29 - Chapter 28 - Day 1814
Adya awoke feeling fully rested. The first thing she did was ask Mai how long she had been asleep for. Apparently she had been out for over two days. She had fallen asleep in the late evening, and waking up mid morning on the third day.
She knew she had been tired, but hadn’t realised just how much it had impacted her. Thankfully she had remembered to restart her passive skills and had not lost days of regeneration. Even though she currently had no way to leverage her wealth, she was loath to let that regeneration go to waste.
Sai and Mai had not been idle while she slept. Even though they had still both needed some rest, just not as much as she had needed. She kept forgetting that while they had been artificial in her last life, in this one they were alive. They were no longer just a tool but an integral part of her. Sai and Mai had recovered two days ago, and had spent the remaining time working to analyse the huge volume of data that the full body formation had provided. They had barely touched the edges.
Adya: So how long do you think it will take to fully assimilate the knowledge we gained.
Sai: with both myself and Mai fully dedicated to the task, we anticipate it will take 9000 days approximately.
Mai: We can’t leave make ourself so vulnerable. I will need to be available for any tactical situation that may occur.
Adya: Is that leveraging the full parallel processing capability we have?
Sai: no, it will require testing, but do we want to tie down all our processing power for an uncertain duration?
Adya: ok let’s start with something else. I need you to create the formations. I assume we already have a formations library that I can just pull the completed formations from?
Sai: yes it is available now.
Adya: So if we create a skill that can scribe the formation for us, it will be faster and free you up to be unavailable temporarily. I think assimilating that knowledge will let us build our mana coin machine faster.
They started work on creating the skill. It was their first attempt at creating an active skill that could be triggered as required. Adya studied her other skills to try and understand how best to structure the new skill. It would not be limited to just formations. Any design that was in Adya’s mental library could be reproduced using ink and quill. The only addition to that was the ability to channel mana and willpower into the design and lay down the mana lines.
It took a few hours and a lot of trial and error, first in her mental world, then with actual quill and parchment. Finally the system agreed that they had created a skill and gave them the long awaited notification.
Custom active skill created
New achievements gained
Warning: Achievement modified by Scion protocols
{Custom} Formation Scribe Skill learned
{Custom} Formation Scribe Skill is now Level MAX
Achievement: Active skill creator - for creating your own active skill all class active skills are converted to Parallel Processing Capacity.
Trait 4: Parallel Processing (Rank 8) - Capacity 4 Cores increased to Capacity 138 Cores
That was not entirely unexpected, Adya had a feeling that the scion protocol was forcing her down the path of creating and controlling her own skills manually. Adya checked her full status to see if anything else had changed.
Entity status
Name: Adya Gurg
Title: NA
Body: 500,000 [x2.0] [x1.0]
Mind: 16,500,000 [x2.0] [x1.0]
Soul: 16,500,000 [x2.0] [x1.0]
Cultivation Stage: Rank 2 (F)
Stamina: 1,000,000
Stamina regeneration: 10,000 per minute
Stamina density: Rank 2 [x1]
Willpower: 33,000,000
Willpower regeneration: 330,000 per minute
Willpower density: Rank 2 [x1]
Mana: 33,000,000
Mana regeneration: 3,300,000 per minute
Mana density: Rank 2 [x1]
Essence: 0
Entity 1:
Class Ranger (Rarity Rank 8 - Guru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 2:
Class Scholar (Rarity Rank 8 - Guru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 3:
Class Warlord (Rarity Rank 9 - MahaGuru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 4:
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Class Font of Knowledge (Rarity Rank 9 - MahaGuru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 5:
Class Merchant (Rarity Rank 7 - Grand Sage) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 6:
Class Diplomat (Rarity Rank 7 - Grand Sage) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 7:
Class Child (Rarity Rank 1 - Trainee) - {Displayed}: Level 0
General Skills
Waking Meditation: Level 19
Scan Detection: Level 6
Energy Manipulation: Level 49
Regeneration Control: Level 10
Core Shield (Unique): Level MAX
Active Skills
{Custom} Formation Scribe: Level MAX
Passive Skills
{Custom} Mana Stone Creation (Automated): Level MAX
{Custom} Will Power Stone Creation (Automated): Level MAX
{Custom} Stamina Stone Creation (Automated): Level MAX
Personalities
Mai: Online
Sai: Online
Traits
Trait 1: Universal Language Guru (Rank 8)
Trait 2: Soul Storage (Rank 11)(MAX)
Trait 3: Perfect Loot Perfect Essence (Rank 8)(MAX)
Trait 4: Parallel Processing (Rank 8) - Capacity 138 Cores
Trait 5: Perfect Memory Processing (Rank 8)
Trait 6: Gestalt Entity (Rank 8)
Achievement: Passive skill creator - for creating your own passive skill all class passive skills are converted to Parallel Processing Capacity.
Achievement: Active skill creator - for creating your own active skill all class active skills are converted to Parallel Processing Capacity.
Achievement: Gestalt Mortal Prodigy - for unlocking the ability to directly manipulate the regeneration of all 3 core energies whilst still being mortal all stats effectiveness is increased by 100%
Achievement: Cultivation Prodigy - for unlocking cultivation and forming three cores on your first attempt and at below the age of 10, unique skill Core Shield granted.
There were a few changes, but nothing massive. Looking at it she had a lot more to do, she needed to start looking at the next step as she would need to form her meridians, that would support all three energy types. That was going to be slow and painful. Or was it, if she could learn how to create real skills, she could create a custom skill to create her pathways from a 3d design.
She did not look forward to the testing of that skill as necessary as it was going to be.
Adya: We are using 3 of the processing slots. Leave me a few more for using the new skill and any emergencies. Can you run some experiments with 132 cores, and see what the time to complete the integration of the new knowledge looks like? I am hoping we can significantly reduce it from that 9000 days.
Sai: the experiment will take 2 hours to provide some results. I will be offline during that period.
Adya let Sai work, and got herself ready to leave her room. She was starving, but she had ignored that in favour of getting a head start. She asked Sally to bring her some food while she took a bath and dressed.
By the time she was ready and had eaten what felt like her own body weight in food, Sai was done with her experiment.
Sai: The results were tentative. I estimate between 67 and 70 days to complete the integration to a satisfactory level.
Satisfactory level for Sai was perfection for anyone else, but in this case that suited Adya as well. She instructed Sai to start. With those tasks now in hand. She decided to leave her room and find out what had been going on in the estate for the past few days.
Adya made her way towards her mother’s office. She was joined by Phillipa and then Dexter in short order. It seemed like they were keeping an eye out for when she would leave her room.
“How are you feeling?” asked Dexter. “You were not looking so great when you dropped the bomb and walked out.”
“I was well beyond my limit at that point.” replied Adya. “I needed the rest, I woke up not to long ago, had a meal and am just out of my room.”
“You slept for almost three days?” replied Phillipa, “That is not a good sign.”
“I know,” replied Adya. “I know my limits now. I will be better able to pace myself.”
As they finished speaking, they arrived at Gauri;s office. Adya knocked, then they all entered.
Gauri was in a meeting with Parth and the head of Intelligence, Peter. “Good timing,” said Gauri. “I hope you are rested and in a better mood.”
“I was pushed beyond my limit.” replied Adya. “I needed the rest, I will manage things better going forward. Now what has been happening in the past few days?”
“Well we have debriefed the people you left us,” replied Gauri. “We have identified several other spies, but have chosen not to alert them. We need you to convert them to our side. We will do them one by one when you are ready. They are from multiple different organisations, a few are from the shadowed hand. It looks like we were their target all along. The rest are from various noble houses that also have business interests that compete with ours. It looks like they did not like the fact that a non-noble family was doing well.”
“That is good.” replied Adya. “Normal industrial espionage and sabotage is straightforward enough to deal with. Peter, once our own house is clean, I take it that you will start to feed the others misinformation?”
“That is the plan Miss,” replied Peter. “Did you have another suggestion?”
“No, that is a good start, but only a start.” replied Adya. “I don’t like people targeting me and mine. Use that information to identify and target handlers, not too fast, nice and slow. We are going to take over all their people. Depending on what we learn, will decide our future steps. Once we convert the handlers and spies, leave them in place.”
“So we can get all the intelligence from all the organisations.” said Peter, nodding along. “While we control exactly what they learn about us.”
“Good, now you are catching on.” replied Adya. “Our moves have to be very quiet, even if it takes longer. There will be a desire to go out and rush, but that will backfire on us.”
“Now, what happened to the last one I left you,” asked Adya. She knew that one was going to be a lot more complicated.
“Well that one is very different.” replied Gauri. “Parth do you want to give us an update on him?”
“Well, he is a very accomplished spy.” replied Parth. “Actually puts all our people to shame. Had you not caught him, we would have had no idea about him. Anyway to start from the beginning, the man works, or rather worked for the royal family of one of the human kingdoms. Even he doesn’t know which one.”
“Ok, so what is he doing in this kingdom?” asked Adya. She understood the need to employ operational security by compartmenting information, but understanding was not the same as liking it. The fact that it limited the amount of information she could get from this spy was annoying. “And since he does not know, could he actually be from this kingdom’s royal family?”
“No, that part is certain.” replied Parth. “This kingdom has only one system sanctioned noble and that is the king. So based on your system message, he was not from here. As to their motivation, he was ordered to infiltrate rogue organisations and sow seeds of discontentment. The ultimate objectives were never revealed.”
“So either it's just a way to keep the country unstable in some political game we are unaware of.” mused Adya out loud. “Or a prelude to invasion. My question is, does it impact our operations?”
“Not really,” replied Gauri, after some thought. “We are not involved at that level, so our operations might get impacted by a war, but will probably be offset by the opportunities it will likely create.”
“Ok, let’s fold him into our operations.” said Adya. “No point wasting a talented asset. If there is nothing else, I have a man to talk to.”