Nope! [That's in answer to both questions, actually.] I was thinkin' more like a portable rocket sorta thing, but there's probably a reason people've been making 'em basically the same way for so long.

[Who needs a broom when there's more things to destroy? There may be one buried under some of the clutter that was here when he found the room, but Lavi hasn't bothered to look all that hard for it.]

Alchemy's something new, too. I obviously gotta get a lot better at it so that I'm only blowin' up the right things.