Chapter 109: Magical brick (2/2)
”In theory, we could use cubic bricks like that…” Layn pointed his hand at the four, grey cubes hanging in the air in front of him before shaking his head, ”but it's impractical. That's why we make them longer,” he said, before changing the orders for his magic a bit.
This time, rather than trying to condense the shit out of it, Layn allowed one of the sides of the barrier to stretch, while the others started to contract once again. And soon, the former lump of clay turned into a shape that Layn could finally recognize.
”There is a lot more that can be done about the shape. Depending on the use, we can drill holes in those bricks, we can leave only the walls, we can drill geometric shapes or even geometry of our dicks.” Layn used crude words to emphasize the point he was trying to make. ”All that matters is that we are now before the very last step.”
As soon as he finished his words, Layn dismissed all four of his barriers, allowing three of the fresh bricks to fall to the ground, instantly deforming back into a lump of clay. The only surviving brick rested on his hand rather than falling to the ground.
”What I'm going to do now, is the speed-up process. While it will make for bricks of slightly lower quality, we can just leave them on the sun and let it dry them for us.” Layn smiled when noticing the looks of hesitation on the faces of his mercenaries. Inducing this kind of feeling was the very reason why he decided to drop three out of four examples he prepared.
”Now, watch what happens.” Layn smiled, before covering his hand with fire.
The spell of burning was one of the earliest offensive techniques any mage would learn in the future. Given the simplicity of the structure that made up this spell, only requiring the user to induce three different phenomena with mana, it was also considered to not only be the most researched spell, but also the one that was the hardest to develop any further.
Just like the saying goes, the better is the opposite of the good. And yet, Layn spent an uncountable amount of time while trying to defeat this saying. Yet, just like with all of his childish attempts at creating a Perpetuum mobile before, he failed.
'But all this training and testing I did still allowed me to pass the class with the flying colors,' Layn thought while watching how the fires spread from his hand to all over the wet brick. Given his expertise at the spell of burning, he could freely set its temperature, even if it was too wary between different parts of the flame.
'Dang, I got immersed in it again,' Layn scolded himself in his thoughts, before regaining his focus. 'In the end, I'm not here to flex my magic, but to create a damned brick!' he added some insults to his mental injuries, before suddenly retracting his spell.
The brick turned slightly reddish. Its color wasn't as saturated as Layn expected, proving that his method of creating this brick wasn't as effective as he hoped it would be.
'Well, it doesn't matter. We will improve the technique as we will go,' Layn thought to himself before throwing the brick towards the mercenaries.
”Here. Try breaking it.” Layn smiled. In the end, there was one more trick that he did to the brick, something that required humanity over two hundred years more in the historical development to figure out.
He added a powdered form of a crystal that was almost fully exhausted of the mana stored inside.
”Sir?” The mercenaries looked at the pinkish piece of former clay with clear hesitation. ”Are you sure?”
For the mercenaries, the solid piece of brick was nothing but a burned clay. And just like with mud, if someone burned mud, it would turn solid… But who would even have any trouble at kicking a piece of earth away or apart?
”Auch!” Irea, who didn't know what Layn had planned, volunteered. Yet, as soon as she kicked the brick, her face twisted in pain. On the other hand, the brick simply rolled a bit away.
”Now, try to do it seriously if you dare,” Layn smiled. This time, Irea didn't dare to step forward. Sensing the opportunity to prove himself, Pavrien stepped forward before driving his cultivation to its meager limits and striking the brick with his hand.
”ARGH!” The sound of pain that instantly came out of his throat quickly announced the expected result.