Hellbents
Chapter 30: Innovation!

Ava surrounded Englerock along with River who followed him as usual. He was looking for a blacksmith who could create a simplified power bank. Many villagers recommended a place behind the market, so he tried to go there.

"Stop making rubbish!" Not yet Ava was greeted with the furious roar of an old man.

"Junk?!" This time the voice of the woman who was no less loudly replied, feeling humiliated. "This is the greatest discovery of the century! An old man smelling soil like you won't understand!"

"Sound land?! You pray that your grandfather dies soon?! Once durhaka!"

"Argh! It's not! But you're always so narrow-minded!"

"You are stubborn! How many times has this happened?! You should learn to make weapons!"

"Just shut up, old man!"

Ava and River were staring at the door. Doubt to enter after hearing all that. "I don't think we should have heard this" River whispered above his ear. Ava agrees. "We'd better come back next time, '" Ava hurriedly added, because she heard footsteps that quickly headed to where they were standing.

But late, the front door slammed open, revealing a girl who was the same age as Ava. His skin that looked burnt was covered in spots, as well as his face that was dirty with dust and black streaks. "Oh!" the girl's brown eyes widened, her braided red hair fluttered as she turned angrily behind her back, "You have a customer, old Grandpa!"

A figure identical to the girl in front of him emerged from behind the wall. "Eh, welcome!" Even though the man's face looked almost blown out, he still greeted them kindly.

If silent the atmosphere will be more awkward, right? So Ava smiled, "I have a commission." Just finishing his needs at that moment.

"ah! I can make Young Master and Miss the weapons you want! Strong? Is beautiful? Just mention it!" The man who had some gray red hair was instantly self-promoting. Ava glanced at the girl who immediately ran away from there.

"But I don't want a gun." But Ava's statement made the girl stop.

The old man swooped his two thick eyebrows, looking more like anger than confusion on his ferocious face. "Then what does Miss want to do?"

"The power bank." Everyone in the room turned to the foreign word that emerged from Ava's mouth.

"I'm sorry? Power banks?" Contrary to River and his astonished grandfather, the red-headed girl almost jumped up from her seat, her eyes twinkling, barely budging as she excitedly greeted Ava. "Can I see the plan?!"

"Hey!" The old man jolted his grandson, warning. "I'm sorry my granddaughter behaved so impolitely." Despite bowing, the old man furiously gushed at the back of his grandson's head. If only he and River hadn't been here, Ava was sure the man would have beaten up the flesh and blood.

But Ava was not offended. So he took out a roll of paper from his backpack, exposed it to a nearby table.

The plan he did all night, trying to remember the parts in the power bank or the power source in general. The battery inside he could replace with a stone where lightning. The USB plug can adjust the charger that he carries. The cable can be made of copper. The problem is just how to adjust the existing voltage flow so as not to overload or shorting.

"Oh, which rock is lightning! Copper is great for lightning! Then what is this? The uesbi? Ah, we can try using the modules I made in this section!"

"Just shut up if you don't know what you're talking about!"

"Old man, the fact I know! This is clearly related to the innovation I made!"

"Innovation?! What you're making is useless, which can be called this innovation!"

River frankly felt uncomfortable with the two people shouting at each other in the face. Ava stopped their quarrel before the argument was heated, "We better talk about this matter in a calm manner," it was cold, cold, cut off the more cruel reply that the pair of grandchildren could have thrown.

Ava complied as her body was practically dragged towards the messy workshop. River and grandfather hurriedly followed the two.

The girl opened her drawers, lifted up the iron frames from the foreign tools Ava had first seen, put away the piles of paper and books, and finally, "Aha!"

He brought the green electric circuit to Ava's front. To be honest Ava did not expect to see such technologically advanced objects in this fantasy world. "Where did you get this?"

"This is my copy of the component of one of the artifact gifts I got when I conquered the gate a few months ago!"

So there's still a connection between the original dimension and this dimension?

It needs further investigation, of course.

"I think this is what Miss needs to make that device called a power bank! The origin artifact also requires lightning power, but not many tools have been sourced from lightning elements, so my imitation cannot be used yet. But this time it will, with the items I made and the design Miss!"

"Call me Rina." Ava has to stay close to this girl.

"Ah, I-I mean, I'm Bia!"

"Please cooperate, Bia," Ava grinned inwardly. One more person useful.

Bia who was only excited without thinking of the meaning behind the sweet smile of the woman in front of him, nodded strongly with a heart that was pounding in the chest. "Let's create a new item that shakes the world!"

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Bia was quick to respond and her brown eyes continued to be burning with fire. The girl was also intelligent, even genius. Ava took out a piece of knowledge from her original dimension, Bia followed smoothly even adding her own theory, noting all her hypotheses in a piece of paper that she hastily ripped from an empty book.

Ava also quietly asked the origin of the electric circuit that was used as a component of her new power bank, which was eagerly explained at length by Bia.

The 35-level gate from the village not far from Englerock has an unusual view, the building is still as tall as a manor house, broken glass scattered everywhere. There were also dozens of iron carts on the road, Ava understood from the description if it was a car. The gate looks like a city that has been hit by a disaster.

The monster that roams is the Bloodhound, a red-skinned dog that likes to eat raw meat, including humans if the level is high enough. Bia's mission in the gate was to survive for a week, and the most challenging was the limited food stock brought, because even though the inventory was accessible, the [System] store was not open.

But after succeeding, Bia got the item she had seen for the first time.

At that moment, Ava was shocked by what was in front of her.

Portable fan, even though it has been dismantled and then assembled again carelessly existing components, Ava is familiar with the object.

So true, the gate connects its original dimension with this dimension.

But a ruined building? An abandoned car? Dog monster?

What the hell's going on?