Chapter 77: Tempered Glass Wall, New Door, and Lock System (2/2)
The wall fitted snugly into the indents at its regular size. A moment later, the wall and the floor were transmuted to grip the surface of the glass wall, and the building material Quinn had taken out to increase the size of the indents also went to the roof and floor to create more support for the glass wall.
Quinn stepped back and admired the glass wall and double-checked if it was firmly in its place before making a beckoning gesture and pulling a barstool for him to sit on.
He touched the wall with his right hand, resting his palm and fingers snug against the cool glass. After eyeing the wall for a moment, Quinn injected magic into the glass wall.
Purple waves of magic went through the glass every few seconds, reaching every corner of the wall. The purple waves of magic were the unbreakable charms being imbibed into the glass.
Unbreakable charm wasn't the correct name for the spell because it didn't make an object unbreakable. No, it only strengthened objects so that they would become more resilient to external forces.
Quinn was increasing the resilience of the glass so that it would become difficult to break.
Why not do this to a regular pane of glass instead of a tempered pane of glass? Well, the stronger the base material, the stronger result after placing the unbreakable charm. Tempered glass was naturally tougher than regular glass. So if you put unbreakable charms on it, the result would be much better.
Quinn sat there for five minutes channeling magic into the glass before the charm saturated the glass and could no longer make it any stronger.
The next step of fortifying the glass wall was to make it resistant to transfiguration and transmutation. The strengthened glass would be useless if you could just create a hole in it through transfiguration and pass through it.
There wasn't a way to fully disable transfiguration and transmutation as it was not feasible to isolate every single spell type and individually disable them one by one. So the next best thing Quinn could do was to make it resistant to magical changes.
The concept behind achieving something like that was easy.
'Using transfiguration and transmutation to defend against transfiguration and transmutation,' smiled Quinn, in thought.
Pushing more magic into the wall, Quinn commanded his magic to transfigure the glass that made up the wall to stay the same. Quinn was forcing glass matter to stay as glass. He was making his magic to freeze/jam the state of matter so that when someone tried magic against the glass, it would be difficult to budge as Quinn's magic was forcing the glass to stay the way it was currently.
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After the wall was done came the turn for the door.
The thing about doors in walls was that people went for the door when trying to break in. No one tried to break the actual wall when you had a door in it.
The doors were thinner than the walls they were fitted in and were made from a relatively weaker material. Quinn's wooden door was no different, and it clearly showed when Ivy Potter kicked the door down to enter the workshop.
So to make sure his door wouldn't be the hole in his defense, Quinn decided to make sure it would be a hassle to break.
Quinn started with the door's wood. He used the hardest wood available to him and bought a few logs of Australian Buloke wood. This wood had a very strength-toughness level on a pound-force scale.
”I have to stain it in a hardening solution,” uttered Quinn as he took out a bucket of a red potion solution that he had finished brewing yesterday. He looked at the viscous red liquid and chuckled, ”This baby took three days to brew. Oh, this is going to be good~.”
The red solution would strengthen the wood fibers when absorbed into the material.
”Plus, it will give the wood a nice red sheen.”
Quinn looked at the Australian Buloke wood logs and levitated them over the center island. Slowly, he turned the wood into sawdust by breaking down the wooden logs into a coarse powder. He made sure that the wood powder didn't fly over the room.
He separated the sawdust into multiple trays and poured the red hardening solution into the trays. As he poured the liquid over the sawdust, the sawdust started to move and mix with the red potion liquid.
Quinn had converted the wood into sawdust so that every fiber would get exposed to the potion, strengthening the wood at a deeper level.
”Okay, done.” Quinn finished pouring the liquid over the multiple trays. Now, he just needed to give it time for the solution to get mixed and get completely absorbed into the wood. Quinn continued mixing the wood using magic and moved along.
”Now, where is that high-carbon steel plate,” Quinn looked around the workshop and found a sheet of high-carbon steel. ”Alright, this will do. This will do very well.”
Quinn laid the metal sheet on the floor and punched ten holes in the sheet; two rows of four holes and one row of two holes. The metal sheet was going inside the door, and the holes were there so the wood could go through them and really bind the metal with the wood.
The next part of the door was the lock. Quinn used the same high-carbon steel to craft a lock system with a regular lock opened with a key.
The other part of the lock was a system of thirteen steel cylinders that would enter the door from the frame around the door. And these cylinders couldn't be released from the door with the key. They had to be released by magic, and if no one knew about the cylinders, no one would figure out how to disable the cylinder system.
Ten minutes of unbreakable charms into the metal finally saturated the metal with magic. It couldn't be made any stronger by the use of the unbreakable charm.
By the time Quinn was done, the wood was prepared. It was ready to be turned into a wooden door with a metal plate inside.
The punched high-carbon steel sheet along with the lock system floated in the air as Quinn directed it with his left hand. He pointed his right hand towards sawdust trays, and around three-quarters of treated sawdust flew towards the metal sheet.
The wood fibers gathered around the metal and formed a red door made from treated Australian Buloke wood and a high-carbon steel core and locks. The completed door also went through the same treatment of transfiguration and transmutation resistance.
The remaining quarter of the treated sawdust flew towards the rectangular opening in the glass wall and formed a wooden frame for the door to fit in. The rectangular opening in the glass wall had notches around it for the wooden frame to fit on the glass wall.
Quinn fitted the door in the frame and entered the thirteen cylinders into the wooden frame, five on both lengths of the door and three on the top breath of the door.
”Done,” celebrated Quinn as he opened the door and went back and forth. When he closed the door, the steel cylinders were inserted into the door in such a way that the cylinders were door and frame at the same time, jamming the door with the frame.
”Now, let's put some charms to punish anyone who touches the door.” Quinn shot spells at the door that would shock and burn anyone who would touch the door and an anti-unlocking charm on the regular lock.
”Yeah, try to break this door, Ivy Potter,” smirked Quinn.
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Quinn West - MC - Fortifying the A.I.D classroom.
FictionOnlyReader - Author - Don't know why I wrote this chapter, but I did. So... thanks for reading.
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