Swallowed Star: Time Simulation
Chapter 40

A Difficult Choice

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"Current simulations remaining: 1. Begin the life simulation now?"

"Yes!" Yang Wu immediately gave the command in his mind.

At once, a line of text appeared on the Simulator panel before Yang Wu.

"The characters in the life simulation are created by the Simulator itself. Their memories differ from the host's, so please proceed with caution."

"Choose the simulated character's personality."

"1. Steady; 2. Selfish; 3. Cruel."

"Why are the choices different from last time? I remember there was only one negative personality trait, 'greedy,' last time, but now there are two. When I simulate again, will all three options be negative traits?" Yang Wu felt a little worried.

In Yang Wu's view, both selfishness and cruelty were negative traits.

Looking at the three options before him, Yang Wu wasn't sure which one to choose.

He had originally planned to choose a personality like "brave," but this time the options were all rather poor.

Yang Wu quickly ruled out "selfish" and "cruel," because he had no idea what kind of experiences he would have in the Simulator if he chose either of them.

That left only "steady."

Choosing "steady" would slow his improvement, but with no other options, he had no choice.

After thinking it over, Yang Wu chose the steady personality.

Next, a large amount of text began appearing on the Simulator panel.

[At 24, already an Elementary War General, you joined the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and became a member of the Phantom Squad, an elite-level War General squad. On your first trip to the Wilderness Area, you performed well. Your Movement Technique reached Micro-Level, and you mastered the first level of the Ultimate Spear Art, World Destroyer.]

[After returning from the Wilderness Area to the Base City, you were buying the manual for the second level of World Destroyer when Wu Tong happened to discover you. When he learned that you had already mastered the first level of the spear art, he was delighted and informed Zhuge Tao, a manager at the Extreme Martial Arts Hall. After assessing your strength and receiving your consent, Zhuge Tao submitted an application for you to join the Global Elite Training Camp.]

[In early October, you passed the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's A-rank test and became a member of the Elite Training Camp. With guidance from War God-level instructors, your spear art, Movement Technique, and various practical skills and experience all improved rapidly. This year, you ranked around 170th on the Black Dragon Ranking List.]

[At 25, after a year of hard work, you successfully broke through to the Intermediate War General level. Your Movement Technique and spear art improved greatly.]

[Your friend Luo Feng also joined the Elite Training Camp. However, his ranking on the Black Dragon Ranking List soon surpassed yours, and in September, he became the Inspector of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall in Jiangnan Base City. Still, with your mindset helping you, this didn't affect you at all. You continued to grow in the Elite Training Camp. This year, you ranked around 130th on the Black Dragon Ranking List.]

[At 26, after another year of cultivation, you successfully broke through to the Advanced War General level with the help of the Gravity Chamber. Later, during a duel against another trainee, your spear art reached Perfect Level.]

[The Extreme Martial Arts Hall suddenly announced that your friend Luo Feng had died. You were devastated. This year, your name finally reached double digits on the Black Dragon Ranking List, ranking around 90th.]

[At 27, your strength improved very slowly that year. You finally felt how difficult it was to break through to the War God level. Trainees behind you kept surpassing you in the rankings.]

[You suddenly felt that the Training Camp was no longer the right place for you. With the help of your friend Luo Feng, who had come back from the dead and become an Inspector of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, you became a manager for the Extreme Martial Arts Hall in Jiangnan Base City.]

[At 28, a terrifying monster suddenly appeared on Earth. Humanity's powerful fighters were helpless, and under the monster's leadership, countless sea monsters began attacking human Base Cities. As an Advanced War General-level fighter, you naturally had to help the army fight off the Beast Tide. Surrounded by several high-level Beast Generals, your Movement Technique reached Perfect Level, your World Destroyer spear art broke through to its second level, and your force reached three times your strength.]

[Humanity finally held back the Beast Tide and eliminated the terrifying monster. However, many of humanity's powerful fighters, including your friend Luo Feng, all perished.]

[At 29, your physical strength improved very slowly. More than two years had passed, yet you still hadn't reached the peak of the Advanced War General level. At that time, the global situation changed drastically because several powerful fighters had fallen. To prepare for the crisis, you spent your entire fortune on a bottle of Dragon Blood and became a Primary War God.]

[Your friend Luo Feng suddenly reappeared, and Hong and Thunder God, who had been unconscious, also awoke. Order on Earth was restored, and you continued to focus on your cultivation.]

[At 30, you continued to cultivate diligently. Although your strength improved slowly, it kept growing.]

[An extraterrestrial civilization suddenly arrived, and countless powerful fighters appeared on Earth. You could only hide in the survival base that your friend Luo Feng had commissioned in the universe.]

[Just as the extraterrestrial civilization was about to wreak havoc across the globe, Luo Feng suddenly became Earth's legal owner. The extraterrestrial civilization's fleet had no choice but to leave, and you returned from the survival base to your villa.]

[The castle belonging to Luo Feng's family, not far from your home, suddenly came under a powerful attack. You were struck by the shockwave of one of the attacks and died on the spot.]

"Huh, I actually survived the calamity caused by the Golden Horned Beast this time?"

"An extraterrestrial civilization? It's just the family of a Universe-level fighter!"

Seeing that he had lived to 30 in the simulation, only to be killed by the shockwave from a battle between Star Level fighters of the Nuolanshan Family, Yang Wu felt rather pleased.

But after his excitement came a headache.

Yang Wu truly hadn't expected that, without various treasures to help him, his Genetic Origin Energy would improve so slowly.

"No wonder there are so few War God-level fighters on Earth right now," Yang Wu thought with a sigh.

Each Base City had well over 2,000 new fighters every year. There were five major powers worldwide, as well as 23 Base Cities, so nearly 100,000 new fighters emerged each year.

Yet from the beginning of the Grand Nirvana until now, over nearly forty years, humanity had produced only a little over 3,000 War God-level fighters—less than one in a thousand of all fighters!

"Humanity's ninth-tier bloodline talent really does make cultivation incredibly difficult!"

"But which one should I choose?"

[Simulation complete. You may choose one of the following rewards.]

[1. Your martial cultivation at age 30.]

[2. Your martial insights at age 30.]

[3. Your life experiences from the simulation.]

Yang Wu immediately ruled out the third reward. But choosing between the first and second was genuinely difficult.

If he chose the second reward, Yang Wu would immediately comprehend Perfect-Level spear art and Movement Technique, while his Force Application Technique would also break through to three times his strength. He would instantly become a true genius, likely ranking near the top even in the Elite Training Camp.

But through the experiences in the Simulator, Yang Wu had also learned how difficult it was to attain War God-level physical strength.

It had taken nearly five years of dedicated cultivation, along with the help of a bottle of Dragon Blood, for Yang Wu to attain the physical strength of a Primary War God. It was hard for him to give that up.

If he chose the first reward, Yang Wu would immediately become one of the rare War God-level fighters. With his current techniques, it wouldn't be difficult to establish himself among the Primary War Gods. If he chose the second reward, however, he would become a true genius and find it easy to enter the Elite Training Camp.

Faced with these two choices, Yang Wu hesitated.

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