>>5985469Dozers of sheets of paper are scattered across the table with bits of metal and circuitry tossed around. Mage armor deconstructed and reconstructed trying to find flaws and ways to further improve its storage capacity. As Muffin tests the energy current of the wiring smelling burnt rubber assaulting her nose as electric discharge zaps at her fingertips. Grabbing duct tape and the rubber of shoes to help cover and shield the wires against the heat and open air. While William goes over the current circuits and amplifier nodes seeing old circuitry with burnt out grid paths, broken circuits, and missing prongs. Having another thought William pops open an amplifier to see similar wear and damage on the item as well.
“Hey Muffin, how is all this working with all this damage?”
“I mend cantrip the fractured chips and work around the burnt chips and broken grid paths. I lose a lot of efficiency but use mana infusions and blood to create biological mana gates to leech magic from the leylines and power the batteries.”
“Isn't blood bad for circuitry?”
“Yes but with a prestidigitation cantrip I can clean off the blood but the mana gates and infusions stay to power the thing. Sure takes all night to charge and a slash of blood but it is well worth it and trying to get a normal current from an electric plug would overload the suit.”
“And how does blood mana gates bypass that?”
“Leylines will pump low amounts of magic for refinement and not overload the body with unrefined magic just low amounts of energy for the blood mana gates to distribute it. It kinda assumes the blood needs energy to repair things so its suppling the energy to a body for repairs or storage.”
“It is how magic circles, runes, enchantment gear, and golems works. Get a splash of blood and apply it a few times until the magic is held in place and supplied by the leylines. Giant teleportation circles for mass transit between cities for resources, megaspells for levitation helps ship building, and mining lasers to keep burning and cooling for the 24/7 production quotas to be met.”
“Huh, I didn't really pay much attention to the biology side of things.”
“It is very convoluted and I needed to learn some way to help power a patch job of armor. But still I am very proud of my work.”
“And computer chips?”
“Same design but uses very small amounts of blood to make a small section of gates to power pre-inscribed runes made by lasers.”
“Are there any more flaws in the design?”
“Plenty, the hardware is at least a decade old, normal and mana chips constantly burning out, amplifiers defective, shock absorbers need to be added, and I need stronger metal to protect against physical damage.”
“It is a miracle this thing works.”
“Miracles. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work and intelligence more than in uncaring gods.” Scoffs out Muffin.
“What is the cost in maintaining the infusions and mana gates?”
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