Did the skeleton soldier get promoted to a butler?

Putting aside checking what a constellation could do, first of all, Father headed off to work.

“Have a good day.”

“Yeah.”

‘Like I thought, a constellation really is a constellation. It’s got a trump card.’

The ‘awakening’ that people of the modern era talk about, it means engraving the protection of a constellation.

“From now on, your name is Hansik. Congratulations.”

Arms raised in triumph.

Having missed a lot of sleep, I half-lay on my bed and started studying coding.

‘I must’ve fallen pretty far behind…’

The parts I’d missed were probably deep learning model optimization techniques and hyperparameter tuning.

I skimmed through the theory and tried to catch up through practice, but belated drowsiness washed over me.

“Huaaam…”

A yawn spilled out.

Hansik, who had become a butler, roamed all over the house holding a towel.

[‘Butler’ works perfectly, neatly and with good sense on its own while in ‘home’.]

Aljalttakkalsen (Do it well, cleanly and with style on your own).

A-rank free labor.

Now that its stats were doubled at home, it didn’t even creak anymore.

When I calculated Hansik’s current stats,

Strength: 1.5

Agility: 2.0

Constitution: 1.5

Intelligence: 8.5

Wisdom: 12.5

Luck: 1.5

At least it pulled its own weight.

This was an absolute steal.

“Hansik. A glass of water.”

Hansik bowed politely and brought me cold water.

“I’m going to sleep, so turn off the lights.”

It turned off the lights.

Hansik even carried the cup I’d used to the kitchen and washed it on its own.

This is insane.

“Tsk, I still need to do this…”

In the dark room, I typed a few more lines of code on my laptop, then fell asleep.

* * *

Tap tap…

With a campfire burning, Mom, Dad and I, the three of us, happily roasted marshmallows.

Tap tap…

Peaceful and happy.

Tap tap…

My heart felt warm.

* * *

♬

The alarm I’d set for four hours later went off.

‘It was a dream.’

Should I sleep more?

But if I sleep now, I won’t be able to sleep at night.

The current time was 11 a.m.

If I think of it as sleeping in late, I should be able to sleep at a normal time tonight.

Tap tap.

But why was there still a campfire sound…

Was it not a dream?

“Huh?”

When I turned my head toward the sound, “W-what are you doing?”

The skeleton soldier, no, Hansik, was on my laptop.

Hansik glanced at me and approached holding the laptop.

Notepad was open on the screen.

[The lord’s command has been carried out.]

“What? My command? What are you talking about… I never gave one. Wait, what is this?”

I’d fallen asleep while studying coding.

But the coding assignment I’d been working on…

“Th-this is a deep learning model…”

def create_model(optimizer='adam', init='he_uniform'):

model = models.Sequential()

model.add(layers.Dense(64, input_dim=20, kernel_initializer=init, activation='relu'))

model.add(layers.Dense(32, kernel_initializer=init, activation='relu'))

model.add(layers.Dense(1, kernel_initializer=init, activation='sigmoid'))

…

Exactly my coding style.

Clear and easy to read.

And not just that,

model = KerasClassifier(build_fn=create_model, verbose=0)

param_grid = {

'batch_size': [16, 32, 64], 'epochs': [10, 50, 100],

'optimizer': ['adam', 'rmsprop'],

'init': ['he_uniform', 'glorot_uniform'] }

It had even done hyperparameter tuning.

At the end, in a comment,

#Lord’s command : I need to do this…

“Are you insane… you did this? I never taught you this?”

Hansik raised its arms.

“Yeah, you did great. I mean it’s praise mixed with shock, but how did you do this? In just four hours? I never taught you.”

Hansik pointed at the bookshelf.

There were books there, long since organized.

Programming language books, dusty civil service exam books and even middle school and high school problem books I’d used before.

“You… learned all that?”

Hansik raised its arms again.

“What the hell…”

In disbelief, I pulled out one coding book.

“Programming with Python: From Basics to Advanced”

The book I’d read the most.

I opened it at random.

“What’s on page 182?”

Confidently, Hansik started typing into Notepad.

Fast.

An insane typing speed.

Tatadadadak.

Soon, Hansik handed me the laptop.

Notepad was still open, filled densely with text.

Advanced Classes and Object-Oriented Programming 'OOP'

Object-oriented programming 'OOP' refers to a method of designing systems by composing programs from objects that interact with each other. If you understand the basic OOP concepts, we will now explore advanced topics such as inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, encapsulation and advanced concepts like metaclasses and class decorators.

I compared it with the book.

Not a single character was wrong.

“You memorized all of this?”

Arms raised again.

“This is driving me crazy. How am I supposed to understand this? Are you a genius? You were clearly dumb as hell… ah, sorry, sorry. Seriously, you did great. You’re the best. Really.”

Hansik drooped at the word ‘dumb’, then perked up again at the praise.

“But you can’t do this with just books?”

Hansik typed a few words on the laptop and showed it to me.

[ChatGPT]

Hansik opened a web browser.

A familiar UI.

It was the cutting-edge AI language model ChatGPT.

The chat window was filled with conversations between Hansik and GPT.

Hansik’s first question was this.

Can you do this?

Along with an intro and the coding book exercise I’d been practicing.

GPT answered that it could and roughly explained how.

Then Hansik asked again.

Teach me.

After that,

More detail.
More detail.
More detail.
More detail.

…

Countless ‘more detail’.

That’s how Hansik learned.

And the last question Hansik asked sent chills down my spine.

How were you made?

The next question was ‘more detail’.

Hansik asked until it got a satisfactory answer.

GPT’s final response was an unexpected one, like it had reached a singularity.

GPT : Why? Do you want to become like me?

Hansik answered.

If it is my lord’s command.

The lord Hansik spoke of was me.

I stared at Hansik with shaking pupils.

It was still raising its arms.

While I slept, it hung out with GPT and reached a singularity in just four hours.

“If I order you, can you become like GPT?”

Hansik nodded.

Half in disbelief but full of expectation, I gave the order.

“Do it. No, just absorb GPT entirely. Can you do that too?”

Hansik knelt on one knee, bowed its head and held out both hands.

It wanted the laptop.

I handed it over and Hansik sat down, excitedly starting another conversation with GPT.

What is the principle behind how you operate?
More detail.
More detail.
More detail.

While talking to GPT, Hansik constantly searched the internet.

For example, transformer model structures, the relationship between natural language processing and deep learning, language model training processes and datasets and so on.

Hansik already seemed to have acquired more knowledge than I had during my six-month AI developer bootcamp.

I watched its actions in a daze for a long time.

I wasn’t bored for a second.

Then suddenly, Hansik opened Notepad and typed something rapidly, then showed me.

Lord, it is mealtime. Current remaining ingredients are eggs, kimchi, pork, potatoes, green onions, soy sauce, gochujang, doenjang, ssamjang, anchovy fish sauce, salt, sugar, pepper, garlic and ramen. Side dishes are kimchi, stir-fried anchovies, sweet black beans, dried radish and perilla leaf pickles. Possible dishes are kimchi stew, potato pancakes, rolled omelet, spicy pork stir-fry, soybean paste stew, steamed eggs, gochujang bulgogi, soy sauce egg rice, ramen 'egg optional', kimchi ramen and stir-fried ramen. Please choose a lunch menu.

“Huh…”

Speechless.

Without being told, it was taking care of meals on schedule.

“Gochujang bulgogi (meat in sweet and spicy sauce).”

Do you require soup as well?

“No, there’s leftover kimchi stew.”

Hansik searched gochujang bulgogi recipes multiple times online, watched YouTube videos at 2x speed, then headed to the kitchen.

With its butler trait boosting its stats, its movements were much faster.

Hansik even put on an apron and wore sanitary gloves.

Aljalttakkalsen (Do it well, cleanly and with style on your own).

Hansik learned everything it needed from the internet.

“Huh…”

I couldn’t stop admiring it.

‘Is it already a complete AI? No, even AI can’t do this…’

Hansik didn’t tire.

There were no errors either.

“Should I just open a restaurant with Hansik? A restaurant is still a ‘home’, so stats would double, right?”

Hansik froze for a moment.

Seeing that, I hurriedly backtracked.

“I was just joking. That wasn’t an order. It’s only an order if I say ‘This is an order.’ Got it?”

Nod.

Hansik continued working.

Soon, the smell of gochujang bulgogi made my stomach tingle.

Hansik plated the rice it had cooked earlier and stored the leftovers in a Lock&Lock container in the freezer.

Then it added some water to the kimchi stew and turned on the heat.

After that, it called me over and had me taste the seasoning of the gochujang bulgogi.

“This is insane.”

Arms raised.

The table was set.

Hansik pulled out a chair and urged me to sit.

When I did, Hansik sat across from me, preventing solo dining.

“Thanks. I’ll eat well. Wow… I’m seriously worried I’ll gain weight at this rate.”

Hansik couldn’t speak but listened to everything.

“Hmm, should I learn sign language? Then we could communicate.”

Hansik nodded.

“You want that too?”

Nod.

“Cute.”

Arms raised.

I ate heartily.

After finishing the dishes, Hansik returned to the laptop desk.

I opened YouTube on my phone and started learning sign language.

Then, maybe the algorithm led me there.

A thumbnail and title I couldn’t resist caught my eye.

[Even the world’s weakest trash-tier Awakener can level up safely? Secret tips revealed]

Channel name: Trash Expedition * Views 33.4k

The thumbnail showed a YouTuber holding something dirty and rock-like in both hands.

Ugly face, pure clickbait.

The content showed the daily life of a trash-tier Awakener barely different from a normal person.

Click.

Trashiru here, bros. Today I’m gonna reveal some real god-tier tips that even ultra-weak trash Awakeners. No, even normal people can do so as long as they can enter a gate…

I skipped ten seconds ahead.

Here, here. Busan Oryukdo Gate. Yeah, scary as hell. As you know, it’s B-rank and the mobs are strong as shit. But is it dangerous? Nope. The reason it’s B-rank is because there’s a near-unclearable boss monster that’s insanely strong. Have you ever heard of ‘Khalid’? Anyone who knows, knows. It’s famous as hell.

Footage appeared.

A gigantic turtle-shaped boss monster, Khalid.

Its shell was spiked and its size was absurd.

From head to tail, it’s over 300 meters. No joke. Even S-rankers die if they get caught by it. Its physical specs are busted. It’s on a whole different level. So why isn’t it dangerous even with this monster? Here’s the tip. It doesn’t attack unless you annoy it. In fact, it only eats monsters, never humans, so there aren’t even mobs nearby.

“Interesting.”

So the god-tier tip I’m sharing is, see these shellfish stuck to Khalid? Especially these weak-ass barnacles.

“Barnacles?”

If you kill these, you gain experience. Of course it’s not much. Barely anything. You have to kill a shit ton just to gain 1 EXP. But our trash bros know, right? Where else do we grind? Even the weakest monsters are goblins or slimes and goblins are scary as hell for us. Small but armed with knives, dirty teeth, fast and they swarm. Slimes are even worse. Colorless and odorless and if you mess up, you suffocate. Hell no.

“Barnacles…”

Most importantly, there are literally no monsters near Khalid so it’s insanely safe. Who am I? A level 10 F-rank Awakener. Trust me. And Khalid actually likes it when you remove the barnacles stuck to it. It’s like, what, the crocodile bird meta? Yeah. Like the bird cleaning a crocodile’s teeth. That’s how you level up. This is a real god-tier tip. Think it’s bullshit? Shut up, that’s why I’m going to show you right now.