Chapter 19

Nora was asleep after the long day, so I put her to bed, cuddled up next to her, and began my experiments. I had so much excitement running thru me, I couldn’t sleep. Even if I actually felt the need, I don’t think I really had to sleep anymore. Maybe a few hours once a week for mental health? I’d leave that experiment for later.

I began by conjuring titanium into my body. Titanium is a wonderfully strong, light, and biocompatible material. I conjured it into my leg bones. I considered other locations, but I worried about them coming loose in the event of an impact. I placed fifty containers in each femur and tibia. I wouldn’t collect just elements, I could also store things like lubricant.

The titanium containers had external rods that held them in place, inside my bones. Once set, I began filling them. I filled each of them up, even if it was more than 4 grams. The extra wouldn’t hurt, as I had finally figured out how to latch onto exactly 4 grams, or 2 grams, to put something in storage.

Despite the number of materials I was storing, my weight would only increase by a couple pounds. I lay in bed filling my internal titanium capsules, pondering the new conjuring potential. Conjuring was useful, but at the amounts I could create, I was limited to about four conjures a second, for each storage space. If I filled them all with platinum, I could produce 1680 grams a minute. That was about 45,000 dollars.

Helpful in certain situations, but not particularly useful. My molecular powers were much more robust having grown longer. My ability to shape, and mold material was significantly more useful. I began storing multiple elements that could coexist nicely, in my capsules, as I realized I didn’t need a full 4 gram of material to start with, I could make 4 grams from 1 gram in only three seconds.

I googled slipperiest substance to see if I should order a better lube. That’s when I discovered BAM, the ultra low friction material coating. Boron Aluminum Magnesium. My powers flexed as I conjured the elements, and mixed the elements to form the material. I created two spheres of the material, and thinking about its slipperiness, created two that were bullet shaped. I googled teflon bullets where wikipedia corrected my idea that slippery meant it could defeat kevlar body armor.

I started to look up a design for armor piercing, but realized with my power I could ‘shoot’ a bullet with either sufficient power, or control it to hit where there was no armor. I did make the bullet point sharper and harder anyway.

I tried doing more research on the structure of pink and red diamonds, but there didn’t seem to be any diagrams of the actual crystal structure. I did fall down the rabbit hole of wikipedia reading about carbon allotropes. I created a cyclo18 ring, then duplicated it into a piece of chainmail, with each ring connected to 4 others.

The tenth of a gram piece was very large, I put it to the side for further experimentation. I created a graphene sheet 1 square meter, because it made less than a gram, I stored and conjured it twice. Holding it so that the two sheets were held together, I adjusted it so that the atoms did not overlap, but lay comfortably together. Then I began stitching, so that the links overlapped. The material switched from being diamene to a new woven material 2 atoms thick. It went from flexible and semi clear to black and incredibly stiff. It was also incredibly hard and sharp.

Relying on my power to bend it, I curled it into a circle, attaching the ends so that it was now an interlocking mobius like ring. Making the entire 31cm wide, 1 meter long pipe a single gigantic molecule. It weighed 1.5 milligrams, but could probably hold up a building.

I made another two sheets 12cm wide, and a bit over a meter long. I stitched them together, and curled them tightly. I kept the two pieces separate this time, creating a double walled container. I gave it a larger rounded top, constructing a double graphene layer bubble at the top, and a narrowing cone at the bottom.

The result was a shiny black cane that weighed less than 1 milligram, and could be used to lever a bus without breaking. It was very cool, especially when I coated the handle in platinum, and diamond coated the tip. It was still under 4 grams so in an emergency I could store it, and replicate it. It went to the side.

Using more sheets of graphene, I placed them together in layers, the hexagons overlapping. Then using my power, I connected the layers into a single structure. The result was lonsdaleite, a material first discovered in a meteorite, and since then poorly synthesized.

I created a 10cm cube of it, and used it to scratch a diamond, and discovered a diamond could scratch it too. I fixed the scratch, and set it to the side. It was transparent, but soft grey in color, much like graphene is.

The idea of interlocking carbon had me wondering what else I could accomplish. There was a cubic hydrocarbon that had 8 carbon atoms linked into a box, with hydrogen sticking out at each corner, called cubane. It was an interesting material, an excellent lubricant, and an ok fuel. I added it to my storage. There was a variation of it that was a high explosive. I didn’t add that one, as it would only take a thought to create it from cubane and air.

I went back to looking at diagrams, and came across hypercubane. Its carbon structure was very interesting, a carbon cube, with four hexagonal carbon rings coming off it. I created it, but instead of adding hydrogen at the ends, I added additional cubes of carbon, and repeated the pattern. The result was a transparent material with a density twenty five percent greater than diamond.

Had I just created diamondium? I created a cube of it several centimeters across, and tried to scratch it with my perfect diamond. It didn’t scratch. It did however scratch my diamond just fine. I absorbed the diamond back into energy.

I then created a crystal using only carbon cubes, attaching them to each other at the corners. The corner cubes didn’t align with the center cube, but their faces were parallel forming a box shape. I assembled a cube of it, quickly reaching the same size as my diamondium.