Earth-Bet Needs A Batman

Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story. Worm is property of Wildbow. I do not have any interest in offending anyone and only wish to entertain readers.

Note: Bonus points for those who understand the meaning of the title.

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[Your next teacher will be... Silver Wolf]

As soon as she said that information flooded my mind about Silver Wolf and I have only one thing to say.

Oh my goodness!

Silver Wolf is a member of the Stellaron Hunters and a genius hacker. She sees the universe as a massive immersive simulation game and has fun with it. She's mastered the skill known as "aether editing," which can be used to tamper with the data of reality.

Reviewing the information about her Silver Wolf apparently grew growing up in a fast-food restaurant's basement, which was transformed into an arcade, where she developed her love for gaming and hacking. She honed her hacking skills by manipulating high scores and eventually developed her unique "aether editing" ability, which allows her to alter reality. Silver Wolf hails from the world of Punklorde and eventually joins the Stellaron Hunters, led by Kafka, alongside other members like Blade

Soon the world around me began to change as it glitched out of existence and was soon replaced with a large room that looked like it was dedicated to a gaming set-up. It was dark, but there was various LED lights around the room. There was arcade machines, video games, consoles, PC's, large life-sized figurines of various anime characters.

Overall, this seems like a gamer's paradise and soon I saw her, Silver Wolf who was playing on an arcade machine that was running Pong. She soon turned around and looked at me with a smirk and said, "Lol, what up rizzler want to play some games?"

I was too shocked at her opening words as she began patting on the seat next to her signaling for me to sit down and play with her and so I did.

...

My training with Silver Wolf was honestly one of the easiest I've had with the mentors I trained under. All we did was currently play video games non-stop, eat junk food, fast food, few hours of sleep. 

Silver Wolf thought that I was just some noob gamer who wouldn't even know how the controls work, but I surprised her actually. Training with Izuru made me master every talent that mankind has which included video games.

Seeing my skill she began to get serious, she challenged me in various games such as racing, puzzle, strategy, fighting, and more various types. I won a large amount of our matches and she did win as well considering she's one of the best hackers in the universe.

After multiple days of non-stop gaming she was impressed with my skill as I even pulled multiple all-nighters. 

She looked at me with a smile, "Man you slayed hard, Ren you're pretty good."

I smiled at the compliment

She continued, "Since you proved your skill at video games like all great Punklorde hackers do, you're now ready to learn about Aether Editing and hacking skills.

This is going to be very interesting lesson.

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Life is just a game — This sentence is no mere jest for hackers from the cyberworld Punklorde. They traverse the internet and use a technology known as aether editing to alter reality, making life into a great game. 

Aether Editing while powerful and dangerous needs a conduit to hack reality, that's where the ether cassette comes in. 

The ether cassette is what allows Silver Wolf and various hackers from Punklorde to hack reality, but what's interesting is that while it's very powerful you still need to understand exactly what you're coding for it to work.

It was pretty much computer science amped up to a ludicrous degree. I needed to learn how to code and know the specific code to get the desired effect. I needed to be very precise with this, which is understandable. 

Though this might seem like a very difficult thing to learn, it's apparently not. While it might seem like only the best hackers know aether editing, it's actually pretty common on Punklorde from what Silver Wolf told me.

Even ordinary people in Punklorde can apparently do aether editing as they use a formula sheet which contains programs for them to write using their ether cassette. With the formula sheet even normal civilians can freely edit reality like a game using the ether cassette.

Though of course the top hackers use their own source code and don't need to apply these formulas.

Silver Wolf's source code she developed was apparently called LevelUpReality.exe, it was basically what allowed her her attacks and support abilities in the game. She can buff allies, de-buff enemies, and more. 

As she was training me, she taught me her general knowledge of computers, programming, and a bunch of more topics which I didn't even think she knew. Though, she's known to be a hardcore gamer so it wouldn't surprise me if she could make her own gaming PC. 

I continued my aether editing and hacking skills under her tutelage and while she did teach me how to make my own aether cartridge that's pretty much connected to the universe using some super-advanced mechanic that I can't explain, she forced me to make and design my own source code. 

Her reason being, "I'm not going to teach some noob to rely on a lame guide like some scrub."

I decided to name my source code for my ether cassette, DarkScript. The reason why it's because I thought it was cool. While I mastered coding, programming and knew all the other programming languages I knew I wanted my code for aether editing to be simple.

I began to practice with my aether editing and I began to type my code into my ether cassette. I decided to buff my stats by 20% temporarily for five minutes. As I finished typing my command into my ether cassette, I began to feel my strength, speed, intelligence, perception, agility, and even my luck increase.

Despite this temporary buff of five minutes, I knew it was going to be very useful. I began to practice and find different ways to use aether editing. I practiced buffing myself, de-buffing enemies, and even the digitalization of objects.

Silver Wolf looked at me with a smirk as she saw me practice aether editing and said, "I guess you're not a total noob at this, nice job."

I looked at her and smiled at the compliment and still continued practicing. I needed a way to use aether editing without typing into my ether cassette and that's when I had the idea of using pre-made programs and I can just activate them.

I began coding some programs for me to use that I deem useful. I coded my various buffs towards me and allies, de-buffing single enemies or entire groups, and various other ideas. An interesting I learned is that while I can buff and de-buff people there is a limit. 

The limit was actually that I can only de-buff or buff people up to 50%, most likely because of energy constraints and the limits on the shards. 

I continued practicing my aether editing skills, but I didn't forget to practice my hacking and programming skills under Silver Wolf's tutelage. While I knew and mastered a lot of programming and hacking she was really good at it. 

While I learned and refined my skills under her, we didn't spend all the time practicing, and we often played games together, which was expected as she is a gamer. Overall, I spent quite a bit of time with her and it was a mix of practicing my aether editing, programming, and hacking skills.

Though, it was soon time to end my lesson with Silver Wolf.

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I looked at Silver Wolf who was smiling at me as she said, "Alright, you did an okay job for a noob I have to admit that, but don't get cocky. While you have great experience with aether editing and massively improved your programming and hacking skills you're still a beginner in my eyes."

She smiled at me and continued, "You slayed at everything I taught you, but there are many possibilities for aether editing, the only thing limiting you is your imagination. Now go forth and make everyone know your name."

As soon as she said that the world around me began to glitch out of existence and I saw Silver Wolf one last time as she smiled and gave a peace sign towards me and soon she too glitched out of existence. 

I was now back in my normal room and I noticed that I still had my ether cassette which I found a bit surprising, but also not because I built it in the training dimension with Silver Wolf.

I put the ether cassette on my bed and that's when I heard Guru's voice chime in my head.

[Nice! You have finished your training with Silver Wolf. Who would you want your next training to be with?]

Now that was the hard part, I didn't know who to train with. I already mastered a multitude of skills that most people will never use in their life. Though, I do wish to improve my mental abilities. While I do receive temporary boosts in intelligence by Guru to quickly learn and master the skills my mentors taught me, I want to improve my mind permanently even though Guru is working slowly to enhance my mind.

'I want a teacher that can help me improve my mental abilities.'

[Why, I'm already slowing improving your mind?]

'I know and I'm thankful for that, but I also want to learn mental techniques such as constructing a literal back-up personality like Bruce or making my mind that of a mental palace.'

[Alright, now I shall find you a teacher for that.]

Guru went silent looking through her archive of potential mentors and after some time I heard her voice again.

[Okay! I think I found the perfect mentor for you to improve your mind while I slowly enhance your mind.]

'Oh who is it?'

[Your next mentor will be...]

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Author's Note: The seventh chapter of his training arc is finished! I will post a chapter explaining his profile after this training arc. Three more chapters to go to be done with the training arc. 

Note: I kind of messed up on the ordering of the new teachers in the previous chapter and so this will be the final teachers. 

#8 will be focused on improving his mind and acquiring mental techniques

#9 will be focused on disguises

#10 will be focused on a montage of various mentors I wanted to do. I decided to not focus on Batman.