The Hopeful Chronoa [Yksi]

One of the realms locked within the master's mana sea has been reawakened, it keeps exuding weird substances to the inside and outside of the mana sea. Surprisingly, the unknown particles give many benefits to the owner as it spread throughout the bloodstream and a great mana sea nourisher. The only demerit is that the realm spews too much of them that we would need to use it on the mana sea to empower and enhance our facilities. If there is too much, the contamination will halt the mana conversion process.

Even till now it keeps shooting those yellow-dark varicolored dust! Which is good and bad. Mostly good, but bad.

Though we haven't explored the unknown acidic realm, preparations are needed!

Chroyu has also been working really hard to fix the spinal cord of the owner, there has been nothing wrong with the master's body anymore but somehow the consciousness didn't connect to the brain and didn't give any chemical signal. As if, our master didn't want her muscles to move anymore.

But all of that pales in comparison to the current situation! A dread! A disaster in sheep's clothing!

"C-Chronoa! The newcomer has been acting weird until now, what should we do!?"

Chroyu is right, the newcomer is really suspicious! The no-eye bangs crimson haired lady with the vampiric looking dress is scanning the surroundings while grinning, her sharp teeth are scary. Analyzing the owner's memory, it seems like she is a Lueling, the autonomous worker vessel with the exact base circuit as us!

So is she really one of us?

"S-so, how are you?" says Chroyu, trying to strike a conversation.

"Hmm? Ah, how rude of me for not introducing myself." The Lueling shows her curtsy. "My name is Malice, it was pleasant to meet with you two."

She is one of us!

"My name is Chronoa! And she is Chroyu!" I gesture my hand to my sister.

"Ah yes, such lovely siblings you are. Is it fine for me to ask for a tour in this grand mana sea of our landlady?"

"Yes! It is!"

Both of us then give her a tour of the surroundings. Firstly, I showed her to the main lake where all the mana was stored in metaphysical liquid form so they could seep into the droughty land and nourish the surrounding zones. On the north, a cylinder-like machine with numerous pipes, which is working like an irrigation system so that the area the mana lake can affect will be immensely increased!

"Such beautiful machinery!"

"Huehue, you're making us blush!"

"But hmm, may I give a suggestion?"

"Fire away!"

"How about utilizing an autonomous-circuit irrigation vessel so the mana can cover more land for the infrastructure?"

"Using a vessel?"

It has never occurred to us to make another autonomous vessel. Actually, with the new Elemental Crystal that has been planted to the mana lake, we can build a droid but won't that be a little inconvenient for them? I honestly think that the irrigation machine is enough for the land covering, as I can just add more pipes and more range when the mana lake becomes bigger.

"Won't that be counter productive?" I say.

"It is!" She then points to the sky, "We can create a flying drone for carrying concentrated mana shards! Using the melting circuit, we can use them for a vast autonomous irrigation in the long run!"

The cost and time is indeed cheaper than making the pipes which need various materials. Beside, using circuit-relied contraption is sometimes more efficient despite taking some share of the mana.

"Chroyu! Note that!"

Chroyu begins to note all of the concepts in her notebook faster than light.

"So! So! What else is there for me to see!" says Malice.

The new Lueling gives more enthusiasm than I expected, which is good! We need all the help we can get!

After that, we take Malice to the east section from the lake. A large forestry with circuit factory in-between and a hill to the 'Blood Bending Virus' factory that has been fully augmented with the new realm's substances! Going in, Malice lo and behold the complex autonomous circuit creator as the vessel is being made together with the printed circuit.

She looks at the glass enveloping the circuit print, "Don't you think that the infiltration-factory copy needs to be optimized for faster production?" says Malice.

"It indeed can be tinkered more, I'll give you the access for editing!"

The three of us then proceed to brainstorm more for optimization. With the new system we implemented, there will be a 'High Rank BBV Vessel'! The BBV stands for Blood Bending Virus.

The high rank vessel can update the ongoing circuit on the infected blood cell that our owner manipulates, and because the vessel is connected to the new device we make, we can update it whole at any time and even change its trait!

"So where are we going next!"

The three of us then depart to the south section, the main headquarters of where the two of us are supposed to rest with much recreational amusement!

"Oh, what is this intriguing object?" asks Malice.

"That is a game console."

After playing car games and maria sis', we went farther south to find a single small structure with a lot of unfinished land. This will be the place where we will develop a mana sea's defense after we nurture a golden core in the future. As for now, both Chroyu and I will manually fend off abnormal invaders! Our owner also began to develop a technique's core, we mustn't let anyone steal it.

Going to the west, another large contraption with a big pipeline connected to the lake. An Autonomous Mana Conversion Device, AMCD for short. Because raw mana is literally everywhere, we used a pillar-like infrastructure that emulates the consciousness' strings to capture and shape them into processed mana! It works autonomously as long as there is enough mana to activate it, which is only a tiny fraction of the benefits it gives!

"What is this malicious mana shape you're converting…" Malice comment.

Chroyu and I put our deadpan expression, "A phallus."

Malice pukes out a rainbow while standing still.

We then add a smaller pillar near the large AMCD, which works as a conductor to filter a better mana quality from the contraption and also for our owner's manual conversion!

Farther to the west, stood a single small pillar.

"What is this?" asks Malice.

"That is the graveyard for our sister, her name is Chromusa!" says Chroyu.

I take a deep breath, and smile, "She is mature, kind, and also reliable. In fact, the game console we played was one of her ideas."

"My condolences." She moves forward near the small pillar, then hunches down. "I think we can recreate her."

"How!?"

She stands and faces us, "I don't know how, yet. But as long as the water flows to the droughty land, as long as the wind will give its chime to let us breathe. We can bring your sister back if we reach the 'Athenaeum Citadel Type'!"

"We can!"

The calculation is hard but it's not Impossible. If we can develop more advanced infrastructure and mana sea's tech, we might be able to create and clone ourselves!

And with that, we found our new goal.