<Personal Log:"YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!">
Date of creation: Nova Aetas 3, Feb 14
[The following section contains censored sections.]
I woke up to the sound of shuffling downstairs, the moment I walked out of my bedroom, I was knocked unconscious.
When I opened my eyes, I was already inside one of their buildings, immediately they shouted curses at me and demanded for my surrender and betray my country to spy for them. With a blade over my throat, I found no other choice than to just bluff.
"You'd better [CENSORED], [CENSORED]."
"You ain't gonna be happy if the boss finds out."
The reply came back so loud that I felt my eardrums stretching to their limits. "OH WE ARE GOING TO KILL THAT [CENSORED]"
"If you kill me, the boss ain't gonna hold back any further, this whole mountain is gonna go sky high!"
"YOU LITTLE [CENSORED], YOU'RE BLUFFING."
My faux confidence smile fell for a split second, and I morphed my face into the darkest poker face I can manage to try write it off. "Maybe? But you won't live to find out, as you will be in a million pieces at that time."
"OH YOU [CENSORED].""[CENSORED]."
"Now if you don't let me go in five minutes, we will all die in the most spectacular way possible. Your choice."
"[CENSORED],[CENSORED],[CENSORED]."
"Now you stop your cursing, I-"
My words were cut off by the sharp pain across my back, from what I just felt, I knew they just whipped me, and judging by the strange cold and wet feeling, they aren't just using normal whips, those are chain-blade whips, these whips slash through flesh like butter.
The interrogators face suddenly turns wicked, "now, you will be going, but you're horn is OURS, the commander will surely like a horn that can ignore blackstone, he-he-he."
"Cut that cliché laughter and make it quick, I don't need it anyways, it's flawed, and the blackstone bypass is just my amulet."
There was a clean "Snap!", and a jolt of pain shot through my forehead, and I saw my horn rolling across the floor."[CENSORED]! This little [CENSORED] is right, her [CENSORED] horn is full of holes!"
With them distracted, I capitalized on the split second when the blade is off my throat and channeled all the magic into the stub left of my horn, through all frequencies, at maximum strength, and no spell in mind. This released an uncontrolled blast of magic, sending everyone else in the room flying. As the flash of light subsided, I ripped a portal and leapt through, not even bothering to pick up the horn, it's flawed anyways.
"That was so close, I really need a safer place to live, also how fast can I get a batch of advanced arcane materials delivered from the warehouse?"
<Personal Log: Augmentation>
Date of creation: Nova Aetas 3, Feb 16
I looked at the piece of resonium on my hoof, it's slightly warm to the touch, and hums lightly in a soothing way.
Soon, it will join the rest of the arcane materials on my workbench to form a new prosthetic horn, one that does not lead to horn pain whenever I cast a spell. I find that I didn't suffer from the usual pain after that magic outburst, and I theorized that the pain might be due to residual magic buildup in the holes of my original horn. Now I can create one that is hopefully pain-free, and would even boost my magic strength.
First, I created a casing with Living Metal, which is can only be created in tiny quantities by passing some special alloys through an overcharged point-critical magic forge. This lets the horn blend into my stub, and since my horn isn't at full size, I made this replacement oversized for now, so I don't need to replace it later. This casing also has the advantage of being at least 7 times stronger than anything that the Storm Empire can get, so no more breaking it off. Then, I used the hydraulic press to form a chunk of resonium into a cone-shaped shell, and slipped it into the casing. Resonium can amplify magic passing through it without any loss of detail, so it is a nice way of strengthening precision based spells. Finally, I filled it with molten celestium and dropped in a seed crystal. This is then kept at a temperature just below the melting point of celestium to let it set slowly and form a crystal hexagonal structure. Celestium with a crystal structure has been used in Equestrian replacement horns for extremely important and wealthy individuals, and shown to be able to enhance magic casting abilities of the user. Usually these horns use only a small amount, but since I had a lot of celestium in my stash, might as well as use it. Finally, I made a upside-down hexagonal pyramidal hole, slid in a mythril rod, and used a hydraulic press to make a passive lock. I grinded off the bumps on my stub and made the same hole, but this time I can use magic to deform the mythril rod as the horn is already in place when the rod is inserted.
After all that work, the slightly oversized horn is now perched over my stub, I cast a few simple spells, I needed considerably less effort to cast spells and experienced no pain. I was quite satisfied with my work, but there is one last thing. The exterior is still just a metallic surface, even though this doesn't impact the functionality of the horn, it's still ugly, and I don't want to look at an eyesore every morning when I wash my face. So I grafted a sample of my coat onto the exterior, a bit of magic later my body accepted this transplant, when I grow up, there would hopefully only be a small colour difference that would reveal the true nature of my horn.