Chapter 917: Moving Time_World Keeper

Chapter 917: Moving Time

 On the surface, our lives hadn’t changed much aftering back from the fifteen year ‘absence’. While there were some innovations that were certainly nice, it was nothing on the scale ofpletely revolutionizing how we lived in the Sky Citadel. Though, in all honesty, I was getting somewhat… I couldn’t really say bored of the Citadel.

 Rather, it was that the Citadel had be outdated in terms of both science and magical advancement. This was somewhat alleviated when Gerard began overseeing the enchantments of the Sky Citadel, but in all reality, it was an ancient relic of the past. In the present day, the Sky Citadel served mostly as an icon, and had lost its novel charm.

 Because of this, I called the residents of the Citadel to have an impromptu meeting, sharing my thoughts. I was certain that they would have felt it far more than me. Outside of Gerard, everyone present had spent far more time in the Citadel than myself, with Tsubaki having been there since its inception.

 “Sir, are you suggesting that we get rid of the Sky Citadel?” Gerard asked curiously, seated opposite myself at arge table.

 “Not ‘get rid of’... I just feel like it should be time to do something new. The Citadel can still remain for the purposes where it is useful, but as a living space, I feel like we need a change of scenery.”

 “I don’t know, I kinda like the ce.” Lifre grinned, looking around the room. “It gives off that whole medieval godking vibe.”

 “That’s probably part of the problem.” Dana nodded towards Lifre. “In a medieval era, something like this would certainly be grand. Nowadays… I can see where the boss ising from. So, what do you suggest? We could move into a plot ofnd on Sanctum, and establish that as our new base.”

 It was tempting, but I shook my head. “First, I just want to make sure I’m not cutting ahead here. Dana, would you mind exining what your ‘Sky Chariot’ project is? If it’s something suitable, I’d be more than happy to just wait until you finish it.”

 Dana blinked, before letting out a lightugh. “No, the Sky Chariot isn’t meant to be a living space. It’s something that I’m building to be a warship for us. I’m working on designing an interster warship that will let you channel any of your domains through its weapons, while having enough firepower and shields on its own to go against gods. That will take a while to work on, though, since I’m still in the nning stage.”

 I gave a small nod. I had heard her mention the Sky Chariot with her familiars a few times, but I hadn’t really seen her working on it yet. It wasn’t like I was constantly spying on them. “In that case, does anyone have any suggestions? I’d like something that can be another icon like the Sky Citadel, preferably. Even if we retire the Citadel as our main residence, I want something to serve a simr role. Otherwise, we might as well just live in the Admin Room.”

 “I mean, I wouldn’t be opposed.” Dana grinned. “The Admin Room is like a cheat training room, once you get past the non-euclidean architecture.”

 “It does not serve the purpose needed, though.” Tsubaki said faintly. “If the Sky Citadel no longer suffices, then perhaps we can establish a world in the same style as Sanctum? A world developed by my Keeper within Nowhere for the exclusive use of those under yourmand?”

 While not really a bad idea, I shook my head to refuse it. “That would let me be a symbol to the gods, but mortals don’t have any method of going to Sanctum, or even knowing where it is. That was the whole purpose of establishing the ‘Nowhere’ system.”

 Dana pursed her lips. “One of my familiars is working on getting her own familiar, and it’s a celestial body type. Would that work? It’d be our own, private sr system that we could take anywhere we go.”

 “...I think we’re on the right track, but no. In order for the star’s gravity to not disrupt theary orbits of any other world, we’d need to put it far enough away that the light might not even reach this before we moved somewhere else. Additionally, I’d rather not live on a familiar, just in case it was needed for battle.”

 “In that case, why don’t we just make our own Sanctum!” Lifre eximed in an excited tone. “A has waaay less gravitational influence than a star, and you can just throw it anywhere in a system. A few minutester, it will be visible to anys in that system.”

 “That doesn’t sound bad.” I nodded my head, intrigued at the concept. At the very least, it sounded better than just grabbing a plot ofnd on Sanctum. “The only issue would be how to construct it, I suppose.”

 Back when Sanctum was created, Aurivy had to spend the divinity of several greater gods in order to aplish the effect of making a living world. I wasn’t naive enough to think that I would be able to do that all by myself with just the Keeper bonus.

 However, Tsubaki’s suggestion surprised me. “Simply create the outer shell, and fill the rest in over time. If you let this new world serve as a core of your divinity, it should fill itself in naturally. Either way, it is not as if we will be performing mining activities. So long as the first hundred meters or so of the outer shell is constructed, I doubt we will run into any problems.”

 “So, instead of growing outwards, we grow inwards?” I brought a hand up to caress my chin in thought. “It’s certainly feasible. A-sized residence would also attract more eyes than the Sky Citadel, allowing the faith to be built faster. I’ll just need to be careful to prevent it from copsing in on itself.”

 In the back of my mind, I was already creating a n. I could use the domains of Illusion, Transformation, and Earth as the foundation for the. Aside from the outeryer, everything else is just a connected illusion, barely sustained through a thinly spread divinity to provide stability and gravity. As the divinity increases, the Transformation domain turns the illusion real.

 If I wanted to, I could throw in other domains, and make it a nine-domain project like Sanctum. However, doing something like creating an atmosphere would consume far more divinity that it was probably worth. With that in mind, it was better to let the others find a way to handle that. “Okay, I’ll start preparing the itself.” I said with a nod towards the group. “For the environment on the surface, I’ll leave it to all of you. And for the construction of the house once we get there--”

 “Oi,d, ye haven’t forgotten about me already, have ye?” A gruff voice suddenly spoke up from the side, causing me to look over in surprise, seeing Tubrock with his arms crossed over his chest.

 I couldn’t help but blink at his sudden appearance, about to ask what he meant. However, he beat me to it. “I made yer Sky Citadel, so I’ll be the one to make whatever reces ‘er.”

 “...Alright.” I had to admit that Tubrock was incredibly skilled in this regard. The Sky Citadel itself was hundreds of years ahead of its time when he initially created it. If he was able to pull off a simr standard of workmanship now, I would certainly have noints. Tubrock gave a deep snort, vanishing from the room once he had the agreement he was looking for.

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 “It’s about time that thed was ready to move on.” Tubrock muttered to himself once he got back to his workshop. The Sky Citadel was too old at this point. Most of its enchantments had degraded through the years and had to be reced by Tsubaki and Dana, with the physical structure itself having suffered from the passage of time.

 In fact, Tubrock had been prepared to make Dale a new home more than a century ago, but it was just that the man never seemed interested. Now that he found out that he was looking to retire the Sky Citadel, Tubrock was able to finally work on the project that he had assigned himself long ago.

 He walked over towards one of the disy stands in his workshop, where a small model could be seen. The model seemed to consist of several metal structures, all linked together by a unified base. As he walked towards it, his body began rapidly shrinking, bing norger than a grain of rice as he entered the model.

 With the issue of our lodging taken care of, I turned my attention back to Dana. It had been almost two weeks now since she had received the information for the hypenework. “How has your research gone? Have you made any progress?”

 “Yep!” Dana nodded quickly, looking away from the corner where Tubrock had just stood. “I’ve got the basic n set up, I’m just running some final simtions to determine onest material. While I’ve been waiting, I’ve started leaking the material requirements towards various mining corporations, and they’re working out ns for how to secure those materials on arge scale. Once I have the final ns, I’ll publicize them for everyone.”

 “Even though the mining corporations are getting a head start, it will likely take them a few years before they’re able to reliably supply the materials themselves. Until then, the only way to get them will be to purchase them off the Boundless Caravan.”

 “Why not have gods with mineral-rted domains directly handle the mining, and sell those themselves on the market?” I asked, but Dana shook her head.

 “Currently, the Boundless Caravan is still under the control of the churches of Ryone and Leowynn. In order for a n like what you said to be feasible, people would need to be able to list their wares from anywhere. Right now, the main issue isn’t mining the materials themselves, but how to safely transport a worker from the Boundless Caravan to said materials. For this, they need reliable space convoys with multiple transport vessels and one mand ship’.”

 “More importantly, asteroid mining hasn’t been much of a big deal outside of the game worlds, so the infrastructure just isn’t there. Aside from the asteroids in the primary systems, we have to do deep scans to discover specific materials that we need. That’s why I had to give the miners a head start, so that they couldmission survey ships to go find resource deposits.”

 I couldn’t help but let out a long groan when I heard that exnation. “Just as long as I don’t need to make any auto-renewing materials.” Every time I made such a respawning resource, I was worried that it would crash the economy. Mage Heart and Blood Heart were fine, since they were used to solve such a crash, and are primarily used as power sources or to rece an individual’s energy.

 “It should be fine with what we currently have.” Dana shook her head, smiling. “It’s not that the materials are unavable, just that they are a bit out of reach for the moment. In a worst case scenario, they’ll buy the required material at the cost of divine coins until they can make up for it with their own production.”

 Well, that seemed reasonable. There was no rush to immediately construct the hypenes. Although it would increase the security of ships regrly moving between worlds, those ships themselves were a minority. “Have you finished studying the enchantment I gave you, then?”

 Dana blinked, having to think about that for a moment. “Ah! The one for Fyor? I’ve just about got that taken care of! I was researching it while waiting for my simtions to run. Thankfully, the information you gave me was fairly detailed, so all I had to do was study it and create the device ording to the instructions. I should be able to have that working by tomorrow, and then pass it along to Thelsa.”

 That’s right, I hadn’t seen Thelsa since I asked Ashley to help her ascend. I was confident that there weren’t any issues, I was just curious how her shadow world had developed after gaining her domain. It would be an interesting point of reference when developing my own and Dana’s.

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Chapter 917: Moving Time