The microbes Angor used were already pretty costly, if sold to others. Besides, he had enough books that told him how to do his work.
With the experience, he could craft more of the items with much more ease.
Following the recorded video of his first success, he did it again while referring to the video and swiftly created his second space storage.
To make his work more convenient, he still shaped the item into a marble; a gray one this time.
Again, he embedded the marble into a necklace shaped like a pair of butterfly wings and named it “Silvery Butterfly”.
The Silvery Butterfly had 5 cubic meters inside, which was the best he could do using the microbes he was willing to spend. He estimated that this one would get him 20 to 30 thousand magic crystals.
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Three days later, at the end of Month of Soothing Wind.
Angor had created five space storage items in different colors: black, gray, white, orange, and pink.
The Dusk Butterfly only had 3 cubic meters, while the other four all had 5.
The success meant he no longer had to worry about his debt, and he felt greatly relieved. The five items were surely enough to pay his debt. He might even sell them at an auction, which would get him more than 100,000 crystals.
As for the other 150,000 crystals for Sunders… he originally planned to delay it as much as he could. Now that he had such an easy way to make money, he changed his mind.
Besides, he wasn’t going to spend his own microbes. As he recalled, Sunders collected tons of them when constructing the Sorcerer’s Garden.
Angor finally realized that alchemy was a giant money-making machine, first-hand.
After resting for a day, he returned to his lab to make a final space storage for himself.
Naturally, he would want to make the best one for his own use. Moreover, he wished to make something more than a space storage, something that possessed multiple effects.
There was a lot of room to add stuff beside the covenant rune. With the help of an Energy Stabilizer, he could even apply a magic array on it.
He had to do something to bypass the two-minute restriction though. Considering the time needed to use Condense and shape the item, he had less than two minutes to draw his runes.
Any alchemist would consider it impossible to craft a multi-purpose space storage. However, Angor could find many example cases from his alchemy books which could help him. He couldn’t read them before due to his lack of experience. But now, he could finally put them to use.
There was one such example that explained how to add new effects to a space storage by attuning inserted runes synchronously.
For example, when Angor was applying a rune to his ring, he could cast two Hands of Spell, where one would keep working on the rune while the other one began to craft a space gem.
During the finishing touch of the rune, he had to have the extra gem ready. He would then embed the gem onto the ring. Thereafter, he should land the last line of the rune on the gem and apply the covenant rune on the gem instead, before condensing the completed item lodged with a gem.
There were many conditions to finish such a job.
First, a large amount of mana, which was easily manageable using an Energy Stabilizer. However, this meant burning money.
The second was multitasking. He had to maintain two Hands of Spell and ensure both hands performed flawless jobs. It wasn’t hard either; any wizard who could do deep meditation could split his or her logic into two. Angor only needed some practice beforehand.
The third requirement was time management. He had to proceed with two tasks at the same time while ending them both at the same time. It was just a math problem—he might set up an alert in his tablet which kept him informed of the progression of his tasks at all times.
All in all, the problems only looked complicated. If he tackled them one by one… he didn’t actually need much effort.
An ordinary alchemist might back off at the challenge, but Angor wouldn’t. After all, he had all the available textbooks and the hologram tablet for help.
With his great ambition in mind, he started making plans for his invention.