Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

"I'm tired of student life, so I wonder what adult life is like."

Hanako sat up straight with a sigh and looked at Danrito beside her. "But it seems that adults' lives are not easy either."

Danrito raised an eyebrow. "Student life doesn't have to be this difficult. The fighting between small groups may be annoying, but the whirlpool of adult society is even more troublesome than that."

"Don't rush to figure out the answer to this question. Smart people often think too much, and therefore live too tiringly."

Danrito stood up. "Have you rested enough? Then let's move on to the next task. We still have a lot of things to deal with today, so we don't have much time to rest!"

Hanako, dragged around by Danrito, finally experienced what it was like to work overtime today, something she'd never experienced in her student days. As moonlight streamed across Kivotos and the lights came on, Hanako was crossing off the last item on her tablet.

“I’m so tired…”

Hanako stretched her back wearily. She and Danrito were now in a taxi heading back to Trinity. Their final task for the evening was a visit to a company in the distant Gehenna district, where Danrito was working on a business strategy for the Caesars Group. Because the matter was of such importance, he had to make the trip himself.

"It's only eight o'clock, how can you be tired? This is the intensity of overtime work all the time."

Danrito sat aside, commenting on Hanako's work today. "Overall, you did a good job. You were able to roughly answer the questions we asked you, and you were able to complete most of the tasks assigned to you. Aside from a slight delay due to unfamiliarity with the work process, it was generally within the tolerable range. How could an elite like you still be accepted into the cram school? Are you blind?"

"Thank you for the compliment, President." Hanako turned off the tablet in her hand. Danrito waved his hand and said, "It's time to get off work now. Just call me Danrito."

"Then... Mr. Danrito." Hanako switched back to the familiar address. "Just as you know how to recognize a gem—I got myself into the supplementary course club by deliberately doing poorly on the exams."

"A student's little rebellious thoughts usually include not turning in homework, skipping classes, writing haphazardly on tests, and even skipping classes." Danrito looked at Hanako in amusement. "All these things you do are useless except for causing yourself trouble."

"Really, Mr. Danrito, your words really irritate people easily." Hanako showed a helpless expression. "Has anyone ever said that your mouth can really make people angry?"

"Haha~ That's true, but they can't do anything to me." Dan Lidou showed a proud expression.

"But I have to give you a sneak peek."

Danrito's expression turned serious. "If you fail the supplementary school academic ability test twice out of three, everyone will be expelled. Do you understand?"

"……what?"

Hanako's expression suddenly froze. "You, what did you say? Everyone dismissed?"

"Ah, what else?" Danrito looked at her: "I thought you could guess it, but it seems there are things you haven't guessed yet."

"This... I thought it would just be a suspension or something like that. Is it as serious as expulsion?"

Hanako thought that she had been thinking of just getting by and answering every test paper casually. Now it seemed that if her little thoughts delayed other people who really wanted to stay in Trinity from dropping out, the serious consequences would be something she could not afford.

"I'm sorry... I really don't know." The look of surprise on Hanako's face lasted only a few seconds before fading. After knowing the consequences, Hanako's attitude towards the cram school club became much more serious. "If that's the case, I understand. I will give my all on the first academic ability test."

"But why set such strict conditions..." Hanako blinked and looked at Danreto, as if hoping he would explain this part as well, but Danreto just shrugged and said, "I'm very considerate of you to give me this much hint. Actually, there's no need to guess at the deeper meaning. Just treat it as a test you can't fail."

"If you really want to know why the consequences of failing the remedial course are so severe, use your brain to guess."

Danrito snapped his fingers. "But don't worry about it for now. It's still early. As a reward for your hard work all day, I'll treat you to dinner."

208. The technical director of the new game must be Baizi

The taxi stopped at a luxury hotel in Kivotos, which boasts the best views in Kivotos and is closer to the Hyakki Yagyo school district. The school district is characterized by traditional two- or three-story buildings and clusters of cherry blossom trees.

As if befitting the mysterious nature of Kivotos, near the luxury hotel where Danrito and his companions arrived, there was a forest of everlasting cherry blossoms. Built precisely to take advantage of this stunning scenery, the hotel was one of the tallest buildings in the area, commanding a commanding view of the surrounding landscape.

"Is this Mr. Danrito? We've already reserved a seat for you. It's truly an honor for us to have President Xia Lai patronize us!"

The hotel manager who led the way seemed quite fawning, a look that left Hanako slightly stunned, as if she rarely saw such an expression. Meanwhile, Danrito handled the manager expertly.

He casually put the business card handed to him by the other party into his pocket, waved his hand to send the manager away, and closed the door of the private room. The thick and heavy door with excellent sound insulation performance immediately blocked out the noise from the corridor.

"Is this also... an occasion for adults?"

Hanako looked at the luxurious hotel decor before her. Although it was decorated in the style of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, she could still tell that the entire room had cost a fortune. Even the guest rooms at the three largest academies of Trinity were of a similar quality.

“Even in a group of adults, not all adults can have a meal here.”

Danrito walked towards the balcony. Through the glass door, he could see the cherry blossoms outside, meticulously maintained and cared for to provide the best possible view for the distinguished guests. Even the hazy night didn't hinder Danrito and his friends from enjoying the moment.

"This luxury hotel is said to have been built by several companies in the Hyakki Yagyo school district. It's a luxury hotel that's rarely open to the public."

Danrito tilted his head slightly and explained to Hanako, who came over to admire the view, "Ordinary people aren't eligible to reserve a table at this hotel. Even if they could, the cost of a single meal wouldn't be affordable for most people."

"Just for a meal?" Hanako was a little confused by this behavior. "Or is it a reservation based on qualifications?"

"For example," Danrito pointed at himself, "I used the titles of President of Xialai and President of Huanmeng to reserve a room for tonight through their circles. Perhaps they've already known about what happened between Caesar and me through their own channels, so they're being a little overly enthusiastic. Without the qualifications to reserve a room, this hotel won't accept a single guest, even if all the rooms are empty."

"Is this also something that's considered important in the adult world?" Hanako asked softly, her gaze fixed on the cherry blossoms before her. This supposedly evergreen grove, illuminated by lanterns designed like a Hundred Demons Night Parade, cast a hazy pink hue, like a vast cherry-colored cloud encircling the building.

"Adults have a lot to interpret in such occasions." Danrito looked to the girl beside him, her cherry-colored hair cascading down like a waterfall. "But for the children, all they need to do is enjoy the beautiful scenery and delicious food."

Reach out and hold Hanako's head.

Novel qun nine⑤80㈠⑨○㈨

"Huh?! Mr. Danrito?"

"Heh, little brat, you're trying to act profound by imitating an adult. What do you know?"

Danrito ruffled Hanako's hair without hesitation and sat down with a swagger under her resentful gaze. "The food will be served soon. I suggest you stop overthinking it. Aren't you hungry?"

"Really... the atmosphere is so good."

Hanako pouted, a bit annoyed as she sat down, took out a comb from her bag, and straightened her hair. Just as she was finishing her hair, there was a knock on the door. Then, a waiter came in with a food cart.

Luxurious dishes, all in the style of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, were served one after another, filling the space before Danrito and Hanako. At this point, Hanako finally showed a bit of what all students like to do—let her phone eat first.

"This dish... can you even create such a beautiful dish out of food?"

Hanako's phone has already recorded many photos of tonight's meal. After all, it is served in a luxury hotel. Whether it tastes or not is not important, the presentation must be amazing to everyone who sees it.

"Style," Danrito said, swallowing the food in front of him. "The differences between social classes can be seen in the simplest things like food, clothing, housing and transportation. This is also the unavoidable feature of 'adult society'."

Meal time is always relaxing and enjoyable. Under the influence of delicious food, even Hanako, who was cautious at the beginning, became relaxed halfway through the meal.

Especially when they saw that Hanako, brought by Danrito, was still a student, they wondered if the receptionist at the hotel had misunderstood something, and they stuffed several exquisite-looking desserts into the menu and brought out two bottles of low-alcohol sweet wine.

"Wine... no need, let's have juice instead."

Finally, Danrito turned down the two bottles of sweet, intoxicating wine in favor of fruit juice. After Hanako's belly visibly swelled, the luxurious dinner came to an end.

"It's getting late. I'll take you back to Trinity."

Danrito stood up. "It's a pity you're not a Collapse Type, otherwise you'd be back in the blink of an eye. While Kivotos may not have many other qualities, its network coverage is impeccable..."

"Please don't always try to persuade others to become subhuman..." Hanako's smile was a little awkward, but the distance between them had invisibly narrowed considerably. At that lavish dinner that would have made a certain starving Junko burst into tears, the two of them had also chatted about some lighthearted topics while waiting for the dishes to be served.

"By the way, those new game cartridges you mentioned just now, 'Abydos Redemption' and 'Millennium Space Program', are they real games?"

Hanako's eyes sparkled a little, as if she was very much looking forward to the game development plan that Danrito had just revealed as a topic of conversation. As for this, Danrito didn't have anything particularly to keep secret, so he satisfied Hanako's curiosity.

"'Abydos Redemption' is a collaborative project I proposed after connecting with the Abydos School Abandonment Countermeasures Committee. Abydos is in need of major renovation and needs to attract traffic and generate revenue, and Huanmeng also needs to gain a foothold in Abydos, so the game cartridge based on Abydos should be released at the right time."

Danrito hailed a taxi and squeezed into the back seat with Hanako. "Besides 'Abydos Deadshot,' we also have two other games of the same genre, 'Grand Theft Auto: Abydos' and 'Release Day,' which are also on our daily schedule. To restore the scenery of Abydos to its former glory, I'm working with the Millennium Engineering and Archaeology Departments to develop a drone capable of scanning deep underground terrain..."

209. A musou-themed game is on the agenda... and then a bottleneck

The development of a new game cartridge had been on Danrito's agenda since the battle. With Abydos temporarily rescuing itself from its debt crisis thanks to external assistance, the responsible countermeasures committee proposed a plan to increase revenue, recover funds, and develop a new campus.

With the strong support of Nomiya and Ayane, Danrito's relationship with Abydos became a top priority. Aside from the original Abydos Desert Resort plan, which was still under discussion, Danrito's regional exhibitions and the release of strongly connected new game cartridges were both plans that would bring immediate benefits to Abydos, and there was no reason not to support them.

"The game development department has expanded significantly. Let's get them busy working on the games that will be released during the winter sale."

After safely returning Hanako to Trinity, Danrito returned to the Dream headquarters alone. Without any students by his side, Danrito was finally able to use the power of the Collapse Body to teleport.

"Should we consider letting Yumei be my assistant? After all, she's the first Destruction Source to know her own identity. If she's with me, I can usually move around via the internet..."

Danrito thought of the first Hōgen-type he had created during his experiments in Abydos, and the current first-year student, Ame no Yumi. Although Kuromi Serika was also a Hōgen-type, since they had managed to keep it a secret, they decided to just let Serika continue living her life as is.

As for the re-enactment of the famous scene "Black↗See↘Celery↗Incense↘", Dan Lidou is kind-hearted and can't bear to see others suffer. However, if the opportunity is right, Dan Lidou will not hesitate to re-enact a classic running in place.

"Send a momo text to Yumei."

Dan Lidou casually sent a message to Yumei. It was already past eight in the evening, so perhaps a reply would be delayed. He stopped watching the communication interface and called another number.

"Hello, are you there?"

"...Hey~ Isn't this Mr. Danrito, the big money man behind our engineering department? Hey, hey, hey!"

When the call was answered, Yaduli's enthusiastic voice came over: "Mr. Danrito, are you interested in the research progress of the 'Deep Terrain Detector'?"

"Of course, I don't care about that. Why should I care?" Tan Lidou plopped down in his boss's chair and casually started preheating the coffee machine beside him. "When the detector is finished, I'll start the several projects I'm working on. Every minute of delay is money lost. How can I not care?"

"You're really under a lot of pressure, President Danrito." Yadori stuck out her tongue and reached up to adjust her glasses. "We're relying on the game cartridge technology you brought. Although we haven't fully researched this special acquisition technology, compatibility shouldn't be a problem. Utahara and Hibiki are currently connecting the 'Digging Boy' cartridge to the all-terrain drone. I think it should be finished in two or three days."

The "Digger Boy" game cartridge Adoori mentioned was one Danrito had improvised for this exploration mission. Even though it was rushed and only a Level 3 cartridge, Danrito had managed to balance functionality and playability.

The "Digger Boy" game cartridge is a simple game in which you control the protagonist "Digger Boy" to drill underground continuously, looking for rare metals to upgrade the drill bit, and finally defeat the boss mechanical dinosaur and the evil doctor who controls the dinosaur, and rescue his kidnapped girlfriend.

"Sigh... I don't even want to say I developed this game," Dan Lidou said with a pout. "The gameplay is completely lame. It only gives players a two-hour gaming experience. I need to cram more content into it and improve it before I can sell it."

"Don't be obsessed with commercializing everything, President Danrito," Yaduli said with a smile. "Just the fact that this game cartridge can detect a hundred meters underground is more than enough, isn't it? Besides, isn't the reason you want us to build a detector so you don't have to run away yourself?"

Yaduli was not saying that Tan Lidou was lazy. You know, when the engineering department received the commission and knew that Tan Lidou was planning to survey the entire Abydos school district buried in the desert with the purpose of collecting real information about the school district, the three of them almost dropped their jaws.

The Abydos school district that hadn't been buried by the desert... that was once the largest school district in Kivotos. Wanting to walk through the entire place? Just the thought of it made the three students' legs go weak.

"Headmaster, the cassette and reader you gave me, Utahara is currently transferring them to the storage device." At this point, Yaduli sighed, "However, the other two seem to have an unimaginable passion for the cassette technology itself—and so do I, by the way!"

"How on earth can such a small cartridge pack so much technology into it?" Yaduri's eyes sparkled. "Integrated chip technology, battery life, the super-augmented reality technology called 'Game Field'... Seriously, President Danrito, could you please let us take a look at the production line? We'd be happy to see everyone in the engineering department working for you for free!"

After dealing with the overly enthusiastic engineering department, Dan Lidou hung up the phone. With that matter settled, Dan Lidou turned his attention to the cassette in front of him.

The thick double cartridge means that the amount of data contained in this cartridge is even larger. Although it adopts the design of a gear cartridge, Danrito did not load two games into it, but used the entire huge capacity to load one game.

"Unparalleled game..."

The manuscript paper around Danrito gradually piled up. When inspiration struck, or he needed to stimulate it, he preferred to write with a physical pen and paper rather than using the electronic drafts in the Bengyuanti format. This, he said, made it easier to come up with good ideas.

"Aa ...

Pushing the pile of papers beside him to the ground, Danrito ruffled his hair in frustration as he watched the white manuscripts flying everywhere. "A game that maximizes the player's personal prowess, a game that's so powerful it can easily face an overwhelming force! The game has some ideas, but why isn't the power of the cartridge enough?"

As an ultimate game developer, it wasn't difficult for Danrito to create a Musou game. However, when he was loading the game into the cartridge, he discovered a fact -

The output of the game data could not reach the level that Danrito was pursuing.

"This isn't some random cassette tape like 'Digger Boy' that you can just throw away. This is a 'Musou' theme!"

210. The Chronicle Project is back! Awesome development!

"This isn't some random cassette tape like 'Digger Boy' that you can just throw away. This is a 'Musou' theme!"

Danrito slammed the table. "How can a game about musou be wasted on a meaningless level 99? My game level is going to be sky-high!"

It was only level 99, the maximum level you could reach in a typical RPG. How could it compare to the combat power of Mowing Warrior? Even Dr. Cake, who always said, "There's nothing I can't cut," ended up with a cartridge that surpassed level 99.

"So, this Wushuang cartridge, which only has a level 99 output, isn't even a qualified Wushuang!"

Tanli jumped onto the table in anger, squatted on it and supported his cheek in an indecent posture, thinking about how to improve the current game cartridge.

"...The game data can't reach a higher output. Is it due to processor limitations?"

The three sparkling wines

After calming down, Danrito thought about ways to make the game cartridge reach higher output, and the first thing that came to his mind was the maximum level that game cartridges could normally reach - level 99.

Crouching over the expensive desk, Danrito twitched his chin. "Whether it's the level 100 'Exploration Legacy' cartridge, the 'Ultimate Invincible' cartridge, or even my 'God's Limit X' cartridge, they all essentially bypass the level limit through special means—cartridges manufactured with Collapse Origin technology are still capable of achieving very high output."

The way to reach level 100 in "Exploring Heritage" is to rely on data updates and forced changes in internal permissions to allow the level to reach beyond 99 - although, this method is ultimately the result of Tan Zhengzong's assumptions.

Tan Zhengzong believed that as long as he reached level 100 and could force transformation, he would be stronger than level 99... But that was just a superficial way of thinking for mortals. The so-called crossing the gap could not be achieved by relying on such a simple trick!

The "Ultimate Invincibility" is essentially a permanent buff plug-in, attached to the side of a level 99 "Extreme X" cartridge, enveloping the level 99 player in invincibility, thus creating the "Muteki Gamer." Essentially, the player doesn't transcend level 99, but rather relies on the terrifying bonus of invincibility to reach a new level.

"As for my 'God of Extreme Limit X'..." Danrito closed his eyes and pondered, "By integrating a game development workbench into the cartridge itself, I can use the 'developer tools' within the finished game to modify the level and output limits. Furthermore, by using the cartridge itself as a platform for game development, I can create games while still using the cartridge. This way, I can achieve output and capabilities that surpass the cartridge itself..."

God's Limit X is the embodiment of Danri Tona's divine talent. It could be argued that God's Limit X isn't really a "game" per se, but rather a "development platform." Its high power stems not only from the power of a level 99 player already integrated into the cartridge itself, but also from the "developer privileges" that allow for numerical manipulation and endless game creation.

As long as they are dragged into the 'game field', no matter what kind of enemy they are, they will have to face the output rules from the 'game cartridge' - even if they are planet-level enemies, even if they are things like the Death Star Fortress and the Blackstone Fortress, once they enter the 'game field', the numerical modifications of "God's Limit X" will be effective on them.

"So... how can I surpass this level limit with the Musou cartridge?"

Danrito sighed and lowered his head.