623: The Altar Buff Mechanism for Combat Power Enhancement Goes Live - First Extra Update of 2024

Old Flywheel quickly settled on a design for the second-generation "player interface." After Murphy made the extravagant decision to create a "powered-up" player interface by linking three orbs in parallel, the UI design and upgrade work for the closed beta were set.

By the version update date Murphy had set, Flywheel had less than ten days left to work. But for an engineering master, this kind of improvement wouldn't take much time. The only real hassle was redesigning the appearance of the calculation orbs.

However, after Murphy suggested they could be treated as a black box and sealed inside a device the size of a probe, Old Flywheel had plenty of room to work. He was going to send a letter to his old darling and ask her to pick up a few thousand alloy casings and the necessary sealing equipment in Chardo Port when she came over.

Those things weren't hard to come by in Chardo Port, so Flywheel thumped his chest and promised he'd deliver on time.

Neither of them even brought up money.

After all, you've already used up all the local precious gold-burning ore, Old Flywheel. How could you still have the nerve to ask Murphy for money?

After Flywheel left, Murphy immediately summoned Adele.

"Transia has spies from the Thieves' Guild, and they've definitely been hiding here for a long time. Flywheel's letter can reach Chardo Port within a day, which means he must be using the Thieves' Guild's channels."

Murphy said to his Shadow intelligence officer:

"But we still haven't found those thieves. Adele, perhaps you should take a hard look at the results of your work."

"That was our mistake, Master."

E-Sis didn't try to defend herself. She accepted the criticism calmly and replied:

"But the Thieves' Guild may have been entrenched in