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Chapter 625
'First, I'll set myself as the primary authority holder...'
Seong Jihan set himself as the primary authority holder and Urd as the auxiliary holder in the void control authority section divided into two columns.
Then,
Swish...
[You have become the void control authority holder.]
[You can now control the void.]
A message about being able to control the void appeared in the purple message window.
Simultaneously, the method of summoning void flashed in Seong Jihan's mind.
Did he automatically learn this after obtaining the control authority?
Let's try it out.
"Summon void."
As soon as Seong Jihan spoke, purple mist rose beside him.
Whoosh...!
The void was sucked into his body.
'Unlike before, the void is compliant inside my body.'
Void was originally a destructive ability even to its user.
It used to be a daily task to regulate it when void increased in the body.
But after obtaining the control authority, the void flowed quietly in Seong Jihan's body without causing trouble.
'At this rate, I can keep inputting void, right?'
As Seong Jihan thought this and injected void, the void ability score in his stat window began to increase exponentially.
And soon,
'...It hit 9999?'
In the stat window, void quickly surpassed 9999.
And as it was about to exceed 10,000,
[To possess over 10,000 void, your body must be replaced with void.]
[Do you want to replace your body with void?]
'Replace the flesh with void... I guess this is how Urd's void form came to be.'
Seong Jihan understood how Urd's void form originated only after obtaining the control authority.
'Replacing the body with void would make me stronger... but I should look into it more first.'
He clicked 'No' on the message window for now.
Then,
Swish...
The void that had been continuously absorbed into Seong Jihan's body stopped being injected and circled outside.
'Well... This makes raising stats easy?'
It felt like he was editing.
Well, maybe this much power was needed to be called a server administrator.
Seong Jihan looked at the void accumulated in his body and recalled the conditions for becoming a light clan member.
'Come to think of it, to become greedy, there had to be little void in the body.'
Void was the benchmark for measuring greed among lazy greedy ones.
'If I stay at 9999, will I be unable to enter Ark?'
While thinking about this, Seong Jihan also looked for the emergency inspection option on the server management device.
Then,
[Do you want to start an emergency inspection?]
[To access Ark, void must be below the standard level.]
A message appeared saying to clear the void stat and proceed with emergency inspection.
'Then there's no point in accumulating to 9999.'
It might be useful when removing Urd from the server later.
Thinking this, Seong Jihan was about to search for what else he could do with the server management device when,
[Server Administrator. I have something to tell you.]
Swish...
The helmet symbolizing the Black Administrator rose beside him.
Unlike usual, in a form smaller than Seong Jihan's fist, it was bowing its head politely.
"You've become more courteous than before."
[The Server Administrator now also holds the void control authority... I'm just showing appropriate respect.]
"I see. Then you won't stalk and monitor me like before, right?"
[Of course not.]
Before, he even interfered over constellation sponsorship.
His attitude had flipped entirely 180 degrees.
Was the void control authority that good?
Seong Jihan smirked and asked,
"Hey. Then can I send humanity back to bronze? There's no need for them to be in gold, right?"
[Do as you wish, Administrator. However, if data changes too rapidly, Urd in Ark might detect an anomaly. Please be mindful of that.]
If he edited too much, would she come to check thinking, 'What's wrong with that server?'
'Well, I don't think Ark's Urd would wake up just from demoting humanity...'
Better safe than sorry.
There was no need to edit with the server management device when they were not even facing a demotion crisis.
What was important right now was targeting Ark.
"Alright. I'll leave it be for now. But... what exactly are you?"
Seong Jihan asked what he had been curious about.
The Black Administrator who knew about Ark.
It didn't seem to be an entity within Server 4212.
And,
[I am an AI from Ark in charge of data deletion.]
"AI? You?"
[That's correct.]
The Black Administrator answered that he was an AI in charge of deletion.
'The most powerful Black Administrator in BattleNet is actually just in charge of data deletion...'
Of course, the data he was talking about probably referred to all entities within the server.
Still, hearing his true identity was somewhat disappointing.
Feeling a bit let down, Seong Jihan continued his questions.
"An AI... Then you must know a lot about Ark. Tell me what you know about Ark."
[Ark's data capacity has reached its limit. At this rate, new servers cannot be created.]
"Ah... Is that so? But besides data, don't you have any general information?"
[I am in charge of data deletion. I can only answer questions related to data.]
He thought he might get some good information since he was an AI from Ark.
But he just kept talking about data.
Seong Jihan frowned and recalled what happened earlier.
"But for someone like that, you warned me about Ark's Urd, right? That shouldn't be related to data?"
[Urd caused Ark's data saturation. She is a person related to 'data'.]
"Hmm... What did Urd do to saturate the data?"
[That can only be determined in Ark's central area... but she has banned me from entering Ark.]
Come on, if he couldn't even answer data-related questions, what did he know?
As Seong Jihan looked at the black helmet incredulously,
[Urd has made contact. I will share the screen.]
Zing...
One eye of the Black Administrator turned pure white.
And on the screen that appeared there,
-I have a bad feeling.
Urd appeared with a serious expression.
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A bad feeling, she said.
'Hmm. Has she noticed something?'
After rolling back 1 day through emergency inspection, she still thought Id had the server management device.
That was why she was trying to find Id like this, even using the void control authority on the Black Administrator.
However,
-...Strangely, it feels like things have gone wrong.
-Black Administrator. We can't waste any more time. Cooperate in searching for Id immediately.
-I will use the void control authority.
Whatever was bothering her, she was ordering the Black Administrator to cooperate quickly.
"Pretend to cooperate while hindering the search for the White Administrator."
[Understood.]
Keeping Urd as an auxiliary authority holder was all for this purpose.
Following Seong Jihan's order, shortly after the Black Administrator was dispatched to Urd,
[I will relay the target's movements.]
Zing...
A screen appeared from within the void.
Urd's figure appeared inside.
Proceeding with the search along with the Black Administrator,
Her expression was much better than before.
-You still haven't located Id?
-What have you been doing all this time... Mobilize all the void to find him now!
-I need to report about the Blue Administrator to Ark soon...
While pressuring the Black Administrator, Urd tried uploading information about Seong Jihan to Ark's main body.
'It seems the server management device is needed to contact Ark's main body.'
And since it was in their hands, as long as Urd didn't die, there was no need for Ark to intervene, was there?
'While she's wasting time there, I should prepare for re-entering Ark.'
Thinking this, Seong Jihan fiddled with the device to see if there was anything else he could do with the server management device.
And soon,
'Everything can be edited except light clan members and the Black Administrator, huh.'
He realized the server management device could do countless things.
However, Seong Jihan, who had become a light clan member, along with Id, Urd, and the Black Administrator, were not subjects that could be directly edited.
'Hmm... It's a shame I can't edit myself, I wanted to max out my level.'
Seong Jihan, who could still grow his Blue stat when leveling up, wanted to max out all the stats he could before entering Ark, now that he had the server management device.
It was disappointing that there were restrictions on 'isolates'.
"Isn't there an easy way to level up..."
Or at least get some free residual points.
As Seong Jihan muttered this while handling the server management device,
Zing...
[Loading list of potions to assist leveling up...]
[Loading recipes registered from previous servers as well.]
When he finished speaking, a list of experience potions appeared on the server management device.
They were all EX-grade items, but,
'...What's with these names?'
The potion names were ridiculous.
[Let's Get to Max Level Quickly]
[Lazily Made Because Leveling Up is Annoying]
[Do I Have to Grind Here After Coming This Far?]
[Being Isolated is Bad Enough, Why Make Me Level Up?]
[Report Me If You Want To]
Every single one had a hint of irritation about why they had to go through the tedious leveling process.
All these potions had a 'CHEAT' mark stamped on them.
'...Did isolates make these to skip the leveling process?'
They said they loaded recipes registered from previous servers, but all sorts of strange names were popping up.
Seong Jihan smirked and focused on the cheat marks.
"What happens if you use an item with a cheat mark?"
[It gets reported to the central server, and the final evaluation score of that server's administrator is greatly reduced.]
"It gets reported..."
He didn't care about the final evaluation score, but being reported to the central server was a problem.
That would be a big issue if Ark's Urd woke up just because he tried to raise some experience.
"Are non-cheat items not effective enough? I want to make something that won't get reported to the central server."
To Seong Jihan's question,
[You can register new recipes with the Server Administrator's authority.]
[You are an isolate with 'Device Proficiency'. You can create items that avoid censorship more efficiently.]
[SSS+ grade experience potions can be created.]
The answer came that using the Device Proficiency trait he just obtained, he could make up to SSS+ without triggering censorship.
"Is that so...? Then let's make it right away."
As long as it didn't get reported to the central server, he should use it as much as he wanted.
Seong Jihan started registering recipes through the server management device.
And the next day,
"...Jihan. What are you doing?"
Seong Jiah, who came into the kitchen to prepare breakfast,
Blinked and watched what Seong Jihan was doing.
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[Proofreader - Gun]
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