Chapter 152: Placeholder -
Feeling refreshed after doing it with Shizuru, Sam headed for his lab ready to continue his research once again. The frustration and inferiority he felt the day before was long gone so he had no trouble putting on his lab coat.
"Alright then." He said once he was inside his domain. He placed the notebook he used that morning on the desc and turned to a certain device.
It was a VR headset. An industrial type that’s used in labs and factories to perform virtual experiments, saving materials and lowering the risk of failure. For Sam it was the only option he had, but it was better than nothing. If his research produces some good results he could use them to apply for materials to perform real experiments, after which he could shoot for human trials as well.
Putting on the gloves used as controllers, Sam wore the headset and entered the virtual space. It wasnt much different from hisnl lab, mainly because he had adjusted the settings so it would lean more toward AR than VR. That way he wouldn’t have to worry about running into things and falling.
He sat down on his chair and summoned a floating menu. He selected a few materials from it and began the work. An hour later the first object was created. It looked like a sphere the size of a baseball made of layers opon layers of intricately crafted circuits shaped like rings.
The strange object was one of the most essential components of a Valkyrie, the heart. Obviously it doesn’t have anything to do with the human heart. It was the part responsible for creating the force field the Valkyries use in battle, one of the inventions Odin kept to himself despite humanity’s plea for him to share his knowledge.
Sam had spent some of his free time recreating it from the blue prints, though he didn’t know what to do with it up till now.
"Alright. Let’s power it up and see..."
Summoning another floating menu he produced two thin cables and linked them to the sphere. Tapping them produced a small window from which one can adjust the output of the energy required for the experiment. Even though it was all virtual Sam couldn’t help but be wary of what was about to happen. He entered the same numbers and adjusted the settings to simulate the nuclear battery powering the Valkyries, then, after taking a deep breath, he pressed the option to start the simulation.
He expected a red window to appear before him saying that the experiment had failed, however to his surprise it was a success.
The circuit patterns on the rings glowed a faint blue as they slowly spun around each other. A moment later a thin layer of light began to envelop the sphere.