Finished.

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Nodding to Triss, Richard instantly connects to the socket Mind spell, delving into discussions about perpetual energy in the Ethereal Realms. Observing the schematic, which differed significantly from those in the Physical Realms, he couldn't help but wear a puzzled expression.

"As you can see, the Sa'angreal manifested in the Ethereal plane appears as a tree. We're unsure why this is so, but to admit, none of us sorceresses have ever studied the inner workings of plants."

Sighing with a mixture of emotions, Margarita continues where Triss left off, "Our disdain for druids and anything related to nature has kept us ignorant, even regarding basic knowledge like photosynthesis. Richard, you possess deep knowledge of biology, particularly plants. Could you help us speed up the process? Studying your knowledge from the Order and applying it to modify the schematic is taking too much time."

Nodding and noticing Philippa's sour mood, likely due to her desire to claim ownership of the schematic, Richard instructs them, "Very well. You will be responsible for forming the structure of the cells, while I will create the entire chlorophyll. If any of you find time, assisting with forming the chloroplasts would speed up the process."

"Do we really need to delve into that much detail?"

Nodding again in response to Yennefer's question, especially mindful of his thorough approach in creating the Sun nuclear power plant for the Physical Realms schematic, Richard simply replies, "Yes," and then focuses his attention on their tree schematic work.

He ignores Philippa's obvious attempt to create the root part of the tree, perhaps to assert ownership of the tree in case of future disagreements among the group, unaware that the crucial aspect of their creation lies not in the hardware but in the software it will run on. This is why Richard takes full responsibility for the programming language, enabling him to create the application of this magic that they will later want to apply. He knows and understands that once operational, every wizard will want to keep it running indefinitely, especially those responsible for its creation.

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[One hour later.]

"Done?"

Fixing the last glittering sand function that was later scattered in one of the rudders of the boat, Lanfear, with sweat on her face, responded to Yennefer, "Yes."

"Okay then, we will summarize everything we've done and finally decide what to do with it. Lanfear, if you may?"

Letting the Aasimar servant wipe her sweat, along with many others responsible for the Cognitive Realm schematic, Lanfear then nodded her head and explained, "After the jump start energy, or Mana, was given to the boat, we made it so the hull of the ship grinds this Mana into glittering dust sands. When the ship sails in the ever-changing twisting clouds of the Cognitive Realms, these glittering sands fall into the Physical Realms and Ethereal Realms, and finally into beings that can dream or anyone that can fantasize. The feedback from these dreams or fantasies is then given to the main mast of the ship and into the sails to create more Mana that we can use. Any residual Mana that is not used is once again transferred down into the hull to be ground into dust, creating a perpetual cycle."

Seeing the simple application of kinetic energy, Richard asked, "Does this mean the ship form of this Sa'angreal must keep sailing?"

Nodding her head and smiling weakly at the dragon, Lanfear answered, "Yes, if it wants to keep producing Mana. But the unique part about this design is not the amount of Mana like in the Physical Realm; instead, it's the ability to touch and taste every living being's mind in existence through the glittering dust. This will speed up our process of gathering fundamental knowledge about the world and make the Sa'angreal brain in the Physical Realm more and more sophisticated."

Amazed by Lanfear's method of converting wandering thoughts of dreams or fantasies into something useful for the Sa'angreal, Margarita then explained her group's part, "That's a very great functionality. Anyway, for our work on the Ethereal Realms schematic, we instead take a direct approach to creating the purest form of Mana that can be used by the creator of the Sa'angreal."

"Yes, using photosynthesis functionality. The reason we made Pure Mana is because there are just too many different kinds of energy existing in the Ethereal Realms. It would be a waste of effort to filter these into simple Mana in large quantities. Moreover, for us, the creators, there must be something that differentiates us from those who join us later, don't you agree?"

Smiling slyly at Yennefer's opinion, Lanfear gave a brief response and then followed with the big question, "Well, each to their own thoughts. Oh yes, back to the most glaring issue. As you all might know, once this thing is built, it will attract a lot of unwanted attention. For the ship form in the Cognitive Realms, it's easy to hide and make it so anyone who wants to approach must deal with the twisting cloudy sky of that plane, which will transform their mind into something bizarre. But for the tree and floating orb forms in the Physical and Ethereal realms, respectively, they just become sitting ducks that anyone can destroy or even use. So, how do we deal with this issue?"

Silence prevailed in the area, with only the sounds of thunder, rain, and meteors outside the island as their company. Not one of them was able to answer that simple, glaring question. It wasn't until they saw Richard making logographic runes in the air that they finally noticed something different about them.

"Aon Aon. Aon Shao. Aon Eshe. Aon Are. Aon Dao. Aon…"

With more and more words spoken by Richard and more and more symbols appearing in the air, they began to feel the resonance of the Sa'angreal in front of them, which they had thought had not yet been built. But it seemed that this thing here was a finished product ready to be launched anytime and anywhere. Looking at this for the first time in their lives, they realized that the beast they had thought was just a simple-minded brute was capable of matching them toe-to-toe in terms of cunningness.

"Aon Daa. Aon Rao. Aon Are. Aon Eta. Aon Aon."

After finishing creating the program for all of them to register their IP addresses to use the Sa'angreal, Richard then tells them, "Now, only all of you can use it. As for the question of anyone who comes to destroy it, we will discuss that now."

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