I Can Program My Body?

Three months later, Nash stopped at the 375th floor.

"This Altier Arcane Trial was really time-consuming." Nash sighed.

Even without failing, each trial still took 30 hours. Coupled with Camilla and Elizabeth dragging him out from time to time, the duration stretched even longer.

Receiving a notification from Julius, he temporarily stopped his ascent. Apparently, the area around the newly built dark gate was stabilized. From construction to the present, it took over 1 year and three months. Compared to the usual 6-8 months, it took too long.

Planning to build a dozen dark gates, he feared the time to stabilize the place would stretch for years, minimizing the effect of building them simultaneously.

While the major teams built over a dozen dark gates yearly, it would take them 3-5 years to build 10. In that case, it’s better to build 3 dark gates a year.

Notifying Camilla and Elizabeth, Nash left the Altier Arcane Tower and returned to the Neon Star Alliance.

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In the Neon Star Alliance Territory, Nash met Julius face to face.

"Have the scientists fully learned to build the dark gate?" Nash asked. Although he was in the same Scientific Time-Ground, he was concentrated on his own research.

"Yes, all of them are already proficient. Although it took them 8 months in simulation, there should be no problem in actual implementation."

"That’s good. It seems the Merit Source isn’t wasted." Nash smiled.

Since they were virtualizing law and didn’t need the acceleration of time or the infusion of energy, the Merit Source was redirected to the virtual server.

In the past year, with 9,000x time acceleration, they had basically been studying for over ten thousand years.

"What about the problem with defense? It took too long to stabilize just 5 dark gates. What would happen when there are 10?"

"This..." Julius was unable to answer. He also realized the problem, but he was unable to think of a solution.

"Is the Neon Defense System not enough? It’s fine if we spend more Void Source Crystals."

Since knowing the Void Source Crystals couldn’t be spent to buy high-quality items, he no longer treated them as currency. No matter how many they had, they could spend it all, for all he cared.

"We didn’t have any problem with energy. The problem is the maintenance and the manpower." Julius sighed.

Dark energy was really unforgiving to regular matter. No matter how hardy those Neon Defense System modules were, they were like paper and were easily corroded.

In just a few days, without any maintenance, they would be scrapped as useless. Every few months, their firepower would also decrease, requiring a replacement. To maintain and replace each Neon Defense System module, they needed manpower and a large stock of them.

At this moment, Nash also fell silent. He wanted to deduce the mass production of a dark technological large-scale defense system. However, without enough foundational knowledge about runic patterns, it would be too difficult.

Only about 2 years had passed since his advancement. Even with the help of countless individuals, the runic patterns he had learned were too pitiful to do anything meaningful.

Unable to think of a solution, he could only take things with brute force.

"You can deploy more Neon Defense System modules. It doesn’t matter if they’re destroyed. You can also spend more money to recruit extra manpower."

"I will do my best, Supreme Leader."

"Hmm, take it slow if you can’t. You can even use the Merit Source as an incentive. We need to train cosmic elites of our own."

Without them and the scientists, the Merit Source the dark gates generated could only be stored. Instead of letting it go to waste, it’s better to distribute it to the others.

"This is a great idea, Supreme Leader!" Hearing that even the Merit Source was up to his discretion, Julius’s eyes lit up.

Don’t be fooled by how much energy Nash, Camilla, and Elizabeth needed, those were only exceptions. Regular cosmic elites only needed a few units of Merit Source to advance from the tier 5 to tier 6 realm.

Just 500 units of Merit Source could help a new tier 5 powerhouse ascend to the next realm. However, this is not how Merit Source was usually used. Instead, it would be a bottleneck breaker, helping those peak tier 5 powerhouses take the next step to advancement.

With 900 units of Merit Source, he could help 900 cosmic elites advance to the next level each day. These are not regular powerhouses, but elite talents of the universe that could fight beyond their level.

Having such talents under the Neon Star Alliance, their need for manpower should be temporarily alleviated.

"Good, I’ll leave everything here to you. I will concentrate on the Altier Arcane Tower." Nash said. Although the situation here was critical, it was not life-threatening.

Imagining those major-level teams pointing the Altier Arcane Cannon at their territory, how could he not be worried? Although it was not possible now, what about the future? Thus, while everything was still peaceful, he needed to climb that tower as soon as possible.

Leaving Julius and the other leaders of the Neon Star Alliance to their own devices, Nash went back to the Altier Arcane Tower and continued taking the trials.

Along the way, he didn’t forget to virtualize law one by one, setting the foundation for his advancement in the future.

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Soon, two and a half years later...

[1,000th Trial Complete!]

[Time: 30 hours]

[Rating: SSS]

[Reward: SSS Time-Vortex Affinity enhancement]

[Activating the third-level authority...]

Passing the 1,000th floor trial and activating the third-level authority, all facilities, knowledge, and privileges of the Altier Arcane Tower were opened to him.

Among these was the Altier Arcane Cannon, an accompanying weapon that could disintegrate even a tier 12 powerhouse!

That’s right! Instead of just a measly tier 9 dark beast, it could wipe out a Tier 12 Universe Emperor! No wonder it was an ultimate treasure. No wonder everyone sought to conquer this wild void territory.

[Altier Arcane Cannon:

Mode 1: Planetary Cannon - 1 million Chaos Stones (Unlocked) (Free Strike)

Mode 2: Charged Planetary Cannon - 100 million Chaos Stones (Locked)

Mode 3: Void Cannon - Unknown (Locked)

Mode 4: Universe Cannon - Unknown (Locked)]

Four modes, corresponding to Tier 9 Planetary Seedling, Tier 10 Planetary Master, Tier 11 Void Saint, and Tier 12 Universe Emperor.

Although it was expensive to use them, it wasn’t too far off that he couldn’t afford them either. The only problem was whether he could unlock modes 3 and 4 later on.

This would be the deciding factor in whether the winner of the cosmic competition could keep the wild void area from those established galactic territories.

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