This new spell was important to his plans going forward, disgustingly so. To show that, Darius immediately began burning his mana turning as much sand around him into humus, or dark earth.
One moment it had been porous and heat trapped sand only to turn into semi-porous and nutrient-rich soil that could be used to grow crops. Darius made sure the area around which he had built his settlement was turned to humus first.
This took him the whole day and even with his huge manapool, a few rests to recover due to wastage.
Darius did not have access to his system Inventory for obvious reasons, so he could not pull out one of the many potions he had created and tossed into a slot oh so long ago.
This was fine for him, as he regarded this as his chance to learn how to conserve mana. The larger his pool, the more he wasted, but conversely, the more he could practice with.
The more he could practice with, the better he got and the faster his efficiency increased. His high Intellect at the Grandmaster stage meant that without the system, his ability to grow and adapt to magic was at its peak for a human.
Darius finished his task by the end of the day and decided to rest properly. His bed was still made of hard stone, which was less than comfortable as you could imagine.
Unfortunately, he had never bothered to create a spell such as Stone to Pillows or Stone to Cotton, otherwise, he could shapeshift himself a bed. The best he could do was make the stone there as soft as he could without making it fully mud-like, otherwise, that would be… yeah.
Darius slept and woke up eight hours later, ready to begin anew. It was just about morning and the sun had yet to fully rise. The area was freezing cold due to how temperatures in a desert biome worked, and he left his cottage with a look of interest.
Darius gazed at the humus which had settled, then his various domes. He began drafting a plan, but still needed some one or two extra spells to achieve what he had in mind with ease.
However, his other base plans did not need to be postponed. He walked to his largest dome which housed his huge pool of water and cast Stone to Mud.
He then created small circular pipes made of hardened stone under the sand and walked over while casting to connect them with the various domes and his own cottage.
And just like this, he had created a preliminarily piping system in the desert.
Near the humus, he created a huge stone water tank that stood high up and created a pipe that flowed downwards into the soil and split into equidistant rows.
He had created a preliminary irrigation system for his future cropland.
Darius went into another dome that was half the size of the previous one and created a huge cubical underground stone tank that was completely sealed off except for one pipe that led to another dome by the side of his cottage that was extremely small, as well as many other pipes that convected to the area under the humus.
He had created a preliminary fertilizer and waste management system.
Once done with this, he paused for the day. He returned to his cottage and delved into his mind, entering a meditative pose as he diligently worked on two new spells that would be crucial going forward.
By the time four months had passed, he was done with both of them. Compared to the initial three months Darius had taken, he was adapting to creating spells of lower grades faster compared to his Intellect.
Even with a Supreme System, it was ludicrous to expect a Grandmaster Mage to take months to make mere intermediate grade spells. It may seem impressive to us, but that was because we compared Darius according to his official stage, not his stats.
In terms of stats, he was atrocious and abhorrent, but the beautiful thing was that such a thing could easily be fixed.
All he needed was time.
His two new spells were;
[Sand to Polymer - Level 1 Spell
Grade: Intermediate
Cost: 20 MP
Description: Transform an area of 100 meters around you containing any form of sandy particles to polymers of any kind (and vice versa) directly or remotely. The speed of conversion is 0.1 seconds per 100 meters and the effectiveness of the conversion is 100%.]
[Pebbles to Seeds - Level 1 Spell
Grade: Intermediate
Cost: 20 MP
Description: Transform an area of 100 meters around you containing any form of small stone or sediment composed particles to viable seeds of any kind (and vice versa) directly or remotely. The speed of conversion is 0.1 seconds per 100 meters and the effectiveness of the conversion is 100%.]
These two spells were a great breakthrough in Darius' survivability while in this realm. The first one was even moreso than the latter, and the Itemancer was shocked he could even get it to be this versatile!
The ability to create any kind of polymers with his mana was absolutely crazy given his circumstances, and here's why;
A polymer is a material containing large molecules made by bonding a series of building blocks called monomers. Natural polymers include wool, cotton, and silk. The utility of these should be obvious, given that Darius had just been complaining about a hard bed.
However, the true killer were the synthetic polymers artificially created by humans that were applied in so many areas of life that people didn't even notice that if polymers were to disappear one day, society as a whole would collapse.
Examples of synthetic polymers included; Polyethylene, Polyester, Acrylics, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), Polypropylene (PP), Rubber, Teflon, Nylon, Silicone, Hydrogel, etc.
Of course, to the uninitiated and those not really savvy with such things, most of these names drew a blank while some sounded familiar because they were so integral that it was hard to miss them.
So what exactly were each of them used for?
