Re: Tales of the Rune-Tech Sage-Chapter 499: Workaround II

CH499 Workaround II

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With the step complete, Alex now had two Simulation Programs; one for Pangea and one for Verdantis.

’Now... let’s join them together.’

Alex closed the Beta Bracer’s screen, then focused on the OmniRune floating within his Mindspace.

His consciousness was pulled into the Greater Rune’s internal workspace.

Inside that mental space, Alex saw the two versions of the Simulation Formation hovering before him.

His eyes narrowed.

’Duplicate both formations,’ he prompted.

Instantly, another copy of the Pangea and Verdantis Simulator Formations was produced.

Alex swiped away the original copies, leaving only the duplicates behind.

’Bring up the Translator Formation.’

OmniRune didn’t need further prompting.

It brought up the Translator Formation, duplicated it, then archived the original away. The duplicate was then placed neatly between the two Simulator Formations—like a bridge being laid across two world.

Alex smiled.

’Connecting the AI to my mind so it can use my thinking patterns as a development model is starting to bear fruit.’

OmniRune’s actions made it clear.

It had already grasped what Alex intended.

He wanted to use the Translator Formation as a bridge between the two Simulator Formations.

However, even with that awareness, OmniRune still held back at the final step—recognising its role as an assistant, and not the decision-maker.

It waited for confirmation.

’Do it,’ Alex instructed.

Immediately, OmniRune began testing different methods to connect the three formations together.

Because Alex was doing this directly inside his mind, the entire process was fuelled by his mental energy.

Fortunately, whether it was the Simulator Formations or the Translator Formation, Alex had always envisioned them being ported, linked, and layered into other formations.

They already contained specific porting routes and compatibility anchors. This reduced OmniRune’s workload drastically.

After a short but intense sequence of adjustments, OmniRune finally found the correct alignment– the right porting angles and the right connections.

Boom!

The moment the formations connected, a soft explosion rippled through Alex’s Mindspace.

The space itself trembled as if reality had just been rewritten.

’Phew...’

Alex heaved a sigh of relief.

’The Emulator Grand Formation is complete.’

He stared at the formation floating before him.

The three formations had fused into one seamless structure.

A single grand formation.

But OmniRune didn’t stop there.

Compression!

The entire Grand Formation compressed violently inward, folding and collapsing into itself until it condensed into a single Greater Rune.

Alex was abruptly ejected from the workspace.

His consciousness snapped back into his Mindspace.

He looked up just in time to see OmniRune’s floating form shift.

The Greater Rune morphed.

Its structure changed, and in the next breath, OmniRune had transformed into the newly created Emulator Rune.

Alex’s eyes snapped open in the real world.

His heart pounded once, but hard.

’The moment of truth...’ he thought.

He raised his hand.

Then, he attempted to spell-cast again...

But this time, he did it through his Rune-Tech platform, but with one small twist.

Instead of directly forming the spell’s runes outside his body with mana, Alex used the remainder of his mental energy to construct the spell formation inside his mind.

Since it was formed within his Mindspace, the spell naturally took shape as a Runic Formation, exactly as he intended.

Then, Alex fed that runic formation into OmniRune’s Emulator Greater Rune form.

The construct manifested inside the Pangea Simulator portion of the Greater Rune, where it was immediately decomposed into its individual semantic rune structures.

Those semantic structures flowed into the Translator segment of the Greater Rune.

There, they were translated using the Rune–Sigil pairing library OmniRune had already curated earlier.

A moment later, the translated output was transposed into the Verdantis Simulator, where it took form as a Sigil structure.

Finally, OmniRune projected the Sigil structure outward from Alex’s Mindspace.

Above Alex’s hand, a spell formation—built from Sigils—assembled itself in the real world.

[Mana Ball]!

It was a basic, acolyte-level spell, yes. But it also represented far more than that to Alex in this moment.

It was a breakthrough.

A workaround to a constraint that had threatened to cripple both Alex and his Rune-Tech platform on Verdantis.

With that small success, Alex snapped one of the chains holding Rune-Tech down.

Crack~!

But just as his excitement surged—

The projected spell formation above his hand suddenly shattered into fragments.

Alex palmed his face.

’That’s right...’

His expression twisted into a grimace.

’Mental state is one of the variables that determines a Sigil’s nature. If my mental state shifts, the effect of a Sigil can increase, decrease... or even change completely.’

His rising excitement had altered the nature of one or more Sigils mid-cast.

The formation destabilised, and the spell collapsed.

’Runes are better,’ Alex grumbled, letting his bias slip out unfiltered.

Runes weren’t affected by mental state. They could be cast and forgotten with no fluctuations nor instability.

But at the same time, that also meant runes couldn’t be strengthened or weakened by mental state either.

And depending on the situation, that could be an advantage in its own right.

Alex then had a thought.

He conjured another spell formation and sent it into OmniRune’s Emulator rune form.

The runic spell formation was translated into its Sigil equivalent...

...but the spell didn’t cast.

Alex shook his head.

’As expected.’

’I don’t understand the mental state required to stabilise the Sigils. So the spell formation collapses before it can even fully assemble.’

Fortunately, OmniRune was linked directly to his Mindspace.

That meant the AI could replicate different ’mental state’ energy patterns, adjusting them for each Sigil until the correct state was achieved.

It added another variable to an already exhausting grind, but at least it meant there was a path forward.

Alex was about to call it a night and leave OmniRune to handle the brute-force testing when the AI suddenly acted on its own.

[Mana Ball]!

OmniRune re-cast the very spell that had just succeeded through their connection.

But unlike Alex, OmniRune’s ’mental state’ didn’t fluctuate.

It remained perfectly stable.

And so the spell formation also held perfectly.

Alex’s eyes widened, and he immediately cut the spell off before it could fully cast.

The implication hit him like a hammer.

First came shock.

Then—Pure excitement.

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