26 Second Account
"Status"
Zane called out and a panel appeared before him.
Name: Zane Black Valois
Race: Human
Title: None
EXP: (15/100)
HP: 109/110
MP: 330/330
Bloodline: Sphinx
Class: Level 1 Arcane Mage
Subclass: None
Attributes
Strength: 8
Constitution: 10
Agility: 13
Intelligence: 22
Zane sighed. He seemed to be sighing a lot recently. It was still a long way before he levelled up.
"System" He called, the intel points he was about to spend were squeezing his chest.
[Yes]
He opened up the system shop casually scrolling through the tempting items placed there.
"I am thinking of opening a virtual base. I don't have enough power to open a physical one yet."
[That is wise.]
Zane smirked. Of course, his intelligent stats are not for nothing.
"I would like to purchase a virtual account, a fortified virtual base and a box transporter."
[The virtual account is 50 intel points, the base is 100 intel points and the transporter is 500 points. Each box transporter can be used 500 times. The total sum is 650 intel points.]
Zane placed his hands on his chest as he took in a deep breath.
"Buy it."
[Ding! The purchase is confirmed.]
[Please design the base]
There was a piece of paper and several drawing items in front of him. He picked up the pencil and roughly sketched out a building according to his desire. He went online to check out different designs before he proceeded to draw the interior of the base.
After about an hour and a half, he put down the pencil and looked through his work. Thankfully, his drawing skills were decent.
He rolled his eyes before saying, "Shouldn't you be the one designing this?"
"Designing the base would be another 10 points. Should I commence?"
"Commence your head." He leaned back on the chair to relax. Thinking again, he hurried to change his statement. "Don't commence. I have already designed it, what do I need yours for?"
After the paper vanished, Zane looked at the other item. The box transporter.
Zane caressed the box. It was a beautiful box made with red maple wood and bronze. Zane would have called it an antique if not for the black keypad on the side of the box. So this is the cheapest transporter. It was quite "expertly crafted". He returned the box to his inventory.
"System, Pull up the panel for the cheapest books and skills. I would like to choose."
A large screen appeared before Zane. It was clearly marked into two. One side showcased the books and the other showed the skill books.
The books were relatively cheap. Some books were just a single knowledge point. The skill books were more expensive. The lowest was 5 intel points which were about 5000 knowledge points.
Zane splurged. He clicked without even looking at the names of the book. He knew one thing. No book was completely useless. It must be useful to a particular person or at a particular time.
When he looked at the second side of the screen, he was a little more careful. He clicked on skills for popular classes while mixing in a few rare skill books within. After picking about 50 skill books.
Zane picked up the virtual copy hub. It was smaller than the gaming capsule but was still big on its right.
There were two ways to have items in Parallel. You can buy or make it in the game or you can copy the item into the game.
Many people preferred to make or buy items in the game because it was much cheaper. Virtual copy hubs were very expensive and could not be afforded by the majority.
Well the ISF was not one to lose money. It didn't matter if you made your potions by buying your equipment in the game, you still had to copy your skill book into the game. What a smart decision.
Wait! Smart? A chill ran down Zane's spine. He was about to copy the entirety of these books and skill books into the game. Billions of people did that on a daily basis. Such an intimate intel of billions of people.
He just realised that the ISF had the knowledge of the skills of 90% of the entire Earth citizens. It was all good since the Chairman of ISF was an Earthian Citizen but what if he was not...
Zane shook his head. His thoughts are just awry now. He needed to focus. Multiple scenarios ran through his mind. What if a high ranking member of ISF got a Gnosis system or an even worse system. Parallel, one of man's greatest inventions might turn out to be a double-edged sword.
He took a deep breath and calmed down. He was not the smartest person on Earth. Surely someone must have noticed but since nothing was done, he must be overthinking this.
Just to be sure…
"System, I would like to purchase the cheapest virtual copy hub."
He looked at the mountain of books before him. "The price for copying this into my virtual account as well."
[The cheapest virtual copy hub is 150 intel points. It does not copy anything that weighs more than 50 kg. Automatic copying costs 5 intel points.]
"Do it."
[Ding! Purchase is confirmed.]
Zane waved his hands and about half of the books disappeared. Zane looked at the other half in shock.
"System?"
[The 20 cubic meter space you bought has been filled up. Do you want to purchase another space?]
Zane looked at the remaining mountain of books. Once you awaken, you get a 5 slot inventory page. Each slot was a single cubic meter. When you level up, you get another slot.
Such a storage capacity was too small for Zane's needs so he had closed his eyes and bought 20 cubic meters from the system. Now the system was telling him that it is already filled up.
He opened a packet of chocolate. He heard somewhere that chocolate helped to improve one's mood. After finishing the packet, his mood was still down, he opened another packet and said to the system with a voice void of emotions.
"Buy it."
[Ding! Purchase is confirmed]
With that, the entire book vanished from Zane's sight.
With a shaking finger, he opened the operation platform and viewed his status.
{Name: Zane Black Valois
Potential: A
Authority: Disciple
Class: Arcane Scribe
Fraternity: None
Knowledge points: 75,460
Intel points: 955}
Zane took another long, deep breath. In a single day, he had lost over 1500 intel points and 20000 knowledge points. He got up from the chair and moved to lie down in the parallel gaming Capsule.
His was one of the best capsules out there and was extremely comfortable. He plugged the nutrient I.V into his hands and saw an alarm. When it comes to school, he hates missing a single class. He lay down with the mind of watching the show. He wanted to see the magic the Gnosis system would create.
The capsule scanned his body before a crisp voice said, " Detecting two accounts. Which one would the user like to log into?"
Zane chuckled inside the capsule. So fast. He did not see anything happen.
But it was still amazing. A person can only open one Parallel account and that was at eighteen.
Zane already had a Parallel account while he was at home. To think he would have another account.
He said to the Gnosis system, "Disable the Class Mask"
"The second account!"
"Ding!"
The system sound rang with a crisp voice, "Welcome to Parallel! Please set up your account details"
An identical image of himself was floating in front of him. Although he did not adjust much in his sniper account. He took his time with the creation of this account image.
He made the image taller than him. He reduced the skin tone making him paler. He adjusted his hair and eyes. For clothing, he chose a narrow-cuffed, knee-length tunic tied with a sash, and a narrow, ankle-length skirt.
After he was done, he stepped back to look at the image and was convinced that the avatar looked nothing like him.
The only similarity would be that both of them were equally good looking. It was quite good.
For the name, he inputted, 'The Book Keeper.'
"System Notification: Your name has satisfied the naming rules; It has not been previously chosen. You have successfully named. Please input your class. Parallel promises absolute discretion and confidentiality."
Zane tried his best not to snort. What discretion? What confidentiality? Everything had a price.
He entered the scribe class without any hesitation. Thinking about it, it was kind of funny. His main account was playing with a fake class, while his fake account was playing his main class.
"Please choose your city. You can also turn on the location button and be transferred into the exact location in the game."
"Capital city of Bevan"
A loud chime was heard and a bright light flashed. The light engulfed the entire space, it was so bright that Zane closed his eyes.
After a brief second, he opened it and realized that the environment had changed.
