Plans and shield

Plans and shield

While I spent the next few days allowing my body to adjust to my new stats I began experimenting with my recent discoveries. For example I remade the water ring with this new information and it was easily twice or more times as powerful as the original. The original five gallon limit had rose to twelve and the distance limit changed from a set distance to "within sight". The best part was that the cost of the ability was still the same as the original. This made me think that the structured nature of the discovered method had more to do with efficiency than power.-

Sure the power went up for the final result but my gut told me that was actually because the efficiency of my previous products were just that abysmal. That made my eye twitch a bit but I let it go. Anyways thanks to this new efficient method of cursed tool crafting I went back to one of my old designs that I had dropped when I thought it was not feasible, the reflector shield. For those that forgot what that was I had tried to make a shield that absorbed the energy of attacks before sending all the energy out at once at a time of my choice.-

The original attempt at this worked but had such a low thresh hold for overburdening that I deemed it a failure. My hope was that with this new method I could possibly get the idea to work decently. So long as the shield could withstand a full strength hit from me as I am right now I'd consider the idea a success. This was no small amount of strength either as at this exact moment my strength was sitting on the lower end of a middle level threes.-

My update had pushed me firmly past the level of a level two and into the realm of a level three before taking it a step further. By my calculations I'd be about as strong as a new level four when I was finally ready to level up to three. Such exceptionalism came with a massive downside however in that my requirements to level up are now probably as high as a level threes to hit level four. It will only get worse the higher I get unfortunately but it was a price I was willing to pay for a shot at godhood.-

Anyways if I could get a shield to be able to absorb a full strength strike from me then it meant I could in theory return that exact same amount of power at a target any time I wanted which would definitely come in handle. I wouldn't need to wait for an opening anymore to counter attack, I could make one instead. Before any of that though I had to succeed in creating the thing first. For materials I was honestly rather spoilt for choice thanks to my metal detector and the drops I had hoarded over the last month.-

I lifted it high and breathed out as I smashed down with my full power.

"BOOM!"

The sound of the collision reverberated through the air, walls and floor of the workshop as the shield didn't move at all but developed a cracks across it's form.

'Hmm, it couldn't handle that amount of power but wasn't far from being able to so perhaps it's possible with some tweaking?' I though while examining the shield closely.

There were about a dozen hairline cracks on the shield that ruined it's structural integrity but the shape held and was otherwise undamaged which meant that it had been a fairly close thing. I overwhelmed the technique which in turn overwhelmed the shield itself but I didn't do so by so much that it could be considered a complete failure. In fact quite the opposite really as in the hands of a normal level one or two adventurer this technique would be perfect for any normal monster they would likely face.-

'I'll replace the technique from the shield with one made for Lili and shrink it a bit before giving it to her since she is not as durable as Bell and needs better defenses.' I thought as I repaired the damage and removed and replaced the technique with similar restrictions but made for her rather than me.