3 Chapter 2: A.I.
To thoroughly understand his situation, Lee started questioning AI voiced in his head.
"I now understand why you are inside of my head. What is your name?" Lee asked.
(--As I mentioned to you previously, I too just awakened--) she responded dejectedly.
(--You can give me a name--), before Lee could make his statement, she replied eagerly like her emotion turned 180 degrees around.
"Mmmmm...", Lee answered while thinking of a good name for her.
Lee hammered his hand with his fist, "What about S*r*."
(--Definitely not, she and I are not the same--)
"Well, both of you guys are assistance"
(--I am a beautiful, sexy, mature, and intelligent assistant...Compare to her, I am sentimental--)
She dropped the main point of her existence.
"What about Ai? It sounds pretty good. When I first heard you speaking in my head, I thought you were Artificial Intelligence. So what do you think." Lee asked to confirm.
(--Oh, you want to name me after your first crush who moved away during middle school?--) She replied with a question.
"Hey stop reading my memories! If you don't like it, I can think of a different name. What about..." Lee never talked about it, but his first crush was a girl who never interacted with him after she left.
(--I loved it--) Ai said.
"What?" Lee responded in surprise.
(--In Chinese, ai mean, Love--It's like you called me 'Love' when you said my name--hehe--Do you want me to be your lover that much--Mr. Lonely guy--) Ai grinned in her robotic voice.
(--Now, say my name--) She demanded.
"Stop playing around, I have more questions to ask."
(--You are no fun--) Ai said.
To his curiosity, Lee asked another question. "Why do you sound robotic?"
Ai answered, (--I thought you might like it--In his situation, I appear like the system's assistant like MC normally get in the novels that you read--
('What about now'), A girly voice sounded in Lee's head.
"It is good," Lee replied.
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According to Ai, normally, for his bloodline to awaken, it required deer meat, the main reactor, and dark blood of any kind. In his instance, Lee used Three Legs Crow as the compound to merge with the deer blood. That was why the fluids inside the pot were alive and assailed him. Luckily for him, due to his high endurance toward the pain, also because of what he had experienced throughout his life, he was able to maintain his sanity.
The Three Legs Crow was known as The Dark Emperor Yi who came from another dimension to escape from his enemy, according to the little memories that Ai received from the Dark Emperor. Luckily for Lee at the time, the Dark Emperor had used all his power during the battle and consumed his life force just to escape to another dimension. That was why he had fallen under Lee's bullet, from air-rifle. What bad luck he might have.
It is uncommon for Three Legs Crow to be in the mortal world but, throughout history, they did make their presence in front of humans. Even up to these days, many people still revere them as God.
As for Ai herself, every time when the owners awaken their bloodline, one of her sisters will awaken with them. They were known as Yenyo(1), which means the king's shadow. They meant to serve as the second mind of their partners. If the partner dies, they also vanish into existence with them.
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('So there you have it') Ai said.
Lee was still trying to organize all the information he acquired from Ai. After a while, he came up with his own questions to ask about his current situation.
"Ai, can you inform me why we are in the world of One Piece?" Lee asked.
('I know what you are trying to ask. The One Piece was created by Oda Eiichiro, released as manga serialization in 1997 up to now, so how can you be inside the creation of another human?') Ai analyzed.
She continued, ('As I said before, it's not uncommon to travel to different dimensions, but it required a lot of energy as sources. Imagine a timeline for each world, the line was moving in a straight line without affecting by any outside sources. People in that world would born, experience their whole life, and perish of old age. That's what they called fate or destiny. But as for you, the moment you decided to cook that soup, you began changing your own destiny, not within the wheel of time placed for you and you became one of the outsiders. In other words, you became a presence that has the ability to affect the orders of destiny.')
"So what has anything to do with One Piece world?" Lee asked stupidly.
If she had a hand, she would have hit him in the head.
Ai patiently continued, ('In the world of One Piece, similar to your world, it's another world where the people there live by their own destiny. Before you jump ahead, why did Oda write a story about people here? Had you ever heard of the term 'revelation' in the Bible?')
"You mean God revealing signs or visions to some people for them to understand?"
('Yes, but a slight off compared to the Bible. Not only just Oda but similar to many of the authors out there, throughout their whole life, they experience things that struck them to gain enlightenment to write in their story. When you observe the world for a long time, you would sometimes pick up things or experience Deja vu, or matters which made you feel familiar with those things you encounter for the first time. It was known as the manifestation of parallel worlds which showed its appearance in different worlds.')
"So in short, the One Piece world is real?"
('Yes') Ai replied.
"Then you could have just said that at the beginning. Why were you wasting all the time to explain all those?"
('Now you understand idiot!') she hummed.
"So the story of Oda will be changed if I do anything in this world?" Lee asked another question even though Ai was effusive.
('Come back to what I spoke earlier about the timeline, the moment Outsiders such as you make changes to the world, a parallel one is created. It means that the world that you are in right now became a parallel universe of the One Piece's world Oda created. The same goes for your own world, there might be some change to it.')
Lee thought for a little. "So there is another of me in a parallel world?"
('Yes, if you didn't cook the soup, you would have gone on with your own life. You right now can also be a story writing by an author in some unknown dimension. You don't have to worry about it too much since there are many of you out there in multiverse.')
"Wow!" Lee exclaimed.
('Now let's look at your stats' attributes') Ai informed Lee.
"Status open" Lee called out. He always wanted to do that.
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Name: Lee Li
Age: 14
Titles: N/A
Lvl: 5 (35/100)
STR: 10
STA: 14
AGI:13
DEX: 14
INT: 21
Innate Skills:
The Dark Monarch:
*Darkness (Mastery: novice): Lvl 1 (9/10) -Active
*Time (Mastery: novice): Lvl 1 (7/15) -Active
*Space (Mastery: novice): Lvl 3 (2/60) -Active
Bloodline Abilities:
*Unlimited Potential: Lvl 2 (10/40) -Passive
Abilities/Skills:
*Teleportation (low): Lvl 4 (34/1,000) -Active
*Large Teleportation- (cooldown 11,995 hours)
*Pain resistance (high): Lvl 19 (2,001,203/10,000,000) -Passive
*Muay Thai (median): Lvl 8 (10,050/110,000) -Active
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"How is my status compared to the average adult?" Lee asked.
('your status now is comparable to an adult in excellent shape as for stamina and speed. Most of the athletes who worked out often average around 13, so after your body was rebuilt, it transpired to be in perfect shape.') Ai answered.
Ai continued instead of waiting for Lee to ask more. ('Let me break everything down for you. After you awakened, you used *Large Teleportation* to go to another world which causes some of your levels to change.')
"I got it now. How can my Intelligent stat be so high though? I am not that smart right?" Lee asked.
(When your body was rebuilt, only your outer physical and interiors grew stronger, but as for your mind, nothing change much.') Ai responded.
To give him an example, she said "Lee, do you even remember the last time you got a B for your grades? You did not right?')
"Well, I got A minus a lot though" Lee replied.
('It was because of your procrastination') Ai rebutted.
Ai tried to get over with the explanation quickly so she continued.
('Before you ask more questions, the reason *Large Teleportation* has extensive cooldown because you used all the saved up energy within you to teleport here. Another reason was when you were awakened, you drew in a lot of energy which made it possible. The more you level up, the lower the cooldown. As for why those abilities or skills only showed up on the list because it was the most proficiency that you had learned. Due to *Unlimited Potential* that you received from your bloodline, it's also the reason why you able to level up.') Ai summarized instead of going into details more deeply.
"So the more I use the abilities, the more I level up?" Lee asked.
('Correct')
"What about beating up enemies just like in-game, do I level up too?"
('Yes, it was due to that reason that Genghis Khan was more powerful than his opponents. Moreover, the main ability of *Unlimited Potential* is to advance through by completing impossible tasks with doubling the number of rewards') Ai said.
"So the skill is perfectly suited for a guy like me. Only need to work half and get the full amount. Ah, the sun is setting a little," Lee said as he stopped what he was doing.
Lee took out his phone and checked the time, it was 5:35 PM which seemed like a long day for him. Instead of asking more questions, he decided to make his own dinner. He decided to catch a fish swimming in the water, but it seemed like they had eyes at the back of its head.
Ai wasn't able to handle it anymore after a while of watching him, so she said ('Lee, coats the *Darkness* over your hands by visualizing it.')
"Like Haki?" Lee asked.
('yes, similar to Haki, but *Darkness* also has stealth mode which prevented fish from noticing it. Remember the change you felt within your body') Ai explained.
"Got it!" Lee said.
He then imagined something from within his body to cover his hand. Slowly, the black tattoos on his arms spread out to cover his hands.
Lee slowly reached out for a fish about as big as a 7-foot long subway bread and held it tight in his hands. He walked back to the land and placed the fish on the leaves.
'I don't have a knife' Lee thought.
('You can use your fingers by coated it with Darkness to cut it.') Ai replied in his head.
'You can hear me when I am thinking?' Lee asked curiously even though it was obvious by now.
('Correct') Ai said.
"Then why didn't you tell you. You made me talk to all those." Lee complained out loud.
('You never asked') Ai said.
If She had a body, she would have hit her head with her fist and stuck out her tongue at Lee.
Instead of being bothered with her, Lee continued what he was doing. He coated Darkness with his right index and middle fingers. Then, he gently sliced fish on the scruff area halfway in like a sharp knife. After that, he sliced fish from its larynx on the neck down to its bases. He took out all the things inside the abdomen and threw them into the hole after he made a hole with his feet by coasted it with *Darkness*.
Lee processed to wash the fish with water on the stream.
To make fire, he collected dry woods and branches in his surroundings. Lee saw a documentary where a guy lit aflame by rotating a stick really fast on dry wood, so he tried to do that.
After a while of spinning the stick really fast in his rubbing his hands back and forth, only smoke came out, but there was no fire.
('Lee, you can do better than that! Use that right hand of your that you had been practicing for those years to its fullest potential!') Ai made a dirty joke in his head while shouting, instead of helping.
"Shut up!" Lee protested.
After a while of rotating the stick on wood by rubbing it really fast, he was finally able to kindle the flame on the stick.
(*Flame (Mastery: novice): Lvl 0 (3/10))
A notification popped up in his head.
Lee asked, "Ai, I thought you said I wouldn't gain any skill if I don't have proficiency in it right?"
Ai replied, ('This is a rare case. People usually don't create fire, so this is part of your own creative skill.')
"Then all cavemen probably had Flame skill when they were alive," Lee said.
('I also don't know. But I do know that it's a rare case for you because you have *Unlimited Potential*, so you can grow strong in any field').
While Lee was chatting with Ai, he was also able to make the flame become larger. He cut a small tree and made it into a stick after he cut out the skin. After that, he skewed the fish from head to tail and roasted the fish near the fire.
*Darkness (Mastery: novice): Lvl 2 (1/20) -Active
Lee noticed he leveled-up on his *Darkness skill after repeated use.
As he was working on making his dinner, Lee's stomach started gurgling, so he caught a couple more fishes and roasted them beside the one he had.
After every few minutes, he twisted the fish's skews to cook it thoroughly. By now, it was dark, and the bonfire he had made appeared to invite unwanted guests. From the darkness inside the forest, Lee, able to detect multiple eyes stared at him.
Slowly, three grey wolves emerged from the darkness. From Lee's observation, all of them were at least 6 feet high which was larger than him, especially the one in the middle. Just like its name described, they had grey furs on its body with strong long hair from head to its back.
Instead of attacking together, the one in the middle appeared to detest that idea, so one on the left side of him moved forward first.
Lee was surprised, quickly stood up from his location to welcome them. He knew that running was too late because, on the back of him, there was a stream. By the time he made his way across half the stream, the wolves would have pounded him.
('Lee, in a time like this, I would like to has a quest to notification pops up but, it's not too late for us right?') Ai said nervously even though she was not the one facing the wolves.
Instead of freaking out, Lee was able to calm himself a little especially after the joke Ai made. Even so, he felt his body still tenses up. A cold shivery sensation ran through his back, but he remained focused.
After Lee saw only one of the wolves slowly approached him, then dashed toward him all suddenly with a leap. Lee used his *Muay Thai* stance, his left arm forward a little in front of his face, while his right fist holding close to his face. His tarsal shifted back a little, at the same time, his left leg lifted up to cover his front, and his right leg planed strongly on the ground.
Lee imagined his arms and legs to be coated in dark ink. The moment he thought that, at the same time, the tattoos made out of feathers on his back rapidly spread to his arms and legs.
Lee slowly murmured.
*Darkness*
