NOVEL NEXT Chapter 101. Debugging Dragon V2
In the Divine Space, Cedric still focused on creating V.2 dragons with intelligence. At the same time, he often checked the progress in the Crystal Cube world.
Since he shared the Mana Sensing Method, the amount of low-level blessed has exploded, and Divine Strength blessed has opened a new page in their history.
At the same time, the elves and dwarves have increased their diplomacy and gotten closer. Now, in many big cities, there's a school that teaches the foreign language of another race to foster communication between them.
It all happens because the dwarves and other elven cities have seen the benefit and followed after Elisa's city and built schools.
Not only that, the elves also started distributing the leaf money Elisa used in her city as a national currency. Of course, the elf queen and other elves have also contributed to strengthening the leaf currency's anti-counterfeit technique.
Meanwhile, the dwarves have also learned some advice from Elisa and Ghiana. They started minting official metal currency of varying types and spread it as the common currency of the land.
With their respective currency, the first trouble in the elves' and dwarves's alliance appears - The exchange rate between the two currencies.
Different commodities have different prices in their respective area, which hampered the process of setting an exchange rate.
It took both sides a few months of back-and-forth exchange before they set an initial exchange rate that satisfied both parties.
At the same time, they also began creating a road that connected their respective races' territories to facilitate trade and travel.
The project took most of their divine strength blessed, earth element blessed, and nature element blessed to do.
The earth element moved the soils and rocks, while divine strength blessed moved rocks and other things blocking the road. Meanwhile, nature elements blessed planted magical plants along the road to protect it from magical beasts and demons.
Except for building a road that connects both races' territory, they also strengthened important facilities like the roads between cities, Elisa's city's water pump plant, and added magical plants to automatically defend the dwarves' fortress against giant ant attacks.
Although demons have become rarer in the elven area, they aren't entirely extinct yet. Which is why they need to build defensive buildings.
All those projects took twenty whole years to complete. That's already thanks to the help of magical powers. Otherwise, who knows how long it'll take for the dwarves and elves to finish.
With the road that connects both territories, some elves and dwarves began to travel.
Most of them are merchants trying to profit from the specialties of the different areas. While a few are travelers curious about the other's living conditions.
From the trades, the dwarf's invention began to spread to the elven cities. Things like cannon, armors, metal, furnaces, and other trinkets are widely accepted by the elves.
Meanwhile, Elisa and the others took this chance to start spreading the TV Leaves, audio plant, and other things.
Basically, while the dwarves are busy climbing the technological tree, the elves are playing cultural invasion by spreading their movies to the dwarves.
Cedric occasionally watched the world's progress while he rested. But soon he stopped caring about them because his research had reached an important part.
Inside the Divine Space, Cedric looked at the prototype of the V2 dragon in front of him. Even though the dragon's body is already at Peak Level 1, its length has only barely reached five meters. Much smaller than the V1 dragon.
Even though it might be a bit smaller than the previous dragon, in terms of overall strength, this one is definitely much better than the V1 dragon.
First, Cedric has combined his research on the Mana Sensing Method into the dragon.
Compared to its V1 counterpart, Cedric has slightly modified the V2 dragon's body. Now, it has an inbuilt Mana Sensing skill that makes it instinctively exhale and inhale mana.
Although the speed of Mana gathering from instinctively exhaling and inhaling mana is much slower than doing it manually, it still opened a new door to him.
With the extra energy from the constantly absorbed mana, the V2 dragon's body contains an extra power source. That energy allows Cedric to do several fancy maneuvers that can't be done in the V1 dragon.
There are many fancy add-ons, but his proudest work is adding a dragon breath attack on the V2 dragons.
First, he copied an organ that can excrete flammable oil, and an organ that can shoot water jets at high speed from two different animals before placing it on the dragon. To make them burn, he also created an organ that could create friction whenever the dragon wanted to release its breath.
Then, Cedric used mana's property that allows it to strengthen the body and help it recover. He makes mana constantly circulate on the organ that can generate flammable oil to strengthen it over time and increase its oil production speed.
It might sound simple, but the detail took him a lot of time.
Just how to let the dragon release its flammable oil without burning itself has taken him a few months to fix. There are also a lot of other small problems that accumulated into a mess.
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Except for those small details, he also took a lot of time to create a suitable brain that would allow the dragon to have sufficient intelligence.
'Thankfully, I am done. Right now, I just need the System to examine and grade it.' Cedric thought as he called the System, "Hey, can you test the intelligence level of this dragon?"
Cedric can't imbue a soul while inside the Divine Space. He also can't test the dragon's intelligence by possessing the body because his mental power isn't affected no matter how stupid or smart the body is.
That's why Cedric chose to calmly ask a nearby adult - The System.
The System took a few seconds before it replied.
[Congratulations! This time, your dragon should be as intelligent as a human baby upon birth and can slowly grow until it's as intelligent as a human.]
[Now, you need to test whether it'll retain its characteristic after several generations. Then, you just need to wait until your world levels up to create the dragon in your world and imbue them with a soul.]
"Finally!" Cedric created a sofa and slumped. It took him so long to create a suitable dragon.
'I still can't relax yet. The next part is the most tiresome one. I am still traumatized from the time I spent creating V1 dragon before.'
Cedric watched a few elven dramas to relax before he started creating a few dragons from both sexes. Then, he possessed their body and controlled them to continuously give birth.
When the next generation appears, Cedric sends his mental power to possess the newly born dragon and does a simple test like flight, spewing dragon breath, doing basic movements, eating, drinking, excreting, automatically absorbing mana, and many others.
Once he found none of the dragons had lost any of their abilities, he proceeds to control them to breed and create the next generation of dragons. Just like before, he possessed them, did some tests and repeated them.
After the fourth generation, some dragons began to mutate as they could no longer spew dragon breath without burning their throats.
Then, the fifth generation became worse. Some of them exploded upon trying to cast a dragon breath. Some have their Mana circulation distorted. That distortion made the Mana to strengthen random body parts and cause their form to mutate. Some also directly lost their oil-generating organs and lost the ability to spew fire.
He also checked with the System and found that half of the dragon's intelligence had been lowered.
"Sigh, here comes the troublesome part." With this many problems, Cedric stopped his test and began fixing the dragon's gene.
After twenty years, the dragons can now reproduce up to nine generations without having any mutations. Then, after another twenty years, he can make them reproduce for fifteen generations before a problem appears.
While he continuously fixed the dragon, eighty years passed by in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, the System suddenly appeared and broke his concentration.
[Quickly check your world. The System found the world's balance has been decreasing at an alarming speed in the past two years!]
Cedric immediately got serious and stopped fixing the V2 dragons.
He moved his mental power and checked the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
Because his mental power arrived near the dwarves' territory, he decided to start by checking the dwarves.
When his mental power arrived above a random city, Cedric started his inspection. After a rough look, he didn't find anything wrong, so Cedric moved his attention to the dwarven capital above the magic mountain.
Just like in the previous city, Cedric also doesn't find anything suspicious inside the dwarven capital.
When he was almost ready to leave and check the elves, Cedric's mental power arrived near the mine, and saw a weird-looking engine.
Cedric felt the machine looked familiar. With the help of his godhood, he instantly recalled where he saw it before. "That machine kinda looks like the big thing usually seen on an oil field."
"What's it called again? Is it an oil pump?" Cedric tried to recall it, but he hadn't collected that information before.
Shaking his head, Cedric felt his suspicion toward that machine increase. So, he used Past Observation to check that suspicious machine.
Just like he guessed, that machine is indeed a pump. But it isn't an oil pump; instead, it helped the dwarves to pump out flooded mines.
As for why the dwarves didn't just use water element blessed. That's because at low level, those water elements blessed can only create water and control a small amount of water.
That's why, to clear a flooded mine, it usually takes hundreds of water elements blessed working together for a long time, which is extremely inefficient.
Once he is certain it's a pump, Cedric continues to trace the engine's past with Past Observation.
He saw when a group of dwarves built the pump. Then, he followed the one who seemed to have the highest status and followed him.
He continued to trace along the past until he saw Ghiana and Eikard.
He overheard their conversation and became speechless. Those two are the ones who have created the pump that utilizes steam.
Actually, the dwarves had created a steam engine more than a hundred years ago, which is the prototype of the current steam engine pump.
Yet, although both of them are called steam engines, their difference is massive.
The prototype is no different from an interesting trinket. But after Eikard gained Ghiana's help, the steam engine immediately evolved several times.
After checking the source of that engine, Cedric stopped using Past Observation to ask the System, "Is that machine the one responsible for causing my world to lose its stability? I think you've mentioned something about how foreign knowledge can damage a world's stability before."
[Yes! You should stop them ASAP before they successfully commercialize that steam engine! Otherwise, the damage to your world will be massive.]
"But didn't you say that the knowledge Ghiana initially introduced won't affect my world much because she has done an experiment in the world and let it adapt? How come it suddenly affects my world's stability now?"
[At that time, the world's stability was indeed barely affected. But after so many messy things got introduced, the damage accumulated and the world's balance was finally greatly affected.]
[Furthermore, does that big ass steampunk-esque engine seem like something a world of magic should have? Even if a world of magic will get in touch with a steam engine, that thing 100% shouldn't exist this early. Ghiana's knowledge has been accelerating the advancement by introducing foreign knowledge. And because it used foreign knowledge as the base, the world couldn't adapt in time.]
"Hmm? Alright then, I'll tell them to stop it for now. But, how long should I stop it to let the world adapt? There's no way I can block technological advancement forever."
[Two hundred years should be barely enough. But it's not just the steam engine pump. You must make sure that knowledge and inventions which used Ghiana's foreign knowledge as the base will not continue to advance during that time. Otherwise, it'll take longer before the world's stability will be completely restored.]