Metaworld Chronicles: The Quest for Money by David J. Wuto

Author:David J. Wuto [Wuto, David J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mango Media LLC
Published: 2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty-one

A Step in the Right Direction

Gwen never thought there’d be a day she’d yearn for MS Office. For the fourth time, she threw the data slate onto the bed, then picked it back up with a sigh.

The bloody things were useful only in the sense that they were better than paper. Other than that, they possessed no interconnectivity outside of some arcane data-storage system used by the Tower, managed by lodging the slate with an administrative official. She had paid for an account, though the fact that her data bank was inaccessible from home and served only as a redundancy irked her to no end.

Was it possible to introduce complex word processing to this world? She would even accept the possibility of an annoying Familiar called Clippy.

But she knew she was daydreaming.

For all its supposed wonder, the data slate was a handheld projector. Beneath the papyrus “screen”, a crystal core recorded whatever the user transcribed. Other than that, the slate responded only to “record”, “show” and “next page” commands.

After tinkering with the device for some time, she realised there were no wires, no electronics, nothing to manipulate but inscribed scripts stowed within the core. Dislodging the core from its resin inlay ensured it died a permanent death, losing all its intellectual cargo, which made the devices fragile as well.

Gwen pinched her brows. With a word, she could summon a Lamprey from the netherworld beyond space and time to consume her enemies. In Nantong, Japanese-made automata lifted ten-ton slabs. Via an ISTC, she could Teleport from Shanghai to Australia in a matter of minutes.

But copy-pasting a fucking seven-day schedule was beyond the means of a magical world.

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