Dimensional Codex System: I'm really not a cultist!

Chapter 1141: Chapter 1140: This Team Looks Kind of Familiar

The effects of the Magitech Exchange Conference quickly manifested.

Just a few days after the conference ended, quite a few people came to ask Fang Zheng about the Crystal Tower and mobile phones. Among them were people from the Magitech Nation, as well as from the Land of Wealth and the Kingdom of the Holy Church.

The Kingdom of the Holy Church had the biggest appetite. Compared to the Magitech Nation, the Kingdom of the Holy Church was actually more familiar with the Crystal Tower. After all, back at the Northern Fortress, Fang Zheng had directly started building a bunch of Crystal Towers and used Photon Cannons to push back and reclaim land from the Chaos Monster.

At that time, the Kingdom of the Holy Church did notice the Crystal Tower. However, Fang Zheng hadn’t mentioned selling it, so they naturally didn’t feel it appropriate to ask. In their view, something that could stabilize order, even if not a Divine Artifact, must be a precious item, not something one could casually request or purchase.

But now Fang Zheng was actually selling them, and given their magical effects, the Kingdom of the Holy Church certainly couldn’t miss out.

Because of this, they regarded the Crystal Towers as ”basic infrastructure”, purchasing the most among everyone. The Sanctuary directly handled the unified purchase, with Bishop Carl indicating that the Kingdom of the Holy Church intended to spread these Crystal Towers across every civilized area and use them to reclaim more territory from chaotic erosion.

Due to the Sanctuary’s plans and their large orders, Fang Zheng provided them at cost price, as the expansion of order benefited him too. Moreover... the role of Crystal Towers in the Star Spirit System... ahem, it’s fine as long as we know.

The Magitech Nation purchased fewer, mostly by mages. Many mages preferred to build their Mage Towers on deserted wilderness borders, where order is unstable and prone to chaotic invasions causing magic power fluctuations.

With the Crystal Towers, these mages no longer worried about such issues. Besides, with phones, they could converse, socialize, or discuss ideas without leaving home. It’s well known that mages are homebodies...

The Land of Wealth also had many buyers, but its official representatives only planned to build Crystal Towers in major cities, with most towers ordered by the nation’s conglomerates. Since they bought the least, and Fang Zheng’s relationship with them was average, plus they were wealthy, Fang Zheng, following a principle of capitalizing on this, increased their price by fifty times...

After all, if you’re rich and willful, would it be a loss not to profit?

As for the Kingdom of Flame... obviously, they wouldn’t choose to ”fund the enemy”.

Incidentally, Duel Cards were most popular in the Magitech Nation, to Fang Zheng’s surprise, because the rules were similar to duels between mages. Many mages felt playing Duel Cards improved combat judgement and reaction skills, making them more popular there compared to other countries, whose people saw it as pure entertainment, somewhat disappointing Fang Zheng.

Of course, Fang Zheng didn’t handle the specific negotiations. He offloaded them to Ogrande, then asked Kurumi for a clone and left.

Though the combination of Crystal Tower, mobile phone, and Game King caused a sensation in the Main World, it didn’t boost Fang Zheng’s reputation to ”respected level”, which he understood. These were new, and while many envisioned their uses, only after personally experiencing the benefits would his reputation slowly rise.

For Fang Zheng, he had already achieved half his goal.

In truth, increasing his reputation wasn’t Fang Zheng’s main aim; the primary reason for this decision was to establish a network in the Main World.

This was for—Yui.

Currently, Fang Zheng only had two Demigod Rank beings, with Black Katie as the absolute force of the Heavenly Dao Palace, fearing no ordinary foes, and one of Fang Zheng’s only trump cards besides the Fantasy Grade Soulstone.

However, Yui’s position was more awkward.

Though also a demigod, Yui’s divinity was strictly confined to the ”network” level. In Main World terms, Yui was more a ”sub-god” than a ”Supreme God”.

This was evident from her differences with Nymph: Yui had absolute electronic network control but couldn’t manipulate memories like Nymph, control magic, or transform information.

Therefore, Fang Zheng decided to build a network in the Main World. Once the concept of ”network” existed here, Yui could harness it to display her power. More importantly, he needed Yui’s help to control the Star Spirit Network. Fang Zheng foresaw attempts to study the Crystal Tower’s workings, and some might try to invade and claim the Star Spirit Network.

While there were no hackers yet, after witnessing the Shaping Type Chief manually land an airplane, Fang Zheng couldn’t confidently assure there was no threat to the Star Spirit Network.

In the network realm, no one was Yui’s match; as a demigod, she was unbeatable there.

Thus, Fang Zheng was at ease appointing Yui as the network’s ”administrator”.

However, some things weren’t going smoothly.

[Insufficient permissions, cannot unlock]

Seeing the prompt, Fang Zheng rolled his eyes.

It was his third visit to the entrance of the Goddess ruins beneath the Swarm Territory on the Western Continent, for safety bringing both Black Katie and Yui.

While Fang Zheng knew two demigods didn’t equal one True God,

what if it worked?

But it was evident to Fang Zheng that this world offered no such fluke.

”Daddy, it still won’t work?”

The fairy-like Yui sat on Fang Zheng’s shoulder, somewhat uneasily asking her question. Earlier, Yui had tried to transform into data to ”pass through” the gate, but after all, the Goddess of Order was indeed the Goddess of Order. Even when Yui became pure data, she couldn’t pass through this sealed gate.

”Still no luck, now all I can do is pray that the third trial will allow me to complete the mission...”

Looking at the gate in front of him that looked suspiciously like the seal of an Evil God, Fang Zheng helplessly made a sarcastic remark. He still remembered that when he first came into contact with this Divine Gate, the mission objective activated required him to pass the Free Trial and raise his permissions to level 1.

However, now with the ”Power,” ”Wisdom,” and ”Soul” Free Trials, Fang Zheng had passed ”Power” and ”Wisdom,” but had failed to ignite the Divine Fire.

Next up was only the ”Soul.”

But even though he failed twice, Fang Zheng wasn’t without gains.

In the ”Power” world, he rescued a group of girls struggling to survive in the apocalypse, and also a group of zombie girls trying to survive. Farron Xiuxiu was becoming more and more famous in the Heavenly Dao Palace, and Fang Zheng was already considering whether to form more idol groups to enrich the cultural life of the people.

And in the ”Wisdom” world, Fang Zheng found rare peace and even met Eiriri and Asuna... Hmm, it was a pretty nice place.

By the way, after returning from the ”side mission,” Fang Zheng arranged for Anya to join the Azure Fleet at the Heavenly Dao Palace under the responsibility of Iona. As for C.C., Fang Zheng sent her to accompany Walnut as an adventurer.

Fang Zheng did this because of a conversation he had with C.C.

At that time, this green-haired girl complained to Fang Zheng that only by experiencing death could one truly be alive, yet she said she wasn’t really living.

To prove that this green-haired girl was just being melodramatic, Fang Zheng sent C.C. to accompany Walnut—believing that after being chased by Demon Beasts a few times, she wouldn’t complain like that anymore. After all, adventurers coexist with death.

When you’re facing a Water Monster that can swallow a person whole, or a Man-Eating Plant that can corrode a person to the bone, and a Necromancer that can extract souls, let’s see if you can still laugh?

Fang Zheng believed that C.C. was now experiencing ”death.”

You’re welcome, it’s what I should do.

”Get ready for the third trial.”

Fang Zheng yawned, then made his decision.

These days, Black Cat and Asuna had been busy with extra lessons, and he was left with nothing to do. The Kingdom of Flame sensibly didn’t cause him any trouble, so Fang Zheng decided to take advantage of this time to quickly complete this task and see what exactly the Goddess of Order left for her followers.

Especially considering that the White Tower Mages had already reached the sky—although only at the lowest orbit near Earth—but Fang Zheng suspected they might find time to contact the seal set by the Goddess, so it was better to complete this task sooner.

With that in mind, Fang Zheng reached out to open his personal terminal, and once everyone was ready, he quickly pressed the ”Soul” trial.

The scene before his eyes flashed by.

When Fang Zheng came to his senses again, he was standing in a green park forest, and beside him was...

”Yo-ho... Big brother, we came to accompany you this time.”

Little Hei waved at Fang Zheng with a grin, and standing next to her, Illya blushed slightly and gave Fang Zheng a salute.

”MASTER... I’ll do my best this time too.”

”Just the two of you?”

”Of course not... look, there’s more here?”

”Hmm?”

Hearing Little Hei’s words, Fang Zheng was momentarily puzzled, then he saw something suddenly move in Little Hei’s arms, and a little black kitten emerged, meowing and rolling gracefully.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the white cat, which Fang Zheng previously extracted from the Soulstone, lay quietly in Illya’s arms, staring at Fang Zheng.

”Why are they here too?”

Looking at the black and white kittens, Fang Zheng couldn’t help but be surprised. He looked at Illya and Little Hei, and then at the kittens in their arms.

This combination... seems kind of familiar?