357 Saving Magnus Hilda 2 (1/2)
With the combined efforts of the servants in the castle, the array was drawn within fifteen minutes. Zero felt bad that it still took fifteen minutes. The food was getting cold and he was disrespecting the efforts of the cooks for working so hard to make a delicious meal. Once it was done, Zero thanked everyone and had them leave the room.
One Zero was alone, he set up a magic barrier as a precaution so that nobody would be able to enter or peek. When he was ready, he activated the array and opened the link to Freya who was caught off guard. The prayers were overwhelming and it took a good five minutes before the glowing light stopped. Once Zero was sure that Freya had received them, he started to store the food in his inventory and was careful not to include the cutlery. What were the kitchen staff going to do without plates to place the dishes on?
Still, Zero had about twenty minutes before his supposed ritual was done. He wondered if he should go with his original plan of introducing only ten cure potions or going with hundred after seeing the sincerity that the giants showed. The offering that he received was certainly enough to last Zero for a few good months, it was probably better than any monetary rewards for his efforts.
After much deliberation, Zero decided to give the giants thirty cure potions for the first round of offering after seeing that they were not expecting much from it. Still, Zero wanted to make his message clear. The giants shouldn't offer more than what they could afford. There was no use in curing the plague and facing a famine right after. It made no sense. Hence, Zero started planning for his speech to 'convey the goddess' words' after receiving their prayers.
Back in Valhalla, Freya was suffering a slight high after receiving a huge surge in prayers. She tried contacting Zero but the doctor wasn't picking up his communicator. Perhaps he was busy. The Goddess of Beauty and War started to look into what Zero was doing and visited the library to find out more about Magnus Hilda on Earth. With this amount of devotion to faith, Freya might be able to restore Valhalla to its former glory in a few centuries. The boy really did find her a gold mine.
Back in the dining hall, Zero was discussing a serious matter with Zoe and Wii.
Wii didn't look too certain and Zoe offered to be the assistant so that Zero could save his PMs for better uses in future. Zero sighed. He already had over four hundred PMs. Training parallel minds by controlling thirty golems proved to be difficult and tricky at first but it was showing good results. Zero was finally able to break through the bottleneck of creating more Parallel Minds after the high-level arithmetic training stopped working. The doctor even found out that at higher levels, Parallel Minds can only be created by pushing all his existing PMs to their limits. It works very much like cell division. If there isn't enough, they will create more. It could be said that it was more beneficial for Zero to abuse his PMs as much as possible in order to force them to grow.
”Don't worry too much about it,” he told the zashikiwarashi. Zoe was really hardworking and Zero wondered why the ghost was still single. She easily made for a good wife and mother. There was nothing to dislike about her.
Wii listened to Zero's logic about expanding his PMs by overclocking their capacity and frowned. She couldn't deny that Zero's method was working but the eggplant fairy was still worried. ”What if Solo attacks or if you suddenly need the PMs on short notice?”
Zero smiled. ”That's when you step in as the system administrator. You get to really everything and divert it to where it is most needed. Of course, that's at level red emergency protocol. Your primary job is simply to monitor the growth of PMs and assist me with ad-hoc projects using PMs. Dedicating PMs will be your task for now. I know that maintaining a dimension requires a lot of PMs but we have just enough to support one more dimension, don't we?”
Wii sighed. It was true that she was Zero's resource manager. The dimension can be created by the system but it still has to be managed by Zero and his PMs behind the scenes. ”I understand. We will make that kitchen. Is there anything else?”
Zero thought about it for a while. ”For now, I'm happy with how things are. I will leave the sorting out of my inventory to you, it is almost time to exit from my ritual. I'll catch you later.”
Wii smiled and waved goodbye to her master before getting back to work. Zoe couldn't help but be curious as to why Zero needed a kitchen dimension but she shook her head. It was no use thinking about it, she will soon find out. Zero did mention that he wanted Zoe to be the recipe keeper and update the recipe library so the ghost decided to organise her schedule and set aside about an hour each day to do that. As a household ghost, she had been cooking for a long time and experimenting with thousands of dishes. Recently, her repertoire had expanded thanks to the addition of new villagers and frequent visitors from the abyss and from Heaven.
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When Zero finally emerged from the dining room, he told someone to collect the cure potions. The potions looked small in the hands of giants. For the bigger giants like Lawrence, it was only the size of his pinky even if the vial itself was half of Zero's height. Instead of looking sceptical, Lawrence cried tears of gratefulness and fell to his knees to worship the invisible goddess that Zero spoke about.