the fallout part 3

She was about to say something until she hears Alex grumble and immediately take out multiple components. Not twenty second later, another chip appears in his hand. She looked at him retrieve the arrow chip, and insert the new one before also tinker with the chip in his hands, while the 3D printer starts to create another bow, from the same material than the first one.

She had rapidly learned that, while Alex was a cuddle machine, he also had a grumpy side. Every time it would be because he creates something that didn't satisfy him. He always needs to make it perfect, and wouldn't stop before it was.

Even if it was a little defect, it made Alex more real to her. Ever since he Appears at Hogwarts, he had been special. Always first in class, taking to the material like a fish in water, and always with a book in hand.

It was only after starting to live with him that she understands. The material he had at disposition was so much advanced compared to Hogwarts that it wasn't laughable, only pitiful. While he read a lot, nearly all his reading were composed of runes and arithmancy text so far ahead that she feared he was the only person on earth to have such degrees of mastery on the subject.

Even the thing he invents were still blowing her mind. While he had slowly introduced her to the mundane technology, he was years ahead, they watched their first 3D hologram film last night, for merlin shake!

The experience had been so real that she thought to be in a pensive memory, but even this hadn't satisfied him. From his word, she thought to have caught, total immersion, something having to do with a 360° film, making them at the centre of the movie. While she was still a novice, she knows that the amount of work and data it would require was just astronomical.

Outside of his creation frenzies, Alex was a simple individual. He would be neutral, limit cold, with anyone he wasn't familiar with him. After that, they were two possibilities. The friendly one and the enemy one.

If you fall in the first category your alright, depending on the degree o familiarity, Alex would be helpful when needed, while never giving you the straight answer, making you work for it. As for herself, Susan still didn't know where she was situated. The moment they became mate, Alex had an active presence in their relationship. He wanted to know everything about her, understand her personality, or even know what made her tick. Sometimes she had the impression that she was a little like his invention. He would study her to the smallest details to understand her perfectly.

On the other side, Alex would give his everything to her. While she was still a student of Hogwarts, he had taken in hand her education. In those four months, she had been brought back to the basics and reworked all from then. Alex was a slave driver and wouldn't leave her alone without finishing what she had started. In those four months, she had already completed her first-year material and was a third done with the second, all this while still attending class, and working on the weekend.

Even if he pushed her to her limit every time, he would stop everything he was working on to help her, should she need it. She had at first felt insecure and unworthy after founding the mind-blowing amount of work and knowledge he had, and how much it means for him to make everything work.

It didn't last long, or rather, Alex didn't allow it. He had crushed her insecurity ruthlessly with a 23 hour long cuddles, icecreams, marshmallows, films filled marathon. He had buried her with so much fluff and cared that she hadn't other choice but accept that she was his, and he would not accept her feel unworthy. He had been so sweet that she nearly died of diabetes, and she still shudders at the memories. It was that day that she understand that she loved her grumpy, cuddle addict, ball of fluffiness mate.

If you were his enemy, though... Just look at the state of the magical community. He had nearly destroyed a millennial-long society with nothing more than knowledge. When Alex didn't like you, he would make everything to destroy you. If you were an idiot like Fudge, he would use everything he knows to slowly destroy what you liked the most, before giving you the last blow. If you were a dangerous idiot like Flint, he would immediately kill you and feast on your corpse.

Strangely, that was another point she liked in him. If he had the capacity, he would immediately destroy and kill anyone that will threaten him on his own. If he weren't powerful enough, he would start either a low acting plan or train until physical overcoming them.

The second point was still mot, but somewhere, Susan know that their will came a day Alex, and her, would have do stop relying on knick-knack and train seriously. For the moment, being an Evans give them the advantage to be at least thrice as strong as the fittest human, for her, fifth for Alex, but it wouldn't always be enough.

The reason for her feeling came from the Norse gods she encounters the day he made her, his mate. If higher being existed, what prevent others, as much, or stronger than them to exist. Even if there isn't, she knows that one day, Alex would be asked something from them. This intuition was born from an old gift of her bloodline. The Bones had been a long and tight history with divination, most with bones, where they earned their names.

This gift hadn't stopped nagging her that something will happen, soon.

~~~

The instant Alex started to grumble, CS was about to propose it service, but stay quiet when he 'see' lines of runes appears in Alex mind. In the past few months, Alex had started stopping relaying n him to construct runes arrays and develop his analytical mind.

Needlessly to say, CS had been mind-blowed. While he didn't, and would possibly never achieve CS computing ability, he shined through sheer ingeniosity. Slowly, Alex was starting to develop his brand of runic arrays, through the cumulation of all his knowledge.

For CS, who stay with the set parameter, seeing such thing slowly construct before his eyes were beautiful. CS needed a few months to understand what Alex was doing, only obtaining the response not long ago. Simply put, Alex was putting the base of is 'binary code' but much more complicated.

If the one used in programming computer was a suite of 0 and 1, Alex was creating the same effect with the entire syllabary of the Elder Futhark runes. Alex was so far gone into the programming of his code, that even CS wasn't able to help him.

This project had started the moment he entered Hogwarts and was only nearing his completion now. Even Alex approach of this code had nothing of programming. While dealing with a computer, you create the code source on witch your programs would run, but Alex was launching a program to construct the codes, with each failure refining the code.

This was only possible for the simple reason that the programme was the enchantment he wanted to apply, and the code, the arrays. By stacking all programmes together, Alex was running the code, until it seamlessly runs, without modifying the original programme.

~~~

Fifteen minutes after Alex stared, the entire scheme of the bow code source appears in is mind. Taking a blank chip, the code was immediately imprinted on, before he adds the necessaries program to activate the printer.

Taking a peak in Alex scheme, CS could see that the bow was running the main program, with sub-divisions ones. The mainframe was a power control, by controlling it, Alex would freely control the draw weight of the bow. The minimal setting was made at 40lbs, until 250lbs.

The sub-divisors enchantments weren't difficult to add, as they were those already present on the first bow.

~~~

All looked the bow slowly construct, from the riser to the limbs, while the string was crafted and put on the side. The clicker had vanished, turned into an enchanted simple rectangle piece of goblin steel. The arrow rest was now a part of the riser line, making it blend smoothly in.

All in all, the bow was similar to hold one, with round limbs, rather than the flat one nowadays. Due to the large arrays put on the bow, Alex hadn't other choice but added EC to feed the bow rather than running on his magic. The energy conversion arrays on the EC would make in a sort that the stronger the pull, the greater the charge delivered back in them.

While the bow had been under construction, Alex had taken out another printer and started to create arrows. While staying the same, a thin EC ring had been put at the front, just behind the arrowhead, and at the back, just before the nock. Those two EC would power the frictionless, and wind pressure suppression arrays.

~~~

Taking out the bow once it was finished, Alex added the string, before taking the arrows and fills is a quiver. Walking to the target, he takes out the busted wooded block, replacing it with a cube of ballistic gel put in a rune square without sides.

Having an idea of the power of the arrows would have, the square would reinforce the gel to a hundred time, making sure the arrows wouldn't pass through.

Returning to the firing range; he retreats 250m further, now at 500m. Even at this distance, he didn't have any difficulty to spot the ten-centimetre wide centre and five-centimetre wide bull eye.

As Alex hold the grip firmly, he dialled the draw weight back to his previous limit, 196lbs. Pulling on the string, the arrow immediately appears, the EC powering the enchant while drawing energy from the sunrays.

Releasing his hold the instant the clicker deliver the slightest magical pulse, the arrow tear through the air. Not a second later, the thunderous noise of the impacted ballistic gel resounds in the surrounding. In the air, the white line of the arrow trajectory was still visible after broking through the sound barrier.

Thanks to Alex enchantment put on both bow and arrows, the blast had been suppressed, the energy released absorbed in the EC, for a stealthy, deadly arrow.

Not stopping, Alex fired another twelve arrows successively. Due to their insane speed, the time he draws the string and fire, the previous arrow had already landed, deeply buried in the ballistic gel.

~~~

On the side, Susan had difficulty taking her eyes out of the shredded staw target, shivering at the damage the simple arrow was dealing.

'What the heck! Even tanks wouldn't be able to take that much abuse. Even if those weren't able to pierce the blindage, he could easily enchant some to do it. From the ease he had, he wouldn't need a firearm; he could already snipe a target at 500m. He didn't make any bullseyes or centre, but with a little practice...'

She was taken out of her flunk, by Alex called. The moment she turns to him, a second bow, similar to the one he held was in his other hand. As Alex one, the bow was sleek, making think of the one elven one in fiction. The bow even had a nice colour scheme, light emerald on the riser, who slowly durn darker until both limbs end.

Giddily taking it, she was surprised that it is so light, for a bow made of metal and wood. Like Alex, a quiver with arrows was soon fixed on her tight, right side, for her.

"There are only four arrows in, and three hundred ninety-six to come. Start to exercise with this one too became familiar with it; during this time, I will build a better firing range. I also have an idea f a gear to allow us an easier hunt, be careful." Say Alex before kissing her forehead.

~~~

-What you have in mind?-

'Something similar to the RoR, it will look like a small firing range from the outside, but would be wider in.' Respond Alex to CS, while walking to the house.

Entering the house he had constructed with the elves, Alex stopped in the guest room, turning on his left, he put his hand on the wall. Deconstructing the entire panel, a glassed wall replaced it. Adding simple soundproofing and isolation arrays, he opens the door given outside.

Alex flattens the ground before laying a thick slab of concrete, drying it with runes, while hardening it beyond its standard capacity. Walking a little, he constructed a small corridor, leading to a 25* 5-meter long slab, before raise beams of black tainted steel. Fusing the beams, he rapidly obtains the skeleton, before adding glass panel, and EC concealed in the corner.

Constructing a modern-looking room made of steel and glass linked to an ancient-looking house was a little strange, but Alex liked the contrast. Sitting on the ground, he took eight Diamonds cubes, before starting inscribing them.

What Alex wanted was a simple firing range able to expend, who would also offer moving targets, but also different situations. For now, he focuses on a simple 40x expansion, giving a kilometre long, 200-metre wide room. Linking the diamond cubes to the EC outside, he integrates them in the eight corners of the room, and the crystal panel installed on the side of the door.

Testing the enchantment, he pushed the expansion to its maximum, looking like the room slowly expand at measure the EC absorb solar energy. While it was expanding, Alex worked on the secondary system, dealing with the stationary and moving targets, along the configuring landscape.

Installing the crystal pillar with a tablet fused in it, and a machine similar to the printer, Alex transferred a large amount of primary material inside it.

As the Ec was charging, he worked on a pair of glove and boots. On them, Alex would but a simple enchantment, powered by Ec too, to not exhaust it, the user. With a featherlight harness englobing the entire body, those gloves and boots would allow them to stick on the surface. In the Forbidden forset, such gear would enable them to snipe the Acromentulas while standing on branches of the trunk of the trees.

Putting the gears aside when finished, Alex returned to the Programmation of the system that will manage the entire room.

~~~

Shortly before he finished, Susan entered the room, curious as to what Alex was making. She found him tinkering on a tablet put on a crystal pillar, in an empty room.

"... And finish! Sue, good! You came at the right time!" Say, Alex, having heard her enter.

Seeing her curious gaze, he smiled before pushing on an unseen button. From the pillar of steel, a vast amount of liquid metal were poured on the ever-expanding room. She looked stupefied when she catch panel indicating the distance every fifty meters.

When the room stopped, it was a kilometre long and wide of two hundred metres, more than enough to move freely. COntinuing, Alex push and a series of other buttons, making appear target from the ground, every hundred metres. Contrary to the straw one, those had a human feature, without a face.

Walking to the first, she lightly touches the translucent matter.

"It ballistic gel, like the cube, but no more reinforced than human level. The skeleton is made of carbon fibre with bones density. For now, there are only stationary targets, but once I had the correct data, they will copy humanoid interaction on behaviour. That not all!" Say him, before typing on the tablet. From the side of the human-sized printer, robots rapidly exit a sort of locker and start to build a house made of bricks. Their inbuild 3D printer produced those bricks, and less than a four minutes later, an empty, fake house was constructed.

"This would allow us to learn how to use those in an urban area!" Giddily say Alex, while showing her the gears.

~~~

Four hours later, it was an exhausted couple grinning like loons, who exit the room. They passed the last hours learning how to properly stick to the building while keeping a stable posture to shoot various targets. Thank the Acromentulas on the ground, Alex had enough data to builts unmoving replica. This had permitted them to see how much power they need to pierce their thick hide, but not too much to pass through it.

The astronomical amount of liquid turned to be simple small bots. While not developed to the point of creating a complex construct, there was more than enough to simulate trees. Mixed with the bots, hey would be able to construct a real house, fully equipped.

While Susan was having a blast blowing Acromentulas, Alex had made a motion camera, and give them to Autumn to post some in London and around the nest. With the numbers of both populations, he would have enough data the following day to exploit and upgrade the golem.

Even the room was only an experiment, and he would slowly raise its expansion capacity. For this, he needs to first see of much energy consumption it could support, before he throws away the idea, and start to think of a rune based generator.

All in all, Alex was proud of his advancement into owning his own danger room.