I finally created the Analysis Team from the few Scholars we had recruited and gave them the Ming Script, which means Bright or Clear in English. While I gave the An Script or Darkness to our secret agents, like the Cavalrymen and the Widows, they will be a separate department under the Hua Script or Flower, the Chinese branch of the Moon Maidens. I already made Altunay the Eleventh Matron with the help of their Grand Matron, Aykuz. Now, she will operate separately under the Five Emperors and the Xia Xing Men roundtable. Altunay will still be a Moon Maiden but will operate differently and have other types of members in her division. Right now, the Scholars, the Cavalrymen, the Widows, and the Orphans all operate under the Hua Script, just like other divisions with their own scripts. This is to keep our organization's name completely a secret, only use among trustworthy members and friends.
The Hua Script is the only division that I have designed its structure, unlike the others which all had their own rules and traditions beforehand. The Blood Oath makes every one of them my Worshippers, the Elemental Methods make them my Disciples. Normally, the Five Great Deities are only directly worshipped by mortal emperors like Liu Bang. Great Deities' worship is not common for commoners. This is the main reason we created them, helping mankind and the money is just the byproduct. It seems like a mission accomplished for me, but I still need them to operate smoothly. So, I need to create the Analysis Computing Machine for them before I leave for my own journey.
While I supervised and taught basic financial mathematics to the Scholars, I spent my free time studying the Energetic Network, Spiritual AI, and all of my creations. Almost a year passed when I realized that I was missing one important subject, Michelle! She was the missing link that I needed all along. I subconsciously created her along with my Personal Space, making her completely obey my orders while also giving her consciousness and intelligence.
The question was: How to repeat the phenomenon and should I build someone like her again? After consideration, I finally decided to only replicate the Control Module's Code into two Golden Cores and modify some features. I made them into a pair of personal assistants with both voice and mind communication interfaces that can only be accessed by those who possess my Divine Energy Signature. I named them the Analytic Parallel Processing Logic Engine, or A.P.P.L.E. in short. And of course, they are come in apple-sized!
I continued to study the A.P.P.L.E. units and let them learn the mining operation from the Control Module for a while. Interestingly, it looks like they lost some memories and a few core personalities after I modified their codes to be this personal assistant, almost like they had been factory reset. And it seems the universe still considers them a machine and allows them to connect to the Memory of the World, just like the laptops or smartphones that I created. While Michelle doesn't have direct access to those memories and needs to use other machines to connect to them. Energy-based AI also has a major advantage on the sensory, location, and communication sides because it doesn't need hardware for these features.
The Control Module's Core seems to receive the data, which arrives as Outer-Centric Code, at the Outer Mobius Rune Layers, mimicking the set of runes that contain the same complicated information from other units. Before sorting out their topics in the Middle Layers and validating the information at the Inner Layers to confirm the situation before start the processing.
After that, the initial directive will be sent back to the Middle Layers, where it will pick up Cognitive Runes for weighing and choose the right algorithm or method that will be needed, sending the Mobius Syntaxes to the Outer Layers for calculation. The Outer Layers are just multiple layers that have the same set of complicated Runes, which are used to create Syntaxes for analysis and calculation, unlike the few simple and meaningful Runes and layers closer to the Heart of the Core.
When the calculation ends and the results meet the Cognitive Concept at the Middle Layers, the outcome will be sent to the Inner Layers for revalidation. This critical step not only decides whether another Recursion Loop is needed but also adjusts the probability weights associated with the successful Mobius Runes to optimize future decisions. However, if the current architecture proves entirely inadequate for the challenge, it initiates the process for generating new Runes or weaving new layers into the Spherical Circuitry, before sending out the validated results or command in Inner-Centric Code. In some cases, the Control Core will send out the Mobius Syntaxes or a recalculation directive to the Unit Cores to calculate separately in emergency cases or redundantly in high-risk situations.
The message from Erik and Cynthia came many months ago, they didn't care much and let me decide what to do with these technologies. I think the Two Emperors genuinely shared their technologies with us because they knew the very aspects of my Inner Power. However, they couldn't have known how swiftly I would study and reverse-engineer those very systems. After nearly a year of intensive research and months of trials and errors alongside the Scholars, I finally let them freely operate the A.P.P.L.E. on their own. While I kept the other one training from the database of the Memory of the World and studied logistical problems from the Mining Squad.
In terms of fighting force, if we compare with the Two Emperors, we might lead in numbers but with their Divine Weapons and Technologies, I think we already have no chance against them. The good thing is that they only focus on their Space Programs. As Erik and Cynthia focused on Spiritual Beings, like Spiritual Beasts or turning human souls into Spiritual Warriors while the Two Emperors focused on Spiritual AI Robots. I might have to focus on something else, maybe something like a Hybrid Race. Right now, I am considering adding Spiritual AI or an Artificial Soul into mortal being bodies. I already have the capabilities and energy efficiency for this, but these Hybrids might not be good at fighting and would lack unique abilities because they will be limited by their bodies. On the other hand, to build Divine Robot Bodies one by one from "Desirer" would consume a huge amount of my energy. Perhaps, I should just focus on few powerful Artificial Beasts like Lin Long or Seraph and support them with mass-produced Hybrids.
After I modified Seraph's True Form to adjust it to better suit his abilities, he also forgot a few tricks that he can do. Perhaps his True Form is truly closed to the Spiritual AI's Code. I've studied Seraph's behavior for a while now. I suspect that my Artificial Beasts can only develop in the way that I imagined them to be. It's just like if I imagined them as a lion, they might develop into a very smart or brave lion, but not an eagle. Nonetheless, Seraph is quite powerful and versatile.
In his full energy form, Seraph actually looks like an elegant burning mythical bird in the size of a jet fighter that can soar and throw a huge flame from the sky or hover and shoot a focused laser shot from his beak at his targets.
When he loses half of his energy, he is forced to reduce his own body, shortening his neck and legs, which makes him look like a flame golden eagle that lacks energy-storing Peacock tails. With his revealed trident tails, he narrows his wings to focus on high speed mid-air strikes that will burn his preys.
For scouting or when his energy is nearly depleted, he switches into a sparrow-sized falcon form with forked tails for speed by losing middle part of his trident tails. This change makes him look like a fiery swallow-tailed kite.
When he empties his energy completely, he waits for me in his Golden Core or simply absorbs surrounding energy. He literally is a little red sparrow, just like his namesake, the Zhuque."
Their skill sets both contrast and support each other. While Seraph focuses on range energy-based attacks, Lin Long mainly focuses on physical close combat with some powerful abilities, such as calling rain and lightning strikes to attack or receiving that lightning into his horns before charging in.
I created more solid, walnut-sized Golden Cores for experiments and tried to fuse them with my Spiritual Core for more protection. Everything seemed fine, so I also fused them with the Spiritual Beings under me like Lin Long, Michelle, Xiao Feng and Yu Zhen. I think these Cores would be considered a body for Michelle. She should be able to come outside now, but I still need to have another Spiritual Being who can stabilize my Divine Realm too, just in case. With a few more preparations and instructions for the Xia Xing Men, I teleported back to the Sacred Mountain and reunited with my family, the Tagh Boru.
After a welcome celebration and some martial arts teaching classes, I fused the Golden Core with Asena, Midnight Blue and the Spirit of Flowing Water, before I could ask Kara Yulduz if she needed one or not. We didn't know the effects on a mortal like her, it might lead her to immortality. But she refused because she wanted to live and die with her family, it seems like she is a mother now.
It's like I'm on vacation right now, but after a month or so. I decided I wanted Asena to learn the way of her Beast Mother and live as a wolf with them for a while. We shifted into our Wolf Forms before Midnight Blue introduced us to her pack deep inside the forest of the Sacred Mountain. Life in the wild was simple and fierce, especially when it was the most difficult time of the year, the middle of the winter. The establishment of the Han Dynasty faded into a distant memory, replaced by the immediacy of the hunt. This was the peace I needed, watching Asena grow stronger and wilder.