Opening his eyes, Stevanius found out that he was inside dark space. There only darkness in this space, there not single one source of light, no sun, no moon, no fire, not even a lamp, only completely darkness.
In darkness place, Stevanius getting confused about the situation.
'where I'am?' he was really confused, when he opened his eyes, shouldn't he inside another dimension?
Blabbered, Stevanius trying to move his body. He tried to move his feet with a thought.
'i can't move?' he cannot feel any moment coming from his lower body part.
He tried multiple times, but his efforts are futile.
He tried to move his hands, but there also no movement, he tried to move his head, there still no movement.
He tried to move his whole body, however the results are still the same.
'i...I can't feels my body...'
None of his sense are working right now, his body seems disappeared. He cannot hear, cannot smells, cannot sensed.
The only sense that still working are his vision.
Somehow, he doesn't know how he still can see. However, even if he can see, there only complete darkness. So he still cannot 'see' anything.
Helpless and blabbered with the situation happening, all he can do is just wait.
A minute has passed, but there nothing changes.
He doesn't know how long it's passed, a minute feels like a hours, a hours feel like a years.
Tens minutes...
Half an hour...
A hours...
A dozen of hours.
He doesn't know anymore.
The concept of time seems didn't exist in this places.
He doesn't know,
'i'm not going to trapped here forever right?'
When he opened his eyes, Stevanius are supposed to be at the other side of dimension, however he don't know why he ended up at this place.
There a thought occupied his mind like, did I caught by someone? Someone so powerful that I don't event know how I'm being kidnapped for a labrats? Or did I by any chance 'die'? And this is afterlife? Or...
Just as he overthinking things, Stevanius opened his eyes at the different place already.
When he realized where he was, Stevanius confused.
'huh? Did I setting up the tent yesterday? I remember that I slept under the apple tree...'
Stevanius clearly remember that yesterday, he was sleeping under the apple tree because he didn't have time and too tired at that moment. But he was blabbered when he suddenly inside the tent.
However his confusion quickly being swept away, bunch of information appear out of nowhere inside his head.
"ah!"
He suddenly understand the whole event after receiving the memory.
The memory are came from second brain. Apparently, when he running away yesterday, his main consciousness passed out for a moment. After that, his second brain are taking over his body by finding safe places, setting up tent and barrier, the second brain also upgraded his barrier relic so it worked better than before.
The reason are his own subconscious seemed like driving the second brain, and the second brain clearly understood what he want, since it also connected to his main ones. Also, there another reason as for why the second brain acted up.
After his encounter with werewolf, Stevanius are becoming more vigilant. What if, by some reason he cannot get out from the 'game' when the same thing such as werewolf attack happens? How will he survives in those situation? Or what if there no system notification and someone or something managed to get around it?
Because it stated that, if the main body died the ones inside the game also dies.
There are surely a lot of method that probably can bypass the system notification to the traveller that played the 'game'. Even if that is just mere Stevanius plan for now, he really believed that his hypothesis plan are really working.
Because of those reasoning, he decided to 'program' or much like 'order' the second brain to take care of his body. He placed the survival of his body as top priority, if he somehow encountered something or someone beyond his league by leaps bound and cannot escape using 'normal' method. He ordered second brain to used up all random relic draws, unopened treasure chest, or any method that second brain can things or fabricated of.
And if by any chance all of second brain plan didn't working out, his final method should be 'self-destruction', he will bring that something, someone, or creature go to grave with him!
The information are about the time after he passed out, second brain is find for safe place, setting the tent, barrier, and then sleeping. At the other sides, Stevanius are waking up for a moment and mistaken the scene of him resting under the apple tree as real world.
After Stevanius 'sleeping' again, the second brain apparently taking over again.
The second brain are starting to kill monster in the surrounding for some reason, the second brain killing the monster without a rest untill the time was over and Stevanius wakes up.
This thing are similar to how some game still can 'Hunt' after even the character logged out. it is different features than auto hunting or afk function.
The afk are stand fro: Away From Keyboard afterall, the game are still running and the character didn't logged out. As for the game features I talked about, it is similar to offline auto hunting. One still can receive a monster drops or rewards or even levels/experience point. Even after they logged out from the games, of course a feature like this are limited, mostly it can only last few hours of hunting and the rewards are much lower than doing normal AFK.
I like to call the features as Sleep Hunt, Sleeping Mode, Afk Sleep, and so on...
"Huh? I didn't place any of those orders " Stevanius remember that he never order the second brain to hunt at all.
'yes, you didn't place any orders. I only doing it by following your habits'
Suddenly a voice appears on his head.
Stevanius shocked and almost jumping out.
"w-who is that?!"
There just completely silent, Stevanius are even more confused with the situation.
He began thinking that 'it is a ghost? Is has to be one right?' 'powerful person?' 'former myself of this body?' 'did it has something to do with that room with completely darkness?'.
But, just as Stevanius speculating things and his head seemed cannot work properly yet, maybe because of exhausted or the fact that he afraid of ghost. The voice are clear his negative thoughts.
'no, none of those. I'm your first relics, the things inside your head'
"A-Are you perhaps Second Brain?" only did after the voice clear his negative thoughts he can think properly again.
'Yes'
"ah!" However, he still little bit shocked in the end.
"you actually can talk?" he doesn't know that the second brain can talk or have a conciseness.
'to answer of your questions, yes and no.
At first, I can't talk, I doesn't even have a conciseness by myself. However after you upgraded me, my features are getting upgraded.
If you're still confused, think about me (second brain) as a simple computer like calculator that can store 'data', by myself, I cannot do anything.
However, after you upgraded me. The calculator upgraded itself becoming an 'real' computer, a computer can work by himself without even needing a user command, they just need to be 'booting up'. Even so, the thing that computer can do is limited by itself.
As for me, I didn't need to 'boot up' I'm alive as long the you alive, I already being bound with your. There also the fact that I'm different from real computer, you can think of me as a A.I that can constantly evolves by itself'
"Hmm...I see..
Then, why you didn't speak to me sooner?"
Stevanius finally understand this so called second brain are really a 'chip' from sci-fi genres, but there still something that makes him curious.
'ah about that...
Honestly, I didn't instantly evolving after you upgrading me. For this whole times, my consciousness are still being built up this whole times and only awakened few days ago.'
Stevanius response are just.
"oh"
After hearing all of that.
Stevanius instantly understood, you can think that the Second Brain consciousness building process just like the first time of making an A.I. Before A.I can do those marvellous things, they need to be created, the creations of A.I are not small matters, it needs a lots of step before it done and A.I can learned by itself.
"Speaking a which, you said yourself that you're similar to A.I right? Then, who programmed you? Or by short means What you made of?"
'Good question... I am being made of you!'
Confusing appears on Stevanius face, the second brain seems realized that and continue talking.
'by what I meant I'm being made of you, I was originated from you. That also means you are the developer and the programmer of the A.I
If you still confused by what I mean, like I said, I need a time to develop my consciousness. This consciousness are actually coming from yours, your data or your memory, I'm being made from those.'
However, it seems like Stevanius getting confused even more. So the second Brain continuing the explanation.
'if you still doesn't understand, you can think of me as your alter ego,'
"Ah! Alter ego!"
Only then did Stevanius understand. Just like the name it stated, Second brain are his 'Second'.
Second consciousness, second Personality, his clones, and so on...
"Then if you're my alter ego, did you have Personality?"
'uh, it little bit complicated to explain. However again, yes and no.
I can 'feel' and understand the emotion, but at the same time, I can't 'feel' it. So confusing right?
Emotion are what made human had different personalities. And it is confusing even more, I don't thing you can understand even if I explain everything.'
Feels like his head getting hurt because of the conversation, Stevanius didn't dwell the matter anymore.
"Alright then..."
"However, if it is unknown if you had personality or not (probably yes) did you comes out with a name?
From you probably already know after reading my memories, in those novels and comics, your existence are similar to those so called chip. You're biological chip I guess.
So did you comes out with a name? Even a skill has it own name, I remember the name is after one of Archangels. Did you also comes out with something like that?"
'hmmm... Name right?
I don't know, I haven't thing about it yet. You can call me whatever you want, even calling me Chip also fine.
Honestly I doesn't really mind with those kind stuff, only human are care about something trivial as that'
"ugh... Y-you ware right, we do really care about such trivial things.
Even I doesn't know what a good names, I'm bad at naming things you know...."(author itself)
"Let's just call as how it is then,
Second Brain, it pleasure to work with you. Please take care of me!"
'very well, it also pleasure to be at your services'
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Sorry I didn't write on Sunday~ (yesterday)