It was a familiar space: a void of dark, littered with glittering blue Techno Void Patterns and Fragments.
All around in this void were the blue armoured beings, hanging motionlessly.
A stiffling power meandered through the area, a source of energy which Ryuk had eventually come to know as Techno Energy.
This was the inside of the TchnoForge ruin.
With the hard drive in his hands, he didn’t waste any more time, ordering.
"Actiavet Sovereign of the Techno Forge..."
The second the command was given, a change followed.
The various Void Patterns in the void all came together, and soon enough, they formed an ancient-looking holographic panel.
Two runic circles floated before Ryuk, and he stretched his hands outward, with the circles came to rest beneath both palms.
He turned to the large semi-transparent holographic before him and moved his hands, watching as new options began appearing.
The first things to appear were a total of 400 images, accurately depicting the form of his Nexus Legions.
Beside them were their categories and power level.
Present on the upper left side of the holograph were the Advanced options:
[{Material sysnthesis}]
[{Blue Print Memory Bank Access}]
[{Artifact Evolution Engine}]
But one option arrests his attention.
[{Techno Forge AI module.}]
Moving the runic cursor up to that option, with the runic circles in his palms, he tapped on it and immediately, he watched a ball of light conformed on the screen and soon rose out of it.
It was like a ball of light with glittering blue energy that flamed around it, hoverin in the air above the panel.
A feminine voice came out.
"Greetings to the Nexus Sovereign."
"What is your Aim today?"
The words echoed out clearly possessing the ability of reasoning, and Ryuk replied.
"I have a total of 500 new designations, which I plan to model the current 400 of the Techno Warriors into."
"The remaining 100 will be my own personal forge creation, bringing the total of the Nexus Legion numbers to 500."
He answered, watching as the ball of light illuminated brightly for a while before the voice came.
"I can sense the presence of a Hard Drive containing all 500 designs. Please plug it in."
It instructed, as the ball itself floated forward towards him.
A side of it opened up, to show a point which was the same opening as the Hard drive in his hands.
He pulled the cover on the drive and plugged it into the opening
"I’ll begin scanning, identification, and legibility of Design Modules. Please be patient," it said, and Ryuk waited for about 5 minutes before he finally got another reply.
"A total of 11 Design Modules have been recognized to be already tagged with an identification name?"
"Yes. Those 11 are the exact design modules made for Ascendant Marshal Oblivor, and the other 10 Ascendant Generals."
"As for the rest of the design modules, it has been classified into the three categories of the Nexus Legions." He explained.
His 10 Asecendant Generals were the most powerful of his Nexus legion, and Ascendant General Oblivor was the strongest.
For them, Ryuk had made yi had made special design and properly tagged it with their name.
As for the others, he had simply chosen a uniform design for all of them.
"The new 100 Constructs, to what category should they belong?" it asked.
"40 of them should be Warforgers, 30 of them Neuroshades, and the last 30 should be Technoguards. All to follow the same category design as the rest." He replied.
"Instruction Received."
"Module Upgrade and New Construction Creation will now begin."
"Please tap on your preferred Options as they appeared on the Techno forge ruin panel overlook."
The voice instructed, and Ryuk returned to the overlook panel
It was up to five seconds when a line of instruction quickly began appearing, and he moved the cursor, choosing his desired options.
This kept on for about 5 hours before he finally completed the last option.
Turning to look up, he noticed all of the Nexus Legions were out of view.
Each of them was surrounded by an egg-like cocoon of blue light that flickered in and out with various techno patterns and runes, and Ryuk could feel the surge in techno energy that radiated from each of the cocoons.
Most notable of which were those of the Ascendant Generals.
"Your Orders have been received and are being completed."
"Estimated time before all orders are fulfilled is exactly 168 hours." The AI Voice rang out, as Ryuk hmmed.
"That’s a week. I do not need them right now, so I can wait."
With everything finalized, he deactivated the skill, and the Overlook panel disappeared along with the AI Module manifestation.
Giving one last look at the Techno Forge Ruin, Ryuk turned his back and opened a portal back to the lab. He disappeared into it as the portal shut.
It left the Techno Forge Ruin silent, save for the hum of techno energy rising from the upgrade of the Nexus Legions.
If one thing was sure, it was that they would never be the same once their upgrades were complete.
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"Finally out?" The voice resounded through the room as Ryuk stepped out of the lab to the scene of Zaffre and Iris sitting on the sofa, both holding gamepad controls in their hands.
PAH
PAH
PAH
The sound of frantic finger pressing could be clearly heard, coming from none other than Zaffre, whose eyes remained glued to the screen.
He turned to look at Iris, and she turned to him, smiling coyly, revealing chocolate bars staining her teeth in a chocolate colour.
"Seems like both of you are busy with business?" Ryuk said as he walked towards them both and sat on the sofa.
He turned to look at the screen where a fighting game was currently being played, and then he turned to look at the score.
It was quite eye-opening.
1070 Points were present underneath Iris’s name, and under Zaffree’s name was an emboldened 0 in blood red.
"Wow. Someone’s really getting chewed out alive."
Ryuk exclaimed, watching as Zaffre ground her teeth, forcing out:
"SHUT UP!"
It wasn’t up to a minute later, when the [{Game Over}] panel appeared and Zaffre angrily flung away the controller while Iris giggled loudly instead.
"Tsk, what’s so funny, you cheating monster!?"