Setting aside his thoughts on the gains and losses regarding the mutated Patronus Charm, Kyle pulled his focus back to his plans for the year.
Originally, Kyle had intended to ignore the chaotic plot entirely.
After all, the main events unfolded outside his daily routine and wouldn’t affect his life.
However, today’s unexpected discovery forced him to dedicate a portion of his energy to keeping an eye on the Savior.
After all, danger might be lurking right beside him.
Still, this situation was not entirely without benefits.
It allowed him to monitor the progress of the plot firsthand, enabling him to verify some of his assumptions.
Having settled his stance toward the Savior, Kyle turned his consideration back to his research.
According to his plan, he was going to construct a portable energy storage room this year, which he named the Energy Core.
The Energy Core’s output certainly wouldn’t match a full-sized energy storage chamber, but as his current trump card, it was more than enough.
After all, no matter how miniaturized and portable it became, the energy a single Energy Core could store would still be staggering.
Extracting that energy when necessary would provide Kyle with more than enough power to turn the tables in a crisis.
Even if he lacked an optimal method to utilize the energy, if he faced danger, he could simply hurl the Energy Core like a grenade and detonate it.
He was confident that its explosive power would not disappoint, considering the agonizing research difficulty involved.
With the large silver dog working non-stop day and night on the research side, he was confident he could finalize the design blueprint before the end of the year.
However, constrained by his current levels in various magical skills, there was a high chance that by the end of the year, Kyle would be holding the design schematics in his hands yet be unable to actually build it.
To translate: His brain says, “I’ve learned it,” While his hands say, “No, you haven’t.” That would become a truly sad story.
In light of this, Kyle had no choice but to cut back on the time he spent buried in the library.
Instead, he needed to shift his focus to practicing practical skills like alchemy and runes.
At this thought, Kyle felt deeply grateful that he had developed an alternative application for the Patronus Charm.
Without the large silver dog, his research progress might be only a third of what it was now.
With his general direction set, Kyle began preparing to build magic puppets.
After all, without funds, none of his plans would be feasible.
First, the exterior of this toy puppet had to win over the young wizards.
Second, it needed to possess flight and defensive functions, as well as the ability to cast harmless magic with dazzling audio-visual effects.
With his targets established, Kyle began sketching on a piece of parchment.
The designs were settled quickly.
The first took inspiration from the traditional form of large puppets in the wizarding world—it looked somewhat clumsy, like a giant stone golem, but on a massive scale, it would appear imposing and magnificent.
The second borrowed from the Muggle world’s Gundams and Transformers, taking the form of a giant robot.
The third also took a robotic form, but was steeped in a steampunk aesthetic.
Kyle planned to show these three designs to the young wizards to see if they would gain their approval.
Next came the design of the runic circuits and alchemical components.
To minimize costs, Kyle naturally wanted to use as few alchemical components as possible when constructing the puppets.
This, however, meant the difficulty of designing the runic circuits skyrocketed.
He started designing with the energy section first.
For these runes, Kyle referenced the energy runic arrays used in broomsticks.
After all, one only ever heard of broomsticks becoming terribly unresponsive due to lack of repair, or snapping mid-air from improper maintenance and causing their riders to fall— —he had never heard of a broomstick stalling and plummeting out of the sky simply because it ran out of energy.
To study these runes, Kyle had dismantled four or five broomsticks from the Cleansweep and Comet series.
Though he couldn’t put them back together, he had managed to grasp the basics of broomstick operational principles and runic circuit design, barely reaching a level where he could adapt them for his toy puppets.
Don’t ask why he didn’t tear apart a Nimbus 2000.
Kyle knew the Nimbus 2000 utilized brand-new design concepts and far more efficient, streamlined runic circuits, but that wasn’t his best choice.
After all, the Nimbus 2000’s runic circuits incorporated too many novel concepts whose stability had yet to be tested by time.
Although the Cleansweep and Comet models were outdated and far behind the Nimbus in both performance and design philosophy, the fact that decades-old brooms on the market could still fly perfectly served as proof of the terrifying stability of their runic design.
Of course, it was also because Kyle was broke and couldn’t afford a Nimbus 2000 for research.
Smiley face.