The Runic Alchemist

Chapter 762: The Seven Channels of Sanctuary Tower

With the cubes placed all over the sanctuary land, even covering the islands and border regions, Damian now just had to see how he could make this process more efficient and personalized.

The tower Damian placed above his seventh floor in the Sanctum had a small wooden structure built to cover it. The upper half of the tower was still open, out of the ceiling for maximum ray output, but the lower part—where the telephone and the main control mechanism of the tower relic were—had been situated in a room dedicated purely to network-related things.

First, Damian checked if he could use the status screen after removing the individual status display. But it didn’t work. The status window was the thing it used to broadcast all the added information—without the status, there was no way to see it.

But he didn’t have to keep the whole status. It wouldn’t be an issue if only each individual using mana could watch their own status like this, but Damian didn’t want others to hesitate before activating this in public. For that, he removed all the important things from the tower’s main source output status window, leaving only:

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Name : Damian Sunblade

Affinity : Chaos, Space-time

Mana : 135,695/136,000

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He even removed the level from beside the name, keeping only Affinity and Mana with it. Affinity was not a secret for most people, and each rank had limited mana, so that wasn’t that hard to guess either. The best thing, however, was that with this setup—if he made the network accessible for all people—they wouldn’t have to worry about showing their full status to others.

Now came the main part. After adding a section below the status for the Sanctum announcements, Damian made a third section and stared at the blinking cursor.

To make a system that could check an ID number against a database in seconds, he needed specific calculation ability from the tower, but it did not have that—convenient features like search were not available here. It was a simple mirror-type screen, or a multi-access typing screen. So the work would have to be done manually.

Still, just having a digital list that one could scroll through was far better than papers. Damian decided to take steps to make the manual search easier—like having only limited Sanctum IDs on a page, such as page one having IDs 1–999, page two having 1000–1999, and so on. It could be further divided into blocks based on country, cities, and four distinct parts of the Sanctuary with the Sanctum as the center—further dividing people into Northern Sanctuary, Southern, Western, and Eastern.

If he made the registrations based on location—like whatever city a person registered in determining their block—the database searching would become even easier.

The tower’s newly added status sections had one good feature though: there was a title section for each of them. If the number or text used as the title was entered exactly in some other section of the status, touching the title text would send the user directly to that page. Damian could use this to make a detailed profile for each individual when registering.

It would be just perfect if there was an image feature too, but that was not the case. Only Mindseer had the ability to capture light rays in her body and release them as desired to make a large display. That was an esper ability though, and Damian could not replicate it. He could research it, but that would take quite some time before he could actually get any usable result out of it.

’I can use a replica spell..’

That was an option. He couldn’t store them in the tower’s database, but having a record with these full-body replicas attached to specific Sanctum IDs would actually be quite useful. How to make it work though?

Only specific mana was needed for him to do this for all individuals. He had an aura-enhancing spell, a mana generator.. Technically, he could make liquid mana for mundane people. He had never told that to anyone before though—neither could mundane people use the liquid mana without having controllable mana in their own bodies. But with his runic tools, he could technically get everyone’s replica using their own liquid mana.

Another thing—the replica spell had the section for IDs as well—he could get both things at once: all registered people of the Sanctuary’s full 3D image and their real IDs.

It would be quite a workload though—but not having to spend time on the network had already given him quite some free time before he could officially open the waygates connecting all of the mainland. Damian also needed to install the waygates in Edgeheaven, but he could do that later. Landbreaker was not going to take part in the mana contract peace treaty, so he was in no rush to go there.

Damian entered his runic lab after a thorough understanding of the tower system and its workings. Making the special runic tools to access these seven always-broadcasting networks was easy enough. He also needed to make those signal amplifiers the Highswords had, to extend the tower’s range throughout Sanctuary land and maybe even beyond someday. That too was no big deal.

He needed to find a way to use unique replica spells of others, accessible at all times for him and Sanctum use. The only way to do that was to have individual IDs of everyone at hand—the job of collecting which was too time-consuming for him, which would defeat the purpose of having advanced technology to save workload and time.

IDs of everyone..

How could he get those more efficiently?

Jacob kept hammering at a sword the guy was making, glancing toward Damian once in a while to check if he was still alive. Damian was seated on a chair, spacing out while trying to think of any viable solutions. Even Toph was with them today, resting on a comfy couch made specially for him. The rebellious elephant loved warm and heated places—the runic lab, with the mana forge active, was the hottest room in the whole Sanctum.