HP: A Sociopath Gamer In Magic World [ Chapter 118: Magpie Nest! ] (Patreon)

'Fine,' the hell spirit said as she continued to possess the wizard's body, 'Next time I want a better body, this one is too weak, and the soul was too bitter.'

Hermes gave an internal sigh before levitating himself near the package and placing it in his [Magpie Nest]. At least they were able to get the vanishing cabinet that Charles wanted without any trouble as well as some new spell books.

While he could have just snuck inside and stolen it, that wasn't what Charles wanted. The goal was to start making the existence of the Doctor and his men known to the rest of the wizarding world.

Walking down Knockturn Alley they were met with many curious stares from those lurking in the shadows.

They ignored them as they neared a tall two-story building that looked ready to fall over.

Pushing open the door, it gave a squeak of protest before falling over. The inside of the building looked to be in an even worse state than the outside. Every square inch of the surface was covered in a thick layer of dust and large cobwebs hung over furniture like white sheets.

A ghostly wail seemed to be coming from the second floor, with the staircase leading up to it missing several wooden planks. Broken jars of potion ingredients remained littered on the floor and a smell of decay seemed to be coming from the floorboards.

'Well say hello to our new base of operations,' Hermes said, turning back into his crow form.

"Couldn't we have gotten to some place better?" Jinx said, running one of her fingers along the counter and saw a line of dust.

The crow shook his head, "Sure we could, but this place is perfect. Its cheap, out of the way, and more importantly in a place that isn't patrolled by Aurors."

"I suppose that's true-"

"Oooooo."

Looking up Jinx licked her lips, "Well at least it came with a snack." Looking back at Hermes she had to ask, "What ever happened to the original owner?"

"They disappeared mysteriously a few months ago,"was all the spirit said as he got to work fixing the place.

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Warehouse:-

The sound of opera echoed in the upper level office drowning the noise coming from the potion factory below.

Spread on my desk were a number of folders filled with information on various businesses.

"I'm going to have to find someone to manage all my investments sooner or later."

I didn't respond as the door behind me opened.

There was a thud as something heavy fell on the floor before Jinx appeared at my feet. "We're back," the smoky cat said, rubbing her face on my leg. Placing the folder down I leaned down to pick her up. Looking back, I was just in time to see the wizard body disappear into Hermes inventory.

"You're later than expected, did something happen?" I asked Hermes as he perched on top of a hat stand.

"Cleaning took longer than we thought, most of the potion ingredients had rotted and needed to be thrown out. We left some dolls and placed the white tarp over the entire building like you asked."

Opening my territory menu, I saw that there was a new addition to the list. Pressing a finger on it, I was treated to a layout of the store.

Right then, time for some renovations, beginning with the building itself.

Looking through my list of blueprints I chose one that looked similar to a pharmacy.

[Would you like to craft this building?] 

[Y/N]

Checking yes, I received a new message.

[Time until completion: 3:59: 59.]

My dolls immediately went to work destroying the existing building in favor of the new one that would replace it.

Seeing as I wasn't exclusively needed for this part, I decided to check the progress of my Enchanted Artifact Machine.

Away from the Potions Machine, near one of the walls, stood a tall rectangle metal pod that glowed with blue runes. One of the sides was made entirely out of glass, showing a small stone platform with an engraved arcane circle floated on the inside.

The ceiling of the rectangular pod had a large glowing blue diamond, whose tip was pointed downward toward the arcane platform, shooting down a thin stream of blue magic.

This laser was capable of creating a wide variety of different metallic, crystalline, and organic materials. Its most important feature was that it could automatically enchant objects with a variety of spells.

A finished two-foot-tall bronze statue of Atlas holding a crystal globe on his shoulders could be seen inside.

It still amazed me how much it looked and acted like a 3-D Printer.

Looking at the statue, I couldn't help but feel content at finally achieving one of my goals.

After a lot of research, and I do mean a lot, I was finally able to find a way to make electronic objects work in magically dense environments.

The final piece to unlocking this tricky puzzle actually came from the Necromancers Recipe Book. Inside of it, it depicted a machine that was capable of collecting Thought Power, which was used to fuel many of the magically intensive rituals.

Now Thought Power was an interesting concept. Basically, it was a type of energy that was released in the world whenever someone had a thought, kind of like throwing a stone in a still pond.

Alone a single thought didn't have the power to accomplish anything but imagine if you combined the thoughts of millions of likeminded people, then the energy harnessed was capable of even creating miracles.

Or at least that's what the book said.

If Hermes wasn't so against me kidnapping more people to test this, I would have made more progress into the subject, but he was adamant I would be crossing some metaphorical line.

Anyways, thanks to this research I was able to design something similar to a radio tower, allowing me to collect ambient Thought Power and use it to power electronic objects.