"Am I possessed!?"
He must be! How else there can be a voice in his head?!
"Initializing full energy check-up… no alien signatures detected. The Host is not possessed."
"Then who are you?!"
"I'm your personal education system. Or Es in short. I was tasked with taking care of you by Mr. Ethan."
Wait, is this the talent Mr. Ethan give me? If so how is this supposed to work?
"I will be guiding you in any aspect that is required."
"You can read my thoughts?"
"That is correct. I can hear them, but not save them in any way to ensure full privacy of the host."
Es response was… not fully understandable for Marcus. When asked who are you, it said its name but then, what are you Es?
"I'm a program created by Mr. Ethan to educate young people, and to help them in their development. For that purpose, I have an army of nanobots that are currently residing in your brain. This is also how I can access your thoughts. But those are not all of my functions., do you wish to hear the introduction recording?"
"Introduction recording? What is that?"
"It's a message written by Mr. Ethan describing my functions."
"I WANT TO!!!"
A message from Mr. Ethan? Just this is enough to go crazy. After seeing him twice, in Marcus's eyes, he was like a God. And a message from him must be valuable. Es was what Mr. Ethan give him so there must be a purpose to it, and the message may answer at least some of his questions, and he had many of them. Soon Es started to read the message:
"The personal education system was created for the sole purpose of educating those I deemed worthy. Giving knowledge ever since ancient times was a hard job as all students needed different approaches, which is why I created the program known as Es."
" Es has a multitude of functions that you can use, but must first access the menu. Close your eyes and think of the word menu, by doing this you will be able to see four options: personal information, cultivation, shop, and library. Es will help you navigate through everything so don't worry too much for now."
"First, we have personal information; this includes your full history if you allow Es to scan your memories, current state of the body, and different bodily functions translated into numerical values.
Next is cultivation, here you would be able to find countless ways to raise your strength, it's included here because only strength is a sure way to support life.
In the shop, you will be able to exchange energy and other materials for different items or constitutions. The energy you exchange is the same as the one you will be cultivating.
Finally, in the library you will find all the knowledge that I was able to gather over my life, it covers all is the basic topics and most of the advanced ones."
"Now I can only wish you good luck on your way to knowledge."
The moment the recording stopped Marcus closed his eyes.
"Menu"
The darkness was replaced by four rectangles with text in them.
"Cultivation"
This was an obvious choice for Marcus, he wanted strength and to do that he had to cultivate, but what he saw was unimaginable. Thousands upon thousands of different cultivation techniques and other ways to gain the power he never even heard of. What was he supposed to choose? The Fourteen Heavens Technique or Immortal Body Path, or something else? Es? Buddy? Can you help me?
"Yes host, that is my purpose. Will you permit me to access your memories?"
"What for?"
"To choose the ideal path for you, I not only need to know your body constitution but also personality, and this can be done quickly by accessing your memories."
What Es said made sense, a person that prefers to fight directly will want a technique that has strong defense and attack, but if you prefer assassination, direct fights won't be any good. So a technique not only has to fit your body but also your personality.
"I give you my permission."
"Thank you host, it will take a few minutes, in the meantime why not check your personal information?"
Personal information? Right it shows the current state of the body. Will it also show my talent as well?
Name: Marcus
Age:15
Health: Small blood loss
Aptitude: MAX
Muscle strength: 1.2
Flexibility: 1.4
Speed: 1.3
Energy: 0
Full detail information.
History(unavailable)
On the right side there was my body floating and on the left all of the information, But what max aptitude means?
"It means that you have the highest possible aptitude for a human body."
…
What?! Doesn't that make me the greatest genius in all of history? Able to master all of the techniques, rule earth and heavens. As his thoughts were getting wild, Es's cold voice spoke again.
"The aptitude is the ability to amass energy from the environment, normally it means how fast you can gather energy from the surrounding environment, but when its close to the maximum, its possible to tap into the source of all of the energy in the universe, the void dimension."
"So this means I can access this void dimension?"
"Yes, you have already established the gate from your body to the void dimension, and with the right technique, you will be able to harness the energy from the void. It will not be pure void energy, because when crossing through the gate, the energy changes ever so slightly and this causes a change in the attribute of the energy."
"So…"
"Memory scan complete. Picking a suitable technique for the host. Optimal technique found. Do you wish to see it?"
Before he could finish his words, Es spoke again, and his words were like honey from the sky. A technique perfect for him. Is it, immortal body path? Or dragon emperor code? Or…
"Basic energy gathering (lightning)...."
...
What?