The Dao of Magic: Book IV by Andries Louws

Author:Andries Louws [Louws, Andries]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-30T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Resumption 5

I’m pumped. For the first time in a long time, I’m faced with a wholly novel challenge. The task set before me is just so odd and so specific that I’m at a slight loss as to how to achieve it. I need to know what kind of material is at the centre of the dungeon core processors. The atom distribution in the square miniature cores that seem to make up the insides of the quantum supercomputers is all kinds of weird.

The way the supernatural infrastructure on and around this planet is made has been an eye-opener for me. I honestly thought that on material planes, like the Cultivation World and the one I’m currently on, any form of crafting needed to be done through qi-enhanced mundane materials. My sword is a great example of this. It’s a rather ordinary alloy slab with some solidified energy matrices inside, enhanced by lots of qi. I’ve been pouring and channelling my cultivation base through the weapon near constantly to refine and strengthen the thing, and to help Lola. I never thought to improve the base materials in a manner as dumb, effective and wasteful as all the trash here, though.

Instead of optimising material strength using ordinary means, the beings in charge of this shithole of a magical planet seem to have used energies from higher planes to bully stuff into being stronger by forceful compression. Now that I think about it, I suspect that the dungeon cores operate on a similar principle. Their operating methods are just wild guesswork at the moment though, so I stop fantasising about quantum physics and focus on the present moment again.

Bending low, I crawl through the frozen tunnel I have been creating. Lola has a firm grip on the icy side of the power flowing through the sword on my back, so I’m making do with the steady supply of heat energy I can channel from my blade. I’ve been making my way down through the ice crust, analysing each piece of dumped trash I come across.

I also figured out why none of the pieces of debris have sunk through the icy crust. Putting pressure on ice tends to melt the top layer, which is how hard objects will slowly yet surely be pulled under by gravity. This has not happened to any of the current items decorating the south pole’s ice planes, as they are supported by a seemingly endless layer of random stuff.

I’ve been making my way down through this three-dimensional maze of supernatural dense things, melting the ice between gaps in order to find my way down. Looking backwards, I see a narrow tunnel going upwards. Dark mechanical shapes surround me, wiring sticking out of some, while others are mind-bendingly complex sets of interweaving curves. Everything is encased in translucent ice. I’ve been keeping the way upwards clear by constantly boiling new water, blowing the tunnel clear and keeping the way back open.

Slowly but surely, I’ve been able to piece together parts of an image of what might have been happening on this planet.

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