Parting Ways

Chapter 42: Parting

"David, you must practice diligently. I'll be waiting for you in Na'an City!" Gallen stood before the gate, encouraging David.

"Uncle Gallen, I will work hard!" After spending several days together, David had developed feelings for Gallen akin to those for a relative, and he nodded firmly as he spoke.

"Myron, you must also work hard!" Gallen said to Myron as well.

"Uncle Gallen, I will get into Na'an University alongside David!" Myron said confidently.

Although it had only been a few days, through day and night of grueling practice, he had barely managed to learn the thirty-six forms of the Storm Hammer Technique. With a teacher like Gallen providing guidance, as long as he put in the effort, it would be easy to improve his War Hammer Mastery in the future.

Gallen waved at the two of them, and then a ladder descended from the sky. Because the spacecraft hovering silently in the air was cloaked, the ladder seemed to extend out of thin air.

David had known since last time that there was a spacecraft above his home, but he hadn't known what model it was.

As Gallen entered the void, a roar of engines sounded, and the spacecraft moved slowly, causing its cloaking effect to fail.

David saw an all-black aircraft with wings spanning thirty meters wide. Its entire body featured a streamlined design, as graceful as a black swan.

"Heavens, that's a Black Ghost!" Myron shouted excitedly.

David had no impression of the name Black Ghost; he had likely never heard of it before.

"The Black Ghost is an ultra-high-speed atmospheric aircraft with spaceflight capabilities. It holds the same status among flying vehicles as the Gladstone does," Myron explained further.

As he spoke, the elegant Black Ghost accelerated violently, turning into a streak of black light that pierced the sky and vanished.

Only then did David understand the kind of speed Myron meant by "ultra-high-speed atmospheric flight." At the same time, he understood Myron's point: the Black Ghost was the best among aircraft of its size.

However, thinking of the armored warriors serving as Gallen's attendants, each equipped with a Level 2 War Hammer, it was understandable.

"Haha, freedom! Let's go out and relax today!" After seeing the Black Ghost disappear, Myron laughed and said to David.

"Myron, I want to practice a bit more today. Let's go play at that shooting range you mentioned in a few days," David said, shaking his head.

Over the past two days, he had fused the Shield Mastery (50% proficiency) and Heavy Axe Mastery (70% proficiency) Knowledge Light Orbs. This left him with many abilities he hadn't had time to practice. With Gallen gone, his War Hammer Mastery had basically reached true War Hammer Mastery (83% proficiency), so he could practice the other items.

He always felt that time was insufficient. Plus, tomorrow was the day Steer was meeting with the trainer Jeremy, and he needed time to plan his own actions.

"David, you're becoming a machine!" Myron looked at David and shook his head, then added, "Fine, I'll head home first. My mother says she misses me several times a day. I'll come find you in a couple of days!"

Since David didn't want to hang out, Myron gave up on the idea of going out. He didn't linger any longer and left in his Gladstone Type VI car.

David returned to his empty house and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

He walked into an adjacent room, which had been converted into a server room housing a medium server.

As soon as he entered the room, he felt a chill; this was the temperature specifically set for the medium server, with humidity also kept within a stable range.

The medium server did not consume public energy; it had its own power system, fueled by five Krypton Crystals.

The medium server occupied half a wall. In an era where an identity bracelet could handle most information tasks, one could imagine the computing power of such a large-scale medium server.

David sat in the operation chair and put on a head-mounted display system, appearing instantly within a virtual world.

Virtual reality technology had existed for a long time, but due to its impact on the brain, minors were prohibited from using it.

However, the virtual world David entered now was generated autonomously by the medium server and had nothing to do with the virtual reality connected to Skynet, which was why he dared to break the law.

Of course, his confidence in entering the virtual world as a minor stemmed from his 3.4 mental value. With so much soul energy fused into his soul, he didn't believe he lacked the ability to adapt to virtual reality.

During his rest over the past two days, he had been studying this medium server. As the main server for Lixin Security Company, the company had built a closed virtual world within it.

The original purpose of this virtual world was to test the operation of security systems. Here, one could simulate the real environment of a residential area, a street, or even an entire city.

Security systems were installed and applied in these virtual environments, and the medium server would then simulate various attacks from common electronic warfare software on the market, as well as various intrusions and thefts.

At the same time, it could load the security systems of rival companies to find vulnerabilities in their systems and directly crush the competitor.

Such testing would be impossible to conduct in the real world, but the results obtained here were almost identical to those in the real world.

David certainly didn't need this kind of environment, but he had obtained ultimate administrative rights to the medium server, allowing his virtual avatar to manipulate the virtual world at will.

Ever since he obtained 20% proficiency in sniping, he had been thinking about how to improve it. He wasn't about to take a sniper rifle and risk his life against the Zerg—not to mention he wasn't a sniper armored warrior, he didn't have a specialized sniper rifle, and he certainly had no reason to go out and fight the Zerg for no reason.

Other combat abilities could be mastered through corresponding practice. Even without high-level techniques like the Storm Hammer Technique, basic techniques could still improve one's mastery of combat through practice.

Now that he had 20% proficiency in sniping, if he didn't improve it, he might be a step ahead now, but he would soon be overtaken by others.

Therefore, he thought of the virtual world in the medium server. Unlike other sniper armored warriors, he was also a highly skilled Electronic Warfare Specialist. He could completely customize a training environment tailored to himself.

David didn't know how other sniper armored warriors trained. He figured no one else possessed a vast amount of knowledge regarding specialized sniper rifles and the corresponding experience without ever having touched a standard sniper rifle.

What he needed was to constantly train his analytical ability to achieve faster shooting. This required a large amount of real-world environments, which was exactly what David lacked, and the virtual world could provide for him.

David's hands constantly dragged lines of data in the air, making modifications. Buildings in the virtual world disappeared, and the ground was replaced by rocks and dirt.

The urban environment turned into a wilderness under his hands. These were wilderness environments reconstructed based on the knowledge he had obtained; he didn't know if this was the environment of Panshi Planet or perhaps a War Star.

Next, a Spiked Pincer Insect appeared. David had found the virtual image of a Spiked Pincer Insect on Skynet and spent some credits to purchase and download it.

The virtual image included the combat habits of the Spiked Pincer Insect, and once activated, its movements were no different from a real one.

There were many people in the virtual world with various special hobbies, so as long as one had credits, almost anything could be downloaded from Skynet.

However, David soon encountered trouble. He could download the Spiked Pincer Insect, but he couldn't find anything related to the armored warriors on Skynet.

The exoskeleton armor and specialized sniper rifles of sniper armored warriors—he couldn't even search for the names of this equipment on Skynet.

David did not know if this was only the case on Panshi Planet or throughout the entire Interstellar Federation, but given the network environment of Peilan City, he could only search within the Skynet of Panshi Planet.

In the end, having no other choice, David had to make it himself. He lacked the parameters for the Exoskeleton Armor of a Sniper Armored Warrior and the specifications for a specialized sniper rifle, but he did possess the physical T3 Sniper Auxiliary Device.

He used a micro-scanner to scan the exterior and structure of the T3 Sniper Auxiliary Device into the virtual world of the Medium Server, then imported its control program as well. Although he could not manufacture a T3 Sniper Auxiliary Device in reality, he had created an identical virtual item within the virtual world.

David activated the Spiked Pincer Insect, and with a distance of five hundred meters between them, the Spiked Pincer Insect charged toward him.

He then began to calculate and analyze; the random wind direction, temperature, and humidity of the virtual environment were all quickly detected by him through the T3 Sniper Auxiliary Device.

At the moment he simulated firing, the Spiked Pincer Insect froze in place. Because he lacked the data for a real sniper rifle, the trajectory he analyzed appeared as a green line, while the Medium Server simultaneously calculated the most accurate trajectory, which appeared as a red line.

As long as David judged the difference between the green line and the red line, he would know whether he had made the correct judgment.