After obtaining knowledge about the Imaginary Collapse Pulse from Ark, Bai Luan spent some time in the Little Black Room, gradually digesting and mastering this knowledge.
Having mastered this part of the knowledge, Bai Luan then tried to create it in reality according to the first plan he had conceived earlier.
Facts proved that equilibrium still hadn't let him off, constantly hindering his progress.
Clearly, equilibrium wasn't so easily fooled; after the Chadwick incident, it discovered Bai Luan's objective after he had crafted some curios and began to actively interfere with Bai Luan's progress.
Again, it's not that it couldn't be made, but the time required was greatly extended.
In this case, implementing Plan A would be meaningless.
Disassembling the weapon into various curios was originally intended to conceal the fact that he was building an overpowered weapon.
This was to make equilibrium mistakenly believe that he had settled down, merely crafting some ordinary curios, thereby causing it to stop generating various coincidences to interfere with the curio crafting process.
But now it seems... hey, this Aeon isn't stupid.
Plan A was thwarted, but Bai Luan wasn't discouraged and tirelessly tried various methods to break through equilibrium's restrictions.
Plan A, which involved disassembling the weapon into various curios for assembly, failed, while Plan B, which involved Ark instantly assembling the weapon using divine power, couldn't be verified as feasible because Ark had not yet been born.
Bai Luan was truly constrained by equilibrium for a time.
But soon, Bai Luan had a brainstorm and came up with a new plan.
Since Ark hasn't finished writing his Path and hasn't truly been born, why don't I take Ark's place?
Memorize all the necessary knowledge and structures for constructing the weapon, and then, at the moment the weapon is needed, use nanobots to assemble it at light speed.
This is difficult, but not impossible.
After finalizing the new plan, Bai Luan began practicing in the Little Black Room.
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Luan had compressed the construction time to within ten seconds.
Within ten seconds, he could construct a weapon from scratch using nanobots, based on the principle of the Imaginary Collapse Pulse.
Although it's unknown how long it could stably exist in the real world, it should be able to stall equilibrium for a few seconds; probably no one before could whip up such a thing in ten seconds.
In those few seconds before equilibrium could react, he only needed to charge and fire.
Bai Luan also shared Chadwick's knowledge with Herta, and she, like Herta in reality, became interested.
With Herta's help, Bai Luan also completed the application nodes for the Imaginary Collapse Pulse principle, which can now be used by Bai Luan in various types of thermal weapons.
Portable hand cannons, shoulder cannons focused on firepower output, sniper pulse rifles emphasizing precision... if the situation demands it, Bai Luan can construct various Imaginary Pulse weapons to meet current needs.
However, this weapon cannot be used lightly.
Firstly, casually using this weapon would be the greatest insult to Chadwick; out of respect for Chadwick himself, Bai Luan would not use this weapon casually.
Secondly, after equilibrium has been fooled once, it will likely be much harder to use it effectively the next time.
The first use of this move is the most effective; it must be used only when most needed.
Also, after using it, he would have to explain to other geniuses how he knew the weapon principle Chadwick researched, which is very troublesome.
He couldn't just scratch his head and tell them:
"I don't know, I just messed around with it, who knew it would correspond to his weapon?"
Although this reason was absurd, for some reason, Bai Luan always had a premonition.
A premonition that if he explained it this way to the geniuses, they would actually believe him.
As this thought emerged in Bai Luan's mind, he wasn't sure if he was crazy or if the world was crazy.
Maybe both.
In any case, Bai Luan now had another trump card, and Bai Luan placed this trump card behind Aha.
Hmm... Bai Luan changed his mind and placed this trump card in front of Aha.
Now that feels right.
Besides Imaginary weapons, Bai Luan also discussed many other weapons with Herta, such as Aether Phase Engines and the like.
However, after considering various factors, they only briefly researched these weapons together.
I don't use it, but I can't not have it, right?
After fully digesting Chadwick's knowledge, Bai Luan did not stop there.
He began to try to defeat equilibrium using Metaphysics, preparing to leverage the Curious Foundry's strange metaphysical 'gold-dropping' probability to turn ordinary items into overpowered curios.
After all, this kind of thing has happened before, right, Time-Stopping Pocket Watch?
He first targeted the magical items from comics.
For example, the Death Note, a Bow&Arrow... Doing so could also send a false signal to equilibrium, making it think he had settled down and was no longer contemplating making overpowered curios.
After all, in equilibrium's eyes, Bai Luan was just making a strangely shaped notebook or a bow and arrow that looked like a work of art.
If this continued, perhaps one day, equilibrium would no longer specifically pay attention to him?
『Then wait for that day when you hit it with something fierce, making it honestly turn back and watch you for a lifetime』
"...Seriously, having one Aeon, Aha, constantly watching me is more than enough."
Although the ideal was grand, reality was harsh; Bai Luan didn't craft any overpowered curios, only a pile of comic merchandise.
Bai Luan gave some to Stelle, and the rest were given away as merchandise to lucky fans randomly drawn across three accounts.
However, Bai Luan still created a conceptual curio—a standee of Hermit Purple.
Yes, just a standee, not the Stand Hermit Purple itself, and its effect wasn't very good either.
『curio: Hermit Purple Standee』
『When the wearer takes public transportation, the probability of the vehicle having an accident greatly increases』
Clearly, this standee did not inherit Hermit Purple's powerful information-gathering ability, only inheriting Old Joseph's vehicle-destroying ability.
It's definitely a negative curio, no doubt about it.
In a sense, this is also a conceptual curio, after all, Old Joseph's planes crashed, his boats sank, and his cars broke down.
It's not useless, but it's unlikely to be effective against the Iron Tomb.
He couldn't just throw this thing at the Iron Tomb and then hope for a cosmic 'big luck' to suddenly appear, letting the Iron Tomb hit the jackpot, could he?
It's unthinkable.
After crafting curios for most of the day, and gaining nothing but fan benefits for his accounts, Bai Luan felt somewhat depressed.
He wondered how long it would take to craft a useful curio.
Probably very difficult, as the crafting difficulty of these items isn't high.
Just then, Stelle found Bai Luan.
"Uncle, can you use the Anywhere Door to send me back to Penacony?"
"Mm, sure."
Bai Luan nodded.
"What's up with Penacony again?"
"Sioban needs my help as a bartender."
Stelle didn't specifically explain who Sioban was; she assumed Bai Luan already knew through his prophecies.
Explaining like this... feels so good.
No need to painstakingly explain from the beginning; just a simple sentence, and the other person knows what you're talking about.
Uncle's prophetic ability is still too authoritative.