Must admit, turning petrification materials into industrial matter-transmutation tools is something I had never even thought of.
I wonder what kind of rock it transmutes to, and whether the original material matters. Like, does sand remain unaffected, change mineral type, or does it clump into a solid rock akin to how human cells does? Does wood retain its grains, and does that weaken the material when force is applied from certain directions (like that rock where you can peel off thin sheets of translucent and somewhat flexible rock)? If you have a really heave material like tungsten or uranium, does it increase the volume after transmutation, or lower the weight?
Thanks for the translation
You know I agree with Gaile, the design does look plain and uncool.
Nah it looks cool. But it does look super unwieldy and the opposite of functional.
Let's create a petrification beam to help with our stone supplies, surely nothing will go wrong with that and it'll never be used as a weapon by someone else
If you can lug that unwieldy thing 1 meter away from your enemy, aim it, and turn it on... I think you would have been better off with a spear, bow, or poisonous smoke-bomb.
Maybe works if there is only one enemy, but far too heavy to sweep onto second before they impaled you.
Besides, it holds
far more value as a tool for producing what would have been an expensive import, than as some short-ranged implement of combat (that risks its structural integrity, or risks losing it to plunder). Granted, I could see some exception for slow disaster-class monsters, where regular arms has little effect.