid Jumbo Drill, we started our mine.

Yeah we could have just mined with magic, but I wanted to see if my monsters could mine for me. Because if they can, I can just teleport here, summon a few monsters, work on something with Dungeon Founder or inside the Factory while they mine, and then just transport all the ore to HomeBase for processing. 

Or I could make a processing facility here, depending on how much stuff we need to process.

And as it turns out, my monsters are great at digging. The aforementioned Jumbo Drill, as well as Minefieldriller and Drillroid are great at it.

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I then used Truckroid and Steamroid to transport the dug up ores to a place where I could easily pick them up, and in an afternoon, we had a full mining operation going.

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And, like promised by the spirit of metal, we found plenty of tungsten ore. It came in two main varieties. One was a calcium and tungsten mineral, while the other one had iron, manganese and tungsten.

I took all the ore into Storage and made sure I used the material quality increase on all of it. We then headed where we could refine the stuff into usable metals. 

With more help from Athena, refining the tungsten was no problem. And yes, we purposefully refined it into tungsten, not directly to adamantite. Because since we refined it, and it is no longer the same item as it was previously, I can use Storage’s material quality increase on it again.

Then from there, we alloyed the tungsten with cobalt and nickel, and produced the first HomeBase made adamantite. 

Now Wilma has the materials for her hammer, and I can try to make an adamantite mabuki for her. But honestly, I’ll wait until her hammer is ready, then I’ll make the mabuki. Just so we won’t run into the same problem as we did with our current one.

We still need to make a weapon for him. I think I might just make an orichalcum and star titanium spear. Just so we can have a living spear. Because a living spear is probably something we’d make anyway, and at least that way I can give a permanent home for my little mabuki.