The Warrior Mechanic

[User: Cael Breckenridge]

[Titles: None]

[Strength: 3]

[Speed: 5]

[Durability: 3]

[Intelligence: 15]

[Dexterity: 6]

[Creativity: 3]

[Focus: 10]

[MP: 4/4]

[Skills] [expand]

He gave his stats a closer look and was surprised with how high his intelligence was compared to all the other stats. His physical stats like strength, speed and durability were quite low, along with his creativity.

“My low creativity does make sense. I haven’t really had to use it ever since I was a child.”

In society, one could go down two routes. If you were born with mana, you would be enlisted into an exosuit cadet institution to then become a soldier. However, you could also use your brains and become a scientist, advancing and forming new cutting-edge technology across the galaxy.

That wasn’t to say that creativity wasn’t valued. Creativity was still valued in designing ideas for such new technology, though.

What also surprised him a lot was his intelligence. He knew that he was a gifted child, frequently achieving the top of his class when he still did things like science and mathematics.

However, he always felt gravitated toward the battlefield. He had been gifted with being born with mana, which was vital for using an exosuit. It acted as not only a power source but also a way to connect your mind and intention to the suit.

He had such little mana that his exosuits struggled to even do that and would constantly freeze up on him.

[New Quests!]

3 quests had been laid out to him, with 2 being tutorial quests and one being his first ordinary quest. However, he couldn’t help but read over the last quest that was given to him.

[Tutorial Quest: Programming]

[For one to be worthy of the title ‘Warrior Mechanic’, they must have a foundation in programming robotic technologies. Follow the tutorial programme to gain foundational skill on the programming language ‘ExoScript’.]

[Time to Complete: 14 days]

[Tutorial Quest: Mechanics]

[Here, you'll lay the groundwork for mastering the art of assembly, component handling, and dive into the essential skills needed to for robotics systems.]

[Time to Complete: 14 days]

[Quest: First Design]

[Get your first step into the world of mechanics and make your first support bot alteration design.]

[Time to Complete: 30 days]

[Punishment: Death]

“Death?!” He blurted out, upon reading the last quest.

He arrived at his airbus stop and got on the next airbus that arrived. It hovered over the ground with thrusters that spewed out glowing blue energy, while remaining quiet and relatively still.

He arrived at his home neighbourhood, Mikado Square.

Carlo City was what was called a Quartered Ring City. Within the centre was the industrial heart of the city with bustling streets and tall buildings.

Around the ring, was where the ostentatious ‘upperclassmen’ would stay. They had large, extravagant buildings with large plots of land.

Near the edge of the city was where everyone else stayed. Mikado Square was closer to the middle area and was generally for the middle class, while other neighbourhoods were closer to the edge and outskirts.

He arrived at his sleek, small apartment that he was able to buy with his constant monthly payments.

He was lucky that his parents were soldiers and esteemed soldiers at that, so the government treated him a little better.

As he arrived, though, his mind was set on how he was going to complete these next quests.

As for the tutorial quests, they seemed easy enough. There wasn’t any punishment for doing them but the quest of forming his first alteration design seemed nearly impossible.

He had absolutely no capital to start with, and no platforms to even begin his designing.

Support bots were special robots -sometimes autonomous- that fought alongside exosuit warriors in battle. They provided extra functionality to armies through things like scouting out enemy territory, while adding more manpower to the frontlines.

“The tutorials should get me going. I’ll need to think about how to get a platform to start designing while I do those first tutorials, though.” He surmised, sitting in the spinning chair in his bedroom.

He researched what he would have to do as his next course of action, and almost everything had a price on it.

First, to simulate any robotic component, he’d have to get a license for an application called the TechForge Simulation Lab.

It was a virtualised platform that had an unfathomably large volume of components that you could put together to form your own unique designs, or alterations from established ones.

To do such, though, would require what was known as an alteration permit.

To work with anyone’s intellectual property, you’d need an alteration permit to be allowed to work with their designs.

Luckily, the permits sometimes functioned as licenses so he’d only have to use it for about a fortnight before he could cut off the payments.

With the 3,000 intergalactic dollars that he had received that month, he had to take out 250 of it to buy his monthly license for the TechForge Simulation Lab. This was merely the most basic subscription on offer.

Higher subscription would come with special packages, such as virtual raw materials and even alteration permits.

“So, how do I actually open this tutorial thing?” He asked himself.

[To activate the first tutorial programme, say ‘tutorial programme 1’ with your internal monologue. To activate the second tutorial programme, say ‘tutorial programme 2’.]

This statement felt like it had come from inside him. He immediately attributed it to his system, and did just that to then see a projection appear in front of him.

It resembled a holographic robot, and had a blue hue, just like almost all projections did.

What perplexed him was that this projection didn’t seem to be coming from any sort of projector. Instead, it seemed to just be there somehow.

The robot started to introduce him to the first tutorial quest, which was programming.

To begin making his first program, he had to use his projector computer. This consisted of a sleek, thin rectangle that also came with holographic keyboards and projections.

Within the TechForge Simulation Lab was an easy-to-use, glossy IDE.

The tutorial began with simply explaining how important programming was in the creation of support bots. Not only did their components need to be delicately fabricated and assembled, their actions needed to be scrupulously laid out in volumes and volumes of code.

Code was even found in vehicles like airbuses that didn’t even need to be manned to operate, and technology integrated into society.

The tutorial then started going over the basic syntax behind the programming language ‘ExoScript’. This was the easiest to use programming language and was most common for newbies.

He went through the long tutorial projection that seemed like it could go on forever. After that, he started the second tutorial video.

It was controlled by the same projected robot, that also showed several different projected panels to aid and accelerate his learning.

All of this seemed like a new world to him and he was happy to have been submerged into it. His entire life, he wasn’t able to utilise his natural intellect but had to train like a soldier.

It felt great doing something where could say he was doing somewhat well at it.

In terms of mechanics and assembly, he had a much more practical approach. There were projected items that he was able to move around and put together by simply touching them.

The tutorial talked about the most basic systems behind support bots. First, there was the etheriser. The etheriser was a device responsible for converting pure mana to electrical energy. It was a transformative device that released almost no heat when being used and had insanely high efficiency.

Also, another core cell was the mana core. This was an object storing a substance capable of storing mana. It wasn’t as efficient as drawing mana straight from a human body, but it meant that autonomous robots could still profit from the efficient energy without direct human contact.

Night soon came and the sky was filled with the twinkling stars of the milky way galaxy. He could see the several skyscrapers of Carlo City from the window of his apartment. He was on the 17th floor of his apartment complex, which gave him a dazzling view of the city’s skyline.

He was now exhausted, and decided to pause the tutorial he was working through for the day. To try and finish these tutorials as quickly as possible, he had to find time in his day to make progress.