Chapter 20 - Spirit Power Plant.

"haha, it worked!" Jackson jumped up excitedly and celebrated his own success on his experiment to create a power source using spirit energy through array formations.

"Is that it? An array formation to gather a strong heat source?" Lili asked in confusion about what Jackson created. From what she can see it is just a bright light with a scorching heat.

It doesn't move or do anything therefore this thing was not for combat and too hot to be used as a light source. She found this thing to be unusable for anything.

Seeing Lili looking like a curious kitten. Jackson smiled and explained to her how to use this thing. "Right now it has zero uses but after turning that intense heat energy into electricity only then will I be able to do many things."

"Turning it into electricity is easy. We just need to contain the heat in a single area. Then we use water to surround the contained heat energy and turn that into steam. The steam is then used to turn an electric generator turbine to generate electricity." Jackson explained how earth's nuclear power source works.

But Jackson has eliminated the dangers of uranium. Spirit energy was a natural power of this world and every creature has it and can use it.

So this new power source he was about to invent would only benefit him and there would be no dangerous mishaps in the future.

"I don't get it" Lili was still confused even though Jackson already explained it to her. Unlike Lili, her sister Lulu somewhat understands what Jackson is trying to achieve. "I think my husband is trying to convert fire elements into lighting to be used for something in the future. Am I closed?"

Jackson was surprised that Lulu understood the theory of energy conversion." Yes, very close. " Jackson was not worried if the girls could not understand it now, he will just show them in the future.

"Why not just directly create lighting element with the arrays just like this one?" Hope asked Jackson, hearing her sister explaining Jackson's new invention.

"Fire energy is far less complicated to convert into electricity, well lighting element." Jackson just gave the girls a simple explanation.

When using heat energy to be converted to electric one only needs water to be turned into steam to run through an electric generating turbine.

While if you directly harness electricity from lighting you would need a lighting catcher machine and that machine needs to be able to self store electricity.

Arrays might be able to achieve this but Jackson required rare materials to create the lighting catcher.

Making a nuclear power plant, well it should be a spirit power plant would be far more efficient. They already have all the materials and Tool Maker just needs to make the power plant.

"Tool Maker adds this on the base design." Jackson was done for today and the girls looked all worn from today's experiment so Jackson called it off and went to rest.

In the next few days everyone helped out and put together the finish touches of the base. Finally the base is completed, the walls are up and look very sturdy. The four inner sections of the base are ready to be used by the group. First the living room was altered to accommodate the girls and Jackson. Next was the Jackson Lab room but the design changed slightly to help research arrays. Next is the. Mechanical section holds the machinery that provides heat, chillers, water and now with the power plant added it could now provide electricity. Lastly the maintenance room to accommodate Bell, Henry, Bunker and Tool Maker and where they will get upgrades in the future.

The upper section of the base has some soil and is already fertilized and ready to get farmed. There is also a miniature garden next to the farm.

Outside the base Jackson gave Cuprite cave entrance a little makeover. No longer looking like a hole in the mountain side, Cuprite ant cave was carved beautifully by Tool Maker making her ant cave entrance like a dog house made out of rocks.

On the top of the dog, I meant an ant house is a sign saying. "Beware of ants" with Cuprite statue next to the ants house entrance.

Jackson decided that the base front entrance would be next to the ant house entrance. That way both entrance faces north, that base looked very magical to outsiders.

The girls have never seen a castle made this way before, based on their words the castle and homes of this world are mostly similar to ancient China and Japan. It was made out of bamboo and clay bricks enchanted with array formations to make them sturdy and keep cold or heat out.

Now Jackson's next plan is to strengthen all the outer walls with arrays. Jackson planned to invent array formations to harden the walls more to better handle stronger attacks. Then add a reverse gravity on the top of the walls but with a condition that the higher the object fly over the wall the stronger the gravity pull.

This array should prevent enemies ignoring attacking the walls, if they want to get in they have to break in. It was too late to add arrays for the foundation but Cuprite live underground so Jackson was not worried.

"Now that everything inside is mostly finished, Let's go put arrays outside to solidify the base better." Jackson called everyone over to add arrays on the walls of the base.

Few days later Jackson and team finished all the enchantments for the base. Jackson was no longer worried about the upcoming beast tide.

The tide is only a week or so away. Jackson was almost prepared for the attack, even with his current base total battle power he believed he could repel the beast tide but not without some loss.

But now that defenses are ready he now wants to create some offensive power for the base. Bunker makes up most of the battle power of the base Jackson did not want to rely on a single powerful unit.

Now that Jackson knows arrays he can now make weapons by combining arrays and earth's weapons.

First Jackson got Toolmaker to create a printing press machine to print out mini arrays for gun bullets. Bullets are simple to make, just need explosive force to inject a projectile out of a gun barrel.

Jackson already coded an array that could do that. The bullets look very different from earth's bullets but have the same functions.

Jackson invented a two process array. First requires the gun user to inject a tiny amount of spirit power into the gun. Activating the bullets primer. If the bullet primer is triggered by force it would explode shooting out the projectile.

This array was invented by Jackson so that it can be mass produced without needing the use of spirit energy users.

With bullets finished Jackson moved into designing a gun closely resembling ak47. He added mini array formations to the gun as well. There are 3 arrays added to the gun, hardened for durability, anti friction for the rifling and increased force, an array he read that helps arrows travel through air faster to hit the target with greater damage and force.

Jackson of course altered the array formation to his liking, instead of the array being attached onto the object like the arrow. Jackson put the array on the gun itself, that way he did not attach the array to each individual bullet.

The array is altered to put the increased force effect on objects coming out of the gun barrel.

He got out and let Henry test the gun and the results were magical. The gun recoil seemed none existent but it was only due to the arrays being small that the explosion was smaller but the force it projected onto the projectile was 5 times greater than a normal bullet from earth.

This did not end there with 5 times the force from the explosion further enhanced by another array, multiplying 5 by 3 making it 15 times the force of normal bullets.

During the gun testing Henry felt like shooting with a miniature tank. The only problem now was that the bullets could not handle multiple penetration and turned the projectile into a shrapnel adding bleed effect after the third penetrated object. (Oi stop it, I know what your thinking)

This was very deadly against beast and humans. Jackson was happy with the result but seeing that the recoil is almost non-existent. He began to rub both his hands together and creepily chuckle which terrified the girls.