Faults of Overworking and Dangers of Overconfidence.

//Damnit! I need to stop writing pony fics and start writing this one or my saved up chapters are going to run out XDDD//

He was laying in the grass with a grumpy expression.

He just found out that by using Laverie he could finally restart his Mana training, only to learn that his training might actually cause an apocalypse!

How unfair is that?!

After talking with Mia, they came to the realization that if Apophis is still alive and he never once returned in those last ten thousand years, then there has to be a reason why, and a lack of Mana in the world is the best explanation! And what is Konrad's method of training if not expulsion of humongous amounts of Mana into the atmosphere?!

So many plans went to drain in a single evening! He wanted to work on a magical Generator. Spread magic on the Desert, maybe even heal the deserted land or something along those lines, but now he couldn't do that! He can't even start on his original plan of setting up formations on every empty surface of the Palace because there won't be enough Mana to power it all up...

He needed to think of something else... Something to contain the Mana. To store it and transport it directly to the destination without spilling it into the air...

Konrad's eyes opened wide in realization. What he needs is to basically invent a technology of wielding Mana in a similar way the electricity is handled! All the technology is there and he just needs to adjust it to work with Magic!

Konrad jumped up and run towards the Palace, not even realizing that he activated the Mana Sprint. He was just to excited to care. There was so much to do suddenly!

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//Two days later//

Konrad was currently receiving a reprimand from Miastiti. There were deep bags under his eyes, and a mountain of notes and metal pieces and contraptions lied on the tables all around him.

≈You need to sleep Konrad! You were staying up working on this thing for the last three days! Even if it's you you can't go on for so long without sleep. And wizards were trying to do what you are doing for hundreds of years with meager results...Ughhh, Octavia! Tell him something!≈ Miastiti shouted and turned to the White haired girl beside her.

Octavia had an amused expression until Mia turned towards her. She didn't expect to be suddenly involved in this "conversation". She was already used to Konrad occasionally doing allnighters when some new idea got stuck in his head. He would usually fall asleep involuntarily at some point and then wake up refreshed a few hours later to continue working on whatever he was doing.

She would usually just bring him something to eat and put it in his hands reach, as he would otherwise forgot about eating as well.

This was a rather new character trait that Konrad cultivated through his ever growing love of research but it was still there before Miastiti appeared and she never caught him doing that until now.

"Whaa-But..." She tried to say something but nothing came to her mind.

≈Ugh... whatever! Konrad! Come we're going to sleep!≈ She demanded and dragged Konrad to the bedroom with Octavia following behind them.

Laverie was confused while watching this exchange. She couldn't understand why Mistress was angry nor why Master looked so weak. She decided to just shrug it off and followed them towards the bedroom. She was their guardian after all!

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Konrad woke up in his bed, sandwiched between two pretty girls and with a sword floating above their heads...Yeah...Just a Normal morning...

Then, he remembered what happened before he went to sleep and cringed. Mia was right. He really should give more attention to his sleeping cycle.

He had a real trouble concentrating yesterday, so there was no chance of him figuring anything out in the state he was in.

He brushed his fingers through the beautiful silky hair of his girls and heard them purr in contentment. He didn't know when Octavia started to imitate Mia's purring, but he thought that it was adorable.

He thought about how it all came to be and couldn't contain a smile spreading through his face. He really loved both of them and couldn't imagine his life without either girl.

His gaze went to the purple Sword floating under the ceiling and guarding the room.

Laverie was such a diligent worker. She really took her work seriously.

Konrad smiled and send an emotion expressing appreciation towards the Sentient Weapon. A happy feeling came back to him in return. She was really simple and weirdly adorable for a sword. Probably the effect of her soul partially originating from the feelings of a little girl.

His mind went back to little Lucy that received Magic Capacity Orb from him. He was curious how she was going. Was she able to grasp the control of her Mana? Did she learn how to increase it? Or did she forget about their encounter all together?

He quickly took out the Map out of his inventory and floated it over his head.

it showed that Lucy was still around the area where the playground was, which meant that she was most likely at home somewhere nearby. No one kidnapped her nor anything so that's good.

He gave her a chance to do magic so he should at least take responsibility, right?

His mind wandered once again. The girls were still asleep, snuggling into his sides so he kissed their foreheads lovingly and called out the Compass Of Random Journey.

It wasn't easy to hold it as the girls were laying on his arms as if it were pillows, but it would only work when held l, unlike the Map of Revealment.

He looked at the compass and saw that the needle was turning in random directions as if it was trying to find some new adventure.

It took a minute before it finally flashed lightly and the needle pointed towards a definite direction. He knew that the two artifacts were perfect for each other so he needed to only move the Compass a bit for the Map to pinpoint the exact location of whatever it was pointing to.

Surprisingly, the location was somewhere in the northern England. What could be hidden in that place?

A Purr and the feeling of a snuggling cat girl broke him out of his thoughts.

He stored the artifacts and looked at Miastiti, who, even while asleep, tried to munch on his earlobe or kiss him. he wasn't sure which.

He of course gave her what she subconsciously wanted by kissing her soft lips. She reciprocated in kind as if by instinct and only after a minute or so her consciousness returned to her as she woke up.

Her eyes opened wide in surprise when she realized what they were doing but she didn't stop and closed her eyes to continue and enjoy the kiss.

Konrad felt the change when she started to actively kiss him and smiled inwardly.

But he also felt a growing problem down there. He hoped that Mia wouldn't realize as she was lately becoming bolder and bolder with her advances...

Suddenly he felt Octavia hugging him from the back and he felt a ping of jealousy through the familiar bond. Seems like she was also awake and wanted some attention.

He separated from miastiti and smiled looking into her beautiful Emerald Eyes.

"Morning beautiful." He whispered and she smiled brightly before replying softly.

≈Morning love.≈ Konrad smiled at her words and gave her an amused smile.

"Could you give me a second? I feel a jealous little girl clinging to my back." He said playfully and Miastiti sighed with a mock regret.

≈I guess it can't be helped. Go on.≈ She said and Konrad turned to the other girl before catching her lips by surprise.

Octavia of course wanted exactly that so she didn't shy away but performed a full frontal assault on his tongue. She tasted like strawberries while Miastiti tasted like grapes. He couldn't have enough of those tastes.

When they finally separated for breath, which Octavia didn't really needed, they performed a similar greeting to the one Konrad and Mia did a while ago. It would have taken longer but Miastiti wasn't one to wait as she soon snatched Octavia into a kiss of their own, making Konrad watch as his girlfriends exchanged fluids right above him.

It was so hot that he could only praise the blanket for hiding his growing excitement...

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After a cold shower Konrad was ready to work. The girls though came to the conclusion that he was not to be trusted with working alone so they decided to kept him company.

It quickly became apparent that he worked much better in a good company. It didn't took him more than a few hours to finish a few designs of magical batteries which had the possibility of working.

Currently, he was having a hard debate between making a completely physical container and making a Mana construct.

Octavia came with the idea of making a buble of energy similar to his Mana Expulsion barrier and using it as Mana storage which was brilliant in how simple it was, but Konrad was worried about the durability of such barrier while containing large amounts of Mana.

His idea was more akin to regular battery and was based on the natural ability of gemstones and magical metals in storing Mana. This project though asked of him to figure out the correct magic to create diamonds. After all it was a strong and very simple material which was rather abundant in quantity albeit in an incorrect form.

But a spell to reconstruct the molecular structure of coal was not a simple thing to do so he decided to first try the energy barrier idea. It only required from him to change a few runes in the Mana Expulsion barrier and add a number of reinforcements.

With Octavia's help a small prototype was ready in only two hours.

The disk made out of Adamantite and Mithrill was only the size of a large plate so the barrier wouldn't be able to contain a lot of magic, but it was just a prototype.

Konrad send the first wave of magic to start up the formation. The expected spherical barrier soon materialized above the disk so konrad send magic into it in order to store it inside. Everything was going alright up to this point because the formation suddenly lit up much bright and Konrad acted on impulse by covering the girls with his body.

*BOOM!!!*

The formation exploded sending shrapnel of magical metal in all directions.

Konrad felt a piece of metal breaking through his hastily made Mana Shield and even through his Dragon Skin Technique, embedding itself in his shoulder, but he only winced in pain slightly, more worried about the girls in his arms.

"Mia, Octavia! Are you alright?!" He asked looking at the girls who were on the other hand more worried about him.

They responded in affirmative and Octavia pointed out that it should have been her who protected them since she was much harder to damage.

"Sorry. It was an impulse. Ouch..." He grimaced feeling the piece in his shoulder. It must have been pretty fast to break through his skin technique as it was only a piece of Mithrill.

≈Let me look at this Love.≈ Said Miastiti in a worried tone.

She removed his labcoat and saw the piece.

"How is it?" Asked worried Octavia.

≈It isn't big and didn't reach the bone but it will be a bit painful. Clench your teeth Konrad.≈ She said and quickly removed the piece with telekinesis before chanting healing magic.

The wound stopped bleeding but didn't close.

≈Alright. I'm done. Use one of your lesser potions. It should be enough. I don't know enough healing magic to heal it completely and that would be faster.

Konrad did as she said and the wound was gone in around twenty seconds.

"So...what happened?" Asked Tavy...

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Current Status

[• Konrad Caster •]

| Race - Human

| Class - Magic Swordsman

| Status - Healthy

| Mana ~ 3120/3120MP

| Mana Regeneration ~624/min (4x5%/min)

| Blood Capacity - 6500/6500ml

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

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| Stats:

Strength - 44

Perception - 46

Agility - 39

Intelligence - 37

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| Skills:

- Language Comprehension:

- [@π&¥@&€#∆££#&∆¶$

- Language Of Birds

- Health Regeneration: x8

- Mana Regeneration: x4

- Lesser Mana Affinity

- Space Storage: 24 m^3

- Observe: Basic

- Status Deterioration Block

- Mana Sprint

- Dragon Skin Technique (Stage - 3 • Spiritual Connection Stage) - 11%

- 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 ]

- Holy Sword Laverien [ Sentient Weapon ]

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| Description:

Konrad is a...

.

.

.

...Hard.

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//Konrad's inventory list//

- Food!

- Water/Drinkables!

- 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)

- Teleportation Formation (-> Caster Palace)

- Teleportation Formation (-> Giza)

- Smartphone

- few changes of clothes

- 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.

- • Fey Language Dictionary •

- • Orc Language Dictionary •

- 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) {]

[} Random World transmigration {]

[} Common Gemstone Draw {] x8

[} Rare Gemstone Draw {] x2

[} Lesser Mana Potion +5 {] x19

[} Medium Mana Potion +50 {] x4

[} Lesser Health Potion {] x22

[} Medium Health Potion {] x8

[} Pure Iron Dagger {]

[}Mana Capacity +1{] x16

[} Mana Capacity +10 {] x3

[} Steel Gauntlets {] x2

[} Pure Iron Broadsword {]

[} Iron Dagger {]

[} Steel Helmet {] x2

[} Steel Armour {] x2

[} Steel Boots {]

[} Steel Shield {]

[} Lesser Frost Resistance {]