The Runic Alchemist

Chapter 763: The Seven Channels of Sanctuary Tower 2

To Damian, slight temperature changes barely bothered him anymore with his endurance stats being through the roof.

Without him being present to see the runic circle forming, when civilians activated the runic replica spell device with their own mana, the IDs could not be collected. What if he.. just collected liquid mana from everyone and made environmental mana using replica spell runic devices?

That would exclude him from the basic ground-level procedure of registering an individual in Sanctum’s database. Not just the mundanes—Damian could use the aura extracting spell for all people; both mundane and Pathfinders.

The shelf life of liquid mana was not too long though; the denser the aura, the longer it lasted. But he couldn’t expect mundane people—especially little children and elderly people—to be able to give more than a little aura at a time. Converted into liquid mana, he could expect the worst shelf life of around seven to ten days.

Still, that would give him plenty of time to use this liquid mana and activate a simple, low-mana-required spell to get their IDs. With IDs, he could make their replica with his own mana—or anyone could do that if he made a runic device with a fixed replica spell.

He finally opened his eyes; the thinking was done, now he just had to do the work. Damian turned his mana forge to full power and pulled out tons of Blazur alloy ingots from the spatial storages delivered to him.

Damian could go a step further than the Highsword pillar that extended the light rays’ range to cover an island. He could make their spells far stronger and bigger with more use of liquid mana and lots of metal at hand. A pillar every 30–40 kilometers would be more than enough to cover the whole of Sanctuary land in this seven-channel network web.

Done with those, Damian created 500 receiver runic tools which could access different channels from the seven he had activated already. He made them in five different shapes—first was a simple bracer, then shaped like a smartphone metal rectangle, third was a bracelet or wristwatch-like design. These three were the public models; the last two Damian had made for Sanctum use. One was shaped like a lectern and another like a whole table.

More metal was necessary for the Sanctum official use because he wanted people to actively add things to the database, keeping multiple channels and status windows open at once. The officials working at the waygate entrance would also have to keep multiple screens open to search the Sanctum IDs of people faster.

He made multiple designs of the same spell-containing runic tools because he wanted people’s opinion on which one would be the best design for civilian use.

Damian had made it so that a few of the Sanctum tower receivers he had made were fully unlocked, connected to over five cubes of the tower, open to five channels. Then there were ones for four channels, three, and two.

The most common two were Sanctum’s official announcement channel, which would have nothing more than the important details of Sanctum’s workings that Damian wanted to make public for every civilian’s knowledge, and the common open channel in which all people could do their own thing.

Of course, there would be rules for this open channel—it was not exactly open for all individuals—though he wanted to do that in the future after experimenting more. Damian would allow them to take a look but not write. Damian wanted to open a newspaper-like article issue that would be released on this network. At first, Damian would make a separate department for this too, but in time he would encourage people to make their own public newspapers and entertainment-related readings.

He also had ideas of publishing ads for paid and unpaid Sanctum and common people’s shops he was going to open. Anyone could buy a slot for a few days and could create their own family-friendly ads which the department would then publish for everyone to see.

Those were two channels available to everyone.

Then the higher three-channel version would have the added channel of the entire digital library available at their fingertips.

The four-channel ones Damian wanted to make for academy student use only—along with the three common channels, the added academy-controlled special channel would be included in those.

The five-channel ones Damian wanted for most Sanctum officials. These would have all channels except the academy ones—instead of that, two Sanctum-exclusive channels would be added: database viewing and internal memo-like communication channels.

Those were all six channels. The last, seventh one was a special one.

Damian wanted this one to be an audio-only channel. The audio feature was something very impressive, actually. Unlike smartphones with speakers, this audio recorded by the telephone placed under the tower was just a live-only thing. The sound quality was beyond exceptional because it released sound directly into one’s mind like status system chimes.

Damian wanted to invite the best singers and storytellers or book readers to keep this channel active at all times for people’s entertainment. The sound was clear and loud but not loud enough that people would be unable to focus on others speaking. It was actually not that distracting at all.

Damian planned to use this channel also in another version of the four-channel receiver design as a medium-range product. He could possibly sell it as another three-channel version or a whole separate thing to lower the cost and make it available to as many people as possible.

He could, at times, use it to talk to all of Sanctum’s people and maybe use it as a premium-level advertisement slot in between entertainment shows—but those would be enormously costly, only affordable by big money makers, so as not to make it so frequent and annoying for people listening every day.

He still had five more cubes that could be used as additional channels if he needed more in the future. Damian could also use the seventh audio-only channel as his public shop website. It wouldn’t take orders or anything but would only inform the common people of the things available in the Sanctum’s shop that Damian had a plan of making.

The products he wanted to sell there mostly were, of course, these receivers and his everyday-use potions. He could also include some of his non-violent runic tools in that too. The people from other countries would go nuts over seeing him sell his technology openly, but Damian didn’t care about it much. He wouldn’t sell weapons or anything—just simple things.