After a while, the signal from VAS became normal and jolted John out of his thoughts. A window with three options appeared in front of John.

Skill Rank Discryption Self-replication. E Behavior of a dynamic system that results in the construction of an identical or similar copy of itself. Control-string E The core competence of the puppeteer is useless without a body or controller.

Right after that, VAS came with his report. "With these two abilities, we could create a network; we would be the headquarters and use 0.05 mana to create mini versions of ourselves with replication. Only our bodies would be replicated, and by adding control strings that use at most 0.01 for each replica, we could physically connect to the replicas and become one. If we cover the blue sphere, we need at least 1000 nanobots. This will cost us 0.06 mana for each replica. Here's the calculation,"

Replicas needed 1000 Mana cost p/replica 0.05 Time needed for creation (seconds) 0.5 Mana cost control-strings on each replica 0.01 Total mana cost 60 Total time (normal) 5min 15sec

VAS opened another window, as he reported, before John could respond. VAS continued. "After 5 minutes and 15 seconds, which is outside of accelerated time, we could take possession of the mana centre, the blue sphere, and it will take 5 minutes to have control of the full distribution of mana."

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Reality Accelerated 25:00 150:00

VAS even pointed out the time remaining. "Is there anything we need to do before we start the program? We will not be able to meet the accelerated time because the capability load is too great for the nanobot to keep up."

John was shocked at first, but then, as if he knew that while time may seem long, it is short when it comes to taking action, he said, "VAS, we need to create a more complicated program; please tell me if we have enough time and resources for the following commands. When we finish the procedure, we will have more than 10 minutes, so we can also create nanobots and program them to close the wounds first. I suggest we go into sleep mode until everything is stabilized."

VAS did not answer for a few seconds, as he was creating the programs and making calculations. "According to my calculations, we have a few seconds left. Shall I start the program?"

"Yes, start the program," and with that John fell asleep again.