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Chapter 492: A Generous God

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“Yes.” she said after a while, “The bigger the form you wanted the spell to take, the more Mana it’ll need when being cast. If the Dragon’s Carcass is from an Elemental Dragon, then it’s all the better, since the final product can take on the Element of the supposed tangible form. To maintain the spell is also not an issue, only the casting requirement of the spell should be the issue. By this, I can use the generally utilized [Talisman of Projection] with a little modification to its Tier. Also, the bigger the Projected Image you wanted to accomplish, the higher the Tier of the Talisman and the more the Mana Requirement of the Spell is needed. If you have an intact Elemental Dragon’s Carcass, then I will have to trouble you with providing it. Also, for the Talismans to cast such a spell, I’ll also have to trouble you with collecting the materials for it. Is it possible, Your Excellency?”

“Good. It’s possible!” Siva was happy to hear this news and he couldn’t help nodding. “Just send me your requirements and I will give them. As for the other specific spells, let me see, firstly, I need an AOE-type Healing Spell, the higher the area of its affect the better. And I also need it to have the shortest Cast Charge and Cooldown periods if possible. If it’s insta-cast and an insta-cooldown, that would be the best. In fact, I need all my spells to be that way. Then, I’d also need a very strong Binding Spell to stop enemies; something that can stop them from moving, if that’s possible. I also need the highest-ranking Telekinesis Spell you’re capable of creating, just like the ones you have. I also need a…”

Siva listed around 30 spells for Gaia and although she looked smart, the things Siva listed for her is just so special that she blinked in surprise three or four times.

Gaia also provided her input into specifying the tiniest of details to the spells Siva wanted and this was also appreciated by Siva in many degrees.

Minutes passed by, the list was made. 30% of them were general spells while the rest were all specialized spells that Gaia was only hearing the concept of for the first time on that single sitting.

40 minutes later—

“…..and finally, give me that Julian’s contact. I will talk to her myself. Also, hasten your preparations for movement but don’t alert anyone. Contact me when you’re ready to move and I will move your entire city or your entire country so that you don’t have to rebuild one again.”

“You can do that?!”

“There shouldn’t be a problem if it’s only a few tens of kilometers. Even a hundred or so wouldn’t be an issue.”

Gaia paused, looking at Siva, then quietly nodded, providing the information before making her exit.

“I shall employ my people as soon as I can. I now bid you adieu, Your Excellency.”

Siva was now alone in the throne room, looking at the five 5m-wide “metallic platforms” Gaia had set up 5 of 6 Mana Gathering Spell Formations she just gave him.

There are five square-shaped formation bases in here and despite Gaia’s attempts to remind Siva of its sensitivity to the tiniest of disruptions to its operations Siva assured her that he can use them without actually ever exposing them into air.

Although these are all her ‘gesture of respect’ to a Trinity God, Siva understood that these demands are excessive.

Thus, Siva gifted her two complete Fire Dragon Carcasses inside two Mini Realms, with an extra five more that should serve as Gaia’s Inventory Expansion —outside of the requirement of creating Siva’s Talismans, making Siva’s stash of Fire Dragon remains down to five and stock of Mini Realms down to 43.

Also, Siva had set up these seven Mini Realms to function in the “special settings” Siva had planned to use his own Mini Realms for his Magic.

When Gaia realized this, her assessment on the uses of the Mini Realms rose at a dramatic rate.

With her sacrifice with his requests, Siva did not feel it a waste giving Gaia the opportunity to be as individually overpowered as him.

The Mini Realm will serve as another weapon in this war and he knew she will utilize them well.

For the last “Mana Stone” she brought with her, Siva bought it at the price of his newly repaired First Generation BMA which she can personally use or give to someone she trusts; a promise to increase all of her base stats to 900 with Electra’s help; and also a [Fire Lord Set], a [Dragonator], 100 Lightning Flash Bombs, 10 Liberty Drones, and a promise to make her a customized Mobile Suit “supporter” from the ones he had looted back in the invasion of Jeremiah.

Each of these items can be found nowhere else in Terroa and if sold in the open market, millions of Zentra or hundreds of thousands of Credits would be the norm for just one of these prizes.

A Mana Stones’ rarity alone is worth this expense.

For the sixth Mana Gathering Spell Formation, he made Gaia set it up around his throne so that if worse comes to worst, this detachable platform will still carry the Mana Gathering Spell Formation even after it went back to the Akhenaton Warship if ever Apus Epirus would be wrecked during the war —although Siva promised to himself that he’d never let that happen— just for safety’s sake.

“Setting up a Spatial Barrier in the Throne Room centering in the Connecting Platform, it’ll prevent the gathered Mana from dissipating and will also make sure that even with intense shaking and an Earth-shattering quake occurs, it will still remain as still as a windless lake. As in a best case scenario, in time, this formation will give this place a special feeling for its visitors.”

Siva wasn’t’ miserly in utilizing three Mini Realms to protect this Mana gathering Spell Formation in the throne room. He set up their rules that even he himself would find it unshakable.

“Next, for the main prize of this transaction…”

Siva didn’t waste time and stored the five Mana Gathering Spell Formation Bases to his Inventory.

Then, the work began…

When looking at his “new” inventory, the ones in the Inventory Plus Ultra, the view was different in a lot of ways than the “List Type” of the Inventory Function of his Player Panel.

With the IPU, it was seen as a top view, panel by panel, one [square] is equals to a square meter of space which requires 3slots in his Inventory.

If there are items which is bigger than one square meter, it will appear as big as its counterparts and occupy more than one [square slot], but a little zoomed out, making the smaller items still appear to be zoomed in. The difference is that there’s no exception at how much “slots” a larger item will cost. And this is the reason why, although the Fire Dragon Carcasses looked like a hand-sized toy in his view when it’s beside the nail-sized item like the Mega-Crate of Glandanium Alloy —which is also zoomed out, it was still a fact that they were indeed huge ‘items’ and they costs thousands of slots when being stored.

The Mini Realm —or formally the extracted spatial “item” using World Realm Utility and Time-Space Cabinet on a [square slot] together— looked also the same in its visual aspect, but it had a smaller ‘allocated slot’ number in it and had strict rules that even Siva cannot do a thing about.

Its advantage lay at the fact that it can be carried around like an actual item, hand-sized or smaller, unless it was ‘bound’ to another item —just like how Siva attached a few Mini Realms to Liberty Drones to serve as his personal mobile Arc Gates.

With all these taken into consideration, Siva then selected empty squares from the side and set up the [rules] for the Mini Realm.

Basically, the rules were simple. With an allocated space of 1,000slots, this Mini Realm will then serve as Siva’s personal Mana Pool… and its first task is to safely keep intact the Mana Units, then keep the five square platforms into a cube shape with one side open, and finally, unless prompted by a planned [Spell Formation Mini Realm], will be a part of an entire array of Mini Realms.

The [Spell Formation Mini Realms] are also small Mini Realms that will house the Spell Formations, with their “output effects” expectedly cast outside of the Mini Realms themselves, thus achieving the result of being able to cast spells using the Mini Realms, with their effects dictated by the [Rules].

One Mana Gathering Formation generates 3MP every ten seconds, different from the percentage regeneration that the INT/WIS applied.

That’s 18MP per minute, 1,080MP an hour, and 25,920 every day. Siva had five Mana Gathering Formations so that’s 129,600MP per day. This is the reason why Gaia thought that Siva was really a monster if he ever comes into the battlefield with an abundant supply of Mana like this.

Siva planned to become a Universal Farcaster, the kind that can both attack with High-Tier Spells and also heal and provide support to allies at the same time…. and of course, the kind that doesn’t think about Mana consumption. It was cheating to those who trained and studied all their lives just to be as strong a Mage as they can but Siva didn’t care of dignity or shame in that aspect. He can even smile at them and wave his hand in greetings.

Extravagant? Reckless? Unfair?

Absolutely.

Who could actually bring a Mana Gathering Spell Formation into the battlefield? Only Siva.

With the Mini Realm in his arsenal, an array of High-Tier Spell Formations, and an abundant supply of Mana, just who could actually contend against him?

—rather, what Mortal can contend against him?

Gaia also understood that with the level of the enemies they are going to face nine months later, they will need more powerful Spell Casters like Siva and herself on their side.

At best, the current Elven Race can create Tier-9 spells but ‘at best’ these Tier-9 Spells could only hurt Immortal-ranked Pawn Commanders. They can’t kill them in one blasting of a Magic Spell. A physical attack will still be the best killing agent for these demons. But…..

….what about their Captains?

…what about their Supreme Commanders?

Gaia knew that these Demons can [Release] their ultimate might for ten minutes or so in Terroa and with that, they can decimate their cities within just a few minutes if three or four worked together in a tandem. And there are Eight Motherships in this time’s invasion. How many Commanders are there with each Mothership when just one of them was already filled with thousands of Pawn Leaders?

This was a worrying thought.

With the Mini Realm, at least, their chances went a tiny bit higher, but——

—but alas, there are very few she could trust with the secret of the Mini Realms, and even fewer the people that had the capability to maximize the use of these items to their fullest extent.

Siva let her handle that decision. Although he can gift her with a few more Mini Realms, he also had important uses for them and giving her seven of this precious item was already him already being a generous Siva.

Now that he had set up the [Mana Pool] and the future of his path as a Mage, Siva could only wait for Gaia to calculate the items he had to gather so that she could focus on the task of completing his new set of ability —Magic Spells.

Siva couldn’t help feeling excited at the prospect of being able to cast magic once again, albeit it’s not actually casting a spell but instead activating a Spell Formation. The tier of the spell wouldn’t be lower than Tier-5 or 6, at the very least.

After aligning his thoughts back into focus, Siva once again checked his current stats:

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Character Name: «Siva»

Race: «Apollo»

Alignment: «Black Label»

Avatar ID Number: «X874590XX»

«POWER»: 900

«SPEED»: 900

«ENDURANCE»: 900 (+100% END effect)

«DURABILITY»: 900

«CONSTITUTION»: 900

«CHARISMA»: 900

«ENERGY»: 900

«WISDOM»: 900 (temp unable to recover ENE)

«SPIRIT»: 100

Elemental Attribute:

«30% Lightning»

>>Attribute Effect>>

*Lightning-based damage less 50%

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–––EQUIPMENT–––

>>> Neo Back Master Armament

| Neo Master Armament

| Black Master

>>> War God’s Battle Axe (unequipped)

| Mjolnir

| Black Dragon Blade of Triune

| Black Master Armament

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>>> 01) Inventory Plus Ultra

>>> 02) Beast Blood Pendant

>>> 03) Chalice of the Blood Dragon God

>>> 04) Phantom Mask

>>> 05) Orbiter Bracelet

>>> 06) --

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>>> 15) –

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–––ABILITIES–––

>>> 01) Killing Zone

>>> 02) Malevolent Aura

>>> 03) Kamaitachi (PASSIVE)

>>> 04) Hammer Blast

>>> 05) Transcendence (MOD Ability, ACTIVE)

>>> 06) Attention (ACTIVE)

>>> 07) Beast Language (PASSIVE)

>>> 08) --

>>> 09) --

>>> 10) --

–––UNUSED ABILITIES

> Time-Space Cabinet (ACTIVE) [UNLOCKED]

> World Realm Utility (ACTIVE) [UNLOCKED]

> Split Dimension (ACTIVE) [LOCKED]

–––MECHANICAL ABILITIES

*Generator

*Omni Forms

*Absolute Domain

*Orbiter Control

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–––MAGIC-JUNCTION

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–––(Non-System) SKILLS

1) Kamaitachi

2) Neo Black Master Armament [Forms]

3) Martial Arts

4) The 20m Artillery Guns

5) Spear Martial Arts

6) Sword Martial Arts

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20) [Focus]

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–––PNF [LVL-7] TASK PALETTE–––

Current Processes:

1) 12th Dáinsleif: (23%)

2) Dáinsleif Ammunition: 706 (next: 69%)

3) Fire Lord Helmet: 16.39%

4) Fire Lord Armor: 16.39%

5) Fire Lord Gauntlets: 16.39%

6) Fire Lord Vambraces: 16.39%

7) Fire Lord Tasset: 16.39%

8) Fire Lord Shin Guards: 16.39%

9) Fire Lord Battle Boots: 16.39%

10) Fire Lord Spandex: 16.39%

11) Dragonator: 15.89%

12) Lightning Flash Bomb: 266 (next: 23.49%)

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31) PNF (LV8) Synchronization: 19.89%

32) PNF (LV8) Synchronization: 19.89%

33) PNF (LV8) Synchronization: 19.89%

34) PNF (LV8) Synchronization: 19.89%

35) PNF (LV8) Synchronization: 19.89%

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–––QUESTS and MISSIONS

Glorious Zeta

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–––AUXILIARY UNITS DATABASE

>> Maxima: 1

——— (Not Assigned)

>> Tai Long: 1

——— (Not Assigned)

>> BM-Puppets: 30

——— Anazon Mountains: 4

——— Anazon Forest (hunting): 4

——— Asgard (workers): 10

——— Oz Forest (hunting): 12

>> Destroyer: (Not Assigned)

>> Smasher: (Not Assigned)

>> Gunslinger: (Not Assigned)

>> Sword Master: (Not Assigned)

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–––ASGARD ADMINISTRATION

>> Universal Territorial Energy Core (17%)

>> Water Supply Statistics (Congius): 152,917(+)

>> Total Upkeep: 4,274(+) / 5,028(+)

>> Main Imports: Dry Food and Synthetic Supply

>> Main Exports: Military Equipment and Techs

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–––[DOMAIN] MANAGEMENT

>> 20km Defensive Zone (99%)

>> Illusion Barrier (100%)

>> District Divisions

>> Location Chart

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–––CHECK LIST

Mechromancer Project Dragon Revitalization Project (11%) Universal Territorial Energy Core (17%) [AI System] for BM-Puppet “Maxima” Lift the curse Go to Chronos What is the Dead Man’s Chest? What is the Skeleton Key? Find material for Cortana’s Mana Receptor Trample Dakar, HQ-base of The Union Destroy the Bloody Church Push Gaia’s stats to 900 Create Gaia a customized Mobile Suit

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–––INVENTORY [LVL-7]

Items: 61,6XX slots

NanoCube (x18 Billion)

NM-Converter

Dead Man’s Chest

Skeleton Key

Plasma Smoke Screen Grenade (x500M+)

Stun E-Grenade (x300M+)

Anti-Glare Masks (x82)

Nano-Cryo Preserver

Battleship Rewloola “Retrofit Parts” (x23)

BM-Puppet “Maxima” (x1)

SS-Generator (x890)

Dáinsleifs (11pcs)

Dáinsleif Ammunition (x709)

Fire Lord Set (x1)

Dragonator (x1)

Lightning Flash Bombs (x266)

Resource Items: 471,XXX slots

Assorted Monster Resource***

***S-Ranked Monster Resource (3 boxes)

***A-Ranked Monster Resource (6 boxes)

***B-Ranked Monster Resource (10 boxes)

***C-Ranked Monster Resource (18 boxes)

***D-Ranked Monster Resource (26 boxes)

Fire Dragon Carcass (x5 + ¼ of an entire body)

Assorted Extraterrestrial Fire-Elemental Resource (95 boxes)

Captured ‘Mobile Suit’ Units (4,582 Units)

Assrtd Alien Metal Resource (x13 Mega-crates)

Baal Chamber Metal Resource (x1 Mega-crate)

Glandanium Alloy (x2 Mega-crates)

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–––LOG OUT

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Having checked his current (Cortana Customized) Player Panel, Siva felt satisfied and thought of the second last agenda for this session.

“Cortana, create a rendering. Make it look like I am calling as Mitra.”

[No problem sir.]

In the next instant, the Anti-Glare (faceless) Mask that Siva wore shifted and it stuck into his face as it morphed into the face of “Mitra” that Stark had already met before.

His clothes also flickered and changed into a red suit —different from the ones Mitra wore before to emphasize that he was a classy guy.

After this was done, Siva dialed for Stark.

“I’m sorry about the delay. I had to complete some task for Siva.” he said, referring to himself in third person to emphasize his point.

“You know I can’t meet you as Siva so I’m going to meet you as this me. I also want to know the rest of the Intel you have.”

“No, not in the square. Outside the city. Run at least 4km in the forest from the East Gate then I will wait for you there. I can’t go to the city for a good reason.”

When Siva was about to end the call, Stark just then spoke up,

“Hm?”

Stark ended the call but Siva was frozen in place as he stared at the space in front of him.

—a good Intel about him in Dakar?

His heartrate increased dramatically, his breathing became rough and short in between. Any news in Dakar would affect him greatly.

Right now, he had a very bad feeling about it.

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The instructions were simple and after only about ten minutes, [Siva] was already looking at the red shadows of the Atropos Members 300m away.

On his vision, they looked like red neon “figures” that rushed towards his direction as soon as they exited the City Gates 4km away.

In front of him is ‘Tai Long’, of course, playing the role of Mitra in this transaction.

The Nano-Cryo Preserver was already out in the open, no wind could be felt for Siva had [sealed] the space around their 100m, preventing any wind to come while not totally closing it to still allow a space for breathing.

When the Atropos Members came, Siva counted that there was at least 24 of them. Aren’t they too many? He thought but dismissed the idea.

Mitra walked in, stretching a hand, “You came.”

Stark shook his hand and then looked at Siva who was wearing a mask behind him.

“May I speak to him?” Stark asked.

“I’ve already briefed him about you and he said it’s alright. But… you know his temper so expect that he might flip out if your Intel turns out to be of no use.”

Stark nodded.

He stepped forward but didn’t bow, didn’t reach for a handshake, but instead cupped his fist.

When Siva saw this, he narrowed his eyes under his faceless mask. Could he be one of them?

—one of those Underground People?

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Is this person an enemy…?

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