After getting a moment of peace, Sanguinius didn't hesitate to explore the possible options for a member of the dimensional cat group.
"I see, there are no concrete elements to quantify strength as a status among the available options. But there are other interesting choices outside the discussion thread."
The dimensional cat group can be roughly divided into five options outside the discussion thread.
For Sanguinius, the most practical option remains "exchange," as it simply allows transactions between group members.
The second practical option is "the shop" of the dimensional cat group, filled with objects linked to the worlds of the chat group members.
"However, you have to use existence points to buy, and that leads to a 100% price increase without the agreement of the chat member linked to that world."
As if things weren't already unfair enough, the cat group seems to imply that the administrator doesn't need to have a member's agreement to avoid suffering the purchase penalty for objects outside their world.
A situation that made Sanguinius frown.
The DxD universe is not a simple or weak world.
So, he's not really thrilled that Kazuma could possibly obtain an object like the Boosted Gear.
After all, the line between this guy and Issei is thin.
'Judging by Kazuma's hateful comments during our first discussion, he probably doesn't have many existence points to make purchases from interesting available universes.'
This thought was a slight comfort for Sanguinius.
It would explain Kazuma's bet from a logical point of view, according to Sanguinius, but this option wasn't wise in his eyes.
"In his place, I would have saved my existence points for knowledge related to the 'Random Cadian Soldier'."
Sanguinius isn't entirely sure of the identity of the "Random Cadian Soldier," but he has practically confirmed his suspicions because of a word dropped by the other party: "heresy."
"The three other options are: multiversal live streaming, multiversal travel, and quests."
As their names indicate, "live streaming" allows superior entities of the multiverse to observe events unfolding around the user of this option.
So yes, that doesn't just include chat group members.
"Unfortunately, the chat group doesn't explain the identity of these entities."
Sanguinius doesn't like mysteries or things out of control, but he was powerless this time.
The "live streaming" option is primarily the only way to attract clients or viewers, who provide quests in exchange for existence points.
As for the "multiversal travel" option, Sanguinius can't use it for now.
It's free if a group member uses it to summon you with your agreement, but using it for a random universe costs at least 1,000 existence points.
The price in existential points increases considerably when a user targets a universe with this system option.
"I only get one try, but after that..."
It's literally insane to use it under these conditions.
His only comfort is the small amount of system points required for a world linked to a chat member.
'Just double my current existence points, which are at 1,000 points'
So, he preferred to turn to the shop.
[Welcome to the chat-group shop.]
[If you find the list of offered objects too vast, use the sorting option.]
Without hesitation, Sanguinius pressed on it.
The shop had been presented to him randomly, without any order, so his choice was clear.
[Shop linked to the world of Konosuba...]
[Shop linked to the world of Warhammer 40k...]
[Shop linked to the world of The God of High School...]
[Shop linked to the world of The Greatest Estate Developer...]
[Shop linked to the world of Frieren...]
[Shop linked to the world of Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World...]
[Shop linked to High school DxD...]
"Damn..." Crude words came out of the ex-angel's mouth, involuntarily, after using the sorting option.
'I knew they would use an easy-to-understand designation for the chat-group user, but this...'
Sanguinius would never have guessed that he would stumble upon a system flaw simply by exploring it.
His situation is funny, but not without sense.
Logically, if for example an Earth inhabitant goes into the Alpha Santor system, he will qualify it as such.
Yet, the aliens in this region have their own designation for their stellar system.
Thus, the chat-group was surely created to make its use as easy as possible for its members.
'If I follow this logic, Kazuma doesn't know that his world is called "Konosuba" on Earth, etc.'
This situation ended up benefiting Sanguinius.
He had been able to get a huge clue from the system about the origin of their members, but they have nothing on him except his pseudonym as a clue.
"The Red Empress must surely be Lloyd Frontera's future wife, aka Alicia Termina Magentano."
(Image)
How could Sanguinius keep such a long name in memory?
This is possible thanks to the excellent memory of angels, who are beings with an eternal life expectancy.
So, remembering something dating from his past life, which amounts to two decades, is not difficult.
"The identity of The Guillotine is now obvious."
(Image)
For now, only the identity of "I'm just THE dragon" is a concerning mystery for Sanguinius.
The reason?
There have just been too many dragons throughout the history of the manhwa The God of High School.
His only clue is his arrogant pseudonym, which has allowed him to narrow the list down to 3 or 2 individuals.
As for the identity of "Random Cadian Soldier," Sanguinius isn't really interested.
"Select the DxD universe."
Currently, he had too few existence points.
"Let's first look at the things available to me."
[Opening the High School DxD shop...]
- Name: Basic Magic
- Category (item): rank C~B
- Cost: 300
- Description: a work compiling all basic knowledge related to all types of magic created up until now.
- Name: Alchemical plan for human creation
- Category (item): rank A~SS
- Cost: 100,000
- Description: the Biblical God created humans thanks to soil modified by alchemy, but also by his breath.
- Warning: the quality of the human depends enormously on the creator.
- Name: Prototype Sacred Gear Plan
- Category (item): rank C~SS+
- Cost: 500
- Description: a capsule that contains the plan of a random prototype Sacred Gear.
- Warning: these are not the final plans, so there may be incidents when following the creation steps.
- Name: Plan for devil creation
- Category (item): rank A~SS+
- Cost: 80,000
- Description: the devils are a race born from a method related to black magic and Lilith's bodies.
- Warning: it is impossible to create the devil race without Lilith or a human created according to the Biblical God's creation method.
The list is long before Sanguinius, but his eyes remained fixed for a long time on the plan related to the creation of Sacred Gear by the Biblical God.
"There are no Sacred Gears in the shop, but there are sometimes mentions of them in certain elements."
Sanguinius quickly concluded two important things regarding the shop:
- It doesn't provide things that don't exist yet in a world.
- This can be used to guess the chronology in other fictional worlds, to some extent.
"For now, I'm going to invest in basic magic."
He had knowledge about Heaven's magical system, but it wasn't very extensive, and his former counterpart had never really been interested in this aspect before his reincarnation.
The rest of his points had been invested in buying construction plans related to the Warhammer 40K universe.
Yes, he had sacrificed 700 points when he could have gotten them for 350 with the permission of "Random Cadian Soldier."
"Despite that, I don't regret my choice."
Sanguinius's short-term goal was to become strong enough to be able to safely participate in the great celestial war against his father in this life.
He wasn't doing this out of caprice or thirst for revenge, but for the existential points that would be provided during a future live stream during this major event.
With this in mind, he had invested in buying knowledge related to the Warhammer 40K universe to one day build his own personal faction.
"It's just a shame that I can't get plans related to 'The Age of Technology' of humanity, but this AI might be enough."
He had also acquired books on construction and 21st century technology, surprisingly inexpensive.
The only thing that had really cost him dearly was a primitive AI dating from several centuries before 'The Age of Technology' of human civilization.
Consequently, he knew that its performance would remain acceptable, far from the technological absurdities of the human peak.
"I just need a Jarvis, not an Ultron. I'm not that greedy."
[The False Light of Baal: Are you still there?]
Unfortunately for Sanguinius, there was no answer.
"I guess they're all busy or the system must have urgently notified them of my integration into the chat group, and that piqued their curiosity."
He did think about using private chat to talk to them individually, but he finally gave up.
Before closing his system panel, he made sure to activate notifications so as not to miss ongoing events.