The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 16: new visual system.

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[storage capacity successfully upgraded.

New communication system successfully implemented.]

Twelve hours passed, Adam felt a mental fatigue like never before. He knew it would be hard, but he almost lost his mind, being unable to move for 12 hours while completely conscious made him feel like a prisoner in his own body. 

Time didn't seem to pass at all, the 12 hours felt like a few days. 

The first thing he did was ask the system core about the guest, it informed him that she is asleep, Adam was disappointed, he hoped she would get bored and leave, doesn't seem to be happening though. 

After a long time not moving, Adam was eager to test his new body, the moment he stood up, a very odd thing happened to him, something in the corner of his vision made him flinch. "what is this!!" he wondered looking at the circular black object shining with a dim yellow light, it reminded him of a certain terrifying night. 

[the new visual system derived from virtual games, includes skills, abilities, statistics, and more, using the new system and outside materials, the host can benefit from synchronized abilities with minimal distress.]

'virtual games…' Adam's voice dragged. 'was the network a bad influence on you! I thought you gonna have sh*t load of useful knowledge! You played virtual games instead?!' he was disappointed. 

Instead of answering, the symbiote opened his status window on the visual system, it started explaining what Adam was looking at.

[strength stat: monitors the overall score of muscle density, bone tolerance, body mass.

Current strength: 20.

Stamina stat: monitors the overall score of stress tolerance and fatigue. 

Current Stamina: 20.

Vitality stat: monitors the overall score of all internal functions. 

Current vitality: 20.

Energy stat: monitors the stored energy, the unrefined energy, the maximum capacity. 

Current energy: 13/200.] 

Adam kept looking at them for a while, he didn't know how to react to this change, he played some virtual games before, he just didn't like them, even though they were almost as real as reality, it was a game in the end. 

Now the symbiote made him feel like he is in a virtual game. 'do I revive if I die as well!?' he asked in a sarcastic tone. 

[Insufficient data… 

Synchronization incomplete… 

Testing required…] 

'you became too smart!' he sighed. 'like f*k I'm gonna test that.' 

To test his body strength Adam went back to the system core area, where the other 3 boxes still on the ground. "Combat training routine." He ordered the system while stretching his muscles, before he was sent to the orphanage, he did this routine every single day. 

training routine and health care functions are all part of the main home system, Adam discovered this when he was 7 years old, the system creates training robots out of the cluster fabric connected to it, and they can fight on multiple levels. 

"survival mode." he ordered. this mode will keep Making robots, and as they get destroyed, the difficulty will increase until the subject could no longer fight. 

the default combat training system would not injure the subject, the robots will just try to immobilize him. 

Adam used to survive to Level 3, then the robots would gang up on him, hugging him to death. 

As the training routine started, the floor formed ripples sending the boxes and everything else to the corners, then a gray head emerge from the gray floor, less than a second 3 robots the same shape and size as Adam were heading towards him. 

[a fighting style available. Modified for the host by combining all available fighting techniques on the network.]

'what the… why didn't you tell me earlier!!' Adam ran away from the robots as he screamed. "stop the training routine…" if he didn't run first the active robots would already be on top of him before he could give the order.

in training routines the floor would become endless, as the fabric beneath him would move keeping him in place no matter how fast he runs, and he found himself running very fast.

When he found this speed new to him he was distracted, he increased his running speed as far as he can. "full monitoring." He shouted while running, a screen appeared in front of him showing a few numbers. 

Time: 42 seconds. 

Speed: 72.5 kilometers/hour

Distance: 845.833 meters 

Heart rate: 216 heart beat/minute

Adam was so thrilled and amazed, the maximum recorded speed of unmodified humans is under 60 kph, He is running faster than the current world record holder, his heart rate is normal as well, which indicates that he is not stressing his body at the moment. 

Wanting to figure out his limit, Adam asked. "what is the maximum movement speed of the floor?!" to answer him, the core brought out another screen showing the statistics of the connected cluster fabric, and highlighting the response speed and movement speed. 

Cluster fabric model: G5-20. 

Response speed: 0.0001 seconds. 

Adaptive movement speed: 200 kph.

"well lets see how fast I can get then." He said while not panting.

He is feeling free from all his previous limitations and shackles, his heart is beating Rhythmically as if nothing can interrupt its rhythm, his muscles exploding with power the moment it hits the floor making small dents in the cluster fabric with each step, the cluster fabric forever holding its own against this power, his hand cutting through the air like a sharp knife, his lungs cleansing the air out of oxygen like an angry void. He feels free. 

As he kept running his speed didn't increases beyond 76 kph, suddenly, the new visual system  activated a weird alert, a caution message appeared in front of him, it didn't distract him nor obstructing his vision, it just floated there. 

[energy: 6%.]