With Lena’s introduction to Olympus out of the way, there was little left for to imdiately worry about when it ca to the managent of Olympus itself. For problems arising in the various worlds, we would receive reports as needed, so that was more efficient than going down to investigate things myself.
That wasn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy entering the mortal world every now and then in order to relax and walk around. However, it wasn’t a critical part of managing the world, and was actually more of a risk for to do so. Which is why Tsubaki always insisted that she accompany whenever I take such outings. Especially with the increase in tic activity. The last thing any of us needed was for to be hit by a stray, mutated .
There was one other thing on my mind, but I wasn’t quite sure when I should go about it. And that was bringing Lena into the Admin Room, using the sa Heaven’s Gate system that Tsubaki and the others were under. Lena’s loyalty had already been proven, this much was true. However, the fact that she had only just joined Olympus remained, so I wasn’t sure if it was right to do so just yet.
When I thought about that, I couldn’t help but think about whether or not I would be taking her to the annual eting at the end of the month. Given her skills in information gathering, she might be able to do quite a lot for . With so coaching from Tsubaki and the others, she could drastically increase our earnings for this year.
Shaking my head, I turned my focus back to the guild chat. Ever since I had been told about the system that would let access chat from the mortal world, I had been keeping a closer eye on this. I’d even contribute to the conversation now and then, at least when I thought that I would be able to contribute sothing useful.
For instance, I had consulted with Sarah about the new ga that Ashley was working on, and she seed to think that it would do well. Or at least, better than our last one. At the very least, we could expect a return on the amount of points we’re putting into the project.
However, for the most part, I was learning from the others in the guild. Even those of a lower rank than myself had been Keepers for considerably longer than I had. This was because I had accelerated through the ranks more quickly than most, thanks to my refusal to reset and other decisions that I had made.
As I was thinking about that, a ssage ca from Tsubaki, snapping out of my focus. My Keeper, Dana and Aurivy are waiting for you in the main lobby.
I arched my brow at that, curious what the two of them could want. Still, the fact that they ca looking for together ant that it must be sothing important, so I got up from my desk and made my way towards the elevator.
Once I arrived, I saw Dana with a sowhat pleased smile, and Aurivy with the smug grin she had whenever she wanted to unveil a new project of hers. “The two of you have co up with sothing?” I asked, to which both nodded their heads, Dana considerably more reserved than Aurivy.
“That’s right! With the help of Dana here, I’ve finally managed to complete two of the projects that I’ve been really struggling with for a while!” She said, snapping her fingers to produce a spherical crystal, roughly half a ter in diater. “This is my prototype for a new type of auxiliary dungeon core. I say auxiliary because this core doesn’t have a mind of its own, and only functions when placed next to an active dungeon’s core.”
“Right… so, what is special about it?” I asked, and Aurivy gestured towards Dana to let her explain.
“First of all, this core reads a challenger’s party status, making sure that they only enter an instance with their own party. Secondly, the challenge level of each dungeon’s instance is automatically adjusted to match the level of the party challenging it.”
“This is why we had to make it a secondary core, so that the primary core was in charge of creating the individual monsters and traps, with the secondary core in charge of creating and populating the instance. Additionally, the secondary core is able to automatically evacuate anyone from the dungeon who is about to receive an attack that would drop their health into a negative value.”
“This won’t prevent everything, as damage over ti or natural hazards could still cause the death of an adventurer without being regarded as a new attack. However, there is one last chanism that we managed to work in.”
“Loot!” Aurivy’s grin grew wider when she suddenly shouted that word. “In order to make the dungeons more appealing, we’ve integrated the Digital Conversion system into this secondary core, creating an admin account for the dungeons themselves.”
“Originally, we were using this to help them more easily print the monsters to fill the dungeons, since it would be too taxing on the primary cores. However! We realized that we could tie this into their loot rewards. Any item can be fed to the secondary core, which will scan it and create a Digital Conversion blueprint file that is contained within the core itself, and the dungeon in charge can share the file to other dungeons to use for their own loot tables.”
“Once the file is uploaded, the auxiliary core asures the amount of energy needed to produce the item, and assigns it an appropriate item level. Afterwards, that item will generate into suitably level instances, contained within scattered treasure chests.”
I gave a small nod as I listened to this. “How is this going to work with the dungeons that are already partnered with a mortal using the old Dungeon Master pact?”
Aurivy, surprisingly, shook her head. “Because the core is independent of the main dungeon core, any dungeon master won’t be able to access or alter its functions. They won’t be able to use the free Digital Conversion system, and any attempts to access the auxiliary core in this way will cause it to imdiately shatter. That and we were going to put it on ownerless dungeons, or new ones. I’ve even already run a test!”
When I arched my brow, Aurivy quickly explained. “I’ve started placing dungeons in Fyor, and giving them cores like these. Just recently, Lifre and Lena rushed into one of my new experintal dungeons. Just to make sure that everything was working fine, I kept an eye on them, but there were no problems!”
I let out a low sigh at that, nodding my head. “Right. As long as they work properly, I am fine with you installing them wherever you see fit. But, you said that you had two projects that you were presenting?”
Aurivy blinked for a mont, having clearly distracted herself away from what the other project was, before Dana cleared her throat and spoke up. “That’s right, sir. Our second project is sothing that needs a bit more consideration on your part. We’ve created a new fast travel device, an inter-universal teleporter that doesn’t rely on direct traversal through the void.”
“Okay… I’m curious. How did you manage to get that working?” I asked, and Aurivy’s eyes lit up in recollection.
“Oh, yeah! That one took a little more work. You know that old idea of teleportation, where your body is broken down into its constituent components, transmitted across a vast distance, and then instantly reassembled? We based this fast travel on that! It’s made so that it won’t consu any of my divinity when soone needs to travel. Instead, the fact that it ca from could cause it to increase the divinity that I gain over ti!”
“See, what we did is we set up multiple terminals, each linked to the sa Digital Conversion account. When you enter one of the terminals, the terminal scans you to create a temporary file, and then painlessly dissolves you into your base energies. Because all of these terminals share the sa account, that energy is then used at the target terminal, together with the temporary file, to print the traveler at their destination.”
“Because the Digital Conversion system exists within the void itself, across multiple universes, this eliminates the typical hazards of traveling through the void. Moreover, it won’t interfere with our void defenses, whereas conventional travel thods have to consu far more energy to pierce those defenses.”
I gave a small nod at that, before looking back at Dana. “You said that this would require more consideration on my part?” So far, I had only seen the benefits, but that statent made believe that there was more to be seen.
“That’s right.” Dana confird. “If we implent this technology, you specifically will be incapable of using it. We even added a safeguard in the device that would disable the terminal if it detected your admin account.”
“What? Ohh…” Once she said that, I realized what she ant. “It’s another one of those, huh? Albeit brief, the act of dissolving my body into its base energies would count as a montary death.” This was the sa reason that I was unable to achieve the Perfect Self, because it required the user to enter a brief ‘death’ period.
“That’s right.” Dana confird again, before Aurivy imdiately cut in again.
“But that’s fine, isn’t it? Whenever you really need to go sowhere, you typically have take you anyways. You’d never have a reason to use this device anyways.”
I gave a small nod at that, before thinking. “Are there safety chanisms in place to prevent a failed transfer? For instance, if soone tries to tamper with a person’s file before it can be printed?”
Dana gave a small smile at that. “For regular chanical failures, this won’t be a problem. The temporary file is set to be deleted only after it is printed. Until then, it will simply wait in the system’s registry. Should it remain for too long, it will be sent to the destination closest to their original goal.”
“As for tampering with the file itself… that would require one to have the skills necessary to hack into the system, and access the files stored within the account itself. Furthermore, they would have to do this all within the brief period during the transfer, or else the file that they are looking for will already be deleted.”
“Now, assuming that soone had the skills to hack into this system account, and also were able to delay the transfer long enough to get ahold of that file… well, that’s just a really inefficient way to murder soone. The amount of skills required to do that would be far more than it would take just to outright kill soone. It’s also considerably easier to track, given how much would need to be done to make it work.”
I nodded my head in agreent. “How many of these terminals do you plan to install?” At present, there was only the single Fairy Ring located in every universe, aning that travel had to be conducted at a set schedule, sotis needing to wait days before you could make a trip you wanted. Or weeks, if you were in Spica or Lorek.
“That’s the best part!” Aurivy grinned broadly. “There’s no limit to these. We could set up hundreds of them on every colonized planet in each universe. Travel would have never been easier.”
When I heard that, I hesitated. “I think that might not be for the best. If you placed them on every colonized planet, then you will be heavily impacting space travel. With people able to freely and instantly travel between any planet, there would be no need for passenger ships to ferry them.”
“Although these ships could be converted to exploration vessels, the demand for exploration beyond the colonized worlds has never been lower than it is now, because of all of the tic hazards that exist beyond the Hyperlane Network.”
“Furthermore, if these passenger ships beco defunct, the developnt of spaceships will be impacted negatively, as there will be even less demand for new innovations there.”
Aurivy tilted her head, blinking as I continued. “My suggestion would be to have these terminals on each of the base worlds, where the Fairy Rings are currently positioned. Aside from those, the only ones that should be installed are ergency points to allow necessary personnel to quickly travel from place to place. For instance, if a high-ranking tic expert is needed to help solve an outbreak on an outer world, they can take the transit terminal to arrive imdiately, rather than needing to go through your church.”
Under normal circumstances, I might not have had a problem with shifting the focus away from passenger ships and letting these terminals take over. However, with the upcoming invasion by DarkestNight as a reference, I knew that we couldn’t afford to let this branch of technology lag behind.
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