The Runic Alchemist

Chapter 764: Sanctum ID & Re-designing Sanctum Building

The next day, Damian sent a full report of what the Sanctum registering process was to the House of Lords and all six heads of the Sanctum, along with information on the tower and the seven channels. It was just an information-giving thing—he had already assigned Evrin and all the attendants and spare knights they had to the job of registering the people of Sanctuary. He also gave some sample receiver tools to selected Sanctum officials, the army, and even the civilians.

The work of adding all the books they had into the library database had already started. Damian had already begun inviting good singers through notice boards to sing for them one of these days. He had also formed a separate department of the Sanctum newspaper that would collect all the confirmed news from the city and their own Sanctum to write entertaining yet knowledgeable articles. It was both a trial to find suitable people and a working system for making these articles.

Damian knew not everyone would understand it, but in time they would pick up a few things. For now, Damian had just made the mana-activated receivers; to make them usable for mundane people, he also wanted to have liquid mana–fueled small buttoned receivers. He wouldn’t make so many things on his own though—he could outsource the work. He would have to see how to automate the runic inscription process too.

Creating some seventy big capsule-like standing runic machines that pulled a person’s aura and stored the liquid mana in mini spatial storages with numbers etched on them only took a few hours. He had made over 100,000 mini spatial storages that only had enough space to fit a glass of water. Making the small pieces was easy, and creating thousands of runic circles with his sigil replication spell and his own high INT focus was also just a good practice, if anything else.

The registration process had started in all major cities all over the land of Sanctuary. Damian had put all people who could read and write to the job, including nobles, army soldiers, civilians, and even the many attendants of the Sanctum. This was a high-priority job, and Damian wanted to be done with it in a few days.

His people were collecting the name, address, and little info on people like their rank, race, origin, and anything of worth. Each person took two to three minutes to answer all these questions. The people working for Sanctum simply wrote all this info on papers, giving the citizens a distinct Sanctum ID in return. These IDs were different from a person’s own personal true unique ID, which Damian would extract from their collected liquid mana later.

A few trusted Sanctum officials and knights operated a large table- or lectern-shaped multi-windowed receiver, using the received stack of papers to enter the details into the database directly, creating a separate section in the database using the Sanctum ID as the title. Once ready, there would be a giant list in one page of the Sanctum database with only name, country-city, and Sanctum IDs.

With name and Sanctum ID, finding details of people would be easy.

There might be mistakes, Damian knew, in entering these details, but he, Evrin, and other officials had already gone over a long session brainstorming how to make the process more efficient. People didn’t have any idea why and for what reason they were doing all this, but once Damian said he wanted it done, they just started thinking how to do it without asking too many questions.

First of all came the country indicator. Damian wanted to have a separate list someday for people who lived outside Sanctuary land and were just here traveling or selling as merchants. But even with that, Damian added country indicators as the first letters of the Sanctum ID. They were SCTRY, ELDR, FRNA, DREMP, with MALVR added for the future demon kingdom.

Then, in the Sanctum ID, came the city or place name where the registration of the individual had taken place. Each city had its own four letters, like SNCT, etc. Damian wanted to register foreigners at his border once they arrived at Sanctuary’s border; for that, he assigned FRBR1 – FRBR17, dividing his Sanctuary region into seventeen parts—though only a few of these he actually intended to use for now. In future, he might have to add more waygates, so it was just precaution.

Then the Sanctum ID was followed by a person’s race letters—HM, BM, EL, SB, etc.—not that they had any elves or demons, but they could. Then came the numbers. They were simple enough, starting from the first ID registration getting 1, then 2, etc. Damian had planned to add the zeros before the numbers once they were all done to make it a uniform number.

As a formality, Damian made the six heads be the first registered IDs of six different cities. It was just something random that came to his mind. He regretted not selecting the seventh head from the mundanes yet, or it would be a uniform seven. Still, Damian kept one city’s first place empty to assign it to whoever would get selected.

Each city had its own count, and the border waygates would also have their own series of numbers. This much should be enough to separate people enough to have a unique ID that could be easily found by his officials.

While the registration days were going on with the full manpower of the Sanctum land, Damian had shifted his focus somewhere else. He wasn’t needed for the registration process. He would have to add unique personal IDs to the list using the collected liquid mana, but that he could do later. Right now, when all the people of the Sanctum building were out, he had a chance to give the Sanctum building an update.

Damian had gained enough Blazur alloy in a couple of days with his factories and half the army continuously getting more and more mecha lizards for him, that he could finally start the big-scale projects. He had added forty more factories and hired blacksmiths from all over the Sanctum land, not just the capital city. The production had skyrocketed.

The budget was going haywire; Evrin complained to him every time they had lunch or dinner together. The public dungeon entry for a fee and his Sanctum shop must be opened soon to get his Sanctum’s account into the green again.

The quiet knight design of the Sanctum was perfect—Damian did not want to mess with it—but still, he wanted to use the Blazur metal fully for the building. Damian started from the basement and, little by little, without throwing any part of the building off balance, he replaced the wooden walls with light blue alloy. Putting runic inscriptions was much easier this way.

Damian added air-conditioning to every part of the building, even in the hallways. Lights were given; he added the on-off button separately for each section. Instead of orbs of light, Damian designed the runic spell in such a way to make it appear as strips of white light in the corner of all ceilings, creating the effect of having LED strips. He also added bigger light options for the rooms.

Damian also added multiple lifts from four directions of the Sanctum building and also made four large gates instead of just one. He also made some more detailed and requested changes, and many more still needed to be added afterwards. The biggest addition was having washrooms—two on each floor—with cold and warm water. Even places to take quick showers, though Damian hoped people wouldn’t use them much. But they might be needed, so Damian added them in every washroom area, separate for both men and women.

The most changes he had to do were in the personal office rooms of the six heads of Sanctum. Those were too greedy and spared nothing in requests. They all wanted personal washrooms, air-conditioning, separate private rooms with beds, and whatnot.

Damian had only made seven floors in the wooden building because he was not sure of the wood’s strength that much. With metal, Damian slightly changed the Sanctum’s knight-shaped building to have more support and even a bigger and wider shape—more in height than width though—so much that from the previous seven floors, now their Sanctum had fifteen.

He had kept it a secret from the other six heads, but he was always going to make a separate floor just for them. Damian still kept the seventh floor; the eighth floor he kept empty and decided to give from the ninth to the fourteenth floor to the six heads excluding him. Damian doubted Lucian and some others might require such large private space, but their titles deserved it. It was up to them if they wanted to give their place for Sanctum use. Damian had made enough space to have all departments work freely and easily, so space was not an issue at all.

The fifteenth floor was more like a terrace with small square workplaces. The biggest of these was for the tower and the live audio channel thing. Another was a library, where Damian wanted to have as many people as he possibly could hire to convert all non-magic books into digital ones for the library channel. One was like a high-tech prison where Damian had put Asher’s sphere of energy in which the guy was floating. The prison was more to protect others from Asher in case he released some energy wave or something after being released—it wasn’t for Asher himself.

Once Damian was done reconstructing the whole of Sanctum, he started re-designing the whole Sanctum region that was reserved in the middle of the Sanctuary city. The two kilometers in all four directions were only grass and a little stone wall till now, with the stone keep in the middle. Damian wanted to finally give it a look deserving of an authority space.