All Chapters of Improving Magical ACs in a Fantasy World: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

My name was Wisteria Summers. Before being pulled into this fantasy world, I had been an air conditioning unit repairwoman with ten years of working experience. Ever since starting that job, I had fixed nearly 1,000 air conditioning units. From split AC units to central ones, from home-use units to commercial ones, I had done it all.I thought that my life as I knew it would be over. I did not expect fate to give me a whole new project in life: becoming the general contractor for HVAC systems in this fantasy world.There were seven mountains in Crylestia School, and Icicle Mountain was the one people least wanted to go to.The reason for that was very simple: It was simply too cold.The interior of the mountain caves had a temperature of about -22 degrees Fahrenheit. If one simply stood there and breathed, one’s eyebrows would frost over. It was supposedly the ideal place to train ice magic. However, to a new student doing chores, it was a workplace nightmare.On my first day

Chapter 2

I cleaned off the magic ink from my hands and looked around in satisfaction. After a decade on the job, this was my biggest project yet, even though I was the only client for this one.The next day, the master of Icicle Mountain returned. Bear Windom was one of the three God-tier practitioners of Crylestia School. He practiced Deep Freeze magic. Supposedly, his body temperature was always under freezing, and touching him could freeze your finger.Rumor had it that he was 300 years old, though he looked to be under 250.His expression was always icy, and he did not speak much. The school’s students nicknamed him the Ice Cube.Pushing open the door to the main cave and feeling the temperature gradation, Bear looked like his family jewels had been stolen. “Who messed with my arrays?”Everyone in Icicle Mountain shook in their boots. Meanwhile, I was in a living area eating a cold pastry. When I heard Bear’s voice, I looked up and found a silver-haired man at the cave entrance.

Chapter 3

“What’s your name?”“Wisteria Summers.”“Wisteria Summers.” The woman took my hand. “You can change any of Medici Mountain’s arrays however you want. I’ll pay you whatever you want in magical stones.”I agreed, but I set my fee at ten magical stones for each small job, fifty for medium-sized jobs, and at least 100 for big jobs. Central systems would require different pricing. She agreed. The system popped up. [User has completed an A-tier array improvement project. Reward: Magical XP +300, Array Blueprints: Level 2 unlocked.]I looked at the display of the system and the many blueprints populating on it. Suddenly, I realized something. These blueprints held designs for this fantasy world’s most powerful arrays. Rewarding me with these was pretty much giving me cheat codes. However, I did not rely on cheat codes. All I needed to modify these arrays was my HVAC experience of ten years. The cheat codes only gave me this world’s modification specifications. The true skill

Chapter 4

Just think about it. Someone who had lived 300 years had actually forgotten what having hot tea was like. What kind of a life was that?I bent down to meet Bear’s gaze. “Master Windom, you won’t just be having hot tea now. You can have hot stew.”“Hot stew?”“That’s right. You can have a huge pot of hot water and put all sorts of things in there to cook up the perfect stew for yourself. I’ll think about how to make it work.“Once the temperature control in Icicle Mountain is fixed, you can control the temperature of the whole cave system. Then, we can have a warm room where we can cook and eat stew.”Bear looked at me. His expression did not change much, but I noticed that his grip on his teacup had loosened. “Why are you so nice to me?” he asked. “Because I’m your HVAC engineer. Satisfying my clients is my duty.”He looked at me with a complicated look in his eyes. From that day onward, he started speaking to me. It was only a handful of sentences every day, but we were

Chapter 5

“Tell me.”“Firstly, I want a copy of all the array blueprints involved in this project. I need to study the underlying logic of the ice arrays. “Secondly, I want to stay in the central area of Icicle Mountain during the project. The living area will need to be maintained at a temperature above 59 degrees Fahrenheit. “Anything below 50 degrees Fahrenheit makes my hands shake. Thirdly…”I paused. “You will have to be here every day during the project work. You won’t be there to monitor me, but I need you to help with testing. “Your cold is a natural source, like a ‘compressor.’ Without a compressor, I can’t modify the temperature.”Bear glanced at me for three seconds before agreeing. “That can be done.”“Then let’s sign a contract.”“What’s a contract?”“It’s… A verbal agreement is fine, too. You’re the boss.”Bear looked at me again.“Wisteria,” he started, “you’re the strangest person I’ve ever met.”“Thank you. You’re also the first client I’ve met who most needs to

Chapter 6

I took a deep breath and said, “Master Windom, if I redesign this seal, I will need to remove your core from the array. After doing that, the new seal will need another ‘compressor,’ one that can at least match the efficacy of your cold energy.”“There is no such source of cold energy in this world,” he said. “There is only me.”“It doesn’t have to be of this world,” I said. “I could do it.”Bear glanced at me. “I’ve been fixing AC units for ten years,” I said. “Although I don’t know magic, there’s something that can make the energy move in the directions I want. “Your core is hardware, but what the seal really needs is something that will control it in a more logical manner. I can make new hardware to control the way the system works.”I pointed at my own head. “What I need is here.”“Your training only puts you at level three,” he pointed out. “Yes, but you don’t need someone with magical training. You need temperature control,” I replied. “There’s a whole bunch of peo

Chapter 7

I was stunned for a moment before I let out a chuckle.“No. Fixing AC units taught me that the hardest thing in this world isn’t creating something new. It’s to get something old to keep working. “A hospital can’t stop doing surgeries, large buildings can’t have blackouts, and the seals of ice dungeons can’t be broken. Switching something out and improving it without turning it off is the hardest job.”I looked at Bear. “That’s what I’m the best at.”Something under the layer of ice in his eyes seemed to move.Work started. The first step was to set up the fulcrum of the main array for all the “external units.”This could not be something manmade but something already existing. From the deepest part of Icicle Mountain, I found an ancient marrow stone that was a source of cold energy. Its efficiency of releasing energy was steady and would not be overloaded. At the same time, it had a connection to the mountain, so its source of energy would never be depleted. It was li

Chapter 8

“Don’t come over here!” Bear’s voice was hoarse. “The cold energy is too powerful. You’ll…”“I’ll what? Get cold?” I grabbed Bear’s wrist. “I’ve been fixing AC units for ten years. I’ve been in countless freezers under -22 degrees Fahrenheit! This is…”I paused. This kind of cold could not compare with a freezer under -22 degrees Fahrenheit. The hand I had around his wrist was already starting to go numb, but I did not loosen it.“Listen to me,” I said, squatting down and drawing a quick dissipating array on the ground. “You’re using your core to tough this out, right?”“...Right.”“What of my new seals? Are the zones I set up all still there?”“They are. But the main seal isn’t done, and the zonal seals don’t have an anchor.”“I’ll be the anchor.”Bear looked at me. “I can’t be the compressor, but I can be the control panel,” I told him.“Reduce the energy supply of your core to 70%. I’ll shift the other 30% through the zonal seals that are ready. The cold energy will be

Chapter 9

The work for the new seal was completed. The last step was to extract Bear’s core from the fulcrum of the old seal. This was the most dangerous step. It was like taking out an old compressor without stopping the AC unit and switching in a new one. I had devised three levels of defenses against any mishaps. Firstly, the marrow stone was already working as the new fulcrum, supplying power to the seal. Secondly, the six zonal seals were working in concert to supply power to the seal. Lastly, I stood before the control panel, ready to fix any problems that could arise. “Are you ready?” I asked.Bear stood before the fulcrum of the old array with his eyes closed. His core was tied up in the array, like a heart in the ice. Every marking of the array were the blood vessels. “Ready,” he replied. “On the count of three. Three, two, one, extract!”Bear’s core was extracted from the array.In an instant, waves of magical energy roiled, and cold energy dispersed all around us. The

Chapter 10

The system indicated, [Friendliness +15. A God-tier master expressed emotional attachment. Current friendliness level: 85/100.]The friendliness level was up to 85. Just 15 points to go.But this number was not important to me anymore. The new seal had been operating for a month, and the ice wyvern still slumbered peacefully. I had turned the temperature control system for the ice dungeon completely automatic, with the marrow stone as its core. The six zonal seals worked independently and helped each other. Even if two experienced problems at the same time, the other four could handle the load. Bear’s core had been completely restored. When he trained, his flow of magical energy became 30% smoother, as he did not need to use half his power to suppress the ice wyvern anymore. He could train again, but he spent more of his time in the living areas. In that room of 59 degrees Fahrenheit, he had added a table, a couple of chairs, and a tea set. My blueprint hung on the wall.

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