100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 642 - Teleportation Array

After Lucien left the small world, Vivian and Lilith came to meet him.

Both carried reports.

Vivian placed her documents on the table first.

"Lu, the surveys for the Intercontinental Teleportation Array locations are finished."

Lilith followed with a blueprint.

It revealed the five continents, Lootwell’s branch territories, chapel locations, trade routes, healer hubs, and several marked construction sites.

Lucien studied the layout.

The main public arrays would be placed near the chapels of each branch.

Not inside them.

The arrays would be public infrastructure, not religious gates.

But they would be close enough for the people to associate the journey with Lootwell’s chapels, Grace, safety, and order.

Lucien smiled faintly.

"That is a good choice."

Vivian nodded.

"We made sure each location has enough space, no major obstruction, stable ground, and access to existing roads. Construction can start as soon as you give the order."

Lilith added, "The chapel districts are also easier to protect. People already gather there for aid, reports, quests, and public announcements. If the arrays are placed near them, the flow of people will be easier to manage."

Lucien looked at the map again.

The logic was clean.

Convenience.

Security.

Faith.

Public trust.

And yes, advertisement.

He did not say the last part aloud.

The chapels had become more than places of worship after the war. They were where people received warnings, comfort, Grace, aid, and records of the dead.

If the Intercontinental Teleportation Arrays stood near them, every journey across the world would remind people that Lootwell had connected the continents when distance had once cost lives.

That was useful, practical, a little manipulative, but also necessary.

Lucien had stopped pretending those things could not exist together.

"Begin preparations," he said. "But before public construction starts, I want the private network fixed first."

Lilith’s eyes sharpened.

Vivian looked at him.

"The instant teleportation network?"

"Yes."

The old private array network had served Lootwell well enough before.

At the time, it had already been absurd.

But the war had exposed the flaw openly.

The network had been too centralized.

If someone wanted to travel from one branch to another, they often had to teleport to the main hub first, then transfer to the next destination.

In peaceful times, that was acceptable.

In war, it was wasteful.

One extra transfer could cost seconds.

Sometimes seconds were the difference between reinforcement and funeral.

Lucien had seen that too clearly during the Keeper war.

He would not leave it unchanged.

"The old network was built like a wheel," Lucien said. "Everything passed through the center."

Lilith nodded slowly.

"Useful for control. Bad for emergency movement."

"Exactly."

Vivian’s gaze moved across the layout.

"You want a web instead."

Lucien smiled.

"Yes. Controlled, but not dependent on one center. The main hub remains the authority point, but branches must be able to connect directly when approved."

Lilith understood immediately.

"Regional links, emergency bypasses, route priority, and layered permissions."

"Also failure isolation," Lucien said. "If one array is compromised, the whole network must not become a road for the enemy."

Vivian’s expression grew serious.

"The public Intercontinental Teleportation Array should use the improved structure too."

"It will," Lucien said. "That is why we fix the private network first."

Lilith’s smile appeared.

The kind of smile that appeared when an impossible problem became interesting enough to be insulting.

"Then we should start with the private model. Once it works, we scale the structure for the public array."

Lucien looked at Vivian.

"Sis, continue the World Fortification surveys with the others. Tidewatch towers, Lifeline Routes, Soul Harbor Lamps, shelters, coastal warning points, and leyline rhythm stations. Use everyone you need."

Vivian nodded.

"I will contact the administrators."

"Also Eldran, Reaper, and the Shadow Network."

"I already planned to."

"Good."

Vivian gathered her reports.

Then she looked at him for a brief moment.

"You are not going to rest, are you?"

Lucien looked at Lilith.

Lilith looked at the blueprint like it had personally challenged her bloodline.

Lucien answered honestly.

"No."

Vivian sighed.

"I will send food."

"That is not rest."

"It is the closest victory I expect today."

Then she left before he could object.

Lilith watched her go.

"She has become sharper."

"She has had too many examples."

"That sounds like your fault."

"It often is."

Lilith smiled.

Then both of them turned back to the projection.

The arrays waited.

•••

The first task was not construction.

It was correction.

Lucien and Lilith entered the private teleportation chamber beneath Lootwell.

At the center stood the original main array.

It was still impressive.

But now that Lucien looked at it with his current eyes, the flaws were obvious.

Too many routes bent back toward the center.

Too much authority collected in one point.

Too much time wasted on unnecessary transfers.

Lucien raised his hand.

Living Creation unfolded.

The array lines stirred as if waking.

Lilith stepped beside him, and Genesis Forging ignited around her hands. Her power refined the idea of building until structure remembered what it was supposed to become.

The two forces met above the array.

Creation and forging.

Life and structure.

Adaptation and foundation.

The chamber filled with light.

They did not speak much after that.

They did not need to.

Lucien saw the routes as living possibilities.

Lilith saw the structure as a craft that wanted to be perfected.

Where Lucien made the network flexible, Lilith made it stable.

Where Lilith reinforced the anchor points, Lucien taught the routes how to choose.

Then they discovered something that made both of them pause.

The leyline survey data helped.

The campaign had not been useless at all.

It had accidentally become a treasure.

Lilith laughed softly.

"All that trouble, and the world still gave us useful roads."

Lucien smiled.

"Good. I prefer when traps pay rent."

Using the leyline records, they improved the network again.

The private teleportation arrays no longer needed to move like a wheel.

They could move like a living web.

A branch could connect to another branch if the permissions were correct.

An emergency route could skip the capital if lives depended on it.

A compromised array could be sealed away without killing the whole system.

It was still controlled.

But now it was fast, harder to break, and much harder to hijack.

Lilith looked over the completed model, eyes bright.

"This can be scaled."

Lucien nodded.

"Then the public Intercontinental Array uses this structure."

"That will take time."

"How much?"

Lilith considered the five continents.

"With normal craftsmen, months. With Lootwell’s current resources, perhaps several weeks if we are unreasonable. But with us two working together..."

Lucien looked at her.

Lilith’s smile slowly faded.

"I don’t like that look..."

Lucien opened the communication channel.

Lilith immediately understood something terrible had happened.

"Luc."

He ignored the warning in her voice.

Across the five continents, communication devices lit up again.

Lucien’s announcement appeared.

[Lootwell confirms that the Intercontinental Teleportation Array project will proceed.]

People stopped what they were doing.

[The public network will connect the five continents through secured routes near Lootwell chapel districts and approved regional hubs.]

The world listened.

Lucien continued.

[By the end of the week, the first public intercontinental routes will be completed.]

Beside him, Lilith slowly turned her head.

Her expression was peaceful in the way a sharpened blade was peaceful.

Lucien closed the channel.

For several breaths, silence filled the chamber.

Then Lilith smiled.

"A week."

"Yes."

"For an intercontinental public teleportation network."

"With us two working together, right?."

"That does not make it sound less insane."

Lilith looked at him.

Her smile became brighter.

Dangerous, but bright.

"A week, then."

Lucien smiled at her.

Lilith treated impossible deadlines like invitations.

That was one of the reasons she was terrifying.

It was also one of the reasons he trusted her.

"With you here," she said quietly, "it does feel possible."

Lucien paused.

For a moment, the chamber’s light softened between them.

Then Lilith turned back to the array.

"Do not misunderstand. I will still blame you if I miss rest."

"That is fair."

The work began.

•••

Living Creation and Genesis Forging flared together.

The first public array foundation rose near the West Main Chapel district.

It was the size of a stadium.

Before, building such an array would have taken hours at best.

Possibly a full day.

Now, Lucien and Lilith finished the core foundation in half an hour.

Both of them stared at it afterward.

Lucien was the first to speak.

"We have become unreasonable."

Lilith looked at the completed rings.

"No. We were already unreasonable. We have become efficient."

Then they moved to the next location.

And the next.

And the next.

Across the five continents, foundations began to appear.

Lucien was reckless with deadlines.

He was not reckless with public safety.

Each array required testing, authority layering, safety limits, emergency shutdowns, and route verification.

But the foundations rose quickly.

Too quickly for the world to process.

Reports spread faster than rumors could distort them.

Lootwell array teams had arrived.

The ground had opened.

Rings of light had formed.

A stadium-sized teleportation foundation had appeared before lunch.

The work continued.

•••

The private network improved alongside the public foundations.

Eirene took charge of the adjustment teams as Lucien ordered.

With her came Lunarian specialists, formation masters, and several administrators.

Her Stillness was perfect for stabilizing route transitions while the old arrays were being rewritten.

Under her supervision, the original instant teleportation arrays were upgraded branch by branch.

The central hub remained important.

But it was no longer a bottleneck.

Direct branch routes opened under permission.

Emergency bypasses were installed.

Compromised-route isolation became standard.

Lootwell’s private network became faster, cleaner, and safer.

Eirene sent Lucien a concise report.

The old array has stopped wasting time.

Lucien read it and smiled.

That was probably the closest Eirene would come to bragging.