Ben set up the rune formation on the training ground. He made it as small as possible like A.I Chip suggested. It wasn't that difficult to erect a 10 cm wide rune formation, but it will take time because he needs to be careful.
The rune formation finally finished after a half hour because it was Ben's first time creating it. He still needs to understand each rune's function while he set it up to not make any mistakes. The size also lengthened the time he needed to set it up.
"It's good, right?" Ben asked.
[Yes, there's no mistake. The rune formation is ready to be activated.]
Ben nodded and poured a little bit of his magic power into the rune formation. The formation glowed dimly because he poured a little magic power into it. He just wanted to use it at it's lowest power for the first time.
After the rune formation was activated, Ben suddenly found himself in outer space or a place that looks like it. He knows it's just the effect of the rune formation and this is just what he sees in his mind. His real body is still on the training ground.
In the outer space-like place, Ben saw many portals with videos playing in them. There were so many of them that Ben can't count. They are the parallel universes of Earthland, just like Edolas, which is also shown here.
Ben knows that Edolas is shown here because it was the first one he saw, showing that it was the closest universe to Earthland. He can see the capital where Mystogan lives now. That place was easy to recognize because he had been there once before.
Furthermore, he can feel the magic power emanating from these universes, and he doesn't feel anything from Edolas because it has sent all it's magic power to Earthland after Mystogan used Reverse Anima.
Ben went around to look at the universes in the portal. Most of them don't have magic power or their magic power is too weak to be used. They are like Earth where Ben used to live, just normal worlds.
There aren't many universes with abundant magic power like Earthland. The universes with much higher magic power than Earthland is even less in number. But they are easy to find because they stand out from the rest.
Ben is currently floating in front of the universe with the highest magic power here. He can feel it's overabundant magic power just from the image he sees in the portal. The magic in this universe is far denser than Earthland.
Some of this magic power leaked into this outer space, so Ben knows the estimated magic power of that world. This is how the upgraded Anima that A.I Chip made works. It connects parallel universes and takes a sample of their magic power density.
Ben can feel the magic power and then A.I Chip will calculate it. The calculation is to estimate the magic power of that universe. Then it will be compared to Earthland so Ben will know which one has the most magic power compared to Earthland.
Right now, he watches the portal in front of him which leaked out the most magic power. He is investigating this world through the live video he watched. This live video is an improvement that A.I Chip made, so it's not present in the original version of Anima.
"Ooh, they have good magic items. That magic is very interesting. Wow, it's a woman's bathhouse." Ben said as he watched the video change locations.
[Please focus on what's important.]
"Alright, alright." Ben said before he changed the video location.
All the places that Ben investigated have really high magic power density. Even the most remote place has a higher magic power density than Earthland. It caused this universe to have a higher number of mages than Earthland.
But there are many places Ben can't investigate because their magic densities are too high. That, or there are dangerous magical creatures or mages that might detect him in those places, so he doesn't investigate those places.
He doesn't know what kind of monsters such a world can make, so he didn't want to take the risk. His aim isn't to kill himself, but to get more magic power through Anima. He is copying what Edolas did but he won't be that stupid.
Ben wants to steal magic power from a universe with much more magic power than Earthland. He wants to set the Anima up under his guild to make the magic power density in Fairy Tail higher than in other places.
With higher magic power density, the mages there will grow stronger faster than before, including him. If he wanted to reach Acnologia's level faster, he needs sufficient resources. The most important resource he needs is, of course, magic power.
But he needs to be careful because the sudden change in magic power density in Magnolia will attract attention from other guilds, the Magic Council, other countries and even the Wizard Saints. They might try to do something like take over the place.
This is where his Wizard Saint title will be rather handy. Those who think like that will need to think twice before doing it. But that doesn't guarantee they won't attack, so hiding it is still the best option.
Ben already had a plan for that scenario so he wasn't too worried about it. He is more worried about the other problem. If he could feel Anima that was used by Edolas, it will certainly be felt by mages from the target universe.
That's why he is worried if these mages will try to do something from the Anima that connects them. He needs to be extra careful with his magic power stealing plan using Anima or it will endanger him and his guild.
The best solution that Ben can think of is stealing a small amount of magic power from many remote locations of the target universe. That way, he can lower the amount of magic power absorption by each Anima and avoid detection.
He will also set up other defensive measures in case the Anima is detected. There are still many things to do before he can start setting up his Animas. But when it's completed, he will gain a lot of benefits and get stronger a lot faster than before.
"A.I Chip, we need to set a lot of defensive measures, especially concealment." Ben said as he deactivated the test Anima.
[What kind of concealment?]
"Anything is fine as long as we can hide all the magic power that we steal. We need to hide it from this universe and that universe. It will be really bad if either side found out about this." Ben said.
[Understood. But we don't have sufficient data to make high level concealment. I suggest you go to the Magic Library again and obtain more knowledge of concealment spells.]
"Lack of data, huh? No choice then, I will return to the Magic Library soon to obtain all the data we need. This project is very important so we need to do everything we can for this." Ben replied.
Ben's Anima experiment was finally complete and now he knew what he needed. Fortunately, nothing bad happened and he obtained valuable information from this experiment. Now, he will return to Magnolia and prepare for the next few steps.