Just as the spear creation required its formula, so too did the creation of the Nano-Photon Blaster.

And Everlearn typed them out.

There were six objects.

The first was Nanite Slurry, that is, living nanotech, semi-liquid, with the capability of reshaping.

Everlearn needed that to form the shape of an emitter.

Then, he needed a Photon Crystal that could store and also release coherent photons.

Also important was a Conductive Chassis, the gauntlet casing for Everlearn's arm, serving as both structure and heat sink.

Then, a Focusing Matrix to narrow the photons into one attack ray.

A Mechano Glyph, like a command module that told the nanites to form an emitter, and lastly, the Trigger Button, which was the activation link.

The second he typed it all out, the system panel blinked before him:

║ Host has discovered an Advanced Creation Path:

║Nanite Slurry + Photon Crystal + Conductive Chassis + Mechano Glyph + Trigger Filament = Nano-Photon Blaster! ║

With the system having recognized it, all that was needed was to gather the objects required and use Mechano Creatio.

And speaking of the objects required, Everlearn had fifteen items from yesterday's haul.

They were:

A ragged maintenance drone with the hull split open.

That one was especially good because it held a stamped micro-canister that contained the nanite slurry he needed.

The second was a shattered combat drone core, with the lattice still pulsing faintly, and it had the photon crystal.

The third was a dented, claw-like forearm gauntlet.

It was hollow and scorched, definitely having suffered in a fight by some weird energy attack, but the arm was mostly intact and could be used to create the gauntlet shape he needed around his palm.

There was also a cracked laser turret condenser that held photon-conducting pieces, and a spool of braided smart wire, an entire length of braided sensor-threaded wire with a built-in trigger bus, though it was slightly burnt.

But it was the trigger he needed for the photon release.

He also had a corroded firmware module that could act as a Mechano Glyph, though he had to make sure it wasn't too corrupted, or it might backfire.

The batteries he gathered were a total of two — one was 3.5 megawatts, and the other 2.0 megawatts, making a total of 5.5 MW.

Though they had been used, they weren't completely useless, and he could still hear their faint humming.

This would work as an extra power cell for the creation.

He also had a medical surgical gel pack labeled BioNan-Inject.

Those were nanites too, but more of medical nanites, kind of useless for this project.

There was a Gravehend Dust Canister, just a tiny vial of it that still contained conductive rust and flakes, but it was half-burned.

There was a Magnetic Pulse Coil Assembly, with a fully intact coil and a targeting gyroscope, but none of the old grits or MicroIMUs.

It was useful control hardware and an orientation matrix, and he could use that to create an aiming interface for the photon blaster.

The last two objects were a hollowed drone frame, which he could add as the conductive chassis, though he wouldn't, as it would be wasteful, and finally, a glass vial with faintly glowing residue.

Anytime Everlearn brought that close to the light on the table, it glowed, showing a high possibility of concentrated luminar core fragments.

For the Nanite Slurry, Everlearn used the ragged maintenance drone.

For the Photon Crystal, he used the drone core.

The Conductive Chassis came from the salvaged claw-like forearm gauntlets.

For the Focusing Matrix, he used the half-melted metamaterial wafer.

For the Mechano Glyph, he decided to go with the corroded firmware module. That had a high chance of backfiring if the module was corrupted, but he trusted his skill would be able to fix that up.

And for the Power Cell, he put in the entire 5.5 MW battery.

With all of that sorted out, Everlearn didn't do it on his desk.

If anything exploded, it would destroy his monitor and laptop, and he would be screwed.

So he moved everything to the training room and spread the equipment on the hard gem floor.

Just to be sure he got everything right, he read each one out aloud:

"A repairman's canister, a scored core, a dented silicon gauntlet, a warped material wafer, a slimed firmware tile, and five-megawatt batteries."

All six pieces were complete.

"Huuuuuu..."

Exhaling with his heart rapidly pounding like a gong, he ordered,

"Activate Mechano Creatio."

Immediately, a flaming blue light rose from his palms, gently burning around his fingers, and in the next moment, Everlearn placed his hands on the objects beneath him.

The blue light immediately encapsulated it, a brilliant glow so blinding that he was forced to shut his eyes tightly to avoid getting blinded.

Sweat quickly poured over his face as his teeth were gritted hard.

He could feel it, the sensation of energy rapidly being drained from him, almost like life was being sucked out of his existence.

An advanced creation like this would, of course, take more energy than a simple spear, something he never prepared for.

And now he had to bear it.

He was stuck in that position for an entire twenty-seven minutes before he finally felt the energy sucking sensation disappear.

Immediately, Everlearn collapsed on his back, exhaling bursts of white breath from his lips as his chest rose higher and higher.

But the dimming of the light behind his feet brought him sharply awake, and he sat back up to find a simple object on the ground.

It was a...cube.

A really simple cube, about the size of a table tennis ball.

"Huh?"

Everlearn picked it up.

It was pretty light, as he threw it up a couple of inches before catching it back.

"Wait, this is it?"

He asked the system, whose golden panel flashed.

[Congratulations on creating an Advanced Mech Gadget: A Nano-Photon Blaster!]

The system said as Everlearn eyed the cube.

In the next moment, he suddenly placed it at the center of his palm and then,

CRUSSSH!

He folded his fingers together into a fist, but the second he did that,

WHIIIIIR!

The sound of machinery whined out as Everlearn yanked back, slamming onto his butt.

His right arm was outstretched before him, and right before his eyes, nanites slowly bloomed all over his right palm, covering his fingers and the back of his hands up to his wrist.

At the center of his palm, a circle appeared, the inner surface blooming to form a glass lens whose surface rippled with energy.

Everlearn's eyes shone with dumbfoundedness.

Staring at the metallic blue nanitie layer covering his palm with a brewing nozzle on his palm,

"It...It worked!?"

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