Athanasia: My Hacker System-Chapter 226: The Enhanced Big Energy Generator
The D-1000 machines had brought tons of these portable generators into the pocket trial. However, when John had initially consulted Elena and the others about them, the feedback was disappointing.
These generators were designed to recharge depleted energy cells, but their output was frustratingly low. At their standard rate, it took many hours to top off a single energy cell.
Back at his own base, John’s original plan had been to link every working energy cell to a network of these generators, hoping to create a recharge cycle fast enough to match the rate of depletion from his heavy artillery.
If that had worked, he would never have had to worry about his territory’s power supply again. Yet, the sluggish charging speed had made that dream impossible. Linking those two problems together, John had spent his travel time ruminating on a way to shatter those limits using his theory.
Working to edit the coding structure of these generators and then enhancing them using cores was the ultimate answer. It wouldn’t just solve the power requirements of his standard cannons; he was thinking far beyond that, toward the terrifying, enhanced super cannons.
The four enhanced cannons he had prototyped before were powerful enough to make him crave an entire battery of them. But their energy consumption was a disaster, burning through any energy cells in mere minutes, while a standard cannon would take hours to consume these cells.
That was a huge negative side effect he couldn’t ignore. That sheer hunger for power had stopped him from mass-producing them or even starting to use these super cannons in any plans of his.
Until now.
The sheer density of the monsters in this Hiveminds territory was far beyond what his current spread of cannons and towers could handle indefinitely. He even doubted that joining the fray himself would tip the scales for long.
The real problem was the three intact yellow dens pulsing in the distance. Until he took those over and hacked their golden cores, the pressure would never alleviate. He needed a weapon that didn’t just kill monsters, but erased them in batches.
John hadn’t brought any generators from his home base, but the loot from the five thousand fallen D-1000s had provided him with thousands.
He gathered ten of the sleek, metallic units and arranged them in a tight circle, linking them together with thick copper conduits to form a closed circuit by his old knowledge from past Earth. Then, he dived into the source code of the programs, running them.
The running programs of these generators were surprisingly primitive, consisting of fewer than two hundred lines of code. John went to work as he inserted his own code lines and edited the structure of these programs.
He added several dozen lines of code to force the individual units to synchronise and operate as a single, unified entity. Once he was satisfied, he saved a copy of the new unified power program and stood before the ten generators, clutching a handful of enhanced and activated Wrather cores.
"If they work as a single entity, they should be able to absorb forty cores collectively... Or I need forty for each one? I can’t tell until I try!" he muttered.
He placed the first glowing core onto the cold metallic surface of one generator. The moment the core touched the metal, it didn’t just sit there; it melted. The core got liquified, merging into the generator’s body. In that instant, John realised two things.
"My theory is correct," John’s lips cracked into a faint, triumphant smile. "And the ten generators are now officially recognised as a single unit."
In front of him, the melted core didn’t just sink into one machine. The energy broke into a shimmering blanket of light that draped over all ten units simultaneously.
John was prepared to throw in the next core when the air began to hum, inducing a change he never accounted for or thought of. Right before his eyes, the ten generators began to physically transform.
They shifted and ground against one another, their frames melting and merging until they became a single, much bigger, and far more sophisticated generator. It looked less like a portable battery and more like a miniature fusion reactor.
"Damn! The core didn’t just enhance them; it forced a real merge!"
He was taken aback at first, quickly pulling up the new unit’s coding program. There, he found every line he had written, now integrated into a much more complex, system-generated framework. New program code lines appeared, yet the core of all this matched the edits he introduced earlier.
"This is the first time I’ve edited a code and seen the object change its fundamental form to match," he whispered, genuinely amused by the result. He realised he might have been drastically underestimating his own ability to manipulate and change the coding structure of items.
His hacking abilities were way more sophisticated than what he initially took them for. "Anyway, let’s finish the job. Let’s enhance this beauty to the fullest, and then I’ll see just how much power this thing can put out."
John didn’t stop at forty Wrather cores; he was playing for higher stakes. He reached back into his inventory and added twenty yellow monster activated cores and ten Fog Seeker cores to the mix, feeding the glowing essence into the metallic, big body of the new generator.
When the final core merged, John stepped forward, laid his hand on the cold body, and a system notification popped up next. This was a clear signal that this item was now enhanced enough to be considered a unique entity, worthy of the system to identify for him.
[Enhanced Big Energy Generator: Advanced!]
[Description: An enhanced and advanced big energy generator designed and coded by John Mirage! It can output a huge amount of energy to recharge one hundred energy cells constantly!]
[Special Effect 1: Lightning Charge: Passive!]
[Description: Every 10 minutes, the generator will emit a large pulse of energy that will double the output of all attached energy cells!]
[Special Effect 2: Lightning Array: Passive!]
[Description: The generator will diffuse its energy into the air, covering all energy cells in a radius of 500 meters. If the number of energy cells exceeds 100, a priority recharge will be initiated, recharging any cells that drop below 80% capacity!]
