Ringo was very attracted to the magical golem, it was practically a subordinate that could be carried everywhere. He thought about leaving one of these with Hila, and letting her leave the Floating Dragon with a Grade A peak golem would be much safer for her.
But then he realized that with his evolutionary polymer skills, he could create something similar without wasting such a good material.
Instead, he thought it would be better to create armor for her.
-Could you use this to make a Grade A peak armor that could be used by a Grade B?- Ringo asked again.
Bradd was a little confused by Ringo being clearly interested in a Golem, but the next moment asking for a armor.
Sure, Ringo is a Grade A, so the armor probably isn't for him.
Bradd became thoughtful and spoke. - A Grade B wouldn't be able to use armor like that very well, at most, it would provide stronger physical protection.
-Never mind, it'll do.- Ringo waved his hand.
Bradd shrugged. -Sure, I can. Maktru and the heart served well as primary materials, but I'll need to take measurements of whoever the armor is for to do a better job.
Ringo thought again and felt that Eva would probably want to go with Hila, so he spoke. - The ice core, can you make another armor with it?
Bradd was stunned for a moment, before realizing that Ringo was truly strange, he had come to ask for a bow, but he used the two cores in his possession to make armors?
-Sure. - In the end he shrugged, it wasn't his problem.
Ringo knew that this would leave him without his bow, but instead he had another idea. He was on a planet of mages, if he could obtain enough living mineral material and fuse it with Emma's energy, wouldn't that be perfectly compatible with the white wood he possessed?
Ringo pulled a crystal imbued with Emma's energy from his pocket and handed it to Bradd, asking, -Can you use this kind of magic crystal as a core?
Bradd glanced at the crystal without much interest, he could sense the small amount of energy it contained.
-Yes, but at most a Grade C weapon can be forged with it.- He shrugged, he normally wouldn't even bother forging such a weapon, but with Ames by his side, if Ringo asked, he could do it. -Besides, this crystal is pure energy, it's not connected to any secondary dimension, so I would have to inscribe an energy harvesting matrix on it, thus the energy replenishment rate would be slower.
Ringo thought for a moment and asked. -Can compatible energies be absorbed?- After all, his evolutionary energy has a neutral aspect, it would be easy to recharge it with it, just like recharge Umbra Alba, although the efficiency wouldn't be the best. This would change over time, Umbra Alba continues to evolve by absorbing his energy, so the efficiency is always increasing.
-Of course.- Bradd nodded. -However, although this energy is compatible with white wood, I must say it would be a great waste to use it for that purpose, this type of wood is better suited for forging magic staves.
Ringo smiled and said. -Don't worry, I'll get a Grade A crystal like that. Besides that, do you have any mineral life form parts for sale? They can be of lower grade.
Bradd looked at Ringo with a mixture of confusion and curiosity, but finally nodded. Ringo bought several Grade C and B living crystal parts from Bradd, but he didn't stop there.
He left Bradd's shop with Ames and Aesop and went for a walk around the planet again, he would also need to bring Hila and Eva the next time he came to help them with the armor.
Bradd simply watched the guests leave, sighing at the loss of the calm of his day, but he was even more curious about what Ringo would accomplish.
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Ringo traveled the entire planet in search of parts of mineral life forms, and his harvest was incredibly abundant.
There were minerals of various types and properties, and only a few of them could actually serve to retain plant energy, after all, as mineral life forms, having a relationship with plants is really asking too much.
Of course, with its evolving polymer, it was ready to add more properties to the core it was creating.
He took Ames and Aesop to an inn after a day of traveling. Ames didn't mind at all, visiting that planet with her father and Ringo was actually quite fun for her. She even bought some "toys", which were actually dangerous things, but in her hands they were just toys.
Like an enchanted dagger with a blade as thin as a cicada's wing, it could slice a Grade B soldier to pieces, but Ames used it to clean her fingernails, leaving Ringo and Aesop speechless.
Finally, back in his room, Ringo began to work. He separated the currently useless minerals and kept the minerals with the few crystals that possessed vegetation-like properties, generally taken from magical plants with mineral characteristics.
This reminded Ringo of the strange flower he had picked up on the planet Lapis Purpureus where he encountered C-31. Emma had created several specimens after she picked that plant. Ringo went there and picked some flowers before returning, the property of converting solar energy into explosive energy of this thing could be very useful.
In addition, it retained crystals of water, earth, and air as a supplement.
Most were of the terrestrial type, but he reduced the quantity to make it compatible with the new core, maintaining a ratio of 3 parts plant-based to 1 part of each type.
In truth, he could simply take pieces of the Groots, but those guys were still growing, taking parts of them now seemed wrong, it was a shame.