The Great Array.

His eyes covered the desert in front of them. There was so much to do... But he wasn't about to regret his decision! And if you think about it...this is going to be a great training ground! His earth magic is going improve by leaps and bounds when he is finally finished with this place...if he ever finished. There was no actual point at which he should stop building. He could do everything!

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. The prospect of building his own Castle or Mansion, filled him with joy at the mere thought of it.

"Alright! Let's start with the marking the basic outline. I'd love to start building instantly, but there's this problem of satellites passing us overhead. I we do make something substantial some government might find out and decide to investigate. We need to set up some Concealment Formations first. I'm so glad that in my excitement of having a Secret Base, I already Designed a Prototype!" Said Konrad to Octavia who only nodded at his explanation. She was not as knowledgeable as Konrad but she hoped to one day catch up to him.

Konrad thought for a while, and finally came to the realization that they were still too close to the potentially dangerous unknown marked by the Compass. The place where they stood, should be at best called the edge of their future territory.

With that in mind, the duo once again took flight and after a minute, arrived a little further from where they were.

Here Konrad created a pillar of sandstone using Earth Magic, marking it as the center of their Formation.

They spend another hour building similar pillars around two kilometers in every direction of the center pillar, while making sure to embed them deep into the ground so that they couldn't be moved by anything.

The Map Of Revealment turned out to be indispensable in building the pillars. He simply wished for the map to mark the right places and then it was just to arrive there and build the pillar in the place shown by the Map.

All in all there was around sixty four of those pillars, not counting the center one and Konrad concluded that it should be enough for the purpose of hiding an area of four kilometers in diameter.

It took him an entire day though, to finish the Formation design and alter it to work in cooperation with the others. Then, he spend yet another day engraving the formations into the top of the sandstone pillars using his Earth Magic. There was a slight problem though. Even though the big size of the formations overall reduced the problem of shaping them, as he could now simply use his earth magic on something this size...he had no blood to actually activate them! And Let's not even speak about Magic Metals! Seems like it would be a long time before he could stop his 'Blood Donation'...

He Needed to find a source of fresh human blood because even with his fast Regeneration there was a limit to how much he could gather in a single day. Currently, it was a litter every day and if he even thought about starting this array then he needed at least one litter for each pillar! That's the amount that would barely cover the surface of the groves. It could heavily affect the effectiveness of the Mana Conduction and cause the formation to be potentially unstable...

Konrad pondered how to go around the problem and considered sneaking into an actual Blood Donation Facility but he finally came up with an idea after once again looking at his blueprint.

The formation was designed to work on ambient Mana and with sixty four pillars, the consumption of Mana could be stabilized. But if he were to manually supply large amounts of Mana then... he just needed Four! And that's only because they were supposed to mark the edges of the territory. So if he made four of them stronger and continued to supply them with his own Mana every day then they should be enough to cover the place while he works on other things and slowly activates the other Pillars... Now only to gather blood for those four...

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Sneaking into a Blood Donation Facility to gather fresh blood wasn't as easy as he originally believed...The blood couldn't be older than thirty minutes so he had to take it straight after the it was collected. Of course he could just use mind magic to make a doctor give him the blood but there was no telling what security there was around this place and how it was all recorded.

Thankfully, Konrad was an IT graduate with the access to Magic and super memory. He soon found a computer, and a simple Aura Of Ignorance was enough to assure his privacy. It was a real torture to figure out how to make a fake hospital in the database but he somehow managed to do that after two hours of struggle. Then it was to make a number of special deliveries and register the blood of the people he took it from and bum! all is legal...well not really... but he paid for the blood so there's no harm right?

Whatever the case was, Konrad could now come here and grab a number of Blood Bags and he simply needed to register their delivery into the database. Some mind magic here, a little there and no one paid attention that the blood in the records just disappeared and appeared in the supposed hospital. He just had to make sure not to take too much at once, or someone from the outside could start having suspicions about less blood being donated...

Thankfully, his endeavor paid off, because with the blood he already had, there was around twelve litters in his inventory now, ready to be used on the four pillars in the north, south, west and east.

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The formation started to glow, just like three times beforehand, but this time, something changed. The bubble of golden light that grew from the center of the formation, didn't stop growing, instead, it merged with the three other bubbles in the distance and together their shape changed, forming into a massive Dome of golden light that was Two kilometers high and four kilometers in diameter.

At that moment, it's growth finally stopped and Konrad deactivated his magic sight. There was a grin that was splitting his face as he looked at Octavia.

"It worked! We are finally hidden from the outside world!" Exclaimed Konrad in elation.

*That's great Daddy! But it doesn't look as if anything changes from here..." Replied Octavia a little unsurely.

Konrad just grinned and grabbed her into his arms before jumping into the air.

He passed the barier that was a few meters behind the pillars they stood on, and turned around only to see the endless desert as if there was never any pillars here at all.

*Wha...? Where is the pillar Daddy? It was right here!* Asked Octavia, making Konrad snort in amusement.

"I told you we were going to hide our base and i meant it. This right here is an illusion that hides the place both from sight and from senses like temperature, meaning that not even an infrared camera or anything like that would be able to penetrate it. Oh and of course an Aura of Ignorance for people not keyed in plus a deterrent ward so that people didn't come in here even by accident. I really impressed myself with this little project Haha!"

They went back into the barrier and the pillar suddenly appeared right in front of them.

*Woah! Awesome!...! I mean... it's alright i guess." She tried to sound less childish but it only made Konrad laugh even further.

"Alright! Haha! Let's go! We need to start building our Home!"

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Current Status

[• Konrad Caster •]

| Race - Human

| Class - Magic Swordsman

| Status - Healthy

| Mana ~ 1856/2030MP

| Mana Regeneration ~406/min (4x5%/min)

| Blood Capacity - 6500/6500ml

| Blood Replenishment ~ 1000ml/day (500ml/4daysx8)

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| Stats:

Strength - 37

Perception - 33

Agility - 34

Intelligence - 31

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| Skills:

- Language Comprehension:

- [@π&¥@&€#∆££#&∆¶$

- Language Of Birds

- Health Regeneration: x8

- Mana Regeneration: x4

- Lesser Mana Affinity

- Space Storage: 24 m^2

- Observe: Basic

- Status Deterioration Block

- Mana Sprint

- Dragon Skin Technique (Stage - 0)

- Ambidexterity

- Lesser Fire Resistance

- Lesser Frost Resistance

- Medium Chaos Resistance

- Poison Immunity

- Shock Immunity

- Blink Affinity

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| Equipment

- Ring of Arcana (200/200)

- Bracelet of Hecate (2000/2000)

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| Soul Bonded Artifacts:

- Cooking Grimoire

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| Familiars:

- Octavia [ Slime ]

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| Description:

Konrad is a...

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.

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...Hard.

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//Konrad's inventory list//

- Food!

- Water/Drinkables!

- Personal belongings Backpack/Suitcase

- All the research material and metal reserves that Octavia didn't manage to redigest in time.

- Enchanted Orichalcum Broadsword

- Steel Broadsword

- Steel Gauntlets

- Steel Armour

- Compass Of Random Journey

- Map Of Revealment

- Medium Health Potion

- Floating Ice Prison formation

- Teleportation Formation (->Greece)

- Teleportation Formation (->Gacha Space)

- Teleportation Formation (-> School)

- Bunch of different experimental magic formations

- Smartphone

- few changes of clothes

- four empty buckets

- Konrad's favourite knife

- Konrad's personal Grimoire:

- Fire magic

- Light magic

- Wind magic

- Mind magic

-Water magic

- Gravity magic

- Space Magic

-Combination magic

- notepad for quick observations.

- • Apprentice Tome Of Swords And Shields • (completed)

- • Advanced Tome Of Swords And Shields • (completed)

- • Master Tome Of Swords And Shields •

- • Fey Language Dictionary •

- • Spell Book - Magic fundamentals (Fire) •

- bunch of different trinkets he thought might come in handy someday...

- Spelunking equipment

- Diving equipment

- Hiking equipment

- Climbing equipment

- Prize orbs:

[} User targeted Summoning (Another World Hero) {]

[} Common Gemstone Draw {] x6

[} Rare Gemstone Draw {] x2

[} Lesser Mana Potion +5 {] x17

[} Medium Mana Potion +50 {] x3

[} Lesser Health Potion {] x20

[} Medium Health Potion {] x5

[} Great Health Potion {]

[} Chosen Language Comprehension {]

[} Pure Iron Dagger {]

[}Mana Capacity +1{] x15

[} Mana Capacity +10 {] x3

[} Steel Gauntlets {] x2

[} Pure Iron Broadsword {]

[} Medium Health Potion {] x2

[} Steel Helmet {] x2

[} Steel Armour {] x2

[} Steel Boots {]

[} Steel Shield {]

[} Basic Weapon Manual (User adapted) {]

[} Broken Sword {]

[} Ambidexterity {]

[} Lesser Frost Resistance {]

[} Observe {]