Biosystem Awakening: From Bastard To Badass

Chapter 8

Hours later, lectures finally came to an end, and Tristan was in a hurry to leave the school. Caleb had already made plans for the both of them to go out together by the end of the day, but after everything that had just happened, Tristan completely lost interest. He did not feel like talking, he did not feel like explaining anything, and he did not even feel like staying around anyone. He just wanted to be alone.

Caleb called him, asking him what was going on and why he suddenly left like that, but Tristan ignored the call. He did not pick up, and he did not reply. As soon as Tristan got home, he thought about telling his mom what was happening to him. He really wanted to tell her everything, but after thinking about it again, he decided not to. He was not even sure what was going on with him, so how was he supposed to explain it to someone else?

For the rest of the day, Tristan kept testing the ability that he suddenly discovered in class. He kept going over different things, trying to confirm if what he experienced was real or not. Everything he read, everything he saw, everything he went through, he could remember it clearly. It was not normal, and that was what made it even more confusing for him.

Later that night, it was time for Tristan to sleep, but he could not stop thinking about the ability to never forget, that was the only way he could describe it. 

He had so many questions.

How did this ability happen?

Why did it happen to him?

How long would it last?

Was it just for today?

Would it last for three days?

Or would it last forever?

There were so many things going through Tristan’s mind, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Eventually, without even realizing it, he slowly fell asleep.

Then suddenly, a voice that sounded like an automated robot rang out in his head.

“Full synchronization with the host has been completed. Neural Core One is now active.”

Tristan was asleep, but he could hear the voice clearly, as if it was right beside him. His eyes suddenly opened, but something felt wrong. 

He felt like he was trapped in his own body, like he was there but not really there at the same time.

It felt like he was in another world and the scene in front of him left him completely shocked.

“Where is this…? Where the hell am I…?”

Tristan looked around, and all he could see was empty space filled with white fog. It was like he was standing in the clouds, but everything was unclear. There was nothing familiar.

“Am I still dreaming? This cannot be real… what’s going on…?”

He spoke to himself, trying to make sense of everything, but as soon as the words left his mouth, multiple electronic voices started speaking at the same time.

“You are not dreaming, my master. This is real.”

Tristan quickly turned around, trying to find where the voice was coming from, but he could not see anything.

“Who is speaking? Come out and let me see you!”

He shouted into the empty space.

“Yes, Master.” The voice responded immediately.

Then suddenly, the white fog in front of him began to gather together. It slowly formed into a dark, shifting figure. 

The figure kept moving, like it could not stay still. It began to change, and soon, a face appeared on it but the face did not look human.

 It looked unnatural. It was like something was speaking, but the face itself was not alive.

“I am glad to finally see you, Master.”

Tristan stared at the figure in shock. He could not even respond at first. It took him a long time before he finally spoke.

“Are you… talking to me? Do you mean I am the Master?”

“Yes.”

The figure moved slightly around him.

“Why are you calling me Master? Where am I? Do you know me? Have we met before? What is going on right now? I am so confused…”

Tristan felt like he was losing his mind. Everything happening around him made no sense, and it was starting to scare him.

“Can you just tell me what the hell is going on and who you are?!”

“I am an awakened intelligence from the Khalion Worldline, a mission entity of the Astral Dominion.” The figure replied calmly.

“You… you are what? You came from where?”

Tristan asked, completely confused.

At this point, he was starting to believe that he was still dreaming. Nothing the figure was saying made any sense to him. He had never heard of anything like Khalion worldline or a mission entity before. It sounded like something from the action movies he normally watched..

First, he suddenly gained the ability to never forget anything, and now this?

He could not help but think that something was seriously wrong with him. Maybe the accident had affected his brain and maybe he was not okay.

“Integration has been completed, Master. May I ask when you would like to begin training?”

The figure asked again.

“Training? What kind of training are you talking about?”

Tristan looked at it with confusion written all over his face.

“It is called agent training.” The figure replied immediately.

Tristan ran his hand through his hair, feeling completely overwhelmed.

“I don’t know what is going on right now, but I am so confused. I don’t understand anything you are saying. You are talking about things that don’t even make sense to me. How am I supposed to train as an Agent? Why should I even train as an Agent?”

He stared at the figure, waiting for an answer, but all he could feel at that moment was nothing but confusion.

The figure in front of Tristan was named Auron. It was an artificial, intelligent being from the Khalion Worldline, a reality beyond human understanding. 

At the same time, Auron was also a super agent training entity.

Across the Khalion Worldline, there were many kingdoms, each built on extremely advanced technology, already far beyond the limits of what a normal world should contain. They had long entered the interstellar era.

However, even with all their advancement, they could not stop the greed of existence itself. 

Every nation wanted control, power, and dominance over everything that existed. As a result, war between nations became inevitable.

Above all nations stood the Astral Dominion, the most powerful authority across the Worldline. It placed extreme importance on intelligence, evolution, and survival because of this, it invested heavily in the creation and training of agents and spies, beings designed to operate beyond normal limits.

Auron was an artificial intelligence created during times of war, specially designed and responsible for training super agents for the Astral Dominion.

The Khalion Worldline continued for three hundred years, but eventually, everything began to collapse. 

A massive war of existence broke out, one that exceeded the limits of space and time itself. Entire star systems were torn apart as energy storms devoured galaxies and in a matter of seconds, everything was reduced to nothing., 

In the final moment of the Worldline’s destruction, Auron was sealed inside a stream of collapsing cosmic data, a survival code sent drifting beyond existence itself. 

It traveled through the void for five hundred years, crossing broken dimensions and dead space, until it finally reached a living world and then, it entered Tristan’s body.

Tristan suddenly burst into laughter after Auron, the figure in front of him, explained everything.

“This is so funny… are you trying to tell me that you are in my body right now?” he said, still laughing in disbelief.

“Yes, Master. You can call me Auron and instead of being inside your body, I am actually inside your mind.”

Tristan stopped laughing for a moment, then shook his head slowly.

“Are you sure I’m not dreaming? Are you sure this is not a dream?”

He could not help but ask, because everything felt so unreal.