Welt finished the maintenance of the hourglass in each server and found that one of them felt different ' What happened here ? ' They worry that the reset might come much earlier because their warden must've seen this .
' No , it's a little different , the infiltration is not someplace they would go to or as destructive as they would do . Whoever did this was very meticulous in their work and aware of the code my body is made of '
There was only one person who could do this in that location "Did U hack into the files" Yuni deciphered Welt's message and admitted "Yeah I got caught in the moment and accidentally took some degradation . Please don't ban me"
Welt was glad it was Yuni "I wont ban U but what did U do" Yuni showed the rusted crown and Welt observed its properties "You can have the degradation back" Welt read the complex code behind its creation , Yuni wanted to push Welt's gaze from the crowning since she wanted to bring it back home .
But she had to restrain herself because she had accidentally cheated while testing the rusted crown's power ' This kind of tool could be useful when I give back the powers to my avatars ' Welt thought , but knowing that Yuni made something like this , they put the thought away .
"for hacking into the system , I'll be taking some resources , but if you can let me borrow that thing" "Take it , just return it to me when you're done with it" Yuni already guessed Welt's intentions as they took the rusted crown and returned to look for the other files and secretly take away the rust .
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Fazor killed another demon inside a sector as their crown of despair grew ' My body is tired , but I'm too numbed to feel fatigue ' He looked at the meter of his body's limits as he searched for the moving mattress .
Letting the body down caused him to fall asleep as he entered a nightmare with the souls of the demons he killed ' Good , training ' he fought them once again as Yuni uses mind's eye through the crown of Monopoly to witness how much Fazor was abusing the crown of despair's abilities .
' I guess he's fine with being under someone , meanwhile me and my kids could never feel that way , goes to say with how I raised them in four years . ' Yuni wondered if she should also look for the file for Grasil , but thought about the cost and how pointless it actually is .
' It's cruel but not wrong . Narra isn't aware of my circumstances and Grasil technically is fine and so is their home . I'll eventually encounter that , but the problem is how do I get access to Welt's files . The only reason I was able to access them was because I have experience with numerous world systems . '
Yuni got an idea and took out the crowning and checked on her power and access over it ' Now that I think about it , I could use this instead ? But right now , I'm too immersed in my role as a cat beastkin who has nothing but some skills , so I'll have to slowly gain more admin access for these accounts . So the goal to get admin access in Welt's system is to prove that I am capable . '
She started comparing it to how business works ' Start as an intern , prove your worth , get promoted and so when you want to get hired at a higher position in another company , just show them the resume . Yeah , that's the plan , but I also need to have systems in which I have high access to or I can grow one from scratch '
Yuni thinks about how Welt grows stronger by giving rewards , while Balance grew strong because they gave any weak being a fighting chance ' Maybe I'll have to dust off Balance so I can make use of them . They can get promoted if raised carefully , but who the hell took Balance's potential ? '
There was currently no suspect , so Yuni decided that the only way to take back Balance's potential was to understand their nature ' But how the hell would that work ? ' Yuni was very confused since a lot of things needed to be accounted for .
' But from the way they grow , it seems they grow strong from the faith of the weak to have a fighting chance , but that rarely appears now , maybe in a duel ? ' Yuni checked the demon realm and figured that the demons would all get bored with the lack of sufficient entertainment .
' I guess I can give it a try ' Yuni held Balance " Do you need me for something ? " "I do" Yuni learned to draw power out of the challenges and gave that power to balance "How do you feel ?" " What kind of power did you give me ? "
"Try it yourself , I'm going to build a colosseum and you will obviously make every fighter even against each other maybe then you'll be able to grow" " I'm not sure about this method of growth , I usually relied on the faith that the people in my old world gave me "
Yuni flipped through the storybook of that world and showed them a few people's thoughts , which showed the people's terror realizing that the balance was only on their side because they were weak "Your worship would've sunk into an all-time low after you supported me , the weak crowned demon"
" Alright , your argument is clear , I will participate in the colosseum , but won't this affect my power a lot ? " "Don't worry , I'll make all the demons stay aware that you are the balance , meant to ensure that a fight between two parties are even . I'll leave as many reminders on the way to ensure they haven't forgotten"
' Just like those games behind the screen , leaving obvious tips but the demons will be forced to read that line to view the colossus which should be enough to remind them that fact ' Yuni sends Damo the order to build the colossuem and made Caprion work on giving the demons a wage so they could spend it on tickets .
' He really is a good businessman , might have to give him a position in the world system and it looks like there's space for another world system here other than the crowning ' Yuni thinks of ways to create one and one such idea came from growing a world system out of a part of another .
' But how do I "accidentally" snap a branch out of Welt ? ' she thinks about causing a critical error to force Welt to break off a branch the same way the main branch had to do .
' But the error must be great just in case because even Welt was able to integrate the broken branch and grant it to me as a reward ' Yuni thinks of the possibility for that to happen and thinks about the possible mmethods .
' Maybe it is possible ' Yuni devised a plan to cause enough damage on the current system surrounding the broken branch ' The most important error-causing tools are the crowns ' Yuni manifested Monopoly's power and created plenty of hands through the throne .
' Let's first set up the price , shall we , I think I can give my familiars a few crowns , but more importantly , they will need some achievements. I think Damo has plenty for being the only architect working on all these buildings '
Yuni knew eventually Damo would go strong and Limos already had a history of devouring demons and was only starting to diversify their diet ' I'm really looking forward to the development . Let's also give Caprion a crown , he has been helping and I should also buy him that access to the lower floors he has been searching for a way to save the children '
Caprion received the access to accept some children who were taken into this combat-riddled world ' I wonder how he plans to do it , what kind of crown would he get ? Maybe something for a businessman , but he sure is philanthropic . Maybe that will be a crown ? '
While thinking about that she had to ensure that Damo had enough acheivements to account for that .
' The thing about the crowns is that they require a lot of demon essence and Damo still needs to rack up enough achievements to match that . The only reason I got Crown of Fiction was because I already had some abilities to work as a basis and it's a pretty abstract concept , probably something the crowning had a hard time grasping . '
Yuni wondered if Damo would like a crown of his own and thought about Limos , who would likely eat their own crown before she could even let it loose to cause the errors ' But that thing about the crown's catastrophe is pretty terrifying , that it could force the main tree of the demon relam to cut it off '
She had her share of errors , especially with the tower game that she nearly destroyed and transformed into a crazy tower with layers instead of floors ' I really screwed up in my second administrative position . Good thing everyone else was in the control room at that time '
Yuni reenters the crowning system and checks how many crowns it is capable of creating ' So , not a lot at once , but it does seem to be able to do it . It did make like two crowns at the same time ' Yuni checked the system's physical unit , finding that it was working just fine .
' As I've guessed , it was using the broken branch as a physical base , like a computer to a program and it's on cooldown . How much better would it be if I repaired the entire demon realm from the catastrophe the crowns brought in ? '
Yuni recalled that there was space for another system in the broken branch , guessing that the crowning must've adapted just like how a body would reduce metabolism if there is a lack of food .
' It'd be a waste to destroy it again just so that I can snap off a branch out of Welt's system ? But that kind of error is the only way I have right now to develop more world systems to have admin access to . Plus , I can get unlimited peaks on Welt's code when I snap that branch off '
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" And that's the last of it , Thank you for helping me out " Welt told a mindless helper who carried the crown . They sighed , knowing they were just a program , unlike them , who can have self-awareness , as Welt dismissed them and removed any records of their use of the rusted crown to strengthen the memories .
' I'll just leave this to her , I'm sure it's easy to come up with a reason to have this much degradation while having two world systems with her ' Welt thought as they hid this world system's hourglass .
' She'll find this a much more dangerous item , so I doubt she will use it very often . In the first place , it's her fault for "accidentally" cheating ' Yuni checked the rusted crown , which returned to her .
' It's got a lot more degradation in it now ' Yuni recalled how the crowns she had would first force her to bear the burdens associated with it as a way to show that anyone who is overwhelmed by the crown's power would be weakened by it as penalty .
' The price of accidentally cheating it's a force of habit okay ? ' Yuni complained and thinks about the burden and finds out ' So it's still the same , reduction of skill level . I'm not gonna lie , I am getting rusty in some skills and the only way to relive them is through the memory lane sequence , so I'd better up my game to be able to keep this one as a crown ' Yuni puts the crown on and feels her skills being reduced .
Just like a clock tower that hadn't received maintenance for a long time , rust starts to spread and mess with the gears . Yuni could suddenly squeak as she moved her body , even though she was just turning her head .
' This kinda feels like getting old ' Yuni knew that she needed to administer some medicines to heal her body , but Healthy was clearly limiting her options ' Wait , there is that very natural option '
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Later , at a cold spring , Yuni submerged her body as she soaks in the medicinal properties of the world tree's healing spring ' Good for the body and calms the mind , even though that mind part is a placebo effect of people not worrying about the future '
She still couldn't help but relax too ' It's so great to heal a little and not be bothered ' " MOOOOOMMM " Naul slammed the door open as Yuni threw a small tub at him "Why are you here while I'm relaxing ?"
" This is important , how the hell did you keep so many errors plaguing the world tree's roots ? " "Errors ?" " My god , you are not just blind physically but mentally " Yuni changed her clothes and asked "What error did you find ?"
" I was fine-tuning this world tree system and found that it had a few glitches here and there . The very important thing is a feature with a completely different nature in its main system , but somehow integrated really well "
Naul showed Yuni the problem and she understood it immediately ' Oh I know the origin of this error ' "This might be a remnant of that transcendant I killed . I'm pretty sure the fragments of their power leaked out and integrated just a little bit into it"
" Can you give me Limos so I can integrate the power they took ? I can't waste resources training elves , their long lifespan has made them extremely lax in learning " Yuni thinks about Limos , who hasn't done much .
"Sure , you can have him , but while you're at it , try to figure out how you can make their ability to turn loot into stat stones into something that can work like that processing unit that Ekins use for their world"
" Oh I think I can try that " Naul said as he thought about all the resources he could get while Yuni summoned Limos , who was surprised by the change of scenario and was told by Yuni to listen to Naul .
"Be gentle with them , you're not allowed to traumatize them" " I'll try " Limos looked up at Naul , who had a dangerous smile as Naul took them with him while they worry about it with the doubting thoughts that their master wouldn't send them to certain death or somehwere horrible , Right ?
' I'm sure he'll listen , even though he's like a factory that treats any Labor workers as machines , he knows the importance of morale ' Yuni turned her attention away from her child and relaxed on the spring .
' Ahh , how relaxing , it's fascinating how my clothes don't get wet ' Yuni switched out her clothes for the robes she was given ' It's like winter under a fluffy blanket '
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Yuni returned to work feeling her body full of energy and miraculously no longer stiff as she wore the rusted crown ' By I do feel like this crown is rusting my old skills , it's targeting the really rusty ones , so I can expect a raise in difficulty in the dream sequences . Although I haven't gotten anything remotely outside the memory lane dream sequences yet but it looks like Fazor has been fighting demons in his sleep '
She wanted to have a different experience now that the memory lane dream sequence was starting to feel more repetitive and dull . Yuni hears the words that some of the admins tell her "Too much exposure to stimulation can cause certain symptoms to come out like addiction"
' If I'm addicted , then you can say that a worker who doesn't complain is also addicted to work . At least I'm enjoying this in a not-so-self-destructive manner ' Yuni said ' Now I'm just inhaling copium , but there should be some ways to mess with Delrium , it seems such a really good game mechanic '
Yuni wondered if this challenge mechanic that Welt has was from another world system that they integrated onto their own and imagined what kind of world would desire challenges ' Seems to be my kind of game , but if I'm having so many of these challenges , what do I even look like ? '
Yuni had already taken note of all her challenges , but she has Blind which she has no intention of breaking and receiving the penalty for just to take a peek on what she looks like with all the colours rather than the blank dull world ' I'm sure Rein is appreciating that art '
Meanwhile , Rein was already in another server ' I need to backtrack how the hell I got here ' Rein thinks through all the things she went through as she recalled . After setting the record of the chimera stitchers she opened a shop to invite any curious player who wished to get some aprts and had a long line of customers .
One such customer took one look at her artwork and demanded where she got the origin " It's from this book " was the start of the conversation and all she remembered was that they said something about having all the tattoos , which were symbols of some kind of trial , a great warrior who walked a path of pain and continued adversity .
' What the hell am I supposed to be doing here ? ' Rein looked at the tribe full of people painting their bodies in different ways to exhibit their trials and achievements .
' Oh , that's right, I came here because their design and aesthetics were very good . I should study that , but they also have some kind of system in which painting a tattoo would induce a kind of trial . '
Rein could already sense a strange system in this world ' It's full of masochistic barbarians , which made this system that creates trials ' Rein didn't like the way of life that caused the system to act like this , but she couldn't help but enjoy the culture that is outside fighting .
' The tattoos are nice and they also have different types of ink that can stain any type of covering , whether it be fur or scales . But it looks like they don't have any for feathers , Maybe I should make some . My ideal design would be for each feather to have a symbolic meaning , but that is too difficult might only work as a souvenir or momento for a bird's significant event but these tattoos are supposed to be worn '
While Rein was thinking about the design , the chief of that customer's tribe had already finished the story ' Huh ' " So can you lead us to these walker of many treacherous paths ? " Rein was confused for a moment .
Her silence was mistaken as being upset with how they asked her for something " Oh forgive me I forgot to offer you the compensation . Leading us to this walker will certainly be costly , you will have our support and the many tribes will also help you "
" Does this support include learning your craft ? " " Yes , it will be an honor for our craft to be taught to a person like you who can lead us to this walker " Rein didn't understand the lore behind it and wished Ceil was around .
Meanwhile , Ceil was holding a book , learning about what her siblings were experiencing ' It's a good thing I learned how to replicate Fame's ability ' In each of her siblings was a recorder that she was using so that she could read and understand the lore of the worlds they were going to visit .
' I'd better bring this kind of code back , but it shouldn't be too hard . I won't forget the code for something as valuable , I could make a physical copy instead but Mom said I need to make some cover over it '
Ceil already figured out what the cover was going to be ' I heard from propaganda strategies that if you change the story , you will be able to conceal its true contents or the inspiration it drew from '
She was looking forward to it , but the content she could learn reading how Rein somehow managed to get to another world and started reading while summarising the story in her head .
One day , a strange customer looked at a painting that Rein had created . It was a painting of Yuni , the challenger who had the most amount of challenges that the customer had ever seen and suspects her to be a candidate walker of many treacherous paths .
Upon confirming the origin of the inspiration , the customer read it and understood that this wasn't a candidate anymore it was a real walker of treacherous paths who can continue the legacy of the previous walker .
To Rein , she was completely unaware of what was going on and merely immersed herself in the tattos and their clothings , their culture completely ignroing things involving the trials and the paths .
' Rein sure doesn't care I'm pretty sure that she will have to get to find Yuni , Naul is already there and I'm sure she can decipher the engravings that mom used or she could use the one Naul made '
Ceil takes a look at Zaun's adventure to find him rushing to the boss of the server already ' He's probably gonna reach the highest server the fastest but we should be careful . This world is pretty big '
Ceil sends Zaun a private message as he slaid the final dungeon and collects the reward "Zaun try not to go up so quickly" "I'm just good at the game that it looks like I'm speedrunning this , so got anything about this system ?"
"None really that Lore guild I established had a lot of progress and even the stories I've collected have a lot of gaps and fillings those gaps just shows more . It seems like each of these worlds is very connected , so it's difficult to find any world that's at the edge of this massive system"
"Try looking at the code , I learned that this world rewards anyone with a good reward depending on what kind of danger you've gotten yourself into and how you handled it . It's a bit like Naul's worshipper's world"
"Ekins , don't waste your characters , this private messaging channel we made is pretty weak you know . It took a lot of Naul's resources to make a physical base for it" "I know , but you're also wasting characters for saying that"
"I'm not , I'm using another language , so don't head straight into something that can look like the final boss of many worlds alright" "Then I'll be fine , it's not like it's everyday that I get to fight a final boss like that"
Ceil sighed and looked back at the text that was related to the people that Rein had encountered ' So , because of their heavy belief in trials and paths of pain , they technically artificially changed the system to the point it looked like an admin had changed it '
Ceil takes note of this phenomenon, wondering what other such things influence it .
Meanwhile , Yuni had made a lot of progress with time ' Maybe I shouldn't have given it access to my mind ' After making some extremely hasty developments within the demon realm , the crowning system based itself on some major updates and changes have appeared on the crowning .
' It's clearly taken root from portions of Welt's system ' Yuni reads the code , finding out that the crowning has already grown much more in 10 days ' What's big about this is the fact that it has become much more stable now and there is a shop of crowns '
Inside the shops were plenty of crowns , which were all greyed out ' It seems like the purchasing unit is considered the achievement and power related to it . This crown is basically an equipment the system made or in other words , the system's product . And the factory that makes it is the world that is putting power into them through acts that allowed the crowning to manifest it into power '
Yuni reads the description of one of the crowns , which details its acquisition process ' It's a bit strange that some concepts like battle , are already here before things like the crown of elements came in . But that's likely the cause of the demon realm's colossuem '
While reviewing the changes again , she receives a text from Caprion "He's got one already ?" "Yes , but he is requesting more support because now they knew it was them because they disappeared from the farm" Caprion said and Yuni thinks of ways to do so without revealing her hand .
' First off , the demon realm here has a recorder on which could be bad if my not-so-character-level account showed any cheating activity , I'm already lucky that Welt erased that instance of cheating , so if I cheat again , I doubt they'd help me ' Yuni thinks of ways to help Fazor and thinks of one possible one .
' No , this could be an opportunity to test the crown ' Yuni puts on the crown of Monopoly and thinks of her intentions ' First let's relocate the facilities ' Yuni smiled as the facilities that the demons have created suddenly vanished at her order and left only one singular top demon to keep theirs .
"Tell Fazor to leave a scapegoat of himself in that location"
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