305 Libido Seed

Once the idea came to mind, Dante could no longer suppress it. It seemed like a perfect solution to this problem, and he already had more than a few ideas in mind.

"Good, thank you for letting me know this. In about a month's time, I should be able to move out and start conquering territories. Though, you should note that I will focus on unclaimed territories," Dante stated as he stood up and nodded to the lad.

"Oh...! Thank you, sir, you'll be helping us out greatly!" The Aide's eyes lit up with surprise.

He understood the difficulty of fighting for unclaimed territories. While the ambient monsters' strength varied from territory to territory, the test one needed to undergo to claim the flag/spire was not easy to pass, per se.

Even Portia had largely avoided unclaimed territories; most of the ones she had claimed were territories of other, weaker universes around theirs. While this gave them more territory, it also made them offend many other parties deeply.

It was fine if one or two, but Portia, with her strength, basically bulldozed through multiple universes, making them all hate the Eternal Universe with a passion. Not to mention, with the number 1 universe putting her on the front page, she was now the focus of all universes in the First Gate, all of them thinking about how to eliminate this future trouble and her underdog universe.

Dante choosing to focus on unclaimed territories would still allow them to grow while not courting hate from others, also giving the upper echelon time to sort out the political disputes arising from Portia's behavior.

Dante left by teleporting back to his home in the First Gate and letting Beatrice know about his next step. Hearing that her mother had done such a thing, Beatrice was naturally in agreement and supportive of it, advising Dante to do the same.

However, Dante shook his head and knew he could not follow the same path as Portia. He did not agree with her methods, and he was fundamentally a different kind of conqueror than Portia.

Beatrice didn't mind either way; she loved them both unconditionally. She then supported Dante in creating the quantum world for the power system that he aimed to create because regardless of technology, coding was time-consuming.

The Eternal Universe had no advantages when it came to quantum coding. If it was plain virtual reality that relied on digital code, a single A1 from an Etranstore Raspberry Pi board could easily create one the likes of which would astound the humans of 2030 in the Centralis Universe.

But quantum coding was something they had not even fully explored. Each quantum world required hours of work by multiple AIs being supervised by human minds using the A1 chips. You might think it was easier than typing code into an engine or editor, but it was just as tiring.

Because it was literally like building a house, brick by brick. Luckily for the humans, they were the foremen with the hard hats and the architect's design in hand while the AIs were the workers who mixed the cement and placed the bricks.

Naturally, the quality of work produced by the AIs was fixed most of the time as they were frighteningly precise, but higher-quality A1 produced higher-quality work. For example, the Raspberry Pi A1 could not hope to match the base A1 that Dante created in the home universe.

The question was: how did average folks like that Uchiha_Rulez guy create their own hostable quantum servers for the Etraverse?

Well, it was sort of like creating a website using WordPress versus making it from scratch. The Etraverse provides templates and various help to the user when creating their worlds using their state-of-the-art AIs and technology, while Dante was doing all the heavy lifting alone.

However, Dante had two advantages. The first was naturally Quantum Core, his EX Rank superpower that allowed him to modify the rules of quantum worlds as he pleased. The degree to which he could modify was extremely large at the EX Rank, and it hardly seemed to show its value because Dante did not want to modify school worlds or free worlds.

Yet, when dealing with his own worlds from scratch, its role was indispensable. It was easier to use the superpower to modify rules and create them, so Dante could get the framework up really fast, faster than any other service or power in the Eternal Universe.

Not only that, his superpower could modify the rules to do a lot of the heavy lifting for the Cosmic Tree when he replicated a quantum item and granted it purchase in the real world.lightsnovel

Don't underestimate the Cosmic Tree's suffering in this regard; Dante had put it through an unspeakable amount of stress. Without getting too deep into it, one should simply picture replication like this.

The Cosmic Tree was a world-renowned writer, and Dante was a client. When Dante brought low-quality items to be replicated, be they extremely fantastical or especially incompatible with the rules of reality like the Mutation Cores, it was like a 3-year-old child scribbling a single sentence of 'I wuv mummy and Daddy,' and the writer in question being told to turn that into a 500,000-word novel that would be a New York Times Bestseller.

Whenever Dante replicated a new quantum item, that was the kind of hell the Cosmic Tree had to go through. So Quantum Core lessening that burden was naturally very welcome.

The second advantage Dante had was that Lily, Beatrice's cousin, had the superpower of Artificial Intelligence. After being begged by Beatrice, Dante eventually let her and Connor rank up their superpowers to SS level, which was the maximum Dante could do now.

However, the benefit was worth it. Connor and Lily were grateful—and especially smart—people, so they showed their gratitude immediately. Lily spent an entire week churning her newly upgraded superpower day and night to create an A1 that surpassed the limits of what the Eternal Universe could manage.

This was the A1 Dante had brought into the First Gate with him, and he had created a special vessel for it using Nanite Resonance, forming a ring he wore on his right hand's index finger.historical

With it, he could synchronize with his A1 chip to perform immense tasks that other AIs would require multiple of them to do at once. It was also a major part of the reason why Dante was so confident in his current voyage into the First Gate.

It was also why he dared to tell the aide to wait for a month. One should know, to create the quantum world where the Concoction of Absorption was made, it took them around 3 months or more to get it done.

In the end, Dante managed to create the necessary quantum world with the help of Beatrice and his many tools. This world was a small-sized one once again because creating anything bigger would require far more time than he could provide.

This time, Dante and Beatrice were smarter than before, having made it Earth during the primal era, which featured more plant life and fewer sentient beings because those required extremely complex behavioral programming.

Interestingly, Dante also chose to make the new power system a one-off one like the Eyes of Illusion and the Concoction of Absorption because, as you could imagine, creating complex power systems also required far more work and time than even coding sentient beings!

Frankly, the more Dante worked on his own quantum worlds, the more he respected Kurtaghagt and the Etraverse Corporation, and even more so the Eternal Academy and their famous worlds.

God knew the amount of work they had put into creating all those expansive worlds with such complex inner workings.

In the end, the method Dante created was something he called a 'Libido Seed.' It was a seed similar to those within watermelons that had to be ingested by a person. It would then break down and release its special substance that would change the physiology of the consumer, increasing their libido proportionally to their stats, removing all negative aspects of it—long gestation, birth complications, and pain, etc.—while enhancing the beneficial aspects.

Likewise, the born offspring would undergo safe accelerated growth until they reached adulthood by absorbing ambient energy, which was targeted at the ever-present Zero Energy.

As for the character and mental state of the child who went from newly born to 18 years in the span of a month, that was easily fixed by having the child undergo a coma-like growth, allowing implant A1 chips to simulate their growth.

lightsΝοvεl ?οm In other words, the child would be born, be injected with the nanites, sleep for a month, and outwardly go to being 18 years old, but during their I-month sleep, they experienced the full 18 years of life with their parents in the First Gate.

Of course, this was not foolproof. Cultivated friendships could not be replaced, and upon waking and finding the truth, such newly forged adults might undergo a crisis of self.

However, this was already the best short-term solution Dante could find that surpassed using clones and the like.