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Chapter 499: 20 Minutes to Terrafirma
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After setting up the primer for his plans, Siva flips his palm and the locked space normalized again.
Mohindra and the rest didn’t question him and he thought that he could maximize this 20 minutes to a productive distillation of his agendas, especially finalizing on how to properly implement Gabriel’s advice on how to use the ‘rules setting’ of his Mini Realms even without using it as a material for the Portable NanoFurnace.
Basically, the ‘rules” have no limitations apart from the ones given by the Mini Realms themselves.
Right now, he has more than 50,000EXP after he trashed the players in Maria.
After this one battle, Siva realized the difference for all EXP-acquisition instances.
Players, regardless of alignment and power, or if they were hired by force or by their own volitions, are worth 1EXP —with the innocent ones still the same worth of 0.0001EXP.
NPCs are the same.
With this conjuncture, Siva was able to tell that all the Terrans are graded the same, player or not.
The determined enemies are rather different. For example is the Bloody Church members; Siva had already confirmed that Priests are at least 2EXP each but depending on their strength level, they change from 3EXP to 5EXP. Bishops starts at the 3EP threshold while the Cardinal, or at least for Cardinal Hossain, the only Cardinal he’d defeated, he was worth at least 10EXP or so. He wasn’t able to properly monitor them but seeing that they are rare enemies, the point system allocation for the Leader-classes is still too low on his opinion.
And it was also with the help of the [Blood Verse] that hunting the Bloody Church Members became a little bit easier than he first thought.
Monsters, he was yet to properly grade them…
But the Demons, that’s where the point system is confirmed to be different.
The lowest Pawns are 1EXP; Pawn Commanders are 4EXP; the Captains are 10EXP; the Supremes are 30EXP each; and those Leaders, each, are at least 300EXP each… as far as his observation go because of the Big Black Ball in Asgard.
As such, after Siva trashed all those from Maria, he now had at least 53,916EXP on his wallet.
He put it all into unlocking the features of the World Realm Utility.
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«World Realm Utility»
Enables the Inventory Plus Ultra to create a separate independent world that is governed solely by the user or unless specified by owner or other conditional options.
Unlocking each feature adds more utilization to the Inventory Plus Ultra, with the possibility of even having the ability to store an entire universe, or even wider, on its own.
>Enable World Realm Utility [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>>Enable Life Support [UNLOCKED 2000exp]
>>Enable Vegetation [UNLOCKED 4000exp]
>>Enable Aquarium [LOCKED 1/6000exp]
>>Enable Beasts [LOCKED 1/8000exp]
>>Enable People [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
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Spending 23,999EXP, the World Realm Utility of the Inventory Plus Ultra… could finally support the transfer of the presence of living people in it.
With 29,917EXP left, he unlocked the feature that would allow him to create Mini Realms with a predetermined “Slot Allocation” out of thin air.
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«Split Dimension»
Enables the Inventory Plus Ultra to create dimensional rifts in the firmaments of empty space that can serve as either external separate entrances to the storage space of the Inventory Plus Ultra, or an entire separate dimensional domain on its own that has the same size and functionality and features of the Inventory Plus Ultra from the time of the dimension’s making.
Any earlier created External Time-Space Pockets can be upgraded by the creator using EXP points.
>Enable Split Dimension [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>> 1% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>> 10% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>> 25% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>> 50% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>>> 100% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
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Siva unlocked it until [1% of MAX Slots], meaning, he can now separate or draw a Mini Realm with a 1% Slot Allocation of his current [MAX Slots].
Siva currently has 30+ million slots, meaning, if he creates a Mini Realm from thin air, then that Mini Realm will contain at least 300,000slots within it.
The good thing about this is that he didn’t have to pay the price of 10,000slots each time he tried to create a Mini Realm from his own Inventory.
Lastly, with 9,919EXP remaining, he used them all to add another 60M slots to his total inventory slots, making hos total current inventory slots up to 90M+ Slots.
And so, his current Inventory Plus Ultra looked like this now…
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«Inventory Plus Ultra» (LVL-13)
>> casting range: 85 meters
>> total slots: 99,XXX,XXX slots
Type: Accessory
Rarity: Unique
Weight Units: 5 we
Inventory Slots: 10 slots
Durability: 100/100%
Materials: *Unknown*
Manufacturer: *Unknown*
Item Description:
Blessing from an Ascension Candidate who took the path of Space and Time. Forced by circumstances or given by will, the Immortal had extracted his essence and injected his spirit to create an item unique in both existence and essence across the eons.
Grants:
*Inventory Slots +9,999,600 (Upgradable)
*Weight Limits Expansion (+2000 units to MAXwe)
>Enable Upgrade [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>Enable Time-Space Cabinet [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>Enable World Realm Utility [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>Enable Split Dimension [UNLOCKED 1/9999exp]
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> Enable Upgrade [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>> +10M slots [UNLOCKED 2000exp]
>>> +30M slots [UNLOCKED 4000exp]
>>>> +60M slots [UNLOCKED 1/6000exp]
>>>>> +90M slots [LOCKED 1/8000exp]
>>>>>> +100M slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>>>> +200M slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>>>>> Half-Slots Only [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>>>>>> All is ONE [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>>>>>>> MAX slots x2 [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
|________(upgrade option resets after use) _______|
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«Time-Space Cabinet»
Enables the Inventory Plus Ultra to RESTRICT or ALLOW the local time flow of an item stored within the space of the Inventory Plus Ultra.
>Enable Time-Space Cabinet [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>>Enable Rune Support [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
* Limited to use 5x/day
* Unused “uses” will be stacked if not used (max 50 stacks)
* Opening and Closing cabinets costs 10,000slots
* Closed cabinets are permanently lost and slot points lost will not be recovered
* Owner of the «IPU» is sole controller of cabinets unless cabinet options are specified
* Cabinet’s internal capacity will conform to slot allocation ratio (1cubic meter : 3slots)
* Can only set MAX of 3 rules per Cabinet
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«World Realm Utility»
Enables the Inventory Plus Ultra to create a separate independent world that is governed solely by the user or unless specified by owner or other conditional options.
Unlocking each feature adds more utilization to the Inventory Plus Ultra, with the possibility of even having the ability to store an entire universe, or even wider, on its own.
>Enable World Realm Utility [UNLOCKED 9999exp]
>>Enable Life Support [UNLOCKED 2000exp]
>>Enable Vegetation [UNLOCKED 4000exp]
>>Enable Aquarium [UNLOCKED 1/6000exp]
>>Enable Beasts [UNLOCKED 1/8000exp]
>>Enable People [UNLOCKED 1/9999exp]
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«Split Dimension»
Enables the Inventory Plus Ultra to create dimensional rifts in the firmaments of empty space that can serve as either external separate entrances to the storage space of the Inventory Plus Ultra, or an entire separate dimensional domain on its own that has the same size and functionality and features of the Inventory Plus Ultra from the time of the dimension’s making.
Any earlier created External Time-Space Pockets can be upgraded by the creator using EXP points.
>Enable Split Dimension [UNLOCKED 1/9999exp]
>> 1% of MAX Slots [UNLOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>> 10% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>> 25% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>> 50% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
>>>>>> 100% of MAX Slots [LOCKED 1/9999exp]
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He was now able to blink a total distance of 85m and his IPU can withstand Tier-4 Magic without a hitch or problem of any sort.
Current EXP — 3,919EXP
Current slots — 99,XXX,XXX slots
Current level — LVL-13
Spatial Resistance — Tier-4
The best gain for this upgrade was that he can now use the «Split Dimension» ability. This is a game-changing ability that saves him a lot of slots and also enables him to produce nigh-unlimited number of Mini Realms.
Siva could only wonder: the IPU is an OP item. It was a fraudulent cheat item that almost makes one a [God] if he was able to layer 10 Mini Realms on top of each other, with rules that amplifies effects of spells or abilities.
—and to think this was extracted from Gabriel’s Immortal Essence…
——if Gabriel is given more time, then how much stronger could he become in the future?
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As exciting as the prospect may be for the overall stance of the Terrans, Siva suddenly felt a shiver on his spine when he recalled that Gabriel was antagonistic against him.
—I should bring fruits on my next visit.
He started to plan how to mend the relationship between them.
Siva flushed the distracting thoughts on his mind out of it, and then focused on the task at hand. 20 minutes is a fairly short time and so he’d use this lull to more productive activities.
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Space…
What is the application of a controlled «Space»?
Aside from an independent inventory expansion, it can also be used to preserve perishable goods as the «Time-Space Cabinet» can stop time when applied on an item.
When creating the Mini Realm, the «World Realm Utility» removes the designated “space” from the controlled space of the Inventory Plus Ultra, and makes them an independent “item” categorized as a realm on its own despite its default size being as small as the grain of sand at the least, until the hand-sized ones that Siva chose it to be.
But with the «Split Dimension», although the slot space inside are small, it can be modified using the normal method of handling a Mini Realm.
The biggest charm of it is that it saves Siva the 10,000slots “creation fee” whenever he removes a Mini Realm from his Inventory.
It can be stretched by hand according to uses as it was a “controlled space” and there are no uses on the [Rules Options Slots] when molding its size and general basic shape… unless specified by a certain rule, thus affecting its functionality.
And then, with the “rules” application, it can either be put as an internal part of an already existing item, such as the way he used it to all the Liberty Drones attached with a Mini Realm; or as external component, just like how he uses it to hide in the Mini Realm, like a separate dimension invisible to the senses unless using a Mana Sense —which is also limited as different levels of Mana Sense can be countered by adding multiple layers of Mini Realms to hide in multiple separate dimensions.
While Siva thought of it, he was molding a Mini Realm on his hand like clay, shaping it into many forms; sometimes a ball, sometimes a man, and sometimes, even a four-legged something.
—limitless application of space…
Siva was deep in this thought.
He recalled how Gabriel used it to expand the range of his Mana Sense and although he can’t detect the spaces locked or affected by stronger individuals above his level, at least with this ability, he knew where they are and cannot be ambushed by them.
—detection…
Siva focused his thoughts to this subject. Right now, wasn’t he also looking for a way to counter the deficiency of him being unable to “scan” some important protected targets?
—expanding the scan range?
——increasing the scanning ability…?
———can the Mini Realm act like a spell?
Some high-end Talisman Effects have conditions attached to them before being cast. Such as there first being a fog, or a certain temperature, or that the spell should reach a certain amount of Mana first before being released, and so on…
The [Mini Realms] act like this way.
The “rules” are the conditions and unless those conditions are met, the [Mini Realm] is useful or else it would stop functioning as intended.
As such, Siva thought what to focus it on. Should I focus on range expansion or spatial potency?
Range expansion was easy to follow but potency pertains to “amplification” property of being able to raise the effectiveness of the scan function—
—if it can.
Siva tried to attach a Mini Realm into a Liberty Drone, setting its rules to expanding the range of the Absolute Domain.
Space rippled with an inaudible fluctuation only him, as the owner of IPU, and those at the level of Mohindra, that could somehow feel these invisible waves in the fabric of space, is able to perceive.
The attached Mini Realm followed the maximum range of the Absolute Domain but the thing is…
“Did you do something, Your Excellency?”
“Hm?” Siva was surprised when Mohindra asked him if he did something. “Did you notice that just now? How much did you notice?”
“Everything.” Mohindra said with a straight face. “I can distinctly feel as if your eyes are all over my body and my attempts to hide myself were futile.”
“…”
“I also felt as if I’m vulnerable or something.”
“……cough… cough….”
Siva forced his mind to take it NOT on that certain direction. Mohindra was pretty, yes, but she was a mother and also a respected Clan Leader.
Siva is not evil enough to bathe her with his gaze.
—a few short glances were enough.
——wait…————
That wasn’t even enough to explain this feeling of knowing and looking at Mohindra in full. He knew that there was something else that changed when he attached a dedicated Mini Realm solely meant for expanding —no, rather, solely meant for the Absolute Domain to maintain a spherical dome of real-time detection— the rules applied to the Mini Realm stated for the Absolute Domain to expand as much as it can and the Mini Realm will follow it as far as it can extend.
Siva couldn’t put this ‘change’ into words until his reliable assistant chimed in.
[Sir, it seems that the Absolute Domain had just breached one of our major hurdles in the past.]
“Hurdle? What hurdles?”
[Before sir, the Absolute Domain can cover the sky easily with the NanoField, but towards the ground, the Absolute Domain’s effects are halved so with this attachment, the Spatial Dome attached to the Absolute Domain extended until the ground whilst our NanoField cannot… in short sir, with the new attachment, we now have a sphere with the Absolute Domain is fully spread without any sort of issues.]
The idea struck Siva like lightning and he looked over at Mohindra.
“Tell me how you feel before you felt that spatial fluctuation I released earlier.”
Mohindra paused, wondering what was up but she followed with the command nonetheless.
“Before, it felt like I was being touched nonstop by a layer of… sticky wind. Even without the flow of wind, it was there like a very gentle breeze but it wasn’t on the annoying amount. Soothing, in fact, and that’s why I thought it was just Mana in your surroundings reacting at your presence or something else. If it was harmful, I would’ve known it but since it doesn’t do harm, I just let it be as it was. Although it wasn’t entirely noticeable by weaker people, it was still a fair bit noticeable the stronger you become. I’ve always known that it was somehow your ability so I ignored it but this latest spatial undulation earlier made me feel it a lot more vividly… as if… as if I was being touched all over my body.”
Siva ignored the last part.
[Meaning, sir, the stronger you are…]
“…the more sensitive you become and the more the NanoField, no matter how tiny its components are, can still become visible through the senses.”
[And thus it failed to meet our expectations of its supposed purpose and performance.]
“Right.”
Siva designed the Absolute Domain to be a 24/7 real-time scanning extension of his senses so that he could be aware with anything that’s happening within its field of territory.
If the stronger enemies could detect it before it could even do its purpose, then it would’ve been a useless mechanical ability altogether.
Siva then remembered that back then, Sandra was able to detect the Absolute Domain and thereby track him down and send an Earth Spike, almost killing him on the spot.
He could recall that Sandra spoke as if someone was spying on her and that she felt it coming on Siva’s general direction. Oh how could she have been so accurate back then?
Although Sandra was just a priestess and Hossain was a Cardinal, the difference in their ranks didn’t mean the difference of their strength. In fact, if Siva had to grade it, Cardinal Hossain’s rampage wasn’t that much different from the strength that Sandra had shown when they fought.
Intrinsically, the Absolute Domain was effective to enemies at the level of stats at the 800. Beyond that threshold, they’d began to take notice of the Absolute Domain and so immediately learn that he was spying on them, killing its supposed secretive purpose for having a dedicated NanoField.
Siva even presumed, even with their upgraded version of the Liberty Drone, the same would still be the same since, after all, the Mana Receptacle only provided Cortana with an ability to scan Mana but it didn’t lessen its existence. In fact, he even thinks that the Mana Receptacle only made it even more obvious.
Perhaps that’s why Mohindra was able to sense it so accurately right now…. and even so vividly as well with her explanation.
Although this was major step towards the goal he had in mind, he knew he was close but far at the same time.
—perhaps it has something to do with layers?
——adding layers of Mini Realms with specific rules to bot offset its deficiency and emphasize more all of its advantages…?
Because one Mini Realm only had three rules, the first layer emphasized “rules” about the expansion of the Absolute Domain, but it didn’t help anything about it being undetectable while still serving its purpose.
“Eureka…!””
A lightbulb lit up on his mind and he immediately took out another Mini Realm added a few rules to it that pertains to [ignoring physical barrier] and only focusing on making the Absolute Domain do its job and nothing else.
Unsatisfied, Siva added five more supporting Mini Realms to the first product, making it a six-layered accessory to the Improved Absolute Domain.
When he released the final product, Siva felt the same fluctuation in the fabrics of space and as he looked over at Mohindra, he saw her not flinching at all in the least.
“Can you feel still it?” he asked Mohindra.
“Did you do something?” she said in full curiosity.
Hearing this reply made Siva excited.
Meaning, the prototype was a success.
“Hahahaha!!”
When he suddenly laughed, every Vajra around him were surprised.
“Your Excellency?”
“Ah, I’m sorry. I’m just happy. Although using four Mini Realms are such a waste but the final form of the product is satisfactory to my standards.”
As he spoke, he looked around him.
Contrary to everyone present, Siva, looking at the Absolute Domain in a full spherical form with a 20km wide spherical map of the area around him indicating that the Absolute Domain ignored physical obstacles that it previously had problems dealing with, and is now can perfectly be said to be a true domain, he couldn’t help but think of the possibilities of its uses in the future. it made him really excited.
“Cortana, how’s the data load?”
[Doubled sir. I am now using 0.15% of my total data-processing capacity to maintain real-time data analysis with our surroundings.]
Siva felt ecstatic. And he laughed out loud again.
“Too bad we can’t test its resilience against heat and cold, but the fact that Mohindra can’t detect a strand of it was good news enough.”
“Me?” Mohindra was surprised when her name was mentioned. After all, Siva was only talking to himself like a crazy dude while he was seated.
No one else could hear Cortana talking.
“I’m sorry. I was taking about the thing you felt just a while earlier. Right now, can you still feel at least a tiny bit of that feeling as if you are being watched on, or something on your senses, or as if your skin is being touched?”
Mohindra paused, closing her eyes. When she opened them, she shook her head at him. “I don’t know what happened but I can’t feel a bit of that former feeling before. So it seems that you have successfully hid its existence. Should this be the time for congratulations?”
Siva coughed. It seems Mohindra didn’t like the feeling of being watched and touched by invisible hands all the time.
“This is for our security.” He said. “Although this is still just in its prototype form and I am reluctant on using a lot of Mini Realm just for a single one of my thousands of Liberty Drones.”
At this thought, he remembered how he used the “designation” technique with the Mechromancer.
But the problem is, using the ‘designation’ method when applying “sub-rules” to the targets, it takes a certain amount of slots from the allocated slots for the “designation function” to work. As such, one Designator Mini Realm needed tens of thousands of slots for that intended purpose.
With the Absolute Domain’s scale and its uses, it was doubtful that it would only need tens of thousands of slots to function properly.
Perhaps, it even needed hundreds of thousands.
—I have more than enough slots, it shouldn’t be a problem at the very least…
As the idea struck him, Siva immediately began to work into perfecting this usage of the Mini Realm, as well as industrializing it by making it efficient by decreasing the Mini Realms used while also not reducing its performance and in fact improving in.
In the end, the “Mechromancer” (or “designation”) method applied to the Improved Liberty Drones is indeed making everything a lot easier.
By assigning a designation, Siva only had to attach a pair of Mini Realm to any Liberty Drone and they will all have the same “protection” to their domains as if they still had six Mini Realms on them.
Since he can now “split dimensions” the numbers of Mini Realms are the least of his concerns. As such, each of his Liberty Drones were allocated at least two Mini Realms and then a network of 10 Mini Realms became the “lord” that designated all the required sub-rules to the Liberty Drones.
In the end, aside from the “improved” Absolute Domain on Siva’s person, the rest of the Liberty Drones now have a complete spherical domain.
“Ah, there’s nothing more satisfying than solving one of my main problems. And so… lastly is…..”
Removing the threat of being exposed while he’s scanning his targets, Siva then put the last option he wanted to attach to the “designated” Liberty Drones on his arsenal.
He put a Mini Realm into the Absolute Domain that allowed him to “teleport anywhere” within the area occupied by the Absolute Domain.
—in short, he made it so that the Central Station works in the boundaries of the Absolute Domain.
Now, Siva can finally teleport anywhere within the Absolute Domain.
“Hyuhyuhyuhyuhyu….” Siva began to chuckle and his shoulders shook in delight seeing it work on the first try. “I’m…”
[Evil, sir. Should I update our Hit-and-Run Tactics with this update to the Central Station?]
“Kuk… Y-Yes, please do so. Cough… cough…”
Before his awkward mood even begins to rot on his chair, Siva heard Mohindra interrupt him.
“Your Excellency, we’re here.”
Siva was slightly surprised. “Hey now, 20minutes flew past like the wind…”
In fact, the shore had long since been on his “domain” but because he was busy and there was no problem, Cortana didn’t inform him.
He could distinctly remember. They were still at least 20minutes away from their destination when he started to experiment on his project.
In the far distance a Walled City just like the ones in the surface boomed on the horizon.
What differed was that the city’s high walls were at least 150 meters high from his scanners.
He frowned, “There seems to be an armed army waiting for our arrival.”
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They have arrived…
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