Chapter 352
The four of them spent a full four months with their heads down, and Matt had to once more double the size of his island. It was reaching the limit of an auxiliary guild location's land allotment, but they just needed more room to ensure the rifts were properly spaced out as they rapidly built and destroyed them.
They worked day and night with smiles never leaving their faces. That was especially true when Aisha and Theodore realized the mana really wasn’t going to run out.
For the first week, they kept checking in with Matt any time they wanted to do something they thought might be ‘wasteful’. While Matt was happy they were conscious of their spending, and he’d rather have someone who kept those considerations in mind, he really wanted to not be bothered by requests for tests that only cost a few hundred thousand mana. Them asking for permission took longer than it would take him to make that much mana, but he couldn’t exactly tell them that.
In those first four months, they actually made some serious progress.
Aisha spearheaded the formation plate simplification method when Matt overheard her lamenting the guilds super AI wasn’t installed yet.
Part of his chatting with Shadi had led to her offering to give his guild a deal on one of TrueMinds super AI built for research guilds and optimized for running simulations. She had been able to deliver it in just days, but Harper and their people were still inspecting the hardware and software of the three AI TrueMind had sent over.
When Matt offered to use his own [AI] to run the simulations in the meantime, she just looked at him for a long moment, before muttering something that sounded suspiciously like “bullshit Ascenders” and accepted the offer. Dedicating a measly five million did the trick. Hopefully the TrueMind AI could give similar performance..
Shadi had talked TrueMind’s new product up to the moon and back, but he would only know for sure once he got his hands on it.
Between Aisha's own skill and Matt’s AI, she had created a Tier 25 version of the formation plate that worked, though it wasn’t great. It relied on supersized plates, and the formation, while only using Tier 25 runes, was fiendishly difficult to actually create, to the point where it would take a very good Tier 25 enchanter or an average Tier 27 enchanter to recreate the plates. The problem was just how much control was needed for the lower Tier aura rifts to form in a reliable percentage of tests. Low Tier runes just struggled to do what was needed, even when given ample space to spread them out and layer them up.