《Number One Commander》Chapter 5 - Life Simulations 2
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Isabella continued “Because of your astounding performance during the first and second simulation, the initial stages of death flags was greatly lowered. During your teenage years, you should have begun to experience life-threatening experiences, and we would have gotten some valuable data on your ability to cope with it.”
“However, before the system could begin instituting these death flags you personally took the opportunity to kill yourself without having the system intervene that much.” Isabella smiled showing slight traces of ridicule.
The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth simulations were filled with a series of unfortunate events.
Out of the 17 years, the system averages the age to be even, Luon had spent 12 of those years in the first 2 simulations.
Because of this the next few were relatively time constricted.
The third simulation was during a peaceful fantasy period.
Luon was born as a half-elf, half-human in an elven village where he was ridiculed. Only his mother cared about him in this village, and he didn’t live with his father, he was often neglected by others. Due to this he often spent the majority of the time studying in the library rather than play with other children.
Eventually, as Luon aged, his peers did as well. Time was constant and always changing because of this the dark feelings the villagers had for Luon grew to the point where nobody in the village liked him.
So they secretly conspired against him and banished him from the village. His mother was hopeless about the situation and couldn’t do a thing to protest against this decision.
After Luon left the village the system implemented the first death flag during this simulation and pitted an evil necromancer to attack Luon.
At this point Luon was expected to die, he had no combat abilities, military discipline or courage, only a bundle of knowledge he obtained from reading. However, he shamelessly used a technique he learned from a book called ‘The Powerless Submission Guide,’ it taught him how to compliment superior individuals or others with higher standings to not anger them and kill him straight away.
The evil necromancer was amused and took Luon as experimental material for his dark magic and devices.
For 3 years Luon had experienced many pains and sufferings caused by the experiments done to him.
For Luon to survive the pain and suffering he endured, he gained the ability to split his thought process into segments and mitigate the injury by thinking of happy things.
During this period the evil necromancer was kind enough to allow Luon to read his research materials and experimental logs as long as he didn’t plan on running away, and dim-witted as he was, he agreed.
He died at the age of 18, and the third simulation had only taught him the skill - Parallel Thoughts.
The fourth simulation that Luon had experienced was during the war between Angels and Demons.
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This simulation purpose was to teach Luon the basic foundations of what made the Ark Judgement Empire and was very disadvantageous to him as he was born as an Angel, not sharing any of his natural traits and inhibiting his ability to adapt to the environment.
Fortunately the setting that system forced Luon to study the biological properties of Angelic and Demonic beings.
Luon from a young age was a student during this time, this was probably one of his most favorable settings.
As Luon continued to study at around the age of 15 an unfortunate natural event occurred. Although Luon was an angel, he wasn’t able to use their abilities correctly, and since the school for Angels was in the sky… if the wind blew away a piece of paper and if it were to fall downwards Luon wouldn’t be able to retrieve it let alone return himself.
So when Luon was carrying a stack of books not looking where he was walking he fell in a construction zone in the sky city, it was a long drop, and then he died.
The system initially planned to institute death flags a few years later, but Luon had already killed himself, like a human it secretly swore in its calculated mind to consider developing preventive measures for future potential candidates/idiots to die from killing themselves.
Of course, since this was a new thought for the system, it had yet to produce any measures, and Luon’s next few simulations were practically the same as this one.
Isabella then briefly describe the last few simulations as they were the most unproductive ones.
The fifth simulation was in the world of human cultivators.
A world where you fight each other for more natural resources and becoming the strongest in the universe, such a world didn’t suit Luon very well.
The magical properties of qi energy and mana are relatively similar, because of this Luon was quickly able to learn to manipulate his mana like qi energy and joined his local cultivation sect with ease.
After joining the sect, he came to the sect library to find a cultivation method suited for him. However, blinded by his ingrained obsession to read all he did was scan through all the cultivation techniques in the library and never put them into practice.
This caused some of the sect elders, especially the library keeper to be a little mad.
The sect library was divided into 3 sets of floors, the first 2 was open to the public. As for the last floor it was strictly monitored as it contained secrets and anybody who had attempted to enter floor is to be sent and judged.
Being the newcomer, Luon neglected to study the rulings of the library as it wasn't written down on paper and only verbally told. He was sent to trial after accidentally attempting to enter the upper floor.
Normally the sect would try their best to give a fair judgment, but since most of the elders didn’t like him, they sent him on a mission outside of the sect and entrapped him to his death.
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He died without actually trying out any of the sect techniques he read.
The system had begun to think that it should maybe have intervened to prevent such meaningless deaths. However, after glancing at the first two simulations data decided against it.
His first two experiences should be enough to have a meaning in life. The system began to neglect Luon slightly, and its calculated choice was correct.
The sixth simulation was based on the Sea Kingdom Empire, just like the fourth simulation, he was supposed to study the biology of aquatic lifeforms found in the Sea Kingdom.
That is until he died at the age of 9 from having a fishbone stuck inside of his throat while eating and reading at the same time.
Isabella then turned off the holographic projection after explaining all the simulations.
She cleared her throat and said, “Although his simulations had some pros and cons the biggest benefit was that his understanding for knowledge is very diverse to the point where he developed the rare Eye of Insight skill.”
“This skill aids the user to accelerate his analyzation process and recognize most objects and beings based on his foundations and estimates,” Isabella said.
“You mention skills quite often, but what are skills? Are they just like the ones found in games?“ Luon thought and said.
“The meaning of skills can be quite vague as well as the origin. The first time skills came to light was from fantasy-based worlds, and we could only obtain very few details about them after researching the appraisal skill, and afterward, we applied it into the modern BMPU wristwatch.“ Isabella said.
She then continued “Your skill Eye of Insight is very similar to appraisal although it can't accurately analyze like appraisal, it provides better real-time updates allowing you to predict actions. If you needed more accurate details about certain things, your BMPU wristwatch should suffice.”
Apparently, skills according to Isabella were akin to a gift from God, nobody knew where it came from or who created the functionality. The concept of skills has appeared in numerous occasions, special powers that espers are believed to have, video games, even daily regular tasks are being done better than others is actually influenced by skills.
But nobody had noticed this until the study of the appraisal skill bear fruit. Everyone thought that through large amounts of effort their abilities will naturally grow and those geniuses spent a significant amount of effort. In reality, it was thanks to a skill that helped them be better than others.
Luon sat there pondering over what skills are, why do skill ratings and levels enhance their performances, and all the other details covered so far.
Isabella clapped her hands waking Luon up from his thoughts.
“Well that's it for all the basic explanations, it's getting a little late so let's end it here. If you have any more questions, you can contact me under the support department on your BMPU wristwatch.“ Isabella said as she stood up.
Rina and Kane followed suit, and the three shook hands.
Luon stood up as well, after resting his body a bit he was able to regain the majority of his bodily functions.
“Thank you very much,” said Luon as Kane went to support him a bit.
“No problem, I wish you the best.” Isabella smiled and bowed.
After exchanging their goodbyes Luon and his parents left the room from the door Kane and Rina came in from.
…
Isabella sat back on her office chair and pushed a particular red button on her desk.
A holographic projection appeared, and a 3D model of a black obelisk appeared.
“Doctor, how do you evaluate this candidate?“ Isabella said as she began to close her eyes and recall the meeting with Luon.
Luon’s every action within the room was recorded. All candidates simulations were randomized and optimized by the system making a few unique individuals. Some candidates end up being very troublesome and potentially cause problems upon awakening. Luon’s profile was actually on that borderline.
“Who would have expected that The Black Harbinger overall personality to be so neutral because of the first simulation.” The black obelisk sighed and said.
The reports were indeed accurate, every action the candidates take written and evaluated. What the report doesn’t reveal is the emotional stability and demeanor.
“Hmph, Doctor your just disappointed that you couldn’t have any more fun during the second simulation.” Isabella opened her eyes and smiled.
The system, in the end, was a machine, to properly evaluate candidates some human interference was allowed. The man talking behind the obelisk had done so during the second simulation for Luon.
Like a real-time strategy game, he positioned his troops against Luon and lost every time. Sometimes he had more soldiers sometimes he had less. But no matter what he did he never had accomplished killing him during the battle. Like heroic figures and champions found in games Luon’s tenacity, firepower and abilities were just too strong.
“Doctor, do you think that after his memory sync would he still be humane?” Isabella slightly frighteningly said.
“With how the majority of the other lives went I think personally think he would be fine.” the black obelisk said.
“Never mind that the evaluation has already been set, let’s start with the next person,” said the black obelisk and with that statement the call ended.
“Another long day...” Isabella tirelessly sighed as she began the procedure for the next person.
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