Escalation by Matthew Peed

Author:Matthew Peed [Peed, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Regan

The last day had ended up being busier than I had expected it to be. Someone had found the secret path I had added to the library while making some improvements to the dungeon. It was a reward for people who sought knowledge. I was a bit surprised that the princess’s group were the ones to be first, but I guess it was up to fate. The researcher Vern had already reached the tenth trial, and her book had nearly three hundred pages of information written in it.

When I’d created the trials during my downtime, I had been worried some of the smarter ones might blast through them and make it deeper than they should, so I’d created Saga. She was based off a Norse deity that kept their tales and stories. I had used quite a bit of mana so she would be able to create a grimoire of sorts that could create what I liked to call “seeds.” I wasn’t sure what would happen when the seeds were filled, but Saga was linked to all the seeds and was able to judge their content.

Saga also filled the role of Jarvis, as she had a lot of downtime, at least for now. I wouldn’t have said this to Jarvis’s face, but she had much better specs than him when it came to memory and analytics. Jarvis needed to be upgraded, but it was harder to upgrade than create my more sentient automata. He would have to gather mana, then break through like a mortal.

After that, I got a message from Puppet and company that the horde was bearing down on the forest tower in a preemptive strike. I also learned that Puppet had inadvertently created some sort of monster that rivaled even the necromancers accompanying the horde. I cracked my mental knuckles and set the fort on the defensive for the time being. The automata wouldn’t venture from the walls and would destroy anything that attacked. Jarvis was watching over it, so if a group of survivors came then, he could at least detain them until I checked them over.

I moved over to the forest. A decent-size town that any city planner would be proud of now spread out over roughly two kilometers of space, as I had planned when the aura was spreading. The inhabitants living there might have felt that it had grown overnight. I created my avatar, then moved into the mayor’s office.

The two co-mayors stood over a holographic map that represented the town and the surrounding area for roughly twenty or thirty kilometers. They seemed to be discussing something about new additions to the town and how to locate them. I sensed the area, then felt a group of people who were heading for the town from the outer edges of my aura. The two mayors paused when they noticed me in the doorway.

“Creator!” the major said with a salute.

“Host,” Hiden said with a small bow.

“You two seem energized, what’s going on?” I asked.

“Creator, one of our patrols spotted a group of adventurers apparently out on a quest.

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