After class ended, we continued our attempts to manufacture mory chips, suffering between uncertainty and ambiguity.
The challenges continued into the early hours of dawn. By the ti noon had passed, we had made little progress.
「So frustrating!」
Soone, unable to resist the boredom, ca up with an extre idea.
「I discovered sothing interesting. Do you know the fragnts of mory chips stored in our heads? When I looked at the formulas, there was a commonality. Every single ti, soone died during the casting. The creation of mory chips seems to be closely related to this fact.」
「That’s true, isn’t it?」
If an interesting idea ca up, Violet’s way was to challenge it imdiately. A hundred Violets gathered again and began preparing magic. This ti, there was also a Violet with a crossbow beside her.
As a trial, we prepared the Tracking Blade spell, which was relatively simple and almost guaranteed to succeed. As the formula materialized, we moved the orb and manipulated the mana.
「It’s almost done. No. 78! Go ahead!」
Just before the formula was completed, No. 78 aid a crossbow at one Violet’s head and pulled the trigger.
「Kyaaa!」
When the Violet casting the formula died, the spell was canceled. The Violets waiting in the network stood up and searched the surroundings.
「Found it, over here, sothing that looks like a vision mory chip.」
Shortly after, No. 678 found a rectangular mory chip. It was smaller than the previously discovered mory chip fragnts but nearly intact.
「Activate it!」
When we struck it with a hamr to break the chip, as expected, a Tracking Blade shot out of the staff and tore the target to shreds.
「It worked! As expected, the key was us dying!」
「Great, let’s start mass-producing them!」
Hours later, while celebrating our success and mass-producing the spells, we had to accept the sad truth that we had popped the champagne too early.
「Why isn’t it working? We definitely killed soone!」
The production yield of the vision mory chips was extrely low.
Despite shooting our heads while casting spell after spell, only one or two attempts out of ten were successful. Each layer we peeled back revealed a new obstacle, leaving us feeling hopeless.
「Of course...!」「I guess magic just isn’t for us. Maybe we should focus harder on swordsmanship instead?」
「But if we do that, all the effort we’ve put in so far would be wasted!」
After dinner, we decided to try a different thod of suicide to improve the mory chip yield.
Laying out weapons before us, we held a gun in our mouth while casting the formula, when soone knocked on the factory door.
"Mmhh?"
"What’s this? The door was open. Hey, I’m coming in… What the—what are you doing?"
I locked eyes with Lucian, who barged in without warning. His eyes were filled with shock.
"What the hell? Why didn’t you knock? You perverted creep! Trying to peek into a young lady’s room, how shaless!"
"You’re calling a creep? You’ve got a gun in your mouth... Wait, what?"
As he grumbled, his expression hardened. His gaze shifted to the bloodied weapons laid out before . Suddenly overco with panic, he shouted.
"Irene! Daphne! Where are you? Co quick! Violet’s lost it and is trying to kill herself—mmph! Mmph!"
"It’s not suicide!"
Panicked, the Violets grabbed him and covered his mouth, afraid soone might hear. Looking outside, thankfully, no one seed to have noticed.
We shut the door and held him down until he cald. A long while later, we uncovered his mouth, and Lucian glared at us.
"Let say this upfront: we’re completely sane.""...But you were committing suicide, weren’t you?"
"Ugh, fine, technically yes. But we had our reasons!"
When I finished speaking, Lucian stared at us in disbelief, muttering, "Crazy girl..."
His words made my blood boil.
"Damn it! Do you think we’re doing this for fun? I want to master magic too, you know!"
"Magic is worth all this? You, of all people, wouldn’t understand with all your bragging!"
Before I knew it, we were surrounding him, venting our frustrations.
"That’s right! You were the first to get knocked out by the Vanguard in the dungeon!..."
Ah, maybe I shouldn’t have said that.
By the ti I realized my slip-up, it was too late.
When I finished speaking, Lucian, rarely looking solemn, nodded.
"Damn it... You’re right. I am just a braggart. And last ti, I was practically useless. I’m sorry."
"Oh… No, I misspoke. I’m sorry!"
It was then I noticed the sadness in his face. The defeat and despair he felt from being destroyed by the Vanguard must have been overwhelming.
The Violets, feeling ashad, apologized to him one after another.
"I’m sorry!"
"We won’t say anything harsh again!"
Lucian scratched his head, seemingly uncomfortable with our barrage of apologies.
"No, it’s fine... I an, you weren’t wrong. Sorry for calling you crazy. I was just worried sothing might be wrong with you, the team leader..."
"Oh, don’t dwell on it too much! I don’t mind."
Truthfully, I am a bit crazy.
After so ti, we had the opportunity to explain.
Once our lengthy explanation about mory chip production was over, Lucian asked.
"Wow, parallel computation? I never would’ve imagined. Only you could manage that. So the mory chip was created because you died during computation, right? In your head, I an."
"Yeah! But the yield is way too low."
He pondered for a mont before speaking.
"Wait, last ti you explained that you don’t truly die. When you die, you go sowhere else. Where was it again?"
"Violet Network!"
"What a bizarre na... Hmm, never mind. Anyway, if the mory chip is created the mont you die during spell computation, shouldn’t you consider the possibility that the place your consciousness goes to is the cause?"
"...Oh?"
As soon as Lucian said that, missing puzzle pieces started clicking into place in the Violets’ minds.
「Wait a second, he might be right. We may have been confusing cause and effect!」
「If we die during spell computation, of course the dead Violet would be transferred to the Violet Network. So part of the computation formula might have been carried along during that process.」
「Professor Albert emphasized the importance of a frawork to stabilize the formula and a container to store it. For so reason, we can freely manipulate the inside of the Violet Network! Doesn’t that an we can et those requirents?」
When curiosity strikes, it cannot be ignored. Offering polite words, I sent Lucian out.
"Sorry for saying harsh things! Is there anything you want to eat? I’ll buy you anything! Don’t you need a gaming console?"
"Uh, no. You don’t need to apologize like that..."
After sending him out, the Violets once again activated the computational formula for the Tracking Blade spell.
The intricate formula appeared before our eyes as we focused our mana and ticulously manipulated the orb.
Up to this point, it was no different from usual. The crucial mont ca when the formula neared completion.
「Alright, everyone, cut off your mana and transfer to the network simultaneously. Got it?」
「Focus. One, two, three!」
At the mont the formula concluded, we withdrew our mana.
Simultaneously, the Violets transferred into the network. In the Violet Network, there is no ti delay.
In the blink of an eye, a hundred Violets moved to the plaza within the network.
And there, in the middle of the plaza, was a luminous slate, shining resplendently.
The slate was flawless, with intricate circuits and orbs that were precise and immaculate.
「It’s done, a perfect mory chip!」
As if possessed, we began producing mory chips in succession.
Once, twice, five tis, eight tis, ten tis.
Soon, the Violet Network’s plaza held a stack of ten Vision mory Chips. As I touched the chips, I imbued them with resolve—it just felt like the right thing to do.
Mana flowed out, and ten Vision Blades appeared simultaneously, with perfect precision.
「They all succeeded. A 100% yield!」
「It’s a magic industrial revolution!」
My heart swelled with pride. Now, Violet could stockpile magic as if filling an armory with ammunition.
For now, it was limited to low- or mid-tier spells barely above the basics, but what if our numbers increased and we beca more adept at formula calculations?
We could mass-produce Vision mory Chips containing high-level attack spells and store them within the Violet Network.
With enough manpower, we could even stockpile fusion beams, like artillery shells.
Above all, activating magic through Vision mory Chips required no preparation ti. If sufficient mana was available, dozens of spells could be unleashed simultaneously right in front of an enemy.
This greatly expanded our strategic and tactical options.
"Wowww!"
We cheered as we exited the barracks. Outside, the Violets picked up Lucian, who had been loitering around, and tossed him into the air.
"We did it! It’s all thanks to you!"
"Hooray for Lucian!"
After tossing him a couple of tis, we set him down. Lucian chuckled weakly and muttered.
"Is that so. Well... Damn it, I guess I’m useless now..."
I tilted my head in confusion.
"No way! You’re a part of our team!"
"But..."
Hmm, it seed he was still downhearted from his past defeat. I decided he needed so cheering up—with at.
"Tonight, we’re having a at party!"
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