The Association's plan for launching cross-planar strikes against the Devils of Hell was steadily advancing.
The research teams responsible for each stage worked in close coordination, with remarkable efficiency, systematically resolving every difficulty in the plan.
The entire process went relatively smoothly. The problems that had been anticipated as potentially unsolvable during planning had not held up their respective teams for long.
Not a single one of the downgraded contingency plans prepared in case the original plan failed had been needed so far.
At this point, the work of locating every layer of Hell had been fully completed. Under Director Odysseus's leadership, the Space Maintenance Department had not only determined which internal layers of Hell corresponded to the points on the crystal wall, but had also identified numerous points on each layer—enough to encircle that layer of Hell. When the time came to send spellcasting resources into Hell, they could choose any direction along the boundary of each layer. Of course, no matter which direction they chose, it would still be a boundary.
On Jia Xiu's side, the optimization of the reverse teleportation gate spell had also been successfully completed. The area of the original passage entrance had been expanded to nearly five times its former size. Though it still could not meet the need to transport everything in a single trip, the number of required transmissions had been greatly reduced. There was no longer any need to dismantle the Magic-Energy Computer into parts for transport either; Unit Two's cross-sectional size could pass through completely.
The only thing that had not changed was that Jia Xiu still could not use the spell properly on his own.
He continued maintaining his achievement of being a designer unable to use the thing he had designed.
To be fair, this was quite common