Chapter 127 (1/2)
Chapter 127
Too Early
Chu Shen found Lucas after he left Lidia in her room. They had some small talk and they even went inside Lucas’ pocket dimension to look around. Chu Shen had been so busy because of Master Ti Wu’s grueling training that he hadn’t had the time to talk to Lucas. He marveled at how much Lucas had gotten done.
“So Lucas, did you really manage to build all this?” Chu Shen marveled at the fusion bottle as the sound of plasma crackling came from it.
Lucas did a pose. “Of course I did. Otherwise, wouldn’t others call me simply a useless sidekick?”
Chu Shen looked confused. “Who would call you that?”
“All the teachers.”
“Oh, yeah. I forgot about that, mister bodyguard.”
“.....Mention it again, and I’m teleporting you to the moon.”
“Sheesh. Anyways Lucas, how did you even get the materials? It seems like you built a lot of things that require some pretty rare stuff.” Chu Shen pointed at the laser cannon in the background.
Lucas shrugged. “The cradle-free fabricator really helped as far as making the bigger things. To be honest though, the real credit goes to the ARD.”
“What’s the ARD?” Chu Shen was confused at this.
Lucas immediately pounced on the opportunity to show off. “A.R.D. stands for Atomic Rea.s.sembling Device. Essentially it’s a device that can deconstruct items at it’s atomic level and then rea.s.semble them in any form. For example, taking graphite and turning it into diamonds. All it requires is rea.s.sembling the way the carbon atoms are bonded to each other.
“Rea.s.sembling items like that is it’s most basic form. What it really does is it can rearrange the electrons, protons, and neutrons inside the atom’s nucleus and electron cloud. By adding more of these subatomic particles to oxygen, one can turn pure oxygen into pure iron. Of course, a room full of oxygen would only turn into a fistful of iron because of how much denser it is.
“There was a lot of rare materials that I had to find before I could even get started with making it. I spent three months just trying to track them all down. After that, I was able to make a ton of stuff without having to leave the dimension. Though I did have to go out every once in awhile and dig up mountains of dirt so that the ARD could trans.m.u.te them.”
Lucas adopted a pained look at this point. “The only downside is the ma.s.sive amount of power it drains to do something like that. It’s the reason that I had to make the antimatter generator. Otherwise I would have to use over a hundred Rank 7 beast cores just to power the thing.”
Chu Shen froze. One….. hundred. One hundred. One hundred beast cores!!!! Even if they were Rank 2 beast cores that was an insane amount! Lucas wasn’t talking about such low rank cores but Rank 7 cores?!!!! THIS WAS OUTRAGEOUS! It was like saying ‘I need all of the energy from one hundred Martial Kings’, all of which was needed to power one device!
Lucas saw Chu Shen’s shocked look and rolled his eyes. “Honestly Chu Shen, you should know how much energy is needed to split atoms into their subatomic particles and then fuse them to create the atom needed. Most of the energy goes towards containment. I have to be able to contain the energy of several hundred nuclear bombs inside the ARD from splitting the atoms and then harness that energy to fuse them together. Since some of the energy is lost in the transfer I also have to supply that energy.”
Chu Shen smiled. “You know, I remembered that we really are nerds. Wanna talk about hyperphysics calculations again?”
Lucas smiled back. “Nah. How about we just talk about the calculations I had to do in order to get all this together.”
“Sure. Let’s just get back to the kids first.”
“Honestly, you should stop calling them kids. They’re far more mature than most adults at this point.”
Chu Shen shrugged. “They’re all still five foot at the most. I just can’t help calling them kids even if they do have scars over their faces.”