In the castle dining chamber, Maximus and his family were having a feast.
Tasting Erica’s cooking, he had to say divine talent is indeed on another level.
It was incomparable to the food cooked by the spirit chef when he was on the ship heading towards the Arcane continent.
There were also the twins Luna and Livia who had divine talent when it came to music.
Eating while listening to music was a heavenly experience.
His children also enjoyed the show and asked if they could learn it too.
Unfortunately, when he scanned their status in the system, their highest talent in other professions is only ranked 3 Rare.
Fortunately, there are many items in the Myriad World Mall that can enhance talent in a certain field, so it’s not a problem.
Everything that can be solved with money is not a problem.
If it can’t be solved with money, then you don’t have enough of it.
After the feast, he flew towards the underground granary.
Looking at the massive granary in front of him, he started setting up the array.
First, he bought Preservation Array from the system.
[Formation Array Aptitude: Uncommon (0/500)
Preservation Array (Tier 3): Initial (1/3,000)]
[+55,500 PP]
[+90 LP = 45,000]
[Formation Array Aptitude: Mythic (0/5,000,000)
Preservation Array (Tier 3): Transcendent (Max)]
“It is indeed easy to master specific knowledge,” Maximus murmured.
He thought of mastering a couple of Tier 3 spells so he could have a quick boost in strength.
With his transcendent mastery of Preservation Array, setting it up was a piece of cake.
After he bought the array of materials, with his powerful spiritual consciousness, he manipulated the materials simultaneously and quickly finished setting up the array in just a few hours.
…
The next day, he summoned Doran to his office.
“I have finished setting up the Preservation Array in the granary. You can start transporting the food there,” Maximus began.
“Alright, Your Majesty. I’ll do it right away,” Doran respectfully said.
After that, they discussed the specifics of the task, including the process of buying the harvested crops and how to sell them.
…
After talking to Doran, he headed to the hidden underground chamber of the castle.
After a night of thinking, he came up with a solution to create a virtual world without it being time-consuming and difficult.
The problem with creating a rune program for a virtual world is that inscribing runes is time-consuming.
Just like when he inscribed the Moonlight Forum previously, it took him two weeks just for a simple function.
He thought of making a device to inscribe an array for himself.
This is not sold in the Myriad System Mall, as inscribing a rune program requires a soul as a driving force and a brand.
Meaning, whoever made the rune program had the highest authority over it.
So, at most, the Myriad System Mall sold a rune program manual, not the actual product.
Alternatively, he could buy a sentient slave to inscribe the rune program.
With him being the master, it would be equivalent to having the highest authority over it.
Unfortunately, buying slaves from the Myriad World Mall risks having the coordinates of Etherium Realm exposed.
His solution was to create artificial intelligence and split a part of his soul to act as a guide and the brand of the rune program, bearing his soul signature.
He first browsed the Myriad World Mall of the interstellar-type dimension and looked for knowledge about creating artificial intelligence.
Then he bought the entire Eldrune Runic Language.
Next, he searched for knowledge about combining runes and souls.
[Mechanics Comprehension: Mythic (0/1,000,000)
Runic Comprehension: Uncommon (0/200)
Creating Artificial Intelligence: Initial (1/100,000)
Combining Runes and Souls: Initial (10,000)
Eldrune Runic Language: Initial (1,000,000)]
After he bought all the necessary items, it was time to allocate points.
Fortunately, he stopped adding points these days, hoping to use them when necessary.
So he had enough life and potential points when needed.
[PP: 224,948
LP: 78,330]
He first upgraded the Runic Comprehension then the rest.
Rune Comprehension… [+22,200 PP]
Artificial intelligence… [+3,000 LP = 1,500,000] 1 LP = 500
Rune and Souls… [+150 LP = 150,000] * 1 LP = 1,000
Eldrune… [+15,000 LP = 15 million] * 1 LP = 1,000
After he finished adding points, he looked at his system.
[Mechanics Comprehension: Mythic (0/1,000,000)
Runic Comprehension: Mythic (0/2,000,000)
Creating Artificial Intelligence: Transcendent (Max)
Combining Runes and Souls: Transcendent (Max)
Eldrune Runic Language: Transcendent (Max)]
Armed with transcendent mastery, he started creating an AI-runic program for himself.
Waving his hand, he began inscribing the AI runic program, translating the interstellar programming language to Eldrune language.
…
Without resting, three days later, he completed the body of the AI runic program.
Looking at the exquisite program that he had created himself, Maximus couldn’t help but marvel at how powerful transcendent mastery is.
He went beyond what was written in the book and added his personal insights and requirements, making the AI runic program highly malleable.
He thought that in the future when he had more knowledge, he could upgrade this AI runic program to become truly sentient, not just driven by his soul.
Now, the only missing thing was a part of his soul.
First, he bought a Tier 3 Soul Splitting spell.
[Soul Splitting Spell: Initial (1/3,000)]𝔬𝐕𝗅xt.𝗇t
[+50 LP = 45,000]
[Tier 3 Soul Splitting Spell: Transcendent (Max)]
With transcendent mastery, he easily split a part of his soul without harming his foundation, and through meditation, it would naturally heal.
Placing a part of his soul into the AI runic program, it started to run and calibrate.
The Aethercore started running and begin emitting a cracking noise.
[Warning! Warning!
Natural Power Supply is not enough…
Switching to the backup power supply…]
The natural mana supplied by the kingdom’s array was not enough to run the calibration of the AI runic program, causing it to consume the top magic crystal that was within it.
Looking at the top magic crystal becoming smaller and smaller, instead of panicking and feeling sad about the loss of money, he was instead excited.
This proved that the AI runic program he had created was revolutionary.
He bought another top magic crystal in case one was not enough, costing another 1 billion GP.
After a few minutes, the AI runic program finished calibrating.
[Initialization… Complete…]
With a part of his soul within the runic program, he could easily control it as if he were controlling his own body.
He then controlled the program to merge with the Aethercore, causing the whole thing to crack again and consume a magic crystal.
After it was done, he could now control and view the entire array set in the kingdom using a part of his soul, which was much more extensive than before.
“Now let’s test the efficiency of inscribing runes,” Maximus murmured to himself.
First, he bought the runic program model for a virtual colosseum.
After all, the AI runic program could not truly think on its own.
The little soul within it was only its driving force to inscribe runes and for Maximus to have better control over it.
After he inputted the program into his consciousness, he passed his soul into the runic program.
[Inscribing…
Estimated time… 198 hours…]
“Excellent,” Maximus nearly clapped his hands in satisfaction with his successful work.
But as he looked at the dwindling top magic crystal, he grew worried again.
At this rate, the inscribing process will consume at least one top magic crystal a day.
Maximus sighed, after all, not everything is perfect.
In the Etherium Realm, top magic crystals were super rare resources, even powerhouses were reluctant to use them.
Yet he had the audacity to use them because he was lazy and didn’t have the time to inscribe rune programs like a normal person.
However, for him, as long as it could be solved with money, it wasn’t really a problem.
Now he just needed to wait for a little over a week for the virtual colosseum to be completed.
As for the moonlight mall he had planned previously, he scrapped it for now.
With only him selling there, it defeated his purpose of circulating money.
He would wait until most of his people learned various professions like mechanics and alchemy.
For now, he would let the Aetheria Pavilion handle all the selling.
…
Three days later, just before the virtual colosseum was completed, his wife Irene went into labor.
[+1 Child, Potential Rank 5 Mythic]
The potential of this new born child lived up to his expectations.
With the Origin Essence, the child reached mythic potential.
“How are you, Irene?” Maximus asked lovingly.
“I’m fine. How should we name this little angel?” Irene asked as she looked at the little girl in her embrace.
“Let’s name her Cyra, meaning the authority of the moon,” Maximus thought of a name and said.
“Little Cyra, say hi to your father,” Irene said softly to the child.
Little Cyra looked curiously at the big man standing in front, blocking her view of the huge, bright thingy in the sky.
Although baby Cyra was just born, she already had her own thoughts.
It was a gift from the world to those born with mythic and above mana compatibility.
“How are you, little Cyra?” Maximus looked at the little one as he gently pinched her cheeks.
“Mm, mm, mm,” Little Cyra looked at the big man trying to swat his hands away.
“Oh? You don’t want Daddy?” Maximus noticed that little Cyra seemed a bit annoyed based on her eye expression.
This somehow shocked him. Although he could understand children being advanced for their age, he was still somewhat shocked that a newborn baby could express her emotions.
“Hm, mm, mm.” Seeing that the big man was still in her view, Little Cyra grunted, hoping to remind him to stay away.
“Alright, I will visit you later,” Maximus said, seeing that the little one was still annoyed.
He gave them both a kiss and allowed them to rest.
Once the big man was gone, little Cyra turned her gaze towards the beautiful object shining in the sky—the moon.