Chapter 13: Battle Brain
Drake was having a wonderful time right now, about two hours after the conversation with the two men ended he had been writing down the different ways to use battle brain and how he should use it to suit various needs when he heard a knock at his door. He went over to it and when he opened it to no one was there. However in the ground was a silver and dark wood chest that looked to be about the size of your average book. Drake brought it into his house and sat it on the table, he opened it and inside were 2 cards. One was obviously a card with money on it, while the other was a southern union Visa Passport. He checked under a blacklight and when he saw the Southern Union flag on it he knew it was real. He actually commended Justin and his team for getting all of this for him so quickly. He had told them that he would be leaving in 3 days for the southern union to give them time, but they actually did it in 2 hours.
He checked the balance on the card by going to a southern union bank website and setting up an account. He then simply transferred all the currency from the card into the bank account. Drake wanted to be extra careful and signed up for 3 other banks in the area he wanted to settle, splitting the money into 8 pieces. Four banks in that area, with 25 percent of the 7 million he had gained, as well as half of the money put into every bank would also be put into saving accounts. Drake could have just used the card that Justin had given him as it worked with the first bank perfectly fine but he needed to make sure he had options in case Justin ever tried to steal it back. If he grabbed one, it was fine. Drake could lose 1, after all that was 12.5% of it.
Drake smiled and after finishing his notes on the battle brain, he went exercising. He worked out for about 3 hours, really trying to work on his flexibility. Drake knew that even in this situation with Justin hanging over his head, his priority should still be the game. Justin was small fry in comparison to all the things he could do in the future with every little dirty secret the game has. He would most likely die a multi-billionaire, at least that was what he was aiming for.
He went back home and took a shower and was getting ready to go back into the game. He was still thankful that technology had developed enough in his era where he could play the game and be sleeping at the same time. He had heard of the horror stories of the past few generations and how for a lot of people it really mentally screwed them over.
He put the helmet on and went back into the game.
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Drake had come back into the game a little early on purpose, he wanted to get used to having battle brain. He called up the battle brain skill and system notification appeared in front of him.
[System notification: Battle Brain is initiated. Please instruct the two sub brains on their purpose and how to aid you in combat. The A.I. in the sub brains will learn from what you teach them.]
Drake was a little flabbergasted as this was a really impressive skill and should at least be semi-legendary. Drake lamented on the fact that this skill could have easily been a mythical tier skill you get at like level 1000 as part of another war or monster tide. Drake called out to the first battle brain,"Battle brain number 1, from here on out, shall be named [General]. You shall aid in the flow of battle by helping maintain focus, learn attack patterns faster, assist in locating weak points in monsters or enemies, as well as always making sure to be on alert for danger when the main brain is not engaged."
Drake heard in his head "General has arrived, until further instructions or battle, general will maintain defense" Drake felt like suddenly he didn't need to worry about his defense, like there was someone who was watching over him and was making sure he could remain at peace. It was kind of a weird feeling because it also felt like the person was watching them. Drake decided he would just have to get used to the feeling.
Drake called out to the second battle brain,"Battle Brain number 2, from here on out, shall be named [Eco]. You shall aid me in the way of the merchant and the ruler. You shall scour my mind and find any way to increase my wealth and power, whether that be through political actions or military actions or even economic matter pertaining to governing a state or business."
Just like last time Drake heard a very similar voice in his head say,"Eco is here, While Eco is not in use it will scour the hosts memories to compile a database to run on" Drake was now really satisfied, these artificial A.I. may not seem like much but having even 10% more brain power would be a blessing to any player much less 200%.
He backtracked out of the mini boss room and waited for a minute. He heard the door close behind him and suddenly it started glowing. It suddenly made a loud "Ding!" noise. Drake smiled as this was his plan, he wanted to fight the mini-boss 2 or 3 times by himself. This was actually discovered very early on in the game's history in his past life. You could back out of the mini-boss room and it would respawn, however it wouldn't give you exp, money, or skills like when you first cleared it. The only reason people used this was because once you got used to attack patterns you could hone techniques and combo attacks to get better as a solo player or a group. Technically until the boss room is cleared players could in theory spawn a mini-boss infinitely.
Drake opened the door and activated General. He ran towards the still forming heads of the two headed alpaca. Martial guided him as he was fighting the beast, continually getting better with his timings and callouts. "Above you, thrust forward, behind you is the tail, cut along the upper thigh, 45 degree downwards thrust…" Drake followed everything the battle brain was telling him and as time went by Drake felt like he was getting so used to the attack patterns of the beast that it was becoming boring. An uncommon mini-boss in an epic class dungeon… was boring to him? Drake was a little saddened by this realization but steeled himself as surely the second mini-boss would hold way more power than this guy.
Just as Drake finished that thought he activated his spears special thrust enchantment and in one clear thrust put a massive hole in both of the monster necks, killing it instantly. Drake had been recording to see what he could improve on, but decided that he wanted to start making a name for himself in the combat scene. He pulled up the forums on the internet sub-function and wrote a post about how he was looking for feedback on his fighting style. He posted the video and then waited about 2 more hours before checking the replies.
While he waited he faced the mini-boss 1 more time, only getting hit once the entire time. After he dealt with the monster again he pulled the forums up and called the General.
General says,"General here"
Drake responds,"I have shown the other people who we might fight against a video of me defeating that mini-boss with you backing me up, so whether it is bad or good I wish for you to see the response of the other players"
General responded to Drake by saying to him,"Yes Sir"
Drake sighed, it seemed that the A.I. controlling them didn't really have a personality. It was so monotone it sounded dreary. Drake went to the comments and looked at what people were saying to it, because it was one player fighting an uncommon mini-boss by himself; it quickly went viral on the forums. This created the effect that it was popular and was being seen by almost 78 thousand people in the matter of two hours. A lot of people had high praise for Drake and showered him with compliments, however that was not what Drake was looking for. He quickly found it and said,"General look, Beyond the praise there are people who think they know better, your job is to learn what they are trying to teach you and make a better version, do you understand?"
The General responded,"I understand"
Drake sighed,'huh… well I guess its fine, just having the skill is already a blessing i shouldn't get mad at something so minor.'
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