Re: Tales of the Rune-Tech Sage - Chapter 394

Chapter 394: Rune-Tech 2.0 Roadmap II
CH394 Rune-Tech 2.0 Roadmap II

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If Alex’s consciousness hadn’t sunk fully into his mindspace, his index finger would’ve been tapping rhythmically on the nearest surface — the signature habit of his pondering state.

‘Typically, software designed for cross-platform capability chooses one of the three approaches. But Rune-Tech, while analogous to software, isn’t limited to it. Not with OmniRune in the picture. In that case… is it possible to implement all three?’

A pause.

Then certainty.

‘No — not only is it possible. I’ll have to implement all three if I want to reach the end goal. Getting Rune-Tech to function on Verdantis is only the immediate problem. The true objective is making Rune-Tech cross-planar —functional across any plane.’

A tremor of thrill rippled through the boundaries of his mindspace.

‘In fact… OmniRune is practically built to become a virtual machine — an emulator capable of running Rune-Tech inside Verdantis’s rules. The only missing element is my understanding of Verdantis’s rules. Once I understand Verdantis’s Sigils and natural order, I can configure OmniRune as a virtual machine that interprets Rune-Tech through Verdantis’s logical structure.’

‘With OmniRune’s malleable structure as the foundation, Rune-Tech could function normally, without needing to uproot the core of my path.’

His consciousness ‘looked’ toward the OmniRune Core — the Greater Rune suspended like a rotating, silent sun in his mindspace.

‘OmniRune is a one-of-a-kind greater rune. A rune, yet not a rune. A single glyph, yet one that contains countless other runes, circuits, and array formations within it. For from being merely a component, it can be seen as the sum of my Rune-Tech system.’

‘If I can properly leverage its malleability, I’ll barely need to alter my Rune-Tech foundation at all. I’ll only need to evolve the OmniRune Core AI. And because of its encompassing nature, the evolution will simply become another function — one that doesn’t interfere with its existing or future capabilities.’

Even in deep meditation, Alex’s excitement surged so sharply that it bled into his physical body, causing his shoulders to tremble where he sat.

‘Going further… once I build the OmniRune Core emulator — and once OmniRune itself gains experiential data from actually running it — I’ll be able to introduce compatibility layers directly into my Rune-Tech constructs. Layers designed to function under Verdantis’s rules, with or without OmniRune present.’

A steady pulse of thought rippled through his mindspace.

‘After constructing the emulator and collecting enough Rune–Sigil pairs, I should be able to decipher Verdantis’s equivalent system calls. Once that happens, either I — or rather, OmniRune — can rewrite the command structure of any Rune into the corresponding Sigil logic without needing to emulate an entire ecosystem every time.’

‘That would allow OmniRune to evolve into a true Rune–Sigil translator.’

‘But for any of this to work, I must first understand the actual Rune–Sigil equivalents. Which Sigil corresponds to which Rune, and vice versa. The question is… how do I figure that out?’

Alex let the question hover, then found himself naturally drifting back to his earlier operating-system analogy.

‘In a real OS, one method to understand syntax differences is to make both systems perform the same high-level instruction, usually delivered through a high-level programming language — basically, human language. By observing how both systems interpret the same instruction through their own machine syntax, you can identify equivalencies. That’s the foundation for API mapping.’

‘If I can find a method that acts like a high-level instruction for both glyph systems, the logic should carry over…’

Alex hadn’t even completed the thought when the solution surfaced.

‘Spellcasting.’

‘Exactly — spellcasting is the bridge. I stumbled onto the answer earlier when explaining things to Zora. Even though I casted the same Magic Bolt, the spell circle that appeared wasn’t in Runes but in glyphs I did not recognise. Those must’ve been Sigils.’

Excitement hummed through his mental landscape.

‘Using my Eidetic Memory and OmniRune’s processing, I can cast different spells and analyse their spell circles frame-by-frame. Each spell should expose which Sigil aligns with which Rune. Using that, I can gradually deduce a comprehensive Sigil set and document their functions.’

‘Once I deduce enough Sigils, I can even write a recursive deduction program for OmniRune — something that allows it to automatically infer missing Sigils until I eventually obtain a formal Sigil tome from this world.’

‘With sufficient understanding of Sigils — and of the Rune–Sigil relationships — creating an emulator, and eventually compatibility layers, will be completely within reach.’

‘Furthermore… once OmniRune evolves into a true smart AI mage assistant, I won’t even need to do any of this manually. Every time we arrive on a new plane, OmniRune will be able to automatically crunch the data, identify the plane’s glyph system, build the required Rune–Glyph pair library, and plug them into a deduction formation capable of extrapolating the remaining glyph set.’

‘Within a set period of time, OmniRune would update the entire Rune-Tech platform to be natively functional on that plane — all without me lifting a finger.’

Excitement rippled violently through Alex’s mindspace.

‘At that stage, I can move on to developing proper cross-platform frameworks that can be hard-coded into my Rune-Tech products themselves. Frameworks that allow any Rune-Tech construct — no matter the plane, no matter the magic system — to adapt even without OmniRune acting as a compatibility layer.’

‘My Rune-Tech constructs would come to possess self-modifying ‘ports’, capable of reconfiguring their instruction sets to match the APIs of whatever planar operating system they encounter.’

‘At that point… even without OmniRune carrying the load, Rune-Tech products and methods will function anywhere in the known universe, irrespective of the native laws!’

Alex’s physical body trembled with excitement, even while deep in meditation.

If he could pull this off, Rune-Tech wouldn’t just recover — it would ascend into a universal translator, a power platform capable of evolving with the multiverse itself.

The universe would be bare before him… its rules open for him to rewrite and repurpose.

Of course, all of this remained ambition for now. Grand dreams. For any of it to become reality, he needed to improve not only his understanding of magic glyph systems — Sigils for now — but also his cultivation realm and OmniRune’s AI development.

OmniRune needed to grow from its current pattern-recognition stage into a true artificial intelligence: self-thinking, self-correcting, and self-modifying.

To achieve that, he needed to feed OmniRune an enormous volume of data to refine its existing model. And more likely than not… he would have to reinvent OmniRune’s AI architecture entirely.

A long, slow path.

But finally — he had a vision, a roadmap as well as a destination to move toward.

Taking a page out of Earl Drake Fury’s philosophy, Alex struck the moment the opportunity took shape.

He combed through his memories, retrieving the exact memories of casting every spell he had cast back on Pangea, then fed all of that data into OmniRune for preliminary processing.

Once OmniRune indexed it and sorted the information into usable reference sets, Alex would begin recasting each spell deliberately, allowing OmniRune to obtain the Verdantis spell circle equivalents. With these side-by-side comparisons, OmniRune could begin establishing Rune–Sigil correspondence directly.

Simple… right?

If only.

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