"Success! Both the 'Water Gathering' sequence and the 'Heating' sequence effects were applied to the bowl! Deactivating both sequences Harry pulled on one of his blacksmithing gloves and removed the hot metal bowl of water off the wood plank. He dumped the water out into the sink in the bathroom before returning and grabbing another plank of wood. This time he etched two sequences that couldn't be put together without their individual Runes interfering with each other. After filling both sequences with circuit base he filled the two lines he'd carved all over the top of the plank between the two sequences. "Here goes nothing." Harry remarked as he held his hand over the wood plank and conjured fire. When the plank didn't burn Harry smiled. "The 'Fire Protection' sequence is working." He grinned. Next Harry pulled out his wand, this next spell he hadn't gotten to work wandlessly yet. "Infrigoreum." He intoned and watched closely to see if the spell took effect. Not seeing anything change Harry stowed his wand away and touched the plank. "Not even cold. The 'Freeze Proof' sequence is also working!" The eleven year old couldn't contain himself and jumped around his workshop laughing and cheering at his success. It was only the first steps of Alchemy but they worked! He could use Alchemy for his Enchanting now! This opened up an innumerable amount of paths for his future as an Enchanter! The Title of Artificer wasn't just a pipe dream now, he could actually achieve it!
"This could be just what I need to finish my Rune Safe! If I use circuit base to connect the mana absorption sequence to the security array they should link up and apply their effects together." Harry surmised as he continued to think on his current project. "I need to make sure they can link up through a circuit when etched into metal. I'll need more metal so another trip to 'reclaim' some from an abandoned classroom is required. If this works my Rune Safe will be more secure than any trunk on the market!"
The next day Harry had 'acquired' enough metal to begin his tests. Pounding out ten flat metal bars in the smithy took the rest of the day but he'd be ready to experiment first thing in the morning! Harry had a hard time getting to sleep that night from sheer excitement. Waking up the next morning he ate breakfast quickly before heading to his workshop to start his experiments.
"Failure! Bloody hell!" Harry groused as his sixth metal bar failed to hold all the properties of his combined security and absorption array. This was his sixth attempt at connecting the absorption sequence into the array with circuit base lines. He still had a few more tries left but he was starting to think he was missing something else. "Alright, let's try this again." Harry breathed out as he tried to calm down. The seventh try wasn't any more successful than his first six. Neither was the eighth attempt or the ninth. Tossing his newest failure into the pile of failures Harry sighed as he made his next and final attempt before he'd have to get more metal and forge it into shape.
"Failed again! Why? What am I missing?" Harry demanded to no one as he roughly tossed his tenth failed bar into the pile and stewed on his lack of progress. Why wouldn't the metal hold his connected array? There was nothing wrong with how the sequences were placed and the circuit base lines were connecting the array together properly. What was he missing, there had to be some reason he wasn't seeing. But what could it possibly be? Pacing back and forth through his workshop for several minutes yielded no answers as Harry continued to mull over his dilemma, there had to be something wrong with his method. Staring over at his piled of failures lying haphazardly on the stone floor he noticed that a few of the bars had fallen into a rhombus shape together.
"Wait a minute…could it be?" Harry pondered as he moved over to the pile and rearranged the failures into squares on the floor. Seeing two squares of four metal bars each sparked his thought process. He noticed that the circuit lines from the individual bars touched where the bars met. The effect would spread correctly if they were a single piece, or at least connected properly together. Like a singular item! "That's it. That's it! It's the form!" Harry exclaimed to the empty classroom as he grinned and quickly left the room to 'acquire' more metal.
It was the morning after his epiphany and Harry had scrounged up all the metal he could find last night. He'd hit every single abandoned classroom on the sixth floor and taken every bit of metal he could find. It was almost all iron but that suited Harry's purposes just fine. He'd made sure to take extra food from breakfast this morning so that he wouldn't have to stop his work to go to lunch. It was time to get to work! Harry spent the rest of the day heating the iron pieces in the forge, pounding the hot iron pieces together into single sheets. His mana was imbued into the iron with every strike of the hammer. He had sweat more on this day than any other day in his life. Near what would be dinner time Harry was finished with the first part of his creation. Cooling after being dumped in the slack tub and then levitated back out was an iron box with one side missing and another slab of iron with a handle on the left side of it and on the upper and lower corners of the right side were two bits of metal protruding from the 'top' and 'bottom' of the slab. This would be the door for the iron box.
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