I couldn’t help but grit my teeth as I sat in the throne room of Olympus, with numerous screens hovering above the floor. Our attempts at information gathering had been… unhelpful, to say the least. Even when I had Lena turn into Pierce, using his powers to predict the future, she was unable to foresee any information about the enemies …

The final two weeks passed with little fanfare. On the final day before the invasion, I sent Lifre a message, letting her know to stop her livestream for the time being. I couldn’t afford to have one of my top combatants absent for this battle, especially after she had been preparing herself for it. I was quite curious to see …

At this point, there was little more that we could begin to prepare for the upcoming invasion, at least on the grand scale. All it would take was time to get everything finalized. With Blank having created the virtual world core, it was obvious that he was ready to become an Origin, so he just needed to work with Chelsea …

Blank stood waiting for Chelsea within the void, a series of blue orbs floating around his body with a flickering light. When Chelsea arrived, she was surprised once again to see so many cores already prepared. As if he didn’t even consider the possibility of failure, and the potential need to redesign the cores from scratch. Still, shaking her head, …

Within his virtual office, Blank stared at the files that had been given to him by Ashley previously. As an AI, he had a natural talent for understanding code, and had event created his own version of the binary magic system early on in his career. Thus, an esoteric code that operated more akin to magic was not unfamiliar to …

Jonas sat in his control room, eyes glued to the screens before him. He could leave most of the monsters to his community to defeat, but he would need to use the turrets to cover them. If anything slipped past the group, and the martial division wasn’t able to take care of it in time, it would be up to …

The next several hours was spent in relative silence, waiting for the machines to finish optimizing the flow of my energy. I wasn’t really sure what advantage this would bring, but it was worth a test, especially since I didn’t really have anything to lose from this. Afterwards, I felt the machines humm to life once again, forming new energy …

After descending back to the mortal world, I made my way to the Another World Research group. Upon my arrival, the receptionist seemed surprised to see me, which I took to mean that Terra hadn’t informed them that I would be coming. “I’d like to speak with James, if that is alright.” I said with a kind smile, and she …

As everyone was working on their own preparations, I couldn’t help but journey to the Admin Room, looking for Terra. As I arrived, she seemed surprised to find me there, having been watching a movie on the couch with Irena. “Dale! What brings you here? I thought you were still in the middle of you simulation training?” She asked, and …

Elisae let out a sigh as she looked at the reports that had been filed. Ever since the removal of the karma system, there had been a sharp increase in the number of crimes within the empire, both violent and non-violent. Previously, Hanbei could have been considered something close to a utopia. With the various systems in the world, there …