The next day.
The first thing that Beatrice did in the morning was to refine some mana before drinking another one of her teacher's potions.
By the time Beatrice had finished meditating, in was already around 11 AM, at around 12 AM, Antonia finally came by Beatrice's room, as the latter had asked her yesterday.
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As she looked at the large ant, who was standing in front of her, Beatrice, who was lying down on her chair, couldn't help but faintly smile.
"Have you finished the investigation?" asked Beatrice as she got up from the chair and approached the ant.
'Yes, I came by the moment it was finished, it took some time to test their intelligence,' said Antonia as she felt the hand of her mistress land on the top of her head.
Hearing this, Beatrice, who was petting the ant, couldn't help but nod, allowing the ant to continue.
'As mistress first expected, the intelligence of the five rose with the amount of time they spent inside a human body, with only one exception, the ant who spent one hour inside a human,' said Antonia, causing Beatrice to retract her hand before falling into thought.
"Was the difference in intelligence between the ants major?" asked Beatrice as she sat back down on her chair.
'No, even though the difference can be seen if someone tests for it, in truth, it's not actually very large, especially the difference between number 4 and 5,' said Antonia, making Beatrice breathe a sigh of relief.
"Very well, for now you can just let the ants adapt to the rhythm of the colony, at the same time, try to find any other effects caused by the amount of time they spent as a human," said Beatrice as she looked at Antonia, causing the latter to slightly bow.
'Understood mistress, If you have nothing more you need of me, I will leave,' said Antonia, causing Beatrice to shake her head.
"Very well, you can leave," mumbled Beatrice as she turned her attention back to the information cube placed on the desk.
As she ignored the faint sounds coming from behind her, Beatrice couldn't help but fall into thought once again.
The last time Beatrice had worked on her information cube was before she went on her journey, throughout her journey, Beatrice did not feel safe working on it, and when she was back in the Lyon Kingdom, she had become preoccupied with something else.
But now that she was back in her home, Beatrice couldn't help but want to begin working on the cube once again, after all, she had only implemented some basic safety measures, which could probably be easily side-stepped by someone who truly knew what they were doing.
'A self-destruct mechanism is a necessity,' thought Beatrice as she quickly dismantled the cube into it's different parts.
As she could not truly place a bomb inside the cube, as that would risk it being destroyed accidentally, Beatrice had to be much more thoughtful about how she went about creating this mechanism.
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Two days later,
Other than refining mana and making sure she practiced the manipulation of the soul sometimes, Beatrice spent the entirety of the last two days staring at the information cube, making plans and diagrams.
Most of the most obvious and easiest to make self-destruct mechanisms were quickly ruled out by Beatrice because of one simple possibility.
The Information cube being stolen and Beatrice obtaining it again.
If this happened, and Beatrice implemented one of those self-destruct mechanisms, it would mean that Beatrice would have lost the information cube for nothing.
Because of this, Beatrice had to think of some other way to completely destroy any possibility of someone obtaining the information cube and managing to gain the information within it.
At first, Beatrice did not know where to start, but after around a day of thinking, she finally found the solution she was looking for, math.
More specifically, encryption.
At this moment, after Beatrice types a word into the information cube, that word is simply transformed into a bunch of dots, which although extremely complicated for normal people, would not be too hard for an Official Mage to figure out.
As, Beatrice did not dare underestimate the pattern recognition ability of Official Mages.
Using encryption, Beatrice would be able to prevent this, at the same time, she would be able to create a quite good self-destruct mechanism.
The moment Mana which was not Beatrice's was inserted into any part of the information cube, the Encryptor and Decryptor would destroy themselves, preventing anyone from accessing the information inside.
At the same time, since Beatrice was the one that created the Encryption, after obtaining the information cube once again, she would be able to easily access the information.
But even though Beatrice had decided how she would protect her information going forward, creating it was not an easy task.
The first, and easiest, part was creating an 'encryption key', with which all the information would be encrypted.
The more complicated bit, and the part on which Beatrice was spending more time on, was implementing this key into the Information Cube's built in Encryptor and Decryptor.
Even so, as time passed and Beatrice continued researching these two parts of the information cube, she finally made a breakthrough after 4 days of research.
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Four days later,
As she stared at the information cube in front of, which had been now fully rebuilt, Beatrice couldn't help but take in a deep breath and wipe the sweat off her forehead.
For the past 96 hours, Beatrice has not slept in the slightest, the only thing she did was refine mana, drink potions and research the information cube, as well as drink cup after cub of tea, which Guinevere provided her.
At least in Beatrice's own opinion, these cups of tea proved instrumental in helping her achieve her goal in such a short amount of time, as without them, Beatrice would have been too exhausted to research properly.
But finally, Beatrice could fall asleep knowing that the information cube was finished.