100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 800 - First Step

The Lunarians found the next problem.

The continents could not be treated as enormous rocks.

Their leylines had developed independently for thousands of years.

Bringing the landmasses closer would also bring entire energy systems into contact.

Eirene studied the projected flows for a long time.

"If these two approach at the angle you’ve chosen, the leylines will intersect before the crust does."

Lucien frowned.

"Badly?"

Eirene nodded.

Lucien smiled.

They adjusted the route.

The solution was not to force the old energy systems into one another.

The Lunarians would construct transitional arrays ahead of the moving boundaries, giving the leylines temporary paths while the continents approached.

As the distances narrowed, those temporary routes would be altered again.

Once Lilith completed a stable physical connection, the Lunarians could gradually transfer the energy flow into the new land.

Nothing would be switched at once.

The world would be taught the new route before the old one disappeared.

Lucien liked that much better.

More importantly, the new paths would remain well away from the protected regions they had discovered beneath the oceans.

No newly constructed array would touch the Primordial Slime’s seals.

Not indirectly.

Those areas were fixed obstacles in the plan.

If the continents needed to take a longer route around them, they would.

Nobody argued.

•••

Then came the ocean.

That problem was less dramatic than the ancient seals and considerably harder to ignore.

Even with Space shortened, the continents were still displacing water as they approached one another.

Enough water moved badly could destroy coastlines long before the continents ever touched.

Lucien had already expected that.

He projected the deep basins and current systems they had mapped during the sea investigation.

"I want the water redirected before each movement."

The Collegium Grandmaster studied the plan.

Instead of allowing pressure to build between approaching continental shelves, prepared ocean channels would gradually carry the displaced water into deeper regions and toward seas that would remain open after reunification.

Tidewatch would measure the pressure changes continuously.

The Collegium would calculate how much spatial shortening could occur without producing dangerous current surges.

If the pressure exceeded the limit, Lucien would stop.

If weather systems began changing too quickly, he would stop.

If coastal waters rose outside the predicted range, he would stop.

There would be no fixed schedule forcing them forward.

The planet decided the pace.

That was one part of the plan Lucien refused to compromise on.

•••

The Celestials were concerned with a different problem.

The Millennia War had left behind more than geological damage.

Some of the deepest trenches still carried traces of ancient authority, remnants capable of reacting when the surrounding world began to shift.

Even without the Keeper network, disturbing those scars could awaken something that had remained dormant for thousands of years.

Because of that, the Celestials would monitor the old wounds throughout the entire process.

If an old authority surged, Lucien wanted to know before the movement continued.

That left one final major problem.

People.

The continents could survive a successful geological movement and still create chaos for everyone living on them.

Lucien had already accounted for that too.

Coastal cities closest to projected joining zones would not be evacuated all at once.

Instead, temporary safety belts would be established around each active region.

Only the populations near the current phase of work would move.

Once a section stabilized, people could return while preparations shifted elsewhere.

Trade routes would remain open through teleportation hubs and temporary sea corridors.

Major roads would be extended only after the final coastline became reliable.

Nobody would build permanent infrastructure on newly joined land until Lilith, the Lunarians, and the Collegium all approved it.

The meeting lasted far longer than Lucien expected.

That was a good sign.

Every objection found now was one less surprise waiting inside the planet later.

•••

By the time they finished, Lucien’s original framework had changed in dozens of small ways.

The central idea remained the same.

Space would bring the continents closer.

The Collegium would determine how much movement the world could safely tolerate.

The Lunarians would maintain the shifting energy structure.

Lilith would rebuild the ancient continental connections once the landmasses approached.

Living Creation would stabilize the resulting transition regions.

Celestials would watch old authority scars.

Tidewatch would monitor the oceans throughout the process.

Everything else existed to make sure one failure could not cascade into another.

Lucien looked over the completed model.

Now it looked less like an absurd idea.

It looked like engineering.

Lucien smiled.

That was reassuring.

•••

Preparations took weeks inside the accelerated regions.

That gave them far more working time without allowing too much to pass in the Big World.

They tested the spatial adjustments on isolated landmasses first.

The Collegium deliberately introduced calculation errors into simulations to see how the safeguards reacted.

Lunarian formations were pushed until temporary leyline routes failed and transferred their load into backups.

Lilith practiced Genesis Forging on massive pieces of ancient stone Lucien created to mimic the fracture structures they would encounter.

Failures were expected.

That was the point.

By the time the first real movement approached, everyone knew exactly what would make them stop.

Lucien preferred it that way.

•••

The first adjustment involved only two continents.

Even then, Lucien had no intention of moving them through his strength alone.

Before the operation began, formation arrays had been buried across both continental shelves, linked through carefully placed ocean nodes and deep anchors beneath the crust.

Lucien and the Lunarians had designed the primary framework, while the Obsidian Collegium calculated the stresses each section would endure once Space began to contract.

The formations drew energy from the world to power.

Lucien’s role was the authority at the center of the entire operation.

The arrays supplied the power and maintained the structure, but only Lucien possessed enough understanding of Space to determine exactly how that power should be used.

He would not move the continents directly.

He would guide the formation as it shortened the distance between them.

Lucien waited until every part of the formation reported stability.

Only then did he place his authority into the central array.

The formation awakened.

Across thousands of kilometers, runes buried beneath the seabed began glowing one after another. The light never reached the surface, but Lucien could feel the entire structure connecting beneath him as accumulated energy flowed toward the spatial anchors.

He guided it carefully.

Space between the two continents compressed.

There was no violent movement.

The landmasses did not suddenly surge toward each other, and the ocean did not collapse into the narrowing distance.

Instead, the separation itself became slightly smaller.

The change was so small that someone standing on either shore would never have noticed it.

The world did.

Pressure moved through the seabed as the underlying geometry changed.

Ocean currents shifted toward prepared channels.

Several leylines strained for a moment before the Lunarian arrays redirected them through the temporary pathways already waiting nearby.

The continental anchors absorbed the first wave of stress and spread it across hundreds of linked formations rather than allowing it to accumulate at one point.

Lucien kept his attention on Space.

He did not push farther.

The formation had already performed the movement they had planned for that stage.

Now the world needed time to accept it.

Minutes passed.

Then an hour.

The Collegium continued reading the stress spreading through the crust. Tidewatch measured every abnormal current and pressure change along the nearby coastlines, while the Lunarians watched the redirected leylines settle into equilibrium.

Lucien could feel the spatial connection remaining stable beneath everything else.

Eventually, the Grandmaster looked up.

"We can keep it."

Lucien smiled.

That was the important part.

They had not merely shifted two continents.

They had changed the distance between them without forcing the world to absorb the change all at once.

The first step had worked.