My Life as an Awoken

With all of the preparations completed we distributed the training methods to all 10,000 prisoners.

It’s more accurate to say that we distributed 5,000 and had the other 5,000 choose their own.

We had to test whether that had an effect on the training.

Over the course of a week we got significant results.

Side effects that resemble Qi deviation started showing up. Some effects were minor, muscle strain, vomiting, passing out, nose bleeds, and bruising.

Other side effects were much more drastic, vomiting blood, internal hemorrhaging, mental defects, hallucinations, and one guy actually blew up.

His whole body started to swell up until, pop. He exploded and painted his entire cell red.

The interesting thing is that most of the Qi deviation happened to the group that didn’t pick their training method.

The side that picked their own method still had Qi deviation, but it was rare to have any major side effects.

That means that you either have the ability to subconsciously pick training methods that don’t have deviations or something else is happening.

I highly doubt the subconscious can make that distinction. The only information they have to choose their method is the name. The name is auto generated by the AI based on the contents of the training method.

Like the meridian burning knight training method.

Or the sky breathing meditation training method.

Perhaps something else is the cause. Like abilities? But all of the people we chose didn’t have abilities.

But. What if, like abilities, people have affinities? That is starting to make some sense. Then people would be subconsciously choosing what would fit their affinity. Yeah. That sounds more likely.

If that is the case then I wonder how precise an affinity can get.

Would there be a difference between the meridian burning knight training method and the meridian smoldering knight training method.

They are basically the same. I wonder if the affinity precision is the same for each person.

Let’s say two people have the same fire ability, would the affinity be the same? Or is it more personal than that?

For example would there be a theoretical best fire training method, or is it different per person?

These are questions that need to be answered.

Another strange thing that happened is that only among the people that did not choose their training method, a few of them had little to no progress.

I need to make sure this also isn’t related to affinity. Or if it’s just the method that is bad.

Lots more trail and error to get through. With seemingly less time to do it.

Because as time progresses more monsters with more variety are appearing.

The types are still related to the local culture.

Currently there still isn’t enough to really threaten lots of people. The biggest problem is still the villains and evil awakeners. They pose the biggest risk to public safety.

I will say there has also been a huge increase in Metubers making videos about ghosts and the occult. What’s crazy about it is that occasionally they will have spells that work.

They are usually one off spells that work once then won’t work again even if the same steps are followed.

It makes me wonder if we could get real magic some time soon.

Right now the best thing we have are physical training methods. They could be called body tempering or body cultivation at best.

None of them so far are anything that impressive.

But maybe we can figure something out.

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After another week of trial and error we made more discoveries.

Affinities are real and they are a lot more personalized than we originally thought. However, there are still training methods that are objectively better even when accounting for affinities.

For example if you have the fire breathing technique, the fire tempering technique, and the royal fire breathing technique.

If you have an affinity for the fire tempering technique then it will be better than the fire breathing technique. But the royal fire breathing technique could curb the affinity gap and make it comparable.

Similarly a person can have an affinity for techniques or training methods from different regions. Like a person might have more affinity for a Western knight training method over an Eastern body cultivation method.

What decides a person’s affinity is interesting. Because if we use the computer to look into every person’s lives and investigate. Then you will find that a person’s affinity is related to the culture a person grew up with or what they prefer.

Now whether that preference comes from a subconscious lean toward their affinity or not is another question.

Altogether this means that there are quantifiable tiers or ranks to training methods. With this new information we can push training methods to another level.

We have gathered data on every person’s body and how every training method affected them. By using all of this information we can make training methods better and safer.

After collecting all of the information and data we started the computer again. A second later we had another million different training methods.

All of the old versions that created Qi deviations were stored away and replaced by the improved versions. These improved versions not only get rid of the problem but have also enhanced the training effectiveness.

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Another week passed by.

It was the beginning of June and the heat was cranking up. The cicadas were screeching as the heat tried to smother them.

We made further progress with the training methods and we were almost ready to release to the public. The public being awakeners that have a valid license and the money to afford a training method.

We were working on a training method to release to the public and teach in schools. But, it had to be a universally functional method that didn’t cause Qi deviation and was usable by everyone.

The biggest hurdle was something we found out this time. If you train in a training method and reach a certain point it becomes extremely difficult to change your training method.

So, we have to find a method that is easy to exchange.

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