Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 4323 Perfection
After a moment of silence, the spirit of the City of Knowledge did not choose to refute directly, but instead asked cautiously, "But if we are going to make a big fuss about modifying the City of Knowledge system just to make it more intuitive or convenient to hitch a ride, wouldn't that be making a mountain out of a molehill?"

Angel waved his hand: "Of course not."

"As I just said, bringing the hidden academic city system to the surface is essentially to better serve faculty and students."

“I used hitchhiking as an example, but it doesn’t mean that hitchhiking is the only way.”

"It's just to make the Academy system more intuitive."

"And there are many other possibilities for this more intuitive similar effect. For example, if a student encounters an emergency and the assistive hand cannot handle it alone, the assistive hand can send out a distress signal to the surrounding area."

As Angell finished speaking, seemingly to allow the spirit of the city to experience the effect more directly, he waved his hand and used illusion magic to create a flat map of the city in mid-air.

A large patch of green dots, moving somewhere on the map.

“These green dots represent a student.” Angleton paused. “Let’s say one of these students is in an emergency.”

A green dot suddenly turned into a red dot, and emitted concentric circles of red light that spread outwards like ripples.

The other green dots in the area covered by the red light suddenly had a bubble pop up above their heads, emitting a "?". Then, as if sensing something, the "?" turned into an "!".

Immediately afterwards, all the surrounding green dots turned yellow, and then moved closer to the red light.

By working together to help the red dot, everyone is happy in the end, and the red dot that encountered an emergency turns back into a green dot.

“See, isn’t this intuitive?” Angell: “As soon as someone is detected and located in need of help, the nearest other people can be quickly called to come and assist.”

"And the Academy System is fully capable of doing that."

Because students use assistive hands, and teachers have tools to control these assistive hands, even though they look different, they are all essentially controlled by the Academy system.

In other words, as long as every faculty member and student is part of the learning city system, they can naturally achieve this intuitive positioning.

"It can even make precise requests for help."

Angell waved again.

The green dot in a dormitory on the map suddenly turned into a red dot.

“Let’s assume that the student in the dormitory suddenly falls seriously ill. According to the logic of the school city system in the past, at this time, the assistant responsible for the student’s safety will spontaneously take the student to the school clinic as soon as possible.”

"This is an independent action, which is not bad, but it completely fails to make full use of the convenience of the Academy City system."

Angell tapped it gently.

Suddenly, a dotted line extended from the red dot in the dormitory toward the school clinic, directly connecting to the green dot there.

The bubble on the green dot's head turned into a yellow bubble, and a question mark appeared on its head, then a question mark appeared. Next, the yellow dot quickly went out and ran towards the red dot in the dormitory.

They finally met up successfully, and both dots turned back into "green dots" representing safety.

"See? The Academy City system allows isolated actions to be integrated into the whole, maximizing collective initiative. This targeted notification enables precise resource allocation, maximizing efficiency and avoiding the pitfalls of isolated responses."

After all, under the old logic, a seriously ill student could only be dragged to the school clinic by an assistant.

This process takes a lot of time and there's no way to match a school bus.

If a serious illness is left untreated for too long, it could lead to serious long-term consequences.

However, if the school city system is made explicit instead of implicit, it will not only allow the support team to quickly match school buses and arrive at the school clinic more quickly, but also notify the school doctor in a timely manner. Both sides can rush to the scene and reach the patient more quickly, thus resolving such emergencies more quickly.

“Doesn’t efficiency increase when it’s changed from a single event to a two-way event?” Angell asked.

The spirit of the city thought for a moment, and finally admitted, "Yes."

Angel continued, "Efficiency can actually be improved further. For example, we can combine the previous 'nearby matching' to upgrade the two-person event into a group event."

Angel again used the example of dormitory patients.

This time, the red dots in the dormitory not only connected to the school clinic with dotted lines, but also emitted ripples of red light outwards.

The surrounding green dots immediately turned yellow and quickly gathered near the red dot.

The spirit of the city seemed to understand: "Is this about getting people nearby to help the patient? But they might not have the medical expertise."

Angell: "They may not have medical expertise, but don't forget, they're still in contact with the school clinic, so they can definitely learn on short notice."

Angel snapped his fingers.

The light spot in the school clinic had a "video call" with the light spot in the dormitory.

During video calls, the school doctor can not only see the patient's general appearance, but also instruct nearby people on how to properly handle the patient's emergency situation.

"Do you understand now?"

"Even if the group is unable to handle the emergency, it is still faster for many people to help transport the patient than for one person to transport the patient alone."

"This is the power of the group."

The Spirit of the Citadel compared the old logic with the new logic provided by Angell. It was very intuitive, but in terms of convenience and practicality, the difference was huge.

Angell: "In this group activity, video calls were involved, which is still something the City system can do, right?"

The spirit of the City did not refute this; indeed, as long as they were within the City's boundaries, two individuals could communicate.

“While phone calls are possible, the prerequisite is that they have a medium through which they can see each other directly. For example, the screen in the academic affairs office can be used for video conversations with the screen in the principal's office.”

"However, video calls cannot be made with just assistance."

The Spirit of the City pointed out this shortcoming.

And that is exactly what Angell is going to talk about next.

Angell: "If the Auxiliary Hand doesn't work, then we can create a new, more intuitive medium for the City of Academia system that everyone can see."

"For example..."

Angel waved his hand, erasing the illusion of a map in the air and replacing it with a glass screen that could be held in one hand.

“We can create such an object, set up a subsystem of the academic city system inside it, and distribute it to all faculty, staff and students.”

"Regardless of the school bus situation shown on the map I just mentioned..."

As Angel finished speaking, a clear map appeared on the glass screen, showing the route the school bus would take.

"Or is it a situation where teamwork is required...?"

A red dot appeared on the map on the glass screen, with the words "Requesting Support" floating above it.

"Or, we might need to use video calls."

A video call request popped up on the glass screen.

With such a direct demonstration, the spirit of the city naturally saw the significance of this "glass screen".

However, the spirit of the city, who had never been exposed to such a product before, could not immediately confirm whether it was really appropriate to suddenly create and popularize something new.

Isn't that going to be a bit too much trouble?

"You think it's a huge undertaking because you don't see its potential, but I do."

Under the watchful eye of the City's spirit, Angel then demonstrated the other functions that the "glass screen" could contain.

“It’s not just about maps, SOS, and video calls,” Angell said. “It can also add other useful features, such as recording city locations, creating a forum for everyone in the city to communicate and discuss; and it can also build message boards for different colleges based on their colleges…”

“These things were difficult to see intuitively in the past, but with a glass screen that can display both images and text, everything can be done.”

Seeing that the spirit of the city remained silent, Angell continued to increase his bets.

"Also, my special mission requires me to rebuild a mission system. If I were to follow the old methods, all I could do would be to find a specific building and turn it into what is known as the 'Mission Hall'."

"Next, various light screens were created inside the hall to record the tasks I issued."

"Other members of the management team also need to be physically present at the mission hall to receive this mission."

"But if everyone had such a glass screen, wouldn't that solve the problem?"

Ingres constructed a glass screen using illusions and held it in his hand.

A taskbar was displayed on the screen, neatly listing the ten tasks that he was required to issue under his exclusive task list.

Above this taskbar, there is a title: "School City Forum → Administrator Sub-forum → Task Hall".

The message is quite straightforward; the Spirit of the City can almost immediately understand that this quest lobby is merely a sub-forum within the forum.

Without such a direct demonstration as Angor's, the spirit of the Citadel would still be somewhat dazed.

But Ingres demonstrated it so clearly, as if he himself had used something similar, that even the layout of the images and text on the glass screen was so logical and self-consistent.

This forced the Spirit of the City to admit that the glass screen did indeed have value.

If tasks could be assigned to each manager, there would be no need to build a task hall at all. Simply creating a sub-forum of the "task hall" within the forum would achieve the same effect.

Management can take on tasks quickly without leaving their offices.

The spirit of the city can even extend further, and once new tasks become available, updates can be displayed directly on the forum, and then the management can be notified to accept them through the communication channel.

Angel's voice continued, "Moreover, it can be used not only for matters within the academy, but also for the management of the entire city, making it easier and faster to issue instructions and receive feedback."

This time, Angor did not demonstrate the illusion, but with the previous groundwork laid, the Aura of the Citadel could easily imagine the situation.

“All of these things can be achieved through this medium.” Angel gestured to the glass screen in his hand: “This is another direction for improving the Academy City system that I’m talking about.”

"The system-level transformation includes what I just mentioned: various map applications, forum applications, task halls..."

"The material transformation is to create a universal screen medium for faculty and students to use."

Angell: "What do you think?"

These are the best ideas Angel can think of for improving the City of Knowledge system.

He drew inspiration from the logic of holographic tablets to construct a new system that allows for two-way interaction between the system and the material world.

In terms of completeness, this solution certainly still has many areas that need refinement.

However, in terms of ease of manipulation, this new architecture, which incorporates intuitive interaction concepts, is absolutely superior to the current secretive, isolated, and monotonous Academy City system, representing a complete dimensional reduction.

Of course, this only applies to the operational level.

If we really delve into the underlying advantages of the system itself, the Academy City system is actually much more powerful.

—It can form a closed loop on its own, and can even provide a continuous source of energy to the auxiliary hand out of thin air. This almost “creating something out of nothing” underlying architecture not only involves extraordinary power, but is also comparable to a complete domain. In this respect, holographic tablets cannot even come close.

The spirit of the City remained silent for a long time, constantly using the City system to simulate the new interaction logic created by Angor. In the end, it had to admit that this new interaction logic was far better than the old one.

"As expected of the principal, such a mature and comprehensive plan was put forward so quickly..."

The spirit of the university city is truly moved.

It originally thought that Angell might have to wait several days to have a multi-dimensional discussion with it, and finally, after everyone expressed their opinions and weighed the pros and cons, a preliminary plan for improving the academy system could be put forward.

Then, we spent another ten days to half a month optimizing the plan, and finally polished the details word by word, constantly engaging in tug-of-war and experimentation with the Xuecheng system, before we could finally produce a usable prototype.

But who could have imagined that in less than half an hour, Angell not only proposed a solution but also used illusion to depict the performance. The visuals of the performance and the proposed system of perfection were completely logically consistent and very mature.

What amazed the spirit of the city even more was that after trying to run the system logic itself, it found that it could hardly find any flaws.

Such a perfect and comprehensive solution, how could it be proposed so casually?
At this moment, the Spirit of the City's respect for Angel transcended the superficial boundaries of "superior and subordinate." It was a genuine sense of awe that arose from the depths of their hearts.

The spirit of the city let out a long sigh: "I originally thought that as an assistant I could give the headmaster some advice; but now it seems that I was completely overestimating myself."

"The current improvement plan is already very mature, and I can hardly find anything to modify; if I had to say, it might be that the capacity of the Academy system is insufficient."

Angell: "Insufficient production capacity?"

Spirit of the Citadel: "Yes, although the Citadel system can manufacture the screen medium that Headmaster mentioned, both generating materials and manufacturing require energy."

"However, the energy of the Academy City system is limited. If it is all used to generate basic materials, it will be difficult to supply the energy gap inside the Academy City."

"Moreover, the energy of the Academy City system is not yet capable of self-circulation."

(End of this chapter)