100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 751 - Voidwatch

The solution did not come from making the barriers stronger.

That was the first idea they abandoned.

It was also the most obvious.

Several Lunarian specialists had calculated how much additional material would be required to simply reinforce every conquered world’s existing boundary.

The numbers were absurd.

Some worlds were enormous. Others were wrapped in layered spatial formations that had been expanded over centuries. A few used native Laws unique to the worlds themselves, while others depended almost entirely on artificial arrays.

There was no single barrier design that could simply be copied and placed around all of them.

Even if there were, maintaining a shell strong enough to withstand repeated attacks from Monster Emperors would consume enough energy to become its own strategic problem.

That realization changed everything.

The Lunarians stopped asking how much more force the barriers could endure.

They began asking how early they could detect where the force was coming from.

The Celestials stopped focusing entirely on increasing durability.

They studied how corruption moved through damaged formations and how purification could prevent one compromised section from poisoning the rest.

Lootwell’s engineers took the existing barriers apart conceptually and treated them as systems rather than walls.

Lucien connected all of it.

The result slowly took shape.

It would not replace a conquered world’s defenses.

It would sit around them, watch them, strengthen them, and, when necessary, sacrifice parts of itself so that the actual barrier remained standing.

•••

The first completed prototype looked unimpressive.

That almost made Lucien suspicious.

It consisted of a central command core and dozens of smaller structures meant to be distributed around a world’s spatial boundary.

The Lunarians designed the detection architecture.

Their nodes could read abnormal disturbances in the surrounding void long before most barriers registered direct contact.

They watched changes in space, miasma density, authority fluctuations, unusual movement, and pressure building along void routes.

The Celestials added the second layer.

Purification and stabilization.

If Black Mass miasma reached one section, the framework would prevent the contamination from spreading freely through connected formation lines.

Power could be redirected.

Damaged sections could be isolated.

Nearby anchors could temporarily take over some of the load.

Lootwell supplied the adaptive architecture.

Lucien’s Living Creation allowed the framework to respond differently depending on what kind of barrier it was attached to.

It did not demand that every world obey one design.

It learned the structure it was connected to and worked around it.

Not perfectly.

But enough.

•••

The most important addition came after one of the Lunarians raised a problem.

Detection was useful.

Redistribution was useful.

But if a Monster Emperor struck the same section repeatedly, the system would still eventually fail.

Lucien stared at the model.

Then he added another layer.

External interceptors.

They were smaller defensive constructs positioned farther from the main barrier.

Pressure breakers.

When concentrated force approached, they could briefly activate and distort the incoming impact before it reached the real boundary.

Physical force could be scattered.

Energy attacks could be partially dispersed.

Miasma concentrations could be broken apart before making direct contact.

Authority based attacks were harder.

For those, the team incorporated limited resistance anchors modeled after principles already tested in the Authority Resistance Fields.

They could not nullify an Eternal-level authority.

That would have been ridiculous.

But they could interfere enough to reduce how cleanly it struck the barrier.

Against repeated attacks, even a small reduction mattered.

A barrier that would have failed after ten impacts might survive fifteen.

Fifteen impacts gave defenders time.

Time was the entire point.

•••

Lucien looked at the completed architecture.

Detection. Interception. Redistribution. Purification. Isolation. Reinforcement. Communication.

None of those functions alone were revolutionary.

Together, they were.

Eirene studied the design for several minutes.

"It doesn’t make the world impossible to attack."

Lucien nodded.

"It makes attacking it inefficient."

That was better.

An enemy could still break through.

But doing so would require more time, more strength, and more commitment.

The Black Mass had been exploiting the fact that a few Monster Emperors and large groups of monsters could force several Eternals away from the five continents.

If those same attacks could now be delayed by the defenses themselves, the strategic exchange changed.

The enemy would have to send more.

And the more they sent, the less subtle the invasion became.

•••

Lucien finally allowed the name he had been holding back.

Voidwatch.

The Lunarians accepted it immediately.

Several Lootwell engineers did too.

The prototype was tested first in a controlled environment.

Lootwell recreated several common conquered world barriers.

Spatial shell formations. Layered elemental barriers. Independent anchor networks. Older designs that relied heavily on formation cores. Newer designs that used interconnected nodes.

Voidwatch adapted differently to each.

There were failures.

Many.

One test redirected too much energy and nearly overloaded the neighboring node.

Another purification layer reacted too slowly.

A Lunarian detection core became confused by a naturally unstable spatial environment and sent enough false warnings that Lucien wanted to throw it into storage.

They corrected them, tested again, corrected again.

Then they introduced Black Mass miasma.

The Celestials adjusted the purification thresholds.

The Lunarians refined the sensors.

Lucien changed the adaptive clauses.

By the final controlled test, the framework could identify concentrated corruption before it reached the barrier, prepare the threatened section, redistribute power, activate interceptors, isolate damaged nodes, and notify defenders automatically.

That was when Lucien finally smiled.

Now they needed to see whether reality agreed.

•••

They chose one of the conquered worlds still under repeated attack.

The faction agreed immediately.

Its barrier had already been damaged twice.

One section remained under constant repair.

If the test failed, defenders were already positioned to compensate.

If it succeeded, they would know quickly.

The prototype was transported in prefabricated sections.

That was another deliberate decision.

Lucien refused to create a system that required Lootwell’s greatest craftsmen personally building every world defense.

That would simply create a different bottleneck.

The modules had to be manufacturable, replaceable, upgradeable, and installable by trained faction engineers once they received the specifications.

The first field deployment, however, would be done by Lootwell.

•••

Lilith took over production immediately.

That surprised no one.

The moment the final design was approved, she converted several workshops into dedicated manufacturing lines.

Lunarian components arrived first.

Celestial stabilization cores followed.

Lootwell produced the adaptive housings and formation interfaces.

Morphy became invaluable almost immediately.

As a Mimic Slime who had spent years working construction, Morphy could adjust its body to fit spaces and structures that would normally require specialized tools.

It moved through unfinished frames, changing shape whenever engineers needed temporary braces, molds, supports, or exact fitting guides.

More than one Lunarian engineer stared at the slime for an uncomfortable amount of time before quietly asking whether Lootwell had more of them.

Lucien ignored those requests for now.

Seren coordinated installation groups and supply flow, ensuring that finished modules did not pile up in Lootwell while battles continued elsewhere.

Other construction divisions joined.

Formation specialists assembled anchor housings.

Crafting teams produced replacement components.

Transport units prepared emergency shipments.

Once the process stabilized, the prototype stopped looking like an invention.

It started looking like an industry.

That was when Lucien knew they had succeeded in the part that mattered most.