The cube was only the size of a palm, but the data corresponding to it was like a cascading waterfall.
Then it refreshed before Ren's eyes, revealing the war machine bought with a staggering 9 billion in spending.
[Glory Sanctuary]
[Origin: Hybrid Dimension]
[Type: Rule-Bound Creation]
[Description: The final product forged through repeated synthesis and re-synthesis of multiple prize items—a true war machine through and through.
Its fundamental purpose is large-scale legion warfare, while also taking into account low cost and high value.
The creations it produces are capable of handling massive wars on the scale of tens of thousands, and possess a variety of different effects and uses.
To activate this war machine, the cube core must first be placed at a designated location.
Both placement and relocation of this war machine require at least 120 hours / 5 days of setup time.
It also has requirements for its placement location: the area must be land, and must at least have material contact connected to the earth's crust.
For example, an isolated island is acceptable—as long as it is not floating on the sea, and its island base is still connected to the seabed by rock.
After placement is complete, Glory Sanctuary will enter operational status and sequentially activate: 'Sanctuary Contract,' 'Geothermal Energy,' 'Land of Glory,' 'Angel Legion,' 'Integrated Network,' 'War Armaments,' 'Sanctuary Conversion,' and 'Divine Favor Blessing.']
[Effect: After placement and preliminary preparations are complete, Glory Sanctuary will activate its primary trait—Sanctuary Contract.
Glory Sanctuary is bound by default to 'Ren.' This being is both the legal and practical Master of the Sanctuary, possessing all management authority.
After completing the Sanctuary Contract, the second trait—Geothermal Energy—will be activated.
This trait belongs to the rule-type category, allowing it to disregard physical distance to a certain extent and reduce energy transfer loss.
It draws geothermal energy corresponding to the location it is placed in as its power source.
Unless contact between Glory Sanctuary and the earth is severed, this trait cannot be stopped.
Once Geothermal Energy has accumulated sufficient power, the third trait—Land of Glory—will be activated.
This trait can cover an area within a hundred-kilometer radius, transforming it into a suitable birthplace while also extracting mineral veins from the land and the earth below it.
Even if it is located on an isolated island in the middle of the sea, it can still obtain underground minerals across extreme distances through the rule-based mechanism of Geothermal Energy.
Once Land of Glory is fully prepared, the fourth trait—Angel Legion—will be activated.
After this trait is enabled, angel embryos will begin to spontaneously form within the area covered by the Land of Glory, appearing externally as continuously growing egg-shaped shells.
Their number depends on the amount of geothermal energy acquired, with each cycle producing no fewer than 500 embryos.
The embryos require 48 hours to complete incubation, after which mature angels will emerge.
These mature angels inherit the traits of the previous generation of Glory Angels, while also undergoing varying degrees of qualitative transformation and subtle adjustment.
Newborn angels have no equipment, and their combat strength is relatively weak, with their three-dimensional attributes at the D level across the board.
They possess innate abilities to manipulate electrical energy and thermal energy, such as controlling nearby electric charge movement to generate electricity or interfering with sunlight.
They can also convert both types of energy into their own energy reserves.
However, there is an upper threshold, with the limit being the maximum each angel individual can withstand.
This energy is also the angels' source of power. All daily activity consumes energy, which can be replenished from solar energy, lightning energy, and fire energy.
Their strength can be roughly referenced as being comparable to pirates with bounties in the tens of millions.
However, the angels will consciously temper their own bodies, continuously increasing their physical durability from the moment of birth, with their completed form reaching the C level across all three dimensions.
If they die in battle during this tempering process, their physical toughness resets to zero.
Their core data will be transmitted back to the Land of Glory in the form of radio waves and incorporated into the ongoing embryo generation process.
The more times an angel is reborn, the more innate combat experience and techniques it will possess.
Note: Existing Glory Angels can be integrated into this system.
When the Angel Legion reaches a scale of more than 10 members, the fifth trait—Integrated Network—will be activated.
This is an evolved form of the previous generation Glory Angels' ability, transformed into a communication-type capability after qualitative mutation.
Using the world as its range benchmark, the more angels that exist and the more widely they are distributed, the greater the radio network coverage belonging to the angels.
Its theoretical peak can cover the entire planet. At the same time, because this radio-wave system overlaps with the Den Den Mushi communication system in certain areas—
Angels possessing radio-wave technology can invade the Den Den Mushi communications system and carry out technical operations such as inserting words, tampering with content, or twisting meaning.
The smaller the manipulation range and the more covert the method, the less likely the Den Den Mushi itself will detect anything abnormal.
At the same time, this Integrated Network is shared by all angels, allowing them to exchange experience and techniques with one another, so that when one individual levels up, the entire group gains access to the corresponding learning pathway.
Note: a learning pathway—not instant mastery.
This Integrated Network can also function like a game-style tactical map, helping the angels mark key points, identify enemies, issue tactical commands, and so on.
Its overall function resembles an internal internet.
The angels can also rely on the internal functions of the Integrated Network to determine rank and position within the legion, following the principle that the capable rise while the mediocre fall.
The temporary rank classification is: Two-Winged Angel, Four-Winged Angel, Six-Winged Angel, and so forth.
When the number of angels reaches over 100, the sixth trait—War Armaments—will be activated.
This trait is one of Glory Sanctuary's core abilities. It must be activated with Master authority, and once activated, can be operated either by the holder of Master authority or by angels who have been granted permission.
It can absorb any technical means or materials beneficial to increasing the angels' combat power.
This trait already contains stored knowledge of the Enchanting System and War Armament technology.
Using this, newly born angels can forge enchanted battle armor and war armaments.
However, additional 'knowledge' or 'materials' can still be added.
For example, if 'Haki knowledge' and 'Haki materials' are added, then after being analyzed by the War Armaments trait and transferred into the Land of Glory—
The angels can undergo subtle alterations during incubation, thereby gaining the aptitude to awaken Haki.
Or one could add the knowledge and materials for artificial Devil Fruits, allowing the angels to obtain Devil Fruit powers.
Or one could add the 'flesh and tissue' of powerful lifeforms, allowing the angels to gain further enhancements, and so on.
Note 1: The 'knowledge' and materials invested into this trait cannot exceed the analysis limit of the War Armaments trait.
Note 2: Once this trait is activated, the angels' combat power will receive a systematic increase. After completing the Enchanting System and War Armaments system—
The angels' reference standard will remain at the level of C- across all three dimensions, with the rank of Two-Winged Angel.
As additional systems of enhancement are completed, their attributes and combat ability will likewise continue to change and rise.
If they can complete a 'Haki system' on top of the existing foundation and obtain the corresponding abilities, then the angels' attributes and combat power will remain at the C++ level across all three dimensions.
At the same time, their rank will be promoted to Four-Winged Angel.
If they complete an 'Artificial Devil Fruit system' and obtain the corresponding abilities, then their attributes and combat power will remain at the B level, fluctuating between B- and B++.
There will be subtle differences between individuals, but their overall standard will remain within the same tier.
When the number of angels reaches over 1,000, the seventh trait—Sanctuary Conversion—will be activated.
This trait is one of Glory Sanctuary's core abilities. When activated, it must be operated by the holder of Master authority or by angels who have been granted permission.
Once activated, a conversion pool will be generated within the Land of Glory.
It can convert captured living beings, inheriting all of that creature's abilities before assimilating it into an angel unit.
For example, if a Devil Fruit user is captured and thrown into the conversion pool, that living being can be transformed into a newborn angel unit at the cost of losing a certain amount of strength.
The attributes and combat power of that angel unit depend on the quality and abilities of the creature used as input, usually being weakened by around 10% to 30%.
The stronger the subject, the slower the conversion speed and the greater the loss of strength.
Detailed operations are also possible: a captured creature can be broken down, and the conversion pool's trait can extract abilities possessed by that creature.
It cannot extract everything completely; only one ability may be selected, whether it be talent, Devil Fruit power, knowledge, racial trait, and so on.
If bestowed upon a single individual, the loss will remain under 5%. If bestowed upon a group, then the more recipients there are, the greater the loss becomes.
When the number of angels reaches over 3,000, the eighth converted trait—Divine Favor Blessing—will be activated.
This trait is one of Glory Sanctuary's core abilities. When activated, it must be personally operated by the holder of Master authority.
The prerequisite for activation is that the Integrated Network trait has matured, and that Master authority has never been transferred.
The holder of Master authority must possess strength exceeding the standard level of all angels and occupy absolute dominance.
After activation, all existing angels and those still in the process of being born will develop religious faith toward the holder of Master authority.
The core doctrine of this religion aligns with the values of the Master authority holder. The closer the angels' actions are to what the holder desires, the deeper the connection between them becomes.
When that connection exceeds a threshold, they will establish a link with the holder of Master authority that transcends spatial distance, allowing them to receive blessings of some of the holder's attributes and abilities.
This blessing is calculated as an additional existence and stacks with their original attributes and abilities. The blessing range includes, but is not limited to, attributes, abilities, traits, skills, and so on.
However, the blessings gained will differ from one individual to another, and the holder of Master authority may intervene manually.
Note: This blessing imposes a slight burden on the holder of Master authority. A reasonable range for bestowed blessings should remain within 1,000 recipients.
Exceeding that number will produce varying degrees of mild burden and negative effects, including but not limited to reduced strength and mental pressure.]
After that waterfall of information, the full details of [Glory Sanctuary], the item he had obtained from this draw, were laid completely bare.
Ren first sucked in a cold breath, then couldn't help but smile.
No need to worry—he was simply so happy he was practically bursting.
"Sanctuary Contract" ensured the master-subordinate relationship. There was nothing much to say about that.
As for "Geothermal Energy," the way it functioned was certainly unbelievable.
But then again, this was something synthesized through multiple prize draws, and a rule-type creation at that.
Nothing strange about it.
The key point was that its effects perfectly matched the requirements he had set when making the draw.
The previous Glory Angels had been born from a giant torch, and that thing had an absurd demand for energy.
It constantly needed thunderstorm weather to fill the energy gap.
But frequently altering the weather had an enormous impact on the climate itself, and Weatheria had already expressed its dissatisfaction more than once in subtle terms.