Chapter 163: Chapter 162: A War on Economy

When I got back to my room again, I once again resumed the great fast forward. Now, there shouldn’t be another race that was close to ‘ascending’, so that limited the number of reasons for my alarms to go off. All that was left now was either impending natural disasters, certain technology developments, or the off chance that one species was about to send another towards extinction…

Thankfully, the first alarm that went off was for development, as opposed to destruction. A hundred years after the acceptance of the merkin race, the Zoriark kingdom successfully developed one of the items on my ‘advancement checklist’. This particular invention was the ‘Status Orb’, a gem that was based on centuries of study from the special glasses found in the dungeon.

Much like the item which had been presented at the first Keeper meeting that I attended, this was an orb which displayed the status of whoever held it. This included their name, race, and everything else that appeared on their information window. In essence, what it did was to summon the window, but make it visible to everyone instead of just the person using it.

It seemed like this item could be made from the cores of most monsters mixed with some other materials and enchanted, so Zoriark was already beginning to mass produce them as soon as the first prototype was successful. Thanks to that, I was able to fast forward five years to when the production had really taken shape, and snatch one for myself.

I needed to be aware of the potential risks this would have for me later down the line, so I had to test the orb myself to see how it reacted with my Keeper levels. Thankfully… it seemed like the system still had some consideration, and the orb didn’t reveal any of my Keeper information when I had it sealed. If I unsealed class levels or stats, the information on the orb would reflect it.

And after spending another thirty points to run a quick test, I was relieved to discover that this worked for the World Host as well. Whenever I was possessing a host, the status orb read my name as the name I assigned the host rather than my own. This made me feel much safer for the future, as otherwise I would have had to avoid anyone who used these orbs to test a person’s identity.

With that taken care of, I again allowed the world to continue. Though, this time it only lasted a mere twenty years before the next item on the checklist was completed. To my surprise, the item finished this time was one that I hadn’t expected to be completed until later on. The ki cannon, a defensive fortification which allowed a user to launch projectiles at an enemy target powered by their ki.

This wasn’t like the bow that we found in the dungeon, because it did not produce the projectiles itself. But it was still a decent substitute for a typical siege weapon. And unsurprisingly, it was the humans that developed it. From a quick glance, it seemed that their war with the beastkin was still raging strong.

Shaking my head, I hit the fast forward button once more. The next item that appeared was actually one of the more crucial ones that I had been waiting for, and would offer a great degree of safety in the future. A natural energy disruptor, something that can destabilize the natural energy of the surrounding area.

This item wouldn’t remove the majority of a druid or shaman’s powers, but it would nullify one very important trick of theirs. As long as the device was active, druids wouldn’t be able to establish a stable portal within its area of influence. And once again, this had been developed by humans.

I watched as item after item from the checklist was completed. Some of them were as close as months apart, while others made me wait for over a hundred years to pass. By the end of the two thousand year limit, nearly half of my list had been completed. Thankfully, this included one very important achievement that I had been waiting for.

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