Volume 14 Chapter 1, Improvement of the Divine Engraving Machine

Kousuke conquered the six surrounding towers, but now he was lazing around.

Even though he was lazing around, he still spent some time developing his tools.
The surrounding towers, except for the northwest tower, had been left to the members, and basically Kousuke had no intention of interfering.

As for the northwest tower, Kousuke intentionally left it unmanaged.

This was another way of verification.

They are trying to see what would happen if a captured tower was left unattended for a long time.

He was not sure if there was any point in this kind of verification, but he decided to give it a try anyway, because he doesn’t know what would happen if he doesn’t try.

He expected that it would be the same as before, but there might be some changes now that an administrator has been established.

For now, they decided to manage the northwest tower in the long run.

Kousuke, on the other hand, left the management of the Amamiya tower to someone else… He has only been working on divine tools.

He didn’t develop any new tool, though.

He was making an improved version of the divine engraving machine.

Crown has been asking for more imprinting machines for some time.

The number of adventurers coming to Crown has not decreased, and the supply was completely outstripping the demand.

The main reason for this was that there was only one divine engraving machine, so no matter how many people they employed, it did not help.

Therefore, Kousuke was asked to increase the production of the divine engraving machine.

Kousuke had no objection to increasing the number of divine power imprinting machines because he knew that he needed to do so eventually.

However, the main problem in all of this, was the way the devices could be used.

In the first place, the divine engraving machine relies on divine power as its power source.

This was a major issue, because there was a shortage of people who can properly handle divine power.

The only reason why the current divine engraving machine was functioning was due to Wahid and six others, replenishing the crystal with divine power every day.

Even if they increase the current number of the device to the same number of people, they won’t be able to keep up with the replenishment of the devices.

On the other hand, they could not easily prepare people who were capable of handling divine power.

Divine power was strongly related to the state of one’s soul, it cannot be mastered and used carelessly.

That was why he has been working on developing a divine engraving machine that doesn’t rely on divine power alone.

Right now, the only way he could use the current device was to use divine power, which was part of his status that also relates to his authority. Currently, he was researching the possibility of replacing parts of the device to make it function with either magic or holy power.

…Mainly to be used by Isnani.

When Kousuke was still in the middle of conquering the six towers, Isnani was completely in charge of directing everything, which was definitely stressing her out.

However, Isnani was happy in assisting him with the development of tools and devices.

As for the status display on the divine tool, it was not something she could check on her own without Kousuke’s help, so she was working on it slowly.

However, ‘slowly’ was only according to Kousuke’s point of view. It was different to Isnani, who was watching from the side, and was completely stunned.

Currently, Kousuke was tearing apart the mechanism while checking the status of every part.

To put it simply, it was like watching someone’s work taken apart And then, without testing it, he rewired the device, while mentioning the different parts he found out to be unnecessary.

For some people, it was an action that could have turned them pale.

It looks like a rough modification if witnessed from the side, but after a break, Kousuke muttered that he was ready to test it, and when he started it up, he was able to successfully get it running.

Afterwards, Isnani asked Kousuke what he changed, and he replied that he simply removed some unnecessary parts and functions.

When Isnani heard Kousuke’s reply, Kousuke thought his explanation was probably not clear, so he continued explaining with more details.

“In the first place, the status-reading mechanism is a replica of my ability which uses God’s left eye, however it also reads information other than statuses. That’s why it was necessary to remove the extra parts unrelated to reading statuses.”

“…What other information was it reading, for example?”

“Well… for an example, emotions were also included”

“…..eh!?”

“When I use my left eye, my brain can’t process that kind of extra information, so it cuts it out on its own, but the divine power engraving machine could read and process all kinds of information.”

“You think it’s also using its divine power to do that?”

“Yeah, it does”

Kousuke’s explanation was met with a nod of approval from Isnani.

“…Huh? But if you can finish making such modifications in such a short span of time, why didn’t you do so earlier?”

“That’s easy. One is because I have only recently come to understand more about how this power works, after I became a living god. The other is because Isnani was able to develop a converter for me.”

Perhaps the thing that made him realize that he had become a living god was that he was able to understand the mechanism of his God’s left eye.

However, it was only after Kousuke fully accepted that he had become a living god that he was able to understand it. In a way, it could be due to Kousuke’s authority working smoothly for the first time.

In addition, the converter was a device that can convert magic power and holy power into divine power.

Of course, it was made based on the mechanism of the three crystals in the tower.

“Currently, even if we created a mechanism to reduce the consumption of divine power, it wouldn’t make much difference in terms of the burden on Wahid and the others. But thanks to the converter, we can now utilize divine power even without their help.”

Even if one looks at the conversion efficiency of the tower, the conversion from magic power and holy power to divine power was not very efficient.

Furthermore, no matter how much they made it based on the mechanism of the tower, they haven’t been able to achieve the same conversion efficiency.

Nevertheless, the ability to operate the divine engraving machine without the involvement of Wahid’s group was a great advantage, so they insisted on reducing the consumption of divine power to the limit.

As a result, the development of alternatives for the parts that do not involve checking statuses were drastically altered, only leaving behind the parts mostly working on the reading of one’s status.

He was able to get it down to a practical level, thanks to their efforts.

Now they just needed to make sure that the system would not run out of control and would work properly.

Kousuke and Isnani quickly got to work and continued on the development.

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“So, this is the new divine engraving machine?”

Kousuke and Isnani visited the Crown headquarters with the newly created divine engraving machine.

The main members of the Crown and Alec were there.

In front of them was a new divine engraving machine, about the same size as the old one.

Its appearance did not change.

However, its contents have drastically changed.

“That’s right. In a nutshell, the greatest change is that you no longer need to replenish it with divine power anymore, which we would need to do every night.”

“That is, how…”

It was Gazeran who said this, but the rest of the gathered members had the same expression on their faces.

“Instead, you need to replenish it with magic or holy power, though. To keep it powered, you can replenish after work. I also think that it will be replenished quickly”

“Specifically, how long would it take?”

“If you emptied its fuel, you would need about the entire magic power of one top-class wizard.”

Gazeran groaned at the answer.

It was indeed a large amount, but not an amount that could not be supplied.

“…I see. So, how does it work?”

“It’s exactly the same as the previous divine engraving machine. There’s no difference in how to operate it”

[As an administrator doing actual work, he was very happy with these changes.]

[In any case, they won’t be needing any extra training to use it.]

[In this regard, the development made by Isnani was very useful.]

“For now, I’ve made two of them, so I’ll let you use this one for actual operation, is that alright?”

“Oh? And how will we deal with the other original divine engraving machine?”

“Take it back and dispose of it!”

It was Kousuke who made that strong declaration.

In Kousuke’s opinion, the old divine engraving machine, which relied solely on divine power, was a defective product.

Since it was a universal tool, Kousuke’s ideal was that anyone should be able to use it.

Naturally, it could not exactly be replicated for political reasons.

They all laughed at Kousuke’s declaration, but no one opposed him.

It was true that the old divine engraving machine, which ran on divine power, was useless for general use.

“Well, that’s fine, but please don’t just take it back out of the blue. For now, please introduce one new model, and if there are no problems, then we will replace the old model with the other new one.”

“Yeah, yeah. I’ll leave that to you. It’s not like I want to collect it right now.”

Kousuke could not help but laugh at Wahid’s reminder.