Prologue
At this moment, my final test has come to become a full-fledged Technomancer and an official member of the Quantum Knights Guild.
My training under a legitimate yet mysterious technomancer named Master Lilith has been intense. She's so hardcore! She's incredibly mysterious every time I try to dig into her past, she says nothing. Not a single word. No matter what I ask, all she gives me is this awkward, quirky expression.
Anyway, as I said earlier, being a technomancer means you're a magic user who relies on technology called PQC or Personal Quantum Computer. This technology is so advanced, it's beyond anything anyone in the 21st century could ever imagine.
Oops! Spoiler alert!
Unexpectedly, I accidentally teleported Master Lilith and myself to the plains of Peru. I've been hiding from her for hours now because I know she's way too strong compared to me. Besides, I don't want to hurt her, she matters to me. I consider my master Lilith a friend.
"Pat!" she furiously shouted my name, and it echoed loudly, as if the very air was trembling around us.
"I'm going to steal your celestial power to devour this world! I will create the most destructive viruses! Coronavirus is one of them!" Master Lilith yelled.
What? No way!!! What the effff! I seriously hate the word 'corona'!
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Chapter 1: "The Degen and Maxi Siblings"
A smartphone screen or a desktop keyboard, that's what I look for first every morning when I wake up. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, most people who are super attached to technology, like me, have boosted their ways of earning money through the power of blockchain technology. Cryptocurrencies became a huge opportunity for people like us, especially here in the Philippines.
GPU crypto mining, crypto staking, crypto trading, liquidity pools or DeFi yield farming from decentralized exchanges, crypto games, and non-fungible token or NFT minting, those became some of the most popular sources of income during those times when lockdowns seemed endless. It was one of the biggest things for people who had just lost their jobs and were looking for profit. Cryptocurrencies were one of the first choices because they were easy to buy and access.
So my older sister and I, who live in Taytay City, Rizal, learned how to read price chart patterns in crypto trading, also called technical analysis, and we also do our own research on crypto projects, which is called fundamental analysis. My sister, as a pulmonologist in a government hospital, always receives stimulus funds. Whenever she gets her stimulus funds, she invests 40% of it into both Bitcoin and Ethereum because she really hates banks, and me too, I hate banks just as much! Why? Because of fractional-reserve banking!
Now, you might be wondering what fractional-reserve banking is all about. To put it simply, let's create a sample scenario. You deposit your money in the bank, then the bank lends your money to other people or banks so they can earn more money from the interest! So you don't really have your physical money in the bank, it's just numbers in a database! If all depositors were to withdraw their money at the same time, there's no doubt the bank would close immediately because they already messed up by lending out almost all their money to random clients!
Anyway, the remaining 20% of her stimulus, she gives it all to me and lets me decide wherever the hell I want to invest. As a Cardano maxi, all the profits I make from diversifying, mining, staking, yield farming, and crypto gaming end up being used to buy $ADA or Cardano tokens. That's my ultimate thing ever! But hey, this isn't financial advice, okay?
The other 40% of her stimulus was a problem because she secretly buys random low-cap coins without doing deep research on the project first! As a result, many of them turned out to be rug pulls! A rug pull in the crypto industry is when a developer or team of developers suddenly abandons a project and sells or removes all of its liquidity. The name comes from the phrase "to pull the rug out from under someone," which means to unexpectedly withdraw support. That's why I labeled my older sister a crypto degen.
As time went by, people eventually found ways to adapt to the pandemic situation, so many things became the new norm. An ordinary teenage girl in eighth grade who loves technology like me, someone who absolutely hates attending classes in school, had no choice but to accept this new norm, the online version of classes! For me, academics doesn't really make sense anymore because you can search almost everything online on the internet!
Since almost all my energy is spent on crypto research, crypto games, and fixing my GPU-powered crypto mining rigs, I sleep super late, often at dawn, so I always feel groggy during online classes. Most of the time, I just write down the topic of our class, then take a nap so I can search those things later on online search engines after class.
Sometimes, when my sister catches me sleeping during our online class, she pulls my head up and forces me to slowly open my eyes in front of the camera. I'm always startled by my classmates' laughter, so I inadvertently end up shouting while standing like this, "I am Patricia Maggie Dela Cruz! I am 14 years old! I live in Taytay City, Rizal!" I don't know why, but I thought we were still doing attendance! It was so embarrassing every time she did that because I drool when I sleep, so I always end up spraying saliva while speaking when I wake up! Eww, right?! That's how my sister always bullies me.
To be continued...