After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1934

Chapter 1934: One Less Problem

She had to do the process several times in order to get it, and she also had to balance things out to make sure she didn’t accidentally erase the patterns instead. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

They were patterns, akin to arrays, though none of them were valid arrays and were completely devoid of aether. This could mean that the array would dismantle itself when it is activated. Still, seeing some traces of it was a step forward.

So...the bombs must be special construction filled with materials as well as aether, combined into an intricate little item surrounded by arrays that could cause damage once it was triggered. After that, the array would lose its effect as if it were never there at all.

It was a fascinating concept, but what she needed to know was how to detect an active one.

For now, all she could do was lift the patterns in the bomb and hope to make something out of it. It was very unlikely she’d crack it in such a short time, but she would definitely do her best.

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She called in all the array experts that were available (except for Melissa, whose tool was needed in the war; the rest of them could be pulled), and they studied the patterns she lifted together.

A new whiteboard appeared, and new sketches were displayed and stuck on it; notes were added as time went on. They connected the pieces and then tried to make sense of them.

They used the computer to assist them, though there wasn’t really a program analyzing arrays yet, nor did they have computers capable of that as of this time. Althea’s tablet could make some calculations once they input the patterns that they already collected, and what they had to do was translate them accordingly.

The art of Arrays wasn’t simple math, but it did have patterns.

For example, each line in an array had meaning, and every intensity of aether that traced along its lines also had its own functions. There were also variables like the differences in thickness and quality of aether, even in a single line. There were a lot of trials and errors here, and even then, there might not be results.

The array experts were then divided into two teams, but both were studying the same patterns. It was so there would be more than one set of eyes, but still methodical, considering how little time they had left.

With this, they soon found some more patterns here and there, as well as some similarities with what they already knew.

The patterns were varied, of course. They were used to arrays on flat surfaces—2D, so to speak. This one was engraved on a sphere, which was 3D.

It might seem like there would be no difference since there was only one surface, but the difference of a single curvature was actually immense.

Even arrays drawn in two dimensions had an effect on each other. For example, on two intersecting lines, having a variation of aether quality 1mm on the side could affect something on the intersecting line.

Similarly, a pattern moving in the three dimensions was far more complex, and one had to consider an extra dimension in calculations.

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