Another New Proof for the "Spatial Magic Is OP" Theory

We were sparkling clean after the bath.

After that, I grabbed a bed from the pirates' place for our living space and designated the pirates' house as Dea-kun's room. It stank and was filthy — rivaling my blanket — so we spent plenty of time cleaning it.

Washing with the close-at-hand seawater left it sticky at first, but with spatial magic I separated the salt and got it perfectly clean.

With that method, we can make salt too. Could sell… Do you need a license to trade salt? If so, I'll just keep it for personal use.

After a solid sleep on the refurbished bedding, it was the next day.

Our meeting is tomorrow, so with a day free, I decided to dabble in alchemy and magic-item making.

"What book is that, Onee-san?"

"This? An alchemy textbook."

I bought it at the magic-item shop where I got lotion. Published by Alchemia, incidentally. Might be a collector's item one day.

The textbook had magic arrays — things that move, that cause phenomena. You inscribe them on the target and pour in ink with dissolved magic stone.

"With alchemy, I'm going to make… a certain something!"

"A certain something?"

It's a massager. Attach a vibrating ball to the end of a rod and put a switch on the handle — done.

Except we don't have magic stone ink or the magic stones for power—

"Ah, there's a recipe for magic stone ink. Ink and stones. I think the ink was in the pirates' house, and there were stones for golems on the ship."

"Oh! Good work, Dea-kun! Cute and capable!"

I patted his head gently.

If we know where it is, I can just spatial-fetch it. Man, robbing the pirates was the right call. Taking their entire base netted us all sorts of stuff.

… But these dubiously obtained goods and money won't be handled by Merchant Karina! It's a self-imposed restriction to keep Merchant-Me and Archmage-Me separate people.

However, if I rework them into my own magic-items first, I'll allow myself to use them for small private deals!

"Let's see… Crush the stone into powder and mix into ink little by little. Ratio is one inkwell to about a pinky-nail's worth of stone. Like this — "

I pulverized with spatial magic, then distributed the powder evenly into the ink by overwriting movement… Done! It's gone slightly blue. Success.

"I heard making magic stone ink takes a whole day… but it's done."

"Heh heh heh. Nothing to it for me."

This level of spatial manipulation was covered in the tutorial.

Next, the vibration array.

Fiddly and annoying. Lengthening this line increases amplitude; enlarging this circle increases frequency. Hmm. A note from the shopkeeper: arrays that are too fine are hard to carve and often fail when pouring ink. I see.

… Then let's print the array directly onto wood by spatially copying the ink pattern!

Secret technique: Spatial-Magic Inkjet Printer! (With mental micro-adjustments.)

And dry. Array complete!

"You stroked it and the array appeared instantly!?"

"Heh heh heh. Nothing to it for me."

Much simpler than duplicating an arm and tying in capillaries and nerves.

Then I embedded a suitably sized magic stone in the power node… It vibrated!

"Ooooh, it works! Dea-kun, it works!"

"I didn't know magic-items could be made so easily."

"Heh, well, only with my magic. Ah, I forgot a switch… this will run until you pull the stone. Hm."

Using something like magi-iron wire — akin to copper — you can create parts as separate arrays, connect them, or make switches, it says. The pirates' house probably doesn't have that.

This is basically electronics. Kinda fun.

"Is this the 'certain something' you wanted to make?"

"This is the first step. Now we shape it and add a switch… Oh right, the magic-item shop's device had a switch — I'll replicate that."

I'm not selling this prototype, so copying parts is fine. I shaped the wood with spatial magic and transplanted the switch and magi-iron from the existing device.

Wooden massager: complete!

Not an electric massager, a magic massager. 'Ma-ma' sounds awkward — let's just call it a Denma.

"Complete! I dub thee Denma!"

"The wood just rounded and shaved itself… That was magic too?"

"Yep. Cool, right?"

Another chapter for the Spatial Magic Is OP theory.

"By the way, this is a massager. Not even a little bit an adult toy."

"?"

Dea tilted his head. It's a wholesome item; off-label usage is your responsibility.

"Test run… ahhh, right into the shoulder knots."

"Ohh, that's how you use it."

"Ahhhh, good stuff."

These boobs do cause shoulder strain. I lighten the load with spatial magic, but still. This is great.

"Phew… I think it would sell. Thoughts?"

"From what I saw, the structure is very simple. It will be copied instantly. Someone might already be making them."

"True. There are golems, after all…"

Speaking of — what's the golem's architecture like? It's a magic-item too, right?

I scanned the combat golem we took from Gomez with spatial magic…

… Yeah.

If a golem is a modern EV, the Denma is a battery and a bulb.