The appearance of a massive mothership is still there after the conversion from machine to structure happened.
The blue liquid on the surface of the water is turned into liquid metallic goo. The construction lights liquid state spread out towards the newly calm sea. Well, I doubt one would call that ‘truly’ calm when wooden wreckage from ships and bodies doused in red are still floating around on the waves. I am surprised no sharks or any predators went on to feast on the bodies in the water. That Kraken definitely ate all of nature’s population control.
The blue liquid light covered the entire surface regardless of any remnants from the previous battle. Just like how I made the lights and the various weapons I and Kyushi have been using, the A1 Carrier slowly appeared and went up from the blue surface. Since I was in demon form prior to converting, it had to recreate the entire carrier again on the surface to make me become an actual structure. It appears that I could only be either carrier, demon, structure, or liquid form and never all at once unlike Kyushi who can be both structure and demon form.
Info. Conversion complete. Construction mode enabled. New construction options.
“...Ehh?” Did nothing change at all? Did it just make text to say like “Mobile construction yard deployed” just to say I am now a structure and not a machine? Well, technically as Kyushi has said I am now an ‘AI-controlled structure’ which is still technically a machine although repurposed to become infrastructure. I still appear to be the same A1 carrier as before with… a crane?... Really? Is that all of the changes that needed to happen? The crane is… almost the same size as the enemy flagship I destroyed back there. I am still the same size as my carrier self but with this obnoxious crane on top of my superstructure… or on my head.
“Mother? Is everything okay?” Kyushi asked in frightened concern. How would I know? the ball of light on top of her with the magical runes appeared yellow in color and also her tone.
“Everything is fine, Kyushi. I just… don’t know what I am doing right now. There are so many things I could do.” First of all the menu in my eyes that I have been seeing has changed to appear more accessible. Second of all, there are icons with the faces of people I do not know about. They are all under the ‘structures’ menu which only showed nothing but a single text under each of them. The first icon in the grid appeared to be a young lady which appears to be the same age as Kyushi in appearances. The woman in the icon has maroon hair, wore glasses, and a maid dress in red, black, and white colors. I once first assumed that the single line of text under them was their name, but no, they were all structure types!
Mana-Solar Power Plant, Shipyard, Airfield, War Factory, Barracks, Command center…?? What are these supposed to mean?! I would go on a list to describe each and every one of them in appearance but there are just too many of them, each with varying genders as well. The power plant is the only thing that is not grayed out and it is also the young lady from this structure menu and it costs like 200 MP in pure mana. I am not living the RPG life right here but what even am I now, some kind of summoner? I currently have exactly 1000 MP which I do not know how to get more but screw it! I going in blind right here to know more. Sooo.. uhm… construct ‘mana-solar power plant’?
Building…
The text that says the words ‘building’ appears hovering over the icon with the young lady in it. A transparent light blue color appears to have filled the entire image of the young lady. The blue color then slowly falls downward in the frame of the image of the young lady like water leaving a full transparent fish tank.
200 Pure Magic Reconstructed
Reformatting soul with A1 Carrier Building Parameter Preset…
“...!?!” I was slightly surprised that I can’t feel that crane on top of me now. While that blue color slowly drains, the crane turns and moves around to face frontally toward where my ship body is facing. It then faced its 3 prongs downwards on my body for about half the right angle. The 3 prongs then detached themselves from the crane and spun rapidly while covered in that construction light liquid. Next, a blue light beam appeared from the 3 prongs and on the surface of my metallic body slowly appears the silhouette of a human. The prongs kept spinning as the blue outline slowly gets clearer. The outline of a young woman clears in and a full human form is standing on top of my metal carrier body. It took around 10 seconds for it to fully form.
Construction complete.
A young lady is now seen standing on top of my hull, currently stationary in a standing pose. On the right side of my HUD, under the ‘operational structures’ section lists the newly constructed structure. I looked closer into my sensors and cameras to see if she is alive. Ahh?! Her hands twitched at first and her body started to relax, removing herself from the default pose when she was constructed like some horror movie. The young maid turns to face the camera, lifts her skirt, and bows like how every maid would do when greeting their master.
“Construction complete, Lord Ai, Mistress Kyushi. I am Mana-Solar Power Plant - Alpha. Where do you wish me be placed?” the maid said this in a calm, light-hearted voice like an innocent child. It was not without emotion though as she was smiling before and after she says this. She even looked at me straight in the eyes and in Kyushi’s direction, tilting her head while she was at it.
“Ohhh!! That construction yard conversion is amazing, Mother Ai! I believe this is what my real mother used when she made me!” Kyushi was ecstatic about this while I still stand there quite confused as to where her materials and consciousness just came from. Although I am not technically standing, I am stationary and unable to move as the conversion made me like an oil rig but that is beside the point here. If being in structure form makes one stationary, then I should place her beside Kyushi I guess?
“You can stand beside Kyushi on the island… wa.. WAIT! How are you even made?! Where did you come from? Did you reincarnate into this world as well?” I voiced out my confusion.
“I am constructed using the construction crane you used to summon me. Reincarnate?... Hmm. Not exactly. My soul and consciousness are made by the Building Parameter Preset you created, Lord Ai. Pure magic can be remade into an artificial programmable soul with the emotions, gender, and temperament of your desire. My current knowledge about you my lord and from Mistress Kyushi comes from your current consciousness database.”
Programmable soul? Technology in this world has definitely gone too far. This would be blasphemy to Lacte… Little goddess Arika if she knew about this! Considering the lack of manpower and allies we have in this almost extinct empire, she will probably forgive this technology to exist. The presets must have been Kyushi’s mother's doings because I do not remember anything about creating all of these presets with their own faces as well.
“Does the preset contain a name for you?” Clearly, that name is the long and default structure name but she might have something for herself.
“My apologies, Lord Ai. I do not have a name besides my default standard designation. Please, feel free to rename me as you please.” She places her left hand on her chest while her right hand lifts her skirt again and she bows. That’s some excellent programming for a ‘preset’.
“Is that so? Now then. I will name you… uhm let’s see… Alphia Takamana!” I do not have to think about it anymore. With me still being an AI deep down, I created my own program that gives names to entities that depend on their characteristics! How you may ask? I just thought of it and the program appeared. I could even see how it was made! So this is the power of being a machine? Automation even in mind and creation! And I must say, Alphia Takamana is not a bad name.
“Alphia Takamana it is, Lord Ai. Should I go to your desired location to place me?”
“Go ahead!” I do not see any problem. A green marker of three green arrows pointing at each other’s tip seemingly appeared out of nowhere on the spot where exactly I thought of her placement. I temporarily turned off the HUD in my eyes to see if that appeared physically or just in my eyes. It only appeared in the eyes of the structures and machines such as the three of us.
“Alphia Takamana, moving.” She began to float on top of me and on the water as she heads on her way toward the marker. The distance to the island was quite far for her to float across considering my length is about three thousand meters, include also the distance between me and that Island as well. It would be around four kilometers of distance to travel. Not that it would bother her as she was zooming out like a speedboat for simply floating across the sea. Alphia was encased in like a wind bubble or something I don’t really understand. It just formed an almost invisible bubble that bend light around it. There were two circles that resembled runes, just like at the top of Kyushi only this time it propelled her to move forward as well as float. Her speed just simply ignored the wind and the ocean waves beneath her as she was floating relatively close to it.
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Alphia finally arrives at the marker and stops floating. Her body was then covered in construction liquid again as her body melts like pure butter. It was the same thing that happened to me as I was using Conversion. She became a liquid puddle on the ground, pushing the tall grass and other obstacles in the way. The puddle soon grows larger in diameter and proceeds to take form with different shapes on the ground and also different markings. It looks like a floor plan albeit marked on the ground with the construction liquid. There from the shaped puddle of blue slowly rose a black powerplant with transparent tubing, an orb, and an android in a maid dress attached to the side of the building that looks exactly like Alphia. The powerplant is around a hundred meters tall as well, except for the android. I could definitely go in there as in demon form.
“Construction complete!” Alphia reports happily, taking the stationary form of the powerplant. Now there are three people on this ‘communication network’ that speaks like a telepath from the outside perspective.
The powerplant, Alphia, then activated and started to create this low machinery noise. The orb on top of her became almost pitch black as it absorbed all light around it. Ahhh… what a weird concept for a solar panel. Can’t blame the design on that one though as it is highly efficient, like seriously. The lower part of my HUD now contains a power bar that shows “0/100 mana power consumed. +1000 MP per hour”.
Well… that’s done! What else do we have here?
Info. New construction options: Barracks, Shipyard, Airfield, War Factory, Command Center
More of the icons can be selected now and are no longer grayed out from the rest. The shipyard was something that immediately took my interest as I am a ship and also was once a captain as you know. Maybe this could create more of myself and not risk my life in venturing out? Hell, I would want a slow life too you know, or at least have insurance when I am killed out there!
Building…
500 Pure Magic Reconstructed
Reformatting soul with A1 Carrier Building Parameter Preset…
Construction complete
It took a long minute to construct another person on my deck. Another woman materialized, older than Alphia but definitely younger than me in appearance. This shipyard girl wears a navy office lady outfit, almost looking like my uniform back then only with a black color coat, a red line across the left shoulder, and a logo of Black Angel Industries.
“Construction complete, Demon Lord Ai. I am A1 Magicnet Shipyard - Funena Blackdock. My name has been automatically added by your current consciousness database after Alphia’s creation!” Miss Blackdock turns around and greets me.
“Ehh? Well uhm… Go ahead and deploy over here.”
“Site designated, Lord Ai.” I placed another marker on my HUD, and Funena does the same as Alphia did prior to deploying. I placed her on the side of the island just in front of Alphia powerplant over there. Most of the blue liquid covered the ground more instead of the sea, is that fine?
“Construction Complete, Lord Ai.”
Info. New construction options: Funena-Class Submarine (water), Battlecruiser (water), Battlecruiser (space), Shuttlecraft, Low Orbit Satellite
Ohhh! I could restore the entire command structure of the Aineuran Military with this. I don’t think we needed to protect Natan Aineura, we could just arrange to make machines and structures become the main race in this world. I doubt those higher gods Little Arika told me would buy it though. More options appeared and more icons of people appear to be unlocked. What else can I build here? Wait… why is every structure except the units from Funena all grayed out now? I… only need to choose one?!
Insufficient MP.
Ohhh… I only have 466 MP to spare on the construction menu. Alphia seems to have already added 166 MP since her deployment on the island. I wanted to construct the Command Center because that seems important just from the name itself but it cost 800 MP. There are no descriptions for the srtructures other than the names. Maybe it was intentional to not add them since you can ask the person, or rather the structure itself for its own description.
“Kyushi, I need to venture out to the nearest town from here. You see, in Arika’s last will to me, she told me that I must find out what happened 3000 years ago that made Aineura crumble. We do not have that knowledge in our database and so we are forced to go out of the storm. So… will you stay and keep watch of the island for me in my absence?” I tried to mimic a pouting face but I am currently in carrier form. It would have been convenient though.
“...You are leaving me again?” Crap, I must not have asked that. That was insensitive of me to say that. I got carried away from this odd thrill of building. Her lighting above went gray in color and dimmed a bit.
“No way! If you need to go out there mother, take me with you! I… do not want to lose you again.” The appearance of a young girl appeared just outside her tower self. Her face looks at me teary-eyed as she walks forward, away from the hangar door she has on her tower front.
“I am still here on this island anyway, it is like I am controlling two bodies at once. So you would not have to worry about me getting hurt out there with you this humanoid body is just a part of myself.” She makes a good point about that. I don’t really see the problem with it. Phew, that took a good turn away from a crisis of her breaking down emotionally. Thank God,... or thank Arika.
“That sounds… oh well. Come with me, Kyushi. We’ll explore this world together.” We need to actually see what is on the other side. Aside from my thrill of going out in a parallel world as well as trying to get into an adventurer’s guild, this is also to assess and scout the outside world for potential threats to Kyushi and ultimately, Natan. I might need him to go out with me here as well, he can’t just live in Kyushi forever.
“Thank you, Mother!” She smiled, tilting her head in the process.
Repacking Construction Yard.
Conversion Active. Turning into human form.
Conversion complete. Current form: Android (Human)
My entire stationary carrier self went on to convert back into blue liquid and again switched back to demon form. My protruding demon horns are removed in the process as I thought that I could be instantly seen as Aineuran when those horns stick out. My black coat and red inner clothing are still there though as they mimic the exact look of me, the A1 Carrier. I like the look of myself in this new form as I look at the reflection on the calm water. I am fully stacked on my ‘assets’! That’s something I wished I had back then.
“Oh, by the way, Mother. If we could not travel using your carrier form to where the Toratoga Ships retreated, should we just float to our journey?” Kyushi asks me to which I do not know the answer.
“May I suggest, Lord Ai? Any vessel I could create would be sufficient for transport. Just say the word and I shall build them.” Funena interjected.
“Yeah, that will do just fine, Funena. The submarine should be enough for the two of us.” I do not really have the MP to build anything other than the sub. The submarine at least conceals our approach to any location so that may be the best out of all of these. The battlecruiser and shuttlecraft cost more than the sub too.
“Training.” Funena spoke in a monotone voice as the cranes and other shipbuilding infrastructure on her began to move. The crane was slightly different than mine, I assume it was specifically only for shipbuilding. This time for a change, a little boy was constructed on top of the Funena docks. He was also in a black navy coat with red markings, just like Funena’s appearance.
“Ahhm… Unit Ready, Lord Ai… Funena-class, Rito Blackdock Aiyankaze… Reporting.” A timid-looking young boy turned to face my direction. I am at the sea floating and slowly making my way toward the docks. I used my own anti-gravity for this instead of just walking on water because that would take time. Rito huh, that random name generator I made works great!
“Ouh! Come now, Rito! Lord Ai wants a transport and you already know that. Go to the sea and convert into your machine form.” A panicked Funena breaks her own character of being serious and superior. I guess you shouldn’t really judge personalities by appearances eh?
“Y…Yess mother!” Mother?! Excuse me? So unit or structure under whoever builds them is technically their children? I am gonna have a hard time dealing with a lot of children from this base building.
“I…I await your entry, Lord Ai and Mistress Kyushi.” His submarine form was quite large and elongated, to say the least. He looks like a Typhoon submarine but is a little bit smaller than that and also has a more roundish tip. A large round hangar door opens at the back end of Rito’s submarine body. The opened hangar door then acted as a ramp inside the submarine which Kyushi and I approached. We then navigated the interior which lead to a series of wide rooms and decks toward the bridge. It looked like a standard submarine just like back then when I managed to visit in one except for the wide spaces. The bridge was more open and the design was almost just like mine as the carrier.
“Now then. Take us toward the last direction of the retreating Toratoga Fleet. Rito” I ordered.
“Adjusting rudder…. Propeller Systems Engaged. All ahead full!” Another set of markers was set towards the storm. A green dashed line flashed once and disappeared after a second. Rito seemed to follow exactly where it was headed. Well, with that sorted out, I head back down the decks in search of a crew quarters. I do not know how long the trip will be but Rito is heading there quite faster than I used to get here, his moving submerged as well. Alphia back on the island is passively producing MP that I need for construction, while Funena goes on 'hibernation mode'. There's no reason for me to bring them with me as they seem to be defenseless, judging by their building layout. I guess its time to sit down and check what else I have on disposal in this AI existence. Unknown world here I come!