Chapter 40 - Deep System Overview.

The fierce aura vanished in a second with the Old Captain's shout, Dayes tensed expression too disappeared.

"Come, both of you" The Old captain spoke from the distance.

Bilal took a breath of relief, and while walking towards the Old captain, he saw a 6-7 of guards exchanging gazes at him curiously.

These were the same guards who previously guarded that wooden Tavern.

'Maybe their shift is over or something' He concluded.

But he was filled with disappointment from inside, since he couldn't last even 30 seconds against that Soldier Dayes, that guy was seriously terrifying if not for that Old man's shout, he didn't knew what would've happened.

This reminded him to quickly begin his Magic attainment or to contact that Owl.

'This world is too dangerous, even a normal soldier is enough to kill me many times over'

As he went closer to the Old man, he noticed him to be somewhat happy.

"Congratulations Bilal, you've passed all three tests, with just your Low Mortal Apprentice Attainment you managed to Hold off Dayes for 15 seconds." The Old man said with a moderate volume.

"What??" Bilal asked bewilderedly.

"You might be surprised but Dayes is a High Mortal Apprentice, within a month or so he would be a Mortal Initiate, with your excellent Sword Wielding you managed to hold him off despite having low attainment, for that i have decided to adjust my rules fairly, 15 seconds sufficed to prove your Strength"

"So what am I right now? A Soldier candidate or a Soldier?" Bilal asked in confusion.

"For now you're just a Soldier candidate, after arriving in Meazon City-state the Headquarters for the 4th Federation Squadron, you would be admitted to a training program for 2 months, and in those 2 months you'll be trained to become a competent soldier, but worry not everything would be provided by the Federation including residence, food, and some stipend ofcourse" The Old man said with a benevolent smile on his face "In the City-state recruitment, thousands of people participate only for them to be rejected as they are unable to show their excellence in that heavy competition, you've earned your Place in the Federation army already"

"Tommorow would be the fake recruitment, only after that would I be able to hand you the recommendation letter, it start tommorow morning, for now just go and rest while you can" the Old man said and shot a gaze towards those Soldiers "Greet them, they are your future colleagues, the Soldiers of the 4th Federation Squadron"

In succession Bilal greeted them all including Dayes, before running off to his room once again.

From a distance he saw the Kid Trake waiting for him at the Door.

"What are you doing till now? Go sleep inside, it's late now, tomorrow's gonna be a big day" Bilal said as he patted on Trake's head.

"I was waiting for you Brother Bilal, besides I don't have anything to do, a camp of refugees have just arrived should I go and take a look?" Trake asked inquisitively.

"Yes you can go, I would now be resting do not disturb me, okay? You can take the sheet, if you wish to sleep" Bilal said and pointed at a Sheet of cloth besides the wall.

"Yes brother Bilal" Trake hurriedly left saying that.

'He's quite obidient, isn't he? Too bad I can't trust him yet, I have to observe him more' Bilal pondered and entered the room, and left the door latch open.

Bilal would've gone with him, but he had three things prioritized already, System, Magic Attainment and the Owl.

Of the three, Owl would be crossed out right now, it did mention him only to be able to meet him after the offering of a Mana stone. And besides he didn't have a method to actively contact the Owl.

Magic Attainment also couldn't be done at the moment, because he didn't knew whether the Soldiers' were capable to sense Mana fluctuations caused by the Attainment practice, not to mention a live Mage in the camp, who definitely would be able to sense it. Bilal didn't dare do something that outrageous, it would surely endanger him.

The only plausible option left was to deal with the System and explore all the unexplored tabs. Besides, his operation efficiency rate was way too low. From the experiences till now, System is the most powerful guarantor to his life right now, not utilising it properly would definitely be a fool's choice.

Unfolding the thick sheet of cloth, he laid with his back besides the wall, although not superbly comfortable it still was better than sleeping outside with the Workers on the cold soil of the camp.

He couldn't expect a King Sized fluffy bed for a Soldier's candidate, right?.

"System, what is the Mission's status?" Bilal called out.

[D.M #2]

[Objective: Investigate the Distant structures]

[Progress: Structures investigated 0/2]

[Warning! Host more than 7000 meters away from Mission area, It would be considered failed if Host stays in further distance to the Objective]

[Abandon D.M? Y/N]

"No, don't abandon D.M" Bilal stated Hasitly.

[D.M still active]

[System Operation Efficiency: 24%]

[Operations Efficiency: Low, Does Host like to take a deep overview into System's functionalities? Y/N]

"Yes"

Very quickly the System interface altered and brought a new main menu, with new tabs corresponding to the new functions added in the update. Some of them were Blacked out probably due to the Network's unavailability.

[Module shop-Global temporarily blocked: No network]

[Forums temporarily blocked : No network]

[Outbox temporarily blocked: No network]

[Opening Navigation tab]

The holographic screen in his eyes rapidly transformed and opened up a large version of his minimap, it occupied almost half of Bilal's vision. On that map one green arrow and a huge number of white dots were present, the green arrow was stationary and many of those white dots kept flickering changing their positions timely.

Almost no explanation was needed, he understood it on first glance. He assumed the green arrow to be indicating him, and assumed the blinking dots to be the people outside.

Zooming in the map he saw rows of white dots being stationary, their positions on map was properly distanced, he concluded it to be the Soldiers' recruitment candidates whom were alloted a room to stay in.

Beisdes those stationary dots, there happen to be dots in motion too, some of them were blinking in a linear pattern while the rest kept moving randomly here and there.

'These linearly moving dots must be the Guarding Soldiers and the dots with random motion must be the Workers' He settled upon that opinion and dragged the map towards the end of the camp.

Just like before there were a few stationary dots and isolated from the main camp was an area heavily surrounded by linear moving white dots, but the thing he found strange was they surrounded nothing but empty air.

"System, can anyone hide from your detection?" Bilal asked.

[The map feature is an experimental one, System doesn't have enough information]

'Maybe Mages can hide themselves from being detected' Bilal reflected on that thought.

Staring at that empty space for a few more seconds he gave up ultimately, before asking the System if the map style could be changed, the map was way too 2D which may became somewhat unreliable at times.

[There is a 3D model available for the map, but it would cause real time positioning to be slowed, Does Host wants to activate the 3D modelling? Y/N]

He refused immediately since he definitely didn't want this life saving feature to be slowed down even a multisecond, because he realized how useful this real time positioning is. He couldn't even fathom the multitude of applications this thing could have.

[Custom markings, map copying are also available in this function]

"Nevermind, bring me to another function" said Bilal since he neither had any maps to copy nor any custom markings to make.

[Opening Records tab]

Once again the screen changed and brought up a new window, it consisted of two options, Atlas and Entity Book, and Saved Records.

[Altas and Entity Book - Functionality used to add new records for analysis and proper observations]

[No new records for Entities and Biomes]

[Does Host wants to add new records? Y/N]

"No, not right now"

[Saved Records - Functionality used to view Saved Records]

[20000 Locked Saved Records found]

[Mission Stars can be used to unlock the Records]

"I have to unlock this? What records does it hold anyway?" he asked.

[500 Observations and Characteristics of Animals, 2500 Observations and Characteristics of Plants,

1000 Observations and Characteristics of Ores, 4000 Common Day Machinery production and Blueprints, 2000 Industrial Scale Machinery production and Blueprints, 6000 Atlas Records of Geography and Landmarks of Earth, 1000 Miscellaneous methods for production, 1000 Common Knowledge and Phenomenas, 1000 Advanced Knowledge and Phenomenas, 1000 Records for Culture and History]

[Prices may vary with each category]

If the functionalities from before was awesome, then this was absolutely Mind blowing, he couldn't even fathom the ability of the system, it was totally nutshell.

A System holder can construct anything from a Pin to a Rocket launcher as long he has enough Mission Stars to purchase the records and the appropriate materials, it was the complete package of Salvation and Madness in one.

"Hurry open up the Next function"

[Opening Missions tab]

Like before the screen altered into a new one.

[Host can earn precious Mission stars by Competing missions]

[Missions completed: 1]

[D.M completed: 1]

[D.M Ongoing - Investigate]

[Mission Stars balance: 14]

This tab wasn't much interesting beisdes knowing his remaining Mission Star balance there wasn't much to do.

"Next function"

[Opening Module Store-Local]

[Supplementary Module #11 - Tree climbing]

[Supplementary Module #65 - Accounting]

[Supplementary Module #1 - Qi Gong exercises (8 Brocades)]

[Marital Arts Module #10 - Triple Roundhouse Kick - Teakwondo]

[Martial…..]

In front of him a long listing of Modules was present in succession, the list was almost never ending and these were only the downloaded ones, he wondered what would be happening on Earth and how were the System holders faring.

It would be no surprise if they became the Kings and Queens of the Apocalypse.

He wanted to browse more, and maybe purchase something, but he only had 14 Stars and he wanted to save them for emergencies like before.

"Next"

[Opening Modules tab]

[Host can view his personal Modules and can proceed to sell them in the Module Store-Global]

[Personal Modules are derived from the Host's expertise and Memories]

[Three new modules detected]

[Does Host wants to Name them? Y/N]

The screen changed and demonstrated him, the language legacy by that Old Shaman lady, the History of Yreka and the Magic Attainment Technique by the Former Hero of Light.

"Yes, name them Common Language of Humans, History Of Yreka and the Light Magic Technique, correspondingly"

[Three new modules named and listed]

[Modules of Host]

[

Common Language of Humans.

History Of Yreka.

Light Magic Technique.

Professional module #4 - Hunter-Gatherer (Beginner).

Martial art module#4 - Black Cat's Leap.

Martial art module #20 - Eagle's dive.

Supplementary module #9 - Swimming.

Professional module#91 - Swordsman (Beginner).

Professional module #10 - Minivan Driver (Intermediate).

Professional module #32 - Electrician (Beginner).

Professional module #12 - Hawker (Intermediate).

Supplementary module #98 - Haggling.

Supplementary module #54 - Begging.

Professional module #50 - Student (Intermediate).

Professional module #94 - Fruad (Intermediate)

..... ]

What followed was a long list of his good and not so good qualities, it really was a based on his memories and expertise.

He really didn't knew whether to laugh or cry, embarrassingly he scratched his head, before asking for the last two remaining tabs to be orverviewed.

[Opening Research Tab]

[Research function is used for Experimentation and Analytical observations corresponding with pre-existing Records, Experiments deemed Inappropriate and dangerous can be done in the Experimentation space by utilizing 3D reality Engine]

[Does Host want to enable Experimentation Space? Y/N]

Since he didn't have anything to analyze right now, he said 'No' and moved onto overview the Last function.

[Opening Status Screen]

[Status screen function can be used for proper screening and maintainance of Host's Health, Host can review his Health Statistics]

[Host's Stats are appointed by comparing 1 point as the value for a normal Human's Stats]

[

Strength: 2.4 Points

Intelligence: 2.5 Points

Stamina: 2.6 Points

Defence: 1.9 Points

Speed: 2 Points

Reflexes: 3.2 Points

]

The effect of Apprentice Warrior Attainment was way too insane, he as a single person has the strength of two, the speed of two, and the reflexes of three. No wonder he felt so light and filled with strength.

[Body functioning: Stable (Fatiqued)]

[Abnormal Body conditions: Mutation 26%, Dream Hallucinations]

The Mutation would be the abnormal antibodies which was formed in that cave and the Dream hallucinations must be what System refers to the activity of that Owl in his Dream.