Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 4330 The Truth About Creating Humans
Angel had initially just wanted to create a random person to see what this "artificial human" was all about.

After learning all the techniques of initiation, he had already seen the limitations of the android.

They are like the screws in the intricate machine that is the "City of Fools," maintaining the basic operation of the city. Although they are very important, each one has their own specific role.

His continued construction of these jobs wouldn't make the school city any better; at best, he'd only get a spare screw.

Therefore, it would be better to create a hollow person, which can then be used as a teaching tool for students after the start of the school year.

However, just as Angel was about to confirm, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind: the Hollow Man has a body but no consciousness, while the Spirit of the City of Knowledge has consciousness but no body. Isn't that a perfect match?

He could easily create a body for the Spirit of the Citadel to use!
After all, the Hollow Man is a "creation" of the City system, so it must have a backdoor, and the City Spirit can control the backdoor, so it can completely control this body!
Moreover, having a physical form actually makes things much more convenient for the Spirit of the City.

During this time, although Angell could communicate freely with the spirit of the city, he was always talking to thin air, which made him feel very awkward.

Even when he speaks, he doesn't know which direction to face.

If the spirit of the city had a physical body, at least its location could be confirmed, and it wouldn't suddenly get stuck while speaking because it was trying to find the direction of the sound source.

Furthermore, the spirit of the city often falls into self-reflection.

Because it has no body, Angell doesn't know when it's contemplating or when it's on standby.

With this body, one can directly observe the state of the City Spirit.

Of course, the most important thing is.

Since we're going to create a body anyway, why not create one that's more useful?

In Angell's view, giving the body to the spirit of the city was far more useful than creating a spare screw or a teaching tool.

The Spirit of the City was somewhat taken aback upon learning of Angor's thoughts, and after a long pause, it said, "Once I reach the new stage, I can mimic; there's no need to waste special energy..."

Angell: "I can continue to summon special energy, so it's not a waste."

"On the contrary, I feel it would be a waste to create a tool that is not very useful."

The spirit of the city hesitated, "But..."

Angell: "But what? I respect your opinion. If you really don't want to, I'll just make any tool person."

The spirit of the city pondered for a long time before saying, "I'm not unwilling, I'm just a little surprised... I always thought that the physical body was a cage that restricted my actions."

Just like the "message relay" task that Angell had assigned before, if there were a physical body, one would have to walk step by step to Mona, deliver the message, and then return, which was tedious and inefficient. But it only needs a thought to contact Mona across space, without being restricted by any location.

Therefore, the spirit of the city sometimes feels that the physical body is a burden.

But sometimes it is puzzled: since the physical body is so bad, why are there so few strong people who can survive with their consciousness separated from their body willing to give up the "prison" of the body?
"...Although I always say that the physical world is a cage, sometimes I want to experience it, which makes me very conflicted."

Angor did not comment on the Citadel Spirit's doubts, as this involved personal speculation, and everyone had their own answer. He and the Citadel Spirit were of different races, therefore his assessment might not be helpful to the Citadel Spirit.

So he bypassed deep thinking and simply smiled and gave the most straightforward suggestion: "You yourself said you wanted to 'experience' it. Since you want to, then try experiencing it."

"In my opinion, this body is a container for your experiences. Even if you only find it interesting for a day and then stop using it, it is still more meaningful than creating a useless tool."

The air was silent for a few seconds.

The spirit of the city, with a relieved anticipation, whispered, "Thank you, Headmaster... I really want to try it out."

……

Now that the spirit of the city had agreed, Angor prepared to begin creating humans.

However, before creating a baby, you have to mold a face.

Before this, he would most likely have ignored the character creation option, since he was just creating someone to see how things went and there was no need to go through all this unnecessary foreplay.

But now that the goal is to create a body for the spirit of the city, these things certainly cannot be ignored.

However, Angor didn't know what kind of body the City Spirit preferred, so he simply gave it the authority to create people and let it do it itself.

The Spirit of the City was very efficient, completing the character creation in just half a minute.

When Angor saw the figure it had sculpted, his expression faltered slightly.

It's not ugly, but...

"Why create a robot?" Angell stared at the silver robot on the screen, which was about two meters tall and had various right angles in its body, with a strange look in his eyes.

“Because…it’s very beautiful.” After saying that, the Spirit of the City asked with some doubt, “Don’t you like it, Headmaster? I can revise it.”

Angell shook his head: "It's not a matter of liking, but rather..."

He had no particular likes or dislikes towards robots; he simply felt that creating a robot was somewhat different from the artificial human he had imagined.

Artificial humans are living beings with flesh and blood, while robots are cold, lifeless lumps of metal.

In a sense, isn't building a robot the same as creating an ordinary object?
The Spirit of the City: "No, the outside can be metallic, while the inside can be flesh and blood."

Angell: "..."

Well, I didn't expect the Spirit of the City to be a blogger.

This time, Angel didn't stop them. As long as there was flesh and blood, it was better than a pure metal lump.

After confirming the character creation, Angor selected "None" in "Skill Initiation".

After he clicked confirm, two lines of text appeared on the screen.

"Life support capsule #1 is currently vacant. A target will be generated in life support capsule #1 shortly."

"Generating..."

As the words appeared, Angel felt the power of authority surging rapidly from beneath the creation platform, as if being transported through a pipe into the interior of Life Support Module 1.

Immediately afterwards, Angell saw a golden light appear in the life support pod.

With golden light at its core, various light threads continuously emerge. These light threads are like invisible carving knives, sculpting a human shape little by little within the life support pod, following a predetermined outline.

First, the basic skeleton was formed, and then the fine flesh and blood vessels and muscle textures were filled in. Even the internal organs and nerves were rapidly formed in the light mist.

Immediately afterwards, a silvery metallic material quietly spread from the surface of the body, forming a sharply defined outer shell along the bone structure.

Finally, a black tuxedo and wide-brimmed hat were also generated on the "robot's" shell.

Just like the name of the spirit of the city on the crystal—the mechanical gentleman.

Once the clothes and hat are complete, the creation of a human is nearing its end.

The whole process took about six minutes, and a complete body appeared in life support pod number 1.

Because this body does not require initiation, the hatch opens automatically once the body is fully revealed.

Looking at this "silver-glowing" body, the Spirit of the City, with a mix of trepidation and anticipation, slowly immersed its consciousness into the core of the body constructed by the City system.

A moment later, the body in the life support pod slowly opened its eyes.

Another minute passed, and his fingers began to move.

Immediately afterwards, his limbs also began to move.

The Spirit of the City felt that it had learned the basic operation of this body, so it slowly walked out of the upright life support pod.

It took the first step in its physical form.

Then, with a bang, dust rose from the ground.

Five minutes later, the Spirit of the City resumed its journey of walking. Relying on its powerful computing power and the inertia left in its body by the City system, it successfully began to walk.

The spirit of the city looked excitedly at the headmaster, wanting to share his joy, but found that the other was deep in thought.

He paused for a moment. He remembered that... it seemed that when the body began to be created, the headmaster had already fallen into thought. Has he not woken up yet?

The spirit of the city dared not disturb it, and could only silently practice its newborn limbs around it like a baby learning to walk.

On the other side, Angel did not actually ponder, but instead immersed his thoughts in front of the Tree of Power.

He stared at a certain glowing fruit on the Tree of Power.

Why did he do this? Because when the life support pod was creating his body, he sensed familiar power fluctuations.

And this fluctuation of power points to the power fruit hanging high on the branch.

The power represented by this fruit is—"gatekeeper".

After Angell's "surveillance" and his superficial search of the surface of the sea of ​​power and information, he finally came to the conclusion... of the truth about creating humans!
The so-called creation of humans is actually a convenience granted by the gatekeeper's power!
"Gatekeeper: Possessing this power grants the authority to control the entry of external objects into the Dream Wilderness."

This power may seem to only have the ability to "open doors," but in reality, it also has a certain "authority to create."

Angell knew this a long time ago.

Whether it's the Wilderness of Dreams or the Crystal Plains of Dreams, everyone who logs in for the first time will receive a new body.

This is essentially a projection of the physical body, which, combined with a bit of creative authority from the gatekeeper, is what gives it its form.

The City's human creation mechanism also originates from this sliver of authority. In other words, it is essentially no different from the new body that an ordinary person receives when they first enter the Dream Crystal Plains.

After learning the truth, what Angor was most curious about was... how the powers of the Fairy Realm "persuaded" the powers of the gatekeepers to even access the power of creation within the City of Academia system.
He thought about it for a moment and then came up with the answer.

It wasn't that the powers of the fairy realm "persuaded" the gatekeepers, but rather that these two powers were inherently inseparable.

Think about the various NPCs and dreamers in the Wonderland instance... their bodies in the instance are actually created by the gatekeeper.

Therefore, the powers of the Fairy Realm were already deeply bound to the Gatekeeper from the very beginning.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the gatekeeper's creative authority was incorporated into the City system.

After figuring out the truth about human creation, Angell sighed helplessly.

I originally thought that the City system's creation of humans was some kind of new technology, but it turns out it's just the reuse of power.

Exiting the thought space, Angel opened his eyes and saw a toddler in silver and black not far away.

Angell was stunned for a second before he came to his senses. This was... the spirit of the City of Academia.

Just as Angor cast his gaze, the spirit of the city seemed to sense something, turned around abruptly, lost its balance, and with a "bang," kicked up dust once again.

Unlike his previous falls, this time he fell face-up.

For a moment, the spirit of the city was caught off guard and didn't know how to stand up.

Seeing this, Angel breathed a deep sigh of relief, stepped forward, and helped the spirit of the city to its feet.

"Headmaster, I'm sorry you had to see this..." The spirit of the Academy City said somewhat embarrassedly, "I was actually walking very well until just now, I just got a little impatient."

What it said wasn't a lie; it's very difficult for someone who has never had a body to walk for the first time. But the Spirit of the City was able to walk unsteadily in just a few minutes, which is actually quite remarkable.

Angell: "Do you need my help?"

The spirit of the city was taken aback: "Principal, are you saying you'll guide me on my path?"

Angell shook his head: "No."

Under the puzzled gaze of the Spirit of the City, Angor suddenly took out the crystal device from his pocket and quickly began to operate it.

After a moment, Angor asked the spirit of the Citadel, "Now that you have a body, can you still control the backend of the Citadel system?"

The spirit of the city nodded: "Yes, and I can also detach my consciousness from my body at any time now, so relaying messages for the headmaster is no problem."

Angel: "Alright, I just gave you a task, please accept it."

"The Second Message"

"Overview: Inquire with Dean Mona if there is anything she can help with regarding the design of the school and college emblems."

Access Restrictions: None

Countdown: None

"Task Reward: Knowledge Infusion for Walking, Sitting, and Lying Down"

The Spirit of the City looked at the newly generated quest with a shocked expression, especially when he saw the quest reward; his mechanical eyes widened in disbelief.

"Is it even possible to do that?" he murmured in disbelief.

Angel: "Didn't you say before that the mission rewards are anything within the City of Knowledge system, which naturally includes knowledge empowerment?"

The spirit of the city thought about it carefully. This would indeed allow it to quickly learn to walk, sit, and lie down... But why didn't it think of that earlier and instead forced it to learn to walk?

Perhaps guessing what the spirit of the city was thinking, Angel said softly, "My mentor once taught me 'lazy thinking'."

"What is 'lazy person's thinking'? It doesn't actually mean you should be lazy. It can be roughly understood as—because people are too lazy to meet and chat, they invented communication tools; because people are too lazy to walk, they invented transportation..."

"To put it simply, when you encounter a problem, don't rush to bury yourself in it; first, figure out what shortcuts you can use."

Walking was a new challenge for the spirits of the city, and the clumsy method required them to practice by falling down again and again.

However, by making reasonable use of the rules of the Academy system, one can find the most readily available shortcut.

For example, this time, all it takes is completing a simple task to get the desired result.