American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

The unknown crystal was clearly a good thing.

In Luke's opinion, it could even be considered a magical material, usable for crafting equipment with magical properties.

This unknown crystal was formed from the concentrated essence of a high-ranking vampire under Luke's device. From a naming perspective, it should be called a Vampire Crystal or Blood Crystal, but strictly speaking, other creatures could also be condensed into similar crystals, including ordinary creatures without special energy in their bodies. However, their crystals were too fragile, serving only to feed Little Habu and Venom, or as auxiliary materials in certain research and equipment crafting.

In Luke's experience, such crystals could definitely be condensed from intelligent beings, and the crystals condensed from intelligent beings were certainly of the best quality and most versatile. Some crystals from intelligent beings could even be used as high-density storage devices to store most forms of energy, and they would actively absorb special energies for internal storage.

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Of course, the best quality and most useful were still the high-ranking vampires who possessed dark energy. They were intelligent beings and could be considered magical creations, so their crystals would have more characteristics and be more valuable for research.

After multiple experiments, Luke discovered that even among Vampire Crystals, the colors varied. Most were black-gray or deep black, but some were mixed black and white, or misty gray-white. To this end, Luke not only conducted experimental research but also used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s resources to investigate a large amount of intelligence.

The final conclusion was that the more evil and the more fallen to darkness, the more dark emotions one harbored, the more the crystallized form after death would tend towards black or black-gray. Those who could maintain a certain degree of self under the mental erosion of dark energy and did not commit much slaughter, their crystallized form after death would mostly tend towards black-white or gray-white.

After much hesitation, Luke still named this new crystal material Vampire Crystal, but if he encountered a mage in the future, he could rebrand it as Soul Crystal. Anyway, they were the complete essence of a life, including the condensation of spirit and consciousness, so this alias shouldn't be too far off.

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"Oh my gosh, so much jewelry! Boss, are you rewarding us? These jewelry designs look great!" Jessica Jones, who had been called over by White Queen, exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the exquisite jewelry displayed on her boss's desk. She couldn't say she had completely escaped the shadow of the Purple Man, but with the help of a psychologist and interactions with Ina, Snook, and others, she was now able to live like a normal person.

"Jewelry? No, these are new equipment," Luke shook his head, denying Jessica's words. "As for jewelry, you can go to a jewelry store and buy it with your salary."

"This is… new equipment?" Jessica, who was blushing, put down a silver-like necklace in her hand, looking at these crafted items that were no different from the jewelry on the market, her tone still somewhat hesitant.

"Yes! Equipment! The only thing I can tell you is that, compared to technological equipment, perhaps after experiencing them, you would rather call them magical equipment," Luke handed a pair of gray-white crystal bracelets to Tiny, a partner in Ina's female security team beside Jessica, "Put them on."

Tiny took the bracelets without hesitation and put them on her wrists, one on each side.

The activated bracelets cleverly fastened to Tiny's wrists. At the same time, Tiny suddenly felt a surge of power in her body, a very wonderful feeling. It felt like her current physical condition was excellent, and she had endless strength. She even had the feeling of wearing her beloved battle suit in a synesthesia state! That extraordinary sense of power beyond her own limits was exactly the same.

"Tell me how you feel," Luke took out a voice recorder.

"Great. This feeling is familiar." Tiny explained her feelings in detail, without omitting anything, and also shared many of her thoughts. Finally, under Luke's command, she demonstrated her current strength. When a steel door panel was twisted and folded by a great force, Snook and the others' eyes flickered as they all looked at Jessica Jones.

This kind of behavior, which could be done purely by physical strength, could only be done by Jessica alone among everyone present, without using any technological equipment or means.

"Physical fitness also increased with strength? That's only natural, otherwise simply increasing the strength of a single wooden plank wouldn't be very effective," Luke said thoughtfully after watching Tiny's test completed by her own body.

Next, Luke had the first batch of [Magical Equipment] tested by everyone in turn. Some of them not only increased physical qualities such as strength, speed, and jumping ability, but also possessed some special abilities, transforming people into something similar to a superhuman. For example, Snook was shocked to discover that he could control the metal around him within a radius of about ten meters, with a final control limit of about one ton.

Some security team members possessed the ability to manipulate flames or gusts of wind.

Although the power of most of these abilities was temporarily unsatisfactory, the magical sense of immersion and control was truly addictive. Who could refuse to have superpowers? Even if many of them looked like tricks when displayed, with more performance value than practicality.

Including Jessica, everyone was extremely interested in this batch of new equipment.

However, after the experiment, Luke took back all of these pieces of equipment. In his words, this time they were just asked to secretly test the equipment, not to equip and use them. Moreover, the actual test results of this batch of equipment could only be said to be barely satisfactory, only verifying a feasible path for Luke, but not yet successfully walking out of this path.

Luke had already designated a targeted customer group for them—mages!

If all else failed and these so-called "magical equipment" couldn't be sold, then he could follow the original plan and sell more energy conversion devices and the latest energy storage crystals. After all, mages' power was borrowed. With energy storage crystals, they could usually borrow more and store it, perhaps to use it sometime. At least, even if the energy suddenly cut off, you would still have a spare energy source to support you in battle.

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