> "Totally understandable."
> Have two more slices, then prepare to call it a night so we can be up early. We'll definitely want to see the morning news.
>Hey, don't forget to take a little time to examine that magic item we got from Koch before preparing to go to bed
>"Heh," is all Archer has to say in response.
>You grab two more slices. Frankly, part of you feels you can take on the whole thing at once, but another part of you just doesn't have the heart right now. The news tomorrow is going to be...something.
>You take the gold tube in hand, and make your way toward the lab. Before you really set to work, you do a bit of searching online to try to determine what it is; you don't want to have your phone with you in the lab; its modernity disrupts things. You find that the gold is actually metallic crystal, which is quite rare for gold. Apparently nuggets of gold crystal go for quite a lot. This particular one is freakishly large; you suspect either it is artificial, if that's even possible, or worthy of being part of some nation's crown jewels. With that done, you set the phone aside and head in to examine the thing.
>This turns out to be more simple than you suspected. For all its formidable appearance, apparently is role is simply that of a mana battery with a great deal of capacity. That is to say, it is attuned to support a thing, and then can be forgotten about until the mana inside is depleted. This one...has a tremendous amount of mana stored inside. Enough to power some very stupidly wasteful magecraft indeed. It may well be how someone with no apparent magical background managed to keep a Servant.
>_