With the basic interrogation done, I wrote a report to the Narra Kingdom nobility. Which quickly turned into a more permanent punishnt for the man.
For that, I took him to the Narra Kingdom’s capital, where I showed his mories to people. He tried to deny them, but his house had also been searched and a docunt related to his treason was found.
With that, the King found him guilty of treason. Not high treason, but whatever. Abandoning a country for a higher rank in the neighbouring one isn’t the sa as trying to overthrow the monarchy or sothing.
He was given a five year slave sentence, but I requested his initial sentence be carried out as a prison sentence under my control. I told the King about my fears related to the states, well so of them anyway, and told him I wanted to experint more with Power Structure.
Thus it was decided that for the first year, or less if I would be done before, I could hold onto U-90.
But it ca with a caveat. I had to have an official from Narra Kingdom living on HoBase, watching over all of my tests. They didn’t want to carry out anything too unusual. He was also made the master of U-90.
Luckily I never planned anything too bad. Well, except maybe killing him to see if that gets rid of Power Structure. And you can’t prove I killed him if he is alive, right?
But that is for later. First we needed to figure out other things.
Starting with how we will keep the man safe. Because Power Structure can clearly take over soone’s mind remotely, and we don’t want that happening to him. Luckily we have a Soul Magic expert available, and the most likely way Power Structure works is with Soul Magic.
So we made a cell that is completely protected from Soul Magic. I wanted to set Remove Brainwashing on the man, having the activation condition be soone trying to control the person it is set on. But that would interfere with the slave mark, so I couldn’t do that.
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And even if that wouldn’t be a problem, Remove Brainwashing would likely remove Power Structure. And I don’t want that just yet.
But I got another idea on how I might be able to remove Power Structure from people. Quite the simple one at that. Mystical Space Typhoon.
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In theory, I can destroy the title with it. In theory. But sadly, we couldn’t exactly test it either. Not without losing our test subject. Sure I also secured E-411 and E-412 for my own tests, but they no longer had the title, so they weren’t a big help.
But we could test it on sothing else. Specifically Storage Access. Five of my six wives have it, and we can just re-establish it if it breaks. So I used MST on Unika, destroying her Storage Access title and removing her access to it. That confird that title based unique skill interactions can be destroyed by MST.
Yes, we did remake the link. I’m not leaving Unika without access.
I then scanned the mories of 7-E-411 and 7-E-412. Sadly I didn’t get anything too much out of that. I did see their direct superior, whom I assu is just 7-E. I saw how they were brought into the Power Structure, how 7-E gave them skills, and how they were given the job of spying on the adventuring tournant. However they were forbidden from using the Factory VR, as it might detect them. So the states know about it as well.
And while I wish I would have learned more, I did learn that Power Structure can indeed be used to give skills. So it likely can also be used to take skills. Thus E-411 and E-412 losing three of their skills, specifically the ones they were given. As well as the boosts to the skills they had also getting reclaid.
I did another spy flight in the States. I tried to find out if they've figured out what happened with the spies. They probably did, but I wanted to be sure.
And the answer is yes. They knew that 7-E-411 and 7-E-412 died, but didn’t know they had been resurrected. They did know that the skills from them had been reclaid.
And they knew that 6-U-90 was unreachable. But they didn’t know if he was alive or not. So that ans that dead and unreachable are the sa thing from the point of view of the Power Structure. They can’t reclaim skills from a dead person.
I also heard that they’d send 7-E-77 and 7-E-78 to check on 6-U-90’s house. And since we knew that, we could prepare and capture them as well. And since 7-E-numbers are the ones they sent, again, it seems like that is so sort of spy or … espionage group. 7-Espionage? Could be. But then why is 2-A the parliant? Also why is the parliant under Power Structure 2? Power Structure 2 was the False Dragon-kin female. So why is the parliant under her and not the artificial Magic Elf?
I also learned that it doesn’t have to be the originator who mind controls the person. As I was spying on the eting, which was happening in that secret vault, on top of the usual 5, Power Structure 6 and 7 were also there. They were both in the early 100s in terms of levels. 7 had a unique skill called ntal Map while 6 had Humanoid Taming.
Humanoid Taming is just what it sounds like. With it, Power Structure 6 can make a taming contract with people. Honestly just slavery. She also had a few other slavery related skills, but she really wasn’t all that strong, combat vice, considering her level. Much more of a commander or planner.
7 had skills related to movent, like Mana Flight, Flickering Step, Hiding, etc. As well as racial skills an elf like him shouldn’t have. Enhanced Vision, Enhanced Hearing and more. So skills given to him by soone. Skills he’d then share with his underlings. And with ntal Map, he might know where all of his ‘subordinates’ are at all tis.
So back to what 6 and 7 said. 6 ntioned that 6-U had been trying to get in touch with U-90 and that she had also attempted it herself. So because of that I began to understand how the entire Power Structure works. While I don’t know how many of the ‘origin numbers’, as I began calling them, there are, I do know the letters can manage the numbers below them.
Since I’ve only seen 1 to 7 now, until further notice, I’ll assu there can only be 9 or 10 origin numbers. Either 1 to 9 or 0 to 9. Technically there might be more. Actually, maybe there can be as many origin numbers as the skill level of Power Structure. That could be it.
Under each of them there can be the entire alphabet, A to Z. So 26 letters. At least I’ll assu so, as I’ve seen up to U.
And under each of them there can be more than 400 people, since I’ve seen the 7-E-412. So maybe that can go up to 999.
If I assu it to be so, that is terrifying. Ten origin numbers, 26 letters under each of them, and one thousand sub numbers under them. That is potentially 260,000 people under this Power Structure. And clearly at least so of them are disposable.
And that is assuming there are only ten origin numbers. And that there are only 26 letters. And that there can only be 1000 sub numbers. And that there can’t be more letters under the sub numbers.
If there are more variables, the numbers will go up even more. In theory, all of the United States could be under the Power Structure.
… is that why they are called the United States? All united under one power. The Power Structure.
The other thing for today … okay, it is no longer the sa day, but you get the point. Is ti travel.
After the first experint, which I haven’t even done yet, I realized that I need to perform another one. One that isn’t from as far into the future.
Ti travel gets more difficult as you go forward in ti, so I need to test if I can even travel back in ti. So I decided I’d start by doing just a five minute jump back in ti, and I wouldn’t worry about returning to the future. I’d just let the five minutes pass while not annoying my past self.
Alice and I prepared the spells for it, Factory tested them which was strange already, and then it was ti for the IRL test. It felt strange just sitting in my office alone. Mainly because I knew I wasn’t alone.
“I know you are there.” I said to myself. “I confird with Soul Search.”
Despite that, the from about five minutes into the future didn’t respond. Of course he didn’t. I didn’t plan to either.
When the ti approached, I turned on Invisibility and Intangibility from the Nuron Code. I then chanted the necessary spell, and as it finished casting, I felt ti shift around .
That really made realize how strange ti travel felt. It took little more than an instant, but the amount of information my brain took in as the clocks ran in reverse made it feel like it took more than the five minutes I traveled back.
“... holy shit that didn’t feel right.” I said, luckily while still intangible. Because of that, there is no way the past sitting in front of heard . I an, I didn’t hear , so …
“I know you are there.” My past self said. “I confird with Soul Search.”
Oh? It was this close to when I traveled. Well, whatever.
Laura quickly got to work, finding out anything she could about issues we had with the System. And there were so.
Because there were currently two of , two Holder Ami Brian Woods, in this point in ti, the System had so potential issues with us. Mainly about which of our Storages should link with Storage Access. Luckily my Laura was quickly able to deal with it, redirecting it to my past self.
No. I hadn’t yet figured out how to do the System masking thing the even further in the future had figured out. And honestly, with the sensory overload the ti travel caused, I’m lucky I only traveled five minutes.
And it makes extrely worried about what will happen when I travel almost 1400 years to the past.
Luckily during the five minutes I waited for my past self to disappear, I ca up with a few ideas. Mainly a spell or skill that would shut off my senses for the duration of the ti travel.
I should be able to do that by mixing Dragonic Body, Demonic Might and Vampiric Body Modification. I can just remove all sensory organs I have temporarily. Sure it will be terrifying, but it might be better in the long run.
Or maybe I can detach my soul from my body? Or sohow keep my soul in my body, but block my senses from coming from my body to my soul?
I’ll theorize about that later, as my past self just turned himself invisible. But I know he is still here, and I didn’t appear until he was gone. So I waited about another minute before I casted Soul Search. And since my past self was no longer here, I undid Invisibility and Intangibility, before taking a seat on my office’s chair.
After Laura made sure Storage Access was still working, I called Alice and Janina to my room. Alice to fill her in on the success and Janina to ask her if Soul Magic could be used to reduce the sensory inputs I get while ti traveling.
But before either of the two got to hear my questions, Lua appeared and perford a dical check on . While also saying I should have imdiately headed to her after the test.
Luckily everything was alright, so she let us continue to the next test of the day.
And that was traveling forward in ti. Again, I was only traveling a couple of minutes, but it would still be important to know if I could do it.
Alice and Janina watched over as I chanted the other ti travel spell, and I jumped what was only 81 seconds forward in ti.
But that 81 seconds was more than enough to learn a few things. Mainly that during that ti, I hadn’t existed. Technically speaking.
No, I didn’t disappear from everyone's mories. But things like Storage Access were crossed out during that ti, Cailie felt that soone she had blessed had ‘disappeared’, and the monsters I’ve tad and can summon also felt that I wasn’t there. Even Hope realized that sothing happened, and summoned herself to confirm that I was alright.
I didn’t know demons could summon themselves, so I learned sothing new. I gave Hope a miasma stone in return for that, as she used one of hers to be able to summon herself.
I had another dical check by Lua. Then I summoned all of my monsters and apologized to them, and also spent so ti with my tad monsters to reassure them.
All in all, successful experints. Traveling backwards in ti is a sensory overload. … or right, I didn’t ntion traveling forward. It really didn’t have that issue. Sure there was a feeling of having the world fast forward around , but it wasn’t all that bad. I think that is because when traveling backwards in ti, I can ss with the ti-space continuum, but while traveling forward, I can’t.
Thus, when traveling backwards, the world resists more? Maybe. Well, we have more experints to run, but that does seem to be the case.
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