CHAPTER 174: THREE FUNDAMENTAL BRANCH

With a light heart, Nash began browsing various basic professional knowledge.

In this world, professions were basically divided into three branches of science: Law, Matter, and Life.

Law pertained to how the world works, elements, energy, and the extraordinary properties of the universe.

Matter, on the other hand, was about utilizing every material in the universe.

Finally, Life covered the study of biology, plants, void beasts, dark beasts, and even energy beings.

With these three as the core, there were millions of professions in the universe to choose from.

For Earth, Nash wasn’t too ambitious.

Instead of focusing on specialties, he bought the three fundamental knowledge sets needed to produce scientists.

From Law, Matter, and Life, Nash purchased the Tier 1 fundamentals of these subjects.

Totaling tens of thousands of books, it cost Nash 700 billion for the 1,000-times buyout system.

Such knowledge was incredibly cheap compared to void and soul manuals, with each book costing only a few thousand Nova credits.

After buying these, Nash browsed various books on enlightenment, etiquette, conduct, self-improvement, manners, character, and morals to shape people from their upbringing.

Costing another ten billion for the 10,000-times buyout system, Nash spent 710 billion in total.

"I still have a 190 billion budget." Nash nodded in satisfaction.

It seemed he really saved big by not buying the void and soul manuals.

Thinking of what to do with the remaining budget, Nash suddenly considered methods to test his people’s basic talents.

Instead of using a written test, which was not only inaccurate and resource-intensive, he thought of directly testing their potential in the virtual world.

With the versatility of the virtual world, there should be a universal test to assess an individual’s potential.

Wondering where he could find such a thing, Nash opened the Nova Virtual Forum to search for answers.

Although the virtual world had a search engine, unfortunately, he didn’t have authorized access to it.

Swiping mindlessly through the forum, he began entering various keywords, looking for answers to his questions.

Soon, after only a few minutes, Nash found what he was looking for.

"Virtual Basic Potential Assessment. I didn’t expect such a function was embedded in the Virtual World itself."

Unlike other testing, trial, or assessment facilities run by an entity, the Virtual Basic Potential Assessment was built into the virtual world itself.

Not only that, to avoid burying any talents, the assessment was free and could be conducted in a private virtual space.

The Virtual Basic Potential Assessment tested only two things: Void Affinity and Scientific Potential.

Void Affinity measured how an individual reacted to void energy.

It tested not only how quickly someone could absorb void energy but also the element they had the most affinity for.

The other was Scientific Potential, which evaluated an individual’s comprehension and compatibility with the three basic fundamentals.

Though not entirely accurate, as it didn’t account for genetic abilities or prior exposure and knowledge, it was sufficient for general purposes.

With this, unless there was a freak like himself who could break boundaries, Nash should get fairly accurate results.

"It seems I don’t need to spend money after all..."

Smiling, he decided to save the rest to hire teachers to train his people.

After all, learning on their own was too inefficient. He could only hire teachers to hasten their progress.

He would do this until he cultivated enough talents and Earth became self-sufficient.

Having bought and planned everything for Earth, Nash finally heaved a sigh of relief.

"Now it’s time to focus on myself..."

In the three years before the Domain-Level Cosmic Competition, he had three goals: to reach 10,000% saturation in both his body and soul, to read every book in the Nova Library, and to start mastering runic commands.

Reaching 10,000% saturation for both his body and soul was his most crucial goal.

Unlike the sector-level Cosmic Competition, the Domain-Level event would pit him against not only void warriors and some void commanders but also far stronger opponents.

At this stage, the talents he’d face would have a foundation of 1,000% saturation and be in higher realms than him.

While the sector-level competition had a 30-year age limit, the Domain-Level allowed competitors up to 100 years old.

With such a long timeframe, it was common to reach Void General rank, with some achieving Void Venerate, and rare monsters even hitting Void Marshal rank!

Against such competition, 10,000% saturation was his bare minimum, not even offering a guarantee of victory.

With the upcoming Galactic-Level Cosmic Competition in mind, it was truly a battle of gods and demons.

To even have a fighting chance, Nash planned to read every book from Tier 1 to Tier 5 in the Nova Library, giving him a vast collection of knowledge to handle any situation.

With that knowledge, no matter what happened in the Cosmic Competition, he would have confidence.

His final goal, though tentative, was one he deeply wanted to achieve: to start mastering runic commands.

The runic patterns forming the Runic Space were divided into three stages: Runic Program, Runic Command, and Runic Pattern.

The further he progressed, the harder it was to comprehend, but the greater control he would gain over his body.

Just mastering Runic Programs alone gave him the ability to manipulate his body and soul.

Nash estimated that mastering Runic Commands would allow him to modify his body and soul.

Manipulation lets him control and maximize his abilities to the extreme.

Modification, however, could let him alter his fundamental properties, altering them entirely.

He could turn his skin as tough as the hardest metal, his muscles into the most elastic and explosive material, his organs into a perpetual machine, his brain into a computer, or even modify his cells to approach immortality!

With modification, he could easily break his body’s limits.

Even the imaginative runic module system he had envisioned in the past could become achievable.

Of course, there were still limits; modification was just modification. It couldn’t change the fact that he was a functioning biological being.

Turning his skin into the hardest metal was impossible, but making it comparable to the hardest metal was possible.

He couldn’t change what he was, but could alter it to come close to what he wanted.