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"You're that certain?" Hephaestus looked at him, deep in thought.
Does he know classified intelligence regarding the Black Dragon? Seeing that Lucian had no intention of elaborating, she didn't press the issue, quietly filing the information away.
Lucian's background was wrapped in layers of anomaly. He explicitly claid to be from another world, yet upon hearing her na, he reacted with imdiate recognition. Furthermore, his adaptation to Orario was suspiciously seamless; he navigated the city as if it wasn't an entirely alien environnt to him.
Regardless, the One-Eyed Black Dragon was the final hurdle. The imdiate crisis was the Leviathan campaign, and the fleet was scheduled to deploy very soon.
"You ntioned you wanted to discuss so forging theories earlier. What exactly did you have in mind?" Hephaestus asked, steering the conversation back on track.
"I plan on using my magic to 'forge' a [Ga Board]," Lucian declared, imdiately laying out his grand blueprint.
Full-map vision, minimap tracking, resource scanning, faction indicators, party managent, character status screens... These were rely the surface-level UI functions, all of which Lucian could code effortlessly on his own.
The true, monuntal core of the project was the Map itself.
He didn't just want a radar that scanned the existing Dungeon. He wanted to forge a completely independent nexus of micro-worlds, where each 'Map' was a self-contained pocket dinsion!
"What an astonishing concept..." Hephaestus murmured, genuinely stunned.
She was completely blown away by the sheer scale of his ambition. It bordered on the unfathomable. As the Goddess of Forging, her entire divine domain was strictly rooted in tradition—hamrs, anvils, weapons, and tools. She had assud the mortal realm's current technological trajectory was impressive, but she had never conceived of an idea this abstract.
Using conceptual rules as the foundational bedrock of a world, and utilizing magic to physically manifest its geography... If he actually pulled this off, it wouldn't just be a masterpiece. It would be an act of genuine Genesis!
Even the existence of the gods themselves might pale in comparison to a feat of that magnitude.
No... Knowing Lucian's mindset, living beings would simply beco active components within his Ga Board. It wasn't entirely impossible that the gods themselves would eventually be reduced to re crafting materials for his world-building.
"Is that a complint?" Lucian smiled warmly.
"I really want to know what kind of world you grew up in," Hephaestus sighed in awe.
"The environnt itself wasn't anything special. We didn't have magic, and we certainly didn't have gods," Lucian replied thoughtfully. "But imagine a world where the energy equivalent of a magic stone was fully comrcialized, powering the daily lives of every single commoner. Now add in weapons capable of instantly generating temperatures rivaling the core of the sun, vaporizing everything within a hundred-kiloter radius in a split second. That pretty much sums it up."
"...?!" Hephaestus's jaw practically hit the floor, her eye twitching violently.
"Were those weapons built to fight monsters?" Hephaestus asked, clinging to a single shred of hope.
"My world didn't have monsters," Lucian stated flatly.
Right. I should have guessed. Hephaestus buried her face in her hands.
She had been imnsely curious about his howorld. While the gods could occasionally observe phenona in other dinsions, they couldn't access a global, omniscient perspective like the 'Map' Lucian was trying to build, nor could they directly intervene. As a result, their knowledge was strictly limited to random trivia and internet s.
However, one thing was absolutely certain: the sheer volu and scale of information Lucian processed daily vastly eclipsed the comprehension of anyone in the lower world.
"Do you have any suggestions?" Lucian asked, bringing the focus back to the blueprint.
"Your [Rule Creation] provides the frawork for the micro-world to exist independently, and your [Ether Circulation] solves the issue of making it self-sustaining," Hephaestus began analytically. "But even if we ignore the maintenance costs, generating the sheer mass required to physically construct the environnt is a massive logistical nightmare."
She looked at him seriously. "I suggest you initially construct the map data strictly as a virtual, informational space. When you actually need it, you can temporarily manifest that virtual space into reality using magic."
"That's a solid start. But my ambitions don't stop there." Lucian replied calmly.
His voice was quiet, but it carried an undeniable weight of absolute passion and unyielding determination.
When Lucian was a kid, he had been hopelessly addicted to Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. However, he almost never touched the main campaign; he spent thousands of hours exclusively playing custom RPG maps. Tower defense, MOBAs, story-driven campaigns, puzzle maps, parkour runs, survival modes... but his absolute favorite genre had always been Hero Defense.
Farming gold, chopping lumber, buying base gear, crafting god-tier weapons, class-changing... holding the line and desperately defending the central base against endless waves of enemies.
Eventually, he had discovered the World Editor and spent years ticulously learning how to code and build his own custom maps.
Tragically, he had been forced to abandon his passion to focus on his studies. By the ti he graduated and entered the workforce, the crushing weight of adult responsibilities had thoroughly smothered that creative fire. He hadn't considered it a profound regret at the ti, but the embers had remained.
Now, presented with the literal, god-like power to physically create his own worlds, that long-suppressed, long-dead passion violently roared back to life into a blazing inferno.
"Just take it one step at a ti. There's no need to rush," Hephaestus comforted him.
She was deeply captivated by the intense, burning heat hidden beneath his calm exterior. Forging inherently required a heart that burned as hot as a furnace. While his project existed in a completely unprecedented, conceptual realm, it was undeniably an act of Forging.
It made perfect sense why the world had chosen to drop this specific child right onto her doorstep. The synergy between a mortal creator and the Goddess of Forging was absolute perfection.
The traditional blacksmiths of this world were rigid; they likely wouldn't be able to comprehend his radical philosophy. What he needed more than anything was absolute, unconditional support.
"I know." Lucian smiled brightly, his focus realigning.
A simple virtual simulation was vastly insufficient to satisfy his ambitions. But Hephaestus's critique was perfectly valid. He could start by coding a purely virtual frawork, and when necessary, execute a localized Domain Expansion to drag enemies into it.
Once his mana pool scaled to the level of gods, he could permanently crystallize the illusion into physical reality. Therefore, the architectural design needed to account for physical integration from day one.
What about the storage dium for all this virtual data... How about the ntal Landscape of a Reality Marble?
In canon lore, a Reality Marble was explicitly defined as a highly advanced, albeit imperfect, 'thod of creating an alien world.' Normally, the internal geography of a Reality Marble couldn't be consciously altered; it simply reflected the user's soul. However, by overriding the system with [Rule Creation], Lucian could manually code, design, and architect the internal layout from scratch, safely storing the entire map and its physics engine deep within his own psyche.
But there was a catch: a ntal Landscape was strictly generated by the caster's singular, unified inner world.
So, instead of a single landscape, I'll format my inner world as an infinite [Sea of Illusions]. Within that sea, I can generate infinite [World Bubbles], and each bubble will contain a unique, fully operational Map. It's essentially world-building Inception. Lucian fell deep into thought.
Seeing him enter his zone, Hephaestus sat quietly, ensuring she didn't disturb his process.
A while later, Lucian finally spoke up. "I've got a solid outline. Now we just need to hamr out the specific design architecture."
Hephaestus and Lucian spent hours debating the intricate logistics of the design. Thanks to the reality-bending nature of [Rule Creation], constructing the base frawork was surprisingly straightforward.
With Hephaestus's divine insight guiding the structural integrity, the two of them rapidly solidified the core architecture of the Ga Board.
First, they defined the dium: the Ga Board would exist purely as virtual, conceptual data.
Second, they cataloged the UI features, writing the code that would eventually be injected directly into the core frawork.
Third, they drafted the foundational rules—the absolute laws of physics that would dictate exactly how the Ga Board operated.
Finally, they assembled the master frawork: utilizing the chanics of a Reality Marble, they would construct the [Sea of Illusions] within Lucian's soul.
Once the Sea of Illusions was successfully compiled, he could instantly spawn a [World Bubble] within it, thereby generating an infinite variety of distinct 'Maps'.
In standard combat, he could project these maps outward as a temporary Reality Marble. And eventually, once he amassed an apocalyptic amount of magical energy, he could permanently anchor them into physical reality.
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