Spending My Retirement In A Game

Chapter 922 Aggressive Map-Making

A door appeared in the middle of the workshop, and Eisen quickly stepped through. Just a moment later, it disappeared again, and Sigurd popped up by his side.

"So, what's your plan? Are you going to build an item that can analyse the forest's magic pattern?" it asked, but Eisen immediately shook his head.

"No, that would be far too complicated. The processes that are needed for that aren't something that I can really build right here, at least not in just a couple of hours," Eisen explained, smiling at the dungeon's guardian, "Maybe if Xenia was here, we could figure something out, but my style is maybe a bit more... aggressive than that."

Sigurd raised its brows surprised, looking at the old man nervously, "Are you going to build a weapon to blast your way through?"@@@@

Eisen stopped, turning toward it, "Actually... that doesn't sound like the worst idea, to be totally honest. But... no, that might cause some other issues that I don't want to deal with. It's possible that this natural barrier is a two-way system. Something that both stops others from getting in, and those inside from getting out. If that's the case, destroyign the barrier would only cause a ton of problems. Not to mention, I would prefer not destroying the local ecosystem if it's totally avoidable."

The old man laughed a bit as he got all of his materials together, "No, the item that I'm going to make is something that will let us search through all the possible paths."

Eisen smiled as he placed the different 'skill orbs' that he needed down onto the table. He was really quite happy that his collection had grown to the point where he could make basically whatever he needed, at this point.

Though, the three most central skills were ones that he has had access to almost since the beginning of his journey in this world after his memories were reset. Bree's Mapmaking skill, strengthened through her class that was specialized in information-gathering, as well as Eisen's own Mana Double Skill, one of the first magic skills that he created quite long ago, as well as the Truth Seeing Eye skill, which was one of the abilities that was incredibly central to his growth. It almost felt like years since he had first dealt with all that, at this point.

"There we go," Eisen said proudly, opening a door to get out of the dungeon again. Out there, he activated the item again and sent out the first wisp, watching as the rest of them were shot outward. The information should be sent into the dungeon without issues, so Eisen just went back inside. Considering the size of the forest, and depending on the complexity of the maze that was the dark forest's barrier, this should take a few hours to properly resolve.

Sigurd popped up next to the old man, "So that's your 'aggressive' method?" it asked, and Eisen nodded with a smile.

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"Yup. Basically, it's like manually searching for the path, just... Sped up a lot. It should make it easy enough to find the right path that will lead us to the center of the forest."

Eisen walked into the tavern at the dungeon's entrance, where the others were currently gathered around, eating something before heading to bed for the night. If Eisen was right, then everyone should be able to at least have a long nap before they had to get going again.

"Did you make what you needed to?" Bree asked, and Eisen nodded his head with a smile.

"Yup. And speaking of, here you go," the old man reached out and gave Bree one of the data receivers, "If you connect this to your mapmaking skill, it should sync with the existing data you have of the forest right now."

With a bright smile, the half-fae looked at the small crystal and quickly imbued it with mana to try and access the information that was currently being placed onto it. Her eyes quickly focused on the system messages appearing before her, and she smiled broadly, "Whoa! It's expanding by the second, and it's so detailed! How did you make this?"

"Well, it's nothing too special," Eisen pointed out with a slight shrug, "It's actually pretty simple. Most people would be able to make something like this. It's self-sufficient, after all. Rather, there's some crazy creative people out there, so I'm sure there'll be a few people that have already found quite a few ways to exploit the system like crazy. It is, after all, not a perfect thing."