Gadgets and Laboratory Equipments - Setup - Browsing the Internet - Contact? - Close Call - FPS and MOBA Gaming

After the whole event that transpired, the swaying white lines on Philip's right hand crawled back to his skin. He observed the process and placed his hand on his illuminated chest

He became confused as to why his chest was illuminated when Mathilda was about to lunge the spike towards him. It was probably the trauma that his body experienced when his heart was stabbed by a large metal spike back in the Mystical Test

He took a deep breath and looked forward. He then walked towards the delivery truck where the maids and butlers are waiting. As the maids and butlers saw Philip coming, they forced themselves to behave properly

They couldn't help become restless because of Philip. Philip has the beauty that surpasses every handsome men and beautiful women in the world. He even has the looks to match against Alucard, who they have claimed to be the most beautiful man, until Philip came

Therefore, they should behave. The maids would like him and touch him, or at least have a talk with him, and the butlers would either be jealous of his looks or become envy of him

"So, do we have a room to fit all of this boxes in?"

Philip asked. The maids and butlers naturally had their ears perked up to listen to Philip. They are having an illusion that Philip's voice is as beautiful as he looks. Well, it's true that his voice gives the feeling of intense masculinity

"Ah, Sir Philip! We have the deliveries that Sir Jude ordered last night. Are these for you?"

The security personnel returned after Mathilda left

"Yes, I think so. These are the laboratory equipments and the gadgets, right?"

"Yup, where do you want us to put it?"

"You should put the personal computer in my room with the smartphones, electronics, and the television. Is there an empty room that can fit the laboratory apparatuses and equipments?"

"Hm, I think there is a perfect place. It's actually just in front of your room"

"Really? How convenient!"

"I know, right? So, do you want us to put these there?"

"Is it okay? No one has reserved that room or anything, right?"

"You tell me, you're the Homeowner, you can tell us whatever you want us to and we'll follow it without question"

"..."

Philip was speechless. He really didn't think too much about his Homeowner title. He still couldn't grasp the full extent and power of his title over everyone in the mansion

He could take advantage of everyone here right now. But he won't do that because it wasn't to his taste. Not to mention, Justine, as the Landlord, also protects everyone in her land, even from him

"Look, Sir Philip, I know you wouldn't take advantage on all of us because I see that you're a good person. So, all of us really trusts you from the moment we first saw you"

The security personnel gave a friendly wink to Philip. Philip wavered from the words of the security personnel. Do they really trust him? Why did they have that impression? What if he disappointed them?

"Let me ask you again, Sir Philip, do you want us to make the room in front of your room your laboratory?"

Philip did not think twice anymore

"Yes please. Thank you"

The security personnel, along with the maids and butlers who heard Philip, smiled. They were glad that the Old Man chose a suitable next Homeowner and he seemed to be humbke

"Alright! Let's move!"

The security personnel shouted which the maids and butlers moved. They picked up individual boxes to carry and walked towards the drop off location

Alucard, who was watching from the distance, slightly smiled

~~~

After a few hours, the maids and butlers has finished arranging the laboratory apparatuses and equipments inside the laboratory and the delivery truck has already left. They revamped the entire room to look like a laboratory and installed air-conditioning and internet in the mansion

Apparently, the mansion never had any internet connection. The residents such as Natsuki and Natsume only use data from their mobile devices. The others, they didn't care about the outside world since everything is in the mansion

Philip returned to his room on the second floor. He was met by boxes of the PC that he'll be using. Boxes of three kinds of smartphones are on the table and a cabinet that divided and organized the electronics is present next to the table. Tools that are needed to use for electronics are also present on the table such as batteries and a soldering iron

Philip picked up the batteries and the wires and set it aside. He knows that he wouldn't need it

He then started setting up the PC, the television, and smartphones. He took a few more hours to properly set everything up

His setup had three monitors and one powerful CPU. Somehow, the keyboard had RGB lighting, as well as the CPU. The mouse is wireless and there is a gaming headphone

Philip was confused why he received a gaming PC, and a powerful one at that. But he won't complain. A PC is a PC

He also setup the three smartphones to have wireless internet and data internet. Each smartphone has a different fuction and use. One is for taking notes and research, one is for pictures and videos, and the last one is for gaming

He then sat in front of his PC and browsed the internet. He wanted to catch up at what's happening in the world and he'll see if there has been articles or stray videos out there that can provide proof about the existence of Mana and Magic

He's interested at what the believers and conspiracy theorists say against the doubters and self-proclaimed factual researchers. He finds internet wars and fight rather interesting yet brain exhausting

He opened YouTube and streamed music to play in the background. He added songs to a playlist that were particularly popular during 2010 to 2016. He had more music from 2012 with the addition of several anime openings mixed in between, as well as lofi music and realistic rain sounds

He considered adding ASMR sounds, such as ear cleaning and breathing, but he skipped it since it won't be relaxing as it should be if he's going to browse the internet

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He entered the keywords in the search engine such as; paranormal activities 2024, paranormal sightings, magic, people with abilities, and elemental control to see if there are forums or threads that talks about these things and if there are images or videos

Philip scrolled through the search engine for several minutes into more than an hour and he could only find troll posts from 7-5 years ago. Some of them are poorly edited and some of them almost deceived him by how good the video and images are edited

Good thing he had Eye Vision and Clairvoyance that saw through everything. Philip still needs to experiment on those abilities so he could understand it more

So far, the combination of both abilities makes him see the origin and source of a target by directly connecting to their heads. It was like seeing their past or something in their most crucial and important point in their lives, whether it will be in the past and possibly in the future

The abilities this time, as per proof during his browsing, he could see through deception and tell whether it's fake or real. This is probably connected to the how he could see the origin and source of a target

Also, the abilities should be able to see far away objects and visions in the electromagnetic spectrum. But, Philip still hasn't experienced that because the Eye Vision ability might be overwritten by Clairvoyance

He kept scrolling through the search engine for several minutes more and a particular website caught his interest. He clicked the link and it sent him on a website

It was a blog post and the blog seemed to have a decent number of users that talked about random stuff

The top of the blog post showed an interesting title that will definitely catch attention. The post already has five thousand replies

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[EXCLUSIVE! A Little Girl Showed The Ability To Start Fires From Flammable Materials!!!]

> You wouldn't believe it! There was this little girl in our neighborhood that started a fire. It was a good thing that the girl did not burn the entire neighborhood down but she showed us that she could start a fire on wood, dried grass, paper, and cloth

> What? That's crazy! How could a little girl do that?

> It's magic isn't it? Or the author is trolling us?

> The author's probably trolling us! There's no way that's possible

> Unless...

> Unless what?

> Look, we should have an image or a video to prove it!

> Unfortunately, I don't have any image or video proof because the girl went missing

> Then this is fake if there's no proof! You're just an attention seeker

> Yeah! Delete the post if you don't have anything important to post

> Guys, don't be rude. It's probably just some delusion man

> Hm, but it's weird that the little girl went missing though?

> Now that you mentioned it, you're right! That's kinda odd...

> Hey, author! What's the time span when the little girl showed you her magic tricks from her going missing?

> Guys, don't turn this into a big deal. It's probably at the time span of a month or two

> She went missing the day after she showed us her fire magic

> Wait, that's kinda soon though!

> Yeah, that's weird

> Don't you think that the little girl's magic trick was real and the government found out about it and they abducted her for experimentation?

> Yo, dude! That's probably what happened!

> If the little girl having sick fire magic, perhaps she's a mutant or she has superpowers?!

> Yo! That would be sick!!

> Well, unfortunately, the government must have experimented on her already

> True

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[Cannot reply]

***

As Philip was scrolling down through the comments and loading the replies, several replies were deleted for some reason. The reply section was also block and Philip couldn't type or reply at all

It was then that the website suddenly stopped or lagged that previous posts couldn't load. Philip tried reloading the page and the website went down and showed an error message with an alert and the symbol of the American Government

"Huh, that was weird... If the government, the whole Secret Organizations, and the Mystical Academy are keeping the public from learning about the transition of Mysticism Age, then why is it that the website was shut down coincidentally after I checked it now when the post was about two weeks old?"

Philip thought to himself that it was strange. It was like he was being watched or monitored when the website coincidentally shut down after he opened it

It was then a familiar symbol, or face, appeared at the bottom of the alert text of the error website. Philip recognized this image since they have shown themselves in public a couple years ago and there are conspiracy theories circulating everywhere pertaining this group

The Anonymous

Since the logo of the Anonymous appeared on his window, it seemed like they wanted him to click on it. It might send Philip to another link or website or hack his computer immediately after having it in one day

Will he click on it?

"Nope, maybe later"

Philip minimized the window that has the Anonymous face displayed in. He then opened another window to resumed his browsing in the internet

Several minutes has passed and he couldn't find anymore. The government and the Secret Organizations are doing a great job at keeping the transition of Mysticism Age a secret

It was then that he reached the end of the search engine pages by clicking the end of the pages and a link appeared that was just made a few seconds ago

Of course Philip clicked it because it had an interesting title for the hyperlink

[BLUE VOLCANOES AND GEYSERS SPOTTED]

Philip face palmed upon seeing the title because he immediately know what the link is talking about. If this website hasn't been taken down and tons of people sees this website, it will be over for the ones who kept this a secret

It was because the website had a very organized and firm structure like research paper or an article regarding the Mana Hotspots. There were even images and videos that showed the same openings of the Mana Hotspots that spew out a faint blue colored mist into the air like a geyser

Philip watched the video and it seems like it was man going for mountain climbing in the Arctic Continent. Apparently, the video was taken about a month ago and it was just uploaded now

The man spotted small opening of the Mana Hotspots which the man called as Blue Geysers. After climbing on the peak of a ridge, the man spotted a large opening of a Mana Hotspot

Philip was genuinely surprised by the size of this Mana Hotspot and the opening was like that of a sinkhole. According to Philip's Supreme Sense of Measurement, the opening whould jave a diameter of 50 meters. Philip never imagined this view of a Mana Hotspot in the open because he only saw one and it was in a cave

The opening was releasing strong gusts of winds that can be heard through the camera. There is also a faint blue mist that blends in with the snow. But the most eye-catching thing in the video is the floating light originating from the opening like it was some kind of a light show

The man screamed in the video because he was being swept by the Mana coming from the hotspot. It was expected. He couldn't come close anymore and he fell back, rolling down the ridge until he reach the starting point

It was a miracle that he is still even alive and his roll did not cause an avalanche. The man then cut the video and that's where he probably immediately went home to share this experience

"Heh..."

Philip snickered after watching the video. If this video would ever be released in the public, a lot of people will be interested and they will draw conclusion such as the existence of aliens or a wormhole

The government should find this immediately and take it down

It was a good thing that only seven people has seen this website after looking at the bottom left. For some reason, this website has a view or visit count

Philip sat back and stretched his body as he opened the previous window in YouTube to look for more music. It was then, with a stroke of luck, he saw an uploaded video in his recommendations that has the same thumbnail and same video title from the previous website of the Blue Volcano and Blue Geysers

He was a little bit creeped out by the algorithm of YouTube that showed him the same video he watched from a completely new website a few minutes ago. Anyways, that's not of his problem and ignored it

The video was uploaded 10 minutes ago, the same length as he watched the video, and the video already has more than one thousand views and counting

Philip panicked and became annoyed

"What are they doing?"

The government and the Secret Organizations were slacking. They should have taken down the video ages ago, the moment it was uploaded if they were that powerful

Usually, Philip wouldn't care about this and just let it be. But this time, he know the consequences of the public knowing about the transition of Mysticism Age. He knows that the masses will be confused and start an anarchy. That's how human minds work

If they learned that they can have abilities and powers and learned the existence of Mana and Magic as early as this time, then there would be chaos because everybody wants to have abilities and learn to do magic

The world will turn upside down and the government, the Secret Organizations, and the Mystical Academy will not be able to handle or stop that

Unless Philip uses his Fate Control...

But he won't since he got a solution

He opened the window that had the Anonymous face on it and dragged the window that has the Blue Volcano website and the video on YouTube next to the Anonymous window

After a few seconds, Philip reloaded both the second and third windows and it showed that it was been taken down

"Phew, that was scary"

Philip let out a sigh of relief. He then glared at the monitor in front of him. It seems that someone in the Anonymous has been watching his computer and they seemed to want to engage contact

His guess is that if he clicked at the Anonymous face, a message would pop up in his screen. That's what Philip wanted to happen anyways, nothing more

Philip also knows that the Old Man has talked to the leaders of the Secret Organizations to tell them to avoid contacting him. He also figured that the Anonymous is a part of the Secret Organizations because they took down the websited that he showed them on the screen

Therefore, Philip was curious as to why the Anonymous wanted to make contact with him while risking their lives from defying the Old Man's warning

"Meh! Maybe later"

Philip minimized the window again and downloaded a first person shooter, FPS, game

"This is a gaming PC, might as well, right?"

Philip talked to himself so he won't regret playing

A few minutes later, the game has finished downloading and he played a few games

In the first games, he played it like a normal person would. After a while, he tried using his abilities to test something

"This isn't cheating, right? It's part of myself and my abilities! Nothing wrong with that!"

Philip was ruthless and he'll destroy the enemy team just to test something

He used a total of five abilities. The first one is the Supreme Sense of Measurement ability. Of course this is a must when playing a shooter game. He has the ability to accurately measure the distance of the crosshair to the hitboxes of the enemy heads to the fire rate, reload speed, bullet spread, and recoil of every gun to the angle needed for the gun nozzle to take to hit a close swing around the corner or above and below

Of course, this won't be too effective without Eye Vision and Clairvoyance. It's basically using X-ray at this point. He would know which position the enemy team will take in real-time and where they would be. The guns and equipment they will be having and their field of view. Philip has it written down in the back of his hand

In addition to that, his Future Vision, the passive that he will see the future within 1-10 seconds into the future. He will know when the enemy will take the corner or which site they will be going

Eye Vision and Clairvoyance is different from Future Vision. Eye Vision and Clairvoyance is seeing the present and Future Vision is seeing the future

Finally, the fifth ability that he activated is Extreme Self-awareness. Of course he needed this so he could coordinate with his teammates without communication perfectly. He would know if he needs to reload without looking at his ammo and he would know where his teammates are positioned without looking at the map

It's basically cheating at this point, but it's not

After several hours, Philip decimated teams upon teams and achieved 30-win streak. He was placed in the upper rankings in the world without so quickly him knowing because this was the first time he played an FPS game

He stopped for now, grabbed his gaming phone, and jumped on his bed while opening another game in his smartphone

Philip did not care much about the FPS game that he played and he will probably won't play it anymore again

Little did Philip know, at this moment, he made a commotion in the gaming world, particularly FPS game, because he has beaten five professional teams and clutching several rounds. A few of the analytics thought that he was cheating but the system said he wasn't

To this day, Philip's username, that he has been using for almost his entire life, has been in the talks in online gaming forums and threads

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[The FPS God that came out of nowhere defeating 5 Pro Teams in a row, Omega]

> Who is he?

> Are they really sure he's not cheating?

> He never had any deaths! He must be cheating

> They should hire this man and give him loads of money!

> He's so good! Truly the FPS God!!!

***

Philip lied down on the soft bed and played a game on his gaming phone, unaware of what's happening in the gaming world right now

He was playing a popular multiplayer online battle arena, or MOBA for short. The same as the FPS game earlier, he used five abilities for this game and he won all games consecutively and reach top 20 of the world rankings

After a few hours, he stopped playing after remembering the Anonymous face in the window

This also sent another commotion in the gaming world, in MOBA world particularly, that sightings of the player named Omega has been sent

A renowned and popular professional player encountered him and commented on one of the forums

> His battle sense, positioning, efficiency and timing in using skills and spells, hero mastery, and clutches are insane! I have never seen anyone with those movements before, and assure you, I'm sure he's not cheating or whatsoever. He's legit! It makes my blood boil just by thinking on matching with him again!

Philip wasn't aware that this was happening as he returned back to his seat, in front if the monitor. It was already night and he thought that it should be a good time to deal with this mystery

Philip opened the window that has the error, government symbol, alert message, and the Anonymous face on it. He hovered the mouse pointer over the face and clicked it