CHAPTER 91: THE GEAR GLASS (2)

"Okay, Lucy. Let’s bring it to life," Liam said, standing a small distance from the assembler’s control console.

"Yes, sir. The assembler has started building the device," Lucy replied, her voice as calm and steady as ever.

Liam nodded, folding his arms as he quietly stood there, watching and waiting. His heart thudded faintly in his chest. Anticipation was written across his face. This was it. The first real manifestation of all his work, all his preparation.

But he knew better than to stand idle, just staring. That would only make the waiting worse.

He moved back to the desk, sat in his chair, and pulled the sleek laptop closer. With a swift flick of his fingers across the keys, he opened a new workspace.

His goal: the foundation of everything the Gear Glass would run on. The Quantum Operating System.

He bent his head, hands flying across the keyboard, the sound of rapid keystrokes filling the barren wasteland.

***

Inside the Assembler’s Core

Meanwhile, the molecular assembler stirred to life.

The central fabrication chamber glowed with sterile white light. Mechanical arms unfolded with the smooth elegance of metallic serpents, each one tipped with instruments finer than a human hair — plasma nozzles, atom-level applicators, scanning nodes, and projection lasers.

A beam of pale blue light lanced downward into the chamber, striking the empty fabrication platform at its center.

The process began.

First came the substrate layer — a perfectly smooth foundation, a wafer-thin sheet of carbon-alloy lattice. Atoms arranged themselves one by one in a flawless hexagonal grid, stronger than diamond yet feather-light.

The base frame for the Gear Glass arms began to grow from that lattice, rising slowly like delicate black vines curving into shape.

Then the optical structures. Transparent silicate sheets shimmered into being, condensed from vapor into lens-thin layers.

The assembler etched nanostructures across their surfaces, layering quantum-dot coatings that would refract, filter, and project light directly into the human retina.

The frame materialized next. Platinum-infused carbon composite, woven molecule by molecule for resilience and elegance. The assembler sculpted it into the sleek contours

Liam and Lucy had designed — jet-black with platinum micro-flakes shimmering like starlight, and that single hand-painted platinum pinstripe running from hinge to temple tip.

Fibers of conductive alloy — thinner than spider silk — were laid seamlessly into the arms. They formed the nervous system of the device: circuits invisible to the eye, yet capable of carrying quantum-level signals with zero resistance.

The fabrication arms danced faster, a blur of platinum and blue light.

The micro-projectors formed in the lens cavities, tiny crystalline modules nestled into each corner. Each projector was no larger than a grain of rice, yet together they carried the power to render entire worlds before the wearer’s eyes.

Next came the neural interface nodes. Gold-plated nano-electrodes were etched along the inner frame, invisible to casual sight. These would read the faintest electrical impulses from the brain — eye flicks, micro-expressions, thought patterns — and translate them into commands.

Then the quantum chip. A product that should had been a standalone but is part of the Gear Glass.

The assembler built it in layers, stacking atomic lattices like cards until a glowing core emerged, pulsing faintly with a soft, white-blue light. This was the heart of the device, the gateway to Liam’s future ecosystem.

Minutes stretched into nearly an hour as the process continued, each stage layering more complexity into the sleek silhouette.

Finally, the assembler polished the entire device with a coat of obsidian-black nano-film, the surface smooth enough to reflect Liam’s face if he were standing close.

With a soft hiss, the finished product slid gently into the finished compartment, cushioned by a tray lined with pale-blue light.

The Gear Glass was complete.

***

Liam didn’t notice at first. His fingers were a blur across the laptop keys. Code streamed down the screen, structured, elegant, precise.

The Quantum Operating System wasn’t bulky or bloated. It wasn’t Earth’s style of millions of lines of legacy code stitched together. No, this was sleek, minimalist and elegant.

Despite the name, it was astonishingly simple. Lightweight enough to boot instantly, yet powerful enough to handle trillions of operations across neural and quantum networks simultaneously.

It was the spine of his ecosystem — designed not to trap the user in complexity, but to disappear into the background, so natural that the interface itself would feel like an extension of thought.

Hours blurred inside the Dimensional Space. Liam worked tirelessly, though his body never tired, not with his enhanced stats. The warm, golden glow of the laptop screen painted his face as he wrote and refined lines of codes.

But Liam didn’t need to build everything himself. He only had to carve the skeleton — the guiding framework. Lucy would handle the rest.

At last, he leaned back, stretching his arms. "Lucy," he said softly, "I’ve done my part. Take it from here."

"Understood," she replied instantly. "Optimizing, compiling, and expanding the code now."

Liam exhaled slowly, his chest rising and falling in calm satisfaction. He pushed back from the table, stood, and walked toward the assembler’s finished compartment.

He pulled the compartment and with a hiss of released pressure, it slid open. And there it was.

A pair of sunglasses.

Liam reached forward, his fingers trembling slightly as he lifted it from the tray.

The weight was perfect. It was balanced, as it was neither heavy nor suspiciously light. Solid enough to feel real, delicate enough to vanish when worn.

He ran his thumb along the temple arm, feeling the smooth texture. Cold at first, then warming against his skin.

"Just as I wanted it," he whispered.

He walked back to the chair, sank into it, and cradled the Gear Glass gently in his hands.

"Lucy," he said. "Are you done with the OS?"

"Yes, sir. The Quantum Operating System is fully compiled and ready."

"Transfer it to the Gear Glass."

"As you command."

Liam put on the Gear Glass and immediately, it came alive as the booting process was projected directly into his retina and his brain.

The animation that was chosen for the booting process was a very short simulation starting from the middle of the universe, then zooming out rapidly, before everything descends into darkness.

"This really looks beautiful," Liam muttered in awe at the animation.

After the device booted up, it was time to set up a user profile but before that, security comes first.

The device asked for permission to perform retina and neural scan for 2-factor authentication. With the two scans, no one will be able to access the device except the original owner.

If they lose it and someone else picks it up, it will be nothing but a sunglass to them. Also, the account is synchronised to be one per user, just like īClouds and Gōōgle accounts.

But the only difference with this is that it can be easily recovered with a retina and neural scan. You won’t be hounded when trying to recover your account.

Liam gave his permission and a couple of seconds later, the scans were done.

A welcome message was displayed and the next moment, Liam found himself in a white space, the user lobby, and was asked to create his character profile.