God Of Crafting

Chapter 90: An unknown force

For how massive of a game-changer my idea was when put into a schematic...

It was actually one hell of a simple device. And that was one of the reasons why it was so damn dangerous of thing if the news of its existence were to ever reach the public.

"Do you remember how exactly the Qi-condensing device works?" I asked once I finally made up my mind to share this extremely dangerous idea.

"That device...?" Claire looked down at the two items I was now holding up to my chest so that I could directly breathe the air they affected.

The girl then squinted her eyes as she sorted through her memories.

"It uses Spricur stones to convert the Qi in the air into electricity that you then condense into a series of pulses which are then turned back into now much denser spiritual energy, right?"

I only nodded my head but opted not to say a word and just... stared back at the girl's face.

In fact, when thinking about it from the position of knowing, the one thing I didn't dare to build before seemed like the logical first step to building the Qi condensing device rather than its natural evolution.

"What?" Claire asked when she noticed I did nothing but just stare back at her.

"I'm wondering if you can see the thing I have in mind given how damn obvious it is," I admitted before lowering the two devices in my hands and placing them on the floor now that I've regained enough spiritual energy to operate as usual.

Sure, it would be problematic for me to drive my cultivation or use it to get myself into the crafting mode right now... But given what happened just before, there was no way I was going to do it, was there?

And so, seconds passed and turned into minutes with Clarie squinting her eyes down as she thought about the issue. In the end, however, she didn't seem to catch my drift.

"I give up," Clarie finally said as she shrugged her shoulders and shook her head. "Can't you just tell me? What's the point of making me try to guess that dangerous idea of yours?" she went ahead and asked.

As agitated as she was, Claire could read my face well enough to realize just how serious I was about this unexpected problem.

"Yeah, it's all clear thus far. That's exactly what those crystals are used for, after all!" she replied, only to confuse me even further.

'Isn't that practically the answer I'm trying to get her to announce?' I thought, only to grit my teeth and take another deep breath.

"Then, the next part is all about pushing the electricity we obtained from the air and using capacitors. By putting those capacitors in parallel and moderating the current so that it will feed more or less equally into each of them, we can multiply the number of pulses of condensed current that's released once the capacitors reach their full charge.

In this way, rather than releasing one pulse of condensed Qi whenever a single capacitor overcharges, we can make the whole process slightly smoother."

Claire nodded her head to signal she followed my explanation without any issue.

"Then, finally, we push this condensed electric current into the second set of Spricur stones, so that it can be turned back into spiritual energy, right?"

"Yeah," Claire replied, proving that she perfectly understood each step of the process.

And at this point, I could only have a long, exhausted sigh.

"Then, it seems that rather than failing to understand my concept, you are under the influence of some sort of power that prevents you from doing so," I stated before spreading my arms out to the sides and then shaking my shoulder. "What power is influencing you, however..." I shook my head. "I do not know."

Claire opened up her mouth... only to keep it open for a second before ultimately closing it right back.

"Then," after a moment, she calmed herself down and raised her eyes once again, "what is the idea that you claim I'm blocked from figuring out myself?"

I sighed yet again before putting a small smile on my face.

"What if, instead of gathering the spiritual energy from the air, we feed electricity into the device directly, by replacing the first set of Spricur stones with an ordinary charger cable?"