The lump of metal in Bai Yi’s hand was precisely the manifestation of the metallization ability she extracted in herself.
After a day of research, Bai Yi had already pinpointed the position of the control ability of this gene entry in the gene sequence through enhancement testing.
The superpower she now possesses is the result of specifically enhancing the control ability.
By merely consuming Magic Power, this metal control can be extended along the metal being controlled, making it easier to create various weapons and metal components.
This greatly enhanced the practicality of this ability.
However, correspondingly, this method of extension significantly increases the Magic Power consumption.
But because this ability itself is an extremely Low-level ability, it’s not even up to the 1st Rank superpower level.
So even if the ability has been enhanced considerably, the Magic Power consumption has increased exponentially.
It’s like when weak combat power doubles, the combat power is only ten, even single-digit Magic Power consumption, no matter how much it doubles, it’s just a few dozen points.
This level of Magic Power consumption is still negligible against Bai Yi’s current Tier Six Magic Power Value, which has a limit in the tens of thousands.
However, at the current level, it’s still not quite practical for actual use.
The augmentation effect of metallization on the body remains at the original level, and the ability to produce magical alloys has not improved.
Most importantly, the speed of metal extraction and control is also very limited.
Bai Yi had just tried forming a simple metal rod from scratch in her hand, which still took a full 20 seconds.
This is already the type of weapon with the least influence on proficiency due to lack of complex structure; even with proficiency, the time to make it can’t be reduced significantly.
If it were a more complex knife, spear, sword, or halberd, or mechanical creations like more complex firearms, not to mention further reducing the time, it might even require more time.
This imposes significant limitations on battles and can’t be used directly.
The strongest aspect of this ability would be generating weapons temporarily during combat to achieve unexpected effects.
But the current formation speed simply doesn’t allow that.
After all, in battle, the opponent won’t wait patiently for you to slowly form a weapon or change its shape.
And if you pre-make weapons before the battle...
Then why not directly obtain those more refined and perfectly crafted Magic Weapons made by other craftsman witches in the territory?
With special equipment available to every witch to connect to the territory’s spatial logistics network, obtaining weapons before the battle is no more difficult than making them yourself.
In fact, except for being of fixed design, it’s faster, and its practicality is stronger than those made temporarily.
There’s still a significant way to go before it can be officially used in battles as she once envisioned for the Insect Swarm’s qualitative transformation and enhancement.
Although it’s still lacking for combat, it can now play a role as a logistic capability.
Especially for craftsman and researchers like Bai Gong within the territory, it can significantly speed up the forging process.
After all, even though this ability’s forging speed is slow, it’s still much faster than smelting and hammering step by step.
Moreover, unlike industrial forging, this ability, which directly acts on metal, is superior to most forging techniques.
After all, the essence of forging is also to adjust the internal structure of the metal.
Even with the most skillful hammering, one can’t compare with the ability to directly control the very essence of metal.
The former is like a master in a game, utilizing various mechanisms and techniques to defeat a powerful boss beyond their level.
While the latter is like a tech-savvy cheat, directly controlling the game and eliminating the opponent from the code level.
This is not even on the same level of existence.
Once familiar with this ability, one can control metal with a mere gesture, forming the perfect metal structure that previously took hours or even days to craft.
With this ability, a lot of time can be saved in the research of Magic Runes and even Magic Items.
Moreover, not just in the forging of these Magic Items, it is also a significant enhancement for the technology sector.
Many techniques that were previously impossible to achieve at a microscopic level can now be manufactured with this ability.
However, due to precision limitations, creating a high-precision component might incur slightly greater time loss.
So even though the gene hasn’t been fully completed, Bai Yi has already fused it into herself, obtaining the corresponding Infection Spore, and given it to Bai Fa and the others.
Additionally, she received the latest research reports from them.
She hadn’t reviewed Bai Fa and the others’ research for several days, and with Feyter around, the research nowadays hardly needs to spend as much time on some experiments as before.
Many times, as long as there’s a theoretical basis, practical experiments have already concluded under Feyter’s strong fortune.
Although occasionally, due to high experimental frequency, even the strong fortune can’t withstand the consumption, coupled with the ’challenges’ occasionally brought by the protagonist’s halo, luck sometimes hits rock bottom.
But likewise, relying on the protagonist’s halo, this low period soon passes, and luck returns to normal levels.
With this acceleration, the pace of producing research results is naturally much faster than before.
In just a few days, they’ve achieved results equating to those from weeks before Feyter came.