What Takumi wanted mainly was an armor that enhanced the girls' protective abilities, while the bonus to combat effectiveness was secondary.
To be honest, even if the firepower of this armor was strong, it was likely not much more destructive than the elf girls themselves.
The firepower was more of a supplementary addition, added by someone who had a hidden phobia of insufficient strength.
After careful comparison, it was not difficult to find that the firepower output of this suit of armor obviously lagged behind its other abilities.
The top protection capabilities of the core components and the excellent combat auxiliary functions were much more valuable than that weaponry.
This was also proof that Takumi focused on these two aspects when designing.
Because the original core idea of designing this suit was that the best protection made it easier to fight after wearing it.
Although the additional firepower was installed at the back, it made it more difficult for the armor to exert its full performance.
But in fact, the wearer could ignore the weapons configuration and just use it as a piece of armor, which would be much easier to control.
Anyway, they didn't really rely on this suit of armor to fight, so why would they care?
If they really needed it, they could just control the firepower at that time, making it a guaranteed trump card.
Therefore, this armor was actually very consistent with its initial positioning.
For the strong, it offered ultimate protection, powerful auxiliary functions, and additional firepower when necessary.
It was not about letting people exert its power, but about people who were already strong becoming more powerful with its help after putting it on. But if!
After putting on this armor, if the wearer were unable to use their own abilities, then this armor would be in vain no matter how good it was.
"Okay, I'll try."
Esdeath nodded, and then under Takumi's gaze, she stretched out her hand to condense ice.
"It seems there is no problem."
Takumi was completely relieved when he saw this, and then asked: "How does it feel to use it? Is there anything strange?"
"Nothing unusual, everything is normal."
"Okay, then let's start testing its performance, starting with flight."
Next, Esdeath cooperated with Takumi and Hephaestus to conduct a series of tests on the armor.
Flight, ground maneuvering, flexibility, protection endurance, firepower, auxiliary functions, and combat endurance were all tested one by one.
The results were gratifying. All performances met expectations, especially the key protection capabilities.
Even Hephaestus almost failed to break through the defense when she used her divine power and exploded with all her strength.
Of course, when testing this specific project, the armor was taken off.
Takumi would not let his woman take such a risk.
And the only thing that was not very satisfactory about this armor was probably its power supply.
Currently, only a few people such as Takumi and Riveria could power it.
There was also energy conversion technology.
Takumi further optimized the efficiency of this technology. After a while, it reached a ratio of about four-to-one.
In this way, the energy of the small reactor was fed back into magic power, allowing the armor to automatically replenish energy during standby, becoming fully charged in one day. Once fully charged, it could last for five hours of regular battle.
In high-pressure battles, it could last for an hour.
Although Takumi wanted it to have unlimited battery life.
But it was a pity that the current efficiency of energy conversion technology was already at its limit.
Unless he changed to an energy device with a larger reactor output, or a bigger reactor, this was the only way. But this still surprised Takumi.
Because he discovered that the real use of this energy conversion technology was actually the large-scale conversion of magic power!
As long as there was enough electricity, unlimited magic power could be converted!
For Takumi, who had mastered fusion technology and material generation, he could have as much power as he wanted!
And the most outrageous thing was that matter generation consumed magic power to create fusion fuel out of thin air. After fusion power generation, it was converted back into magic power through energy conversion. The data looked roughly like this.
One unit of magic power consumption was equal to 20,000 units of electricity, and 20,000 units of electricity consumption was equal to five thousand units of magic power.
Good grief!
Under this set of operations, energy was not conserved! As soon as you exchanged it in the middle, the magic power increased five thousand times!
If you used a little of those five thousand units to repeat the operation, as long as you paid a little initial magic power, it became a perpetual motion machine that could stably produce 4,999 magic power units almost permanently.
"Although it's not scientific, it's magic."
Takumi sighed happily.
He immediately used Creation Magic to combine fusion technology and energy conversion technology, as well as material generation and magic crystallization technology, successfully obtaining a large-scale infinite magic furnace.
Once this magic furnace was started, as long as it was not damaged, it could continue to supply magic power.
Takumi immediately found a corner in the Dimensional City and set up a barrier to prevent accidents in the furnace.
Then he placed the magic furnace there and started it.
Watching magic crystals as big as eggs being produced one after another, Takumi nodded with satisfaction.
"With this thing, there will be no shortage of magic power in the Dimensional City in the future, and the armor can also be used openly."
The battery life problem of the armor could actually be solved by replacing the magic batteries.
Originally, it would have been very troublesome if Takumi and the others had to fill empty magic batteries one by one.
But now! This magic furnace continuously produced power. Takumi could build a device specifically for replenishing magic power in magic batteries. Put an empty battery into it, and it would automatically fill up. As soon as he thought of it,
Takumi created this magic charging device. As long as you poured in the magic crystals and connected the magic battery, it could be charged automatically.
As for why the magic power produced should be set to magic crystal form?
This was mainly due to the storage problem of magic power.
Although it was not difficult to get a magic battery with more capacity.
But considering that the infinite magic furnace was a perpetual motion machine after all, if one were not careful, it was entirely possible for a magic battery to burst.
If an accident happened, the larger the magic battery used for storage, the more power would be stored, and the greater the power of the explosion would be. Judging from the output of the magic furnace in front of us, the magic battery that would be allocated to it would definitely not be small.
Once it exploded, a nuclear explosion would be like a little brother in comparison; it might even be possible to blow up a planet.
Although it could be equipped with a smaller magic battery and then have the magic furnace turned on and off to reduce risk.
But the risk remained, and it was troublesome and wasteful.
But it was different when made into a magic crystal.
This thing, as long as you didn't inject magic power into it to stimulate it and break its internal balance, was absolutely safe.
No matter how you touched it, even if you smashed it, it would be fine. It was no different from an ordinary crystal.
At most, it would lose part of its magic power after being broken, but it could still be used.
Even if one of them accidentally exploded when stored together, it would only break the other crystals and would not cause a series of explosions. It was safe and easy to store, except for taking up a little space and the transportation being a bit troublesome.
And, wasn't it a coincidence?
Takumi had no shortage of storage places and efficient transportation methods.
Have you heard of space magic and teleportation magic?
Not to mention the territory of the Dimensional City. There was a lot of land that had not been developed. Even if it were, how difficult would it be to use the Undetectable Extension Charm to expand the warehouse? It would only cost a little magic power.
This was why, even though production at home was increasing recently, the Dimensional City didn't build new warehouses. Unless there were new items that needed to be classified and stored separately, they wouldn't be needed. After the original warehouse was expanded, it was still not full.
And the transportation problem was just a trivial matter for a teleportation array.
After these two problems were perfectly solved, there were no shortcomings in crystallizing and storing magic power.
And there was another reason.
The current magic technology was not perfect enough, and there was no transmission capacity like a circuit.
It was not impossible for Takumi to improve the safety of magic batteries or even develop magic transmission technology.
However, to popularize magic technology, it also needed construction.
Now the Dimensional City projects were already busy enough, and winter was about to start, so there really wasn't enough manpower to do other things for the time being.
The girls were very enthusiastic about building new houses. Because they had to survive the winter, they went to do some winterization projects first and didn't complain.
But if they were asked to wait in line again, they would definitely complain.
After all, they were even shouting slogans while working now, wanting to move into new houses before winter.
Therefore, it was better not to bother them in the short term.
Another advantage of magic crystallization was that it did not require transmission lines and could be widely used.
For example, if you put a magic crystal on the magic item version of a heater or cassette stove, it could be used just like a battery.
Takumi planned to use it like this first. When everyone got used to using magic items in daily life, it would not be too late to fix the magic transmission lines.
Anyway, whether the magic furnace outputted magic power or produced magic crystals was just a matter of adjustment.
For now, considering various circumstances, they would use it this way.
Afterward, Takumi went to talk to Riveria about the magic furnace and asked her to arrange people to guard it and handle the collection of the magic crystals.
As for himself, after creating a batch of armor, he went to work on other things.
In fact, everything in Dimensional City was now on track, and what followed was a period of adaptation and waiting for the winter.
There was nothing that Takumi needed to do immediately.
So, Takumi was going to go out and have a look at the Konosuba World.
He had been coveting the class transfer and upgrade system in the Konosuba World for a long time.
If he got this system and merged it with his Falna.
He wouldn't dare say it made them invincible, but it would definitely bring a huge overall improvement to the Dimensional City.
Just do what comes to mind.
Takumi called over Esdeath, who was bored, as well as Hestia, Riveria, Hephaestus, Kanae, Saeko, Minami Rika, and Marikawa Shizuka, and prepared to take them out for a walk.
It had been a long time since he had spent time with them, and Esdeath, Hephaestus, and others had never had such an experience.
He would take this opportunity to make it up to them.
"Really, I'm very busy, yet you actually pulled me over just because you wanted to hang out."
Riveria complained to Takumi helplessly.
But even though she said this, the smile in her eyes was difficult to conceal.
Although Riveria was full of enthusiasm at the beginning, she had been working for so long.
She was very happy to finally have a day off and go out with Takumi to get some fresh air.
What? You ask who will handle the work while she is out?
Of course, it would be someone removed from their previous post. The Akame ga Kill World had captured Lafa as a replacement.
With Sophon's cooperation and Lafa having studied under her, it was possible to take over the shift. This time, it was considered giving Lafa a chance to try things out. (Lafa: Listen to me, thank you.)
"Haha, just keep telling the truth."
In response to Riveria's remarks, Hestia suggested they see how long she could keep pretending.
Then, she went over and hugged Takumi's arm.
This operation of penetrating the defense with her chest was obvious. Riveria couldn't help but twitch her eyes.
Not to be outdone, she stepped forward and took Takumi's other hand, occupying Takumi's other side.
"...It's hard for me to walk like this."
Takumi was also speechless.
Back when he didn't know better, he was quite envious of such attention, but after trying it, he realized... it was really something! If it was hard to walk, it was hard to walk, and he was not in a hurry anyway.
Hephaestus and Kanae just glanced at the three of them. Although they were moved, they did not move out of reserve.
Saeko was chatting enthusiastically with Esdeath, and they did not notice what was going on.
These two were both warriors, shared similar interests, and got along well.
Minami Rika was responsible for holding back Marikawa Shizuka.
After the latter came here, it was like starting a shopping spree. She was always looking left and right. If Rika didn't hold on, she might disappear in a blink of an eye.
It is worth mentioning that the place where everyone was currently was Megumin's hometown, the Crimson Demon Village.
The reason why I came here was because the only Konosuba World coordinate in the Dimensional Gate was Megumin's coordinates.
And since Megumin went to the Dimensional City from here, Takumi could only bring people here.
Only after he or others had explored other places could the Dimensional Door be opened at other locations.
Otherwise, the initial location would only be the location of the connector, or the location where he was when he last left.