“5 new sites?! Just for rapid-drying concrete?!” Aven exaggeratedly backed up, though it wasn’t completely an act.
“Yes!” Bhanas continued to expound on the subject in a very animated manner, “And it was approved just because we already have all the base materials and large-scale industrial machines productions, so why not add a new industry that needs all this foundation both for research and production! It’s theoretically sound, they said!”
“But still, 5 new si...
2022-04-24 13:55:41 +0000 UTC
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Following his stop at a certain area in the industrial zone, an hour had been enough for the raid to be over, wrapped up, and for the transport truck to get moving again with the same 7 people, none of them showing any indication of being hurt.
With his energy not being in its downtime period due to having been interrupted, Aven had the rest of the trip’s activity all designated: He would cycle his energy.
The 1 hour of break had even allowed a part of it that was expanded to so...
2022-04-24 13:55:26 +0000 UTC
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His report seemed to be very good as Neela didn’t even look at Aven anymore until 5 minutes later.
“So… Is there a reason you didn't go to a super academy? I can’t see anything you would gain by joining the military with your talents. Is your innate ability maybe unsuited for it?” Dubious about how this just graduated young man ended up being assigned to Blackdale with what was being said on his report, she was already smelling a conspiracy.
“The short answer is that y...
2022-04-24 13:55:09 +0000 UTC
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From the “forcefully elevated product quality” tech system revelation, a few hours had passed and the hangar started to come alive as students started filling in to get free practical experiences that would help them in their relatively imminent exam.
On Aven’s side, he and Harald had gone through most of the basic supply area, only a few more unique supply production lines like the military ration had been ignored.
Other than those exceptions, Aven had gone through the prod...
2022-04-19 17:52:12 +0000 UTC
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With a simple remote button press, music started playing. When he opened his fridge, a few meals were already prepared, and when he brought his blanket and pillow, they had taken on his smell.
All those little details allowed Aven to think about how far he had come in this single month, as well as the few regrets he had formed.
‘I should have tried to go to a few more classes, just to experience what it’s like. I’ll never get to see myself infusing 2 computing units at the s...
2022-04-19 17:52:00 +0000 UTC
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“So, how did it go?” A familiar voice interrupted Aven’s thoughts, prompting him to look at the source.
“Oh, hello Kern~” Smiling politely at his half-friend, he pieced together the best possible reply to the question he had just been asked, “Look at my score. Action speaks louder than words.”
Going through the motion, Kern dropped off his gears in front of a marked unit and only then made his way to his unit to see his screen.
“32?” Seeing this score, he f...
2022-04-19 17:51:48 +0000 UTC
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“Hello, my fellow supers!” Passing through the last door separating him from the core computing hall of the research area, Aven loudly announced his arrival, “Congratulate me as I have reached 20 energy cultivation points!”
His hyper-enthusiastic social persona wasn’t as fake as many would believe it to be. His father had from a young age taught him to ignore the judgmental gazes of others and never hold back when it came to doing something he wanted to do.
Eventually, t...
2022-04-19 17:51:35 +0000 UTC
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The White had long set by the time Aven had returned to his apartment and started preparing his dinner while listening to yet another documentary about a tech super who impacted his own field in his own way.
“How did those devils do it? Why when I dump lots of different herbs it doesn’t work?” Smelling from a thousand planets away the incoming bland meal that will come out of his pan, he complained to himself.
His day had been so full, starting at 7 am the morning with one h...
2022-04-19 17:51:23 +0000 UTC
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In his pocket, his phone started vibrating, indicating that one hour since he had started his job as a tech energy infuser had passed.
“Hu?” Taking his phone and turning off the alarm, he brought up his currently accepted quest.
Faction Contribution Quest: Eland Military Academy of Technology and Engineering
Volunteering: Contribute to the stability of your faction without asking for anything in return. The more time spent and the harder the task...
2022-04-19 17:50:55 +0000 UTC
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Returning from the library after applying for the 3 different “jobs” he had chosen, he had of course made sure to phrase his application resume as correctly as he could to end up properly transmitting the fact that he didn’t want pay but still wanted to work like any other.
Adding a few more details like being a tech super and having an innate ability helping him learn faster after helping people should have been enough to seal the deal in his book.
In total, he had spent 4 ...
2022-04-19 17:50:41 +0000 UTC
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After going through all the first-year courses for every faculty, Aven didn’t move on to the next quest but started to search for details about what all those courses were about.
Only once he took a photo of each course’s detailed description for later comparison and optimization, as well as general pictures of all following years’ courses with alien names did he move on to the next easiest quest to complete theoretically.
‘Volunteering… Things like cleaning the hangar m...
2022-04-19 17:50:29 +0000 UTC
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“Hahaha! Tech energy infusion is so amazing!” Pushing the gas pedal as much as he could, Sen could feel much more clearly than Aven how the energy reinforcing the car had nearly transformed it into a race car.
“Hehe, if I knew all the ins and outs of an internal combustion engine, we’d have probably appeared on the news as the greatest roadhog of the year,” not feeling like his father was being reckless, the only passenger enthusiastically talked about what he had done as if n...
2022-04-19 17:50:15 +0000 UTC
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The pile of documents wasn’t even coming close to the one he had to go through when he became a super, so Aven didn’t react in any way when it landed in front of him and he was asked whether he wanted the long or short version.
“I think the long version would be preferable?” He hesitatingly replied.
“Well, bad news for you, there’s no short or long version,” the bald military man jested at his own joke before he started on an explanation anyway, “So… For tech sup...
2022-04-19 17:50:02 +0000 UTC
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‘Let’s see how amazing this crutch can be.’
The quests were only there to quantify the contributions he made to his own faction, but while making contributions was important, wasn’t the ability of cashing in these same contributions more important?
So he opened the second function he had gained by reaching grade 1.
Faction Contribution Shop: MIC Serenis University
Faction Authority: Student
Faction Contribution Po...
2022-04-19 17:49:33 +0000 UTC
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Driving back home with his bike, he pedaled through the heavy rush hour traffic and didn’t even stop one time to buy something or take a break. His energy was endless, and the adrenaline from having been officially initiated into the world of the supers coursed through him.
In his backpack, he also had a small book detailing all the basic knowledge he had been given during the crash course, so he didn’t worry about forgetting anything.
There were no restrictions in place for t...
2022-04-19 17:49:17 +0000 UTC
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Riding out of the underground parking lot of his building on his bike, Aven had put on music on his headphones and was ready to navigate the street of Serenis until he arrived at his destination.
‘I’ll stop by Sam’s Bakery and buy some pains au chocolat, maybe I’ll offer some to the teacher to prevent a bad mood? Sounds amazing! No way a super can be allergic to something as amazing as a pain au chocolat, right?’
Pushing on his right pedal, his body had perfectly mastere...
2022-04-19 17:49:05 +0000 UTC
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Feeling the van he was in brake furiously, Aven grabbed a conveniently placed handle. It was the first time he had felt the van come to a stop since he got inside, so it probably meant they had reached their intended destination.
Confirming his deduction, the van’s back double doors were opened after a moment and the 3 black-clothed men politely indicated to him to get off.
Stepping inside a vast parking lot located amidst a lot of massive buildings, he turned his head and was w...
2022-04-19 17:48:53 +0000 UTC
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Synopsis:
While studying for his next upcoming university exam, Aven suddenly felt the world around him start changing, as if warping.
It started with flashes of light appearing from nowhere, then quickly escalated into his whole world becoming a mess of flickering pixels and chaotic colors, as if reality had become a malfunctioning and glitched screen.
What he could recognize as numbers, letters, and strange symbols flew everywhere around him, obviously trying to form a coh...
2022-04-19 17:48:42 +0000 UTC
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Stepping inside the shuttle that stopped at the 2 400g exit stop, Rune quickly found a seat in a corner unoccupied by all the people already there.
A few minutes later, the shuttle departed again. Its next stop would be the 2 500g exit stop.
‘I wonder how much time it would have taken me to travel all the way without taking a shuttle… A few years if I optimize the whole thing with an adaptation purge stop in the middle? But then again, if that’s what would be needed, then I ...
2022-04-19 03:41:03 +0000 UTC
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‘100g… A bit high, but not overly so. Not perfect, not horrible, just a good old round number.’
Standing before the first exit to the gravity corridor he had come upon, Rune knew inside himself that he would exit here and start his endless adaptation’s second test battery here too.
The line before this exit was nonexistent, why would anyone want to exit here? But that was his case, and now that he had confirmed there were really exits, probably even one every 100g, he sigh...
2022-04-19 03:40:50 +0000 UTC
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Even though this gastronomic tour was supposed to be somewhat of a goodbye ceremony for him, or at least that’s how Rune thought about it, none of his friends seemed to remember that part once the tour really began.
They seemed to have truly and simply hijacked his restaurant tour, doing with it as they wanted, even relegating him to the background.
Yet, it didn’t displease or even sadden Rune in any way that they all acted like that.
The Undecided as a group of 7 indivi...
2022-04-19 03:40:35 +0000 UTC
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[Olivia: Your AREC rank as an adventurer is gold, you belong to the highest rank currently opened by the autonomous ranking system. The platinum rank still hasn’t been opened due to a lack of processing power, and the gem ranks are being held out voluntarily so forget about them. Anything else you want to know?]
“Hahaha,” triumphant laughter followed once Rune read this message as he didn’t care at all about his AREC rank.
“If I tell all the natives I’m a gold adventur...
2022-04-10 10:17:03 +0000 UTC
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Having found inspiration after seeing the basic effect of the rejection specialization path, Rune was reveling in the amazing conceptual mastery he successfully formed.
‘I can find so many possible uses for this specialization… And the more I let my different adaptations grow, the more this sort of active enhancement will be massive. Just thinking about my fateful first encounter with an environmental event is enough to tell me this is something I need!’
Drawing in his mind ...
2022-04-10 10:16:47 +0000 UTC
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Despite the imprecise conclusion he got for his first growth mastery understanding experiment, that of having two final theories, Rune knew it was only his first experiment among many.
He was also aware that for him to completely understand his own growth mastery, he would need much more than 5 small rocks emulating a natural phenomenon.
‘I wonder if…’
Letting his imagination go wild as he looked at those 5 rocks he didn’t ask but still received, he realized somethin...
2022-04-10 10:16:33 +0000 UTC
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Trying to hide his smile as he retold a story he had already disclosed a few times, Rune used his small talent as a storyteller to create colored and intent-infused energy models to animate parts of his moderately dangerous encounter with a bone golem, guardian of the city of Tolevia.
He didn’t attempt to enact the exact truth of “how he had survived and all the consequences that followed”, he just spoke about the main points and decreased or increased the tension according to how...
2022-04-02 06:08:55 +0000 UTC
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After passing the introduction segment where Astryde described how she got her intel in a summarized way, Rune immediately hurt himself to the first point of contention.
In the form of a warning, it clearly said that this report wasn’t an orthodox convention-following report where the author agreed with everything she found, but a confrontational contested one, where some of the foundational knowledge she had considered acquired until now had been challenged.
Rune didn’t react...
2022-04-02 06:08:38 +0000 UTC
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A/N:
Hello! Does adding an exclamation mark make me sound jovial and happy?! Good! Because that’s the last planned A/N before the “Author’s Journey 2”! A special chapter where you learn fabulous inside secrets of this adventure and myself!
But it’s not time yet, and I need to ingratiate myself to you readers, cuz I’m a good boy! And it’s only polite to give back to those who make my stats climb!
Should I do a top 10 video game? Nope,...
2022-04-02 06:08:19 +0000 UTC
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Even in a highly developed, connected, and educated society, it doesn’t take more than a few differences in opinions that are all supported by different, but true, facts for people to start gathering in opinionated factions.
It wasn’t to say that the IGS had already split into camps and factions that saw each other as rivals, allies, or even enemies, as Rune knew even before Tiziana reminded him that the inherent functioning of the IGS didn’t lend itself to such a way of doing thi...
2022-03-25 23:22:04 +0000 UTC
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“Do you think we only contacted and partnered with specialization path organizations? What do we gain in directing people to them? Recognition? That’s it?” Leading him by the nose, Adreana was completely controlling the flow of the conversation.
She was the one with the knowledge Rune wanted after all, so what could he do other than follow her agenda?
“Can’t you just tell me the answer? I’m sure you’ve done a marvelous job with the Undecided company, I’m sure you...
2022-03-25 23:21:56 +0000 UTC
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“What? That’s it?” Having just been teleported to the Undecided minor node, Rune was surprised at the speed at the relative ordinariness he experienced.
“What did you expect? Do you want to throw up some energy or retch for air? I can help you with feeling that if you allow my punch access to your body,” Astryde sharply said.
She had been the one to communicate with Utopia to know and organize everything about coming back to the training park after Arik got them to the i...
2022-03-25 23:21:36 +0000 UTC
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