EFB Chapter 245 System Changes
Chapter 245 System Changes
Chapter 245 System Changes
The moment the system upgrade was completed, Chen Yuan immediately opened the panel to check the changes in functionality.
[System upgrade complete. Arcane/Item optimization slots increased by 1 (6). New simulation space function added.]
"Simulated space?"
Chen Yuan was somewhat puzzled. The name of this function didn't reveal anything. Simulated space? What exactly does it simulate?
With these questions in mind, Chen Yuan asked the system and quickly received an answer.
"So the simulation space is simulating the optimization task."
Chen Yuan's face showed a look of sudden realization, then he frowned slightly: "But what's the use? What's the difference between simulating the optimization task beforehand and optimizing it directly?"
In his view, the process of setting optimization directions and having the system execute optimizations is already quite complete, so inserting a simulation process in the middle seems somewhat redundant.
"Forget it, there's no point in thinking about it too much. We should just put it into practice and see."
"After all, it took three days to upgrade the system, so it shouldn't be a useless feature."
With that in mind, Chen Yuan casually took out a fifth-tier Force longsword and began to formulate an optimization task.
The process was exactly the same as before, except that when submitting the task at the end, the longsword did not directly enter the optimization panel, but instead a new option popped up.
[Should the optimization process be simulated in advance?]
Faced with this new option, Chen Yuan clicked to confirm, and then a line of text appeared in front of him.
[Simulation in progress, estimated completion time: 8 seconds.]
"So little time?" Chen Yuan was slightly taken aback, then looked at the countdown on the panel and saw it had ended.
[Task simulation complete. Below are the simulation results. Should we optimize based on these results?]
I checked the simulation results and found that they were the same as the previous optimization results, both changing from fifth-tier standard weapons to sixth-tier standard weapons.
At this point, Chen Yuan still didn't fully understand the function of the simulation feature; he simply clicked "optimize" subconsciously, wanting to see the subsequent changes.
As the fifth-tier longsword was sent to the optimization panel, Chen Yuan glanced at it: "It doesn't seem like there's much change—wait a minute!"
He suddenly froze, staring intently at the time displayed in the optimization bar.
"8 seconds!" Chen Yuan's pupils contracted. "The same time as the simulation, it took 8 seconds to complete!"
"With my current strength, optimizing a Tier 5 item would normally take a whole day!"
Reducing the time from 24 hours to 8 seconds is equivalent to speeding up the process by 10,000 times.
"So, the purpose of this simulation space is to speed up and rehearse the optimization task? And how long does the simulation take, and how long does the actual optimization take?"
If that's the case, this feature is indeed very useful, and it can directly speed up the process by 10,000 times. No, simulation and formal optimization need to be performed once each, so the actual speedup should be 5,000 times.
Thinking about this, another idea flashed through Chen Yuan's mind: "If the optimization bar has a limit, what about the simulation space?"
"If the number of tasks in the simulation space were unlimited, Chen Yuan had an idea and took out a few more fifth-tier equipment to try to generate simulation tasks, but he was quickly disappointed."
[The simulation space is full. Please wait for the current task to complete.]
Looking at the prompts on the panel, Chen Yuan frowned slightly: "This simulation space can only perform one task at a time?"
To be honest, he was somewhat disappointed.
It's not that this feature is weak; after all, it can speed up an optimization task by thousands of times.
However, it can only simulate one task at a time, which greatly limits its effectiveness, mainly because it doesn't offer much advantage compared to before.
Overall, Chen Yuan felt that the new feature did not justify the time spent on the system upgrade.
"No, this simulated space must hold other secrets—"
Chen Yuan stared at the panel, his intuition telling him that the effects of this simulation space were far more than that, otherwise the system wouldn't have taken so long to upgrade.
So in the following period, Chen Yuan began to test repeatedly, and soon conducted thousands of simulation tasks.
However, the result was not satisfactory. No matter how many tasks he generated, the simulation space could only process one at a time, and the upper limit was not increased with the number of uses.
After this conjecture failed, Chen Yuan tried other directions, but after ten days, the results were still disappointing.
"What other functions do you have that I haven't discovered yet?"
Ten days of testing left Chen Yuan helpless, and he couldn't help but sigh, "Couldn't it be like the optimized space, with simpler and clearer functions?"
"Wait, optimization space?"
Chen Yuan suddenly froze, staring at the two functions displayed on the panel: [Optimize Space] and [Simulate Space].
"Optimized Simulation Space?" Chen Yuan suddenly gasped. "Could this secret really be that simple?"
As he tried to touch the [Simulated Space] option on the panel with a wisp of his consciousness, everything suddenly went black, and he found himself in an extremely empty space.
"...So it really does mean exactly what it says!"
Chen Yuan couldn't help but swear.
Who would have thought that the secret to this function that he had gone to so much trouble to find was actually clearly written in the name itself.
The simulated space is truly a space!
"So the secret has been found, but what exactly is the purpose of this space?"
Chen Yuan looked around at the dark and empty environment. It was quiet here, and there was nothing around him.
"Could it be because there are no simulation missions?"
He had been experimenting with other functions these past few days, and had already finished the simulation task.
However, there are countless such missions. In reality, Chen Yuan took out another Tier 5 equipment and started the simulation mission.
As the simulation began, the environment of the entire simulation space changed instantly.
Countless clearly visible runes of the laws appeared in the void, as if disassembling a wisp of law into its most basic units.
So much so that Chen Yuan could immediately understand the meaning of these runes even though they were the Law of Metal, which he had never studied before.
However, the changes in the simulated space are far more than that.
In addition to the manifestation of the laws and secret patterns, there was also the analysis of various materials. Each material was broken down into its most basic units, and the microscopic level even reached the 'quark level'.
Each micro-unit is attempting to recombine and change in a direction towards something better.
Chen Yuan never expected that optimizing a fifth-tier metal-attribute Force weapon would involve so much knowledge.
And this knowledge was now being presented to him without any reservation!
"Most importantly, there's also the change of time."
Chen Yuan took a deep breath, and his consciousness here clearly felt a different flow of time than the outside world.
Within the simulated space, the perceived flow of time is ten thousand times faster than in the outside world.
To be precise, it's 10081 times!
"My consciousness can watch the entire process of this simulated mission from this space."
A trace of shock still lingered in Chen Yuan's eyes. "Doesn't this mean that given enough time, I too can thoroughly analyze this technology and master the ability to independently optimize this equipment?"
It should be noted that a wisp of his consciousness can reside permanently in this space and constantly enjoy the effects of the ten-thousand-fold acceleration.
Although Chen Yuan couldn't cultivate secret techniques in this space with just his consciousness, observing each optimization task allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of the laws.
More importantly, he can also use this to extract extremely valuable knowledge!
This knowledge originally belonged only to the system and was hidden deep within the system's database. Even he, the system's owner, had no right to view the internal information.
But as the simulation progressed, this previously hidden information was gradually revealed to him, and it was analyzed into the most basic units, essentially breaking down important knowledge and teaching it to him in a clear and concise way.
In this situation, Chen Yuan is not stupid. Of course, he can learn and master this knowledge, so that he can complete the optimization task independently without relying on the system!
Of course, the above situations are all just speculations and have not yet been verified in practice.
However, Chen Yuan felt that this guess was at least 90% certain; the only problem was putting it into practice.
Since he had an idea, Chen Yuan didn't bother to change the mission and decided to take the optimization mission of this metal elemental force weapon as his learning goal.
Soon, eight seconds passed in the outside world, while his consciousness had been in the simulation space for a whole day.
Just as the simulation was about to end, Chen Yuan suddenly shouted, "Reset the simulation!"
The next instant, the entire simulation resumed operation, and all procedures returned to their initial state.
"It seems that the experiments a few days ago were not entirely useless."
Seeing this, Chen Yuan smiled slightly: "If the simulation mission can be reset, it means I can loop this process indefinitely."
"I refuse to believe that I can't learn this technique with a 10,000x speedup!"
Thus, under Chen Yuan's intense study, time quietly slipped away, and thirty years quickly passed.
Of course, this is time within the simulated space; only one day has passed in reality.
"Finally—I have mastered this technology!"
A hint of fatigue flashed in Chen Yuan's eyes, but his spirits were high.
He immediately paused the ongoing simulation and began to conduct the experiment himself.
Thirty days later (in simulated spacetime), looking at the sixth-tier weapon that was exactly the same as the system optimization result, Chen Yuan finally smiled.
Although his own operation was thirty times slower than the system's, this was the first time he had completed an optimization independently without relying on the system!
This means that as long as Chen Yuan is willing to put in the effort to learn, he will one day master all the precious knowledge hidden in the system's database!