Virtual Evo Games
Training Operator

From a place that is quite far from the city, there is an island in the middle of the ocean. The island looks pretty majestic and sophisticated.

There are a lot of people in a building. They were dressed in uniforms with blue dongker jacket vests. Those people seemed to be very busy typing using his keyboard. The group of humans also use a headset.

Including a woman, who is certainly already very well known. Archie, the woman looks very serious about watching her computer screen, while talking as if directing someone to do something.

He has been at the Sierra Academy for a few weeks. An intensive training ground of prospective operators and prospective players. Archie quickly adapted to the state of the sophisticated place. When he first came there, he was reminded of Cyber City Light.

Archie sat in a chair with a big computer there. He is conducting a performance assessment test witnessed by other prospective operators from the monitoring arena, just like his training in The Waves.

The systematics of the assessment is, doing a simulation of the match. Archie becomes an operator, then the player is an artificial intelligence in the form of humans, or even prospective Virtual Evo Game players.

Archie keeps an eye on the movements of his partners while occasionally giving directions. He also helps when coding, so that the hacking mission can be quickly completed. And the assessment is over. The woman got a pretty high score.

“Good job, Archie,” said Dairen, one of his mentors at Sierra Academy.

“Thank you, Sir,” answered. Archie was seen exhaling a sigh of relief, then got down from his chair, and came out of the operator's room.

He sat on one of the chairs in the monitoring arena, looking at the big screen in front of him. Archie looks exhausted, this is because he increased his training time, in order to quickly get an operator license.

A few hours, Archie looked at the assessment of other would-be operators. Some have good results, some don't.

He laughed bitterly, remembering himself in the past. His time failed in training, splashed into the lake, and got a bad result during an individual match at VEG some time ago.

When he came to the Sierra Academy, many people recognized him.

“That's Archie from The Waves right?”

“Yes, the fifteenth ranker is not it?”

“When he goes, kayaking is no match. Even look like regular exercise.”

“Don't-don't, he was followed for using insiders. Yeah, how ya. VEG class matches, if you use insiders but the skill is less mah, abis kayak him.”

And other words he heard. Archie himself ignores it, as he came to Sierra Island only to train himself to be an operator. He who looks cheerful but awkward does not seem to exist at this time.

The current Archie is the serious type. There was a lot of pressure, but he kept trying to train. Who would have thought, he even got a faster chance to get an operator license.

During the semifinals, he watched it. The pressure was even more real as Aro made it to the final round. He completed all of his programs, as his career as an operator was about to begin.

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The others, as they were all from the start just being operators and used to being indoors without any physical exercise, looked extremely exhausted after running. Archie sat in the middle of the field like the others to rest.

“Archie, please forward,” call Daren.

“Good, Sir,” he replied while going to the front of the field.

Archie stood next to Dauren. He told other would-be operators to stand up, and then those people did. Suddenly in front of Archie was a holographic digital window. He fell silent, remembering the incident when he had not completed his hacking mission at that time.

What else does this want? His inner.

“One of the tasks of the operator is, helping the player to hack the defense system from the computer screen. Right so?” dairen.

“True, Sir,” replied everyone in the field.

“The reason I bring up the digital window screen is, for you to practice facing it directly. Without computer help.”

“And because among you, only one person has ever done this,” continued Dairen and then turned to look at Archie next to him.

“Archie, since you have competed, please tell your friends, how to do it.”

Archie was shocked when he heard it. He swallowed, not knowing how. The woman just did not want to be ashamed, because many watched her match at that time. And he failed before doing his hacking mission. The worry and trauma came back. His hand had already touched the screen, but Archie retracted his hand.

“Sorry, sir, I did compete, but..”.

“But why?” ask someone who cut Archie's words. He was shocked when he heard the voice, he recognized it very much. But when searched, there was no owner of the voice.

Maybe it was just a hallucination, right? Inner Archie.

But he felt strange, because the other prospective operators seemed to hear the voice as well.

Someone from one of the vanguards, raised his right hand and opened his hoodie. He made the people on his right and left scream in surprise. Archie opened his mouth wide in surprise.

“Kak Aro?”

Aro who was in the front row, looked at Archie with a smile.

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