Magical Engineering

Mel had agreed with adding Yorela and Grant to the squad. He had, in fact, already been planning to broach the topic of Grant. On the other hand, he was against adding any Reltleons until he had a chance to really pick through the guards, and as there likely wasn’t time for that before the next floor, it was a no-go. Apparently, the next floor would be another monster battle. Thıs content belongs to Nov3lFɪre.ɴet

The only problem was that, much like the first floor, there were no second chances here. The twenty-first would be the same, though he made it clear the pattern would not repeat after that, as post floor twenty-five, everything became entirely random. This meant that I completely agreed with this reason for not letting the Reltleons into the squad yet. Hell, I wasn’t even sure we should add Grant. But Mel seemed confident he’d be fine, and he hadn’t been wrong yet.

Since Pryte wasn’t back yet, I had decided to make my way to the workshop and see if Karlinovo had managed to figure anything out with our scavenged materials. “Perfect timing,” he called as I walked into the room, tossing what looked like an Ethernet cable at my face.

I caught it, something I wouldn’t have been able to do less than a year ago. “Perfect timing for what exactly?” I asked.

“You made those tools work right? See if you can put any mana through that without destroying it. Start small. I’m hoping the eight smaller wires inside can handle it. Interesting idea to twist them together like that, I bet it helps with bleed issues,” he said.

It had been a long time since I had done much with network engineering. Not that I had ever really done much besides read a few textbooks and crimp my own cables a few times. But I was pretty sure Ethernet cables were twisted to reduce crosstalk, so bleed was as good a word as any.

“Alright, but I don’t have any blueprints for this, so we will see what I can do,” I said as I pulled up mana tinkering and just focused on the cable. There were no mana infusion points listed. So instead, I pulled up a chat window, wanting to try something.

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