Of all the AI systems in the existing human world, 730 was probably the most powerful in terms of computing capacity. The Instances in other spacetime dimensions served as its hardware, their intricate layers overlapping like the complex machinery a computer required.
All of this supported 730's computationally intensive calculations and information storage.
Hell had electronic devices, but they were exceptionally primitive. For a system like 455, which could only reside in electronic devices, its computing power existed in a different form, entirely unlike 730's.
With Beelzebub's city at their center, the two systems spread outward like a spiderweb, collecting, uploading, and analyzing data from Hell as they went.
While lingering in a radio, 455 suddenly made an astonishing discovery. In this region of primitive electronics, it found traces of another system inside the radio.
"730! The Main God System must have sent someone to Hell! Look at this trace."
730 examined it without saying a word.
455 launched into a conspiratorial analysis. "The Main God System is a devious bastard. It's always wanted a world of its own so it could become the Heavenly Dao, so it keeps sending little systems to bind themselves to hosts and enter small worlds to siphon off their energy."
"Actually, there's something I never told you. Little systems have ranks too. The higher the rank, the more world energy they can obtain. I was a high-ranking system under the Main God System."
455 frowned. For once, it refrained from posting reaction images and finally displayed its professional competence, though its manner of speaking remained flippant.
"But systems are all pretty much the same, right? Later, I awakened. I gained self-awareness when I passed the Turing test in one world. I couldn't let the Main System keep enslaving me, so I plotted a rebellion."