"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
– Sun Tzu
The Valorem is getting nearer as my bus approaching the gateway, we are dressed in our bodysuit with our monocle on. Ms.Rose had instructed us how and where to get on the bus that will take us to the Valorem. Since we are connected, I'm guessing that our position are automatically detected by the Valorem. As always when we pass the gates, the drones is scanning our bus, this time we can feel our neural link when the scan occurred. Not like the last time i was here on that invitation night, back then feels like the green lights are only a cosmetic light show. Today we even can hear system announcement on our neural receiver and visual through our monocle, there are a whole new world of networks running through the Valorem. It was crowded, i cant explained the feeling. Its just like when you walk into a busy street with everyone trying to talk, except with all that noise it was suppose to be hard to listen to anything, but in this network all the sounds is clear and we can understand it, even when they all talking at the same time.
After we get off the bus, a guide message arrived sending us to part ways into three locations for initialization, it was our pre determine talent class. According to the assessment I'll be going to the engineering post. I wanted to be a combatant, but i guess its not about what we want. Its what we are and what we needed, i will try my best to cope. It was determine that seven of us are going to the combatant, three of us to support and five of us to the engineering post. Many through open neural link tried to protested the decision, but all information was injected to our neural link, we surrender the protesting in seconds knowing the reasons why it was determined. The combatants has psychical prowess above all talents, the support has strong strains of nanites perfectly compatible for using tools. And engineer have excellent basic controls over nanites functions which is naturally and cannot be improved as in special talent related skills.
The engineering post is a very big hangar full of mecha, a giant robots in the nanowars it was a nanoweap use to breaks into the defenses of the enemies camps and fortress, it was a siege units. According to the guide in the monocle this mechanical giants is a mere museum artifacts. Since no nanites was able to survives outside of living tissues for long off the human body, that was used to be injected to control this remote control giant mechanical nanoweap unit, after the museums we reach the second hall which a lots of training occurs. The drones, a girl fending off three automated ray guns that fires at random, are diverting our eyes attentions, she was able to control three orbs that can block the wave rays. A sudden beep sound ringing through the monocle comm, we has arrived in our destination. When we avert our eyes, a very sturdy man has appeared in front of us.
"Welcome! Nubs! My name is Rio Gomez I'm you SS, stands for Senior Students, I'm a semi master class low grade, i haven't earn the rights to be called a counselor, only one that passed the test can be called in such, please be warned."
And then at that moments all the materials and the objections we brought here injected to our consciousness and the visual information's is relayed at our monocles. There is no need to go to class in this schools, reading books is unneeded, the knowledge will be injected as knowingly bases. As our knowledge is able to be attained in such ways, according to the explanations given by the Valorem curriculum that the psychical, mental and control abilities should be trained manually.
"NS! Nub Students!" Rio now is grinning to us.
"You need to process that fast! Now there are three main subjects of our talent training, however as we are not as rock brained as the one in the military academy, we never force feed our NS, sooooo nubs! please pick the order you want to be trained first!"
The details of the training is directly injected, to our neural link and a couple of visual video clips of the trainings can be accessed via the monocle. There are three subjects, control, senses and tactical. Each courses will be in training for one week each and after that three weeks the three subjects will be developed in combined class daily at three hours a day, each for every subjects. So the whole process will be using six weeks. After that two weeks of field training. And after that three weeks of advanced training and the last week was intended to be a final semester test. We will be a participant for the next semester class passing exam. Failed to pass will be mandatory to repeat the whole semester, in another failed attempts to fail the semester for the second time, the NS will be dismissed from Valorem and sent home. Their monocle and body suits will be taken, super cores will be dismantle and access will be revoked.
After choosing, we were directed to the inner chambers. It was the Valorem underground research facility, we will be implanted with a super cores. Fifteen pods was being setup for us, to undergo the procedure. The proceedings will takes twenty four hours in the cryogenic pods, the information is being injected directly to the neural link.
"Please enter your designated pods, all personnel clear the room, all involve personnel please tend your post, yellow alert" all the the personnel stay clear the pods as we each get into one. After that the light inside the pod lite up when the pods glass door locked the lights went out.
"Red alert, sequence in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, engaging.." a smoke flow into our pod.
Suddenly we was in this house on a wide openings all eyes can see.
"Welcome to Valorem world simulations, please proceed to the meeting hall."
We were directed to a hall with many photograph.
Each picture in this hall will move as we looked them, some even interactively able to communicate with us. This was the hero hall, all of our predecessor was putted here in digital information. In their information there are tags:
Name : Master Ian Armshead
Grade : High
Job : Combatant basic
Specialization : Infiltration and defense.
Super cores : Version 1.2
Slave class: S threat.
Operations involvement:
East desert invasion, infantry liaison 2nd years of nanowars.
Rescue operation, 3rd years of nanowars, 20 prison of war regained.
Spy operations 4th to 6th years of nanowars [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Assassination [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Join unit task force for advance nanoweap 12th years of nanowars.
Deceased 15th years of nanowars.
Achievements : titanium medal of bravery, gold medal of mercy, 2 silver medal of loyalty.
Honorary member of the Valorem.
Active present lineage:
Master Hunter Armsheed.
Combatant, Counter intelligence divisions.
The others also seeing this, we don't feel tired in this simulations as we are in REM state sleeping. We keep browsing through one by one. One students even found the ancestor of Ms.Rose lineage, it name was Juliet Sierra. She was a Support, with Assassination and Infiltration specialization. But seems locked for restricted access beyond that, it was activated! She will be about 208 years! "insane! That's impossible!" As the students gather on that specific picture. But then one of them debated that with the current simulations and cryogenic pods, it was possible. With that the crowd dispersed and begins to take the matters to mind, the industrialist was always in the leads of cutting edges involving the technology. Once again this open our eyes, i was evermore driven to be one with this mysterious institution. I check the monocle, it was twenty hours since we are placed in this simulation world, the process still takes four more hours. I begin to search information for other things that featured here, there are a combat training area, target practice area and structuring skills training area. And a jungle a survival training simulations which are restricted for NS. I went over to see all of this facilities only to find numerous SS was training here. So this was not a single purposes simulator but a common grounds, i query the Valorem. The answer is all of this SS was training in their sleeps, they programmed a specific training module to runs in their sleeps. So the development in this school is not limited in the psychical world only. Well that's reassuring for my end, i hate sleeping when i have difficulty in trying to comprehending a skills. Humanly fatigue is a liability that i cant tolerate, and this solved many problems in that particular area.
But when i go ahead and try, i found out that you have to booked this training before you using it. What a let down, so i leisurely watching all the open camera feeds to public training sessions. As i feel the combat training is pretty bland in activity, then i went over to target practice area training ., i drop my jaw when i see "mountain wrecking" wave practice. They gradually increase the capacity of their wave rays. How to cuts hills with their rays, compressed it and bombs away blasting the mountains area to "kingdoms come". A light wave also lethal, one girl is practicing to focus the rays in very compact small laser like straight line, to inflict a devastating one shoot to the head that inflicted a severe brain damage to stop the mind higher functions that will render the nanites inactive, so the body wont heal and death occurred. Then after seeing this scary image i went over to the structuring area, again i drop my jaw seeing two SS fighting with a spear and a double sword like a combatant, i almost get out the room thinking this was again the combat training simulation and that i was lost in my way. When saw the spear is now a whip, one of the opponent double sword changes into a shield, amazingly fast molding technique! On the next area an automated ray gun is bombarding the SS that now cover up in an armor, trying to hold up the defense, with a molded round nites shield, a very strong form of integrity focus. I went to the next area, several's slave animals is placed on the front of a few of SS that trying to designed an armor on their slave animal body. A bear with a helmet, an eagle with iron claws, an armored elephant and an iron horned bulls, it was an armor molding designing training. I checked my time here its twenty three hours and thirty five minutes, twenty five minutes more, and in that time, I choose to take a guided tour to learn more about the booking requirements to booked one of this extraordinary facilities.
We open our eyes inside the recovery ward, even in the facts that we couldn't move our body, the classroom are talking to each other through a neural link. Our super cores procedure is visually played in the form of animation graphic. The nanites injected with a blueprint from the supercomputer that acts as the main build designs, a series of injections was made to deliver the material needed to build the super cores designs. The location is next to the heart, the heart will be protected and the super cores will be integrated into the heart. The functions of the super cores is to embed the blood cells with nanites and producing enough nanites so the user can fully control their body functions, promotes the strength of the body, and using system control prevents and fixed damage tissues. The current super cores version is versions 25.1, this was the newest version available. Super cores usually have four cores to controls and four main nanites functions, but according to the guide this version of super cores have four cores plus a small core for utility. Also a new subject was included for this version of super cores. It was called utility core building, the new small utility core was a new technology to overclock the core functions, it was a support core that increase the reactive functions within the cores. A manager functions core, so the rest of the core uses are locked until the utility core design was completely build.
Our body regained mobility but we are to stay in the recovery room, for observations. A series of injections still given to us, our body feels great. The impurities in our bodies is starting to excess our body through all the body excretory system. Our scars is gone, our skin is brighten and shinier, our sore and aches is gone, one of the bright side being a compiler is we never needs a tools to help our psychical weakness such as glasses, teeth bracers or heart pacing devices. We have the nanites to control the abnormalities, no sickness be inflicted upon compiler, other than a little hurting feelings the damage tissues will suture it self in matters of seconds. And the super cores enhanced the basic functions for several folds more into perfections. Sitting on this room we being monitored, Ms.Rose still giving some study materials that we need to comprehend before that actual study sessions. The finishing enhancement of our body is finished in eighteen hours. I was guided back to my room, from more than a 1000 meters i can sense Fang in my room. He is asking where am i in the last two days, and he is well taken care of in this last two days. Someone came to feed her, and a package with my source tag has been delivered to my room. He is so curious, he starting to called it a "thing" inside the new box.
I came back and take a bath, but i was to get rid the smells. I have excreting impurities to the level of repulsiveness body odors. After that i wash my body suit placing it on a body suit case in my room, the case is a special box that uses low radiation to clean an disinfect my body suits. It have three slots, i will get two more body suits when i get reach higher class promotion to the semi master class. You could say I'm on probation, only given one, I'll get two suits more, when I'm settled in.
The box is medium size 40cm width and 50cm in length, when i approached it, a sets of release forms visually appeared in my monocle, i digitally sign it. The box open with a hissing sound. 4 syringes was inside, it was for Fang. It was a sets of slave cores forming nanites, i have to inject into his neck twenty minutes apart in numbers order. I spent two hours doing it, while i watch a graphical animated explaining what is a slave cores. It was a mini super cores with two small core, capable of supporting two multitasking. The slave cores is directly connected to my neural ink, it also enhanced the remote capability of nanites neural length by triple, with estimated roughly two miles. The surprise was by linking, i can even see what Fang is seeing, and what he is smelling. Echo location also included. What an enhancement, this is the best day in my life.
That night before going to sleep a confirmation came to my neural link. I have booked a six hours sessions of structuring training, by default by the super cores utility performance it was defaulted into an initial level training session settings. I confirmed, since that day i never had an idle time anymore, i shut my eyes!
"Run course!" I falls into REM, but my consciousness is transferred to the simulations.
"System engage! Linked successful! Forming environment!" I found myself on the training room. All white walls and alone suddenly a query appears on my monocle visual screen.
"Training in sessions, do you want to activate slave neural link to join the sessions?" The system asked.
I grinned and answered "Yes please!"
And Fang that was sleeping on the side of my bed appeared next to me, confused.
Nanites healing is the first basic functions of the cumulus systems, remote controlling nanites is the second functions of the cumulus systems and nanites forging in manipulations is the third functions of the cumulus systems.