Chapter 498: The secret of the special ss


    (The operator room, The Arc Ship)


    Raya, Raven and Captain Kid, all simply stared at their game statistics screen with their heads clutched tight.


    “He wouldn’t, would he? I mean, only 6 yers have ever reached the realm of a master by just ying the stupid game before. However, even those geniuses had only reached the master realm in the final year of their journey…. He wouldn’t manage to do it in just under two years would he?” Raya asked, her voiceced with disbelief as she stared at the statistics screen in front of her, which now projected the likelihood of Leo Skyshard bing a ‘Master’ level fighter in just under 5 months at 40%.


    “He’s going to reach it. There’s no doubt about it, the question is only how fast. If he reaches it too fast, he will break the bnce of the game and our employers will not be happy at all–” Captain Kid, the Captain of this ship said, as he seemed genuinely worried about the direction things were currently going in.


    “He is going to reach it soon and there’s nothing we can do to hinder him, as both the Universal Government and Human Alliance have shown great interest in him as a talent and have given us explicit instructions to not hinder his gamey–” Raven said, as he pointed out how Leo had already started to gather the attention of the higher ups and how they could not purposefully sabotage his gamey.


    “I knew giving him that mental meditation scroll was a mistake, he’s progressing rapidly because of it. If it wasn’t for the scroll he would still be struggling to reach intermediate mastery of his skills” Rayained, as she seemed frustrated at the fact that Leo got a meditation scroll before her, even though she was a universal government employee for years now.


    “You think it’s because of the scroll?” Captain kid asked, his voiceced with contempt as he could not believe that his underlings would possess such a narrow view of things.


    “You’re naive and immature if you think the scroll has a huge part to y in this. It has a small part to y, yes, but this progress is his own” Kid said authoritatively as he seemed personally insulted by the very insinuation that this progress that Leo made was because of anything but his own talent. “How many times have we introduced ‘Actor’ as a special ss within the game world? And how many times has anyone yed it, even a quarter as good as this kid?” Kid pointed out, as Raya shook her head in shame.


    The ‘Actor’ ss was supposed to be one of the hardest sses in the game to y.


    Not only did ite with a difficult starting penalty, where one could instantly lose their life before the game ever officially took pace, but it was also difficult to progress in overall.


    The actor ss imposed so many different roles upon its yer that a normal person was sure to be overwhelmed.


    Between maintaining the image of the first role and progressing through the other roles, a yer often found themselves unable to keep up with any role, spiraling into a downfall.


    90% of all ‘Actor’ ss yers throughout history lost their lives within the first three months of the game, and the lucky 10% that survived, crashed and burnt out when the second role was imposed upon them.


    Leo was the first ‘Actor’ ss yer to ever make it so far, outperforming even the ‘Regressor’ ss yer which was usually the favorite to be number one and this was a testament to his own skill as his ss wasn’t inherently this strong.


    The ‘Actor’ ss, just like all the other special sses within the game, was modeled after a sessful historic figure, who had used unconventional means to reach the top.


    The Demon King Anos, that lived centuries ago on Terra Nova, took ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ to its limits, bing the most sessful demon ruler in the past 1000 years, even though he himself wasn’t that strong.


    The ‘Actor’ ss was modeled after him, however, although the ss had been introduced for the past 400 years within the game as a ‘Unique’ destiny, nobody seemed to be able to make the most of it, until Leo.


    Leo, just like Anos, was the perfect fit for the ‘Actor’ ss, as he really managed to fake his strength till he actually started to make it in life.


    However, in terms of pure ss superiority, the other special sses like Cervantez’s (Regressor), ChaosBringer’s (Instigator), Jacob’s (Death Overlord), Big Dawg’s (Seer) were all superior to Leo’s (Actor).


    All the special sses within the world of Terra Nova were modeled after realistic historical figures who managed to be super sessful in life bing the best at their ss, and there were over 500 of them in total.


    There was roughly 1 in 1 million chance that a yer got a special ss, however, despite there being 500 special ss yers total, only 120 of them were within top 10,000, with many like Eren’s [Demon Whisperer] being not sessful at all.


    Although the potential behind each unique ss was immense, they were only introduced within the game as a social experiment to see whether or not anyone could recreate the sess form of those historic beings, while the wider focus still remained on developing workers for the destination.


    However, even though special sses were uniquely positioned to be more sessful than the rest, the amount of progress Leo currently made was beyond the realms of understanding for the ship operators, as him being on the cusp of bing a (Master) was a huge problem for them.


    The ankle monitors currently having a tight hold on all passengers could not handle the strength of a master, and with them not having any master level restriction monitors on the ship, if Leo reached the master realm, it would result in them losing control over him.