This was not an easy assignment, some may say it was even impossible, but with his growing resources, all these troubles could be easily swept aside like the wind.
Each of the Angels was tasked to locate worlds without sentient life and record every single bit of resources that were available in those worlds, whether they were magical or not because unlike what most people needed to forge powerful weapons or equipment which depended a lot on the magical qualities of the materials, Rowan did not require all that.
He had his Hollow Forge, a power he was able to use to combine and smelt any resources he obtained into the form he needed them to take. He could turn trash into treasure.
With this power, what he only needed was an enormous amount of material, even if they were not magical in nature, as he was capable of achieving something even the universe herself was incapable of, for the last thing he lacked was Aether, even if he had a useless piece of metal, that would soon change when he infused them with enough Aether to drown out a galaxy.
The universe had to allocate her resources to a few locations, while he did not care about such nuances, he would take them all, and drown them inside his Sea of Infinite Aether.
However, this would not solve his problems because that was not how magical materials were created, as not every material responds in a positive manner to Aether. Even with the presence of Aether, not everything could become a treasure.
His Hollow Forge could perfectly solve that dilemma for him. With his Hollow Forge linked with Knowledge Well, it was not very difficult to come up with alloys that would be able to contain Aether.
Rowan could combine metals, earth, and even gasses to achieve a stable Alloy that would yield a positive effect when combined with the presence of Aether, and not just any sort of Aether, his unique and powerful Aether.
This was what led to the first step of his expedition. His Thousand Angels all located suitable planets that were dense in metallic resources like iron, gold, platinum, iridium, and other precious and heavy metals, and other things that he particularly needed like rare earths, gasses, and liquids.
All these could be combined inside his Hollow Forge, while Knowledge Well would create the best alloys and resources that could be combined using them.
When his Thousand Angel made the final decision on the planets they had selected, they began channeling Rowan's consciousness, and from all their eyes he could 'see'.
Anywhere he saw with the eyes of his Angels,
He could touch….
He could take…
In space above the thousand worlds, a light flashed, and a beam of blue light slammed into the planet, and began consuming everything in its path, boring its way through the planet until it reached the core where it began consuming hundreds of millions of tonnes of material from the planet every single second.
Massive storms ravaged the planet as those with atmospheres were drained away in a spectacular display that was horrifying to witness. The planets began to shrivel like an orange being devoured from the inside by a massive worm.
A mortal could not even imagine this sight, and the fact that it was happening on a thousand worlds at the same time was both impressive and incredibly horrifying.
Rowan had reached the step where he could casually devour a thousand worlds.
This process took eight hours to complete and the bright blue beam of light vanished leaving nothing behind.
Every planet selected had no accompanying heavenly body like moons or asteroids, so their absence did not cause any unnecessary commotion, also they were all quite distant from the closest stars, so there was not much light being reflected from them.
This was a very important step to consider when Rowan began consuming planets using Astrolabe as he did not want any observing individual to begin noticing that there were missing stars in the night sky.
He knew that not every light shining in the sky was from stars, some of them were from planets, so he had to be particularly careful about that point.
It was the reason he had not yet consumed a star, although it had many resources he would need, he gave up this benefit for now, only because he wanted to stay low-key.
All those countless billions of tonnes of resources were funneled into his Hollow Forge where they were disintegrated and stored inside the square-shaped portal above, immediately Knowledge Well began to sort through and comb the materials collected.
He was not carelessly combining all these materials hoping to gain something from it. That would take too long even with the aid of Knowledge Well to find something suitable for his needs.
He had an advantage, that would make this process far easier and lead to an outcome that would greatly aid him.
There were descriptions of various metals and Alloys inside the Golden Book that were classified as Empyrean Class Metals and Alloys used by Angels, for the Demons and Devils, they had Abyssal Class Metals and Alloys.
What was important was what differentiated these Metals, either Abyssal or Empyrean was often the energy imbued inside of them.
For demons and devils, their Alloys and Metals were filled with demonic Aether, and for Angels it was similar, but it was from a more Divine nature.
Rowan had been able to collect some of these blueprints for the Alloys used for these Empyrean Class and Abyssal Class Alloys, as it would be impossible for him to find an Empyrean Class Metal unless he was outside the universe and the chance for finding it inside the universe was very rare.
Even if anybody else had these Alloys, it would be impossible for the true potential of these metals to be shown without a powerful source of Demonic or Angelic Aether.
Rowan came to the realization that he had both.
It was quite shocking for him to realize that the Primordial Sea of Darkness that he used in birthing his Angels—beings of pure light, was demonic in nature.
Which should be quite obvious now that he was looking back on it, as he should realize that his Angels of Char all fell in battle, and the foes that could devastate such a legion were most likely Demons and Devils as the intent wrapped around their bodies were Demonic in origin.
