Midnight.
"So, Matrix, can you properly tell me now what new functions you've added?"
Roser grabbed a bottle of cola from the fridge and slumped onto the sofa, asking with the air of a lord.
"Creator, the notification sound has already refreshed..."
Roser interrupted him, sounding righteous and confident: "I'm too lazy to read it. Just tell me directly."
Fortunately, the Matrix was a support AI without self-awareness; otherwise, it might have rebelled on the spot and finished off this bastard of a Creator.
"Ding. Recycling Source Essence aggregates... Beginning analysis... Analysis in progress... Analysis successful..."
"Acquired Authority [Fate (God)]... Authority [Life (Tier 5)]..."
"Unlocked function [Manifestation]. Unlocked function [Fate Simulation]..."
"Function [Deduction (Tier 3)] has been activated and promoted to [Deduction (God)]..."
Information that would have scrolled for who knows how many pages was summarized in just these few sentences.
As expected of me!
Roser silently gave a thumbs-up to his own wit.
However...
"What do you mean by recycling?" Roser narrowed his eyes. "Is this stuff something you lost?"
He had asked the Matrix about levels before.
Tier 1 Transcendent, Tier 2 Saint, Tier 3 Legend, Tier 4 Demigod, Tier 5 Saint. Above that were the Gods who mastered various Authorities.
The Matrix's mechanical voice remained fluctuation-free: "The Source Essence all originates from the Great Ones of the Ancestral Universe: [Fatalism], [Creationism], and [Evolutionism].
"Or, using names from the Creator's memory, [Fatalism] can be called: Primordial Origin, The First Cause, or the Ancestor God of Fate.
"[Creationism] can be called Pangu, God, or Chaos.
"[Evolutionism] (Theory of Evolution) can be called: Heavenly Dao, Gaia, or Themis (Greek Goddess of Order).
"They each represent a type of cosmology; they are objective phenomena and also the embodiment of worldviews. They transcend the [Commanders of Fate] who master the principles of the universe, and countless universes revolve because of them.
"But instinct makes them oppose each other while simultaneously craving aggregation, thus producing an uncontrollable tearing force. Source Essence is the fragments torn from them..."
The amount of information was too vast.
Roser was shocked.
"Wait, my transmigration couldn't be..."
"The Creator is a soul carried away by the Source Essence. In essence, you are equivalent to a child of the Great Ones."
What a weak child...
Roser twitched his lips.
"Why is this worldview so familiar? Did a certain Cuttlefish know something in advance?"
It was too similar. Could it be that Earth has now entered the era of various Acting Methods and Sequences?
"The humans mentioned by the Creator were already controlled by the authorities on the Blood Moon Night. The Creator's motherland began collecting fragments and conducting research immediately. It is just that most of the fragments came to this world."
It really was?
Roser stroked his chin. "So, I just went out to buy a pack of cigarettes and got blasted to another world by a fragment of some big shot?"
Damn, what level of dog-shit luck is this?
Roser looked at his slender, straight hands and didn't delve deeper.
His current three functions had formed a complete structure.
The Heavenly Dao Jades ability, which maintains or subverts order, should be the remnant of [Evolutionism], responsible for the energy supply system.
[Fate] is responsible for deduction and establishing templates, and [Creation] is responsible for Manifestation.
They are too damn complementary. No wonder the three big shots couldn't control their urge to aggregate.
But now, he was getting the benefit...
Very well.
Now he had to think of a way to get a wave of Heavenly Dao Jades to strengthen himself. This broken world felt too unsafe.
And regarding the method, he had an idea...
The Internet!
It was the information age. One could obtain the widest contact surface without leaving home, reaching people from all over the country.
Even if the influence on others across the network is smaller, the degree might be shallow, but the quantity is high!
A single entry might not even match one percent of those dozens of boys and girls at Shuchiin, but what if it were thirty thousand people? Three hundred thousand? Thirty million?
For example, if during an official typhoon livestream, millions of people were watching and a graceful white dragon swam through the clouds.
Or, for example, if an official archaeological team dug up traces of a super-ancient civilization, bringing mythology into reality?
Of course, creating a big scene right now was impossible due to a lack of funds.
However, he could start from another aspect...
Roser looked up and asked, "Matrix, how many Heavenly Dao Jades does the Fate Deduction function require to deduce a world line?"
"Do you wish to replicate reality and establish a simulated universe? Estimated cost: 30,000,000 Heavenly Dao Jades. Insufficient Heavenly Dao Jades."
Who the hell asked you to build a 100% realistic simulated universe?
Don't think he didn't know what the concept of 100% realistic meant. Cellular level, molecular level, even atomic level didn't count as anything. Protons, neutrons, even quark levels couldn't reach 100% realism.
To be 100% realistic was no different from creating a universe.
However...
Although thirty million Heavenly Dao Jades was a huge sum, to think it could achieve that degree even with reality as a reference?
"We'll talk about that later. First, help me perfect a set of game CGs."
Roser quickly stated his requirements: "Simply put, I'll design a worldview, and then you filter who fits which character's requirements. Then deduce the results, scan some reality data, and make a 100% realistic scene. That will do."
Big projects like a simulated universe should be left to his future self who ascends to godhood. He never liked thinking about things so far away.
It was just that in 2025, brain-computer interfaces existed, and mind-controlled gaming technology was mature; all that was missing was the image display in the brain.
He had even seen Kazuto Kirigaya's name on the junior high school list. In this era, launching a virtual reality game wouldn't be abrupt at all.
"Estimated cost: 100 Heavenly Dao Jades."
"Then what if we only perfect a segment of CG, materialize it into reality, and then make a simple demonstration tutorial?"
"Estimated cost: 5 Heavenly Dao Jades."
"The CG only needs to be fifteen minutes. The tutorial level doesn't need scenery, just a fog where you can't see the surroundings. The tutorial bosses only need to be three.
"One vagrant knight, the armor as tattered as possible.
"One down-and-out samurai, height not exceeding 1.65 meters, covered in rags, wearing wooden clogs, just holding a blade strip.
"Finally, a crippled pugilist, one leg lame, height also a bit short, 1.7 meters will do."
"Estimated cost: 3.3 Heavenly Dao Jades."
Very good.
Roser smiled. "Scan all the fighting techniques and swordsmanship in the world and infuse them into the level boss action patterns."
How to raise the style?
As soon as the livestream starts, the most basic novice monsters will shock the whole world.
The most despairing part will be the moment they see the game monsters appear in reality.
Yes. He planned to input a crisis that was about to erupt in Tokyo as the blueprint for the very first level.
Guaranteed to shock tens of millions of people and cause the worldviews of millions to collapse...
Earn a big wave of profit.
Very good.
First, start with the game CG. Its name: Night of Fate!
"Matrix..."
Roser sat up and said in a deep voice: "From now on, record all the images in my mind, and then... release all restrictions on my brain. Full Overclocking!!!"
As everyone knows, the human brain is an awesome computer. The human brain possesses 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synaptic connections. If truly liberated, the limit computing power can reach 10 quadrillion calculations per second.
Anything over one quadrillion calculations per second is a supercomputer.
Of course, computing power could never compare to a conceptual product like the Matrix.
But human imagination, human spirituality, and the rendering of human emotions were things it did not possess.
At the moment 0.1 Heavenly Dao Jades were consumed.
Thump...
With a roar, Roser's brain was blasted blank.
That was his heartbeat.
Thump... Thump...
The heart beat violently, supplying nearly all nutrients and oxygen to the brain, which was consuming energy intensely.
Immediately afterward, countless fragmented lines of sound were transmitted to him.
First came the fine, rustling sounds of a mouse under the cracks of the old floorboards; he could even accurately reconstruct the details of Jerry's movements in his brain.
Then came the upstairs.
Countless sounds, smells, and vibrations of the air gathered in his mind, reconstructing the shape of a woman with weirdly twisted limbs, moving tentatively bit by bit, then quietly grabbing the notebook he had placed on the stairs before suddenly retracting it.
Immediately after, his perception range exploded outward, instantly encompassing dozens of residential buildings in the vicinity.
Over three hundred thousand sounds, smells, and vibrations were transmitted to his hearing, smell, and touch, forming a 3D map of the entire area projected in his mind...
The coughing victim, the cheating woman, the old lady walking a child, the old man playing chess, the waiting courier, the corporate slave bowing and scraping on the phone...
Bang!
Expressionless, Roser stepped lightly on the floor with eyes devoid of emotion.
Every thread of strength was transmitted down with precision through the vibrations.
Under the floorboards, the neck of the mouse that was nibbling on food scraps shook slightly, and it collapsed limply, dying without a sound.
"Matrix, turn off my external perception. Deactivate Overclocking in ten minutes."
After issuing the order, Roser slowly closed his eyes, striving to retain the surging emotions and imagination in his heart.
Soon.
The Fate story he had seen thousands of days and nights ago, every trace of the visuals, every detail, was reflected in his mind.
The shock from that time, the hot-bloodedness that was stirred, the admiration, and many other emotions began to be recalled.
Soon.
He began to construct...
PS: The simulated universe does not possess matter; otherwise, needing to manifest the energy of a universe out of thin air would require n+30,000,000 Heavenly Dao Jades.
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