Can You Make Something Like This?

"Lord Roger, hasn't our new project even been completed yet? Why are we starting another one already? To be honest, I suddenly understood what your project is actually for, and what benefits it will bring once it succeeds..."

"I know you're excited, but please don't get excited. I'm talking about the doll."

Roger looked at the book, which had suddenly become endlessly talkative, and seriously cut it off. "Now, I order you to shut up and listen."

"Doll, could you make a metal ball... a box would work too, or a bottle. That doesn't matter. Could you make something like that, something that normally looks like an ornament but explodes instantly when thrown?"

Seeing Betty staring at him, Roger immediately explained his idea. "The trigger condition could be changed too. For example, it would need a little mana input before being thrown."

"Basically, something like that teapot just now. But I want it to activate instantly, without chanting."

In the battle just now, Roger had seen many things... the power of magic, the wonders of magic, and its absurdly long windup. Every cast required chanting, and chanting wasted a great deal of time and opportunities.

If magic could be cast instantly, several opportunities could have changed the course of the battle.

At that thought, Roger suddenly thought of grenades... If magical power could be stored inside one, then when needed, all he had to do was pull the pin and throw it for it to explode, wouldn't the battle situation improve tremendously?

"It can be done, but what would be the point?"

The doll did not quite understand. "The more powerful such a device is, the more expensive its materials will be. It has no cost-effectiveness at all. Making a fireball yourself would be stronger than this!"

"What if it were used in a situation like just now? Given to a Low-Order Mage, or even a Mage Apprentice." Roger smiled.

"Hm? What do you mean?"

"I'm the Technology God. It's not too much for me to develop some technology, is it?"

Roger smiled. "Tell me, if spellcasters could buy these 'technological creations,' wouldn't they develop different feelings toward me? And if spellcasters in the mortal world could make such creations themselves, wouldn't they develop faith in me?"

As Betty listened to Roger, she suddenly sank into thought.

It seemed this path really was viable.

According to conventional thinking, magic meant using a constructed Spell Model to activate mana, or creating a mana tool to help oneself cast more powerful spells.

Take the battle just now, for example. Either one chanted and then cast magic, or one held a mana item, chanted, and then cast a spell beyond one's own limits.

But Roger's words seemed to suggest an entirely new path.

The magic was already stored inside. With only the slightest stimulus, it could be activated instantly.

That should benefit the battle situation.

No, it would be extremely beneficial.

Using such creations, fighting opponents above one's level would become effortless...

Betty's mind raced wildly, even though she did not actually have a brain.

The book knew no less than Betty did, but this fellow... lacked the ability to do things himself.

While Betty was thinking, he realized it as well. "This is astonishing, Lord Roger. Your thinking is truly unprecedented and unmatched. Even if the Wisdom God were here, they would not dare claim that their wisdom surpassed yours. To think you came up with such a method—using mana tools to cast magic instantly. A genius idea. This will change the combat methods of many mages..."

"Wait!" Roger looked startled. "Book, are you saying there was no magic like this before?"

Mages should not have been stupid, especially those who had grown powerful. Every one of them desired to explore the mysteries of the world, so how could they not have realized that mana tools requiring no chanting had greater advantages?

"Only Dragon-Speech Runes used by dragons can store mana. Humans, Elves, and other spellcasting lifeforms can only store it through their bodies." Betty quickly understood Roger's surprise. "But Dragonkind have not left Dragon Island for over ten thousand years."

"So, to make grenades... instant-cast Mana Bombs, we must use Dragonkind's Magic Runes? Even if we gave the method to Humans, they would have no way to replicate it?"

After a brief moment of shock, Roger understood as well, and his brow furrowed slightly.

This was not good news.

Apart from Dragonkind, no race could actually use magic runes to store mana...

Dragonkind were innately powerful, so they probably had no use for such things either.

"Who said Humans can't replicate it? I only said they don't understand this knowledge."

Roger's thoughts were still wandering when Betty interrupted him. "Magic Runes are universal. Have you forgotten that human Magic Runes were also learned from elsewhere? Humans simply do not possess the knowledge of storing mana."

"So, Humans—or rather, any race—can make them as long as they learn the runes for storing mana?" Roger seemed to recall that this was indeed the case.

"This is only the mana... The Dragon Tongue Mana-Storage Rune is merely the most important rune in a Mana Bomb. After carving it, mana can be infused and stored within it. But to create a tool with offensive power, you also need an offensive Spell Model, mana-channel runes that transmit mana, activation runes that trigger it..."

Betty spoke without pause.

Roger's idea seemed to have completely ignited her desire to explore.

She was also greatly looking forward to this new kind of weapon.

After cramming for some time, Roger understood the basics of magic. Simply put, the Dragon Tongue Mana-Storage Rune was the TNT explosive, the Spell Model was the detonator, the mana-channel rune was the fuse, and the activation rune was the switch... Combined together, they would become a TNT bomb!

Input mana to activate it, and it would explode. Whatever the Spell Model was, that would be the effect of the explosion!

"Betty, I hope you can make such a bomb as soon as possible. Let's try it and see how effective it is... Don't make an Annihilation Bullet or Doom Judgment, and absolutely no Soul Devouring or Mind Storm. Just make the simplest kind, low-order magic!"

Thinking of Betty's occasional malicious sense of humor, Roger could not help but shudder.

And at that moment.

Magic Space.

With the help of netizens, the discovery and destruction of the Vengeful Spirit Doll, the exploration of the ruins, and the acquisition of a large amount of mana materials and magical information had spread completely. The entire Magic Web was in an uproar!