The Grand Duelist

Chapter 133: Abandoned Kingdom[4]

It was deep within the night in the country where the headquarters of the P.H Works was located. Silence should reign over the night and for courtesy's sake, one should keep themselves calm and quiet for the sake of those tired from their work and chores.

Yet, within the headquarters of the P.H Works...

The scientists were in a panic.

In front of them were the Main Monitors of the Supercomputer Noah and currently displayed on those monitors were. 

[Error: World Command Overflow.] 

World Command Overflow.

This was a rare error that meant that there were a lot of chain reactions happening within the world of Victory to the extent that the Supercomputer Noah's calculations couldn't keep up with what was happening.

It was considered as a rare error for the Supercomputer Noah was so advanced that the scientists reckoned that nothing could possibly stump it.

But right now, tonight...

It was having trouble keeping up with the calculations necessary for the world of Victory. 

Just what was the reason as to why this was happening?

Of course, the scientists knew the answer to that question.

They were in this room when Joseph unleashed the Fourth Form of the Grand Duelist's Graceful Swordsmanship.

In other words, they knew that the moment Joseph brandished his weapon.

The Supercomputer Noah took a toll and was currently scrambling on calculating everything that was happening after Joseph brandished his weapon.

But just what did happened after Joseph brandished his weapon?

Well...

"How ridiculous... To think that a Mythical Class would be that powerful... " Mar, who was one of the people who designed the Mythical Class couldn't even believe how powerful the class that they created.

When Joseph brandished his weapon, the world itself was split...

Yes, the entire world was pierced through and slashed into two horizontal halves. Everything from the air, trees, the NPCs, everything within the world of Victory suffered under the powerful might of the Grand Duelist.

Furthermore, the attack also sliced through several seals of forbidden locations within the world of Victory, causing innumerable chain reactions to occur to the extent that the Supercomputer Noah couldn't keep up its calculations anymore.

"Really... Goddamned it... It's too powerful... I don't think that we should call him a Sun that Overlooks Everything anymore. We should just call him the Black Hole that Devours Everything with how powerful he is right now with that class..." One of the scientists commented.

His comrades nodded their heads in agreement.

"Ray, did you know about all of these beforehand?"

Mar turned to look at Ray who had a light smile on his face.

"Nope... I'm also shocked at the might that he displayed." Ray gave an honest reply.

Mar glanced at Elizabeth for a moment before he asked, "Then, what do you think should we do? Should we nerf him?"

Ray Gabriel raised an eyebrow and said, "Nerf him? That's ridiculous! He achieved what he has right now through his own efforts. How could we possibly nerf him just because he's extremely powerful than what we had expected?" 

Mar couldn't say anything against Ray Gabriel.

It has been the policy of the P.H Works to reward those that deserve rewards and punish those that deserved punishment. But right now, the Mythical Class player whom they wanted to become the Sun that Overlooks Everything is far powerful than they had imagined.

How could he become a proper motivation to everyone when he was this powerful?

A mountain that couldn't be captured would be a mountain without any challengers!

In the future, if everyone knew that Joseph was this powerful, no one in the world of Victory would possibly challenge him anymore!

After all, everyone had common sense and why would they purposely court death and challenge Joseph when they knew that they had no chance of winning against him due to how powerful he was?

P.H Works wanted a good source of motivation for everyone, but if this continued...

Joseph would become too powerful to serve as everyone's motivation!

Ray Gabriel shook his head, "For now, we should focus on fixing the problem at hand." 

He then turned to look at the scientists within the rooms and gave his commands, "Focus on lowering the temperatures within the room where Noah resides, make sure to not let the temperature within that room exceed ninety-degrees celsius or else thermal throttling may occur!" 

"Yes, sir!" 

The scientists didn't ask anything anymore. They rushed outside of the room and went to work.

Ray Gabriel sat in front of the keyboard below the Main Monitors of the Supercomputer Noah and started typing away.

Elizabeth approached Mar and gestured for him to seat in front of her as the two started to talk.

"Senior, how do you think should we approach this problem?" Elizabeth's words were gentle to the ears.

Ray who was busy on his work trembled for a moment before he glanced at Elizabeth in gratitude.

Right now, Ray had no time to waste on brainstorming solutions as to how they could solve the problem of World Command Overflow.

Elizabeth really made such a good move for keeping Mar in this room and asking him about his opinion and ideas as to how they would deal with the aftermath of the World Command Overflow. 

"World Command Overflow..." Mar crossed his right leg and laid it on top of his left leg.

He tilted his head to the skies and thought for a moment before he answered, "As far as I can remember. World Command Overflow is a problem pertaining to the number of chain reactions happening within the world due to a single cause..." 

"That chain reaction is like the chain reactions happening in the middle of nuclear fission. It's unstoppable." Mar sighed.

Elizabeth paused for a moment before she asked, "Are you sure that it really is unstoppable, Senior Mar? I don't think that it's the case after all. If you were the one that will deal against it, even the president of the United Nations wouldn't dare call himself unstoppable in front of you!"

"Hahaha..." Mar lightly chuckled, "You really know how to sweet talk people, aren't ya? I do have a solution to the World Command Overflow problem... But I am sure that Ray right there doesn't want that to happen."

Ray didn't even glance at the two. His hands also never stopped as he replied, "Of course, I would never let that happen! A rollback may be the fastest solution to solve this problem but doing that would basically make Joseph suffer the loss of a great friend once again!"

"How could I let him see Krid's sacrifice for the second time?"

"See?" Mar sighed and took a bottle of water from the table before chugging it down his throat. "Ah, this water really tastes good." He praised before turning to look at Elizabeth again and saying, "If a rollback cannot be done..."

"I can't really think of another solution apart from keeping the temperatures of the room where Noah resides to safe levels and constantly fighting against the endlessly expanding number of items and places sliced into halves by that kid's attack." Mar shook his head in disapproval.

Elizabeth caught on something strange within what Mar had said before she said, "Wait, the effects of Joseph's attack within the world of Victory is still continuing? Didn't we already close the server?" 

Mar turned to look at her and laughed, "It seems like you really aren't quite knowledgeable about how the world of Victory operates but in a nutshell..."

"We did close off the server, but we didn't shut down the world..."

"Shutting down the world freezes everything within the world of Victory, kind of like a time stop."

Elizabeth didn't take offense that Mar basically branded her as ignorant as she replied, "But why not do that? If we shut down the world of Victory itself then we could stop Joseph's attack from traveling through space and slicing through more objects which in turn creates additional chain reactions whose changes needed to be manually withdrawn..."

But Mar shook his head and said, "Shutting down the world of Victory is a bad idea. Stopping time itself meant that we would be harming the incredibly complex cycle of life within Victory. Doing that just for the sake of treating World Command Overflow? It's not really worth it."

"Then..." Elizabeth hesitated, "What should we do now?"

Mar stared at her for a moment before he gazed at Ray Gabriel.

Elizabeth followed his line of sight before turning to look at Mar in doubt.

"Right now, that stubborn guy is manually withdrawing the changes happening within the world of Victory. That is not a simple feat to do and for him to keep up with the changes, his WPM must be at least a hundred words per minute for at least three hours...'

"If even for a second, his WPM falls below a hundred words per minute..."

"He wouldn't be able to keep up."

Elizabeth's eyes widened in shock when he heard Mar's words.

But she didn't doubt his words at all.

Mar was an experienced expert that she could never compare to in her whole life.

It would be blasphemous for her to doubt his words especially when they were talking in a topic that he specialized in.

Silence reigned within the room for a while until it was broken when Mar stood up and said.

"Mind if I seat here beside you, Ray?"

"Mhm..." Ray merely gave a small sound as a reply. He didn't even turn his head to look at Mar.

His hands were blurry as it danced across the keyboard.

"It seems like even though you are already quite old, your hands are still as nimble as ever," Mar commented at the side.

"Did you come here just to compliment me or what?"

"Let me tell you this, I want no one's compliment other than my sister!" Ray finally replied, yet his eyes never left the monitor and his hands also never left the keyboard.

Mar lightly chuckled, "You really love that sister of yours, aren't ya? If you have some time after this, can you try and bring her here? It's been a long time since she's been here..."

Mar stretched his hand out and tapped on some buttons on the desk causing a keyboard and a mouse to appear on the surface of the desk.

It was a mechanical keyboard with red switches, it was Mar's favorite style of keyboard.

Mar stared in astonishment at the keyboard. He didn't expect that the type of keyboard that he liked would already be prepared underneath the desk. He made a sidelong glance at Ray and said...

"Did you already know about all of these beforehand?" 

Ray lightly smiled, "Of course not! If I knew that a World Command Overflow was about to happen then I would've made a lot of countermeasures in preparation for the error. Like, you know?"

Making a script that would target these procedurally generated variables which will automate everything with just a press of a button."

Mar gave a laugh before he turned to look at Elizabeth and said, "Eli, prepare some coffee for us. We'll be going full speed ahead. Give us some straws too since we can't possibly hold a cup of coffee in one hand while type using the other."

"Y-Yes, sir!" Elizabeth politely bowed her head and went out of the room.

When she left...

Mar stared at Ray and said.

"Ray, if you lose against me in WPM then you better treat me to that buffet once everything is done and over!"

Ray didn't even stop his typing as he replied, "Oh? You're actually challenging me? Are you sure that you can keep up, old man?"

"You really are underestimating how fast I am. I wasn't called the leader of the 50 cent army for nothing!" 

Mar placed his hand on the keyboard and his expression turned serious.

Then, in the very next moment.

His hand transformed into a blur that was even faster than Ray.

He was too fast to the extent that Ray doubted if he was even making the right inputs into the computer.

Ray's concentration relaxed for a second as he glanced at the monitor in front of Mar. 

Warning! Warning! Warning!

A blaring sound came out of Ray's computer, signifying that he made an error on one of his calculations.

"Hey, you better focus on what you are doing right now! I'm not a fan of carrying noobs!"

Mar even took the time to mock him when he heard the blaring sound.

Veins bulged on Ray's temples as his eyes narrowed into slits.

"You old geezer, did you just say that I am a noob?"

"Hey, hey, hey... Don't be angry at what I said, just prove to me that you aren't a noob!" Mar lightly chuckled.

He looked relaxed as if he wasn't doing something incredibly taxing to his body.

"Okay, now you really are challenging me..."

"Keep your mouth shut and just keep typing!"

Mar commented once again eliciting a shout from Ray who replied.

"Let me show you, Mar... The future is now, old man!"

He screamed and laid his hands on the keyboard once again.

"Sometimes I really do wonder if these people really are a bunch of great scientists or kids..." 

When the two were in the middle of their argument, Elizabeth had already returned and was standing right behind them. She saw what they were doing, but she didn't do anything to interrupt them. 

In fact, she couldn't even help but smile seeing them work together like these.

Even though they acted like kids, just from their expression alone...

It was obvious that they were taking everything that was happening as seriously as they could.

Silently placing the cup of coffees beside the two, she whispered into the air.

"I wish you two, success!" 

She then left the room, afraid that staying may disturb the two from their work.