"Host, my guess is that you were either purifying that brackish energy, or the dungeon was taking it through you."
Luca thought about D-29’s conjecture before replying; technically, he used to be a Guide. But he’s never even consciously Guided Espers; in fact, the problem was that he was guiding non-stop without contact, so the Awakened people weren’t allowed near him.
Not to ntion, Guides were there to purify an Esper’s madness and ensure that they didn’t end up rampaging. So, how would it be possible for him to purify this dark energy?
Hmm...
Unless this energy was similar to madness? But how was that possible?
Luca’s handicap was because he hadn’t seen what that state of madness looked like on Espers. Everything that he knew about it ca from the many books that he had to read to make Guiding Pills.
But if he was really purifying that energy, then shouldn’t the Guiding Pills be usable for these people?
"Are you able to extract information from Physical Books? I have books from my original world in the cabin; maybe you could compare the data and information?"
"Ideally, yes, Host. I just need you to place the books in the Dungeon Inventory so that I can utilize the books."
"That’s good then! And regarding your guesses, I’m not so sure about purifying anything since I have always been a defective Guide. The second guess might even be more plausible, though the logistics seem unrealistic."
Luca began pulling the items from his cabin for direct transfer to the inventory accessible by D-29.
While Luca was concentrating on thinking and transferring, he missed out on two people’s observant glances.
Xavier wondered why he was stopping again while an unsatisfied classmate judged him a procrastinator or, worse, soone who felt he was beyond the system to even do the work assigned by the instructor.
However, everyone’s thoughts and actions stopped when Instructor Moore started to lecture about chas.
"Now that you’ve practiced taking out your chas, we should take ti to discuss the different piloting modes."
"Since most of you are familiar with the cha’s main parts, I’d like you to look at the diagram comparing the two piloting types."
The instructor allowed us to see the projection from his terminal, which showed two different cockpit configurations.
"Normally, the cockpit would house a spiritual energy connector as well as your typical control panel. But over the years, the military gravitated towards manually piloted chas."
"We all know about the current issues faced by many of our cha pilots, and our current solution is to encourage people to adapt better to manually operated ones. While this would decrease our combat abilities, it would better protect our soldiers, ensuring that we could fight for much longer." The instructor sighed as he explained, clearly downplaying his view on ’decreased combat abilities’.
"But at the sa ti, we understand that many of you are already used to combination piloting, as evidenced by the number of personal chas we have in this class." He made a point to look around, and the students followed suit.
This was really the school for the elites, as even students could own chas far better than many official soldiers.
Instructor Moore was glad that the promising pilots had their own arsenal, but he needed to make sure they understood why the military only allowed those with sufficient abilities to use combination piloting.
It was a matter of life and death, and he, for one, was not a fan of watching his students die.
"We’re not discouraging you from using your personal chas, but for them to be cleared for official use, the student must show us their capabilities."
The instructor’s voice bood as he wanted to emphasize the importance of his statent.
"Once you venture out into the world, it will not be about the grandeur of the cha, but about the preservation of your life as well as the lives of the people around you."
There were murmurs around the class, where even the students with exceptional-looking chas seed surprised.
That was new for Luca, who seed like he was always the only person who had no idea about everything. This was considering how the instructors emphasized just rehashing commonly known information.
"Sir, is this a new policy? All my brothers graduated from here, and they never ntioned such a thing, " asked one of the students.
"Yes, this was specially made in preparation for the mass conscription."
"With the boom in the number of students cos the reality that not everyone would have the sa level of spiritual powers. If chas could only be driven by those with high spiritual power rankings, then we would have a shortage of pilots."
"You may not all be aware, but since the war against the corrupted has started, we’ve had to decrease the entrance spiritual power requirent multiple tis."
"???"
The students looked at each other, and Luca wondered why his roommate seed so calm about the situation while the other nobles looked like confused chicks.
Was that how he looked in everyone’s eyes?
"You might want to ask your parents or grandparents about this. The original quota requirent was at least an A-rank rating."
The murmurs grew into gasps, and even Luca’s eyes widened as he realized how screwed the original Luca was. That poor guy wouldn’t even have a rating!
"But with the ergence of spiritual power complications, we have gradually moved towards manual piloting, which has allowed us to gradually decrease the requirent to what we have now, which is C-rank."
"While we recognize the imnse potential of pilots with higher spiritual ratings, we can now utilize pilots provided their physique and hand speeds could cope with the requirents of manually operated chas."
"So, unless you hold a permit for combination piloting, you would only be allowed to use manually piloted chas for anything sanctioned by the military."
"There would be an elective class for those gunning for the combination license. That would be a good class for anyone wishing to upgrade."
Luca’s mind raced as questions started to pile up.
He was only good at spiritual piloting, but the instructor said that there were only two ways to pilot the cha.
Then what was that test for?
They had to do six rounds, but only 4 matched the current piloting thods.
Luca wanted to ask but decided to do so privately. He wasn’t sure if that was supposed to be common knowledge or sothing too out there. And couldn’t ask D-29, who was still reviewing the information and could not be reached at the mont.
He looked at the cha before him. It really looked imposing, especially for soone like him who ca from a relatively backward world compared to this.
But now that he knew about the situation, he felt his concerns growing by the minute.
First, was wanting to check the piloting mode of the Golden cha. Then, try to see if he could enroll in that class that at least allowed the use of spiritual powers. And then he’s got to worry about that test to get the proper qualifications.
Luca tried to close his eyes and relax, but it was rather difficult.
He was screwed.
This cha was manual.
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