Simulation Field

Biodata

Function and Operation

Scenarios

Simulation Fields use distinct worlds and difficulty levels rather than a single fixed setting.

Participant Lifecycle

1. Entry — A candidate lies in a nutrient-filled assessment pod and is transferred into a scenario as a protected soul body 90.
2. Possession — Within five minutes, the candidate must identify and possess a suitable target. Failure results in ejection from the field 90.
3. Adaptation — Candidates conceal their identities, act according to their keywords, raise attributes, and seek advanced skills or derivative items 133 142.
4. Competition — Rankings change according to a contestant's actions, influence, and involvement with the scenario's central conflict 178 183.
5. Resolution — The field ends through a completed main quest, mass eliminations, a system intervention, or forced closure by authorized personnel 121 296.

Advanced Skills and Derivative Items

• Advanced skills emerge from sustained keyword-related behavior rather than from predetermined class abilities. Their effects can range from mobility and army enhancement to manipulation and perception 177 296.
• The system's accelerated environment makes skill development easier than in the Alien Battlefield, where comparable growth may take substantially longer 203.
• Derivative items are exceptionally rare. The known Spear of Slaughter reportedly became sentient and indestructible after its wielder slaughtered eighty thousand adult men 133.
• Du Ge's Trade keyword produced Priced Clearly and Everything Is Tradable, but both were locked when the system identified their effects as abnormal 121.

History

Origin Star uses the Simulation Field as part of a state-controlled education and selection system. Children are raised and trained in cultural knowledge, performance, and keyword use before entering their first field at age eighteen; later assessments determine whether they can become warriors or fall into the lower social class 84.

The system became more urgent after Origin Star's Alien Battlefield forces suffered severe losses. An emergency Rotation Exam System was activated to accelerate the selection of candidates capable of serving as warriors 90.

Du Ge repeatedly destabilized normal field operations. In his first field, his actions helped reduce the participant count to fewer than two hundred within half a month 56. His second field ended prematurely after his trading network generated abnormal mental-power transfers, leaving him ranked first with 1,100 mental-power points still undistributed 121.

After Du Ge's Alien Battlefield victory, Origin Star arranged an additional Simulation Field partly to use his methods as practical training for other warriors. Nan Youlong later rejected further requests to open fields solely for Du Ge, citing resource quotas and the system's intended purpose of selecting talent rather than serving as his personal training ground 262 296.

True Origin

The Simulation Field is presented to Origin Star as a virtual environment, and Nan Youlong describes it as a programmed world that cannot be broken from within 297. Du Ge's later investigation reveals a far more disturbing foundation.

After an Alien Battlefield is cleansed, Pan-Universe Entertainment extracts the souls of the native population and uses them to construct Simulation Fields. The inhabitants' memories are erased, but they retain independent thoughts, reactions, and the potential to learn and develop 448.

• All Simulation Fields are derived from past Alien Battlefields and cannot exceed the original world's power ceiling 512.
• A field may reproduce a planet's history, geology, culture, and scientific logic in extraordinary detail, including fossils millions of years old 296.
• The apparent “NPCs” are living souls rather than simple scripted entities 448.
• Pan-Universe Entertainment can run multiple instances of a field, suggesting either soul replication or a method of presenting the same souls to multiple participants simultaneously 448.

Boundaries and Limitations

Du Ge's cultivation-world exploration established that a Simulation Field can be a complete planetary environment while still remaining enclosed.

• Passing beyond the atmosphere produces a sense of delay, as though an invisible barrier blocks further travel 296.
• Even Du Ge's Yang Spirit and the Shangqing Seal could not penetrate this boundary 296.
• The simulation's internal world remains highly coherent despite the boundary: remote inhabitants possess independent thoughts and can respond to newly introduced teachings 296.
• The system may alter, seal, or terminate a scenario when participant actions produce results it classifies as abnormal 121.

Trivia

• The first field seen by Du Ge was so realistic that he initially considered it nearly indistinguishable from reality 3 17.
• Entering a Simulation Field feels more like transmigration than ordinary virtual reality; WarNet, despite its realism, lacks this same degree of immersion 452.
• Pan-Universe Entertainment later considered allowing its audience to select favored Simulation Field participants and grant them power rewards before Alien Battlefield entry 505.