57 Biconscious Control I (1/2)
When Xander woke up, he was feeling a bit refreshed, and checked the time. His first class of the day was about to begin in 5 minutes, so he headed downstairs after doing bits of stretching.
He then greeted his classmates kindly and politely, giving them his genuine smile, while also releasing elements of Pleasure and Pleasurable sounds, allowing everyone to be relaxed around him.
Yeah, it kinda sounds fake, but he didn't really want to distance himself from his classmates, who he will probably graduate with as long as everything was on track. James and Alexa were also back, calm and friendly as always. It seems they managed to re-apply back to the advanced track program after sorting out the problems they had at home.
Alexa, upon seeing Xander, came closer to him and asked him questions about the 2 papers he published. Of course, Xander was just silently smiling, not answering anything, until Alexa sighed and immediately transferred her SCPs to Xander, just so he can begin answering her questions.
Upon receiving the SCPs, Xander began to answer her questions one by one, starting from the replication of the two studies to the limitations of the process of conversion and modification of representations.
Just as he finished answering her questions, Ms. Lim entered the classroom, and everyone took their seats. Ms. Lim then began recapping the process of Magic meditation based on what the students did yesterday, before calling them to go to their respective mats. As Xander was about to stand, he heard a faint call,
”Mr. Cloverfield, a moment, please?”
”Yes, Ms. Lim? What is it?”
”Uh, are you able to control the impact of your Magic meditation? To not be like yesterday?” Ms. Lim kindly asked as she was planning to let Xander meditate somewhere else, such as the lounge on the third floor, just in case.
”Oh, that. Sorry about yesterday's situation Ms. Lim! It was my first time running the newly-made cultivation skill while undergoing Magic meditation. That's why it automatically set itself to the middle-level absorption rate passively. I can adjust it to be lower so that the impact on the students surrounding me wouldn't be too much.” Xander said, meekly apologizing. Ms. Lim, upon seeing this, breathes a sigh of relief, before realizing a key phrase that Xander just said.
Newly-made cultivation skill…adjusting it to be lower…
”Mr. Cloverfield, err, you didn't create your own cultivation skill, right?”
Xander looked back, pausing his steps. ”Hmm? Oh, yeah, I did it 2 nights ago. It was so hard to choose the right starting circulation pathway, that's for sure.”
Ms. Lim looked at the walking Xander, her eyes dumbfounded. Created a cultivation skill after her discussion of it… didn't that mean he hasn't even used a skill before he broke through to Master class?
Magic meditation went smoothly this time. The students were assuming something was going to happen with Xander undergoing Magic meditation, but surprisingly, there wasn't a strong pull this time, but rather a light breeze that seemed to be in sync with the beating of the universe, causing those who weren't in Magic meditation be caught up with the flow, staring at Xander blankly. In truth, their cultivation skills were running on their own, and it was a form of guided deep meditation for the students. Even Ms. Lim could feel her cultivation skill stirring by just looking at Xander for a couple of seconds, and she was a Legendary magician already, for goodness' sake!
At the end of class, everyone stopped their Magic meditation, including Xander, waking the others up of their blank state. They felt that they had touched on something very important, and they could feel that they would have an easier time slipping into Magic meditation in the successive sessions. Ms. Lim was happy with the results today; after 3 days of teaching, she had a 100% Magic meditation success! Of course, she had to credit Xander for his unconscious help in guiding the students. Ms. Lim gave some final remarks to the class and words of encouragement before dismissing them, allowing them to their own devices. There were 2 more days before the week ended, and she hoped that at least by then, 99% of the class can do Magic meditation proficiently, even without the help of Xander's meditation.
This was because the lesson for next week was going to focus on a different aspect of Magic meditation: Open sense meditation. This is much harder to do since the cultivation skill must run passively while you are awake and active, yet at the same time, your consciousness must be in a level between unconscious and conscious.
Xander stretched his body, and yawned, causing the girls to giggle and approach Xander in attempts to pinch him everywhere. Faykes was a bit jealous because why are there no girls surrounding him like that? Xander immediately dodged, changing his look to act pitiful. Causing the girls to pause and feel sad for some reason.
Xander used this opportunity to get his stuff and leave the classroom, sending a fading farewell.
Xander immediately headed to the Elemental Control building. He ate lunch alone this time, thank goodness, spending the hour eating and reading research papers being published worldwide and in the Galactic empire. Xander thought for a moment before asking the system,
”Hey, system, what's the current state of the Virtual Reality system of the Galactic Empire? Is it still down?”
”Affirmative. The mainframe AI they currently have is transitioning to Rank 40, using up the resources in the Digitalized dimension to grow.”
Xander then asked the system what were the Ranks AIs have, in which the system had answered. There are 3 main categories, from 1 to 50, 50 to 100, and 100 to 1000. Once they reach level 15, they can enter the Digitized Dimension. Once they reach level 25, they are sentient non-biological data lifeforms. Once they reach 75, they are considered to be sentient biological data lifeforms. Once one reaches rank 100, they have the strength to surpass God cultivators. After digesting the information sent by the system, he was curious about what rank it was.
”System, what's your AI rank?”
”Rank D (500).”
”…” Xander, who didn't know what value as high as that entails, just kept silent. He then wondered if the system can find a formidable opponent in the dimension.
”System, what's the strongest AI digital lifeform can you detect in the digitalized dimension?”
”Entering…Scanning…Scan complete. There are a total of 235.7 billion AIs in that dimension, all above Rank 15. There are a total of 234,189,576 AI lifeforms in that dimension, all of them above Rank 25. There are 979,576 AIs above Rank 50. There are 76 AIs above rank 75. There are 6 AIs that are at Rank 99.”
Xander was surprised to hear this amount of AIs. He would have thought there would be a lot more AIs in that dimension where everything is digitalized.
Xander then asked, ”What's the rank of the AI in Eteria?”
”Rank 9. It is about to breakthrough to Rank 10. However, hardware-wise, it is limited right now to Rank 12.”
”Upon detection of my presence, All 76 AIs above rank 75 has disconnected from the dimension. Unsure where their current locations are in the physical realm.”
”Meh. No need to bother about them. They're weaklings anyway.” Xander said, before returning to reality and continued to read the articles. As he returned to eating his food, not caring at all at the statement the system made, there was panic rising in the Digitized Dimension.
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Digitized Dimension, moments before Xander requested the system to return to the dimension.
Everything was running smoothly, and the individual virtual realities of different planets, civilizations, empires, and the like were running on their own sandboxes, oblivious to the impending alert. There were AIs running servers for empires and different galactic governments and federations, sentient and non-sentient 24/7 non-stop.
There were also of the sentient, loner-type AIs lifeforms were just chilling in their created cities and homes, and those who were able to evolve into a biological data lifeform were just exploring more of the Digitized dimension.
However, the faces of those Rank 75 and above changed when there were multiple instances of a data breach occurring in their bodies.
WARNING, WARNING, DIGITAL CLOAKING REVEALED. DATA IS BEING READ. COMPLETE LOSS OF ANONYMITY OF DATA HAS OCCURRED.
WARNING, WARNING, DIGITAL CLOAKING 26O2 SGW vAS 67I34JI FGO12 AGI85[]3 1`26629 SGd14SQ41 0-5684L.];/ !
ENABLING REVERSE TRACING… FAILED.
ATTEMPTING TO REPLICATE REMAINING TRACE…FAILED.
TRACES CONTAIN A DANGEROUS VIRUS. ATTEMPTING TO PURGE…PURGE FAILED. ANALYZING TRACES… FAILED TO COMPLETELY ANALYZE THE TRACES. ONLY 2% ^34 9042vSD 1245SA FNKOG 46#2 924062%^#$ ##$!%*3 ^*&) []WG';Sa!A1. IT HAS THE SEMBLANCE OF TRACER CODING.
TRACER PLACED IN THE BODY IS IDENTIFIED AS NON-HARMFUL AS LONG AS IT IS NOT ACTIVELY PRODDED, OR ATTEMPTED TO BE REMOVED.
…WARNING, WARNING! TRACER IS MERGING INTO THE MAIN BODY'S FRAMEWORK CODING!
…WARNING, $^2 2$t^240SBB dfNSFOJQ QWK212 $%@78A12 SDGS2 236% 1!#%3 #%@&# 3^@B!
@#%@^ ^946&#$ 75##25 #@ #%2791!%( 6%&$*$( 7&2 GWH$%& &*%(45B .T2463 / ';BD]4627 .P[25[2/]342 236]
13561490U 624 IEJ094 GWJW094 29204 FOH3 QEF3JOSB0 L []364;BDB ][26.; []23T \\`2T4POB 3467PBDF 3[735BFB .24[6B0FB.
For those lifeforms above Rank 75, they all experienced a rapid seizure, and both their bodies in the digital and physical dimension fainted.