I was raised in the simulator, and I’m really not a bad woman in Ark!

[Now, would you like to ask the host whether to start the first simulation? ]

[The simulation will be refreshed once a week. This is your first time, so please cherish it~(∠?ω<)⌒☆]

Probably to avoid laughing in front of the majestic Ikaros, the system made some jokes and took out the first simulation.

However, Ikaros did not complain about the system's behavior, nor did he start the simulation immediately.

Instead, he looked at his beautiful self in the mirror, touched his milky white face, sighed, and after confirming that he had really awakened his past life memories, he reluctantly accepted the reality.

Then he looked at the time and saw that there were still more than twenty minutes before his childhood sweetheart arrived, so he returned to his big bed.

While waiting for her childhood sweetheart to arrive, she began her first simulation.

[Simulation begins. 】

Chapter 2: First simulation! Start!

[Before the formal simulation begins, please select your own entry to anchor the host's life experience in the simulation, so as to facilitate the simulation. ]

[Based on the host's current situation, entries have been generated. You can choose three from the following five nodes. ]

[Note: The talent given in the entry is an innate talent. During the simulation, other talents will be obtained according to the character's life trajectory. The talents will be settled together at the final reward.]

[Node 1: Having children - Maybe you can choose another way of life, temporarily experience the identity of a boy, and then become a girl at a certain node in the future. This would be interesting, wouldn't it? ]

[Node 2: Destitute Noble - You will be born as the daughter of a destitute noble, which will bring you a lot of wealth and a useless title, as well as etiquette suitable for the upper class, but there are also certain risks that come with it.]

[Node 3: Master of Magic - Your magic talent will be fully reflected in your life. You are a born master. Your Originium skills will be developed to the extreme, but Originium disease will also follow you like a shadow. ]

[Node 4: Chimera - Your race is very complex, um... this will bring certain benefits, but no one knows what the benefits are. ]

[Node 5: Seven Faces in the Heart - You are born to understand the ugliness of human nature, and you deeply understand how to behave perfectly in various circumstances. You know how to hide your fangs, turn yourself into a poisonous snake in the shadows, bring disaster to your enemies, and make people never see your true face and purpose. However, you are destined not to be a person with a good character. ]

【Please select your node as your talent for this simulation. 】

……

Lying on his soft big bed, Ikaros looked at the five nodes on the virtual text panel in front of him, and inexplicably felt as if he was playing a pigeon in a four-word game from his previous life.

However, the description given by the system is much better than that of pigeon.

Basically, the pros and cons of each option are listed, allowing Ekaros to make the best choice after weighing the pros and cons.

So after a little thought.

Ikaros chose nodes two, three, and five without hesitation as the talents for his simulation this time.

Although these talents seem to have no connection, it is not difficult to find out if you look carefully that these talents are still very terrifying when connected in series.

After all, he suddenly had money and power. Although he might not have authority, his talent of having seven sides in his heart could effectively prevent himself from being cheated in the simulation.

So in the end Ikaros made this choice.

[The host's chosen talent has been determined, and the simulation begins. 】

[Time: 860th year of the Terran calendar.]

【Location: Victoria. 】

[The simulation officially begins.]

……

[You were born into an ancient grand ducal family of Victoria.]

[Your family once followed the Drake royal family into the country and established the Kingdom of Victoria. Therefore, as a founding father, your family received a large amount of land and wealth under the canonization of the first generation of Victorian kings.]

[As a result, your family pledged eternal loyalty to the Draco royal family and became a member of the original Knights of the Round Table.]

[And for some reason, your family has always been loved by the royal family. Generations of marriages have also made the relationship between you close. The excellent education system and inheritance system within the family have also allowed you to follow Draco's footsteps in hundreds of years of inheritance.]

[Even your family was once known as the most precious pearl under the rule of the Red Dragon. ]

【But unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long. 】

[With the weakening of Draco's bloodline, the incompetence of King Victoria, and the intensification of the conflict between Draco and Aslan. ]

[In the 800th year of the Terran calendar, Aslan expelled Draco for the first time and took away the crown that originally belonged to the Red Dragon.]

[As a family that loyally supports the Red Dragon, your family naturally dispatched troops immediately after learning the news, and entered the capital of Londinium with the slogan of "Respect the King and Fight the Enemy". Unfortunately, when the coup was about to succeed, it was backstabbed by the rest of the Victorian nobles.]

[From now on, your family will fall into decline just like the expelled Drake, losing the industry, land, and vital status and rights that you have managed for hundreds of years.]

[From the once high and mighty Victorian Duke family, it became a marginal family with only the title of Duke. ]

[And this situation continued for a full 80 years. ]

[During this period, your forces and tribesmen that were originally spread throughout Victoria were constantly liquidated. ]

[Today, only the branch of blood that has taken root in Londinium, which is your branch, is still surviving.]

[The Aslan royal family probably saw that your family had no chance of recovery, and because the great dukes had begun to fight overtly and covertly in recent years, they did not choose to exterminate your family. They left your branch bloodline to show the royal family's kindness, and also as a warning to the existing great dukes.]

[It was in such an environment that you were born into a grand duke family that existed in name only.]

[However, although your family has declined and its wealth has been swallowed up by the Aslan royal family and other dukes, because your family has accumulated too much wealth in the past, the remaining dregs after being divided are enough for you to squander your life, and as a duke, you are still born at the top of the pyramid in Victoria.]

[Although you are down and out, you are still born noble. 】

It's barely a good start.

Lying on the bed, Ikaros thought so while looking at the text description on the virtual system panel, and then continued to look down.

[In addition to the huge wealth and the title of a duke's daughter, your parents also love you deeply and treat you like a little princess. ]

[You had a happy childhood. Although you knew that you were different from other children, you felt your parents' love for you and pretended to be like other children. You spent a wonderful childhood with your parents.]

[You like this kind of life very much and sincerely hope that this kind of life will continue. ]

[But unfortunately, even though your family has fallen to such a state and the Aslan royal family has no intention of continuing to settle accounts with you, there are still some narrow-minded fools who have evil intentions towards your family. ]

[So, on the day when your parents prepared a birthday party for you, an Originium bomb exploded in your home, taking away your parents' lives, and making you, a young child, witness the death of the person who loved you the most in this world.]

[And you have contracted a terminal illness called Originium disease. ]

[In the ruins after the explosion, you looked at the body of your mother who was hugging you tightly, and the remains of your father who had turned into charcoal in order to protect you and your mother.

You didn’t cry or panic. 】

[She just watched all this with a calm and empty gaze, looking at the black crystals growing on her thighs under her torn skirt, and remained silent for a long, long time.]

[Then, you left your home before the police and knights arrived, changed into a clean dress, pretended to rush home from outside, and behaved like a child who had lost his home.]

[Afterwards, a bunch of "relatives" you didn't know all clamored to adopt you.]

[They try to be as amiable as possible in front of you, but fight like stray dogs outside the door for their adoption rights.]

[Oh, you know what kind of people they are. Even before your parents were buried, these wild dogs who smelled blood have already come to your door, wanting to take away the last inheritance your parents left you.]

[This makes the last bit of luck in your heart vanish, and you become disillusioned with the so-called beauty, and a cold smile appears on the corner of your mouth that no one notices. ]

[No one knew that on this day, the world lost a child and gained a devil. ]

[But it doesn't matter... Soon, some people will realize this. ]

Hiss, okay, I’ll retract what I said. My start in the simulator doesn’t seem to be that good either.

Looking at his own experience and transformation as an orphan on the system panel, Ekaros felt a little pitiful for himself in the simulation.

After all, in reality, I have no parents from the beginning, so naturally I will not experience the pain of losing my parents...

……

Well, I feel like I am the more pitiful one.

Let’s continue with the simulation.

The next plot should start to become exciting, right?

Pursing his lips, Ikaros looked at the system panel and couldn't help but start to feel a little excited.

And what Ikaros did next in the simulation did not disappoint the girl.

…………

Chapter 3: Develop Theresa, because I am a Victorian lesbian!

[Although you are young and immature, your thoughts have matured to a terrifying degree.]

[The influence of the seven aspects of the heart makes you realize that you cannot expose your maturity and purpose at the beginning. ]

[What you need is to hide, and use your immature appearance and your value as a bargaining chip to ensure your survival. You hide yourself, wandering among your so-called "relatives", making them all think that they are qualified to "keep" the duke's title and the wealth left behind from you. ]

[You rely on this to keep their superficial goodwill towards you.]

【This year, you are only nine years old. 】

【Then as you grow older, you notice that your 'relatives' have become impatient. 】

[So you continue to pretend to be a harmless white lotus, learning the meaningless etiquette they deliberately arranged for you, while quietly planning in secret, laying hidden lines, and provoking conflicts and contradictions.]

[Finally, under your deliberate manipulation, these people who came for your wealth disappeared one by one in the game of competing for the Duke's everything for various reasons.]

[Those who started out didn’t care, but as the number of people decreased, the scale grew, and the progress in acquiring wealth slowed down.]

[When you were sixteen, someone finally couldn't sit still anymore and tried to take away everything from you through an 'accident' and a violent marriage.]

[And it was on the night of your coming-of-age ceremony when you turned sixteen that they took action.]

[You looked at the information brought to you by the 'hidden chess piece' you had planted, sighed helplessly, and your face was lonely for a moment.]

[You could have dealt with them right from the start, but you didn't.]

[After all, their superficial kindness over the years was indeed sincere. After years of getting along, you thought they would have some affection for you. But obviously, tonight they gave you a cruel and true answer.]

[But... actually this is fine. ]

[They used their lives to teach you the final lesson, that is, apart from your real family, you can only trust yourself, and only when facing your family can you take off your disguise and show your true self. ]

[At other times, putting on a mask and surrounding yourself with mystery, like an ethereal and unpredictable cloud, is the only correct thing to do.]

【This has also become your creed for the rest of your life. 】

……

[Get the talent - Disguiser: You are always disguising yourself, and always wearing a mask. No one knows your true face, and everyone sees a different you. Is the real you hidden under the mask, or... has it already become the mask? ]

……

The sudden reminder of talent acquisition made Ikaros, who was concentrating on looking at the system panel, pause briefly and look at the talent he suddenly obtained.

"It seems that the acquisition of talent may be related to some changes or major events in the 'me' within the simulation."

Looking at the description of the talent and recalling what happened in the previous simulation, Ekaros formed a guess in his mind about how to obtain the talent within the simulation.

However, a more specific conclusion can only be drawn after the acquisition of subsequent talents.

So I continued to look at the next simulation.

[You put on a mask, completely hiding your true self in your heart. ]

[And the devil's last bit of kindness was also swallowed up by the abyss at this moment. ]

[That night, you are no longer merciful, and no longer have any sympathy for those who approach you with greed and desire.]

[You showed a completely different side of yourself at your coming-of-age ceremony.]

[That's you wearing a gentleman's suit popular in Victoria. ]

[You are completely different from the usual gentle and elegant lady who is as calm and beautiful as a white lily. ]

[You said a lot of inexplicable things to them, revealing your heart and mocking your last bit of kindness, and in the end you showed them the guillotine you carefully prepared for them.]

[You told them that tonight would be the last night after they had thoughts that they shouldn’t have.]

【Let these people realize that the plan has been exposed. 】

[This brings a chill and foreboding feeling to the spine of those greedy people. ]

[They instinctively felt fear and wanted to call their guards, scream at you, and curse you with the most vicious words, wanting to scare you and hide their own fear.]