Chapter 4

Within days, they had successfully reset the server. This time, Gina found a whole party of people on her door step. Grenspot led them, this was followed by Grand Master of Writing, King Raul and various officials. They all apologised to Gina and asked for her help.

"What do I get in return?" She asked.

"A job as Head of Althea Writers. You will be given a team of Writers to help you maintain the protection against viruses attacking Althea server. Furthermore, you will receive an official apology and a nice salary to work at the palace." Grenspot said.

"Really?" Gina was absolutely floored by this. But her anger won out.

"Yes," replied the current Grand Master of Writing.

"Forget it. Not even Nesco could convince me to take that deal." Gina retorted, watching the Grand Master of Writing give a shocked look. This was the got you moment for Gina.

"What? What is it you want in return?" He sounded desperate.

"An official apology first, then I will think about it further. Besides, why should I protect Althea? Is that not the grand masters job?" She said, glancing at the Grand Master of Writing. "Besides, the other virus is not a virus."

Gina smiled, because she realised it was an off-shoot server the night before. All she had to do was create another Baseline, and modify it so the off-shoot server could create its home there. Real servers replicated themselves and the Great Works did this.

"What?" Many of them said in unison.

"Which I can take care of. I just need materials to make another Baseline, and I can let the server off-shoot take it for a platform. Besides it is the only way to fix the Althea server properly. See the virus was the server trying to find an open host. Which, I can make Baseline into the perfect host for it."

Nesco and Grenspot turned to all the others in the crowd. Both seemed infuriated. Grenspot raised his fist and shouted at the Masters behind him "I have worked all these years on that server and you never did the pathway check? The only check I could not do! That was your responsibility, to check that it was clear and it was not trying to make another server!"

None answered, they were all ashamed. Even the king was upset. It turned out, Althea server had a check which would tell you if it was making an off-shoot server. None of them had done it.