Darius Supreme

Darius watched as the door lit up brightly for a split second. His eyes only showed that bright light, but Darius' Psychomancy told him that something far more dangerous was at play.

It was only that the naked eye was unable to process the intricacy of this bright light. It left him wondering if it was designed to disintegrate or harm him in some way. And if so, was it in the form of a magical, physical or spiritual attack?

Darius did not spend too much time pondering this seeing that the danger did not affect him where he stood, nor did his spiritual senses warn him of anything foul from his new position. Rather, he devoted his brainpower right back to finding a way to open this door.

Darius checked with his Database and analyzed the costs of his various options. The most affordable one, yet unfortunately still beyond his means, had been to change it into Holy Gold, yet Darius didn't know if it would wipe away the sentient mind within or replace it with a new one.

Heck, before encountering the door he had never even heard of Holy Silver, so how would Holy Gold be any different. Darius had merely guessed its existence, since chances were if Silver existed with the 'holy' prefix, the same might have been true for other metals.

There were two ways to go about opening this door. The first was to use a key of some sort and open it without causing a fuss. The second was to use more forceful and brutal means, which might cause a counterattack.

Darius was more interested in the first option, but the difficulty was not low. To solve it using the first required him to learn more about the Polito Race and how they had created their Vaults while the second required him to know all the properties of Holy Silver and its weaknesses.

Both were difficult, but the matter concerning the second option was far simpler than the first one since Darius was already here. He took out a piece of average quality iron ore that had been a drop from one of his previous fights.

[Would you like to change the Iron Ore into Holy Silver Ore? This will cost 87 Conversion Points.]

A steep price, but it further confirmed the fact that Holy Silver was really not a joke. Anything above 50 CP was something special and those above 100 were precious beyond compare.

The Omni-Element Enchant was one example of the latter.

Darius made the change and watched as the dull iron became a lovely silver that glowed with a milky white light that had dark blue lines running through it like veins. It looked just like the door opposite him.

Satisfied, Darius went back into the portable house, moving to the living room. He placed the ore on the table and removed some basic tools that Appraisers at the D Rank and below often used.

C Rank Appraiser and above usually had special gimmicks like eyes techniques or sensory abilities that allowed them to tell the nature of an item. Naturally, Darius' Analyze was far superior to all of them, so he would certainly use it to dig deeper.

Right now, he needed to fully understand how Holy Silver worked and come up with something that could counteract it. If not a special substance, he could simply use the lovely material that was used and abused in all Sci-Fi settings, nanobots!

As long as he could program the nanobots with Miranda's help successfully, she should be able to use them to eat away at the door, creating a gap which would allow the crew to enter.

This was Darius's best plan. He and Miranda were used to working together on serious projects, so they continually tested the Holy Silver in different ways and his AI daughter logged down its various properties.

This took them a total of three days, and despite the increasing pressure to hurry up and get it done, Darius knew this was a delicate process. It was better to fail and leave the subspace, coming back when the others had left to try again than to rush it out.

After all, the duration was one year, so he could afford to move on to searching for other Vaults while this one would be occupied by treasure seekers. The probability of them opening the door when they had failed countless times in the past was low, but never zero, which was why he hadn't left from the beginning.

It was this paradoxical situation that tightened Darius' freedom and forced him to work intensively. However, by the end of the third day, he wore a satisfied smile on his face as he and Miranda had discovered three ways to get that door open, or specifically three weaknesses.

Right now, Miranda was programming some nanobots with the specific information and tasks, while Darius drank a bottle of diluted Lunar Dew to invigorate himself. As Gunner and Xela knew that this kind of thing was best left to their master, they were lounging about watching anime and various shows together.

Frankly, Darius was surprised by the amount of nonsense he had consumed in his life that his Branded Servants now enjoyed. However, when one considered that the latter part of his life had been spent with his kids and 'studying up' on things they might like, it was not too surprising that a library had formed in his head.

Darius exited the portable house with a small vial in hand. Within was what seemed to be a sparkly silvery-grey liquid with less than 100 mL in quantity. However, this small amount had around 9 million nanobots within, and they were ready to work.

Darius smiled as he lifted the vial with his Telekinesis. Then, before anyone could have suspected any foul play, the vial zoomed forward so fast that it was almost impossible to follow.

Before the Holy Silver Divine Door could even react by activating any self-defense mechanism it might have had, the vial crashed against the lower right end of its form, and the silvery-grey liquid splashed on the door.

The next moment it suddenly froze and began trembling as the nanobots quickly tore a hole in its side that was rapidly expanding.

Darius snapped his fingers and retracted the portable house, Gunner, and Xela coming to stand beside him since had been waiting for this.

It was time to get to work!

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Author's Note: I'm sure you've all noticed the fluctuating release schedule of Darius Supreme in recent days. It became worse after I got sick a while back too.

Well, the reason is because writing 5k words a day isn't easy for me in particular. It not even just the quality, but the fact that it's spread across two different stories.

It seriously throws me on a loop, especially when one of them became intense while the other is still building up, or when one requires technical details like levels, stats, and skills and the other is focused on dialogue and the like.

Because I have to do this every day, it's like writing two different exams on the same day, separate by mere hours of each other... every single day.

I'll try my best to maintain a schedule, but somedays, I just end up behind my computer, just unsure of what to do next and which to write first.