'Just why am I like this?'
Theo sighed heavily, leaning against the shovel he stuck in a pile of freshly dug-out earth.
Preparing the formation wasn't so easy, after all.
First, Theo had to forget all that he thought he understood from when he saw the portable, pre-made formations.
Those were all just a bait for the idiots, not reaching even a tenth of the potential a proper formation should have.
When it came to the blueprint, the subject turned out to be extremely easy.
There were two elements that defined every formation. A flow, a channel for mana to flow through, and an object, meaning everything else. A single object could house a whole other formation, fully designed to fulfill a much more specific purpose.
Theorycrafting around this concept was exactly what Theo's hive was made for. And despite Theo's fears of relying on this power too much, he could never come up with designs as optimized as his more mechanical self.
