294 Recreation Magic 1 (1/2)
Ten days of constant pain. Zero had to tell Mii to inform Merlin that he would be resting in the lamp that Zeus gave him.
Unable to do anything more than have information shoved into his head, Zero could only lay numbly on the bed and receive everything that his assistants were pouring in. Wii was also given the instruction to do what she could to hasten the process of studying Merlin's libraries. The wizard god wasn't surprised when Mii told him about her master's request. Instead, he asked if there was anything he could help with.
Mii thought for a while. \”It would be good to not disturb him while he is processing all the information. Also, Wii and I will take over the transcribing, updating and recording of new books in your libraries. A section of the libraries has been cordoned off to put the completed books for your checking. There will be an easily accessible version on the reading device as well. We estimate the entire process to take about a month, depending on how much Zero can take. He's suffering a terrible headache from the information overload. The mindscape's mental capacity cannot cope with the amount of information flooding in. Both Wii and I are short-handed as it is, we can't handle organising the books, processing them and organising them at the same time.\”
Merlin hummed. \”I might have something for that.\”
Mii was surprised when the wizard god told her to wait. He went to his alchemy lab to search for something and came back about twenty minutes later with a huge sack of odd gadgets.
Merlin blanked out at that.\”Th-thirty? Zero has that many Parallel Minds?\”
Mii thought for a while. \”I think Zero's current capacity for Parallel Minds is actually close to two hundred. However, due to the limit of his mindscape's capacity and the system's restriction, he is only able to successfully use twenty for processing at any one time.\”
\”Out of curiosity, isn't it getting progressively harder to increase the number of Parallel Minds as you progress? Arithmetic hasn't progressed to the point of being able to create more than thirty Parallel Minds, you need alchemy for that.\”
Mii shrugged. \”Zero's doing it in a very strange way. It is true that Wii hit a wall at thirty with advanced Arithmetic. After that, Zero told Wii to focus on focus on something called philosophy. There are many of such books in the reading device that we are currently syncing with Zero's mind. It was my mistake. Wii was only supposed to sync the books from your physical libraries into the reading device that was linked to Zero's mindscape library. However, we didn't know that it would sync the entire reading device's library. There was no system option to stop that process. If we do that, parts of Zero's mind could be damaged.\”
Merlin shuddered. \”How many books does the reading device have?\”
Mii swallowed, not knowing how Merlin would react if he heard the real number. \”About a septillion? We thought that there was going to be a few million but we were wrong... the millions came from your library. The rest are still being processed. We don't know the actual number of books there are in the reading device... Steve updates it every hour.\”
Merlin looked odd like a fish out of water for a moment. \”Zero's reading of all those septillion books?\”
Mii nodded. \”It's not easy. The boy's practically paralysed and confined to the bed, groaning with pain constantly, unable to eat or sleep. I tried to bring him food but Zero doesn't have an appetite. he only eats pills now for pain relief and revitalisation. I've asked Hua Tuo for more pills because those are what Zero needs most now.\”
Merlin grew sick with worry hearing how horrible his student was feeling. \”I understand. Keep me updated about Zero's condition. Unfortunately, I don't have spares for that device. It was difficult to make but if you can find a way to duplicate it without causing side effects to my mind, let me know.\”
The strawcherry fairy thanked Merlin and excused herself. Mii could barely wait to introduce all the new gadgets. Maybe with the gadgets easing the pain, Zero would start to eat again.
Wii was pleasantly surprised to see her sister return with a bag of gadgets.\”These are...?\”
The two fairies conversed in detail while helping Zero equip the headband that Merlin claimed would help Zero with his headache. They also set up a link for all the processed books to not be thrown into the library's floor and into the temporary space instead. Mii asked Lily to monitor Zero's mana levels.
\”We should have reserves of sins and energy that can be converted to mana if required,\” she told the flower fairy who nodded.
\”The amount of mana needed to sustain everything is actually about two thousand per second using the lamp's time flow. I'm afraid there wouldn't be enough to sustain the operations once we start. Zero has to replenish the mana source from somewhere...\”
Mii frowned. \”Understood. I will talk to Zero about it. We have some ideas. Just let us know when the mana reserves have fallen below thirty percent.\”