BXBX NOVEL Chapter 25: Storage Cube
We chose her as our Queen; there is a reason for it. She won't fumble with just this. It's just a small pebble on her long winding road."
Compared to Mingyue, Alex is now having the best day of his life. He laughed loudly as his experiment showed results.
Faerith, standing by his side, looked dumbfounded at the object in his hand.
After Alex exchanged objects with Mingyue, he began experimenting with qi, mana crystals, and artifacts from her world.
From the experiment, he discovered that qi and mana were similar types of energy, the only difference being that qi was denser and wilder, while mana was milder.
This meant that if they used a cultivation system with mana, the body's requirements would drop drastically, in theory.
However, he hadn't tried this yet since he needed a test subject. What he did do was try to switch the energy source and see the result.
The weapon from his world, like the gun Mingyue used, inflicted more damage when using qi as its fuel source, but it damaged the weapon, allowing only limited use of it.
The only exception was when someone like Mingyue used it.
Since she was a cultivator, she could control her qi, making it milder before putting it into the weapon's charge.
He then tried using a mana crystal to activate the storage ring.
At first, the progress was slow since the formation required the user to inject their qi, so Alex needed to create an interface to inject mana from the crystal into the formation.
He had to learn the formation from scratch, but it didn't take too long for Alex.
With his abilities and help from Vesa translating some functions he didn't know, everything went smoothly.
"This is just like how a circuit board works; the only difference is they use qi, inject it into a specific material, and mold it to produce the result they want."
In Alex's world, a circuit board works as an electrical circuit that can only produce two outcomes: on or off.
Through this, people then layer them above one another, creating a complicated logic that allows them to create computers and many other smart devices.
But with formations like this, the possibilities become endless.
Even the latest research in his world on quantum computers could only produce three different results, but the cultivators' formations could produce an infinite number of outcomes.
"No wonder every cultivator has their own array inheritance; the way they create formations is fundamentally different.
It depends on what kind of pattern of outcomes they capitalize on."
Alex then called Faerith to create software and hardware based on the ideas he had in mind.
The result was now the object in his hand, looking like a cube the size of a 3x3 Rubik's cube with a small screen on it.
The use was very simple: they could just point it at an object and place it in the storage space.
The screen then showed the content, storage capacity, and current charge.
In case the mana charge ran out, the cube would have 72 hours to recharge, or everything inside would be destroyed.
This was a step down compared to the storage ring from Mingyue's world, but Alex felt satisfied with the result.
He knew the potential of a product like this; he could dominate the market.
A dimensional storage that could be charged with a mana crystal at an affordable price.
The model he held also had a good storage size for a 10x10 cubic meter area.
"Based on the data I read, the real storage ring makes every item imperishable.
I am sure we can also add this feature to the storage cube. But how did you get this technology?" Faerith asked.
Alex then threw the cube toward Faerith, who caught it with surprise, almost stumbling in the process.
He had reasons for not including those features; he didn't want the cube to be capable of holding living beings, only inanimate objects.
The only reason Mingyue's storage ring couldn't hold living beings was because there was no oxygen inside; it was a vacuum.
But no cultivator understood what oxygen was.
Instead, they made a crazier invention: a small world in a pocket, but Mingyue told Alex only immortals had those.
But this was no problem for Alex.
They could easily put an oxygen tank and fill the storage space with it.
Adding some artificial gravity and manipulating the pressure inside to make it habitable.
This would make the cube require more energy.
But there would be many problems if he released a product like this; people would use it for illegal purposes, such as kidnapping people and bringing monsters from dungeons into the real world.
"That is why I hired you. I don't want questions like that.
Your job now is to optimize this and also make a smaller version that people can use as a smartwatch, phone, or just accessories like jewelry.
Don't forget to put some biometric security on it, too."
Alex knew he needed a plan before releasing this kind of product on the market, but he was still not satisfied; his mind churned to make something more ambitious.
"Vesa, since dungeons work the same as secret realms, can you take over one too? Like what you did for Mingyue?"
Alex communicated telepathically with Vesa.
[As I said before, based on the current King's knowledge, a dungeon is just another world, so this is not possible, but I need you to enter the dungeon first to make sure.
As for secret realms, they are artificially created by cultivators using formations, and you should know they rarely put countermeasures in case someone tries to hack the array with sophisticated methods from your world since they don't have a concept like this.
The fundamentally different way of utilizing formations is already enough for them.]