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Chapter 15

"Exactly, four hours! This has to be some sort of spell!" Exclaimed a certain blonde.

Harry heard a familiar voice he slowly opened his eyes and looked at brown eyes staring at him with interest.

The Peverell quickly remembered that he 'bought' a blonde beauty to be his pillow. Ending up sleeping on her lap.

It is heavenly. He kind of forgot all about the human touch. The body he is inhabiting never truly had any sort of contact with another human since the death of Potters.

"Not quite a spell." The artificer said while turning to the side and snuggling into the blond's stomach. It is warm.

His actions made the blonde Gryffindor blush for a bit. She realised that Potter doesn't get embarrassed by any of these actions done by him!

"T-Then how did you do that? You said four hours and you sleep exactly for four hours!" She asked him while trying to forget all about his actions.

"It's a… side effect of practising mind arts. It's like I gave specific orders to the body and it followed to the ladder." He explained to her while enjoying her warm tights.

"...Any side effects of such thing?" She asked with slight concern. One should not order the natural order of one's body in her eyes at least.

"Not the way you think. You see, magic in body accelerated my rest. This means that I have rested around 8 hours in the span of 4. Allowing me to conserve time." He explained to her while finally getting up from the girl's lap.

He stretched for a bit. A positive shiver went through his whole body. This kind of rest was the best! Sleeping once a week helps Harry remember how great sleep can be! Especially with a company like this!

"That's kind of cool! You need to teach us, Harry!" Angelina said from the side. Reminding the Artificer that there is a company of people in his workshop.

"I most likely could. But, it's a long process and I doubt you girls like sitting in one place for a prolonged amount of time."

Alicia raised her eyebrow for a bit she stood up as well and stretched as well. Sitting for four hours like that made her legs get numb.

"I just did. You know being your pillow might going to be difficult." She said that with an amused tone.

"Hmm… next time we can sleep properly and I will hug you instead of just using as a pillow." He said that with a shrug. Harry's words made the blonde slightly baffled. She quickly adjusted.

"...that sounded quite naughty but I can see the perks of taking a nap."

"...You two… can you please stop with the whole innuendo thing!" Cho said with annoyed blush she was sitting on the opposite side from Angelica and blushing Katie.

"Hmm? Innuendo? Not quite. But I suppose we can stop talking about that."

As Harry said that he looked at what the girls had been doing while he was resting.

And as he has expected they were doing homework.

"Since you are up, you should show me how to start the whole thing with the laptop," Cho said while showing the laptop next to her. She didn't touched it yet.

"Sure. You three should check this out as well. Since you will be getting them as well." Harry motioned for the Gryffindor girls to come over as well.

The Artificer quickly got to sit next to Cho as he took her brand new laptop and opened the lid and then pressed the start button.

Moments later the keyboard illuminated in bronze colour. While the corners of the keyboard glowed soft blue.

As the OS was booting up the keyboard lights glowed in a specific rhythm reminding the girls of a choreographed light shown.

"That's beautiful… I don't remember your laptop having this effect." Alicia said with quite a jealous look. This laptop is amazing already!

"Yeah, it doesn't have it. You can say this is Mark 2 of my laptop series. It's more of an aesthetic improvement. If you have music running the lights glow according to the tune."

"That's cool… can you like… make a whole room like that?" Alicia asked with a thoughtful look. She has that certain look that she has an idea.

"Truthfully, that's not hard. Theoretically, I could even make a music system linked to the whole room. With several light projectors, it could be like a concert hall." Harry explained with a slightly thoughtful look. He mentally went through things as he answered her question.

"...you for real?"

"And unlike regular stick magic setup, my one would last for a very long time." He purposely said 'very' to get the meaning across.

"...that's… so cool…"

"...Hmm, when is your birthday?" The Artificer asked her curiously.

"...Hmm? Why-" Before she can question the Peverell already started explaining to the clueless girl.

"Come now. I need to know when to prepare the room." He said with an eye roll.

She gasped for a second.

"You going to do it!?"

"Well, it's going to be experimental so you going to be testing it. Theoretically, It includes sensory stuff which I will need to further improve my stuff." He explained with a shrug.

"And since you want something like that it will be a double kill. I will fulfil something you want and I will get the information I need."

Alicia nodded multiple times hearing that. This is going to be great! While the rest of the girls looked at this with slight disbelief.

'Harry… he is on a completely different level! Is this how savants are? Just pulling out things from his backside…' Angelica thought with bafflement.

Where normal people go to the store or ask professionals for help this guy just makes stuff himself… from a very early age…

"Right! So the laptop has loaded. See those icons there? The top one on the left side is the main icon for the laptop itself. You can check the storage and files—"

And so Harry started explaining stuff to his future workers. And unlike his previous life, he plans to make sure they don't end up like he was... The artificer is planning to make sure his girl's workforce is satisfied while working.

Even if it means creating a bunch of entertainment complexes…

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After showing how to work with the laptop Harry started working on creating the Magic Pods.

For this one, the trio of Gryffindors were with him in the main workshop room. They got front row seat to all the alchemy creations.

"You know… If I didn't see this with my own eyes I wouldn't believe that those magic pods are created from recycled garbage!" Katie quietly said to her two friends who just saw how Harry turned iron sand into different shapes of rectangular form. Which to her abysmal knowledge most likely is the interior parts of the artefact they are going to receive.

"Dust as well. I transmuted dust into iron sand." Harry chipped in from the side."

"That's…a good way to reuse! Especially like dust!" Alicia said with wide eyes. She realized how much stuff she could get if she could use alchemy like how Harry does! As her family runs an inn she experienced the woes of cleaning! Personally!

"Harry! You must teach me your tricks to keep a place clean!" Alicia pleaded him! This was quite out of nowhere for the artificer.

"Can't you just use your stick magic?" He asked her with a baffled tone.

"...No… you didn't listen or read the rules about using magic?" Alicia asked with a baffled look this time. He… doesn't know?

"You mean stick magic. You can use magic without a stick you know? As far as I know, the Ministry can track through those sticks." Harry said that with a sigh as he noticed how the blonde reacted to his words.

"Yes. This means I can't clean with magic! So if you could teach me or make an artefact you could lessen my summer agony." She explained that while having a hopeful look.

"Well, I will think about it."

She quickly nodded! Yes! At least he will consider! Now she only needs to remind him at a specific time! And persuade that is!

'Well, I have quite a bit of time till summer!'

"For now, let me finish transmuting the items."

After saying that the Gryffindor girls stopped pestering him and instead watched how he transmuted the pieces of Magic Pod.

One thing they noticed is that he did the whole thing without checking his notes or anything like that.

This made them realise one thing…

That he knows this complex stuff like the back of his hand! And this only increased. As after the pieces were done he started inscribing runes into the pieces.

He didn't look at any books or notes. Hell! He didn't even talk for multiple hours! The way it looked, and his ability to work runes only made them more gobsmacked.

Now they knew how he was able to make that stuff! With such a work ethic, it doesn't even look like it's a stretch if could make anything he wants by this point…

"And done. Just finished one of them. Which one of you want it?" Harry said that as he looked from the table and towards one of the Magic Pods. His laptop just finished transferring OS and the music to it.

"I am taking it! I am the one who helped you with something after all!" Alicia quite smugly picked up the red Magic Pod and disconnected from the laptop.

There was a grin on her face when she saw that the Magic Pod was in Gryffindor colours. There was even a cute lion cub inscribed at the back of it.

In other words, she liked the thing already!

"Helped? He only used your lap to sleep!" Katie complained with an angry pout.

"Exactly! While you two were lazing around I was making sure Harry has rested!" She said that quite proudly.

"Here are the earpieces. You do realise that you couldn't use the magic pod without them?"

"R-Right…"

The blonde was slightly embarrassed how nonchalant is Harry about the whole sleeping on lap thing. It's as if it's natural for him! She expected at least some sort of reaction when she just mentioned it.

Pity that she doesn't realise that with his mastery over Mind Arts they need much more than simple comments to embarrass him.

"So…umm… how do I change it? When the battery is empty I mean? Though it's magic… do I need to pump it with magic?" She asked curiously as she inspected the item from different angles.

"No. It's completely isolated from outside magic. There are multiple layers of wards protecting it from outside magic. In a worst-case scenario, you could use this as a shield even."

The group of girls eyes widened hearing that.

"When I arrived here I developed a runic sequence to isolate magic from my creations. As potent magic in the school can mess up with them. So isolation was needed.

To charge the Magic Pod you need to connect to a laptop or use a charger I am about to give it to you." As he said that he picked up another item from the table which attracted the curiosity of the girls before.

It's a squire item with some runic carvings on it there is a cable connected to it with a port.

"Since my stuff is isolated from outside magic, you can't charge it unless you have specific items to do that."

"...that sounds like muggle appliances which use electricity…" Alicia mentioned that as she saw the similarities.

"They are. The difference is that my stuff will last for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years. They are almost unbreakable unless you know how to break them." Harry said that quite proudly.

" I see… then I shouldn't worry if I drop it?" Alicia said that as she inspected the magic pod.

"... If you casually going to drop it then I will confiscate it. And yes, you should worry about the floor you going to drop it." He said that with a deadpan look. Earning a nervous smile from her.