35 Chapter 35- Don'st look at another persons data

A chill went down Dubs spine when Reagan whispered into his ear.

"Eh?"

"Ah. Is that so?", Dubs replied, unsure how to react.

Only a moment of confusion remained however, as he quickly read the situation.

"I suppose this is what romance is...", Dubs thought.

Dubs had been locked up his entire life, and had no clue how to react. He decided to play along with her.

"Alright then. In that case, I love you too.", Dubs replied.

There was a hint of innocence in his voice, as he didn't really understand what it meant to love a person, however he did feel a strong emotion towards protecting his comrades back when he was at the HQ in Lardis.

"Ah, perhaps that is what love is! The desire to protect someone.", Dubs thought.

"Reagan, I will do whatever it takes to become stronger and be able to protect you. I have accepted you as an insider in my personal circle, and there is something I wish to discuss with you."

Reagan swirled around the table and took a seat, and rested her chin on her hand, staring at Dubs.

"Hehe! What is it that you wanted to discuss, darling?", she asked.

Dubs began to think about his plot to cleanse the world, and a look of thrill came upon his face.

"Reagan, do you agree with me that those who use their power to prey on the weak are trash?", Dubs questioned.

Reagan grinned, and responded "Of course, Dubs. That is why I am affiliated with the resistance after all... though there are some within the resistance that are not worthy of the influence they have..."

"And do you agree with me that those people should be subject to the horrors that they subject others to?", Dubs continued.

"Hehehe. I see where this is going. Are you saying you want to subject those who perform human experimentation to our own experiments here?", Reagan responded.

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"You understand my intentions. I have bigger plans than that, however. Reagan, if I can train my magical abilities, and enhance society with the technology we produce in this lab, we will be able to produce a military force powerful enough to shake the foundations of this world."

Reagan began to shift her head from resting on one arm to the other, thinking deeply. "It is possible to do. We would have to plan things out ahead of time, and do much research and engineering, though."

Dubs began to speak more frantically. "That isn't a problem! We have all the time we need, nobody is on our tracks right now. We can slowly build up our power and influence, and by the time anyone powerful enough to stop us notices it will already be too late!"

"Hehe! This sounds like a fun goal. I will help you, Dubs. Let me get one thing clear though-"

Reagan walked over to Dubs and wrapped her arms around his head, resting her head on top of his.

"If you betray my trust there will be no going back.", she whispered, while covering his eyes.

Dubs grabbed her hand and removed it from his eyes. "I wouldn't even consider such a thing."

Reagan made her way back to sit down again and giddily exclaimed. "Then that's fine!". It was like she had become a different person for a moment.

Dubs took a sip of wine and feasted on the ham. After finishing his dinner, he stood up.

He walked over to Reagan, and gave her a hug. "Something like this?", he thought.

Reagan quickly hugged him back and Dubs, who sounded completely sane at this point, stated "Thank you.", and he then walked back to the living room, where he fell asleep on the couch.

The morning came, and Dubs woke up to see Reagan fast asleep on the couch next to him. "I guess I shouldn't bother her."

Alt had been biding his time in his shadow form, sitting in a recliner across from the two.

"It sure has been a boring night. You're lucky that a good amount of the insanity I once had has traveled over to you, or else I would have probably tried to cause some destruction last night.", Alt stated in a monotone voice.

Dubs thought back to the experiment that Reagan had left out last night. "Did she end up obtaining the data after I went to sleep? I should go check. I hope she didn't just forget about it."

Dubs rushed downstairs to the lab, and saw the table with the test tubes. The flesh and bones that were inside of them had completely dissolved, and Dubs looked around the drawers to find a notepad.

20% Barasylis acid solution, 80% water.

Surface area of samples: 5-7 cm^2

Cardiac flesh time of dissolving: 47 minutes

Bone time of dissolving: 3 hrs 24 minutes

Skin/muscle tissue time of dissolving: 36 minutes

As expected, the bone took much longer to dissolve, and the tough cardiac tissue took longer than the skin tissue.

"Even though the solution was highly diluted, it took a very long time for these small samples to completely dissolve. I wonder how much time this would be reduced by if a 100% concentration were used..."

Dubs began to consider all the scientific applications of this acid

"Most importantly, can I enhance the acidic properties through magic? If so, can I create a device that does this after I charge the device, like a battery, but with magical energy?"

"Wait a minute.... how does one even actually gather magical energy? I can do so by sheer willpower manually, however what physical law allows me to do this? If it truly is a natural law where the magic is simply flowing along the path of least resistance, then I may be able to channel this energy mechanically..."

Dubs was not far from the truth here, as the way magic worked was that when one is subject to magical radiation, they obtain a certain 'magical field' that is produced by their own brainwaves.

This magical field can be manipulated depending on how adept the magic user is. Magical particles will follow the path of the field (similar to a magnetic field), and flow to wherever it is directed. This is why magicians can cast spells, and manipulate energy.

Dubs, who had been subject to radiation to extreme amounts had a magical field that surrounded his body completely, and was enhanced by each element type.

Each magical field that is produced can only channel one element type of energy, however these fields can overlap creating an apparent field that channels multiple types of energy.

Most magical fields created by humans could never be completely aligned. It was like if you had a line of 7 arrows, and while 5 of the 7 were pointing to the right, 2 of them might be pointing to the left. Any particles that landed on the arrows that were pointing to the left would get through the barrier, which was defending the person on the left.

The magical field produced by Dubs had no such weaknesses. The reason his magic was so powerful- and the reason why the density of the magic was so high- was because all of the 'field lines' he created were facing in a single direction.

The reason he could not control many magic particles was because he could not create many field lines, as many of these field lines were being used up by his body's natural defensive resistance.

Now that Dubs and Alt were becoming synchronized, the ability to create more field lines was becoming more feasible for Dubs.

Of course, Dubs only had a very vague grasp at these mechanics.

"I will look into the channeling of magical energy through non-manual means. For now, I think I should go hunting outside for some resources to run some experiments on!", Dubs thought.

Dubs first headed to the training room so that he could practice his magical control some more, and spent a few hours trying to fully cloak himself in the shadow material.

"Are we gonna get to fight some creatures soon?", Alt asked impatiently.

"I should practice here first. Don't worry, Alt. Soon I will go out to hunt for some resources. At that time, without a doubt we will run into some enemies to fight!"

Dubs continued practicing. By the end of the session, he was able to cloak his leg running all the way from his foot up to his knee.

"This progress has been exponential! I could not even enclose half of this area yesterday. I suppose sleeping after practicing a spell really helps me to master it..."

Dubs left the training room to catch Reagan in the lab, and she looked furious.

Dubs slowly walked towards her, unsure as to why she looked so angry.

"Is something wrong?", Dubs asked.

Reagan waltzed up to Dubs and slapped him.

Dubs stayed silent, unsure what was going on.

"Dubs! Why was my notebook out here on the table!? Don't tell me that you went through a woman's things without her permission."

"..."

"I only took a look at the experimental data... what is the problem?", Dubs questioned.

Reagan bit her cheek, and with a tsundere expression looked away and said "I was going to surprise you when I had come up with some significant results. Don't check my data whenever you feel like it..."

Dubs wasn't sure why Reagan was acting like this, but one thought came across his mind.

"Cute", he said out loud.

Reagan looked away even further and Dubs started to walk off.

"I'm going to obtain some more materials for research. I won't pry into what your doing from now on, just let me know when you find something!"

Dubs exited the lab and the door closed with a creak.