More than thirty days had passed since Head Instructor Turan arrived in the orbit of the black hole. In fact, he was going to send teacher Ayla himself instead, but he have had to come here upon Dean Noyan's order.
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All the materials and equipment for the virtual training were collected. Four of the existing virtual training rooms were dismantled. Mana blocking stones have been packed. All of them were brought to the portal room without leaving anything out.
Finally, when the two humanoid war robots and the assigned personnel arrived in the portal room, they all passed through the portal together and were transferred to the first warning and control center.
Head Instructor Turan was the first to set foot in the cave with his protective suit. Right behind him, two humanoid war robots were standing behind him, armed with weapons. Other personnel came to the cave by pushing the equipment and materials in boxes that were slightly above the ground and floating.
Everyone wore protective suits because they were not sure if the device Chief Baran had set up was working. One of the technicians went forward and checked the device Chief Baran had placed. The device was working. He looked at the device in his hand to make sure, and this device also showed that this place was safe.
Despite the fear of being left unprotected, the staff gathered all his courage and unlocked the hood of his protective suit, opening it slightly ajar. There was no pressure change or temperature difference between the inside and outside of the suit.
He slowly took a few short breaths of the cave air. There was no danger. Everything was as it should be. He calmly took off his protective hood and protective suit and put them aside.
The others who followed him also took off their protective suits and put them aside. This place was safe now. It was an isolated cave whose gravity, air and pressure were adjusted. All the personnel gathered together and acted according to the previously prepared plan.
According to the plan, mana inhibiting stones had to be laid on the cave floor first. Therefore, all the materials brought were placed in the far corner of the cave. On the remaining empty floor of the cave, jade-like mana inhibiting stones with dark green veins were taken out of their special boxes and laid on the floor.
Although there was no change in the officers and technicians who could not use mana, this was not the case for Head Instructor Turan. He felt strange because his mana had suddenly been taken away from him.
It was as if a thief had stolen his most valuable asset. His body trembled involuntarily and a restlessness filled his heart. Since he had never participated in physical combat training, he had no combat power other than his mana.
Since he could not use his element, he saw himself naked and defenseless. The people here were stronger warriors than him in every way. Look at these technicians. They worked hard every day to build muscle for themselves. Among all these personnel, he was the only one who was weak and frail.
It took him two days to mentally adjust to this situation and accept his powerlessness. In the end, he was wandering roam around like ordinary people without worrying about anything. Fortunately, all of the people here were ordinary people. None of them were superior to the other. Time passed quickly when everyone was immersed in their own work…
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Cube-shape virtual rooms were placed opposite the portal. Then another room was added between the virtual rooms and the portal. When the students passed through the portal and completed the transfer process, this would be the first room they would enter.
Thanks to this room, they would not encounter anyone and would be able to go to their own virtual training rooms. Entering the virtual training would be like going from one room to another.
After the connection of the virtual rooms to the main server and the testing processes were completed in six days, the transfer process of the students was started. Now, Head Instructor Turan had to arrange the virtual training for the students who would arrive in twenty-five days.
He locked himself in his room and took the personal information files that Teacher Ayla had prepared for each student. After about half an hour, he closed Eiderd's personal file, which he had read carefully.
It would be good if Eiderd's arrogance and self-importance were toned down a little. He smiled slyly and started working on creating a military virtual training program for Eiderd.
Being the lowest-level soldier would be a good development for Eiderd. He would understand what it felt like how it felt to be scolded by someone for no reason and to have to obey orders even if he didn't want to.
After four days, when Eiderd's program was finished, he began to prepare a training program for Turiel. For this elf girl who was quite talented in using a bow, becoming a teacher at the royal academy would be a good option. The development of her leadership and decision-making skills was ideal for her.
After Tauriel's program was over, he started Demir's program. This boy had managed to get through the sadistic teachers without being damaged too much. But his mindset did not have the right direction for a warrior. Moreover, it was not clear whether the trauma from his past had healed or not.
Head Instructor Turan thought carefully and decided to implement the plan he had in mind, even if it was dangerous. He prepared a primitive way for Demir's education without much intrigue. If everything went well, Demir would have overcome the trauma. All that was left was point of view manipulation.
When he finally finished creating the task, he started to prepare Durualp's training program. This boy was an interesting person. It was not clear whether he was good or bad. Sometimes he was very friendly. Sometimes he was someone who did things behind the scenes.
But it was a fact that this boy's combat skills were much lower than the others. He made his decision and prepared an intensive and challenging combat training program for him. A year of training would be good for him.
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Head Instructor Turan divided the two-year virtual training process into three. Their first training would last three months. Then a three-month break and then the second training. After this training, which would last six months, they would take another three-month break. Then would come their third and final training. And this training would be a real-time virtual world training that would last nine months.
The day adjustment for the first two tasks was such that one day in the real world equals four days in the virtual world. There would be no time difference in their third and final tasks. It was a training that would take place in real time.
At the end of a long study, he checked the tasks he had prepared one last time. After making corrections in a few places, he took the tasks he had prepared with him and took them to the engineers responsible for the virtual training.
Head Instructor Turan wandered around the virtual rooms while the engineers created the necessary virtual worlds according to the story. These rooms that were necessary for virtual training were just a shell. It was the main server that did the work. About fifteen years after they took over the ship, the idea for this virtual world had emerged.
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The ship that Dean Noyan seized turned into a treasure that everyone on the planet envied. As time went by, they began to have a very hard time because of the powerful who wanted to seize this treasure. Finally, Dean Noyan had to make concessions about the ship.
After long discussions, they decided to share the most unnecessary thing on the ship, the ship's game system. But this sharing took place in the interest of Dean Noyan.
He could access the information of everyone who connected to the virtual world. In this way, he had gathered a lot of information about his potential enemies. But this did not last very long.
Eventually, a few in power argued that the virtual world should be under everyone's collective control, not Dean Noyan's. This idea grew stronger over time, and eventually Dean Noyan was forced to subtract the virtual world's main server from the ship.
They created a new area in the kingdom capital for the main server and declared it independent territory for all nations and power holders who wanted to use the virtual world.
There was limited access time to the virtual world due to too much demand. There were only twenty virtual rooms against to the tens of thousands of people who wanted to use the virtual world.
No matter how much the powers that be insisted, Dean Noyan had not given them any more rooms, but that day this had changed. There were forty virtual rooms in one of the warehouses they left behind when they left their planet by ship to save their lives.
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Head Instructor Turan, remembering the past while looking at the virtual rooms, finally came to his senses. He took a card out of his pocket and held the card in his hand to the flashing green light behind the virtual room to get the information of the students who had been in virtual training for a day. The green light turned blue as the card approached, and after about three seconds it started to glow green again.
To the right of this green light, there was also a yellow light that flashed at certain intervals. The box to which the yellow light was connected contained the energy capsules that the students would need while in virtual training.
These capsules contained all the nutrients, minerals and vitamins that the body needed. When used, they disappeared into the body without leaving any residue behind. For three months, these capsules were the children's only food source. When the yellow light turned red, the energy capsules had to be changed.
Head Instructor Turan went through each virtual room one by one, took their records and checked the light of the food capsules. Fortunately, since the capsules in all the rooms had just been placed, there was no change in the yellow light.
Head Instructor Turan, who returned to his room after taking the daily progress records, calmly sat down at his desk. In the four days that passed in the virtual world, all the students should have progressed in the story and started training.
Eiderd should have registered for military service and started the first day of training. Tauriel should have gathered her students as a teacher and should have been giving them their first lesson. Demir should have started training under the red orc chief. Durualp should have started training as a student of a famous martial artist.
He opened Eiderd's recording with expectant eyes and watched it quickly. There was no problem with the story progression. Everything was happening as he planned. Then he watched Tauriel's recording. Tauriel's story was also as it should be. He opened Durualp's recording. There was no problem with that either. Finally, he opened Demir's recording.
On the first day of the story, Demir was supposed to encounter the four-eyed bear and kill it. In fact, it was not very important that the bear died. It was enough for him to touch the bear, but when he saw Demir fall down the cliff with the bear, he quickly got up from his chair.
How could this be? There was no question of a four-eyed bear falling off a cliff in the scenario he wrote. So why did this happen? Something he couldn't make sense of had happened in the virtual world. So why? Only engineers could know why something like this happened.
Watching the battle scene with the bear again, Head Instructor Turan thought that engineers might be behind this. But then he quickly gave up on this idea. Because there was nothing wrong with the other students' stories. If engineers had such ulterior motives, they could mess with other students too.
While indecision surrounded Turan, he took the virtual training file he had written for Demir. He stood up and stopped suddenly just as he was about to leave the room. It was long past midnight. Now there was only one person watching the virtual rooms. The others had already left their watches and gone to bed.
He couldn't ask the person on duty to quit his job and take care of himself. Thinking, "The other engineers will come in the morning. It would be better to bring up the subject when they are all together," he gave up going and went to his desk and continued watching the recording where he left off. In the changed story, the first two days went smoothly, but on the last day, the caravan was ambushed. Although the warriors in the caravan had close friendships and protected each other like the red orcs, their swordsmanship and acting in unity were much more skillful than the red orcs.
When the battle progressed a little, the sudden change in Demir surprised Head Instructor Turan. Demir's determination was on another level when he attacked the bandits. There was no hesitation or fear in his movements.
He didn't know if this was because the story had changed, but there was something different about the Demir now than the Demir he knew. When he watched the video recording to the end, it was already morning.
In fact, since every part of this cave was illuminated with artificial lighting, it didn't matter whether it was morning, noon, or evening. They just turned off some of the lights at night, depending on what they were used to. Other than that, it was not possible to tell the difference between night and day.
Head Instructor Turan looked at the clock and left his room with his files. When he arrived at the engineers' room, he knocked softly on the door. In this room there were three engineers responsible for the virtual rooms. Two of them worked during the day, while the other worked at night. The three of them worked together only from morning to noon.
When he entered, the lives of the four students in the virtual world were shown live on the opposite wall. Right below were the instant indicators, graphics and status information of the virtual rooms.
While the Head Instructor Turan was immersed in the live broadcast, the responsible head engineer was quite angry at this situation. Without getting up from where he was sitting, he leaned towards his friend next to him and spoke quietly but angrily.
- Here it comes again, the primitive creature whose type I fucked. Go and see what he wants. If he wants something ridiculous, send him away. I don't want him here.
- Shhh. Calm down. Do you want to die... Okay, I'll handle it. You wait quietly.
The AI systems engineer stood up from his seat and walked towards Head Instructor Turan, who was watching the live broadcast. Meanwhile, he touched the gray color automatic language translator that looked like a tiny earring on his ear.
- Good morning. Welcome. How can I help you?
- (Head Instructor Turan came to when he heard the engineer's voice and handed the file in his hand to the engineer's.) Hello. I think one of my students has a problem with the story progression. The progression of the story is not as I wrote it. I wonder if there was a skip somewhere?
- What does he mean... I mean, let's go to my desk (pointing to his desk with his hand) and see where the mistake is... Here you go, please.
They both sat at the desk and watched the video recording. The engineer who stopped the video recording at the point of deviation checked the system codes and software layout.
He started the recording again and then stopped it again. He checked the system codes and software layout again. After doing this process twice more, he turned to the Head Instructor Turan.
- As you can see, there is no error in the system. It works very well. The change in the progress of the story has not changed the essence of the story.
There is no deviation in the training you prepared for your student. Your student can continue his education in the virtual environment.
- (Head Instructor Turan turned his gaze from the writings he could not understand to the engineer.) Can't it progress as I wrote? I don't want the story to change this way. Can't we fix this?
- Sir, our AI system, that is, our artificial intelligence, has the most advanced technology. It can create virtual worlds by considering all possibilities and without changing the main theme of the story you wrote. While doing this, it accesses all the user's information.
Our artificial intelligence seems to have analyzed your student's body structure and physical condition and shaped the story according to your student. In other words, it has created the best education program for your student.
Are you sure you really want to change the story? But know that intervening in the story from the outside can harm your student. If you take responsibility for what will happen, we can change the virtual education right now.
Although the Head Instructor Turan AI did not understand anything the system engineer said, he could not ignore the fact that Demir could be harmed and gave up on the change request. It was unclear how Dean Noyan would react if he harmed Demir again.
- Okay. If you say it is better for our student, let's not change it. But I also want to stay here and observe the education live. Would that be a problem for you?
- Sir, staying here will do nothing but hinder us. You distract our attention. And our distraction can cause us to skip the work we need to do. In such a case, your students could really be harmed.
- (Turan could not insist on staying there any longer against the engineer's determined stance. He looked at the live broadcasts of the virtual training one last time.) Well then... I'll go then.
- I wish you a good day. Goodbye, sir.
The engineers gathered together as the Head Instructor Turan left the room.
- What does this primitive creature want? It hasn't left us alone since we arrived...
- Calm down a bit. How many times do I have to tell you? You should act like an engineer. Thoughtful and calm...
- What engineer are you talking about? It took us three months to even explain to these primitive creatures that we are engineers. We are nothing but workers in the eyes of these men.
I studied mechatronic engineering for twelve years, but what did I get? Damn the commander who assigned me to this ship. May the my tongue that says yes to the task be stung by a bumblebee.
Supposedly this journey was going to be a huge adventure. What a big lie... Instead of adventure we found our trouble. We came all this way and finally fell into the hands of these primitive creatures...
- Ufff... Apparently you won't be wise. If they get inside now, maybe then you'll realize what you've done... Come to your senses... You know Aister is under their command, right?
- It wouldn't do if you didn't remind me of that son of a bitch... If he hadn't given the ship's code, we would never have been in such a situation. We're in this situation because of that traitorous, dishonorable, bastard son of a bitch...
- Enough! You both talk too much. Don't forget that there are cameras everywhere and Aister is recording everything. Get back to work...