The Villain's Story

Chapter 910: The World’s Worst Part timer!

Each box contained hundreds of rings, and since his mana generation had taken a hit, or otherwise known as normalized, even Alan Peccator was empty by the end of it.

Transforming eighteen hundred normal rings into spatial rings consumed a lot of power; an average spatial sorcerer that wasn’t a dragon could manage only a hundred at most.

However, the ordeal wasn’t without benefit, since Alan had undoubtedly gotten better at crafting spatial rings. He could increase the original capacity of the spatial rings to three hundred and sixty items, but in addition, he could craft the other, more commonly used type of spatial ring as well.

It was relatively simple; the problem lay not in his magic or his understanding of it, but rather, his thinking. Previously, when Alan had created the first batch of spatial rings, his main focus was on the inventory system most commonly used by games. He had designed the spatial rings based on that.

And they were effective, no doubt about that. While the description may appear vague, it was useful in many ways. In a spatial ring defined by space, one could store large amounts of small things, but fewer amounts of big things, like monster corpses.

In Alan’s spatial rings, a corpse was identified as a single item, no matter how big it was. There was yet to be a monster found on Earth and Gigantia that couldn’t fit in the ring as one singular item. You could store three hundred or more Snow Mammoths in Alan’s version of Spatial rings, and this was powerful. However, it had some demerits as well.

Rations and supplies had to be stored individually; you couldn’t just pack them in a box and hope for the ring to classify it as a single item. Each one was considered a separate item. This limited the range for survival scenarios.

A Dwarven Spatial ring didn’t have this disadvantage; in it, you could store large amounts of rations and supplies, neatly packed in boxes. But you would barely be able to fit two or three snow mammoths. Of course, high-quality Dwarven rings had much more space to offer, but so did Alan.

His original version of the spatial ring was the best if one wanted to store monster corpses, machines, or other big things. But for smaller things, a Dwarven Spatial ring was undoubtedly better.

To get rid of this advantage, Alan had been trying to add a certain quality to his spatial rings after getting unsealed, and it was the ability to stack similar items, and he was having some form of success… but it was from being a complete product. The rings he created would either break after a while, losing everything inside, or the stacked items would come out all at once in unusual shapes and sizes, ruining the quality.

Alan was certain it was possible, but he would need to study artifact creation for extended periods to get it right. He had wasted about fifty rings in this endeavor.

Alan could create a Dwarven ring about the size of a football field, but in doing so, he would exhaust half of his mana reserves. He had made one and set it aside on Richard’s desk for him to review, and about twenty rings which had enough space in the room he was in, about 16 meters in length, and eight in height and width. He had made the rest like his own, although he lowered the total item count to 128 and 256.

Why? Because only he deserved to have the best of his rings, that was why! This was a premium product! Only he and special friends deserved to have this!

He had also made a Dwarven spatial ring the size of a football field for himself as well when his reserves recovered.

“Phew…”

After writing a simple note and leaving it at Richard’s desk, Alan teleported to the Cafeteria and got a plate full of food.

‘The food at Shield is better…’

He thought, but didn’t really mind the quality of it. After all, he wasn’t the one eating it. Teleporting to the Laboratory, Alice’s special laboratory, Alan knocked on the door, but there was no response.

He knocked once again, but there was still no response. He rolled his eyes and activated [Dragon Eyes], finding Alice knocked out in the room, it was full of chemical gases, ones that a human being shouldn’t be in contact with for a long time.

Most certainly an experiment gone wrong. Alan broke the door open with a single swipe of his hand and used magic to clean the room.

‘Is the ventilation system not working?’

He wondered, as he scanned the room, putting a potion in Alice’s mouth at the same time. His body suddenly gave birth to golden flames, ones that cleansed the room, they got rid of everything impure, and restored life into Alice.

Alan saw many vials, filled either to the brim with liquid or halved. Everything here, however, was dangerous! There was not a single health potion or anything good!

Alice coughed, waking up. She rubbed her eyes to find Alan squatting above her, dazed, she asked.

“What happened to the experiment?”

“… You know, I’m starting to regret ever revealing your talent with the Talent Spectogram. I fear this is a bad development.”

“What?”

“Girl, you need the sun.”

“Huh? But I still have something I’m working on so-“

Before she could finish, Alan opened a portal next to her, transporting her to a beach in the Capitol. Alice fell face-first into the sand and struggled to get it out of her hair and mouth. Alan appeared beside her soon enough and gave her the tray of food before saying.

“I’ll come to pick you up in about three hours. Enjoy!”

He created a new portal and entered it. Alice hurriedly tried to catch up.

“Wait!”

But alas, it closed already. She screamed in frustration.

“I’m in a damn lab coat! This isn’t the proper attire for a beach, and I have nothing!”

After she was done, a portal opened up before her once again, and a smirk appeared on her face.

“Glad you realized! I am your boss’s daughter after all…”

Her voice trailed off as she noticed the size of the portal. It was barely enough for a cat to pass through, much less a human. A confused expression appeared on her face as she watched a bottle of sunscreen exit the portal, as if thrown.

“…”

She stared it for a while, and accepted her fate. She applied sunscreen and took off her lab coat and lay on it, basking in the sun.

“…”