World Seed

Author’s Corner: Hey everyone! Some of you may have noticed, but my signature now contains a second link. This link leads to a website where World Seed is being hosted, known as lightnovels.world. I hope everyone is willing to head over there to check it out and show support, as they have other original works there, as well as some translation projects underway.

Before anyone panics, I am not going to get into the habit of posting there earlier than here in order to draw the audience over to the other site or anything. Depending on how things go, I may host future polls in both locations, but otherwise things will remain unchanged for the readers that simply want to read the story on RRL.

That taken care of, hope you all enjoy the chapter!

It took a while before Talia got back to me. According to her, there are a total of three Toybox users in the Gerin system, but only one of them has trained it to a high enough level to send people to and from the Toy Chest. She also consulted the temple, and confirmed the theory that the bomb was a portable FTL drive, before searching the gold market for an item that could prevent the bombs.

The item was a bit expensive, so they were unable to raise the funds to buy it right away. Unfortunately, Talia doesn’t have anyone working for her that mass produces the gold coins. Instead, I decided to send the funds to buy five of the devices with the personnel I sent via the Toybox user. That way, they would have one for each planet, and still more left to research and recreate on their own.

Going by the item description, it was a small sphere that was heavily enchanted. Its sole purpose was to create a field of stable space one mile in radius. This would prevent any form of teleportation or dimensional portals within that area. Now, normally it would take a ton of these to work for what we needed, but if we placed the portal in subspace that problem would be fixed. After all, subspace was roughly one ten-thousandth the size of normal space with direct correlation. As such, a one mile radius on that end would be enough to cover an entire planet, and then some.

It took about three hours to arrange for all of the money to be transferred, and the personnel to be assigned. With this, the subspace bombs won’t be a threat to the elves anymore. Though, it did take about a third of my gold supply to give them that protection, so I really hope they don’t try anything outrageous.

The next few days were spent in relative quiet, waiting for the repairs to conclude. In that time, two other bombing attempts occurred. One was on Gerin 6, where the plan was foiled by the new technology, and the other was on the Ha’vosh planet. In that case… there was no need for the anchoring device, because the Ha’vosh detected the problem and dealt with it themselves.

The strangest thing was the bomber of Gerin 6. It was a human, like normal, but as soon as his plan failed and he was about to be taken in for interrogation, he dropped dead. There were no signs of foul play, or anything like that. My only guess was that the disposable soldiers purchased over the gold market were given jobs to perform immediately before their time expired. That way there would be no risk of an information leak. Since they were NPCs purchased by the gold market, resurrection spells didn’t work on them either, so interrogation was completely out of the question.

By the time we were ready to leave, and the repairs to the Ariadne had finished, I had consulted with everyone regarding Ackbar’s new spell. From what he told us, he could feel the New Human Empire from several different directions. One such direction included the path we had initially been going. None of us were sure quite how accurate this was, but it at least hinted that there was still an Empire presence among Gerin, or in a world along that route.

As such, we decided to maintain our original course, rather than investigate one of the other readings. Since he was unable to differentiate the strength of the results from his spell, we couldn’t tell which one might be from a single spy or their main fleet. This left us only with the option of exploring each location one at a time. At the most, he could teach the spell to others, and the search will spread out after we arrive at Gerin.

Shortly after we launched back into subspace, I once again checked my skill list to confirm my progress. I had been through quite a lot of growth lately, and was quite proud of myself.