Chapter 391 - 380: Server Crisis
Chapter 391: Chapter 380: Server Crisis
Allen leaned back in his chair and had Jarvis pull up a self-diagnostic report.
[Since coming online, the Workshop Will’s jurisdiction has undergone four large-scale expansions. The scope of management has grown from an initial single production line and several dozen Golems to an entire Half-Plane, 10 production lines, ten legions, R&D support, a defense system, and wartime command.]
[Peak concurrent task load has reached eighty-nine percent of the core processing limit. The addition of commercial logistics scheduling and quality control processes in the last three months has pushed the baseline daily load to ninety-two percent.]
[If the second-phase expansion plan is fully implemented—with fifteen production lines at full capacity, five laboratories operating simultaneously, and all legion data links connected—the peak load will exceed one hundred percent.]
He fell silent for a moment, recalling the day Jarvis was born.
He had endured the agony of spiritual detachment, fusing DSeek’s logical framework with his own memories and some of his emotions, reshaping that soul with the "Workshop Will Creation Skill."
The core medium at the time had been the Ancient Golem Factory’s giant core, which was more than enough to handle the workshop’s operations during his time as a First-level Wizard.
But now he was a Second-level Wizard, and the workshop’s scale had expanded dozens of times over.
It was like an old server struggling to handle the workload of a medium-sized data center.
It was a wonder it hadn’t crashed yet.
"DSeek, search the knowledge base. Keywords: Workshop Will, processing power expansion, core upgrade."
[Search complete. Fourteen related entries found. Nine are free, basic literature; five are paid content.]
Allen quickly skimmed the nine free documents and extracted two viable paths.
The first path: Replace the core medium.
Migrate Jarvis’s soul from the old core to a more advanced medium.
This was theoretically the most thorough solution, but in practice, it was almost a gamble. Any mistake during the soul migration process could lead to irreversible data corruption.
The required precision techniques cost a high amount of Credit Points, and his current soul processing level wasn’t high enough to perform such an operation.
’Ruled out.’
The second path: Install external coprocessors.
Leave the main core untouched, install auxiliary computing nodes on the periphery, and offload some non-critical tasks. The risk was controllable, and the technical barrier was relatively low.
Allen’s gaze lingered on the second path for three seconds, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
’A distributed architecture. Such a familiar term.’
He immediately performed a targeted search within the paid literature and quickly locked onto a paper.
*A Preliminary Exploration of Distributed Workshop Will Architecture*. The author was a Second-level Alchemy Wizard, and the price was forty Credit Points.
Allen did some quick calculations.
Current Credit Point balance: 217.
Three planned knowledge purchases: "General Principles of Advanced Puppet Design" for 100 points, "Artificial Soul Technology" for 40 points, and "Small Golem Power Technology" for 50 points. Total: 190 points.
Remaining: 27 points.
The paper cost 40 points, leaving him 13 points short.
He stared at the screen for two seconds and made a choice.
’The 40-point literature on artificial souls can wait. Upgrading Jarvis’s processing power is the priority.’
’If Cybertron goes down, my combat strength as a Golem Wizard will be cut in half. Rhine’s soul preservation can hold out a bit longer; a delay of one or two months won’t be fatal.’
The final purchase list was adjusted to: "General Principles of Advanced Puppet Design" for 100 points, "Small Golem Power Technology" for 50 points, and "Distributed Workshop Will Architecture" for 40 points. Total: 190 points. Remaining: 27 points.
The 40-point deficit for the artificial soul technology could be made up by doing a month’s worth of Association missions.
"Confirm exchange."
Three packages of knowledge flooded into his mind simultaneously.
All nine of his sub-threads focused on analyzing the paper.
A quarter of an hour later, the core content was fully broken down.
The paper’s overall concept made Allen’s eyes light up—it was highly consistent with the master-slave architecture he had heard about in his past life.
A master node manages multiple slave nodes, distributing tasks via a standardized communication protocol. The slave nodes complete their computations and send the results back to the master node for aggregation.
The concept was the same, but the means of implementation were completely different.
The Wizarding World had no fiber optics or Ethernet. The communication protocol between nodes was a specialized Rune Matrix for Spiritual Power connection.
The hardware base for the auxiliary computing units was still a Soul Core.
The paper even mentioned that some Alchemy Wizards directly converted the heads of captives into wetware computing nodes to achieve the highest biological compatibility.
Allen skipped past that section with a blank expression.
He focused on two core technical issues.
First, Spiritual Power resonance synchronization between the master and slave nodes.
The paper only provided a theoretical framework. The author had clearly held back in this area, offering only a vague direction.
But the corners of Allen’s mouth curled up slightly.
’Isn’t the first Core Witchcraft Master Mercer taught me—the [Cluster Link Skill]—essentially a solution for multi-unit Spiritual Power synchronization?’
’If I just switch the target of control from "Golems" to "computing nodes," the principle is exactly the same.’
’It’s a perfect fit for this application, even more efficient and stable than the paper author’s proposed solution!’
The second issue was the standardized production of auxiliary Soul Cores.
This was even less of a problem for him.
The [Soul Processing Skill] was one of his signature abilities.
He had been making Golem Control Cores for years, and his proficiency with the Soul Processing Skill was more than sufficient. The only difference was that the Soul Cores used for coprocessors didn’t require particularly high "intelligence," just enough processing power.
The souls of mid-tier Magical Beasts, with their simple logic and basic instincts, were actually the best materials.
And he happened to have some in his warehouse.
Back in the Molten Iron Mountain Range, he had hunted countless Magical Beasts, and the souls he’d collected were still piled up in his materials storage, unprocessed.
All the pieces of the puzzle were in place.
"Jarvis, pause the equipment procurement process and production tasks for the second-phase expansion. Prioritize assisting me with your processing power upgrade."
[Command confirmed. Procurement process suspended. What do you need me to do?]
"Export your current task scheduling model, data flow diagrams, and load heat maps. I’m going to use them to design the task allocation scheme for the slave nodes."
[Exporting now.]
Allen stood up and walked over to his workbench.
For the next three days, he worked overtime, barely stopping.
Day one: Design.
His nine sub-threads worked in parallel. Three were responsible for integrating the Rune Matrix framework from the paper with the underlying logic of the Cluster Link Skill. Three were responsible for determining which tasks could be offloaded to slave nodes based on Jarvis’s load model. The remaining three designed the production plan for the auxiliary Soul Cores.
Day two: Production.
He took out seven Level 2 Magical Beast Soul Cores and, one by one, used the Soul Processing Skill to cleanse, reshape, and craft them into standardized coprocessor units. None of them had a high level of intelligence, but combined with the advanced materials used to make the cores, their computational channels were pure and their command response was swift.
At the same time, he inscribed a simplified Spiritual Power-linking Rune Matrix between the seven cores and Jarvis’s main core.
The synchronization precision of the Cluster Link Skill proved immensely useful here—his understanding of multi-node interaction far surpassed that of the paper’s author.
Day three: Integration and testing.
The seven auxiliary cores were connected to Cybertron’s central network one by one, and Jarvis began to take control of them in batches.
The first core was connected.
[Slave Node 1 online. Resonance synchronization rate... 97.3%. Communication latency: 0.04 seconds. Task allocation test... Passed.]
The second.
[Slave Node 2 online. Resonance synchronization rate: 96.8%. Passed.]
The third, fourth, and fifth.
With each core that came online, Jarvis’s load percentage on the light screen dropped significantly.
[All slave nodes are online. Commencing system self-check...]
[Overall processing power increased by—two hundred and seventeen percent compared to pre-upgrade levels.]
[Current baseline load: twenty-nine percent.]
[Peak load estimate after full implementation of second-phase expansion: forty-one percent.]
[Conclusion: Processing power bottleneck eliminated. System operational status: Healthy.]
Allen leaned against the control console, feeling Jarvis’s unprecedented smoothness and power through their spiritual link.
In just three days, he had single-handedly snuffed out a crisis that could have paralyzed his entire industrial system.
Jarvis’s voice came through: [May I proceed with Cybertron’s second-phase expansion and upgrade plan?]
"Proceed as planned."