DESTINY GAMES

Another thing that appeared in front of him were strings of bubbles. These bubbles were connected to each other. They contained the level 1 classified information about the Lignum world and the military codex.

He rubbed his hands in anticipation and said, "I hope my luck is not so bad."

Then he went through each bubble one by one. He couldn’t read everything within them because the information they contained was large.

One bubble contained the map of the Lignum world. When he opened the bubble, a large three-dimensional image was projected into the white space. The projection was of the Lignum world, and it showed environmental details such as forests, lakes, mountains, deserts, and many more.

The map was so large that he got dizzy just looking at it. Most of it was missing and was bare. But some parts were so detailed that even the information about the type of soil in an area, the various layers of that soil, and the ages of the layers were mentioned.

Some of the bubbles contained the history of the world, the list of creatures in the world, the culture of the prominent races, and the climate conditions of Lignum.

Some of this information was scant. The history of Lignum is one example with few things. It mostly contained myths and legends from the inhabitants of the world. There was very little that had been verified.

He could go through the bubble that contained the history of Lignum in a few hours. But there were other bubbles that he could only skim through for now.

The most voluminous one was the bubble that contained the list of living things in Lignum. It was large because it wasn’t just a list. It also contained the biology, lifestyle, and habitat of those creatures.

He said, "I can conclude that my luck is not so bad. But I didn’t know that there was more to worry about other than the environment and fighting. I didn’t know that there was an hidden enemy to worry about."

His luck is not bad in that he won’t be deployed to a world where the very air itself will try to kill him for breathing it. He won’t need breathing aids in Lignum. The most he has to worry about from the environment are rainstorms and the occasional lightning strikes.

Of course there will be inhabitants of the world who will be far from hospitable and will do everything they can to remove his presence from their precious world. But before he can wet the edge of his blade with blood, he has to split his brain in half and put all of the information about Lignum into it.

The fact that this information is available at all indicates that the Yggdrasil civilization doesn’t go into war blind. They have investigated Lignum and then gave him information that they thought he should know before going to battle.

Then there is the military codex. It contains the code of conduct, rules and regulations, hierarchy of the army, and the merit and reward system. It is a must-learn if he intends to return from the battlefield at all.

It would be ultimate foolishness if he decided to ignore these two groups of information. He is not foolish, so he doesn’t plan to ignore it. But learning it won’t be easy to do either.

The codex alone looks like the constitution of a country. It is surprisingly simple and straightforward to read. It is easy for him to understand, but it is just too large. He doubts he can assimilate this much information in the three months he has before the invasion.

He shook his head and said, "It looks like I will be studying again. Reminds me of the relatively easier days with Father. At least this time, I won’t be punished with beatings and starvation if I fail my exams."

He reminisced about one of the bad old days he had spent under the tutelage of the Patriarch. This reminiscing was only for a short while.

He couldn’t bear to dwell on it too much because of the residual pain and trauma the experience had left in him. He only thought of it for a while, shook his head, and began studying the information contained in the bubbles.

He read the military codex first, as it was the most important one. It contained everything he needed to know about the military system of the Yggdrasil civilization itself.

He might choose to be ignorant about the world they are invading, but he just can’t be ignorant about the army he will be fighting in. And unlike the information about Lignum world, this information was complete.

There will be many pieces of information about worlds for invasion in the future, but there will only be one military codex. It is why the military codex is complete while the information about Lignum has a lot of blind spots and guesses.

Lignum is just one of the many worlds that the Yggdrasil civilization will invade and is currently invading. If he survives this expedition, he will join the army to invade another world in the future. So he prioritized the military codex first.

Thanks to his powerful mind, he can read faster and retain information quicker. This, combined with the simple and straightforward language used in the military codex, made reading easy for him.

He was sure that he would be able to assimilate most of the information contained in the codex in one round of reading. At the very least, he would have retained 70% of it.

Then he would need another round of reading to ensure a retention of 90% of the entire codex.By his estimate, a third round of reading would push this retention to 99%.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t complete one round of reading because it would take more than a day to do so. He had an appointment with the future subordinates of his cabal that he couldn’t miss. So he left the tower of destiny and began to prepare for the meeting.