3- My Lab

Well, today I am gonna ask about the lab, I am itching to have, I never rely on artefacts to battle because first they are external sources of power, second they are external sources of power and most importantly they are external sources of power. Yup, that's it.

Well, this limitation could be removed by having a growth-type artefact attached to your soul or physical body, like sacred gears or systems, yup those are artefacts that affect reality at some level and I could even create some with my energy, but, those created by high-quality items are super good. 

I once was a system user, and the one I had was created from a few Omni-level treasures, well, in that life, I reached a level never before, that was the true prime of my power if we don't consider one life I had after that, but yeah, the time taken to reach was less than a century with the system, which is absurd even by my standards.

Well, moving on, I went to have the weekly dinner or family gathering, with my new outfit, which is basically a durable bathrobe, yup, I hope my parents don't excommunicate me, well I can probably manage somehow being a hobo.

My father just laughed, my mother was glaring at me, and my sister was laughing too, Oni-chan was unfazed, One-chan just gave a look that she usually gives to her husband when he slacks off.

Well, the only one who was actually happy by my arrival was my 2-year-old nephew Millicas, well he really likes me for some reason since I could remember, Rias and my big-bad devil brother are also jealous of that fact, well I am just that awesome.

I picked Millicas up from Grayfia's lap and sat on my seat, he was visibly happy by my action seeing how much positive emotion he was radiating and the happy noises he was making, along with saying some broken statements, well 2 year old can talk here. I just sent a smug look towards my brother and Rias, they were visibly jealous.

"Well, I want a lab father, preferably in the basement," I said while feeding the toddler, I gave him a page with my requirements.

"Oh, I thought you were focusing on becoming a middle-class devil first," said my father, well, my progress is generally hidden as the topic rarely comes up, " Yeah, I just became one today" I said while releasing my aura or intent through mana, everyone was either shocked or visibly impressed, well they actually saw it coming.

"I see, very well it will be prepared by tomorrow morning," Dad said, I beamed at him, and thanked him, after a few minutes he brought up a topic that I was already anticipating, " So, Hiro, seeing you work hard daily, how about becoming the heir ?", I just raised Millicas from my lap in front of my face, he tilted his head cutely, seemingly questioning why I did that. 

My father just deadpanned at me "Well, I am just too lazy to care for some duties, same for Rias, under our leadership, Gremory House might go bankrupt, how about my cute nephew " I said, after a few moments of contemplation I added, " Well, that considering if my nephew didn't turned out be like me if he is, you can always wait for him to have children and hope they are up to the task, till then you can always do the task yourself old man".

Everybody laughed at that and my dad visibly shivered, well such responsibilities are out of my range of domain, I am taking a research route, similar to Ajuka and gonna make a reputation like that in 2 years before my 11th birthday.

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I entered my lab in the basement, I currently had 3 floors, and the 3rd floor was completely empty, I have grand plans for that, 2nd floor is gonna be my storage and 1st is my main area, I have many computers and screens here, which I am gonna upgrade soon.

In the underworld the internet equivalent is devilnet, how unoriginal, then again wasting time on naming these is foolish.

Well, I started with creating a gun with my creation magic, yup this is the most useful aspect of my creation magic, mana to matter conversion

Well moving on, first of all, I am gonna create a gun that shoots mana of the user or nature energy to shoot, in runes of high-level artefacts this principle is used, but due to the fact that directly creating bullets is more efficient nobody has done much research in this direction.

Artefacts are in-fact divided into 6 categories - low, mid, high, sacred, divine, and transcendental, with sacred gears being sacred level artefacts and most of Longinus being divine level.

Moving on my long-term goal for now is to increase the efficiency of the already existing magic circles, these haven't been advanced since 1000 years, well, developing these is generally dependent on luck, because testing billions of formations is actually time-consuming.

Well, not for me, I have the perk of being able to use Simulations, thanks to one of my ES, not only that my space-time awareness can now see 3 seconds in future, but also, apart from my normal domain of awareness, I have a recreated a technique called focus domain, this is basically like using a magnifying glass in space-time, in layman's terms, my normal domain gives me a map and focus domain is a magnifying glass.

Actually, given my skillset why I didn't become a researcher with these is really a mystery, well, in one life I was one but in that, I didn't have these skills.

Well, if you didn't forget, half of my consciousness is always practising awareness, one quarter now circulating destructive energy throughout my body and the last quarter is doing this research.

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It has been a month since I started creating a magical gun and I have successfully created a prototype, the substance I am using for its frame is tougher than the diamond found in the human realm.

Well, in the gun, there are 9 magical circles, One for precision, one for recycling the energy from the impact like sound and heat energies for the next shot, 3 for reducing the energy losses and 3 for absorbing nature energy from the surrounding and last for shock absorbing.

Well, the most time it took was to compact the nature energy absorber in a small circle without losing most of its efficiency, well I could use that in my future inventions.

"So are you done with making your toy ?"One-chan said, she along with Rias and my nephew arrived to test my newly created invention.

"One-chan, this isn't a toy, this is the fruit of my labour, this is my baby," I said while taking Millicas in my embrace, "Uncle!" he said, I just beamed at him.

Grayfia just raised a brow at that, meanwhile Rias was exploring my lab.

"So, how many circles have you used in your... baby," asked the woman in question, "9" I replied, the main problem in using more than one circle is that then the stability of the whole construct also depends on the interaction between individual circles, even if taking the generalized version of a circle, just changing a shape of how mana is flowing or creating a new branch altogether can change the function and nature of the circle itself.

20 per cent of that also depends on luck, and 80 per cent is technique in this case, either way, let's say you have created a good combo for 2 circles, but if you introduce a new circle, then you will have to look for a new combo for whole 3 circles, increasing the difficulty as more circles are added.

One-chan raised a brow at that "Are you sure that this thing is a gun and not an explosive?, if it is you could just accidentally drop it in the battle, and if you are lucky, your enemy can try to use it against you and boom " she said with a humorous tone

"Actually, that's not a bad idea," I said while noting it on my computer, she sighed, used to my antics and we moved on to the testing area.

"We are gonna first test the penetrative power of the magical bullet vs the distance from where it was shot" I said while motioning her to the shooting area in the room. You might need this I said to Rias while handing over her black tinted glasses, me and my 2-year-old nephew were already wearing them, "Oh, sure, it actually looks like we are testing " she said.

One-chan shot it first from 100 metres in a wooden dummy, it was easily able to pass through it. Next was for an iron dummy and the result was the same, moving on we went with some more material, and after finally reaching a modified diamond, it was unable to penetrate it.

I told her to increase the output to mode 2x, I have created 3 modes, 1x, 2x and 3x, well the output of energy in the bullet increases, but so is the recharging time, it's 1 second for 1x, 4second for 2x and 8 seconds for 3x, as I got to know later, which was in line with my expectations.

the 2x mode was able to penetrate that modified diamond, we went to some stronger material in the devil realm, finally reaching the material from which the main frame of the gun was created, it was unable to penetrate it, so we moved on to 3x mode, which did the deed, but after using the gun in that mode for 3 times, it exploded.

Or that would have happened normally, but I had already placed a safety precaution, the energy released in the explosion would be converted into light energy, that was the reason that the circle was placed far from it, so that if others's destabilized, it would at least survive.

Our trio weren't blinded due to the glasses we were wearing before the testing started. The same wasn't the case with One-chan, well, she did sign up for it.

After doing many tests at different distances and in different modes with the spares, I found out that the ideal distance for it is 150metres and it could one shot a Low class devil if they are caught off guard or if they don't a protective artifact.

This prototype could barely be classified as Low class artifact due to 3x mode.