BIOLOGICAL SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM

As Erik entered the room, he immediately jumped onto the bed and lay for a little bit. The young man was disheartened because of his defeat by Nathaniel's hands and could do nothing but think about it. From there, his thoughts quickly trailed on what to do to improve his strength.

It was clear that he needed to train and spar more, but he also needed to hunt more thaids and get more neural links.

This last point was an especially concerning one because if he went to military school by only being SIGMA2, things would be much harder for him.

They would probably force him to train even at night, or worse, they would make his enlisting longer to make him gain more brain crystals.

His thoughts went to his journey. He remembered how he had gained the system, killed his first Thaid, and even leveled up the first time.

Things were not so bad from this perspective. After all, he was somewhat as strong as most of the school's top students, so he could say that he had improved a lot during this month.

The fight he had against the Lomalins during the evening was proof of that. He remembered how hard it was to kill even one and how battling three simultaneously was complicated. Today, though, Erik killed almost 400 of them without even batting an eye.

Then, Erik remembered he still had something to do. After all, he leveled up today, so he still had to distribute his five attribute points.

<System, show me the status...>

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[Host Information]

NAME: Erik Romano

AGE: 16

LEVEL: 13

EXPERIENCE: 6.825/2709

DNA POINTS: 1660

HEALTH: 840/840

MANA: 770 /770

[Attributes]

STRENGTH: 19

INTELLIGENCE: 10

DEXTERITY: 20

ENERGY: 37

Available Attributes point: 5

[Powers]

[Biological Super Computer Powers]

[Host's Powers]

[Skills]

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<Mhmm... things are like that. I feel like my physical stats are already high enough for me to compete inside the Red Palace. Besides, I'm still SIGMA2 on Idor, and my strength is abnormal enough to arouse suspicions. I can blame it on my fake awakening unless I bring my physical stats to higher levels. There is also the problem of my brain crystal; if I keep increasing my energy, my rank will jump to D sooner or later. I don't know if I can give a proper explanation then. However, it is not like I can't increase my stats. I'm forced to do so if I want to leave this damn country...>

Would people believe him if he said his mana increase was due to his awakening? Would they believe that the process didn't stop a month ago?

In the end, Erik decided to keep doing what he was doing but fake having less strength than he really did. However, now it was imperative to increase his dexterity, for it was the most inconspicuous stat of them all, and that would help him learn to fight faster. Lastly, he decided to increase his other stats by mainly making neural links.

He could partially attribute his strength to his double neural links, but he had to be careful. From now on, he was going to try and make them much more than he was currently doing.

The young man then picked up his phone and bought new furniture for his house, so he went on a shopping website dealing with any kind of product. After selecting them, he spent 3000 new dollars on them.

Luckily he had the money he stole from Logan and company so he could afford that much. The furniture was going to arrive in two days, so he had to be there when they did.

After that, Erik went to train. He needed to make as many neural links as possible and decided to sleep a little less during the night and train more. When he finished training, the young man went to back, and the day passed.

In the following days, the tournament went on. Erik went with his friends to watch the matches and cheer Amber and Gwen during their fights.

The next day there were only four matches, Anderson Versus Karl, who saw the first one win without much trouble.

Anderson dominated the match but wasn't as aggressive as when he fought against Floyd. The following match was Natasha Versus Gwen. It saw the latter win by sending Natasha KO, her whip could do nothing about the young woman's armor, so the match ended relatively quickly.

The following two matches saw Nathaniel and Amber win against their respective opponents, with them easily winning the fight and Nathaniel even toying with his opponent.

The following day there were two matches, Anderson Versus Gwen, who saw the first win again by actually using Jacob's tactic, and Nathaniel Versus Amber.

The young woman was better than Nathaniel in terms of martial might, but his power could easily disperse Amber's, so he won the fight in the end. Lastly, the next day, the last match occurred, it was fought between Anderson and Nathaniel.

The match was incredible; Anderson was able to fight equally against Nathaniel until he didn't use his power, but once he did, the difference between the two appeared clear.

Many people wondered how the match would have ended if Anderson could have used his power, yet he didn't; for this reason, he lost.

Then, the other participants had to fight again, Erik included, in order to make a rank. Amber had to fight against Gwen for third place, while the others had to fight against multiple opponents. In the end, Floyd managed to get the fifteenth place, while Erik got the eleventh. It was a surprising result, yet there was no foul play involved.

***

Erik was at his house. The furniture he did buy arrived two days before, and once they did, he profusely thanked Amber and her family and went back to his home. He started sleeping there the previous day when the workers finished setting up the kitchen.

Of course, the young man was already missing Amber's chef cooking, and starting the daily chores again was a bother. That was also the first morning he ate breakfast alone since he wasn't a guest anymore at Amber's house, and he felt a little bit sad.

"At least I can use all my powers in peace..." the young man said to himself.

That morning, Erik woke up early to train. He spent the whole morning training his neural links and even understood how to train selected ones.

He didn't have to risk anymore other powers randomly improving while his main two stagnated. However, he was far from achieving results and he needed to wait more than a month before the biological super computer completed the research about the neural links and gave him a way to train faster.

"Time to practice my martial arts..." the young man said to himself and quickly went to work. After an hour, the usual notification rang inside Erik's mind.

[QUEST COMPLETE.]

The young man was training hard since the following day, he and the others who qualified had to go for the first time to the Red Palace.

Erik didn't know what to expect from the place nor what kind of people he would meet. One thing was sure, though, the place was going to be competitive.

Erik did his research about the place, and there was something that he figured out. First and foremost, thousands of members came from the whole nation. Every person joining the Red Palace got assigned an entry rank, the Peasant one. The full ranks were as follows:

1) EMPEROR

2) KING

3) DUKE

4) MARQUEES

5) EARL

6) VISCOUNT

7) BARON

8) KNIGHT

9) SQUIRE

10) PEASANT

Erik suspected that the ranks were named just to create a disparity between the members, as being a peasant fighter was worse than being an Emperor. He believed it was a choice to humiliate the lower-ranked individuals and push them to climb the power-ranking ladder.

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A.N.: Ok, guys, I wanted to put the status in the author's notes, but unfortunately, there is a character limit there, and I can't do it. The alternative would be to make an auxiliary chapter, but then to read it, you should close the chapter and go to the auxiliary volume. This would be a huge hassle, so I won't do that either unless you all agree with it.

For now, I decided to only report a compact version of the screen. But it won't always be like this when i need to show new powers. I don't know, let me know what you think. The most reasonable thing to do would be to make an auxiliary chapter, but I will wait for your feedback before taking action.