Extraordinary David - Chapter 42

Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Difference

“David, you must train hard. I’ll be waiting for you in Nan City!” Galen encouraged David as he stood in front of the gate.

“Uncle Galen, I’ll try my best!” David answered with a vigorous nod. After a few days of interacting with Galen, David felt as though Galen was his kin.

“Maron, you need to work hard too!” Galen said to Maron.

“Uncle Galen, I will get into Nan University with David!” Maron said confidently.

Although it was only a few days, he had practiced thoroughly day and night. He had somewhat learned all thirty-six styles of the Stormy Warhammer Technique. With the guidance of a teacher like Galen, it would still be easy for him to improve his Warhammer Mastery in the future as long as he put in the effort and worked hard.

Galen waved at the two of them, and then, a ladder descended from the sky. Due to the fact that the ship that was hovering in a stationary manner in the sky was invisible, the ladder looked like it was sticking out of nothing.

David had known since the previous time that there was a spaceship above his residence. He just wasn’t certain which model it was.

After Galen entered the void, the engine of the spaceship roared. It moved slowly, erasing the invisibility effects away.

David saw an all-black aircraft with wings that spread out to thirty meters wide and streamline design. It looked as graceful as a black swan.

“Oh my god, it’s the Black Specter!” Maron screamed with excitement.

David had no recollection of the name “Black Specter” and reckoned that he should have never heard of it.

“The Black Specter is an intra-atmospheric aircraft that moves at an extremely high speed and has spaceflight capabilities. Its status among aircraft is the same as that of Glaston in terms of hovercars,” Maron continued to explain.

While he was saying that, the elegant Black Specter accelerated abruptly and turned into a black stream of light that burst through the sky where it disappeared.

David finally figured out what Maron meant when he said that it had an extremely high speed and had intra-atmospheric flight abilities. He also understood why Maron said that the Black Specter was the best among aircraft with that size.

However, after thinking about Galen’s followers, who were armorers that were equipped with Level 2 Warhammers, he felt that it made sense.

“Haha, we’re free now. Let’s go out and relax today!” Maron said to David with a huge grin as he watched the Black Specter vanish.

David shook his head and refused, “Maron, I want to practice a little more today. In a few days from now, let’s go to that shooting range you were talking about.”

In the past two days, he had fused the two Knowledge Orbs of Shield Mastery (50% Intermediate) and Heavy-Axe Mastery (70% Intermediate), which took most of his time away—leaving him no opportunity to practice his other several abilities. Since Galen had left and he had almost reached the 83%-Intermediate level in Warhammer Mastery, he could now practice the rest of his abilities.

He had been feeling like he was running out of time. In addition, Mr. Strat would be meeting Trainer Jeremy the following day. Hence, he still needed time to plan his actions.

“David, you’re almost becoming a machine!” said Maron, who shaking his head as he looked at David. He continued, “Forget it, I’ll go home. Mother says she misses me several times a day. I’ll come and look for you in a couple of days!

Since David did not want to play, Maron had also given up on the idea of going out. Accordingly, he did not stay any longer and drove away in his Glaston VI.

David returned to his empty home and couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief.

He walked into the room at the side, which had been converted into a server room where the medium-sized server was placed.

As soon as he entered the room, he felt a sudden chilliness and a drop in temperature. The temperature and humidity in the room were set especially for the medium-sized server. Both of them were stabilized in a certain range.

The medium-sized server did not consume energy from the central energy source as it had an energy system of its own. It was powered by five Kryptonite crystals that provided the energy it needed.

The medium-sized server took up the surface area of half a wall. In an era where identity bracelets could handle most of the information processing, one can imagine how massive the computing power of a medium-sized server of that size was.

David took a seat in the operating chair and put on a head-mounted display system. He then appeared in a virtual world.

Virtual reality technology had been around for a long time. However, minors had always been prohibited from using them due to their effects on one’s brain.

David was now entering a virtual world that had been autonomously generated by the medium-sized server. Thus, it had nothing to do with the virtual reality connected to Skynet. That was the reason he dared to violate the law so brazenly.

Of course, the reason that he had the confidence to enter the virtual world as a minor, was because of his 3.4 arbitrary units of Mental Energy, With such a huge amount of Soul Energy pouring into his soul, he did not believe that he would not adapt to the world of virtual reality.

When he was resting in the past two days, he had been studying the medium-sized server which used to be the main server in Leeson Security. Leeson Security had built a sealed virtual world in it.

The original purpose of the virtual world was to test the operations and functionality of the security systems. In the virtual world, the real environment of a neighborhood, a street, or even a city could be simulated.

The security systems would be installed in those virtual environments, and the medium-sized server would then simulate various attacks that were commonly launched using Electronic Warfare Retaliation software, as well as intrusions and thefts.

At the same time, it would also be possible to load the security systems of rival companies in the virtual world, so as to discover the flaws in their systems. That would allow them to directly take down and beat the rival companies.

Such tests would have been impossible to perform in the real world. However, the results obtained in the virtual world were almost as good as what they would get if the tests were conducted in the real world.

Of course, David did not need that kind of environment. However, he had been given the ultimate access to the medium-sized server, and he could manipulate the virtual world as he pleased using his virtual avatar.

Ever since he received the 20% Intermediate-level Sniper ability, he wondered how he could improve his sniping ability further so that he could fight a Bug with a sniper. Since he was not a Sniper Armorer, and much less had a special sniper rifle, he couldn’t have possibly fought a Bug for no reason.

He could master other combat abilities through corresponding practice. Even without advanced techniques like the Stormy Warhammer Technique, he could still improve his mastery of basic skills and the like through practice.

Now that he had a 20% Intermediate-level Sniper ability and was at the top, others would catch up to him easily if he did not improve.

As a result, he thought of the virtual world in the medium-sized server. Unlike other Sniper Armorers, he was also a highly-competent master of Electronic Warfare Retaliation. He could completely create a practice environment for himself that was tailored to his needs.

David did not know how other sniper armorers trained, but he presumed that no one else would have a large amount of knowledge in sniper rifles used specifically by Sniper Armorers and possess the appropriate experience, without even touching an ordinary sniper rifle.

What he needed was to constantly train his analytical skills in order to snipe faster. That would require him to train in the real world, which was an opportunity that David lacked. Considering such, only the virtual world could provide that environment for him.

David continuously grabbed strips of data in the air with his hand and then modified them. The buildings in the virtual world disappeared one by one, and the ground was replaced by stone and mud.

He turned the urban environment into a wilderness, which was recreated based on the knowledge he had obtained. He did not know whether the environment was in Planet Rocky or Battlestar.

Next, a Spiked Chela appeared. It was created with a virtual image of the Spiked Chelae that David had found from the Skynet and spent some credit points to purchase and download.

The virtual image included the fighting habits of the Spiked Chelae. When activated there was barely any difference between the actions of the real Spiked Chelae and that of the virtual projection.

There were many people in the virtual world who had several special interests. As a result, almost everything could be downloaded from the Skynet with credit points.

However, David soon encountered a problem. Although he could download the images of the Spiked Chelae, information about the armorers could not be found on the Skynet.

The exoskeleton armors, special sniper rifles, and the equipment used by the armorers could not even be searched by name on Skynet.

David did not know if such a case was limited to Planet Rocky or if it was universally applicable to the Star Federation. However, with the network environment of Pelan City, he could only search in the Skynet of Planet Rocky.

In the end, David had no choice but to make his own. Although he did not know the parameters of a Sniper Armorer’s exoskeleton armor or a dedicated sniper rifle, he did have a physical set of T3 Sniper Assist Device.

He used the micro-scanner to scan the appearance and structure of the T3 Sniper Assist Device and loaded its information into the virtual world of the medium-sized server. He then imported its control program into it. Although he could not replicate the T3 Sniper Assist Device in reality, he could create an identical version of it in the virtual world.

David activated the Spiked Chela, which was 500 meters away from him, after which the Spiked Chela charged towards him.

He then began to calculate and analyze the random wind direction, temperature, and humidity of the virtual environment, all of which were quickly detected using the T3 Sniper Assist Device.

At the instant that he simulated the firing of the rifle, the Spiked Chela remained stationary. Since he had no data about the real sniper rifle, the bullet trajectory that he analyzed turned into a green line, while the medium-sized server now analyzed the correct trajectory, which turned into a red line.

David would only have to judge the difference between the green line and the red line to know whether he had made an accurate judgment.