After going through the Rites and thanking Swamp Dragon, Kyle returned to Forward Base 198. He hadn't imdiately gone there after his breakthrough, but that was not an issue. The entire loyalty-test-thing only beca relevant if soone delayed their return by over a century.
"I'm back," Kyle transmitted to Major Sovignor before taking the repaired cube of Gravity tal out.
"You've succeeded," Major Sovignor comnted. "I didn't expect anything else."
Then, he looked at the cube. "A little bit of it is missing. I can only give you 5,800 rits instead of 5,850."
"That's fine," Kyle answered, and his rits were updated. He had about 16,600 rits now. "Are there any ssages?"
"There is one," Major Sovignor said, and Kyle's Emblem updated.
Kyle looked at the ssage, and sure enough, it was the semi-secret thod of communication that Manny had announced.
As Kyle read through it, he beca surprised.
'Dude, I had no idea Manny knows so much about so many different things!'
The thod was as ingenious as it was strange, and the best part was that it couldn't be reverse-engineered without more information.
The first part of the thod just consisted of a ntal exercise in the form of a story. By focusing on the story and putting oneself into it, one could learn a bit about the Laws of Karmic Luck. Telling soone about a Law was not a good thing, but this was just a tiny part of a far bigger Law. The only thing it taught was how to find and identify the Karmic Connections in a group of six friends.
The next part of the technique was a manipulation of one's self. It just taught the user how to gather a tiny part of their true self.
After gathering that tiny part, one could fill it with information by using a very simple but strange Formation Array. When the tiny part received this information, it was fundantally changed into sothing else. Depending on what information it contained, its entire existence would change. This made every part unique. So, even if soone managed to crack one part, the next part would be different again.
Lastly, the tiny part of one's self could connect to a Karmic Connection and follow it. Like this, the tiny part would vanish from reality and reappear at the other end of the Karmic Connection.
It combined several different concepts, but a powerful person could still find a flaw, assuming all the information was contained in this thod.
However, the most important parts of this new thod of communication were centralized.
Manny was that center.
Even though a ssage might have a different recipient, it would still end up with Manny, who would then recode it and send it. In a taphorical sense, one could say that Manny was the server, while the other five were clients. Without the server, the clients couldn't communicate with each other.
Manny also explained how difficult it would be for anyone to crack this way of communication. He could tell how long it took for each wisp of information to arrive, which ant that he could also sense if sobody sohow managed to intercept one.
He also talked about how difficult it was to crack the information and that it would take a long ti. Additionally, the person had to know about Karmic Luck, all four Aspects of Power, Formation Arrays, and they also needed to be constantly ready for a wisp.
'I thought this thod was supposed to be cracked by Humanity,' Kyle thought. 'In truth, this seems impossible to crack. You need to know so much stuff to decode it.'
'Manny really thinks highly of Humanity if he expects them to crack it.'
Kyle learned the thod and used it. Within just a second, a transparent wisp that only he could see appeared in front of him. It latched onto the Karmic Connection leading to Manny and left.
"Hey, I'm just testing," Kyle transmitted with the wisp.
So seconds later, a wisp arrived in front of him and entered his mind.
"It's working fine. We can talk with the wisps from now on," Manny replied. "It only takes a couple of seconds for them to arrive, and we can stay in contact at all tis. Refrain from sharing any information with anyone else."
However, at the sa ti, Manny also reached out to Kyle via the relay. "The semi-secret thod of communication is still secure, but I don't know for how long it will stay secure."
"You expect them to crack it?" Kyle asked via the relay.
"Yes, I added just a little too much information. There is a small part that gives them a base, but it's too small for now. They need to co up with so very specific Formation Arrays first, and then, they need to further refine them and increase their operational speed. The biggest problem is not decoding the ssage, but decoding it within two seconds of it being sent. They need to invest a lot of research and ti into decoding it."
"Depending on how desperate they are to listen in on our conversations, it will take between 5,000 and 50,000 years. I will know when they have decoded it. However, just to be safe, we should still keep our actual conversations here."
"Okay," Kyle answered, "but I still have to send wisps and act like I'm talking to you via them, right?"
"Yes, but you don't have to put a lot of effort into it," Manny answered. "The backdoor I created for them allows them to read my forwarded ssages only. Decoding all ssages takes 50 tis more resources, and Humanity won't invest that much. Since I'm the center and all the ssages go through , they don't need to read all the other ssages. One side of the conversation is often more than enough to paint a clear picture of what's being discussed."
"As long as you regularly send so random ssage without a lot of information, it's fine. I will create an entire conversation for all of you. I will essentially be talking to myself while acting like I'm you. The frequency of your ssages will just dictate when I'm going to say the next sentence to myself."
"That sounds like a lot of work," Kyle transmitted. "Are you sure you can handle it?"
"It's nothing new to ," Manny answered. "I'm used to this."
"How?" Kyle asked while sending a random wisp with bullshit information. "How are you used to these kinds of things? In fact, what's up with this relay and this wisp stuff? You say that these things co from your secret Organization, but Swamp Dragon is also part of that Organization, and I don't see him doing all of these crazy things."
"How do you know so many things about basically everything? I can ask you whatever question I want, and you always have an answer. What's up with that?"
"I can't tell you," Manny answered. "Yes, I know a lot, and I know things I shouldn't have the ability to know, but I can't tell you. If Ayuvar weren't in such a desperate situation, I wouldn't even have shared half of the things I've told you. The fact is that we can't get out of this ss if I don't share more and risk exposing several important secrets."
"However, I can assure you of so things. First, I have existed for fewer than 15,000 years. I swear that on my life. Second, I have never been stronger than I am currently, and I am an Advanced Sage right now. I swear that on my life as well."
"I've never been a Spirit Lord, an Ascendant, an Immortal, or anything stronger than that. My title and identity have been Psychosis Manifestation for the majority of my life."
"I can swear this on my life, but I can't tell you how I know so much. This secret is more important than all of Ayuvar, including our team and ."
"So, please, stop asking."
Kyle wanted to take a deep breath, but he was still in front of Major Sovignor.
"Fine, I won't ask anymore," he transmitted. "At least, tell that you're on our side."
"As long as you're also on my side, yes," Manny answered.
"Am I on your side?" Kyle asked.
"...Probably."
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