As soon as he opened the box, he found several items inside. Slowly, he started removing each one. The first item he removed was a small square platform; its thickness and size were the same as a Dapple MacBook. He placed it carefully on the table and then looked at it curiously. The uppermost part of the platform was as shiny as silver.
He could see the use of glass, but it looked like it wasn't just simple glass put on silver. He left the details for now. After that, he removed the next item. This time it was a small chip, just like a small SD card. He looked at the card and found it to be the same as other ordinary SD cards, except it had nothing printed on it and had a small golden rectangular shape on top of it.
He kept it aside and then removed the last item. This time, it was a small rectangular box made of the same metal as the previous items. He carefully placed it on the table. On top of this rectangular box, he found small rectangular slots, which he thought were for the SD cards.
After placing it, he removed the last item, which was a normal-sized super laptop. It looked like a plain laptop if you didn't open it. He then found a manual on what and how to do things, as well as the names of the devices with proper 3D images.
"So, I have a creative platform here, and the digital life core is inside it, nice! Then this rectangular box is, as I had expected, a storage chip device. Then this small chip... so my creation will be first created in this. Okay, then the last, the supercomputer," he said while looking at each device with excitement.
"So first, I have to put this chip into the laptop." He then picked up the small chip and placed it inside the laptop through the given slot. As soon as he inserted it, the laptop screen brightened up, and then he saw various options. Before exploring all other options, he found two options that were guided by the manual.
Those two options were: one for self-creation and the next one for borrowed creation. At first, he just wanted to try it, so he chose the borrowed one. Many different creatures, beasts, weapons, and items lists appeared on the screen.
It looked something like this:
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MODE: BORROWED CREATION
BORROWED SOURCE: EARTH (default)
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BORROWED LISTS
A) CHARACTERS (40 TRILLION)
B) BEASTS (60 TRILLION)
C) WEAPONS (5 TRILLION)
D) ITEMS (80 TRILLION)
E) HYBRIDS (5 TRILLION)
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"Oh my god, what's with this huge list? Did this small laptop have this much storage capacity? The overall data size of all these files is beyond the storage limit of many supercomputers of this age... Thank god it has a smart search, otherwise I would be so overwhelmed by searching the whole list!" He then clicked the smart search option and then filled in what he was looking for, and that looked something like this:
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MODE: BORROWED CREATION
SUB-MODE: SMART SEARCH
BASE: BEASTS
SUB-BASE: MID SENTIENT
SIZE: 3'00"
PREFERENCES / SAMPLE: DECKOMON
...ARE YOU SURE ABOUT YOUR FILLS? IF SURE, THEN PLEASE PRESS ENTER TO GET A LIST...
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He then once again looked at the fill-ups as he wanted to make sure that everything was correct. The reason he chose "beast" was that the creation platform and the chip size were small, so he couldn't create something like a dragon on a small platform. He didn't know how that would affect the projection, as in his mind, all these things were just a 5D hologram with a pinch of emotions.
Anyway, he then looked at the sub-mode, which was "sentient." Beasts had three levels of sentience: low, mid, and high. Low levels were mindless beasts who knew nothing but just to eat, hunt, and sleep. Then the mid-sentient level was like goblins and orcs in fantasy beast examples, and in the real world, they had the intelligence level of elephants, dogs, chimpanzees, etc., who could learn.
Then came the high level, which was the peak sentience of a beast. At this level, they could think like humans, and some even had more intelligence than a human and other intelligent beings.
Again, due to the size restrictions, he could only select the mid and low levels, so he chose mid. Then came the size; this time, he didn't choose the size as it came prefixed for this prototype, so he didn't mind, as he could change whatever size he wanted in self-creation.
He also noticed that you can't create something that has a size bigger than your creative platform. For example, if a platform size is 2, then you can at max create things that have a size of 2; you can't go beyond the platform size. And if you want to create something which has a size of 4, then you need to either create one platform of size 4 or combine two platforms of size 2.
And as for the preference and sample, he put "Deckomon" as he wanted to see what a 5D hologram of his childhood Deckomon looked like. After looking at the smart search one last time, he pressed the enter button, and then the screen started to give the list. It didn't even take 5 seconds for the laptop to give him a long list.
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THE LISTS OF 400 MILLION RELATED SEARCHES HAVE BEEN FOUND.
1) Katerpie (from Deckomon)
2) Rabbit (from earth normal animal)
3) Seedle (from Deckomon)
4) .....
...
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"Wow, the list is long! I don't have time to go through all of this, but... hehe, who would have thought of getting a Katerpie from Deckomon... well, I want to see what a 5D hologram of a Katerpie looks like," he said and chose the first option.
As soon as he clicked on that, the image of Katerpie appeared on the screen of the computer. The following information about the creature appeared. He read all the information and then pressed enter.
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CATEGORY: MID-SENTIENT BEAST
NAME: -------
SPECIES: KATERPIE
GENDER: FEMALE
LEVEL: 1
SKILLS: TACKLE, BUG BITE, STRING SHOT, CUTE EYES
FROM: CREATED EARTH CREATURES
OWNER: KARNA KHURANA
STORAGE SIZE: 5
CUSTOMISE: NONE
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IF YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT THEN PLEASE PRESS (ENTER) TO GIVE THE LIFE
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The screen then blacked out, and the previously installed chip now came out from the slot. He picked up the chip to find an image of a small Katerpie printed on that blank golden space of the chip. Following the information, he put the chip inside the chip storage. As soon as he put that, a holographic screen appeared on the chip.
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DO YOU WANT TO CREATE THIS BEING?
A) YES
B) NO
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Without any hesitation, he pressed yes. As soon as he pressed that, the creation platform started shining with bright light, and then he saw the first magical thing of his life. Several white particles, which he couldn't seem to understand, started merging, and after a few minutes, those white particles started gaining shape. Another minute later, the light started to dim out, and then a small green creature appeared in front of him.
The green creature had a worm-like body with several green scales, a pair of two cute antennas on its forehead, and two big, cute eyes that were staring at the man in front of her. She then gave a very small, cute roar towards him, showing her emotions. She even tried to go at him but couldn't leave the edge of the platform. If she tried to go beyond the platform, her body started to dissolve like a liquid, and then the liquid started to disappear in front of him, turning into the same white particles.
Scared, she came back inside the platform and didn't dare to go beyond the platform. Also, the dissolved part of her regenerated as soon as she came inside the platform. All of this was watched by Karna, who was beyond shocked. He had just expected a little intelligence from a 5D hologram being, but this level of self-awareness was beyond him.
He also looked at the body of the small creature. "Why? Why does it feel so real... like it's not a holographic image, but an actual real being... no, it couldn't be right... is that even possible?" His hands unknowingly started to go forward to pet the creature. His mind had expected a result of his hands passing through the small creature.
But the result shook him from the inside, and a chill ran through his entire body. His hands, which were supposed to pass through the so-called 5D holographic image, were now petting the head of the Katerpie. Yes, he could feel the texture of the skin, the hardness of the scales, and the warmth of the being. Heck, he could even feel the small air breath of the creature. It was like petting your dog. Then the Katerpie decided to lick his hand; he then felt a tickling sensation, but his mind was in no mood to laugh or have fun because he could even feel the warm liquid on his hand.
"It's real... this... this small being is real... how can... how can that be possible... no, no, no! I have to try that if... and if that is possible, then I will believe that this thing can literally create a life, a whole goddam life!"