[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage":3,"chapter-re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-499":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Re: Tales of the Rune-Tech Sage",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},148162,246,"Chapter 498: Workaround I","re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-499",499,"\u003Cp>CH498 Workaround I\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A\u002FN: This Chapter is based on Alex’s conclusions—his point of view. He may be right or wrong, so take it with a grain of salt.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days earlier...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex sat on the living room sofa, fresh off his conversation with Udara and the conclusion he’d reached that his plans needed a redirection if he was going to recover his Rune-Tech path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just before he began working on the Simulator program, a sudden thought struck him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wondered how new Classes for awakened professionals even came to be in the first place... and why these Classes continued to function even when people moved between planes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there were exceptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Classes whose methods contradicted a plane’s fundamental nature would become partially blocked—those specific techniques, restricted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, the question remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How do new professional Classes come to be?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And why do most of them work across planes?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex had already experienced the answer first-hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that his Class itself was being rejected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the methods of his Runemaster Class—those rooted in Pangea’s runes—that Verdantis could not understand and refused to acknowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So it wasn’t the Class that contradicted the plane... It was the methods and rules the Class relied on.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that in mind, Alex settled on what he believed was the most logical conclusion;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’There had to be a universal law. No, not a law, but rather... A universal order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Something that exist above individual planes and as an entity or system that guides the functioning of and maintains the between universal laws.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Certain things—like the existence of professional Classes across the myriad planes—had to be recorded within that greater order, and not within any single plane’s system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, a person could travel between planes, yes. But they still remained within the same universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the influence of planes on Classes would be limited to compatibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A plane’s peculiar nature could either favour a Class... or suppress it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If Zora found herself on an Ice-aligned plane, her Ice Mage Class would likely flourish beyond reason.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Alex’s current situation was the opposite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A perfect example of a path being blocked—not because it was invalid, but because it no longer belonged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex’s Runemaster Class still existed... but its methods were blocked by Verdantis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And because those methods were blocked, the Class Path itself couldn’t grow, which meant Alex couldn’t advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting aside the matter of planar order for the moment, Alex refocused on the greater concept—the universal order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’With the number of Classes available—at least on Pangea—it seems the universal order is quite welcoming to new Classes rising up.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And if my experiences are any yardstick... then not only is the universal order welcoming to new Classes, it also actively supports their development.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that wasn’t the case—if there wasn’t some guiding hand nudging Rune-Tech forward—Alex doubted he would’ve accomplished what he had, the way he had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things would have been vastly different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And far more difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That said, even as he concluded that the universal order acted as a guiding hand for Class developers, Alex didn’t believe such support was blanket or unconditional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Resources are finite, while Order must be maintained. It wouldn’t make sense for the universal order to support every direction a developer wants to take their Class.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s more likely that development has to align with the universal order’s rules... or its expectations.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Alex found himself comparing the universal order to a major multinational company from his previous life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as a developer’s work was useful to the company—and aligned with its long-term ambitions—such a company would be willing to sink billions into making the project a reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for workers who simply tolled and maintained established projects?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d never see that level of support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from the outside, it would look almost unfair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A major advantage of my Runemaster Class and the Rune-Tech platform is that I mostly make use of—or rather, re-engineer—existing protocols of the natural order to serve my purpose.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m not exactly creating something new...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m taking what the natural order—whether planar or universal—has already accepted as part of itself, and retooling it for myself and my needs.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon further investigation of the Simulation Function’s runic code, Alex quickly discovered something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a portion of the code he hadn’t written.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No... it wasn’t just that he hadn’t written it, but more like he couldn’t have written it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it wasn’t something OmniRune had added either, not even through gradual updates as the simulator was used and refined over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That unknown portion carried a unique energy signature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A signature Alex believed belonged to Pangea itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, using the limited information he had, Alex came up with a bright—borderline ludicrous—idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stripped away every functional addition he and OmniRune had made to the Simulation Function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stripped away the memory expansions, as well as optimisations layers... anything that was added to the Simulation program as a result of use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving behind only the base code—along with the portion that had been altered by Pangea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also helped that the duplicate Simulator Formation lacked Pangea’s unique energy signature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant it was... clean— A blank key, waiting to be imprinted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when Alex activated it, the result was exactly what he had hoped for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The formation produced a phenomenon that synchronised with the Verdantis plane itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, it absorbed a splinter of Verdantis’ unique energy signature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, it gained access.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Access to virtually—digitally—mirror Verdantis’ planar laws. Thereby allowing the duplicate Simulation Function to simulate conditions on Verdantis with near-perfect accuracy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The success of that step introduced an exciting prospect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant Alex could potentially mirror and simulate the laws of any plane...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So long as he visited the plane first, and the simulator received the ’mirroring access’ from the plane itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An access that, most likely, was tied to possessing some form of Providence associated with that plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I probably succeeded because of the Providence I’ve earned –or stolen— since arriving here in Verdantis.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the divine energy heist at Barnsil Fortress, to the Berserk Beast Nest raid, to the likely acknowledgement of Manrak—the Copper-skinned Orcs’ ancestral spirit...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex and his expedition party had made enough of an impact on Verdantis to earn the plane’s recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even then, this success was only but the first step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>",1058,"2026-05-29T03:49:10.137Z","2026-06-01T04:29:07.188Z",1,"novelbin.me","a54e719abbdb98b05eae4d6cc56ac54149f5fbd254b1a5296bcda6af5af2755c","re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-500","re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-498",692,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fre-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-cover.jpg"]