Let’s Manage the Tower - Volume 19 Chapter 3
Volume 19 Chapter 3, Tools to Leisurely Pass Time
In the end, he could not get a concrete answer from Asura.
If even Asura didn’t know, there was probably no one else in the world who knew.
The only entity that might be able to give him an answer would be the World Record, but it would not be so easy to meet it.
[What is an <Evolution Sprout> anyway?]
[What do you mean?]
[If evolution occurs when the Soul Vessel is expanded, it would be more appropriate to call it <Evolution Condition>, wouldn’t it?]
Asura’s reply to Kousuke’s words was a little delayed.
[…That’s true. So, even if the Soul Vessel expands, it might not evolve?]
[That’s also too vague. If it didn’t evolve, then the term ‘evolution’ wouldn’t be attached to it.]
They both pondered together, but ultimately, they could not come up with an answer.
[Kousuke’s authority is new, so there’s no way I can know what it does.]
[What do you mean?]
[I’m telling you that you have to discover your own power by yourself.]
Kousuke shook his head from side to side at Asura’s simple answer.
[I don’t even know where to start, as there is no precedent, so I honestly have no idea what to do.]
[I don’t think that being will give you meaningless power, so you’ll just have to keep working diligently.]
It was a long-winded talk.
However, it was not wrong to say that the answer was currently unknown, as Asura said.
[Is that so? I guess it’s too much of a selfish thing to ask for a quick answer…]
[That may be an overstatement, but…You seemed to be in a hurry.]
Kousuke had no intention of being so, and his expression was as if he had been hit in the face with a lie.
[…I didn’t mean it that way, but…]
[Oh, I knew you would say that. But to the people of this world, you look like someone who was in a rush to do something, you know?]
Kousuke thought that Asura’s advice might be right.
To begin with, Kouhi and Mitsuki had conquered seven Towers in such a short period of time and it ended with him becoming a deity.
No matter how he looked at it, from another point of view, it could be said that he was just going too fast.
[I see. Well, for the time being, I’ll just check it slowly.]
[Right… Well then, I’d better get going.]
[Thank you.]
He thanked Asura for talking to him.
[It’s okay. I wanted to talk to you, too.]
With that, the Divine Oracle connection from Asura was severed.
Although little progress was made on the new authority, Kousuke felt that it was a good opportunity to review his past conduct in a different sense.
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In the end, he left his ability in a state of “wait-and-see”.
Since there was no point in spending so much time on it, he decided to take his time and verify it.
There was a possibility that eventually he would find out something from a different angle, so he decided that there was no need to rush to verify it now.
Besides, there was no need to rush the evolution process at this point.
All the Towers were now out of the red, so there was no particular need to increase the number of battles.
As for Amamiya Tower, he did not have any particular goal in mind, as he did not expect it to grow any further.
In game terms, it was like trying to reach the ‘Maxed Out’ status, so there was no need for him to rush into it.
In the first place, the management of the Towers was all about earning Divine Power, so now that they were in the black, there was no need to rush into anything in particular.
Unless there was something new to add to the installations, but that was not the case.
When he was building golems, he was thinking of placing dependents on every floor, but now he decided not to do so, thinking that it would not make much sense.
He realised that once he had more dependents, he would need to manage them, so he decided to be cautious about adding more than he already had.
Except if there were more interesting summons in other Towers, but so far, there were none that struck a chord in Kousuke’s heart.
Meanwhile, the other members were actively increasing the number of summoned creatures.
Some were increasing the number of types, while others were increasing the number of the current summons, so it depended on each individual’s preferences.
Kousuke did not intend to comment on that in particular.
Rather, he would prefer that each of the dependents be nurtured in their own unique way.
It would be more enjoyable to see them in various ways, and furthermore, to see them evolve in ways different from those guided by Kousuke.
After his conversation with Asura, Kousuke was fully relaxed, thinking about these things.
There were many things he wanted to do, such as making tools, but after his earlier conversation with Asura, he had some thoughts, so he decided to relax, thinking that it would be good to consciously make time for this kind of thing.
However, for Kousuke, tool making itself had already become a hobby, so he didn’t really feel like he was taking a break.
While he was lying on the sofa in the relaxation area, Collete came up to him.
“What’s wrong? Something on your mind again?”
Kousuke chuckled at Collete’s way of putting it.
He thought that Asura was right.
“I was thinking about something a while ago, but right now, I’m just taking a break.”
Resting didn’t mean there were any games or anything to play, so in the end there was nothing to do but lie on the couch.
“Oh, dear. Just in time, then. I’ll take a rest too.”
Collete said and came to sit on Kousuke’s couch where he was lying down.
Seeing Collete, Kousuke muttered to himself.
“Maybe I should make some kind of tool to pass the time.”
After all, his thoughts were directed towards working.
“Hey. Aren’t you supposed to be resting right now?”
“No, I am. But my thoughts have been more towards managing the Towers, so making stuff for fun is a different story…”
Collete looked at him with a blank stare, but Kousuke said something that sounded like an excuse.
“I think they’re both the same, but… Well, the same Kousuke as usual.”
He tilted his head to the side, wondering if he had become that much of a workaholic, as Collete said, but he kept quiet because of Asura.
Instead, he started thinking seriously about making some amusement items, which he mumbled.
“Hmmm. Something for amusement… What do you think?
“Like playing with a ball?”
To Collete’s words, Kousuke shook his head because he did not want to create something like that.
But this was partly due to Kousuke’s lack of awareness.
In the first place, there were few things in this world that children could play with all their time.
Of course, the same would be true for adults.
Naturally, less time for play meant less demand for games, which led to little development of playthings.
Kousuke decided to create something to play with.
He asked Collete for more information, but since Collete had been in the elven village as a child, she was not that familiar with human children’s games.
Most of the time, elven children play in the forests, so they did not take the trouble to prepare tools for their entertainment.
Kousuke tried asking other members of the group, but they all had childhoods that could not be described as typical.
In the end, the only one he could ask about what he wanted was Floria, who had grown up as royalty.
As royalty, their status meant they had time for fun.
