Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 407 Holographic Simulation

As soon as he spoke, someone next to him said, "Isn't this guy just a regular D-level werewolf?"

"He has awakened a second time," someone said, "using the compatible genes of the deceased team member."

"Since you've chosen a second awakening, why not go for something even more powerful?" someone wondered.

"What do you know? The second awakening must be similar to the first awakening in terms of ability type, preferably from the same series. For example, the most common werewolf series, the evolved version has ghost wolves that can become invisible and have increased speed, giant werewolves that can grow larger and have increased strength, and wolf kings that can control wolf packs, etc."

"However, although this series is the earliest, its potential is very low. All three evolution versions are only C-grade. He didn't have many choices to begin with."

David ignored what the people next to him were saying, picked up a "holographic simulation helmet" from the bar, and put it on his head.

A point of light suddenly appeared before his eyes, which then transformed into a line of text: "Login identity detected: David Watson. Iris verification passed, brainwave verification passed, magic spectrum verification passed. Welcome to the holographic simulation. Please select a simulation category."

Two options popped up: "Training Simulation, Battle Simulation".

This so-called holographic simulation helmet only appeared two months ago. According to headquarters, it was designed to familiarize them with combat, enemies, and various situations involving magical disasters.

Its functions are incredibly powerful; it can completely simulate a space or scene, with flowers, birds, fish, insects, water, land, and so on, all looking exactly like the real world.

It can also simulate magical creatures, magical disasters, and, more importantly, the user's own situation.

It can create a "clone" in the simulation space that is exactly the same as the user, with the same physical condition and abilities as in reality.

Through this simulation, members of the Countermeasures Bureau can practice shooting and fighting in the simulator, familiarize themselves with their own abilities, learn about the abilities and weaknesses of magical creatures, and even simulate handling various possible situations of magical disasters by fighting against magical creatures.

The simulator also features many real-life magical disasters from the past, allowing investigators to enter and personally participate in handling these disasters, gaining valuable experience.

This method can greatly enhance the investigators' survivability without causing any actual losses, and therefore it received strong support from all members of the Countermeasures Bureau as soon as it was introduced.

Headquarters said the holographic simulation helmet used a magical technology called "mind reproduction," but David knew nothing about it.

In fact, the so-called "mind re-enactment" technology is simply an application developed by Murphy through mind networks after he gained a deeper understanding of mind magic.

Its working method is somewhat similar to the Pensieve, which extracts and stores various scenarios from the memories of each user through memory retrieval and comprehensive recall, including their own physical condition, abilities, magical creatures they have encountered, and magical disaster scenarios.

Then, through digital technology, these scenes are given a digital image.

Finally, by connecting everyone together through the mental network, a holographic simulation network is formed.

This simulation is extremely computationally intensive; therefore, part of its computational power is provided by Murphy's supercomputing network, while the other part is actually provided by the user's own mental effort.

To prevent individual will from altering the scene within the network, Murphy adjusted the rules of the mental network accessed through the holographic simulation network. By utilizing the mental energy of all accessors, he restricted and counteracted each individual, preventing them from acting arbitrarily in the holographic simulation and forcing them to act only according to real and effective rules of reality. This ensured the fairness and authenticity of the simulation.

David selected "Battle Simulation," and soon he and Morris were connected to a battle scenario.

"Random battle scenario: Magic Disaster - Demonized Five-Legged Monster. Mode: Competitive."

A giant letter formed of flame flashed before David's eyes and then vanished instantly. He found himself in a forest.

He looked down and saw his own body, fully armed.

He looked around at his surroundings, then immediately took out a black box from his backpack, pressed a switch, and with a series of buzzing sounds, more than a dozen ultra-small drones were launched from the box and flew into the air.

Half a minute later, he glanced at the square electronic display screen on his left arm, which showed a radar image with a red dot suddenly appearing about one kilometer away.

At the same time, another smaller blue dot appeared about ten meters to the right.

David was startled and immediately raised his gun, pulling the trigger to his right. A hail of bullets rained down, riddling the bushes in front of him with holes, but a blue dot appeared on the screen to his left.

"Bang bang bang!" The machine gun fire was like a storm. David felt a chill and reached for his waist with his left hand. He pulled out a beer mug-like object and pressed a button on the handle.

In the blink of an eye, the cup unfolded into a fan-shaped shield, which then instantly enlarged, covering his entire body.

The next instant, the bullets struck the shield with a loud thud, but it only caused his arm to go numb and he was not injured in any way.

David immediately began to move, while simultaneously returning fire with his machine gun. However, the blue dot on the screen disappeared.

David was taken aback, then was astonished to find that the light spot had not disappeared, but had completely overlapped with the green light spot representing himself.

In a flash, he placed the shield on his head and then leaped to the side.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Countless bullets engulfed the spot where he had just been standing, some even hitting his shield, but ultimately they failed to harm him.

"Twice," David counted silently.

The opponent had already teleported twice in a row, with only a little over a second between them. In the replay I saw in the tavern, he could only teleport three times in a short period of time.

There will be one last time, after which he will be unable to use his abilities for the time being.

However, just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a distortion in the space in front of him, and then Morris appeared there, holding a grenade with the safety pin already pulled. He grinned at him, then released the handle and threw the grenade at him.

David was lying face down on the ground, his shield still covering his body, when the grenade exploded the instant it was thrown.

"boom!"

Morris looked at the rising dust in the distance and a smile appeared on his lips. His teleportation speed was extremely fast, and his reaction speed was far beyond that of ordinary people. Under this triple flash attack, most of the enemies were killed in one move.

This time will be no exception.

Just as he was waiting for the kill notification to appear in the air, suddenly, with a roar, a giant wolf the size of a car burst out from the dust and smoke, and a giant claw as big as a millstone slapped at him.

At the same time, on the same radar image on their arms, a red dot rapidly approached, almost coinciding with the positions of the two.

With a series of "crack" sounds, a five-legged monster, no less large than a giant wolf, pounced out from behind Morris.

(End of this chapter)