A Virtual Awakening
Yuri is sleeping in his apartment. He had slept through the whole morning and noon because he had been forging Lesser Magitek armor and weapons to distribute to the Mazoku and Yakuza.
Sebastian had stayed in the Domain building as he was maintaining the production of now three Mana Fusion Reactors, constantly producing processed Mana cubes. Due to the amount of mana being produced and Magitek items that were still being distributed, the 3 floors of the Domain building had to be cleared out. Yuri had a huge problem.
He didn't have the infrastructure strong, secure, and big enough to manage the production of Mana and Weapons. This was one of the reasons why he had set up a meeting with the TerraMage, well, most importantly to complete the system quest.
*Ding Dong
The doorbell of Yuri's condominium door ringed.
*Ding Dong
He was fully asleep and began to wake up from the annoying doorbell.
"Who the fuck is it?"
He angrily stood up, wearing his pajamas, and opened the door.
No one was there. "Who was that?"
Yuri found a package on the floor, and the packaging's opening leaked its contents.
He read it out loud while picking it up.
!!! FULL DIVE VIRTUAL REALITY CONSOLE !!!
!!! PLAY THE WORLD'S FIRST FULLY IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY MASSIVE MULTI- !!
Yuri could not understand English that well, especially big words, but he understood that it was some sort of game.
"Fucking delivery man just left! I guess it's kind of my fault, I took too long."
He brought it inside and opened it.
It looked like a highly advanced Playstation but it had a headset that connected to it.
"So the pictures say I have to… lie down, and wear the headset?"
Yuri yawned.
"Must have been Botan, ordering something, under my name again, and using my credit card. Cheap Ass!"
Yuri snuggled back into his bed.
"Sebastian! What time is it?"
"SEBASTIAN!!!" he shouted, annoyed that his AI was not answering.
"Yes, Master?" his smartwatch spoke in Sebastian's voice.
"Where the fuck are you?"
Sebastian's face showed up on the smartwatch display.
"I'm here in the Domain building, Master. As you instructed."
"What…what… Why? What time is it?"
"It's exactly 5:00 pm, Master. You said you needed to rest, and needed me to stay here, to handle the production."
"Yes… but I also need you here," Yuri said like a spoiled boss. "Can't you be at two places at once?"
"I only have one AI Object to use as a vessel, Master. If you need me there, you can just generate another AI Object."
Yuri's sleepy eyes blinked so much his face started to fly from the drag created by his eyelids opening and closing.
"Create another AI Object? What the fuck do you mean?"
"You are the AI Mage, Master. You can create AI. There is no limit. But doing so will divide the processing power of all Main Artificial Objects directly created by the AI-Mage. This is because Artificial Intelligence Objects that are directly created from the Magitek System, called Main AI are immensely more powerful than AI that are created indirectly from the System. These Indirectly created AI are called 2nd Generation Artificial Intelligence."
"So they have the same Artificial Intelligence Capabilities but the processing power is distributed among separate Main AI Objects. I guess, 2nd Generation AI could be a product, like a robot that is created as a result of the use of Main AI."
"Yes, Master."
Yuri's frustrated lips slowly stretched to a mischievous smile.
Then he rubbed his hands. "So I can create a new AI…" He laughed at the endless possibilities.
Yuri did not waste time. He quickly opened his system.
"System."
[Magitek System Main Menu]
[Forge]
[….]
"Forge? No… Not… the Forge one… I'm fucking sick of using the forge…"
[Inventory]
[Party]
"Party? No… I might call Yuna later… I kinda feel like snuggling right now…"
[Abilities]
"Yes. Abilities!"
[Autonomous Driving Capabilities: Level 1]
[AI Object Generation Capabilities: Level 2]
[Offensive Cyber Capabilities: Level 1]
[Reverse Engineering Capabilities: Level 1]
[Omnipresent Surveillance Capabilities: Level 1]
"Nice!! System. Commence AI Object Generation Now!"
[Commencing AI Object Generation]
[AI Object Generation will be complete at 24:00:00]
"Fuck! I remember this… This happened last time… When I rushed it last time, it went into an error."
Yuri then realized why the system had an error. Due to him rushing the System's production of the AI, instead of a fully grown child about the same age as Sebastian now, the system was not able to complete the process, so that's why only a toddler AI had been created last time.
"The level of ability the AI object generation had must be correlated to the maturity of its humanoid form."
Yuri scratched his head. "Shit… Man… I need to take a cold shower."
And headed to the shower. He took his clothes off and turned the water on.
"Aaaaaaah!" He sighed with pleasure. "Nothing like a good day off."
*Ding
Yuri's smartwatch spoke again and Sebastian's face appeared.
"By the way, Master. I would like to remind you that you have a meeting with EDEN Corporation."
"Eden what?"
"EDEN, Master…" Sebastian said. "The TerraMage. You are having a meeting with him and his people who will be arriving at the Airport in about two hours with their private jets. I have already arranged for some of the Mazoku to pick them up, Master. Just send them the location of the meeting place."
"Right!" Yuri embarrassingly affirmed, realizing he had forgotten, and Sebastian had constantly reminded him earlier before he went to sleep.
"Where will we meet, again?" he asked Sebastian.
"You said, you would be the one to handle it, Master?"
"Right!! Right… I was just testing you… Sebastian… I'm on it… Just keep doing a good job there, okay?"
"As always, Master. I am in your service."
*Dwip
The call ended.
"FUCK!!!!" Yuri had not yet set up anything for the meeting.
He had volunteered to take care of it since he told Botan to fully focus on the investigation concerning Daizen's friend, the so-called local shaman.
"They can't blame me! I'm a fucking billionaire. I'm supposed to have people do this for me."
He then remembered that he had recently hired a very smart woman that he recently hired this morning.
"Martha Akio!"
He texted Martha, and she said she would handle everything, she just needed a few million US dollars sent to her account to quickly set everything up.
*I'm on it, Boss. Just need you to send me the money.*
Yuri opened his bank account and transferred it to her.
*$10,000,000 Sent* he texted her.
*It will be ready in about an hour, sir. You don't have to worry about anything.*
"Finally! Now I feel like I'm a billionaire," the 18-year-old Yuri said.
Yuri decided to play the Full Dive Virtual Reality game.
"He bought it with my money… So technically, I own it."
He set the alarm on his watch to 6:00 pm.
"Just an hour of playing a game… left with an hour… I will have enough time to pick up the TerraMage at the airport," he thought. "I deserve some good old rest from time to time. I just defeated a fucking dinosaur yesterday."
He turned on the VR console, lay down on his bed, and wore the headset.
At first, all he could see was black. Then some text appeared.
(integrating user consciousness to the collective server)
(connecting user and collective consciousness in virtually simulated reality)
(100% stable connection)
(proceeding)
...….
WELCOME TO THE THIRD BEAST DIMENSION!
...….
Yuri's consciousness was fully connected to the collective user server. He felt like it was similar to his Omnipresent Surveillance Capability. But this was a game and it had super realistic graphics.
"Wow! This game is made in 2022? This is revolutionary!"
....
BATTLE MONSTERS FROM ANOTHER WORLD
....
"Ooooh! Monsters!"
....
ADVENTURE WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FIGHT ENEMY GUILDS
....
"Oh! Yes! This kinda reminds me of my real life." Yuri laughed.
(CHARACTER SET-UP MENU)
(Please input your chosen username: ________ )
"__FATboy__"
(Choose your CLASS: SOLDIER | HUNTER | FIGHTER | BARD | CLERIC | DRUID )
"So I can change classes whenever I level up, huh… pretty basic… I'll try the hunter… the name though… HAHAHAHAHA! This is Botan's premium account! I hope there's an option to change the name."
(HUNTER HAS BEEN CHOSEN)
(CONGRATULATIONS __FATboy__!)
(YOU ARE NOW READY TO BEGIN YOUR ADVENTURE!)
"Cool! So it's immersive learning. Means I have to learn the game as I go along. Noobs probably die at the start… HAHAHAHA!"
Everything turned black again. Then Yuri opened his eyes and he saw a red burning sky with players filling the whole grass field that had turned into a battlefield. Warrior players were PKing Bards and Clerics, that had no chance to escape the close combat.
Hunters were at the edge of the plains, targeting distant targets to farm EXP.
Yuri started laughing. "HAHAHAHAHA! Typical spawn. Noobs immediately get welcomed into a chaotic VR game of bloodthirsty PKers that want to farm them."
There were no monsters near spawn but hundreds of first-time players were already dying as quickly as they entered the game.
Yuri sat on a pile of cleric and bard carcasses lying on the ground. Spawn was the size of about 100 football fields to give players space and not interfere with each other while at spawn.
"Developers must be going crazy right now! HAHAHAHA! They probably didn't anticipate this much influx of players. Who knew millions of people would love to play a Dive VRMMORPG?"
Yuri was camouflaged in the pile of dead bodies he was sitting on, so he decided to use this short time he had to learn the basic settings of the game.
"System Menu!" he said.
[MAGITEK SYSTEM MAIN MENU]
[FORGE]
[ABILITIES]
[INVENTORY]
[PARTY]
[QUESTS]
Yuri read the menu that appeared in front of him and said, "Magite-"
His eyes opened wide. "Wait?????"
"This is the Magitek System Menu! I can fucking use it here!"
Yuri scratched his head. A human arm just bounced in front of him and some of the blood splattered on his bow.
He couldn't believe it. So he tried the status menu.
"Status!"
[STATUS]
[USER: YURI HAYASHI]
[HP: 10/10]
[MP: 425,598]
[.....]
[.....]
He was shocked when he saw a small panel in the top right corner of his vision.
——status panel——
——username: __FATboy__
——hp: 10/10——
——mp: 425,598——
——class: hunter——
——level: 1——
——strength: 1——
——intelligence: 1 ——
——speed: 2 (+1 hunter-class buff Lvl. 1) ——
——stamina: 1 ——
"WAIT!!!!! MY MANA POINTS ARE REFLECTED IN MY GAME'S STATUS PANEL!!"