Galactic Dark Net

by Stayrr

When the last prodigy level esper on Earth disappeared, Earth was in deep trouble of becoming another species’ colony. The ordinary Han, with his intelligence and hardworking character, was able to make a fortune after “accidentally” stepping into the world of dark net, later purchasing an esper power crystal that brought him the ultimate power that changed the fate of the universe

1. 1

Read Galactic Dark Net - Chapter 1: A Belated Gift online free - Light Novel Full

Chapter 1: A Belated Gift

It was May, a sunny day.

It was already evening by the time Han Lang walked out of the school with his backpack. He threw his books into the garbage can. Three years of high school finally came to an end and the books no longer had any value to him.

Suddenly, a slightly chubby guy placed his arm around Han Lang. His name was Li Qi, Han Lang's long time bro. He wasn't really fat, he just belonged to a rich family. Due to the benefits of such status, he had lighter skin than the other guys, as well as being slightly higher in body fat concentration.

Li Qi smiled and said, "We're finally done, let's find a place and go celebrate. The bill is on me!"

Someone's paying?! Everyone cheered, but Wang Yan, another one of Han Lang's friends, hesitated and said, "I have to pass today. I have to start preparing for university entrance exams. After all we are only ordinary guys with no super powers… If we don't get into university, it will be hard for us to even find a job."

The atmosphere became a little awkward as everyone was reminded of the difficulty that lied ahead. This is the Galactic Era, a heaven for the blessed people with super powers, espers. These espers could have the wealth, power, women, and whatever else they would ever want, while the ordinary citizens were just low class workers.

Ever since the birth of the galactic and super power era, all the rules and norms changed, as if the world has become molded for those with special abilities. Espers were allowed to use transportation and hotels for free, be employed at any job they want, go to any school they desire, and also receive bonuses every month from the United Government. Meanwhile, the ordinary ones which consists of the majority of the population faces fierce competitions for school and jobs. Due to this difference in treatment, more than half of the ordinary people are stuck living in poverty and despair.

Although everyone was happy that they graduated, they would have to apply to university in a month. Not everyone can be as care free as Li Qi who was still in the mood to party, since they were feeling a ton of pressure.

"Then I guess I will pass too, my mom is waiting for me for dinner." Jiang Xiao Yan adjusted her glasses and said.

"So boring!" Li Qi gave her a look and said.

"I have to catch the train, so…" Another girl said.

"You live right behind the school, what train are you talking about!" Li Qi started to get a bit angry.

However it didn't matter how hard Li Qi tried to convince the others to stay, all the students left, and Han Lang also packed his backpack, waved at Li Qi and said, "Not everyone's has as secure a future as you, I have to go home too."

"You can't leave!" Li Qi got anxious and said, "You think I'm inviting these chicks because I got nowhere else to spend my money? Today's your birthday!"

Han Lang smiled and said, "I know man, thanks. But I really have something to do today. After I find a job, I will buy you a Jumbo Beef Bun."

"Only you would treat a Jumbo Beef Bun as a good meal. I was planning to go with you to that Japanese restaurant, with your favorite surf clam and sweet shrimp!" Although Li Qi tried to tempt Han Lang with delicious food, Han Lang was not affected at all.

"Anytime is fine, but I really can't today." Han Lang smiled, and he started heading back.

Every day, as Han Lang walked home, he passes by a super power training school called Pinnacle. Its LED screen was playing a promotional video today as well, "Be the next hero! YES YOU CAN!"

Han Lang didn't believe in the advertisement's claim on turning ordinary men into superheroes, because after all super powers were not like cabbages. You can't just get it because you want to.

In the days with no superheroes, the entire United Government was in tension and fear. In the year 2066, the only 5-star hero on earth, Ke Lake, represented Earth to attend the Galaxy Meet. During the competition of all superheroes in the galaxy, Ke Lake demonstrated incredible battle capabilities and earned the admiration of other planets in the galaxy.

According to the law of the jungle, if a planet does not have a strong superhero to protect it, that planet has to become a colony of a stronger planets. Nine years have passed by quickly, and after the legendary Ke Lake attended the Galaxy Meet, he disappeared from the galaxy. There has been no news on him ever since.

Next year is the next Galaxy Meet, and if Ke Lake does not return and the United Government can't send a hero as strong as Ke Lake, then Earth will be colonized by the strong planets that have been longing for Earth's resources. In order to avoid this and reinforce its presence in the galaxy, the United Government has been giving its best effort to cultivate a generation of superheroes. However, the hope seems slim. After Ke Lake, no one was able to reach a power ranking of 5 stars, and the independence of Earth is entering the last count down.

Han Lang lives by himself in a cheap apartment near his school, which was bought by his mother when she was still alive. It's a simple one room apartment, around 30 square meters and has pretty good sun exposure.

Han made some black tea for himself, sat down in front of the computer and took off his silver necklace. From the black pendent of the necklace, he took out a computer chip. This was Han's mother's remnant for him. He had made a promise to his mom that he will only access it after he becomes an adult, and although tempting, he has not broken it yet.

In the past, humans set 18 as the adult age, but due to the benefits of the Galactic Era, 16 is now considered the age when one becomes fully mature.

Today was Han's birthday, and according to his mom, he was born right at midnight. The present time was 6:15 pm, which is still around 6 hours away from midnight.

"Time is going by so slowly." Han stared at his watch ticking away and said to himself, "If it's only a few hours in advance, it should be ok."

Han rejected Li Qi because today was the day that he was finally going to open this gift. He wanted to know what was inside this chip for a long time, and every second he spend waiting has been torturous so he decided to check it out right away.

He inserted the chip into the computer's reader, and the monitor recognized it as a standard 1000TB USB, that costed about 12 United Coins (UC).

Han doubled clicked the Chip icon, but the file didn't open. The computer's embedded infrared ray scanner automatically activated, and red beams quickly scanned over Han's entire body.

Infrared ray scanner is a standard feature for computers in the Galactic Era, mainly used for medical purposes where it automatically scans the body to check for any sicknesses and print out a prescription for drugs. It is really convenient for people who want access to regular checkups.

"Is there something wrong with the system? I just want to open the file on the chip, why did the scanner activate?" Han thought.

Immediately, a line of words appeared on the screen…

"DNA verified, Dark Net Entry Sequence activating."

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 2: Galactic Dark Net

"DNA verified, Dark Web Entry Sequence activating."

"Connection successful, accessing Galactic High Speed Internet. Initializing…"

"Setting initialized, accessing the Galactic Dark Net"

"Login success, welcome to the Galactic Dark Net"

The whole screen suddenly changed and opened a strange website shrouded by a dark atmosphere. There was a skull icon on the top of the page, with both sides showing the current connection speed and a slew of unknown numbers. In the center of the page, Galactic Dark Net was displayed in a large luminescent font, with an "Enter" button below it.

The Galactic Dark Net?!

Han was shocked. He was well versed in computers, so he had heard about the dark net.

In simple words, the dark net comprises a deeper level of the internet, and contains all the hidden websites and data within the internet. Just like an iceberg, the tip represents the websites that you can find through a traditional search engine, whereas the rest below the water is where the dark net is. Normal people can't access them and most don't even know the existence of the dark net. Even if they do, without the proper software, authorization, and help of expert hackers, it is almost impossible to access them.

And that is not all. The most fascinating part about the dark net is that it has no regulations. Things like drugs, firearms, bioweapons and everything else that are prohibited by law are all traded openly on the dark net. No search engine can pick up the data hosted on them, and not even the undercover police can do anything about it because every post is anonymous due to software that can change the IP addresses up to hundreds of times every second. So, if someone wants to track a dark net site in the long term, they will require a lot of resources and labor. Even then, all efforts are most likely in vain.

Last year, there was a case involving the dark net that gathered the world's attention. A dark web site called the Greyscale Grid had sent location and security details of all the cash carrying armored vans of major cities to the criminals with super powers. These outlaws then proceeded to rob these armored vans and it was reported that they paid a portion of the loot to the host of Greyscale Grid.

Furthermore, it wasn't just money they robbed, but also women, art, jewellery, anything valuable or fun. There was another incident instigated by Greyscale Grid where a female Hollywood celebrity was kidnapped by these people, and she was forced to shoot sex tapes which were then sold on the dark net. Then, a rich old psycho found these people, paid them a ton of money and demanded to see this celebrity killed on tape. The celebrity was raped and murdered on camera, with the video broadcasted live. This murder was truly an example of the lawless and unethical nature of the dark net.

Of course this horrible incident enraged the world, but the United Government does not have the ability to monitor or investigate anything that happens in the dark net. Instead, they set a bounty of $1,000,000,000 UC and hired a team of elite hackers, some who were among the top in the world. The case was finally solved but with only two criminals being arrested, and the rest disappearing into thin air.

After the case, Han had heard that the hackers that helped the police only did because they had grudges against the founder of Greyscale Grid. The hackers also run a similar website as Greyscale Grid but lost a lot of its business to it, so if it wasn't because of the conflicts between the two criminal groups, the police wouldn't have been even close to solving the case.

The story didn't end there. The top 12 websites' founders in the dark net world were disgusted to see these hackers helping the police, so they soon hired elite assassins and murdered them all the following night.

After the three events, even at the cost of countless lives, no foothold in the dark net was made. It was still as unfathomable and mysterious as before, operating under its own dark shroud.

What mother left behind is actually a dark net pass, not just the measly dark net on earth, but one that spreads through the entirety of the galaxy! The most infamous criminals and hackers in the galaxy are concentrated in this lawless world of dark net!

Excitement came after shock, and doubt came after excitement. Han didn't understand why his mother had left him with such thing? Could she be a hacker? Staring at mother's portrait on the wall, regardless, mother is the one that showered him with selfless warmth and love. Whether she was a hacker, does it really matter? Now that his mother had left him with the Galactic Dark Net (GDN) pass, he must make good use of it and not disappoint her. At that moment, Han lightly clicked on the "enter" button.

According to the rules of dark net, even if Han logged onto the GDN, if he wants to enter the different stores or websites on the GDN, he still needs corresponding galactic IP addresses and invitation. But of course, not all websites have that rule. Some of the newly established websites and stores were desperate for more views, and GDN can help direct some traffic to their websites and increase publicity.

"Do you have a need for the Spider series' mental potions? Torture potions, hallucination potions, combination potions, paradise potions, etc."

"Laser weapons on sale! Missiles and nuclear weapons as well, buy two get one free!"

"Sexy female slave from the Bai Shawa Planet, you deserve it!"

"Professional killer, does not discriminate between men, women, and children. If I can't kill, I will return triple the cost!"

Han looked at the market place's advertisements and couldn't help but shake his head. This is the Galactic Dark Net after all, the level of insanity is way beyond Earth's dark net.

Han randomly clicked open a female slave sale ad and the page quickly changed, into a site with many monitoring videos, each with the camera directed to a female slave. These slaves are locked in small prisons, in revealing clothing, accentuating their irresistible bodies. The design of this website was very "humane". The customers were given the ability to command the slaves of their choosing, such as telling them to take a spin to display their bodies, or strip naked and perform some perverted action.

To buy a normal slave would cost anywhere between five thousand to ten thousand Galactic Currency (GC), and any rare species or noble class slaves can cost up to several hundred thousand GC. Other than buying, you can also rent, which is separated into short-term and long-term rent. All slaves wear real-time monitors on their wrist, and if masters want to torture their slaves, they just have to pay more. The most inhumane thing is that slaves can also be sold in parts: a kidney is worth 3500 GC, the heart was a bit more expensive, 4200 GC, and buying three or more body parts together can qualify the buyer for a discount.

How cruel. The oldest of the slaves are only in their late 20s, and the young ones are still children, all wearing an electric ring around their neck and locked away in small cages. So pitiful and miserable, living lives under the despair that no one else can imagine.

Although there were many attractive girls among the slaves, Han decided to leave this website and headed onto another store that focused on selling firearms and ammunition.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 3: Super Inheritance

Han spent a long time browsing the dark web, going from slave trade sites to looking at sales for psychic power potions, weapons, and even different types of galactic battle ships. In conclusion, as long as you have money, the dark net has everything you will ever want.

"What do I need the most?" Han asked himself, and started thinking as he stared into the night.

He quickly made his decision, what he needs the most is a super power. After all, it is the Galactic era, where the espers are granted unlimited privileges and favours. You could hold your head high anywhere you go, not to mention the monthly bonus that is paid to you by the United Government. Most importantly, next year is the Galactic Meet, the competition where Earth lost its strongest hero, Ke Lake. Due to the lack of any new supreme talents right now, it is not impossible for Earth to lose and become a colony for another planet.

Although it's called being the colony of another planet, the actual relationship will be more like slavery. Earth's resources will be exploited, and its people will no longer have rights. As he thought of the possibility of becoming someone's slave, he felt a chill down his spine.

However, he can avoid this fate if he obtains a superpower. Even if Earth becomes the colony of another planet, he can still leave and travel to another planet to live because espers are not bound by the same rules. While ordinary humans can't even apply for a galactic passport and are stuck at Earth, people with super powers can travel without restrictions.

Super power originates from source energy, and the ones that have powers usually already had it since they were born. But Han is already 16, far gone past the age to collect and cultivate source energy. If he was left alone, it was already certain that he will not obtain any super powers.

"Maybe the dark net can help." Han thought.

He revisited the GDN, but this time Han went to the discussion forum instead of the market. All websites on the Dark Net were independent, and those well-established stores of course won't need to advertise on the home page. They already have an established client base, so they didn't need to take any unnecessary risks and could just hide in the depths of the dark net conducting their business. It's hard to find these kinds of stores, but luckily there are always chatty posters on the forums that write posts to show off the awesome websites they've found.

People that visit forums all know that without the help of a search engine, it is very difficult to find what they are looking for in sea of threads and posts. The Dark net prohibits any indexing of pages, leaving Han no choice but to search page by page. Being the observant and conscious person he is, at the same time of going through pages to find posts on super power, Han also jotted down other websites recommended by people that could benefit him in the future.

Han has the determination and patience that normal people in his age doesn't, and for the next three days and three nights, he spent no more than 4 hours sleeping and the rest all on navigating through the forums. The world of the dark net is too tempting, even when Han was resting, he was still thinking about those strange trades going down. The dark net soon took control of his life, and he spent even his time eating in front of the computer.

Finally, his hard work paid off, and on Han's fifth day in a roll reading the forum posts, he discovered a key word that immediately grabbed his interest: Super power inheritance.

According to enthusiastic netizens, after the death of espers, their brains will transform into a crystalline substance. If someone ordinary can get their hands on this crystal, they can inherit the power of the esper who died. However this way of acquiring power is prohibited by the Galactic society, and not-surprisingly it is being sold publically on dark net, although the price is through the roof.

Han could barely contain his excitement and hastily opened the link posted on the thread, and was led to a page boldly titled the House of Inheritance. The name sounds really cool, and the page displayed lists of different color elliptical crystals about the size of an adult's thumb.

"Combat Category: Normal Fire Type Power Inheritance, $10,000,000 GC"

The top listing on the first page already scared the crap out of Han… What is the equivalence of $10,000,000 GC? With that much money, he can buy at least a thousand young, healthy, and sexy female slaves, or a small galactic destroyer that could travel the galaxy. But on this "House of Inheritance" website, it is only enough to purchase a small crystal? That's way too expensive.

Han continued on reading, "Combat Category: Normal Water Type Power Inheritance, $10,000,000 GC"

"Combat Category: High Level Water Type Power Inheritance, $35,000,000 GC"

"Combat Category: Elite Level Thunder Type Power Inheritance, $200,000,000 GC"

Han couldn't help but shake his head, any combat category power inheritance was priced at a minimum of $10,000,000 GC, and there also existed crystals above a hundred million GC. Non battle type crystals are a bit cheaper but they were still unaffordable. The most basic calculation type power asks for a million GC, and any higher level sensory powers need at least three or four million GC.

If Han had money, he would for sure choose the best combat power on the market, who wouldn't want to be the best? If you get those powers that helps you calculate math faster, you still won't beat the quantum computer…

But the thing is, Han is broke, and he couldn't even afford the power he didn't even want to get in the first place.

After reading the instruction post on House of Inheritance, Han started worrying. It says that there is a limit to the time span in one's life that one could inherit a power: range was 100 days before to 100 days after one's 16th birthday. If you are too young, the shockwave when absorbing the power crystal can shatter you neuron connections and kill you; if you are too old, your brain has already fully developed and won't be flexible enough to absorb any power crystals. If you want to successfully inherit the power, you need to use the crystal within the stated two hundred days period, not even one day earlier or later.

Five days ago, Han just had his 16th birthday, so that means he only has 95 days. If he cannot get a crystal within the next 95 days, he won't be able to acquire any super powers in this lifetime.

"Holy crap, so much pressure!", Han lightly clicked on the tab to arrange the crystals from cheapest first to see the least pricy choice available, since having some random useless power is still better than having none.

The list instantly refreshed, and the first item shocked Han. It was a bucket of black rocks, still labelled as power crystals even though they were not only ugly, but it was also impossible to tell what power any of them actually contained. As a result, the merchants had decided to sell them at the relatively minuscule price of ten thousand GC each.

"Isn't this a bit irresponsible…" Han thought to himself. Actually, you can't blame the seller, because the source all these power crystals was said to be through grave robbery. Basically, the merchants investigated which abilities the esper had and where these espers were buried, and then they find the right time to dig them up and take out the crystal inside their brain. But accidents do happen, and as people dig, they might have made a mistake and uncover some unknown corpse. The crystals in these unknown people's brains were usually lower quality and also there appearances were usually uglier. Even the tiniest mosquito still had protein, as the saying goes, so these types of unknown crystals are still kept and sold for a discounted price. However, there is still another reason behind the cheap pricing: the better quality the power crystal, the more transparent it is and the more pure the color. Fire types are usually red, water types are usually blue, light types are white, and so on. These black rocks are usually the lowest quality inheritance crystals, not to mention that their power is unknown, and that's why they are being sold for dirt cheap.

This reminded Han of a funny story Li Qi had told him a while back. Li Qi is from a business family and they traveled a lot and had a lot of acquaintances. Sometimes, these acquaintances also visited them. One day, an esper visited them. After all, the ratio of espers to ordinary people on Earth is around one in one hundred thousand, so Li and his family was very polite to this visitor, and asked him to stay for dinner to ask what kind of power he has. After knowing the answer, Li's dad almost fainted: this guy's power was actually the growth of teeth. So if he accidently loses a teeth, he will grow a new one within three days. What kind of power is growing more teeth? Does it enhance your chewing ability and help you eat more or something?!

Han sighed, these cheap rocks probably contains useless powers like teeth growth or something, but as he considered more, even that guy with the teeth growth power can still receive bonuses from the government, use flight and hotel services for free, and enjoy a lot more other benefits. Even though it sounds stupid, but he still gets tons of perks.

If Han buys one of those rocks for ten thousand GC, guess the luckiest he can be is a playboy.

Sigh, "I guess I should think about making more money first," Han thought, because even those garbage abilities cost at least ten thousand GC.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 4: Drug Index Numbers

Han decided that he must first acquire a power even if it's the most useless power in the universe, and the only obstacle in his way was the ten thousand GC fee. Like most people, the first place that Han thought of for making this sum was the Galactic trade. Selling Earth's specialties on the dark net could fill the price difference.

So, Han started focusing on his big dream of making Galactic coins. He soon realized, however, that galactic trade was not as easy as he had first thought. Looking at the entire galaxy, Earth had one of the prettiest natural environment that is also optimal for living. However, in comparison to the other planets, its resources, products, and production capabilities are many tiers below the average level. Up until now, there is still a large deficit in trade with other, more powerful planets. Even the United Government is trying hard to export more goods in exchange for those valuable Galactic Coins. Currently, the only few industries that can generate revenue for the United Government were tourism, handicrafts and a few more. Besides, the Galactic Dark Net was where weapons, drugs, and other outlawed merchandise were traded. If someone started selling things like handicrafts, people will take one look and laugh their butts off.

After wasting around two days, Han was exhausted and fell onto the sofa. He turned on the TV and watched some news to give his brain a break. Spending a whole week on the dark net, he had missed a lot of current events on Earth, and the majority was relevant to the espers. Using the average ratio of one over one hundred thousand, the 15 billion population on Earth has around 150 thousand espers, and these people were the main force of protection for Earth. However, due to the lack of a higher governing power for these espers, they were also a main source of chaos on Earth.

It's simple, let's say that there was an esper with pyromancer capabilities that could blow up a concrete wall with just a casual wave of his hand. Do you think that he will just live humbly as a normal citizen and accept those insignificant monthly wages, or was it more likely for him to rob a bank and become a millionaire overnight? It's obvious due to the super abilities people possess, espers usually don't care about rules and laws. Knocking a pretty girl unconscious and bringing her home only to throw her out after a few days, or teaming up to rob banks were very common situations.

There are United Government troops stationed in the cities so the security is okay, but the suburban areas have become the heaven for these lawless criminals. The large number of criminals are enough for the United Government and the Superpower Control Centre to fret over.

It has been concluded that the only force that can go against espers are their own kind, so the United Government invests heavily to hire as many super powered individuals as they can to maintain order and peace. But, the worst thing is, some espers use police/soldier duties as cover, and they wear their uniforms during the day and takes them off at night to reappear as the core members of major gangs.

In conclusion, the Super Power Era is a chaotic era. Crime rate is high, and Earth is soon facing the possible fate of being demoted into a colony. The internal conflicts and the external threats are the causes of countless sleepless nights for the people of the United Government.

The News segment finished, and Han started watching the financial reports. Two incidents were being broadcasted, relating to the bankruptcy of all across the world. Due to the chaotic state of Earth, the Dow Jones Index dropped another 4%, the Deutsche DAX Index dropped 3%, and the Tokyo Industry Index dropped 6%.

"Index?!" Han soon thought of something.

Index is a commonly used financial tool, not only is there stock index, there are also resource index, inflation index, and all other kinds. Even the price of instant noodle is an important factor when calculating the United Government citizens' basic food price index.

Han didn't find anything similar to index numbers when he was browsing the Dark Net, and for someone that studies economics, the existence of index numbers are crucial for everyone. For instance, factories can lower production when index values drops, indicating a decrease in demand. For the citizens, an increase in product price index means that the food prices are going up and people should start storing food at home. If there is a weapon industry index, it can clearly display what type of firearm was currently the most popular, as well as the change in price and trade volume. This was all valuable information to weapon manufacturers. For example, if the sale volume of weapons spikes, this could be used by people to predict that a war between planets or an open fight between factions was going to take place.

Then, Han realized why Index numbers don't exist on Dark Net: according to the rules, any forms of search engine or data extracting tools are not allowed to be used, but calculating the index requires extensive research of information on many prices, trading information and then compiling everything in the end. This just means, if someone wants to come up with a price index on dark net, they will have to visit over hundreds of websites every day, manually note down all prices and calculate everything by hand. In the dark net world, without the assistance of search engine and data extracting tools, if someone wants to publish index numbers then the stupidest method must be used, which is very time and energy consuming.

Han actually got very excited, "So what if it's a stupid method? Every coin I make on the dark net counts!" According to the current conversion rate, 1 Galactic Coin converts to 1250 United Coin. So, even if Han goes outside to work, 1000 UC per month is already good enough. But, if he's lucky and makes a couple GC on the GDC, Han would be considered a high-income individual by the United Government.

One of the four geniuses of Hong Kong, Cai Lan, once said, "Humans are strange, as soon as they become hard working they will succeed."

Han doesn't have a super power and doesn't belong to a rich family background, so if he wants to succeed, he needs to work a lot harder than normal people. Although calculating Index numbers will be a lot of hard work every day, if it's not because of the workload being so overwhelming that no one was willing to do it, how can an ordinary guy like Han meet this kind of money making opportunity?

"If others think it's tough, and that they don't want to do it, then I will!" Han immediately jumped up from the sofa and sprinted towards the computer, his fingers started quickly typing on the keyboard.

Even the dumbest method still requires some skills, first of all using a pen to write down the power and sales volume is impossible because it lacks efficiency. The best way was to use his voice. The current voice recognition software has reached almost 100% recognition. Han just had to read out the numbers and the software would record everything. Of course, that won't be enough as Han also needed an automated data processing program which allowed the recorded data to be automatically filled into a table and calculated in the background. Han coded a computer program that automatically records data via voice, then calculate and analyzes the data. From his proficient coding process, it looks like his computer background is really good, probably inherited from his mother.

With only two days, Han completed a program dedicated for calculating indexes. How it works is really simple, first voice recognition, then automatic recording, then deleting errors, followed by compiling and calculating data. Ultimately performing model analysis.

Now that the program is in place, Han needs to consider what product he should produce index numbers for. First of all the product must be a popular category on dark net, have large daily sales volume, significant fluctuation in price, where countless buyers and purchasing agents pays close attention to fluctuation in price for that product. That way, Han's index number can be a huge hit.

Staring outside of the window a long time, Han smiled, and typed down the following words, "Dark Net Drug Price Index".

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 5: Making Galactic Coins

On Galactic Dark Net, drugs are one of the most commonly traded merchandise. There are thousands of types of drugs currently on the market, all with differing effects. Mental stimulating drugs can cause one to temporarily forget fear, and it is very popular among soldiers, as it allows them to feel like invincible titans and fight endlessly. Shockwaves, thrill, demon blade, are all popular types of mental stimulating drugs.

Light hallucination drugs can bring pleasure and, according to users, the feeling can be even better than having sex. Moderate hallucination drugs can come with some risk when used by ordinary people, and high hallucination drugs are limited to espers because only their bodies can handle the effects this type of drug can have. Pleasure, super stimulation, heaven, sex experience, these were all typical hallucination drugs found on the dark net.

Empowerment drugs are very useful in comparison to the two types previously mentioned, for instance Pyromancers can take some stimulants to quickly enhance their abilities and strengthen themselves for a short period. Higher level empowerment drugs can even increase your power index number, improving one's strength, reflex speed, and so on. Flaming phoenix, Frosty ice, Sensation, Mental burst, Nuclear drive, these are all essential empowerment drugs espers should have to improve their skills. Many super soldiers will bring a small medicine box with them that contains these drugs, in order to address sudden needs.

The dark net also sells a lot of drugs used on other people. Honesty potion can force someone to spill all his secrets at once, confusion potion can cause a married woman to mistake you for her husband, and temptation potion can persuade the most innocent woman take off her cloth…

According to Han's initial estimation, the GDN is selling over 100 thousand kinds of drugs, so if he wants to calculate the index number he can't take all of them into account. Instead, he will only be able to use the popular, most iconic ones to determine the general price for the industry. Han spent a whole month on GDN and chose 80 websites that are representative of the drug industry. From these websites Han picked out 650 of the most "Flagship" drugs to use as the drug index number's calculation foundation.

In addition to the current data, Han also needed to calculate the historic data. He set his daily working hour to 21 hours, with only a mere two hours to sleep, and one hour for personal hygiene and food.

After one month, Han had lost at least three pounds and dark circles had become common place around his eyes. June 8th came quickly, and the fresh index number that Han prepared a whole month for could finally be published. Han named himself Wind Speaker on GDC, which originated from a Hollywood movie he watched in his childhood. Shortly after, he published his first post on dark net and started nervously refreshing the page.

"It's actually pretty exciting." chuckled Han to himself.

The Index number for drugs has a resting value of 100, so if the number for a specific day is higher than 100, it means that the market is trading more frequently than normal resulting in an increase in price. If the number is below 100 then it indicates a drop in demand and an increase in storage available, signalling the sellers to start selling with discounts.

When the first visitor views Han's post, he almost jumped up happily! Han's post soon passed the 200 views bar, but no one replied… Did I do something wrong? Han thought to himself and started reviewing all his calculations.

Everyday Han keeps his schedule very tight so he can't always keep an eye on his post. From midnight to the following day's noon, Han worked hard to collect data in order to write the Index number for that day. Han worked furiously and completed today's number in 11 hours. He added to the post list, and at the same time he noticed that over 1000 people already visited Han's post and there are also two comments!

User "Galactic Solder 101" asked, "Drug index number? Reliable?"

But User "No way to get home so I slept" encouraged Han, "Wow man, you actually collected everything by hand that's impressive!"

Han hesitated, and he decided to reply these two users. But right before his fingers hit the keyboard, the screen flashed, indicating that a user donated 1 GC to Han! This user called "White horse not horse" said, "Although I'm not involved in drug businesses, I'm impressed with your hard work, you actually collected all the data for the past year to construct this index system. Although 1 GC isn't much but it's my token of appreciation."

Immediately, Han felt the urge to cry his eyes out!

Hurray to nice people in the world!

Holy crap. Just to calculate the index number, Han did a ton of work, and the beginning was the time when Han needed the most encouragement and appraisal. Although White horse not horse only donated 1 GC, but it significantly increased Han's confidence and strengthened his determination to continue updating the index number no matter how hard it gets.

For the next half of the day Han didn't receive any more donation nor subscribers. But it was okay since White horse not horse's encouragement was already enough to keep Han going for a while. At midnight, Han visited all 80 websites again to collect the data. This time, it only took him 10 hours and 53 minutes, slightly faster than before. Han noticed that calculating Index is a bit tough in the beginning stage, but as soon as the model is established, workload will slowly decrease as proficiency goes up.

Now, Han's post already reached more than 10 thousand people! Aside from the horse guy, another two nice users donated 1 GC each. Now Han is worth 3 GC, which equals to 3750 UC on earth!

The first person to subscribe to Han's drug market index is a user called "Night Walker", and he subscribed on the fifth day of Han's first post. He didn't leave any comments, just simply transferred 3 GC from the forum's subscription function to subscribe for a month of index numbers.

Honestly, Han didn't set the subscription too high, 3 GC a month, a seasonal subscription discount lowers it to 8 GC for 3 months, high year subscription is 13 GC, and subscribing for the whole year is as cheap as 24 GC. Maybe Night Walker is the manager of a drug market website, and for these drug lords a few GC is nothing.

After someone subscribes, Han would email the full version of drug index to the subscriber, which is different from the public version because it also includes specific daily trade volumes and trend analysis which Han wrote himself. The package totaled about 30 to 40 pages of detailed data. He hadn't ever worked so hard on a report, even for school…

His finger was shaking just before he hit sent, he was quite nervous about whether his first subscriber would be satisfied with his data. Beside the email function is Han's GC account, including the 3 GC subscription fee and other 8 users' donation, Han has made 11 GC which equals to 13585 UC already.

Every day, Han spent 11 hours generating the index numbers and the rest of his free time continuing to explore the drug market. He was hoping to find the drug markets hidden even deeper in the dark web, in order to expand the historic record of drug index numbers and improve on the existing calculation model.

Of course, hard work yields results, evident by the daily increase in subscriber numbers to Han's index number, and Han continued to meticulously generate daily index numbers, carefully protecting the hard-earned viewer base and saving every coin he earned.

Thank you guys for your overwhelming support! Now, for a limited time only, every 100 votes of your honest opinion that we get on [novel updates] for GNC, we will add a bonus chapter to GNC's queue.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 6: Pinned To the Top

A planet far away in the galaxy named Sala Tumu.

In a dark underground office, an elegant middle-age and looking man in glasses was sitting in front of the computer, checking out today's drug price index. He was the "Night Walker", the first one to subscribe to Han's index.

From the start of the subscription until today, it had already been a month, meaning that if Night Walker wants to stay subscribed he needs to make another payment. Han specifically wrote a Thank You email to him for the subscription, and the wording was very sincere.

The office door opened and a young brown-haired girl walked in, placing down a pile of documents onto the desk. She smiled and said, "Daddy, hurry up and sign please."

The Night Walker picked the documents and said in a lower voice, "I already told you, don't call me dad at work, you have to call me boss. Also, I'd like to formally inform you that you lost the bet we had a month ago."

The brown-hair girl was stunned for a moment and asked in curiosity, "That Wind Speaker guy is still doing it?"

Night Walker projected the computer screen onto the office wall, pointed at a detailed graph said, "Not only did he persevere, he's actually doing it pretty well. At first he could only provide last year's data model, and now he included the last two years in his trend graph, and also added a new feature predicting the next popular product.

The girl made a funny face, putting her arms around Night Walker and said, "This guy's actually pretty stubborn, I didn't know he had such determination. Looks like I lost, I guess I will personally cook a big meal for you tonight."

Night Walker actually didn't care about the bet he won, it was just for fun anyways, not to mention the taste of the kind of "substance" his daughter makes….

"Dad, do you think the Wind Speaker guy is cheating and using some type of search engine tool that can locate different data? Did he really do everything by hand?"

Night Walker smiled, "Silly girl, just because it's the dark net doesn't mean it lacks supervision. The hackers that created this world is powerful beyond your imagination. They hide in the depth of the dark net looking over all activities. Wind Speaker won't be able to use any data search tools, otherwise the hackers that founded this world will erase his existence immediately."

"All I can say is that this guy is very smart, he used a method that looks simple but applies a very advanced calculation model to derive those index numbers. He's very hardworking. For this index number, he probably have to work around 20 hours every day."

"20 hours? Does he not eat or sleep?"

"That's why I say he's hard working. He's also very efficient because it can take a lot more than 20 hours for someone to check every website and process and interpret the data. He's already kind of famous in our community. He really deserves it."

The girl nodded, "dad, you really seem to like this Wind Speaker guy, looks like you are going to keep the subscription?"

"Of course. Although the index number is still not perfect, but with the speed of the index number improving, it can be very important to the galactic drug companies. Don't forget, your dad is the vice-admin of the drug forum, I will give him some help within my power, let's hope that he can continue his work."

"How does dad plan to help him?"

Night Walker clicked the mouse a few times, "Let's pin his post to the top."

647 galactic coins?!

Han would open his dark net bank account every day and he would see the amount would have grown a little bit, ranging from 10 to 50GC. Han is already pretty grateful for it, maybe a few hundred GC is not much on a developed planet, but on Earth, the conversion rate in the last two month has been hovering around 1300 UC to 1 GC.

Of course, Han's not going to convert them to UC, because he has a bigger goal in mind, a goal to make enough to buy an esper power crystal and inherit a power before he reaches the age limit.

With only 21 days left, Han needs to make 9353 GC in the next 21 days in order to have enough to buy the lowest grade crystal. Oh crap, shipping's not included.

Han won't give up easily, but with the speed he's making money right now, it's nearly impossible to reach his goal. Suddenly, just when Han's about to close his account tab, his icon flashed: someone just ordered a half year of the subscription fee for his drug price index, so there's an extra 13 GC in his wallet.

"Haha, money's coming"

Han was pretty happy, and before he hit the close button, the number increased by another 3 coins.

"Two subscribers within one minute? Not bad."

Immediately, another deal came in, this was for a seasonal subscription plan, and now there's another 8 GC in his account.

"Wait what's happening, is there a problem with the system or something?"

Han was shocked and quickly visited the home page, only to find his post was pinned to the very top by an admin.

The forum that Han is on belongs to the dark net's drug discussion forum, and there are a few posts pinned to the top, with Han's being one of them. Being pleasantly surprised, he clicked open his post and saw it was pinned by Night Walker. Han clearly remembers, this was his first customer!

"After a month of observation, the numbers have been verified, the data is also accurate, and the predictions are well-founded. Although manually calculating index number is a dumb method, what the forum needs most is people that can get things done step by step even if it means using old ancient methods. Post is pinned for encouragement —- Night Walker"

Finally! Han start to get the sudden urge to cry, his hard work is finally getting recognized! After getting pinned, views grew exponentially, soon breaking millions within one day! The revenue from subscriptions on that day had past 6000 GC!

On the second day, the post was no longer pinned, but the popularity remained, bringing Han 3000 GC that day. On the third day, Han got another 1200 GC. On the fourth day, with the initial hype finally decaying, revenue reached 1000 GC, and revenue for the days after averaged around 500 to 400 GC.

Within just one week, Han's customers past 3000, and his account balance reached 16000 GC which was equivalent to 20,000,000 UC on earth!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 7: Esper Power Crystals

After a storm, the sky will eventually clear. Han's business was like this too. A week after having his post pinned to the top, Han's income slowly stabilized, earning 400 to 500 GC every day.

Of course, he can't afford those high level power crystals, but he still got enough to buy the cheapest kind which contains random powers. Regardless of good or bad, having an esper title is good too.

So Han revisited the website called the House of Inheritance, and spent 10,000 GC plus an additional 220 GC of shipping on the transaction for a random esper power crystal. For a big company like the House of Inheritance, Han is just one of a million customers, so when Han asked for instructions the customer service rep just impatiently told Han that the tools and instructions will come with the crystal, it's a simple process, and there was no need to worry.

Five days quickly passed, Han heard someone knocking at night, opened the door and saw a young man in blue uniform, with a package under his armpit.

The crystal arrived?!

Han quickly invited the delivery man into his house. After Han signed and received the package, the delivery man handed over a business card in both hands, smiled and says, "Mr. Han, I am Pegasus Delivery Company's representative on Earth, if you need anything in the future, you are welcome to contact me. Right now our company is developing the Earth market, so things like shipping costs are all negotiable."

Han kept the business card and thanked the guy. Wow, galactic delivery, using a ship that flew across the sea of stars to deliver. It was Han's first time receiving a delivery from another planet so he couldn't help with the excitement. Opening the box he found a submetallic sealed box that seemed like it was for rejecting detection signals. Esper power crystals were considered illegal because after all, these things are stolen from tombs and can't be revealed to the public. That's why a submetallic box with the signal isolation feature is used to contain the product, so that detectors that assess it will mistake it for a normal mineral rock.

A lot of illegal trades go down on the dark net, so the merchants always have a way to deliver these illegal products to their clients.

Han carefully opened the box, and within he found a black and dull looking crystal, a few pages of instructions, and a set of tools specifically made for the absorption of power crystals. Han took a closer look at the crystal. Its outer appearance resembled a worthless piece of graphite, and it's too black to assess its purity. Also, not even the people at the House of Inheritance know what's contained in that thing, that's why they sold it to him for dirt cheap in comparison to other crystals. And about that tool set, it's just a bunch of wires and a metal helmet that has two circular conductors at the temple spot of the head. The temple spot is the weakest spot that's closest to the human brain, so that the esper power can be quickly transferred into Han's brain. When Han read through all the instructions and made sure that he understood everything, it was already midnight. Han thought about it and stashed away the box into a drawer. Do it now or a few hours late, it won't make a difference, got to finish today's work first.

It took 7 hours and 52 minutes, Han noticed as he was checking the time after finishing writing today's index numbers. As he got more practice, Han's work efficiency was improving every day. After doing a bit of stretching, Han went to the washroom and washed his face, then he took the box out from the drawer and laid back on his bed. The metal helmet felt kind of cold sitting on his scalp, as he connected the cord with the black crystal. Suddenly a warm current began to enter Han's brain, and the absorber has begun to extract the power from the crystal and transfer it to Han's brain.

The energy that the esper power crystal contains will try to find a place to locate after entering the brain. All natural espers have a zero brainwave region (BR) where the energy for their power can settle in. Since Han's an ordinary guy, his zero BR hasn't been activated, yet the energy was already flowing in. What happens now? The only way to accommodate this surge of power was forcing the zero brainwave BR to activate!

The energy of the power crystal from other espers will automatically expand the user's zero BR, but it must be used before the brain region closes itself or just before that happens. During this period of vulnerability, the moment the energy stabilizes in Han's brain, it will form a permanent zero BR, and so someone ordinary like Han can automatically acquire the super power.

Time passed slowly, and Han started to wonder, the instruction says that a low grade power crystal takes around 10-15 minutes to finish transferring, but now it has been half hour and the energy transfer system is still active. It even sounded like the fans on his helmetwere speeding up. Han's brain felt like it was about to explode, as if someone was trying to force something into his head.

Every day, Han works like a machine with only two hours of sleep, starting from the moment he opens his eyes. His body is already burnt out, now that he's relaxing his whole body laying down on the bed accepting energy transfer, he accidently fell asleep…

Ceng ~ (A word that imitates a sound)

"Work, no, I have to start working!" Han got out of his bed in struggle, his body's covered in sweat. The lights were not on, and it was dark outside of the window. Han's suddenly became clear headed, and he reached under his pillow for his cellphone. He found it, but it's shut down, Han was too focused on his work and he hasn't touched his phone for a long time.

Turned on the lights, Han saw the hanging clock and it was 9 pm, thank god he didn't miss the data collecting time, he was reassured and went to the kitchen to cook some ramen. He turned on his cellphone again, and countless number of texts swarmed in, the most amount was sent by Li Qi asking if Han was in any trouble and why his phone is always off. Other than him, there's Wang Yan bragging about getting accepted by a university, and lastly, Jiang Xiaoyan getting rejected and saying that she's going to go back home and visit her grandparents.

After checking his phone Han realized, so for the past three months after he discovered dark net his phone was off, that's why he didn't receive any calls or texts, he thought he was forgotten by the world.

About that black crystal, it already disappeared in the energy transfer machine and became a ball of energy inside Han's brain. How long did it actually take? Han didn't know since he fell asleep, but according to the instruction manual, the higher the level of crystal the longer it will take, and the legendary ones will take around 6 hours to finish transferring.

"It's very cheap, so it probably didn't take that long… maybe 45 minutes?" Han tried to recall the events before he fell asleep. Sitting in front of the computer, he began to think about his power, he can feel a strong warm current that's flowing inside of his brain, and he can also feel energy throughout his body and a very well-rested mental state. But, he just doesn't know how to get his power out.

What kind of esper did I actually become?

He started to think about all kinds of stuff until midnight came around and he decided to get back to work first. He will visit the Esper Administration Center tomorrow morning to sign up, and there's a machine that is specifically for identifying powers, imported from another well-developed planet. It was said that it can also assess the esper level and force index.

The Esper Administration located at Pudong occupies a 40 story building. Everyone that walks past it feels nothing but fear and respect, and after all, the people that comes in and out of the building are either administrators or espers, people that belong to this era's top privileged class.

The second morning, Han took the subway and arrived at the front of the building, waited for a bit and then walked onto the stairs. The security says with a cold face, "who you looking for?"

"Oh, I want to do the esper applications." Han said.

"I see, please go to the front desk to take the application, and after you fill it out related personnel will come guide you through the application process." The security quickly switched to a smiley face, pointing at the cute girl at the front desk.

"Of course, the treatment of espers is totally different." Han never got that much respect in his life, he felt pretty good.

"Sir, please take the form and go see Mr. Li on the 17th floor." The cute girl at the front desk handed over a form and said with a big smile.

Han nodded, folded the form in half and walked to the elevator.

"Wait for me!"

The elevator door was about to close, suddenly a huge hand came from the outside, followed by a big fat young adult squeezed in.

Han saw many fat people during his life time, but he has never thought he could see someone THAT fat, height above 2 meters, weighs at least 400 pounds. How is it still a guy, he's a freaking meat mountain!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 8: Void End

The "meat mountain" came into the elevator at the last moment. Although it was only him and the huge guy in the elevator, it felt pretty crowded and Han quickly maneuvered over to the corner.

The fat guy was dressed strangely, wearing a striped jersey, with multiple ponytails (TL: lol), loud music coming from his earphones, playing strong rhythmic punk music. Oh, and he's also wearing sunglasses.

"You here for the test as well?" The fatty was actually really nice, he saw the form Han was holding and asked in a low and muffled voice.

Han nodded.

"Haha, I'm Chen Zhong, Chen as in morning, Zhong as in heavy. (same characters in Chinese) What's your name?" the "Meat Mountain" asked.

"Hi, my name is Han Lang, Lang as in homeless (same character in Chinese)." Han smiled and answered, thinking that Chen Zhong is pretty heavy, just like his name.

Chen Zhong casually pressed the button for floor 18. Han saw and was a bit confused, "Brother Cheng Zhong, the girl at the front desk said to go to floor 17."

Cheng Zhong nodded his head like he understood what happened, "That's because they got it wrong. If you're coming to see director Li Muyun to attend the test, you should go to the 18th floor. I've been here multiple times, I can't be wrong."

Han was a bit confused, because the girl at the front desk did say to look for a director with the last name Li, maybe she did get it wrong? Seeing how confident Cheng Zhong was, Han didn't say anything more. But little did he know, the Esper Administration has two directors Li, Li Jie of the 17th floor and Li Muyun of the 18th floor…

Ding~

The two arrived at the 18th floor in a blink, and it was a long hallway in front of the elevator door. They walked to a room named "Test Center", two security guards stood outside and greeted Cheng Zhong upon his arrival.

"Cheng Zhong, the director was just talking about you." The female guard smiled and said.

"That's for sure, I'm such an essential personnel haha." Cheng Zhong isn't really humble, he said while patting himself on his wide chest.

"Who is this young man following you? He doesn't look familiar." The male guard looked at Han and asked.

"This is Han Lang, my bro." Cheng Zhong casually stated, and after the two guards heard that Han is with Cheng Zhong, they didn't question further.

The sofa in the living room is quite comfortable, other than Han and Cheng Zhong there were a few other guys sitting apart from each other. A middle-aged man in glasses was calmly reading a book, a young girl with freckles on her face was doing make-up in front of the mirror, and a very buff baldy was doing push-ups with one finger.

There were fruits and desserts on the table for the guests, Cheng Zhong took two apples and looked at it, kept the large one for himself, and gave the small one to Han. The fatty is not only overly familiar but also not that polite.

Nom nom~

Nom nom~

Cheng Zhong's giant appetite shocked Han, he just finished half an apple and Cheng Zhong almost finished everything on that table, and this guy started shamelessly going to other tables for food, taking all the food that was placed in front of other people and finishing it instantly.

Maybe because it felt kind of awkward to have Han always staring at him, Cheng Zhong picked out a piece of fruit candy from the pile of food he collected.

"How about a piece of candy?" Cheng Zhong looked a bit unwilling to part with itand handed the candy to Han.

"I will just eat this." Han waved and said.

"Oh, then I guess I will eat it. It's still a few hours until lunch, I will just eat some snack to hold off the hunger." Cheng Zhong said while eating.

Snack? That's just snack?

Han was speechless, he couldn't even finish all that food in a week, and to Cheng Zhong it was just snack before meal? This guy must be rich, otherwise who has the money to feed him…

After Cheng Zhong basically finished all the fruit and desserts, a man in a white coat walked out from the inner room. He looked to be about 50, his hair was almost all white, and he was kind of skinny. There were a few other guys with him, whom Han judged to be espers, all of them with sharp eyes.

"The assessment is done, you guys can go and rest." The old man in white cloth said.

"Cheng Zhong!" The old man saw the Cheng Zhong and yelled, "You little brat came late again, hurry up and come in. You guys can come in too."

So, including Han and Cheng Zhong, all six of them went to the room. The room was a lot more spacious than the living room, a row of 10 esper power assessment pods, pure white, looks like giant goose eggs.

Cheng Zhong seems to be quite popular, six guys in the room and director Li was just interacting with him.

"231 kg? No Cheng Zhong that can't do. You have to reach 300 kg to qualify." Director Li let Cheng Zhong get on a scale and said.

Han didn't really get what those two were doing, so he followed the other 4 people, placed the form on the table, took of his shoes and stepped into one of those assessment pods.

"Director Li, how about we just get started first? I still have a date later today."

Director Li didn't turn his head and said, "Yep, just put on the helmet and press the start button."

Then, everyone in the pods took out the metal helmet inside, then pressed the start button on the door, and the pods started to steal. The other four pods were already sealed, and Li Muyun was still doing assessments on Cheng Zhong, measuring weight, blood sugar level and height level. It seemed like Cheng Zhong is a special case among the crowd. Since Li Muyun told everyone to start already, Han putted out his hand and reached for the start button, and the screen displayed "Pressure Test Ready, on standby."

"Pressure Test? Isn't this suppose be the super power assessment?"

Han didn't think too much and pressed down the button.

Then, the instant the pod closed its door, Han felt like a ray of light, passing the endless starry sky. Suddenly, a screen showed up at the centre of the starry sky, displaying that the system is assessing Han.

"DNA recorded, begin testing power features"

"Brain region breadth: Rank A"

"Source Index: 27, beginner"

"Esper Descent: Mystery Descent"

"Esper Class: Void End, Rank: Level S"

"Completed Assessment, qualified for Galactic Pressure Exam"

Han was so shocked, the statements that the system made unquestionably declared that Han is an esper, source index: 27, the possessor of the power of Void End of the Mystery descent

Mystery descent?!

Void End?!

Han wanted to cry out loud out of excitement, his power isn't garbage! None of those extra tooth growing power, but it is the most extraordinary type of all: mystery descent! Bought with only 10,000 GC, he thought what he got was some random crap power yet it actually allowed Han to become one of the rarest Mystery descent? Holy crap, that's like winning the jackpot!

On dark net, Han read up on a few posts related to esper and the different powers. Presently, all the powers are categorized into different descents, like Fire descent, Thunder descent, strength descent, etc. But not all powers are that self-explanatory, there are some power out there that are just as fearsome and powerful but very hard to comprehend, and these powers that no one understands were all classified as mystery descents. They probably account for the smallest population among all types of descents, you could say it's a ratio of 1:10,000 and Han was actually lucky enough to get this mystery descent power called Dark Void.

Who's going to believe it, a worthless piece of rock that cost only 10,000 GC give Han such unbelievable power!

Now that he thought about it, it's very possible that because mystery descent's power crystal is so rare, not even the experts that sell power crystals can tell the difference between those dark mystery descent crystals and random black crystals… How unfortunate, selling the rarest treasure at the price of garbage.

The crystal that Han absorbed has a very profound black color, completely opaque, very different from other crystals.

Shua~

Just when Han was busy being excited, he realized that he already got transported to a very strange place, at the center of the circular public square stands a monument, and it says Galactic Pressure Exam Centre. On the four sides are all teleporting gates that are 6 meters tall, and on the public square a lot of people enters the gates from time to time, and there are also people socializing.

Han noticed that the quartzite flooring gives a unique feeling when he stepped on it. As well, there was a blue sky with white clouds and a crowd of birdies flying. Then as Han's gaze moved around him, he saw that most of the people in the public square had a small screen beside them. Wherever the person goes, the screen follows, displaying everyone's passport ID, nationality, level, current score and other information.

Han realized, this was a virtual world. In simple words, virtual worlds extracts all vital information and characteristics about a person and creates an exact replica on the main computer. The environment and such are also virtually generated, that way no one will be able to get hurt in a battle.

Of course, it's still not absolutely safe, if an esper's level and control are both low, then as soon as the brain receives an enormous amount of data, the brain can become easily damaged, even to the point of causing you to become a vegetable.

"You are only a beginner esper?" Suddenly, Han heard a surprised voice behind him.

He turned around and saw the bald monk that was doing push-ups in the living room. He had a whole body of muscles, probably 27 or 28 years old. He's very distinguishable due to the fact that he's bald and it's very shiny.

Han was a bit embarrassed, "Yep, my name is Han Lang, Lang as in the character homeless (same Chinese word). This is my first time doing an assessment, how should I call you? Oh, and also, how do we get assessed in this pressure exam?

"Just call me Monk." The bald guy was very surprised, "Who told you to do your assessment here?"

"Cheng Zhong."

"Are you very close with him?"

"Not really, met him in the elevator… I was going to the 17th floor but Cheng Zhong said the assessment is on the 18th, so he brought me here."

"17th floor? So you actually came here to register as an esper and the assessment you are meant to do is the Initial Power Assessment and not the pressure exam?"

Han was shocked for a bit, and responded hastily, "Ya, I just want to register as an esper, get a galactic passport on the way, but somehow I ended up here. I still don't get the difference between this pressure exam and the Initial Power Assessment… But I do see that everyone around us are from other planets, and it's just you and me that are from Earth."

The monk showed a bitter smile, patted himself on his bald head, and said with a bit of pity in his voice, "You got trolled hard by that stupid fatty. Let me put it this way, the Initial Power Assessment checks to see if you have any super power and what type of power. But here is the preliminary round of the Galactic Meet Competition, attended by the top soldiers from all of galaxy, to fight for a spot at the Galactic Meet. A rookie like you coming straight onto the battlefield, you didn't just screw up. You screwed up hard."

Thank Chadwick for bringing us chapter 7 and Sudarsan for chapter 8, and the upcoming 9, 10, 11, 12! Sorry that we are having difficulties fulfilling the 24 hours promise but we are really trying our best. This is when we realized… the 10$ donation special kinda screwed us over in the short term… but oh well, gotta stick with our words and do this for a month. HOWEVER, keep the donations coming, bury us with money, and keep the noodles fed.

Oh also, we are also doing a 100 votes of your honest opinion on (insert link), we will do a bonus chapter! Yep, it was a promotion from yesterday when I still haven't received any donation… and little did I know that I was about to receive 60$ to do 6 chapters. It's okay, sleep is for the weak, keep the votes and donations coming!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 9: Pressure Exam

Just when Han mistakenly entered the pressure exam, Li Muyun also finished the physical examination of Cheng Zhong and said sincerely, "Go take the pressure exam now, you are our Shanghai division's only hope, you have to do your best to make yourself fatter!"

Cheng Zhong, the meat mountain, nodded and found himself an empty pod. After seeing that the human meatball was about to go in, Li Muyun started collecting other contestants' forms. When he picked up Han's assessment report, he was completely in shock.

"Cheng Zhong, the young man that came in with you, do you know him?" Li Muyun dragged him out of the pod and asked in a low tone.

Cheng Zhong was naturally a careless and casual guy so he flicked one of his hair tails and said, "Oh, he's Han, my bro."

Li Muyun's eyes got a lot bigger and stared right at Cheng Zhong, said raucously, "Bro? Do you have any idea what his level is?"

Cheng Zhong shrugged his shoulders, "How would I know, I just met him today in the elevator."

"You just met him and you call him your bro?!" Li Muyun sputtered, "Cheng Zhong! You are going to be the death of me!" He threw Han's report at Cheng Zhong's face, and Cheng Zhong still thought it wasn't a big deal, "My grandpa said, anyone within the four oceans are all brothers. So what if we just met, why can't we bros? As long as he has good personality."

As he was talking, he took a look at the form and suddenly his face turned pale white, "Oh shit, he's just here to sign up as an esper, he's not a soldier at all?!"

Li Muyun doesn't know whether to cry or laugh, he started rubbing his temple point on his head and said, "Now you get it? Too late! He already got teleported to the Galactic Examination center.

Cheng Zhong's whole mountain of fat was shaking, he sighed and said, "He told me that he's coming for an assessment, and he also said that he's looking for Director Li and he also has a form in his hand… So…"

Li Muyun let out a long sigh and said, "Cheng Zhong, are you really stupid or are you faking your stupidity? First time signups for espers requires filling out a form too and then the noobs are put through Power Identification Assessment. About the Director Li part, the Director Li Lianjie at the 17th floor's signup office, what's his last name?"

"Last name is Li…" Cheng Zhong stood still, speechless.

"Notify Chief Chu, we sent a complete rookie to the Galactic Pressure Exam, we are in so much *. What if he dies, what are we going to do."

Li Muyun looked at Han with deep regret. At that moment, Han was in the 9th pod, and he already completely entered the Mental Connection State, laying completely still.

This fatty was such a troll!

Han was crying inside. As well, he might be in need of a new pair of pants. He just wanted to register as an esper, now he was brought into what seems to be a galactic arena by the careless "meat mountain", what should he do now?

Han nervously turned to the bald monk on his side, "Is it too late for me to go back?"

The monk shook his head, "The Galactic Pressure Exam is not a joke, Earth doesn't have jurisdiction here. We are both doing this exam for the first time so that's why you met me here. Cheng Zhong and the other people in that room already passed a couple rounds of eliminations, so they are doing other exams."

Han let out a long sigh, "Thanks for telling me, otherwise I wouldn't even know what is really going on here."

"Monks act out of benevolence." Monk made a Buddhism gesture and continued, "To my knowledge, the first test in the pressure exam is called the Mighty Abyssal Pressure test, simulating the experience of traveling in the deep sea where you can encounter attacks of all strange kinds of fish. If you walk one mile in the virtual sea world you will reach the first checkpoint. So yes, you only have two ways to leave, either you reach the checkpoint or you fail the exam."

Han nodded lightly, his power source index is only 27 which falls under the weakest category, the screen beside the monk displayed that he's a two star esper with a power source index of 731. However, the contestants from all over the galaxy have ridiculously high numbers, going up to tens of thousands.

The biggest risk of entering this exam with low power index is experiencing disturbance in brainwaves during the examination, causing brain damage. If one's resistances were not strong enough, then someone is going to be really screwed… It's possible that when Han comes out of the pod, he would be a vegetable.

The best Han can do right now is just trying his best.

"Good luck, if you can get out safe and sound, I will buy you pig head meat." The monk tapped Han on the shoulder and said.

Han and the monk chose two adjacent teleporters, waved at each other and stepped into them.

Shua ~

After a stream of light flashed past, Han found himself standing on a beach under the sunshine, with many others but not the monk. Maybe he got teleported to another exam location. If he can find the Monk he could've received some help, but now he's completely on his own.

After doing a bit of warmup, Han was ready to advance into the ocean. The first challenge of the pressure exam is walking under the sea, one mile means pass, two miles means good, three miles means excellent, and so on.

If someone wants to receive the invitation to the Galactic Meet, of course they want to walk as far as they can, after all the invitations will only be given to the ones with the top scores. But for Han, he just want to get out of here. In one piece. With a properly functioning brain. After all, the deeper he travels under the sea, the higher is the difficulty.

"Get out of my way!" A buff black man suddenly knocked Han aside, almost pushing him into the sand.

"Power index 27 and you want to go to the Galactic Meet? Is the earth you live on filled with trash? People like you won't even be qualified to be servants at where I came from, and you are definitely not qualified to come here!" The man said after seeing Han's stats. He was very loud and now everyone's looking at Han, laughing at how such a low level esper is taking the exam of the Galactic Meet. Han took a look at others and saw that they were at least two stars in level. He was really the only noob.

After the rude buff man finished laughing at Han, he advanced towards the sea with his back straight, appearing tall and proud, and soon was swallowed by the water. Han took a deep breath and thought, if he's going to stand here and get laughed at, he would rather man up and get it over with. Now that he made up his mind, he felt his mind at ease, ignoring the people that were laughing at him, and quickly walked towards the sea.

The water was very pure, allowing one to see about 200 to 300 meters away. A lot of people were walking towards the light, and judging by their expression, they seem to be in a lot of pain. Even, the big buff guy that was just laughing at him seemed to be having difficulty.

Strange enough, Han couldn't feel a thing and quickly caught up to and walked past that buff man.

"What the hell… how are you even faster than me?" The buff man was surprised and started yelling. Again, everyone around them looked in their direction, with their eyes popping out in surprise and shock. Thinking on how they were way higher level than Han, but they were already having great difficulty travelling in the deep sea whereas Han with a power source index of only 27 easily past them, they almost fainted from embarrassment.

Han realized, since the sea environment is virtually generated, he can still breathe and talk. It's just that his body has to go through the sea pressure, and the deeper he goes the colder the water gets and the harder it is to breath.

Han smiled, gave the buffed man the middle finger and kept walking towards the checkpoint marked by greenlight. He quickly widened the gap with that guy, and looking back at that guy's face, his expression was priceless.

Although it is a bit difficult for Han too, it's merely the resisting force of the sea water. Everyone else looked like as if they were getting stabbed by knives or something. They had to stop to take a breath every few steps they take, hunching over in pain.

"This pressure exam isn't that much of a big deal…" About half hour later, Han already got to the first checkpoint.

At the checkpoint is a big screen, on it is a "return" button. Touching that button is choosing to go home and forfeit the rest of the exam. Han can choose to keep on walking to the second checkpoint which is another mile away, and his score will be a lot higher.

Han hesitated at the checkpoint for a bit, he didn't get why others find this test to be so difficult but he did it easily. Looks like he won't have any trouble going to the second checkpoint.

"Should I just walk a bit further then?" Han thought.

Earth, Shang Hai Esper Administration Centre

"Oh shit! He already got to the first checkpoint, and it only took him 34 minutes. This is probably the best record held by any contestants from Earth!"

"Probably not the best, after all, the elite espers at headquarters haven't taken the exam yet. But he will no doubt be in the top ten even if they take it."

The 18th floor is now crowded with people, including Chief Chu, at first they heard that Li Muyun screwed up and they hurried over to discuss a solution. But, they saw this unbelievable scene, Han, the boy that no one knows about, who was only a beginner level esper, only used 30 minutes to pass the first checkpoint.

This score not only far surpassed other contestants from Earth, but also the majority of the contestants from highly developed planets in the galaxy.

The one who took the test at the same time as Han, nicknamed Monk with real name Du Ling only walked about 400 meters, still a long way to the first checkpoint.

"Haha, my bro is too pro, even faster than me!" Cheng Zhong the meat mountain laughed.

Li Muyun rolled his eye at that dumbass. A few moments ago he was scared to almost pee his pants, fearing that Han will get into any accident during the exam. Now that Han's score is ridiculously high, the dumbass immediately forgot about what he did and started celebrating.

Chief Chu still has the emotionless face on, with a bit of tension showing between his eyebrows and said, "Han can easily get to the first checkpoint even as a beginner, it probably has something to do with his super power. What kind of power is Void End?"

Everyone silenced, big eyes staring at small eyes.

"What, you guys don't even know?" Director Chu couldn't help but become a bit angry, "Hurry up and go find out! I want to know immediately what kind of mysterious power Void End is!"

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 10: Rank SSS Power

Milky Way Galaxy, Lanboly Planet.

The Galactic Pressure Exam's main contractor, Moon River System Corporation, is located here. There are a countless number of countries in the galaxy. If a very important task like hosting the preliminary rounds of Galactic Meet is given to any country, then there will always be countries that aren't convinced. That's why it has been entrusted to a third party organization, the famous and reputable Moon River Corp.

At the moment, one of the three chief executives at Moon River Corp, Saita, who wa responsible for the operation of the virtual examination world, walked into an office. An old man with both white hair and a beard sat in the office, facing a whole row of screens that were broadcasting live each pressure exam.

The old man is called Keli, among the three chiefs he was responsible for technology.

"Why did you call me in?" Saita said with his stern face.

Keli laughed, "There's a very interesting young man, take a look."

Saita looked at the direction Keli was pointed, saw Han Lang who looked like the pressure exam didn't even affect him at all and decided to advance towards the second checkpoint.

Saita stared for a few seconds, frowned, "This guy is really strange, it seems like the extremely cold sea environment has no effect on him at all. So is he a fire descent or water descent?"

Keli shook his head, "Do you still remember Ye Shuihan?"

Saita said, "Of course, the only Void End esper in the galaxy. If we didn't do our research on him, we wouldn't even know that there's such abnormal power. But Ye Shuihan has a pretty bad reputation, the people that like him loves him to death yet the people that hates him will chase him through the gates of hell.

Keli laughed out loud, "There's no way around it, and he has Void End, which can nullify any power in this world. All those prodigy espers that consider themselves a world above others feel like idiots the moment they stand beside him. How can they not hate him?"

Saita started laughing too, "I still remember the old saying, and Ye Shuihan's strongest ability is to turn all espers into a bunch of retards. Although the saying is a bit inelegant, but that's the fact, Void End is very scary."

"At first, a bunch of espers were fighting and showing off their ultimate skills and abilities, but the moment Ye Shuihan showed up, holy crap, it became a tragedy for everyone else. No one could use any skills and they had to fight like freaking primitives, stabbing each other with knives. Now recalling the Ye Shuihan era, it's actually quite fun. Everywhere Ye Shuihan went was complete darkness, power extinction!"

Keli slightly nodded and said in a serious tone, "Up until today, Ye Shuihan was completely unparalleled. But now, the galaxy has the second Void End esper of the mystery descent."

Saita was astonished, looking at the ordinary looking Han, and at that moment he already passed the second checkpoint in ease with a long lead on the other contestants.

"It's him?!" Saita exclaimed unbelievably.

"That's right, it's him, Han Lang, from Earth United, 16 years old, mystery descent, Void End esper, Power Source Index 27. The first examination ground we simulated the ice cold power from a 4 star ice descent esper. A lot of the contestants suffered greatly from the cold stream, but he wasn't affected at all. The only explanation would be because he is a Void End esper who is completely immune to all esper powers!" Keli said in a very serious tone.

Saita nodded, "I can't believe it, 400 years after Ye Shuihan went missing, a power like Void End will actually come into the light again."

Keli stroked his hair, and said to himself, "Now that Han's level is still low, he can only guarantee his own body to be immune to any power. Once he reach two star level, anyone within 1 meter range of him will lose their power, it will be hard to not be hated.

Earth, Esper Administration, Shanghai Division.

"Reached the third checkpoint! Han already reached the third checkpoint!"

"With a Power Source index of 27 he already reached the third checkpoint? If I didn't see it with my eyes, I wouldn't believe it even if you killed me."

"Oh shit! Han's still moving! He's not thinking of stopping?!"

"Reaching the first checkpoint scores 60, and every subsequent checkpoints grants 10 points each. That means, he's at 80 right now and he's advancing towards 90!"

"I already told you guys, my bro is really good!" The meat mountain Cheng Zhong started bragging unblushingly again, and the atmosphere on the 18th floor has never been so alive.

In the Milky Way Galaxy, the United Government on Earth was in a very weak position. In order to prevent Earth from being colonized, it is important to make sure that someone can successfully pass the pressure exam and enter the Galactic Meet Competition.

Including Cheng Zhong and many other espers, they are all working hard for the invitations. And accidently, Han Lang actually became one of the hopes for Earth.

Chief Chu of course was very happy too, if Han can really get an invitation, then it's pride for him and the entirety of Asia as well. But, that 27 Power Source Index (PSI) he has, he just doesn't look like someone with great potential… Even with the most elite power, if the PSI doesn't go up, one still can't become a true elite esper.

Then, Li Muyun walked to Chief Chu and whispered something in his ear.

"REALLY?!"

"It can't be wrong, Moon River Corp specifically sent an email to answer our question." Li Muyun answered in a deep voice.

Chief Chu Li took the printed documents and read it. According to the present power categorization, S rank is the highest, A is second, B is a bit weaker, C is a lot weaker, and so on.

According to the documents sent by Moon River Corp, Rank S actually has subcategories as well, and Han's power was given Rank SSS, a total of 3 Ss! It means that it's the highest level in the galaxy!

But at the same time, the power Void End is also ranked as SSS on the universal Most Hated Power, meaning that the possessor is associated with the most risks.

Most powerful, most unreasonable, most dominant, most hated, most likely to get in trouble, in the email sent by the Moon River Corp, a total of 5 "most"s were used, which made Chief Chu a bit worried. The most powerful power has landed on Earth, it is extremely fortunate, but it can also be a great tragedy.

90 points now.

After reaching a total of 4 checkpoints, Han looked behind him in delight, the buff man that laughed at him two hours ago is already so far behind that not even the shadow can be found. Han was a bit disappointed. If that guy can see him standing at the 4th checkpoint, he would probably be shocked enough to drop his jaw.

Initially Han decided to continue the exam not for the score, but just to prove himself to the people that made fun of him. Now that Han's not that pissed anymore, he start to worry about his job, because to him it is most important to make sure that he can earn several hundred GC of drug index, since that's his entire income source.

And the score, what use does score have? Can't eat it or drink it.

Only a few people made it to the 4th checkpoint. There was a very slim, scary looking guy. Han tried to catch up to him in the very beginning but that guy left him in the dust. Other than that Han also passed a little girl, with beautiful and shiny blond hair.

Thinking about that, he couldn't help but look back, the girl is a bit younger than Han, about 14-15 years old, skinny body, smooth, snow white skin, a very beautiful face with big eyes and a small nose. She was giving off the feeling of a heavenly beauty, as if she's a princess that just walked out of an anime.

Now approaching the 4th checkpoint, she already looked very burnt out, every step resulting in her slim and long legs shaking in unbearable amounts of pain. However, this girl is still holding herself up, doing anything to not give up.

In Han's eyes, this young blonde girl had unparalleled beauty, but she's very stubborn. When Han saw her at the 4th checkpoint she also saw him, that pair of big eyes seems to have sparks flying out of them. As if she's angry at Han. She seems to have a tom boyish personality.

Han shrugged his shoulder, tomboys are usually trouble, and he personally likes girls that have a lady's personality. The girl looks like she's angry, so why get himself more trouble, better off going home and write his drug index reports.

Suddenly, just when Han was about to hit the Return button, the pretty girl with blonde hair fainted at one step away from the checkpoint, eyes tightly closed, the long eyelashes twitching nonstop, and she seems to be in a lot of pain.

Without a second thought, Han grabbed her hand.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 11: Little Devil Girl

If such a beautiful and charming girl were to fall down in front your eyes, who wouldn't catch her? Not to mention Han was not impotent in any way (if you can catch my drift), of course he wouldn't just let her fall without trying to do something.

Han didn't say anything but instead, grabbed the girl with blonde hair by her hand, and pulled her towards him.

Accident or not, Han was a bit nervous and used a bit too much force. The girl arrived in his arms, causing him to feel two very bouncy peaches. Han couldn't deny it, it felt pretty good.

If you saw this now, you would see the spark between Han and the girl. There were literally sparks the moment Han grabbed her hand. When their skins touched, blue sparks appeared near their fingertips. Of course, Han didn't feel a thing, so he didn't think too much about it.

Han got a chance to look at the little girl's pretty face up close, as if admiring a piece of art. There were pretty girls everywhere, but she felt too perfect. She had pouty lips, not too big not too small, her eyebrows were not too long nor too short, a little change to her face anywhere is unnecessary because she looked like a heavenly beauty. Even her hair length was perfect. Someone this pretty should only exist in anime…

To be honest the girl was a bit strange, wearing full leather clothes from head to toe, with only her face and two hands exposed. Han thought to himself, if she wore a dress to show her perfect body, she would be so cute. (TL: pervert alert)

Han tried to shake his head around to stop his pervy thoughts. He could feel that the girl's body was icy cold, holding her felt like holding an iceberg.

"She's probably sick." Han quickly took the girl's hand and pushed the return button together.

Shua~

As Han regained his vision, he noticed that there were countless eyes were focused on. Due to the gazes he felt while held onto this beauty, he guessed that people were making perverted accusations.

Han wasn't a gentleman, but he was not dumb. Even though he doesn't mind all these rumors, if people started talking about this girl being with another guy, it would damage her reputation.

Thinking about that, he put down the girl on the centre square, turned around and left as if nothing happened. After all, people can still feel pain in the virtual world but they can't die. Han knew that the girl will wake up after resting briefly.

After finding out how to go back, Han went to the teleporter that's in the direction of the sun. He briefly glanced behind him at the dim virtual screen hovering over the unconscious girl.

"Her name is Ye Weiwei. Hmph, her name sounds pretty cute. " Han smiled faintly and thought to himself.

"My lady."

"My lady."

After repeating several times, the girl inside the assessment pod finally woke up. She was the girl that was just saved by Han.

At home she was still wearing the leather clothing and a pair of gloves. The one that woke her up was an old bald servant who had a white goatee.

"Don't help me." Han was right, Ye Weiwei did have a stubborn tomboy personality. She saw the servant was about to come over to help her get up and immediately declined.

She first doubled checked her gloves and saw they were still tightly fitted on her hands. She then grabbed the two sides of the pod and slowly managed to get out of the pod. It looked like wearing gloves was very important to her.

"Did I faint?" Ye Weiwei asked the old servant.

"The sea was extremely cold, and My Lady didn't want to use lightning to protect her body so she fainted. Fortunately a young mister saved you, and My Lady has passed the 4th checkpoint and thus scored a 90." The servant replied in a deep voice.

Her pretty eyebrows furrowed. She sighed lightly and said, "He must have been hurt badly because of me. That's his bad luck, who told him to help me. He deserved it."

The servant smiled, "My Lady, although that mister did feel the electricity when he touched your hand, he's totally fine."

Ye Weiwei was shocked for a sec, but said coldly, "That's impossible, you don't have to lie. I won't feel bad for hurting someone."

The servant replied again very sincerely, "It's actually true, and My Lady actually fainted one meter away from the 4th checkpoint, it was also that young mister that held your hand and pushed the "return" button for you, otherwise My Lady wouldn't have gotten the 90 points.

"I don't believe it!" Ye Weiwei ordered unruly, "Show me the recording."

"Yes My Lady." The servant displayed the recording of the whole incident to her.

When he saw Han's hand holding her own and the resulting blue sparks, Ye Weiwei felt an evil pleasure. After all she's the lightning storm girl, and power she had was just that dominant. No one could touch Ye Weiwei's body, regardless if it's a man or a woman, they will all get hurt by the lightning storm that follows Ye Weiwei.

Judging by this point, Ye Weiwei was indeed powerful, but also lonely. She can't touch anyone, nor can anyone touch her. It's a barrier that couldn't be breached. To be a girl that is untouchable for the rest of her life, was it really a good thing?

Ye Weiwei was stunned, because she noticed that Han touched her hand and nothing happened. He even shamelessly took her hand to press the "return" button and bring her to safety. What's even more enraging is, after they returned to centre square, Han just dumped her on the ground and walked around without even looking back at her once!

"What a Shameless person!" Ye Weiwei blushed, and yelled in rage.

The old servant was a bit confused, "My Lady, after all that young mister saved you. Look at the facts, if it wasn't for him, My Lady wouldn't have gotten 90 points. And if it wasn't because he wanted to help you return, he could've kept on walking, potentially even getting the highest 150 points."

"I don't care, he's a shameless person! Who told him to help? Do I look like I need other people's help?" Tomboy Ye Weiwei continued to argue,

"My Lady has the heart of gold, If My Lady wanted to use the lightning guardian there wouldn't be any difficulty walking the entire distance. Only because My Lady was benevolent and feared that lightning can conduct underwater and hurt other people, she didn't use that power."

The little tomboy flicked her ponytail, got out of the assessment pod. Her legs were a bit numb, but she still pretended to be fine and said, "What's wrong with the guy named Han Lang? His Power Source Index is only 27 but he's not scare of my lightning storm? Could there be any conspiracy behind him?"

"It shouldn't be a conspiracy, you two just met and never met before. Maybe his power is really strange, but unfortunately according to the rules, we can only know his level but not his power type. "

Ye Weiwei sneered, "Resist a SSS ranked lightning storm power? Is it even possible?"

The old servant hesitated and answered, "Probably not, even if there is power that can resist My Lady's power, they can at most reduce the damage but not completely ignore it."

"So, you have to look into this!" Ye Weiwei ordered, and turned her head and left.

The loyal old servant let out a light sigh, My Lady was almost perfect, just her personality is a bit too stubborn.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 12: Li Qi's Worry

Han went back through the return teleporter. Before he left though, he also specifically looked up on the information on Void End. Apparently, during the beginner stage, Han can void other people's ability. So, if someone shoots a fireball at him, the fireball will hit him but it won't be able to do any damage to him. It was as if the power entered into the void just before it reached Han's body.

Suppose if Han's Power Source Index (PSI) can pass 100 and reach the two star standard, he could then open up a spherical Void End Domain with a 1 meter radius. Anyone that enters the domain will lose their power and become ordinary people.

If Han's PSI passes 1000 and reaches the three star standard, then the domain he can open up becomes 10 meters wide in radius. Same logic applies for higher star standards.

"Not too bad, I can actually cancel other people's power." Han thought with great excitement.

Shua~

The light blinked by, Han opened his eyes and walked out of the assessment pod, other than the meat mountain Cheng Zhong and Li Muyun, there was another stranger. He was middle aged, had healthy bronze colored skin, with a square face and an expression that radiates a firm and persistent personality.

"Holy crap man, first test and you got a score of 90, if it wasn't for that chick, maybe you could have gotten even more points!" Cheng Zhong put his arm around Han Lang's neck and yelled in happiness, "That girl does look really cute though, bro I support you!"

Wait what and what??

Cheng Zhong was such a funny dude, he and Han just met today and now it's like as if they grew up together. Seeing that Han's score is so good, he's happier than Han himself.

There was also other people's seemingly exaggerated praise, which troubled Han. It was as if he had done something really extraordinary.

*cough cough*

The squared-faced middle-age man coughed twice on purpose, Cheng Zhong laughed and said, "Oh I almost forgot, this is Chu Li, the chief in command of Esper Administration Center Shanghai division."

"Chief Chu." Han said with respect.

Chu Li nodded, "Up until now, your performance during the pressure exam was extraordinary. Next week same time you have to come here and continue the pressure exam, this is your responsibility as an esper."

Besides having to produce the drug index reports, Han still had a bit of time every day. Since the chief asked him with great sincerity, Han nodded and agreed.

"In addition, the thing about registration, I've told my subordinate to process it already. You just have to wait here for a few minutes." Then, Chief Chu lightly nodded, and walked out of the pressure assessment center.

Seems like the chief is pretty serious, when he was here no one else (of course, except for the meat mountain) talked. After he's gone, everyone swarmed Han.

"SSS Power! The best in the galaxy man! Even the monsters at headquarter are way weaker in comparison to you!"

"That's right, you didn't see it. When the chief found out about how strong your power was, his face stayed expressionless for quite a while. What's unfortunate is that you started too late, your PSI is a bit low too, and otherwise the Chief would drag you to the training camp for sure."

"Ya, no mistake, I heard Chief Chu sighing in the background."

When the crowd started talking about that, Cheng Zhong became a bit unhappy, "What are you guys talking about? My bro just has a low PSI right? He just need practice! This administration center's training facilities are free for espers anyways. Bro, don't listen to them, the first round of the pressure exam and you already got a 90! Who has seen a score this high?"

Han summarized everyone's opinion, in conclusion his Void End is a very strong power and everyone was very happy for him. But because of the fact he started late, even Chief Chu felt that Han had limited future potential, so he didn't really urge him to do anything particular. Only telling Han to not give up on the pressure exam and see if he can get an invitation to the Galactic Meet.

Of course, with normal logic, a person who only discovered his power at the age of 16 and has a PSI of only 27 would be given the status of having low potential. But, what they didn't know was Han's 27 PSI was not accumulated over the past 16 years, it only took 1 day!

All the strange things that happened at the Esper Administration Center took Han a lot of time. When he left it was already 3pm and his stomach was growling. At this time the monk has finished his pressure exam and came out too, he tried very hard but only walked 1 mile so he scored 60 points.

After hearing that Han has such an amazing power and got 90 in the first round, the monk was very happy too, yelling that they should all go out to eat and celebrate.

Talking about eating, how can we forget about Cheng Zhong (TL: also it might be a bit gay if it's just Han and the monk)? So, the three of them left the administration center and went to the Peace Restaurant across the street. Han also gave a call to his best friend Li Qi who he hasn't seen in long time. Before, when he was still poor, Han owed Li Qi quite a bit because he always asked to pay for the meals.

Han and the other two were all super hungry so they ordered a whole table of delicious food and started swallowing it chunk by chunk. Not too long, Li Qi also came. Han introduced him to Monk and Cheng Zhong, and also told Li Qi about his power.

With wide eyes, Li Qi yelled in excitement, "You little shit became an esper?! That's the best news I've heard in the past two months! You turned off your phone for so long. Wang Yan especially asked me about you, she seems to have feelings for you. Now that you are an esper, she will probably run into your arms without blinking her eyes!"

The meat mountain Cheng Zhong started to exaggerate again. "What's good about chicks from Earth. Today he went to his first Pressure Exam and he already hooked up with a super cute chick from another planet. Although she's a bit young, but her face, her body was perfect! I was drooling on the other side of screen watching him, Han is for sure a lady's man!"

Li Qi was stunned and then he quickly asked, "Hurry up and tell your bro how you hooked up with that space chick!"

Han was speechless, these guys were acting as if they were anxious to see the world in chaos … saving someone can be interpreted as hooking up, what the * is wrong with them…

The joyful atmosphere didn't last too long, after joking around for a bit Li Qi became a bit sad. He asked for a bottle of wine and drank two big glasses himself, as if he had something in his mind.

Han felt it's a bit strange, so he asked, "Are you sick? You don't look so well."

"I'm not sick, you are the one that's sick." Li Qi laughed and scolded at Han, then sighed, "I just came back from the hospital from visiting 4th grandpa. Ever since I can remember, 4th grandpa was the one that treats me the best. He doesn't have wife nor kids, and I was like his grandkid."

Han became very concerned too, "Is 4th Grandpa okay? Why's he at the hospital?"

"He's an esper, a few months ago when he's exploring the extinction sites he used too much source energy, which caused damage in his zero-degree brainwave region (previously noted as the zero brainwave region, which is the part of the brain that controls source energy). I don't know the details, the doctor said it's called regional brain atrophy."

Han answered immediately without any thought, "Oh, so that's what happened. The zero-degree brainwave region is where espers store their source energy, training and battling causes that region to vibrate. The harder the training and the battle, the stronger the vibration, especially if it continues for a long time, which can cause different degree of damage to that region. "

Han continued, "But your 4th grandpa has reached the degree of atrophy, normal medicines won't be able to cure it anymore, it's necessary to extract young espers' brain fluid and produce into a medicine called the zero-degree vitalizer to increase brain cell activity."

"Then, it should be taken with a nuclear energy pill to quickly replenish the force energy, and only that can completely cure the regional atrophy.

Han spent the past 3 months writing index numbers for medicine, so all this knowledge has engrained themselves in his brain. After he was done giving the little speech, his three buddies at the table all looked at him with mouth open, and that's when Han realized that he spilled the beans, because the zero-degree vitalizer and the nuclear energy pill are all illegal medicines which they probably never even heard of.

Cheng Zhong's mouth twitched a bit and asked, "Extracting brain fluid from young espers? Isn't that a bit too ruthless?"

Monk is a bit confused, "What's nuclear energy? How does eating it quickly increases your source energy? How come I've never heard of such thing?"

Thank Sudarsan for bringing you guys this chapter! I know there are 9 chapters in queue now, I will try my best! Keep the donations coming and bury me with money plzzzz

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 13: Extraterrestrial Raiders

Han had no choice but to explain, "Nuclear Energy is a type of source energy revitalizer. It is classified as a hormone stimulator drug. And of course extracting brain fluid from young espers' zero-degree brain region is even more illegal. So don't tell others."

"Li Qi, tell me the details about your 4th grandpa, maybe I can help."

"REALLY?!" Li Qi couldn't be more excited, "Our 4th grandpa is part of the United Government's pre-historic extinction domain division, responsible for exploring all the extinction domains on Earth. The risk and secrecy of this job, you guys understand it right?"

Han nodded, pre-historic extinctions domains don't just locate sites on Earth but throughout the galaxy. Before the age of mankind, the galaxy and its planets belonged to another unknown intelligent species, but for some reason, this formidable civilization disappeared within one night. No one knows where they went, and why they abandoned the land they lived on for generations.

In the Milky Way, there were countless extinction domains, and these sites provided extremely valuable rewards when explored. From these sites, the gamma ray transition engine was discovered which resulted in the invention of space battleships that can cross the galaxy, the quantum technology facilitated manufacturing of super computers, etc. Without exaggeration, the current mankind civilization is built on the foundation of these pre-historic civilizations.

Exploring these sites were the highest priority for everyone, resulting in extinction domains being fought over for by all the planets. After all, the ones in control of the resources in the extinction sites were also the ones in control of the future, due to possibly acquiring some super technology and formidable fire power that no one else has.

From what Han knows, Earth had a few extinctions sites that were kept confidential and were strictly regulated by the Esper Administration. Earth was always eyed menacingly by other powerful planets, and having extinction sites was a huge factor.

Li Qi said, "I just know that 4th Grandpa was leading a team to explore a newly found extinction site and a terrible battle took place. The exploration team lost over half of their troops, and my grandpa's sickness was from exhausting himself in order to protect the team when retreating. "

Han nodded, "So it was due to accumulated exhaustion. Now, I only know two medicines that can cure your grandpa's brain atrophy, but about how much he needs and what other medicines need to be taken on the side, I'm not too sure. I will go back and ask my friend."

Li Qi immediately took Han's hand, his tears were about to drop, "Han, you must help me this time, as long as you can cure my grandpa's illness, my family and I won't care about how much money it will cost!"

Han comforted Li Qi, "Don't worry, we are bros, I will try my best to help of course, and you don't have to worry about the money right now."

After Li Qi shared the story about 4th Grandpa, Cheng Zhong and monk actually started acting a bit more serious and stopped joking around. Peace Restaurant's top floor café was right beside the Huang Pu River and the most bustling business sector of the city. Accompanied by a beautiful view, the four started sipping tea and talking about extinction site domains.

Suddenly, when everyone was comfortably chatting, a black frigate sized spacecraft appeared directly above the business sector, not too far away from Han's location. The frigate started descending at an incredible speed and came to a sudden break just a few meters away from the land. A huge gust of wind shattered all the glass on both sides of the street, a group of men in black hastily jumped out and ran towards the people that were shopping on the streets.

"No United Government flag nor military emblem, this ship just came in from outer space!" The monk yelled!

"Shit, could it be raiders?!" Cheng Zhong asked.

Raiders were a group merciless crooks and killers. Small and weak planets like Earth were the raiders' favorite targets. It was just that Han only heard about raiding incidents from the news, but he never heard of raiders daring to raid big cities on Earth under broad daylight.

As for these Extraterrestrial raiders' target, aside from valuable jewelleries, they also came to kidnap citizens on Earth and sell them as slaves.

"The civilians are in danger! Who's an esper? Quickly follow me!" A man in a fancy black suit on the street yelled as loud as he could and ran towards the incident's location. The man wore flowers and red ribbons with the word "Groom" neatly written on his back. Wait a second, he was the groom who was in the middle of his wedding, and after spotting those raiders visiting Earth, the groom left the bride and the guests and ran straight to the battlefield!

"Mother fucker, let's go!" Cheng Zhong's veins were popping out on the forehead, he grabbed his headphones off his ear, rolled up his sleeves and was quickly on his way.

"And me!" The monk yelled as well.

"I'm coming too!" Han felt encouraged by the enraging atmosphere and yelled too.

"Then you guys grab on! I'm going to take you guys on a roller coaster ride!"

Cheng Zhong grabbed the monk with his left hand and Han with his right. He rushed downstairs with an incredible speed that was uncharactistic of Meat Mountains. This meat mountain was actually a speed descent esper?! Normally, he's as fat as a meat mountain, but when he starts running he's faster and more agile than anyone!

"Go get them!"

"Be careful!"

All these strangers in the restaurant were all cheering them on, but Cheng Zhong was really quick and the group of three disappeared instantly.

Shua~

Cheng Zhong took Han and the monk and sprinted towards the crowded business sector, on the way there were a lot of civilians crying and fleeing the area, Cheng Zhong agilely dodged all the helpless bystanders.

Han had noticed when Cheng Zhong started using his power, his weight was quickly decreasing. It turns how that his speed was converted from his fat. So it was a type of conversion power, no wonder Li Mu Yun cared a lot about Cheng Zhong's weight. His weight was his battle power!

Shua~

Another esper appeared right out of an alley, he's a bounce type esper, capable of jumping up to buildings over 20 stories tall. When the incident broke out, he was just about to take a bath, still wearing his bath robe, his face covered in shaving cream bubbles, and he started running towards the battlefield regardless.

The civilians were trying their best to flee, and all the battle-type espers in the area, regardless of what they were doing, all started rushing towards the site as if they planned it together.

Han's group was pretty close to the business sector, so they were the first batch of espers that arrived to the scene, only to see 30 or 40 extraterrestrial raiders unscrupulously capturing civilians, especially the young and pretty girls.

There was a pile of blood on the floor, it belonged to the groom that was telling everyone to go to the battlefield. When the fight broke out, he was the first one to arrive, but he was immediately surrounded by the raiders. Now he was lying down in a pool of his own blood, with a black blade sticking out of his chest.

During the last moment of his life, the groom was still tightly grabbing onto a raider, not even letting go in the face of death. He was a fire descent esper and was using a raging flame to burn the raider's legs to crisps.

Under the raider's arm was a cute girl that was just about 8 or 9 years old, crying loudly. Fearing that he might hurt the child, the groom didn't dare to use his full power.

"GO TO HELL!" With both legs burnt, the merciless raider cried out in pain. He threw down the child, pulled out the blade that was in the groom's chest and heavily stabbed it into his skull.

The blood splashed as far as 5 steps away from the groom!

The little girl was saved, but this esper groom had already left the world forever.

But today was supposed to be the happiest day of his life!

"I will fuck your grandma!" After witnessing the tragedy, Cheng Mu's both eyes turned red and he let out an angry cry!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 14: Temporary Formation

The tragic death of the groom esper on his wedding day had enraged all the other espers at the scene!

Although there were not many of them, only 7 or 8, they all started rushing towards the raiders in complete synchronization. They were charging with such intensity that not even death itself could stop them.

"Hold out until reinforcements arrive!" Called out a nearby esper.

The group of raiders were also espers so they felt no fear towards the infuriated defenders from Earth. Under the command of a bald dark man, they continued to calmly capture civilians, specifically targeting the young and pretty women.

The battle took place in the most crowded business sector in Shanghai, and Shanghai was also one of the largest cities of the United Government on Earth. Right now it was afternoon, during the most crowded time in the business district. The majority of the people couldn't escape in time and they were surrounded by the raiders on both sides of the streets.

Gengci~ (the sound of body getting slashed opened with blood pouring out)

Gengci~

A merciless raider killed two more young men with a blink of an eye, laughed loudly, and tossed the two young women on his shoulder into the frigate's storage room. Similar scenes were happening all across the street, causing anguish for the espers that were desperately trying to save them.

Unfortunately, these raiders were too powerful. With a team of fire, water, ice, and strength descent espers combined with the experience from years of working together, the raiders formed a strong team.

On the other hand, the espers from Earth not only lacked numbers and power, but also combat experience and synergy. They attempted to charge twice towards the frigate but were forced back by the raiders. Three espers had unfortunately gotten hurt too, which included the courageous monk, whose shoulder was hit by a fireball. The wound had a burning smell and his robes were covered in blood.

"Don't mind me! We must prolong the fight! Until the Esper Administration's troops arrive!" The monk yelled at Cheng Zhong and Han Lang.

"Let me!" Han has become completely blood boiled from the scene and yelled without thinking too much.

"You?" Although Han has a unique power, but he was never a soldier. Both the monk and Cheng Zhong knew it.

Han spoke in a deeper voice, "The biggest threat is the two long range raiders on the left wing. We must take care of them first! Cheng Zhong, use your speed and hold me as a shield to get close to them! Then, throw down the Monk to take care of the fire descent enemy that's within range. We'll then go kill the guy that's throwing ice spears!"

"But you…" Cheng Zhong was a bit hesitant about the arrangement.

"Stop wasting time! I can void all powers so don't worry about me. Let's go fuck them up!"

Cheng Zhong and the Monk saw Han was already very determined. They glanced at each other and answered together, "Ok! Lets' go!"

At the same time, the raiders seemed to have met their target quota. The bald black guy whistled, and all the raiders started to retreat back to their ship.

The raiders were very fast and efficient criminals. They cause a scene in one area, then they go to their actual destination, quickly raiding and pillaging before they escape. As long as they retreat before the Esper Administration's troops arrive, judging by the current look of the forces on Earth, it will be impossible for the reinforcements to catch their customized frigate.

"Don't hesitate, let's go!" Han got nervous and yelled at Cheng Zhong and the monk.

Cheng Zhong made up his mind, he grabbed Han and held him up in front of him, and the monk grabbed onto Cheng Zhong's shoulders. Cheng Zhong suddenly concentrated energy into his legs, and charged right out of cover.

"An assault! Cover them! Cover them!"

Although the other espers didn't know who they were, at this moment they were all teammates that could die for each other. A strength descent esper quickly picked up some rocks on the ground and started throwing them at the enemies positioned at the left. Another water descent esper unleashed a water dragon to cover for Han and the group.

Hong! (Things colliding and exploding)

Hong!

The enemy's ranged attackers saw Han and the others charging towards them. They hastily changed their target and tried to blow Han's team out of the sky with fire balls and ice spears.

Cheng Zhong hesitated a bit, and reluctantly started using Han as a shield, using Han's body to defend all ranged attacks!

The fireballs hit Han's body one by one and disappeared into the void the moment they hit! The ice spears were aimed at Han's chest but shattered immediately as well!

Although Han is immune to the powers, he could still feel the pain. He endured the excruciating pain just to create an opportunity for his friends to fight back!

"Impossible! My powers stopped working!" The fire descent esper that was closer to the three man projectile couldn't believe his eyes, there were people on this world that were not afraid of fire?

Just when he was hesitating, Cheng Zhong already arrived, Han raised his leg and kicked the raider right in his balls. The monk that was hiding behind Cheng Zhong suddenly jumped out and forced the raider to the ground. He didn't have a weapon, so he picked up a rock and struck with all his might!

"I want your life!" The monk yelled like he went mad, and started smashing wildly at the raider's head.

The next second!

The extremely fast Cheng Zhong and the fearless Han already arrived at the ice descent whose jaw had hit the ground after seeing what was happening to the fire descent raider. Cheng Zhong's meat-mountain-like body went straight on top of that guy! Han picked up a metal rod from a piece of crushed concrete, gathered all his force and forced the rod right into the raider's eye!

It worked! Han's strategy worked, and they started cleaning up all the raiders that were firing down upon the espers from earth. Within 3-4 seconds, they had cleared the raiders off of the left side, tearing up an opening in the escaping raider group.

"Raider attack!"

"Civilians under attack! Hurry to the scene!"

Shanghai was one of the biggest cities in Asia after all, with a population of over 10 million and at least 3000-4000 espers. After receiving the news, espers from all directions started heading towards the battlefield, and the amount of espers from Earth in battle reached over 70 in a blink of an eye. There were even more on the way, running like maniacs towards the scene!

In the group of espers that already arrived, the most fearsome ones was of course Han's group. The battlefield was the best training ground, and all three of them were really smart. Their powers also had synergy, and they actually formed a great tacit understanding after cooperating for a short period of time.

Han who had the power of Void end was like the armor of the tank. Capable of cancelling out long ranged attacks. Speed descent Cheng Zhong was the engine of the tank, capable of quickly rushing between enemies. What happens after the tank arrives? They let the dogs out! Strength descent Monk was the perfect martial artist with a ferocious spirit, just like the sharp fangs of a mad dog! He bit whoever he could get on! One bite was deadly enough to drop whoever was close enough!

"These men are mad! Retreat!" The commander of the raiders couldn't believe that the weaklings on earth were actually this insane, yet tenacious. He loudly yelled, wanting to flee with his subordinates.

The raiders didn't even have time to bring back their comrades' bodies and started running towards their frigate in full speed.

"Cut them off!"

"Reinforcements are almost here!"

The espers from Earth started rushing in large waves, and the situation was totally in their favor now. Of course they wouldn't want to let these bastards leave the planet. But the raiders were still using clever tactics, covering each other while retreating. The Earth espers were forced back, unable to prevent the raiders from getting on to their ship.

Hong! (Sound of engine starting)

The galactic frigate's engine shot out blue flames, ascending quickly into the sky.

The espers on Earth were anxious, with such great sacrifice they could only watch those murderers fleeing into the outer space?

That's completely unacceptable!

Suddenly, on the top of a nearby high-rise, a guy carrying a bronze bull statue jumped off!

To be able to carry a bull statue that's a few tons heavy, he must be a strength descent esper, but strength descent wasn't flying descent! Jumping off at this height would kill him!

But this brave esper didn't care about life and death anymore, and he jumped down with the bull in his arms, yelling as loud as possible to the end, "Doesn't matter how weak Earth is! It's still my home! I will fuck you at the cost of my life!"

The strength descent fell straight from the sky, and threw down the bull that's worth few tons!

Hong!

The bull hit right at the frigate's right engine, and flame came out right away!

The frigate that was just about to take off, was smacked right back down to the ground!

But the strength descent esper, he already used up all of his source energy, his body fell to the deck of the frigate like a kite with broken strings. The sounds of crushing bones resonated across the battlefield.

He was killed instantly.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Translator's note: Before we start, I just want to clarify some confusion our readers may have about how Han actually got that Void End crystal. The previous processor of Void End was a rogue esper that was hated by a lot of people, and I expect that he was just buried somewhere random that's not known to the public. That's why, when the gravediggers accidently dug his grave, they didn't know whose body that belonged to nor do they have any idea about the power of that crystal contained in that body. Since Void End is a mystery descent, it has a very dark color which can be confused with other black low grade power crystals, thus causing the confusion.

Chapter 15: Sacrifice

These extra-terrestrial raiders never thought they would encounter such a tenacious resistance on a small planet like Earth. Even more unexpected was that their initial strategy of hit and run was entirely impossible to execute now. Nearby espers from Earth have been rushing towards the attack site at full speed and the number of defenders started increasing non-stop. The scarier fact was that they were willing to sacrifice their lives just to send the raiders to hell!

The cry of the strength descent esper before he died was still ringing in everyone's ears… That's right, no matter how weak Earth is, it's still our home! Come and leave as you wish? You still have to ask the espers on Earth whether they agreed!

Everyone's eyes were blood red!

The right wing engine, which was responsible for ascending, had been completely destroyed. The frigate lost its balance and fell back to the ground. The espers from Earth stepped over the corpses of their comrades and charged right at the enemy, each unleashing their power and flipping the whole frigate over!

Hong!

Someone smashed the deck window from the inside. It was the leader of this raider group, a dark bald, very muscular and ruthless looking man. He lifted up his arm and summoned a wall of flame, forcing the assaulting espers back.

Thirty something raiders grabbed the hostages they captured earlier and left the destroyed frigate, probably planning to use them as a shield and retreat to the rural areas first.

"Fuck the leader first! Don't let them get away!" Han whispered by Cheng Zhong's ear. After witnessing the tragic death of so many espers, Han felt such an intensity of rage he never felt before, staring right at the group of raiders.

Suddenly, a black dot in the sky was closing in, it was an Earth esper with a flying ability.

"Chu Li's here!"

"Chu Li is ranked as a 3-star esper, these bastards won't be able to run now!"

"It's hard to say, they still have hostages."

"If you dare to come any closer I will kill them all!" Seeing Chu Li closing in onto the battleground, the dark bald raider suddenly let out a loud cry. He then lifted his arm up high, summoning a fire dragon! This fire descent raider was really powerful, his dragon could fly up to a few hundred meters above the ground!

"NOW!" Han suddenly yelled at Cheng Zhong.

Cheng Zhong had been accumulating his strength. He unleashed it and exploded towards the enemy like an arrow leaving the string of a bow! He held Cheng Zhong in front whilst dragging the Monk behind him! It was the famous tank strategy!

Han was very careful with choosing his timing, attacking right at the moment when the enemy unleashed a giant fire dragon and couldn't call it back in time.

Shua~

The distance between them was approximately a hundred meters, but Cheng Zhong closed the gap within an instant!

The enemy commander's right arm fire dragon couldn't get back in time so he lifted up his left arm.

"Go die!" He cursed, wanting to unleash another fire strike.

"Throw me!" Han yelled.

Hong!

Cheng Zhong didn't hesitate and threw Han right out!

All everyone could see was a guy meeting the wall of fire in mid-air. The raging flame made contact with Han but disappeared as if entering another dimension, leaving Han unharmed. That dark bald man stood there with his eyes wide open and couldn't believe what just happened.

Han flew right into him and forced the stick of metal right into his neck!

Gengci~

That dark bald leader was at least a three-star esper and Han after all didn't receive any professional training. He used all his strength but couldn't kill him on the spot, the pole of metal only created a bloody hole on his neck.

Although the guy didn't die, Han managed to grab onto and restrict the leader of the raiders so that he couldn't let out any fire spells,

In the next second, Cheng Zhong and the monk also arrived. The monk stepped off Cheng Zhong, prepared his assaulting stance, and used his most powerful iron fist and punched the raider right between his eyes!

Peng!

Blood, brains, bones and even the eyeballs were smashed apart due to the punch!

And Cheng Zhong used a table leg he found from god knows where, and stuck it right between the raider's legs!

Gengci~

Final Kill!

Seeing that their leader had already died, the subordinates all got scared. However, the enraged Earth espers have already surrounded them and closed in together!

On the left side of the street beside a pile of debris, on the steps in front of a store, Han, Cheng Zhong, and the monk sat together. Everyone was holding a bottle of beer which was forced into their hands by an old man they didn't know.

The old man's granddaughter was among the group of girls saved today. He was so excited that he cried like a child and didn't know what else to do that was enough to thank these boys. He distributed the food in his grocery basket to all the espers that participated in the rescue. He's already very old with a whole head of white hair, but he bowed to every single one of the espers, nonstop.

Ambulances arrived at the scene one by one, carrying away the deceased heroes, those that used their life to stop the raiders.

In the middle of the street, a young beautiful girl in her white wedding dress was crying, her groom was laying there peacefully in a pool of blood. It was just a blink of an eye but the wedding became a funeral. The most tragic thing on Earth could be none other than a turn of events like this.

Han let out a long sigh, said to Cheng and the monk, "I couldn't believe it, all the espers on Earth are actually really united, everyone just charged with their life on the line."

Cheng Zhong faintly smiled, "Aren't you the same? The greater your power is, the greater your responsibility is. Seeing the evil people doing sinful deeds, how could us espers just stand there and watch?"

The monk was just sitting there, repeating what the deceased strength descent esper was saying, "Doesn't matter how small Earth is, it's still our home."

The crowd got bigger and bigger, the ones that were saved were busy crying and thanking the espers, everyone that walked past Han, Cheng Zhong and the Monk all thanked them, and a pretty little girl gave them each a little flower.

Han didn't like being thanked, because he felt he did something he should today. The real heroes were those that were killed in action today.

"Where are you guys going?" Cheng Zhong asked.

"Home." Han looked at the direction of his home.

"I'm going to the hospital." Cheng Zhong pointed at his burned wound on his shoulder.

Han gave Li Qi a call, and walked home mindlessly like a zombie.

Everything that had happened today was too much for Han. It was his first experience in such a bloody battle, and it only reminded him about the kind of situation Earth was in.

This was reality, the weak will get bullied, those bastards dared to raid Earth under the broad daylight to capture slaves. Why? It was just because Earth was too weak.

And those deceased espers, they deserved respect. Han would never forget, the young groom that didn't even take off his wedding suit to fight. His eyes betrayed his determination, without the slightest bit of hesitation.

"The greater your power is, the greater your responsibility is…" Han laid dead on his sofa, repeating the same line to himself.

The TV was showing the list of deceased heroes from today's event.

Peng Zuolin, 33 years old, two star esper, strength descent, from Jiang Su province.

Hu Hai, 24 years old, one star esper, fire descent, from Hunan.

Li Yunjin, 19 years old, one star esper, ice descent, from Shanghai

Liang Xuedong, 15 years old, wind descent, from Zhejiang.

Looking at these lively and unfamiliar faces, Han slowly tightened his fist.

Sorry guys, I've been a bit slow recently, I will try my best to translate more for you guys. It's just that the school term is coming to an end and my marks haven't been ideal, so I'm trying to allocate more time to studying. But dw guys, I will have a whole month off where I can focus on translating, so keep the donation and votes coming! I will clear them all soon, muahahahahahaha

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 16: Earth's Rage

Esper Administration of the United Government, Shanghai division.

Deep into the night, Chief Chu Li sat at his desk and looked out of the window silently.

Chu Li was still waiting on the report from the reconnaissance unit, this was the third invasion from outer space since the formation of the United Government. It was also the most serious one, causing 7 espers to be killed in action, with more than 20 espers hospitalized, and at least 300 casualties among civilians.

Before that, Spain and India had also encountered similar attacks, but both of them took place outside of the city in rural areas so their damages were far more insignificant in comparison to this one.

After a few minutes, Li Muyun opened Chu Li's office door and sat in front of him.

"Chief, the reconnaissance unit still haven't sent their report yet?" Li Muyun asked.

Chu Li nodded, "We are still questioning them. How does your skill unit thing about this case?"

Li Muyun said, "This successful attempt at stopping the raiders was all because of the courageous espers from Earth fighting with their lives on the line. The skill unit closely analyzed the recording of the scene and noticed outstanding performances from three espers."

Chu Li finally became a bit excited, and asked in curiosity, "Which three?"

"Cheng Zhong that possesses a speed conversion power. Du Ling, a strength descent esper that is nicknamed the Monk. And lastly Han Lang, the Void End possessing esper of the mystery descent." Li Muyun listed three names.

Chu Li said sincerely, "When I got there I was just in time to see those three killing the enemy leader. They used Han Lang's ability as a cover, Cheng Zhong's speed conversion ability as mobility, and the Monk's strength as the main attack, and it was very effective."

"Especially the Monk. He's not only a strength descent esper, but also one of the heirs to an ancient martial art in Asia, a true talent."

Li Muyun pulled out a laptop and passed it to Chu Li, "Those three are not just good, but under such a stressful situation, they were able to create a strategy. This is the tape before your arrival."

Chu Li took the laptop and started watching. Li Muyun had taken all the clips related to Han and the other two and made it into a video. In the recording, when most of the Earth espers couldn't break the raiders' defence, Han's group of three stood out and tore an opening in the enemy's tight defense formation. They had played a pivotal role in achieving the final victory.

Of course, the other espers' courage all deserved respect and rewards. It was just that Han's group of three's temporary formation was much more effective and skilled.

"That was beautiful." Chu Li always had a serious face and rarely give compliments. "Their synergy, tactics, and timing were all perfect. It must be the Monk that was in temporary command right? Among the three of them, he's the most calm one and also with the most battle experience."

Li Muyun didn't say anything, he just slightly shook his head.

"It was Cheng Zhong?" Chu Li was a bit surprised, "That boy is pretty goofy normally. It's hard to believe that he can really be counted on during important times."

Li Muyun was still silent, he looked at Chu Li and shook his head again.

Then Chu Li completely amazed, "It's actually Han Lang? He didn't participate in a single day of training and was just recognized as an esper today, it's actually him?!"

Li Muyun said, "Correct, every idea at the scene came from Han, even the timing of all the attacks were chosen by him."

Li Muyun was one of Chu Li's most trusted subordinates, his words were obviously believed by Chu Li. However, the strategy and choice of timing all came from the least experienced Han Lang, Chu Li really couldn't make sense of it.

What was a battlefield? It was a place where blood and flesh flew everywhere and death was right around the corner the moment you drop your guard. For the majority of people, don't even mention thinking quickly on the battlefield, as long as they don't faint it's already good enough. To be able to come up with a strategy on the battlefield was a lot harder than people would think, and it is nearly impossible to do without years of training and battle experience.

Han was just an ordinary person before today, but he was able to command two espers that had more experience than him to fight such a beautiful assault/defense battle. Without any exaggeration, if it wasn't for Han, it would have been a terrible defeat for Earth.

Li Muyun continued, "It's a pity, Han had the best ability, an amazing mindset in battles, but he only accumulated 27 Power Source Index in 16 years. His potential is very poor, otherwise he would be a talent."

Chu Li nodded, and didn't speak further.

At that moment, Chu Li's secretary walked in into the office, taking big steps. He looked so furious, even his face almost turned green.

"Chief, the result is clear. The raiders' real target was the Pu Fa Bank's underground gold safe. They also have another group of 5 responsible for taking advantage of the chaos to rob the safe."

Chu Li hesitated for a moment, "Gold safe? They aren't from Earth, why would they need United Currency?"

Then, Chu Li suddenly realized something, his eyes suddenly became cold and he slammed the desk and said, "Now I get it, someone tried to partner with those raiders to rob the banks on Earth, then let their accomplices on Earth convert the UC to GC and carve up the loot on the spot!"

"Who are their accomplices on Earth?"

"Madman Yiwan, a rogue esper from the Russian District. We have notified the Russian district to arrest him."

Chu Li said in a deep voice, "Gather the special task force immediately."

"But, we don't have jurisdiction to operate in the Russian district."

"Fuck the jurisdiction!" Chu Li finally lost his calm, "Pass my order, gather the special task force immediately!"

A few minutes after, on the roof of the Esper Administration Centre, four Falcon class vertical takeoff aircraft were prepared with 40 special task force espers assembled, also ready for battle.

Chu Li put on his battle suit, walked to the roof, and nodded to his assistant to give a signal. The big screen on the roof suddenly start to display the recording of the fight earlier today at the business district.

All the espers in the nearby area rushed to the site and put their lives on the line to stop the enemy, the scenes were enough to make everyone blood boiled.

The video ended, Chu Li cleared his throat, looked at all the soldiers and said, "Everyone must be really clear about what happened today, when enemies showed up, these espers stood up for us, they protected the civilians, and they protected our home. The majority of them were not soldiers. Some of them were businessmen, some were professors, some students, and one of them was even a groom. They stood out to protect the civilians, was it because of the 2000 $UC bonus we give me every month? NO! Of course not, because lives are priceless. They were that courageous because they felt it was their responsibility as espers! And to avenge for those respected brothers, it's our responsibility as soldiers! The results were clear! Madman Yiwan, a rogue esper from the Russian district directed this slaughter! Their ultimate goal was the underground bank safe, and the raiders were responsible for causing chaos and distracting us. All these people died just so they could rob the bank so Yi Wan could convert it to Galactic currency. I just don't get it, we are all espers, and some are willing to give up their lives to protect our homeland! But some have the gull to plan how to kill their own kind? What kind of fucked up reality is that?! The raiders from outer-space are hated, but the traitors of Earth deserve the worst death possible!"

Chu Li continued, "Avenge won't be overnight! This night, we will go to the Russian district, and send Madman Yiwan and his accomplices all to hell! If the headquarter gives us any trouble, I will take all blame!"

None of the soldiers were not eager to fight, they rushed onto the planes and started flying to the Russian district at full speed.

Two minutes after the Shanghai district's troops left, the main pilot on one of the Falcon fighters suddenly reported, "Chief, the Beijing Division heard our plan. They sent two Eagle-class fighters and two special task force groups after us."

Chu Li was shocked for a second, then nodded and ordered, "Received, slow down a bit and unite with our comrade division's reinforcements."

The pilot reported again, "Should we wait for the Guangzhou division and Chengdu divisions? They are farther away than the Beijing division reinforcements. As well, Xian division's troops are closer to Russia, they are currently in front of us."

"The Russian District has received our notice. Not only did they not have a problem, they are also sending reinforcements from the Moscow division. The Paris division also dispatched 8 special task force groups, and including the heavy artillery units from London, that's almost one-third of the total army from the area."

"Chief, new update. The North American and South American division decided to each dispatch an entire army to cross the Atlantic to support us."

The news came in one by one, after knowing the actions that the Shanghai division was taking, all Esper Administration divisions around the globe all sent out their reinforcement as if they all planned it together beforehand. Even the Americans and the Australians decided that even though they were an ocean apart, they still want to be present for the battle!

Taking advantage and still betraying the home planet, that's something everyone hates the most! Chu Li is not the only one that wants Yiwan dead. Tonight, all major divisions' forces will be gathering at the Russian district.

Homies, thank you for your support!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 17: Zero-degree Brain Region Healing Potion

"It only took 4 hours and 13 minutes?"

Han was staring at the clock, speechless. The two days after he got Void End, his ability to process complicated data became faster and faster, two nights ago he spent over 8 hours finishing up the index report, last night took 6 hours, but tonight, the time needed decreased to only a little bit over 4 hours.

And after the 4 hours of highly demanding work period that required intensive use of his brain, he didn't feel tired at all. In addition, Han also participated in a battle yesterday but now he only felt a little bit of pain in his chest. This speed of physical and mental recovery was too surprising. Han attempted to justify this improvement, but he couldn't find any other reason but the new power that he got.

According to the web, there exists some special powers that can increase the metabolism rate of espers, which can in turn increase the recovery rate of wounds. As well, the espers would become more energetic, and replenish energy faster and so on.

Han went downstairs and bought 4 meat buns and a large bowl of wonton soup.

Meat buns were his favorite, it's something his mother used to make for him when she was still alive. The delicious smelling braised pork were chopped into small pieces, mixed with a bit of pepper, all put into freshly baked bun, one bite and the amazing taste will linger in your mouth.

Maybe it was also Void End's side effect, Han's energy significantly increased and his appetite also got really big. He quickly finished four meat buns and the large wonton soup with added egg and shrimp. He logged onto the dark net and started looking for medicine to cure Li Qi's 4th grandpa.

Han's first subscriber, Night Walker, ran a medicine store that was decent in size with a favorable pricing. Night Walker gave so much motivation to Han and had also once pinned his post to the top, so Han of course visited his store first.

Night Walker's medicine website had an artistic name, it was called the Light Breeze of Autumn Night (LBAN). The medicine were all showcased on the online shelves. Han had already looked at them multiple times since LBAN was one of the 200 stores he used to collect his data.

The screen flashed and a chat box showed up, Night Walker saw Han visiting his store and approached him first.

"I saw you visiting just moment ago, are you visiting again because there's something wrong with the index number?" Night Walker asked in curiosity.

Han answered, "Nope, today's index report has all been done, after a few hours it will be sent according to schedule. Now I'm just shopping around."

"Oh, welcome welcome! If you need anything feel free to ask me."

"I have a friend whose grandpa has a case of atrophy in his zero-degree brain region. I want to buy some zero-degree energy revitalizer."

Very soon, Night Walker sent a picture to Han. Han took a look and saw that there was an esper tied to a metal chair, his mouth was sealed by a metal ball, and there is a toilet right below his butt. A metal rod pierced the back of his skull and a drop of transparent fluid would come out from the rod every few minutes.

Han only knows that the revitalizers used the brain fluid from young espers as a base, but he never knew that the extraction method was that cruel.

The victims were tied to the chair so they couldn't even move an inch. To maintain the quality of brain fluid, he can't even eat anything, and nutrients were directly injected into their bloodstream to keep them alive to live a life that's worse than death.

"The Brain Fluid source is specimen 3219, a four star strength descent who is 21 years old. He has good physical properties but the zero-degree revitalizer doesn't work 100 percent of the time. For you, I'm going to use this sample to prepare one serving of revitalizer, with little side-effects, immediately effective and doesn't require any complementary medicine." Night Walker was really a professional, and gave Han the best solution.

Han said, "Yep, that would be the best. But isn't he in a lot of pain?"

Night Walker answered as if he does not care at all, "You want to say cruel right? Don't joke with me, this is the dark net, the shadiest place in the galaxy. I will be honest with you, this guy is a pedophile. He committed great sins with his power, and countless little girls and boys died in his hands. Allowing him to continue living would be the real cruelty. Now he's just repaying for his sins, if one day the quality of his brain fluid decreases and I have no more use of him, I will sell his organs to body parts dealers. Slaughtered like an animal and have its organs sold, that will be his ultimate end."

Night Walker continued, "After all you are in dark net, you have to get used to this lawless world. By the way, your drug index number is getting more and more famous, recently a lot of people started copying you to do index numbers for other industries, did you know?"

Han was still trying to digest the information fed by Night Walker, to a certain degree, Night Walker was the good guy. He saw Han was in need of help and he took the initiation to help without expecting any returns. But if you change the perspective, Night walker was also the typical dark net dweller, doing illegal activities and deeming lives to be simple resources. This might be the two-faced nature of humanity, light and dark exists deep down in everyone.

Han took a second and answered, "More people doing index isn't a bad thing, after all the dark net doesn't allow data search or extract tools. Everything relies on being done manually. Some people are willing to work for money, some are willing to buy the data they need to save time. In the business world, everyone takes what they need."

Night Walker nodded, "You are pretty open about it, but they won't be a threat to you no matter how hard they hard. After all you started really early and your data bank has far past theirs in both reputation and quality. They can only be your copy cats. Every day I look forward to your update. Before this, I had to visit so many other medicines websites every day to gather information myself. Now, I still do, but I don't have to spend so much time on it anymore, saved me more time for the wife and daughter."

Han laughed, "That's the benefit of outsourcing, I help you bosses with some work to save your time, and you guys subscribe to my service and give me some money to buy food."

Night Walker laughed too, "You really know how to talk, don't worry, a small boss like me won't mistreat you. The revitalizer I will prepare it myself, won't delay anything. Aside from this what else do you need?"

"I also want some low side-effect training medicines, source energy amplifying medicines, and reflex-increasing potions."

Night Walker hesitated, "What you asked for are all for soldiers, they have low side-effects. Could it be that you are using it yourself?"

Han said, "Yep it's for me. Recently I realized, this world is actually really dangerous, so…."

Night Walker nodded, "You are right, this galaxy had always had the rule of the strong devours the weak. It's fate that we met, I will try my best to help you. But you should understand, the medicine with the best effect also comes with higher risk, and the medicines alone won't be enough to ensure survival. You also need to learn the best skills, use the best weapons. All of the elite warriors are forged by mountains of money."

"I understand that logic. I am also looking to get the skills, weapons and whatever else I need to become powerful. But to be honest, I'm still not too familiar with the dark net, and I spent too much time on learning about medicine, so that's the only field I have some understanding in. About skills, equipment, and training techniques, I know nothing…"

Night Walker had a mysterious smile, "If you want good equipment, coincidentally I just know the right guy. But about where he got his equipment from… you understand."

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 18: Origin of the Ten Thousand Paths

Although Han and Night Walker never met and they had only just chatted online via the dark net, Han could still feel that Night Walker was full of passion just from their short chat. Han thought that this was probably the feeling one gets from a mentor, all the achievements Han earned on the dark net, Night Walker was a pivotal contributor.

Soon enough, Night Walker had sent Han a list. Along with tons of medicine, potions and pills, Night Walker also gave Han a free light medicine storage box suitable to carry during combat, a free medical theory textbook, and topped it off with free shipping. The bill only came to a total of 6700 GC.

Han was quite surprised, the Night Walker is a really interesting guy, not only did he pick out the most suitable products, he also gave him a storage box, a book on the basics of medicine, and free shipping.

Han had been doing the index number for this industry for a long time, so he knew really well that the price Night Walker charged him was about half of the market price, it was probably his production price!

Han anxiously refused, "It's too cheap! I can't take this deal."

Night Walker laughed and replied, "Why not? The margin on medicine is pretty high so you don't have to worry. Making a few thousand more GC won't make a different to my current financial situation, so just see it as a friend helping out another. Don't worry, I'm not making a loss at all."

Han reluctantly nodded, "I guess that's fine, I will definitely remember your help!"

Night Walker also gave Han a dark net link, "Check this site carefully, it probably has what you need. The owner is a strange fellow, if you approach him yourself you will probably be ignored. But don't worry, I've added you to my list of important clients, he should answer you after he sees that."

He continued, "The Dark net is very complicated, the majority of the websites need to be introduced between close networks. What you see on the forums are all the smallest of the smallest, the more powerful the website and organization, the deeper they hide on the dark net."

Han gave his address to Night Walker and thanked him again. Then he turned around and rushed right to the website suggested by Night Walker.

The website was called the Origin of Ten Thousand Paths (OTTP), the owner was called Pathless Origin. It sounded like he was bragging unblushingly that he was the number one in the study of martial arts paths in the entire Milky Way galaxy.

A lot of information on super powers and martial arts could be found on OTTP, and Pathless Origin's business was just selling different types of instructional devices for martial art styles and equipment.

In the current society, martial arts were sold not as a book but instead as a storage crystal. It uses the data-brain injection method to directly transfer the information into the brain, which makes it impossible to create pirate versions. Each crystal was unique and becomes obsolete after first use.

The martial art crystals and equipment sold by Pathless Origin all had unknown origins. The battle equipment were layered with dust, and a lot of the weapons were covered in dried dark red blood stains.

Han took a look around. The things Pathless Origin sold were all the real deal, and the price was pretty cheap too. A fiber equipment set suitable for two star espers only costed 3000 GC. Han checked out the other stores before and saw that the same set of equipment would have costed at least ten thousand GC.

The weapons were fairly priced too, an enhanced tritanium dagger only cost 1000 GC.

Han's account still had a balance of 11300 GC, subtracting the 6700 GC from buying the medicines, he still had 4500 GC left over which was just enough to buy a set of equipment and a weapon from Pathless Origin.

But Han wasn't in a hurry to decide. There were tons of free information here that Han was interested in.

Han started looking carefully through the pile of data, but there was nothing on Void End so he could only look at power immunity which was quite similar to Void End.

Power Immunity was actually a lot weaker than Void End because it could only nullify the enemy's super power attacks. The higher the level, the stronger the immunity. But Void End could completely deprive others of their power and once the user progresses in level he can also create a void zone in which everyone will be powerless regardless of their level.

Pathless Origin arrogantly calls the things he wrote as "The ultimate review", radiating the confidence of being a martial art master.

This was what he wrote on the power immunity file, "Stupid people! They all think power immunity espers should use guerilla warfare technique, long ranged attacks, and be agile and flexible. Wrong! Very wrong! Little do they know, power immunity is the cruelest ability in existence, the chosen ones with such ability must practice martial arts!"

"Martial Art users are practicing techniques with their lives on the line! Fight to kill! Hit every punch! Trade eye for eye! Only surrender in death!"

"Without such a mindset, it is impossible to become elites."

After finishing reading the review, Han was astonished. Fight to kill, hit every punch, trade eye for eye and only surrender in death?! This simple 16 (Chinese) word review captured the essence of the immunity power. Take Han for example. Although he could nullify other people's powers, what happens after? Even though you don't have any powers, I won't have any powers too. The only course of action left was just stabbing at each other with knives or something.

At that moment, the result will be determined by who was better at martial arts, who was more merciless and not afraid of death!

So the espers with an immunity type ability could only undergo the cruelest training method, practice superior martial arts, and rely on the strategy of first taking away the enemy's power, and then killing them in close combat.

Han took a look at the owner's review on other powers, and all reviews started with the same sentence, "Stupid People!". It sounded like as if no one else was competent enough to do reviews and only he spoke the truth.

Regardless of how arrogant Pathless Origin was, it didn't affect Han's opinion of him. All his reviews were on point, which showed Han a clear path to follow for the future.

After looking at the reviews Pathless Origin wrote on other powers, Han began to pick the equipment and weapons he needed.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 19: Pathless Origin

A battle suit was a must-have for espers in this era, a good set could not only ensure the safety of soldiers, but also increase their immunity to powers. To Han, protection against super powers wasn't as important because he was already immune to all powers. Instead, Han plans to find himself a fairly priced suit with great protection against physical attacks.

Soon, Han found a black leather battle suit, which looked like a big dark pile, carelessly tossed to the side by Pathless Origin. If it wasn't because this so-called "Black Celestial Python" set had a 2.5 star ranking, probably no one would want to spend 3000GC for something like this that looked like a pile of junk.

Pathless Origin was a very strange guy. Normal sellers would have divided all 2 star equipment into high, medium or low quality and priced them differently accordingly. For Pathless Origin, all 2 star equipment were priced at 3000 GC each, and all 3 star ones were 10,000 GC each. He didn't include any labels, and the most he gave was the name of the equipment.

Han liked the Black Celestial Python set for two reasons: among all the 2 star equipment, it was the only one labeled 2.5 stars. Why wouldn't someone want to spend the same amount of money to buy something that was higher level? It was just that Han didn't get the meaning behind that extra half star.

After thinking for a while, Han used the dark net chat service and called the owner Pathless Origin. It took a long time for the chat to be answered, and just when Han was about to greet him, Pathless Origin already started yelling, "If you have something to say, say it fast. If you need to fart, hurry and fart, can't you see I'm busy?!"

Han was shocked for a bit, as the old saying goes, being nice when doing business can really help your business, but this Pathless Origin boss seems to have quite an attitude.

Han wasn't angry at all, he had only been on the dark net for a short time so he was still a complete novice. Besides, there isn't any downsides for him to be humble. In addition, Pathless Origin was recommended by Night Walker, and Han believes that Night Walker wouldn't lie to him.

"Teacher, I have a question to ask, why is this set of Black Celestial Python marked as 2.5 stars? Why is there still half a level?"

Teacher was a common title in Asia, it didn't have any special meaning other than to show respect to someone. Han saw that Pathless Origin had a bad temper, so he quickly lowered his head.

"Stupid, you don't even know this? This suit is made from the skin of the black celestial python, and it has a huge weakness. Although its physical defense is ranked to be 3 stars, its defense against super power is complete garbage. Other people sell it as 3 star, I don't think it deserves such ranking so I lowered it to 2.5 stars." Pathless Origin answered.

Han was surprised, ranked 3 stars for physical damage and can't defend against super powers, wasn't this designed for him?! He was immune to powers anyways.

"Teacher, I have another question." Han continued politely.

"Why are you so annoying? If it wasn't because Night Walker specifically told me to treat you well, I wouldn't even be replying you. Hurry, hurry!" Pathless Origin's attitude was still the worst it can be.

Han asked, "Aside from the Black Celestial Python set, I also would like buy the heavy dagger named Tremor. I want to ask about the actual weight of Tremor."

"How would I know if I never weighted it before? Tremor is just used for close range combat. For close range combat, if the weapon is too light it has no power. The pros all use weapons that are slightly heavier, if you can't use it then you are too weak, it has nothing to do with the weapon." Pathless Origin explained.

Han noticed, although Pathless Origin had a bad attitude, all his explanations were all on point. He explained complex problems using just a few sentences. Han was yelling out of excitement on the inside, this guy's actually a pro!

He already got scolded for a while, might as well ask one more question, "Teacher, your review on power immunity was right on point. I was wondering, are there any other secrets to mastering martial arts?"

"Hey are you going to be done anytime soon? To practice martial arts, of course you have to train in the extreme cold and train to your death! Only the iciness can trigger a human's strongest power, the natural survival instinct. In this world, tropical temperatures represent life while cold represents death. The strongest moment in someone's life is the moment he about to die. That's when it's most possible to conjure surprising amounts of energy. That's the power of will to living. To practice martial arts, you have to go practice in an extremely cold environment and look for that near-death feeling."

Han realized that Pathless Origin was only cruel on the outside, but as long as he asks in a humble voice, Pathless Origin will still explain to you. Although the explanation isn't very detailed, it was very memorable.

Han still wanted to ask some question about training, but he feared that if he pissed off the oddly tempered Pathless Origin, then it won't be worth it in the long run. So, he politely said bye to Pathless Origin and checked out the items he bought.

Pathless Origin's items were all cheaper than others, but the shipping was expensive: shipping to Earth costs 500 GC. After checking out, Han checked his wallet, he only had 11 GC left.

That's alright, the drug index can generate for him a steady income of 400-500 GC every day, and he just had to make more money.

Soon, it was 5 days after.

In the 5 days, Han took out at least 8 hours every day doing physical exercises and some basic training. Now he lowered the time needed to write the index report to 1.5 hour, plus another 1.5 hour to polish up the data and the report. In total, he spends 3 hours every day, and he actually accomplishes more within these 3 hours than when he used to work 20 hours every day.

Han couldn't thank his super power enough. After he had Void End, it's like he changed into a new person, even his brain worked better than before now.

Aside from training and writing drug index reports, Han also checked out Pathless Origin's website on a daily basis and asked that oddly tempered old man whenever he was stuck on a difficult concept.

Of course Pathless Origin didn't want Han to bother him, but there was a good old saying: no one hits a smiling face. Han's attitude was way too nice, calling him teacher every sentence. Also, Han would never annoy him, he only asked at most 3 questions every day and it never took longer than 5 minutes.

Although Pathless Origin was still as bad tempered as before, he never refused to answer Han's questions. There was even one day when Han didn't even open his mouth before Pathless Origin started the conversation with, "What do you want to ask again today?"

This was a good start, along with Han's improving ability to study and Pathless Origin's mentorship on the side, his knowledge on power, martial arts, strategy, training, started growing at an incredible speed.

Han did start very late, but his speed of improvement was unmatched.

At dawn, Han came back home from a morning run. He took a shower, got changed and left the house. The night before, Night Walker's package finally arrived. Han delivered the package to 4th Grandpa right away at night, and he was told that the effect was promising. Li Qi had told Han to meet with him at the hospital in the afternoon. Now, Han's going to go to the Esper Administration to continue the pressure exam.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 20: Potential that's Against the Rules of Heaven!

Han took the subway and arrived at the 18th floor of the Esper Administration center again and saw Li Muyun. The Monk was there too, but Cheng Zhong wasn't.

Han and the Monk casually chatted for a bit and then went into the assessment pod.

Shua~

Light flashed past and Han was teleported to the second round of the Galactic Pressure Exam. According to his knowledge, there were 3 rounds for this pressure exam, the first one was advancing under the deep sea again, the second one was escaping the desert, and the third one was climbing a snow mountain. These three were ranked by difficulty from easiest to hardest. The first one was naturally the easiest, with a max score of 100. The second one was harder, with a max score of 300. The third one was the hardest, max score was 500. Plus another 100 points for bonus, the max score in total was 1000. After the three pressure exams was a battle test, the max score was 3000.

After these two sets of exams were done, the top 10,000 contestants would be chosen to join the Galactic Meet's main contest.

The oldest allowed signup age was 27 years old, since the Galactic Meet was a competition between the younger generations. With a countless number of planets in the Galaxy, the total population was at least on the scale of millions of trillions, so the top 10,000 contestants were for sure the elites among the young ones in the galaxy.

Han saw the Monk in the public square. They were both doing the second test so they took the adjacent teleporters but got teleported to different arenas again.

Han shrugged his shoulders, he had power immunity so if he could be in the same arena as Monk for this exam then he can at least somewhat help Monk. Looks like the system automatically separates contestants of the same country or planet to avoid cheating.

Han took a look around himself, only to see that he was standing in the middle of a desert tornado. The tornado had blown the sand into a swirling pattern so no matter which direction he took he would have to cross the tornado.

The wind had an extremely powerful destructive force. Even before entering the storm, some soldiers that were a little weaker were already struggling to stay standing. Han saw many people reluctantly walk into the storm, only to be torn into pieces by the sharp wind. Of course, the difficulty of this round was a lot higher than the first one.

According to the rules, the further you walk in the storm, the more points you will get. And if you successful walk out from the tornado then you receive the maximum score of 300. In addition, there's also 50 bonus marks for this round. Apparently there's a sacred temple inside the storm, and if one can retrieve the stone of light from the temple then he/she will receive the bonus points.

Of course, most people wouldn't bother with some temple because they would already consider themselves incredibly lucky if they can even make it out. Ain't nobody got time for that shit.

Han scouted around, and picked the path with the least amount of people and started advancing. The majority of the contestants were gathered on the right hand side of Han, it was like the sheep crowd effect where basically everyone would follow the crowd. Doing so allows the people that are scared of challenges and adventure to feel safer while walking behind others.

But Han didn't worry since he could nullify any power and this sand storm was simulated with the attacks of a sand descent esper and a wind descent esper, which has no effect on Han. He just had to make sure he doesn't get lost.

Before walking into the storm, Han could already feel grains of sand hitting his face which was actually quite painful. Power immunity didn't mean it was also immune from pain, so Han could still feel the sand hitting his face.

But that didn't slow down Han's steps at all. After experiencing the battle 7 days ago, Han started to realize the responsibility on his shoulders. Regardless of how weak Earth was, it was still his home and the place he grew up in. Who would want to see their home ending up in the hands of others and see his fellow citizens whipped out of their existence.

Reminiscing the scene where the espers from Earth were putting their lives on the line to protect the powerless people, Han could never stay calm. Although he couldn't name any one of them, he felt that they were all heroes and a bunch of fellows that deserved respect.

In comparison to the past, Han had one more belief, he's still not strong enough right now and he needs to work to become stronger non-stop! He had to give it his all to protect those existences that were worth protecting.

Han squinted his eyes and started walking faster and faster in the mad sand. Regardless of how hard the sharp sand grains hit his face and how many more bloody cuts appeared, his footsteps did not slow down at all. To others it may seem like a disaster, but to Han it was training that he must endure.

The further he walked, the harder the sand storm hit. The furious wind could easily blow people off their feet.

Suddenly, a black shadow loomed on the horizon, and when Han got closer he saw a sacred temple built with giant white stones.

How lucky! If it wasn't because he chose the path that the majority didn't, he could've never have come across this lonely temple.

"A bonus 50 points is pretty good." Han smiled and said to himself.

Esper Administration 18th floor.

After what happened last time, Li Muyun started paying extra attention to Han. The moment he entered the exam Li Muyun started playing Han's exam broadcast on the large screen.

Void end was still as powerful as before. When everyone else were getting blown to the point of losing their sense of direction, Han's footsteps were still firm and determined. As Han walked further and further in distance, his points became higher as well. According to the system, Han's score had past 200 already, surpassing the majority of people.

Monk, who took the exam at around the same time as Han, had already been eliminated from the test.

"Void End is really a power against all heaven's rules." Li Muyun exclaimed.

The Monk shook his bald head, "I don't think it's all because of his power. You see, his steps are very determined, on the unstable sand against that raging wind, yet his legs aren't shaking at all. It seems like his power source index has improved from the first time I've seen it seven days ago."

"That can't be right…" Li Muyun hesitated and said, "Han used 16 years to accumulate 26 power source index, which means that it grows on average 1.68 every year, his potential is probably the worst I've seen. According to my past experience, this speed of growth can't be improved no matter how hard he trains. Now it has only been a few days and his index increased?"

The Monk shrugged his shoulder, "I'm not too sure, I just feel that Han's steps are a lot stable than a week ago."

Li Muyun thought for a second, opened Han's assessment statistics out of curiosity, and he almost jumped up when he saw Han's updated index.

The assessment chat showed no changes for other data, but Han's power source index actually increased by 15, so now Han's at 42!

Li Muyun was completely astonished by what he saw, and he began to realize that he and Chu Li might've completely misjudged Han's potential.

Normally, power source index has a natural growth rate, and that means even if an esper doesn't do any training at all, their index will still naturally increase by a certain amount.

Natural growth rate of power source index is like someone's foundation, and combined with intense training, it can be amplified by as much as 4 and 5 times more. That means, an esper with a natural growth rate of 10 every year, if trained properly, can increase his/her power source index by 50, more or less.

And back to Han's case, natural growth rate of 1.68 was not just bad, it was the worst of the worst. That was why even though Li Muyun and Chu Li knew how powerful Han's power was, they didn't make any arrangement for him.

But now, Han's natural growth rate had reached 15 points every week, which meant that it could've been a 60 point increase if he had the proper training! Every year had 52 weeks, that's a growth rate of around 3120 points in one year!

According to this calculation, Han would be an average division three star esper in one year, capable of creating a void domain of 10 meters in radius! And in that domain, he would be a godly existence! Everyone else's power would all be forcefully taken away! It would be complete darkness and the ultimate end for the enemies!

And what about two years after?

Five years?

Ten years?

Li Muyun blew out a heavy ring of smoke, he finally realized that Han's not some ordinary guy with the right power but no potential. Instead, he was a monster with the power and the potential that went against all heavenly principles!

Thanks guys for all your support, the bonus queue is at 17 now. Although it will take some time for us to clear the queue since it's exam season, but don't worry homies! We will clear them right up after we r done exam!

Again, thank you guys all for the support and donations!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 21: Perfect Score!

Li Muyun picked up the phone and dialed Chief Chu Li's number. Unfortunately the chief's cellphone was off. Li Muyun then anxiously dialed the number of the Chief's assistant Dong Yuewu.

"Yuewu, how come Chief's phone is off? Where did you guys go?" Li Muyun asked hastily.

"We are at the New York headquarters attending a short meeting. We won't be back until dusk." Dong Yuewu explained, "Director Li, do you have any important news you want me to pass on to Chief?"

Li Muyun thought for a bit, "We have good news for him, but since you guys are coming back at night, I will just wait at the office. Give me a call when you guys are back."

"I've noted it down, don't worry."

After hanging up, Li Muyun let out a long breath. Misjudging Han Lang's potential was a big mistake, but luckily it wasn't too late. After Chu Li gets back and hears Li Muyun's report, he would for sure provide Han the best arrangement.

Top treatment was for sure, and a personal training director was also essential. In conclusion, all available resources must be used to train Han. After all, with Han's SSS ranked power and stunning potential, his future was unmeasurable.

Li Muyun was still thinking, and Monk who had been paying close attention to the broadcast jumped up in happiness, "Look! Han past the second round of the pressure exam! They even lit fireworks in the sky!"

Fireworks?!

Li Muyun was stunned for a sec and turned right to the screen, only to see that Han had already walked out of the sand storm. Although the raging wind had ripped Han's cloth apart, the sharp grains of sand had left marks on Han's face, but Han's steps were still as firm as always. Walking with his head up proud, his face carried the pride of a victor.

"Congratulations to contestant Han Lang from Earth for passing the second test with a perfect score!"

Li Muyun was shocked, he looked at Han's score board which suddenly had increased by 350 points! A perfect score!

Shua~

The light flashed past Han's eye and he was teleported to the public square where he had started, his clothes were back to normal and the wounds on his face had recovered. After all it was just a virtual test, all you needed was for the system to rewrite some data and everything could go back to normal.

On the public score, two soldier-like young girls were chatting. One of them, a red-haired girl asked in curiosity, "Where's the United Government of Earth? Apparently a monster from there past the second round with a perfect score and I've never even heard of that place."

The other black-haired girl answered, "Hehe, you don't know this but the United Government of Earth is indeed a small place, but they are famous for producing monsters! Last Galactic Meet, Earth sent an esper named Ke Lake, a 5 star esper, and without any reinforcement he broke through A7!"

The red-haired girl thought for a sec, "Ke Lake? I do have a blurry memory about him, but 10 years ago I was too young so I probably forgot."

The chat between the two girls was heard by Han. So senior Ke Lake was also a pretty face haha, but what's A7?

Whenever someone passes a test with a perfect score, the system would broadcast the news in public in order to encourage more contestants to be like them. Everyone in the public square now all knew about Han. Many people were talking about him, after all only a few can pass the second test with a perfect score.

But, Han did not feel proud at all because he knew very clearly that he was able to make it only because of his power, which provided immunity to all other powers.

Following the third round of pressure exam would be the battle segment. That was when Han might actually screw up because he had never learned any fighting techniques.

Now thinking about that, time was tight. Han decided not to wait till one week after and he went ahead and started the 3rd test. That way, he can clear up his schedule and focus on going to the extreme frost domain to shut himself away to train.

Han made up his mind and went straight towards the third test's teleporter. The third test was called the Climb of Frost Mountain, and a snow mountain of over 1000 meters high appeared in front of Han. It looked just like an icy pyramid, with multiple paths leading to the top. At the top of the mountain sat a sacred temple, shining with golden light and emitting a mysterious feeling.

Han didn't hesitate and he started walking right away. The path to the top had blue stones built as steps. It didn't look difficult, and the mountain was only a few thousand meters high. But, only the ones really climbing it understood the horror within.

The mountain wind was howling, the gusts hitting Han's body were icy like blades. Suddenly there was a snow storm and immediately after, it changed to hail. There were sometimes even rain. The rain water made the steps a lot more slippery, and there were no handles on the side of the steps, so people could easily slip and fall into the deep abyss that surrounded the mountain.

Out of the three assessments in pressure exam, only this one had a redo option. Every contestant can take this test three times, and the best score will be calculated. It really goes to show something about how difficult this test was.

"OH SHIT MAN!"

Gabong~ (sound of people falling)

"FUCK!"

Gabong~

"DON'T PUSH!"

Gabong~

If you look at it from the spectator's perspective, snow mountain climbing is actually pretty interesting, the majority of the people chose to help each other out to climb.

Although climbing in groups may seem like a good idea, but it has several deadly weaknesses. Sometimes, the moment one guy in the group trips and falls, the whole team will be dragged into the abyss.

Of course Han wouldn't choose to cooperate with others. He found the path with the least people and chose to climb by himself. As he walked, he looked at his two sides and saw that sometimes people fell down head first, other times people fell with their butts first, and sometimes a bunch of people hugged each other tightly and screamed as they fell down.

The people that chose the lonely paths were mostly elites of at least 4 stars and Han, the beginner esper, was considered to be out of place to be taking this path. However, his speed was not slow at all, moving up at a constant pace one step at a time.

Every time Han came close to another climber, they would all voluntarily stop and make way for Han. When the screen beside Han showed that he was only a beginner with a Power Source Index score of 42, everyone was very surprised. Seeing him climbing was like watching a demon, but no one asked any questions. The unbearable pain from climbing made everyone unwilling to waste any energy on things like talking.

The snowstorm hit and Han slowed down his footsteps. The hail storm struck, Han put out his arms above his head and kept advancing.

Because of the fact that Han was immune to powers, climbing this mountain was like an ordinary climb, it was purely for exercising his body.

To any normal guy, climbing a mountain of a thousand meters was not too big of a problem, not to mention that Han was an esper. Although his Power Source Index was a bit lower but he was still stronger than normal guys.

After 3 hours, Han was already in the final stage. The road signs showed that Han was only 50 meters away from the top. Near the sign was the final resting platform before the top, and all contestants were welcome to take a break there without having to worry about falling down into the abyss.

Han took a look around, other than himself, there was only one more person. It was a girl, small in size with a cute face and shiny golden hair. Wasn't that the Ye Weiwei he saved a while back?!

Ye Weiwei was still wearing the black leather clothes with only her small hands and face exposed. She was squatting on the ground and breathing heavily, her pretty face was also as white as the snow.

Ye Weiwei rose her head and saw Han and was stunned immediately.

In her mind, Han was just a shameless guy with some perverted or evil intentions and at this moment, that pervert was actually smiling and waving at her!

In order to come this far, Ye Weiwei had used up most of her energy and she felt that she was about to break down. She couldn't even feel her legs.

And looking at Han, whose face and breath was still normal, who still hds the energy to wave and greet Ye Weiwei, she felt it was extremely unfair.

"What a coincidence!" Han laughed and said,

If Ye Weiwei still had energy, she would have cursed at Han for sure. But now she didn't even have the energy to be mad at anyone. And this Han guy with no awareness was actually waving at her and walking closer to her.

As soon as Ye Weiwei thought about the last time Han grabbed her hand, she started to get angry.

The thunderstorm girl Ye Weiwei's hands was something that people can touch casually? From a baby to now, not even her parents have touched her hands before, but now this male stranger did? WHATTTT?

Ye Weiwei had a stubborn personality, and now seeing Han, her personality got triggered again.

She grit her teeth, gave Han the evil eye, turned around and started sprinting towards the top.

"Only 50 more meters! If I can just hold on for a little longer, I can make it! I can't lose to this shameless pervert!" Ye Weiwei was encouraging herself.

As for Han, of course he didn't know what was going on. It was fine that Ye Weiwei didn't thank him, but instead she ran?

Shrugging his shoulders, Han followed Ye Weiwei and started advancing towards the top.

Han was still maintaining a constant pace to climb, but Ye Weiwei was using as much energy as she could, which violated the most basic rule in climbing mountains.

When climbing, the worst thing you could do was rush. With a long road up to the top, how can the path be finished by rushing? One must be patient and take it one step at a time.

Of course, Ye Weiwei just climbed a few steps and began to feel dizzy. She felt as if her energy was being sucked away from her body and her legs were shaking.

But she was honestly really stubborn. Even though she was almost completely out of energy, she was still clenching her teeth and not giving up. For a 14 years old girl, this personality was very rare and impressive.

But Han had power immunity, you really couldn't compare the amount of pressure Han faced in comparison to Ye Weiwei. Snow, hail, chilly wind, those were all nothing to Han but were all fatal threats to Ye Weiwei.

Suddenly~

A piece of hail struck Ye Weiwei's head, and it acted as the final straw that broke the camel's back. She couldn't hold on anymore, her body tilted, and started falling to the right side into the abyss.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 22: Goodbye, Ye Weiwei

Pa~

When Ye Weiwei's body started tilting to the side, Han was already right behind her. He again reached out to her without thinking.

Honestly, it didn't really matter how pretty she was, the majority of people would help when they see someone falling in front of them. It was a type of natural reflex.

Han pulled Ye Weiwei back from the edge of the cliff but didn't let go of her little hands. Instead, he continued dragging her while walking towards the top of the mountain.

"Mountain climbing isn't supposed to be done like this. There's a good saying, your desperation for speed may actually slow you down."

"Pay attention to below, step at where I stepped."

"Don't move randomly, otherwise both of us will fall into the abyss and then we are both screwed."

Han was like a nice older brother holding Ye Weiwei's hand, and Ye Weiwei started having a very strange feeling. She was already extremely exhausted, her brain felt as though it short-circuited and lost the ability to think. She just let Han lead her by hand.

After all, Ye Weiwei was still a girl, and age 14 was the beginning of adolescence. Due to her unique power, Ye Weiwei was never touched by anyone before, and if it wasn't because of Han, she might never have been touched in her entire life time.

Do you still remember the first time holding hands with an opposite sex? That heart-racing and blushing feeling, that's how Ye Weiwei was feeling right now. Her face had mysteriously turned red, her heart started beating faster, her palm started to become a little sweaty. To Ye Weiwei, it's a feeling she never experienced before.

The mountain path was tough, although Han had Void End, they were still walking very slowly. Ye Weiwei didn't know what to do, and she felt like she was led by a mysterious feeling.

Because of Han's power immunity ability, Ye Weiwei's whole body felt cold but her hand that was held by Han felt really warm. Ye Weiwei start feeling the urge to lean her entire body onto Han because to her, Han was like a warm furnace. What she needed the most right now was this kind of warmth.

It felt kind of strange, but Han's hand was really warm. Ye Weiwei realized that she doesn't want to let go.

Shua~

Finally, Han and Ye Weiwei had past the last step and arrived at the top of the mountain. The system automatically restored both of their stamina, Ye Weiwei felt a sudden relief and sat right down beside Han who was also breathing heavily.

"Umm, now we should be fine, can you let go of my hand?" Han said with a faint smile.

Ye Weiwei just realized that she was still holding onto Han's hand very tightly, as if she was scared that Han would leave her.

"Heng~"

Ye Weiwei's stubbornness started to surface again, quickly taking back her snow white hand. The two sat side by side on the ground, facing a thousand miles of snow. It was such a beautiful scenery.

Ye Weiwei started to take a closer look at Han out of curiosity: a little older, not ugly but not handsome. His body wasn't really buff but not skinny either. Then again, he was pretty handsome when he smiled.

This guy was like a monster, being able to touch her hand and still be fine?

Thinking about that, Ye Weiwei started looking at her little hands: her fingers were white and slim, very perfect. Maybe because of the fact that she always wore gloves, Ye Weiwei's hands were maintained a lot better than other girls. However, they were weak as if they were boneless, and Han knew about it since he had held it before.

"It's going to be a difficult battle test later." Ye Weiwei said suddenly.

Right after she finished, she felt like giving herself two slaps… Why would she tell this shameless pervert about this? Did her head short-circuit or something?

Han nodded slightly, but said as if thinking of something else, "Ya, but after this we probably won't meet again."

Ye Weiwei really wanted to ask why, but she stopped herself at the last moment. It would be like as if she cared. She had too much pride to ask.

"After all, Earth is too weak, but it's still my family…" Han patted himself on the butt to get rid of the snow, took one more look at this beautiful girl in blonde hair, but Ye Weiwei nervously turned her little face away.

"It was nice meeting you, I have to leave now." Han said, and walked into the sacred temple with big steps. The third test's bonus mark was automatically given, as long as one completes the walk. After all, this test was way too difficult for the majority of the people.

The sky was lighting up once again with fireworks which then transformed into words, congratulating Han on passing with a perfect score once again. This really brought out the admiration and jealousy of the crowd of espers that were still struggling on the mountain.

But, Han didn't really care about the attention, he went straight back home.

When he returned to Earth, Li Muyun wasn't there. Monk and some other espers that tried the test all congratulated Han. Han took a look at the time since he already arranged with Li Qi to go to the hospital with him to see how 4th grandpa was doing after taking the zero-degree healing potion and revitalizers. It was already almost time.

So he quickly said goodbye to everyone and left the Esper Administration hastily.

On the other side of the Milky Way, Ye Weiwei's house.

Han and Ye Weiwei originally came from two different worlds, Han lived in a small home on Earth and didn't own an assessment or simulation pod. Instead, he had to go to the Esper Administration to use the public one.

But Ye Weiwei lived in a mansion that could be compared to a king's palace, and she owned not just one simulation pod but also specific rooms to store different sized and purposed simulation pods.

Now, Ye Weiwei had returned from the pressure exam but she didn't leave the room and instead walked to the window and opened it.

She stared at the flat green grass field and the borderless forest outside her house. The tall mountains and waterfalls in the distance, even the birds flying in the sky, they were all personal possessions of the Ye family.

Ye Weiwei leaned at the window and looked outside, in her gloves.

In her not very long lifetime of experience, she never experienced anything as exciting as today. Born in wealth, what she wanted was not beautiful clothes nor delicious cuisine, but freedom.

She could easily own everything in this world, but freedom. The freedom to wear short dresses like the other girls, the freedom to pick up a little rabbit and have a few kitties in the house, these were all what Ye Weiwei could never have.

Although the Ye Family's mansion was gigantic, there wasn't a single pet. When Weiwei was very small, her father had once given her a puppy as a pet. It was a beautiful white galactic hound with big, round, watery eyes and a small tail that was wagging nonstop.

But when the cute puppy jumped into Weiwei's arms for a hug, a tragedy happened. The thunderstorm girl's fearful power had easily killed the puppy. Weiwei looked at the little puppy laying lifeless in her arms and was sad for a long time. It was also from that day forward, she began to realize she was going to be alone for the rest of her life.

Until today, Weiwei met a guy, a very special person. Han wasn't like those charming princes on white horses but Han was also not scared of her at all, unlike the other guys that would hide somewhere in fear whenever they see her, with their eyes filled with despise.

Thinking about that, Weiwei couldn't help but lower her head to look at her little hands. A pair of white and beautiful hands, but they were no longer innocent. They have been held by a boy.

Ye Hua, the old faithful senior servant hid behind the door outside, trying to peek to see what was going on.

"What are you doing sir?" The giant guard captain Ye Xiangdong asked curiously.

Ye Hua smiled, "Looking at My Lady. Today someone touched My Lady's hand."

Ye Xiangdong became furious immediately, his face turned completely dark, "WHO IS IT?! WHICH BLOODY BASTARD?! LET ME GO KILL HIM!"

Ye Hua frowned, "You shut up! Do you not get our family's situation? If another family's ladyship get touched by outsiders then it's a crime, but someone being able to touch our young lady is a gift from heaven! Stupid, can you use your brain?"

Ye Xiangdong thought for a bit and finally realized it. Immediately, this grown man broke down crying.

"Isn't he scared of My Lady's thunderstorm?" He asked in surprise.

"Apparently not." Old servant Ye Hua answered, "This young man may have a unique power that can control My Lady's fearful thunderstorm. He took My Lady by her hand and took her past third assessment's final checkpoint.

Ye Xiangdong's face was now covered in tears. He couldn't help himself and cried, "Heaven has finally opened its eyes! Someone can actually control My Lady's thunderstorm, our Ye Family is saved! Which family does this prince belong? How does his family background look? Where does he live? If he says no, I can bring a team and capture him and bring him over!"

"Capture my ass!" Ye Hua's face turned angry, "This might be our Ye Family's only opportunity, so you stay quiet! If you ruin My Lady's opportunity, watch how I deal will deal with you!"

P.S.

Thank you so much guys, the novel has reached over 100 votes on ! Let's keep the votes going so we can let more people enjoy the novel!

Cucumber strips

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 23: Li Yu

Earth.

Han thought it was completely normal to hold hands with Ye Weiwei. It was just holding hands, completely normal. Also, Han was doing it to help her, having no other perverted thoughts.

Han took the subway and arrived at the subsidiary hospital of the Esper Administration. This place was specifically open for espers, and it was also one of the privileges espers had on Earth.

This subsidiary hospital took up a large piece of land. There were two giant gardens at the front and back of the hospital, provided for the recovering espers to take walks and exercise. All the equipment here were also the most advanced equipment in the world.

Han gave Li Qi a call and the two met at the front of the hospital.

The moment Li Qi saw Han he started yelling excitingly, "Han! Your zero-degree region healing medicines are godly! 4th Grandpa had it last night and he could already walk today morning! The doctors did a checkup on him and they couldn't even believe it, they said that 4th Grandpa's zero-degree region is recovering at an incredible speed. Not only is it fully healed now, it's even possible that 4th Grandpa can go back to his pinnacle condition in his life!

Han smiled, "As long as it's effective. Let's go and check with your 4th Grandpa."

Li Qi said in a hurry, "Right, right, right, 4th Grandpa knew that you were coming and he is already waiting for you at the Garden, he said he needs to thank you in person!"

Han Lang was shocked, "There's no need to thank me… It's something we should do for our seniors."

Walking into the hospital's garden in the back, there was an elder sitting in an arbour by the lake looking at the lotus flowers, with his back facing Han. Beside the elder was a muscular man in his 30s, currently making tea for the elder.

"4th Grandpa, Han Lang's here!" Li Qi ran to the side of the elder and said.

The elder turned around, and their eyes met. Li Qi's 4th Grandpa had a pair of eyes like an eagle. Although he was pretty old now, his eyes were still sharp, radiating an impressive force that only an elite esper soldier could.

"Turns out that the benefactor is here, hurry and come sit. Xiao Wu, hurry and make some tea for the benefactor." 4th Grandpa said with a smile.

Han tried to kindly decline but was forced down to the seat by the guy named Xiao Wu, who said, "Your zero-degree region healing medicine saved Teacher's career as a fighter. That's a huge kindness, let's discard the formal manners."

Han could only obey and let Xiao Wu pour him a cup of tea. He sat right beside Li Qi's 4th grandpa, with Xiao Wu and Li Qi both standing on the side.

"4th Grandpa, I heard from Li Qi that you are recovering nicely?" Han delightfully asked.

Li Qi's grandpa smiled and said, "I can feel that my zero degree region is healing, and the doctor said I can possibly return to my pinnacle condition. But I don't have too much demands, I'm happy enough that the medicine can save my life."

Han answered, "What are you talking about, seeing how energetic you are, it's no problem to live another couple hundred years."

Everyone started laughing. Li Qi's 4th Grandpa said, "A couple more hundred years? Wouldn't that make me monster by then?"

Han answered in a serious manner, "I heard that the higher the level of an esper, the longer they can live. This time 4th Grandpa's zero-degree brain region can fully heal, it might be even possible to go up in level! So a couple hundred years is still a conservative figure."

4th Grandpa looked at Han and said, "You little guy really know what to say. Let me ask you, this zero-degree healing medicine is so magical, where did you get it? It must have cost a lot of money right? "

Li Qi started nervously giving Han the eye signal, his 4th Grandpa is a man of honor, if he hears that the healing medicines were made from cruelly extracting brain fluids from young espers, he might be unhappy.

Han got the signal and said, "I got it from a friend. Specifically how he got it, I don't really understand as well. As for the money, it's not a problem. It's just me paying my respect for you. Oh right, 4th Grandpa, you look very familiar, but I don't remember where I've seen you before."

Xiao Wu whispered on the side, "You probably saw on TV. Teacher's real name is Li Yu."

Han was completely shocked, "Li Yu?! One of Ke Lake's three teachers?! No wonder you look very familiar!"

Ke Lake was the strongest esper in the history of Earth, and he was quite famous in the entire Milky Way. He had three teachers, and they were all the highest ranked espers on Earth. It turned out that Li Qi's 4th grandpa was one of Ke Lake's teachers!

Li Yu gestured with his hands, and his eyes dimmed a little, "The past is the past, let's not mention it."

Han knew, it was still unclear whether Ke Lake was dead or alive, and without him as the pillar supporting Earth, it was still unknown whether Earth could make it through the Galactic Meet and avoid being colonized. Remembering these didn't help in improving Li Yu's mood.

Senior Li Yu also realized that he might've made the atmosphere less joyful, so he quickly asked Han, "According to Li Qi, you are also an esper, and you even have the respected SSS ranked power. As an esper, what are your future plans?"

Han started making fun of himself, "My power itself is pretty good, but my foundation is way too horrible. After a few days I plan to go to Siberia and focus on training for a bit to see if I can improve my stats and level.

Li Yu knew about Han's background, but what triggered his interest was why he wanted to go to Siberia. It was such a rural area.

"Is your trip to Siberia arranged by the Esper Administration?" Li Yu asked in curiosity.

Han shook his head and said, "No, it's my own decision. My ability, Void End, can nullify any espers' abilities, but if I want to fight back then I desperately need to train my body and practice martial arts. So I decided to find an extremely cold area to do some training."

Han continued, "Originally I wanted to go to the South Pole, but there's no base there and it will be hard to get resources. That's why I decided to go to Siberia."

Li Yu nodded, "Practicing martial arts and training your body in the extreme cold? Who taught you that?"

Han answered, "A friend of mine said practicing martial arts is like practicing your life. Only in the extreme cold, when one push oneself to their limit, they can learn the true arts of fighting and a solid set of skills. That's why I want to give it a shot."

Li Yu was deep in thought for a second and starting talking, "Your friend is very right, humans can reveal the most potential when they are pushed to their limits and placed at the gate of death. He told you to go to an extremely cold place to train. Although it's kind of cruel, but it's still the right path."

"But no matter how low your Power Index is, you are still an esper, so the normal level of cold is still not enough to push you to your limit."

Han stopped for a second, and said, "That's true, I feel a lot stronger than before too. Aside from Siberia, where else can help me train better?"

Li Yu considered for a bit and made a decision, he smiled and said, "Han, since you know who I am, you probably know what I do right?"

Han nodded, "You are the Chief of Extinction Site Administration. It said so on TV."

Li Yu laughed, "If you are not scared of hard work, we are working on an extinction site at the South Pole, it has the environment you want there, and extremely cold environment."

"After all I still owe you a big favor. How about this? I will get you into the Extinction Site Administration, then I will give you any training environment and equipment you want. You don't have to worry about anything and just focus on training."

This was such good news! What is the Extinction Site Administration? It's not an exaggeration to call it the most important institution of the United Government of Earth. It was in control of the top confidential intelligence and an abundant amount of resources, so only the strongest and most loyal espers can be qualified to work at the Extinction Site Administration.

Of course, Han didn't expect Li Yu to take him on a tour in the legendary extinction site, he was happy enough to find the right environment to train and have the resource support from the Extinction Site Administration. It's the best treatment you can get on Earth!

"4th Grandpa, don't worry, I just want a good place to concentrate on training. I won't give you any trouble." Han said very sincerely.

Li Yu thought for a second, and turned to Xiao Wu on his said and said, "You take care of this arrangement, and two days from now Han will leave with us to the South Pole. Give Han the best training and living conditions."

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 24: Under the Candle Light

Around dusk, Han left the hospital and took the subway back to the city. He came off the subway at the busy business sector where the last battle took place. He met up with Cheng Zhong and Monk as promised, today was the 7th day since the death of the 7 espers, and the citizens were holding a memorial ceremony for them.

A lot of people came off the subway at this stop, and Han just followed the crowd and slowly exited the station. He was shocked by what he saw on the street.

At the moment, the sky hadn't completely darkened yet, and many people have already lit up candles. White candles were placed everywhere on both side of the streets, even on the windows of the high-rises on the side.

Night slowly fell. It was as if people had made previous arrangements. No one turned on any lights, and all there were was dim lights from the candles lining the streets. The atmosphere was filled with sorrow and remembrance.

This night, the whole city was lit up by candles. A lot of children were holding lanterns, also containing white candles. The swinging around of the lanterns caused the dim light to flicker.

A young mother led her daughter and walked past Han. The little girl was really small and was holding a lantern. Han noticed that the candle inside the lantern was also very small.

"Mommy, what are espers?" The little girl asked in a very small voice.

"They are a group of very strong soldiers." The mother answered with a faint smile, "They fight in battles to protect the earth and us."

The little girl thought for a second, "Will they protect me too?"

"Yep."

"Will they protect mommy?"

"Yep."

"Will they protect grandpa?"

"Yep."

"Will they protect grandma?"

"Yep, espers will protect our family, and everyone at your kindergarten. They will also protect the aunties and uncles on the street. They will protect everyone." The mother tried to explain to his little girl.

Oh~

The little girl as if understood something, and she nodded her head heavily once, and said in a delightful voice, "I understood, espers are good people!"

Han smiled faintly, quickly walked past this cute little girl.

Sometimes, people's impression of espers were not like today. There are always going to be reports on the news about how espers were using their power to bully the weaklings and causing chaos.

But, people have all understood from this incident that, for both espers and ordinary people, there are a lot of bad people among the espers, but also a lot of good people.

This is how the world has always been, the good people were always silent before they stepped out against the evil. Just like Pang Zuolin, that young man who jumped off the building holding a bronze bull statue, the one who sacrificed himself to damage the raider's ship and protect the civilians.

Now Pang Zuolin has become a hero known as the Bronze Bull Warrior. His last words, "No matter how weak Earth is, it's still my home!" was now known by everyone.

But before Pang Zuolin became a hero, he was just a silent and hardworking Physical Education teacher. He never bragged about his status as an esper, and just lived an ordinary life.

The real heroes only stand up when the world need them, but normally they just remain unknown.

As the person that experienced that battle first hand, Han saw with his own eyes that these espers who usually remained humble and unknown put their fears aside and ran straight to the battlefield. Within 1 minute, the battlefield had already gathered over 40 espers. Within 3 minutes, there were already over 200 espers arriving. They were not soldiers, but when disasters striked, their speed was even faster than the army, and they were even more fearless!

More and more people gathered. Even though each candle provided a very weak light, when gathered they could still light up the darkness.

Han stopped at a store's window and saw that the large screen TV inside was broadcasting the worldwide memorial ceremony from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guang Zhou. Starting with these Asian cities, wherever the night fell, the candles representing hope lit up.

Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, the candle lights crossed the vast Pacific ocean and arrived at America, then from the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.

Han felt someone standing behind him. He turned around and saw Monk and Cheng Zhong. He didn't know when Cheng Zhong shaved his ponytails but now he was bald, and Monk was carrying a giant backpack. These two baldies standing together, it really looked like one big monk and one small monk.

"Your hair…"

Cheng Zhong touched his head which was now bald, and said with a smile, "Shaved it. Everyday just to manage those tails I could waste an hour. If I got that much time I'm better off eating a few more pounds of meat."

"Where's your headphones?"

"Threw it away."

"Baseball shirt?"

"Hey why are you so troublesome?" Cheng Zhong shook the fat on his body and said, "I will put it this way. After seeing you guys tonight, I'm planning to shut myself away and concentrate on training and becoming fatter. I will be giving my all to prepare for the second stage of the pressure exam. You guys don't have to call me, I threw my phone away too."

Monk shrugged his shoulders, "What a coincidence. I was about to tell you guys too. Tonight I'm going back to my mountain to train, and I came here tonight to say goodbye. The first stage of the pressure exam was not my strength but combat is. So I'm going to take advantage of this time to improve myself."

Han slightly nodded his head. Seems like he was not the only one changed by this battle, Monk and Cheng Zhong also became more hardworking than before.

"It's really a coincidence." Han thought a bit and said, "Before when I didn't know I had power, I always thought, if the sky falls then the tall guys can handle it, it has nothing to do with me. And today I finally realized, I'm actually that tall guy, and if the sky falls I need to give it my all to handle it."

Han continued, "Actually, I'm here to say goodbye too. In two days, I will be going to the Extinction Site Administration. They found a place to train for me, and I'm going to be shutting myself away from the world too."

Cheng Zhong didn't say anything. Next year was going to be the year Galactic Meet takes place, and it was very possible that Earth will be turned into a colony for another planet. Even if Earth is lucky enough to not be colonized, there were still a lot of raiders that were eyeing earth covetously and menacingly.

This was the Galactic Era, it was also a merciless era where the jungle rules applied. As the only army on Earth, the espers were facing a lot of pressure.

Monk asked, "Extinction Site Administration? Li Muyun and Chu Li also wants to get you into their division office."

Han answered, "What were they doing before then… But I heard that a large crowd of espers are taking the initiative to apply to the Administration and other battle organizations, so Chu Li probably isn't short for hands."

Cheng Zhong nodded, "Ya man, before there was Ke Lake handling everything for us. Espers were free to do whatever job they wanted. That's not the case now, without Ke Lake we have to shoulder the responsibility. If I can't pass the pressure examination then I'm applying straight to the marines."

Right after he finished his sentence, the watch on his wrist started beeping.

Cheng Zhong put his backpack on the ground and took out a piece of ham that was at least two pounds in weight. He opened his mouth wide and started swallowing the meat chunk by chunk.

After seeing Han and Monk looking at him, Cheng Zhong threw a photo at them. In the photo was a handsome young man with a muscular body. Aside from the little pony tails on his head, it was really hard to tell that this was how Cheng Zhong used to look like.

Cheng Zhong sat on the floor and quickly shoved that giant piece of ham through his mouth into his stomach. He drank two mouthful of water, and started working on a second piece of ham. Han saw that Cheng Zhong's neck had already turned red from the eating as if he was about to puke anytime, yet he was still shoving meat down his throat nonstop.

"I need to eat."

"I need to eat non-stop."

"There is no other choice, I'm a conversion descent esper, without fat then I have no fighting power. Without fighting power how can I protect anyone?"

"I'd rather eat enough to turn into a pig, then to experience what happened that day again."

"If you guys want to laugh at me then go ahead, I don't care."

Han and the Monk of course didn't laugh at him since they only respected him more after seeing the photo.

To other people, delicious cuisine was an enjoyment, but to Cheng Zhong it was pure suffering.

This bloody world, it had turned a handsome young man into the Cheng Zhong right now.

Han let out a light sigh. He raised his head and saw the endless candle lights, and all the people praying under that light.

Such a sight, it was beautiful.

Such pressure, it was unbearable.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 25: South Pole Base

Just on time, hours before leaving for the South Pole, Han finally received the package sent by Pathless Origin. He didn't even have time to open it before he was already on the military plane with Li Yu.

Shua~

The United Government's God Strength grade military cargo airplane was travelling at an incredible speed. Aside from carrying Han, Li Yu and a few other passengers, the cargo was also carrying supplies and resources for the base at the South Pole. Although these military grade cargo airplanes were gigantic, it was also capable of ascending vertically and was equipped with 6 super turbo-engines.

The plane quickly arrived at the aerospace in the South Pole. Han looked down from the plane, only to see a world covered in white snow. The Extinction Site Administration base looked like a chessboard from the sky. There was a giant spherical carbon fiber building in the center, surrounded by a couple more smaller spherical buildings that were connected by pipe-like transparent corridor. It looked quite modern.

Stepping off the plane, Han's two feet touched the icy ground and he could immediately feel the chill entering his body.

"We are here, this is our base. Anyone that enters this base will have to go through security, and if you want to leave the base you will need to write a report for approval. This place is not somewhere to just go in and out at will." Wu Di (previously called Xiao Wu by Li Yu) carefully explained to Han.

Han nodded, the bases of the Extinction Site Administration were Earth's secrets, so the management and administration part was obviously stricter than anywhere else.

A lot of people came out of the base to help transport the cargo, and Wu Di introduced Han to everyone. After hearing that Han cured Li Yu's zero-degree region atrophy, they all gave him a big thumbs up and became very welcoming towards him.

After all, Li Yu was the pillar that was supporting the Extinction Site Administration, everyone's leader. Han did a huge favor for Li Yu which was the same as doing a huge favor for everyone here, and not one of them knew how they could ever repay the favor.

Li Yu went to the control center while Wu Di took Han on a tour around the base.

You could tell that the Extinction Site Administration was very well funded and had access to a lot of resources due to all the equipment in the base. Aside from facilities that catered to normal day lives, there was even libraries, pool tables, tennis courts, 12 virtual training pods, spacious multi-purpose gyms, and so on.

Han got a single room of about 20 something square meters, the window went all the way to the floor which gave a beautiful view of the snow. There was also a vertical showering unit, a study desk and a small sofa.

"You can leave your things for now, let me take you to register your DNA data." Wu Di said.

Han threw his stuff onto the bed and followed Wu Di to the center of the base. At the center of the base lied the headquarters and it also served as the entrance to the Extinction domain (an alternate space that you enter after entering the Gate at the Extinction site).

Wu Di pointed at a spherical machine and said, "This is a complete DNA assessment system, it will not only record your DNA data but also track and record your Power Source Index. You just have to stand on this machine for a few seconds, and you can come back anytime later on and to check your progress. The machine will automatically generate data table, telling you how effective your training is and what improvements to make. In addition, your DNA data is recorded as well and that will be your passport here. We don't have any access cards at the base, we only use DNA."

Han nodded, shocked by how advanced the equipment was, just one machine could have that many purposes.

At that moment Li Yu walked past with a few commanders from the administration and saw Han was about to do the DNA assessment. He was pretty interested in the results and he stopped to introduce Han to the other colleagues, "Here, this is Han, it's all because of him that I'm able to come back to base."

Everyone nodded with respect and looked at Han with appreciation.

The machine was silver colored and it was like a tube. When someone stands in the tube, there will be a red ray that scans the entire body.

Han stood still. Seconds later, the system screen displayed Han's basic statistics.

"Natural Growth rate is 2.1?! That can't be right!" Wu Di looked at the results and was completely shocked.

"Let me see." Li Yu curiously walked over, he stared at the screen for a long time and finally said in a deep voice, "It's really 2.1… Oh my god."

"Chief, did you just come back from the hospital or Taobao (Chinese Amazon)? Growth rate 2.1, every day he just have to stand still and he can grow 2.1 points, honestly where did you dig up this monster?"

"That's an incredibly high natural growth rate! It reminded me of Ke Lake."

Within 3 days, Han's Power Source Index increased by another 6 units, now he has 48 points of Power Source Index. Including Chief Li Yu, everyone was thoroughly impressed by Han.

Of course everyone was also confused. With such a high growth rate, Han should've already been a high level warrior… Why is it that he was already an adult but he just hit the 48 mark. It was as if he had just acquired his power or something.

Actually, Han indeed did just acquire his power recently, but he obviously had no good way of explaining power crystals, so he had no choice but to play dumb and pretend that he didn't know too.

Li Yu patted Han on the shoulder and laughed, "Chu Li was just calling me last night asking me if you really agreed to join the Extinction Site Administration, I said yep, and he got so mad that he hung up my phone. So that's why! Such talent!"

Li Yu continued, "There's no point trying to discuss why your Power Source Index didn't grow in the past, what's most important is to capture the present. Wu Di will take you to the training facility, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask him. And if I'm not busy, I will be paying attention to you too!"

Han got to know a lot of people on his first day at the base, he received a lot of compliments, especially on his natural growth rate. He didn't have to move a finger and he could already grow 2.1 points every day, and if combined with the 46 Ensemble Training (TL: explained later), the growth speed would be even faster. Everyone thought he was someone god sent from Heaven.

That night, Han spent a few hours like usual to write the drug index, then he stopped at Pathless Origin's website and opened the chat window.

"Teacher, I found a very ideal location for training. It's a miraculous body of water that doesn't freeze when the water goes below zero. I will soon be going in there to practice 46 Ensemble Training, will there be anything I should do or pay attention to during training?" Han asked politely.

Shua~

Pathless Origin responded really quickly. In the past Han always waited for a long time, but unbeknowst to him, his response time has dramatically decreased. Now, Han gets a response immediately after he asks a question.

"The first time is of course very important, did little Black (TL: referring to Night Walker) give you any drugs?"

"I bought some source energy pills from him."

"Source energy? I guess that will work, take three doses of source energy pill, don't bring your battle suit or weapon. Just go in naked into the water that's not lower than -10 Celsius. Stay there for at least 3 hours, only practice the first Ensemble of the 46 Ensemble Training."

Han was shocked, going into the freezing water naked and train? Take 3 times the normal dose of source energy pill? Hold for at least 3 hours?

If Han didn't know that Pathless Origin was a pro, he will think that he's out of his mind for sure!

This kind of training, it was a suicidal pace!

Although Han had a little doubt on the inside, he knew that Pathless Origin had a bad temper so he didn't dare to say more. He quickly thanked him and turned off the window.

Han looked at his body, ever since he became an esper, his physical body properties have had very significant improvements. But will his body be able to hold 3 hours under -10 degrees Celsius water?

On the bed was placed the Black Celestial Python suit and his Tritanium dagger Tremor. The black battle suit had a great texture, it could reach 3 stars high for physical defense. Originally Han planned to wear this precious battle suit but guess he has to wait a little longer.

Han put away his suit, weapon, and laptop, retrieved the dark net access software back to his necklace and left the room. He headed towards that miraculous water spot.

Sorry guys, the story may have been progressing a little slowly right now, but don't worry, something exciting's going to happen soon!

Anyways, thank you guys for being loyal readers of GNC!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 26: Mad Training

"DNA assessment complete, Access Granted for Entering Extinction Site Level 1." The system said as the heavy, metal alloy gates opened.

There was a very long passage going down to ground level, where a car running on tracks took the passengers to the first level, where the extinction site was.

After Han got on, the electric car started moving automatically. After around 5 minutes, Han got off and came to the first transfer platform. Continuing straight ahead would be the entrance to the actual Extinction Domain, where the secret of this administration lied, and Han wasn't authorized to enter yet.

Two esper soldiers were on the night shift. The blonde one that smiled a lot was named Charlie, and the guy with a big nose and black hair was named Fo Liman. Both of them were veterans in their 30s that had worked for a long time at the administration.

Although their job was just to protect the entrance to the extinction domain, they still worked hard with no complaints. In their eyes, if they were not qualified to go into the domain, standing outside to guard it was still a great honor.

Dusk approached, Wu Di had introduced them to Han before so they all knew each other. Han greeted them, then went on a side track beside the entrance.

When the Extinction Site Administration was exploring this site a few years ago, they found a miraculous pool of water near the entrance. The temperature of the water was below 0 but it wouldn't freeze. When Han said he wanted to find an extremely cold place for training, Li Yu immediately thought of this place.

This pool of water was outside of the Extinction domain so even if Han was not some important personnel at the administration, training near the domain shouldn't be a problem.

After discovering this pool, the administration installed a trail of lights near it, and Han followed them.

The pool was like a terrace, divided into different layers, with each layer being a different temperature. Starting from the highest layer of 0 degrees Celsius, every layer going down was a 10 degrees Celsius decrease in temperature.

With a total of 24 layers, the deepest layer of water reached -230 degrees Celsius! You must know that even absolute zero is only about -273 degrees Celsius.

At this place, even the air was unbearably chilly. The pool's two sides had steps left behind by the pre-historic civilization. It seemed like a pre-historic intelligent species also frequently visited the pool.

Unfortunately, the administration investigated the pool for a long time and still couldn't make sense of the purpose this extremely chilly pool served… If it could be used for Han's training, then it can be counted as useful.

Pathless Origin told Han to start from a temperature of -10 degrees Celsius first, so Han went to the second layer, and put down the 46 Ensemble Training's frequency spectrograph on a piece of rock.

46 Ensemble Training was accepted by the Milky Way Galaxy as the most effective foundation training. Apparently it was found when exploring an extinction domain. It was a type of aggregated training that enhances source energy, physical body, martial arts, and reflexes.

Just like its name, it was composed of 46 sets of movements of increasing difficulty, from easy to tough. All the espers in the entire Milky Way all started their training with this with almost no exceptions. As well, they only started to learn other skills or techniques after learning the 46 Ensemble Training.

As for the frequency spectrograph used for training and studying purposes, it was a fully automatic holographical projecting system. After turning it on, it was like a half intellectualized virtual teacher that helped students practice. They pointed out the areas that were lacking and needed improvement during the training.

Han didn't need anyone to give additional pointers when he trained and that was because, in this era, the foundational training was completely intellectualized, it's pretty convenient.

Aside from those extremely rich families that would still hire personal trainers, the majority of the espers started their training with instructional programs, and meeting teachers to learn usually happens after learning the 46 Ensemble Training.

Han forced his hands down into the -10 degrees Celsius water, and the chilly water felt as if it was piecing through his skin, entering through the pores into the body. But Han was an esper after all, so the source energy could help him cancel out a portion of the cold he felt.

Standing up, Han pressed the combat sized medicine kit on his left wrist. It was the gift from Night Walker, a type of small metal box that could contain all sorts of drugs. All you needed was to put the box close to your mouth and drugs will automatically pop out. This could run on either voice command or touch screen control.

It was designed this way to improve convenience during battle, since during a fight that decided life and death, no one really had the time to take out a handful of drugs, pick out the ones they wanted and then put them back into their pocket. Intellectualized drug containers allowed soldiers to take drugs within the shortest time so it enjoyed a high popularity in the market.

Han placed his square, watch sized medicine kit near his mouth.

"Source Energy, 3 pills."

Pa~

Right after the words came out of his mouth, the kit automatically shot out three blue pills, and these high-tech training drugs melted immediately in Han's mouth, showing their effects right away.

Han felt his own energy and power quickly increasing. After 20 minutes later, the drug will reach its maximum effect and will continue until the training ends.

Han took off his clothes, turned on the frequency spectrograph, closed his eyes and jumped into the icy cold water.

Experienced people all know that cold water was a lot more merciless than cold air. Cold water could pierce through skin and muscles and quickly suck out all the heat energy from the human body.

Shua~

The frequency spectrograph started working, projecting two holographical human shadows, one in front of Han, a virtual instructor, another one identical to Han. Whenever Han made a wrong move while practicing, there will be a deviation between him and his hologram. The hologram will turn from white to red so that Han was notified when his movements were not proper.

"Now beginning with the 1st Ensemble."

"Up"

"Stretch"

"Preserve Strength"

"Transfer"

The 46 Ensemble Training frequency spectrograph was a very advanced system. It will adjust the speed based on the status of the user, and will repeat moves whenever the user fails to perform it correctly.

When Han was back home he watched some online videos and scratched the surface, but it was his first time using a legit frequency spectrograph. He carefully practiced with the hologram and tried his best to stay focused.

But trying to focus in a -10 degrees pool was not an easy task. Han lost an incredible amount of heat energy every second, and his inner source energy started feeling the challenge of the harsh environment. It started to actively help Han fend off the cold, which was surprising and reassuring for Han.

"No wonder Pathless Origin consistently emphasized the importance of the cold environment. Source energy and zero-degree brain region are all reacting as a self-defence mode. In such a cold environment, the zero-degree brain region probably thought that my life was in danger so it started to operate faster, and pushes source energy around my body at a faster speed to keep me warm." Han thought to myself.

When the cold temperature approaches lethal levels, every organ inside Han's body started to operate like crazy. Putting up a great struggle in the face of death was a special property about humans, and it was also a property of the zero-degree brain region.

Han had never experienced this feeling before, it was as if every cell inside his body was trying to fight for survival. But, after a while, the struggle began to lose effect, the cold was not only draining his heat away, but also his life.

At the verge of collapsing, Han suddenly thought of what Pathless Origin said.

"Fight to kill! Hit every punch! Trade eye for eye! Only surrender in death!"

"Without such a mindset, it is impossible to become elites."

Han was completely affected by the sheer force of those words. The cold environment was like a battle field! If he chooses to run away from the cold, what will happen if he joins the battlefield? Where could he run?!

Practicing martial arts was just like practicing your will to live, and training was like a battle!

Without realizing it at first, Han started to feel a small yet miraculous change within his body. The more persistent he was to continue the training, the more the zero-degree region of his brain was influenced by that determination, releasing waves and waves of source energy. This energy entered Han's body and became the power that supported Han to continue the training.

It's like a positive feedback loop, only madmen that were persistent to push themselves to the verge of death could really unleash this off-the-chart amount of potential!

It's just, Han's potential was a bit different, his zero-degree brain region didn't belong to him, but from succeeding an unknown ace esper.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 27: Reached Two Stars!

Shua~

In the extremely cold pool, white steam was rising. Han's skin and muscles became crimson red, as if it was burning. His source energy was being released at an incredible rate, quickly circulating through Han's entire body to provide him the heat necessary for survival.

Revealing potential at this amazing speed was not just the expansion of Han's zero-degree brain region, but a dramatically increased learning speed. The reason is simple, Han inherited his power from an ace esper, and ace espers had obviously practiced 46 Ensemble Training before. The insane training activated some memory locations inside Han's zero-degree brain region, allowing him to get more and more skilled with the movements that were already mastered by the ace esper before he passed away.

The increasing speed of his movements along with further activation of the zero-degree region finally allowed Han to resist the icy water's intrusion into his body. Without exaggerating, Han felt like he took a walk in hell, came back to the mortal world and saw a completely different scenery.

What improved was not only Han's source energy amount, but also his level!

Hong~ (Sound of something exploding)

Suddenly, the source energy rushed out of Han's body like an explosion, pushing away the icy water surrounding him. Han suddenly felt like his brain became much clearer. The surrounding scenery didn't change, but the feeling changed, as if someone had placed wings on his back, allowing him to soar through the sky.

When people were concentrated on something, time feels like its flying by for them. When Han walked out of the icy pool of water, it had already been 4 hours.

Putted on his clothes, Han returned to the base. At that time it had already become busy inside. Most people have woken up and went to the cafeteria to eat, chat, or grab a cup of coffee and sit by the corner to read today's newspaper.

When walking across headquarter, Han decided to go for an assessment.

He wasn't so sure the meaning behind the source energy "explosion", it was only after four hours of training anyways. He felt very relaxed and free, as if all the impurity in his body was completely washed away, replaced by surging energy.

The powerful DNA system was always monitoring Han's Power Source Index so Han just needed to find the data on the machine.

After a few clicks on the screen, Han's real-time statistics was generated into a display appearing onto the screen.

Rank, two stars.

Power Source Index, 103…

Han was speechless, so he had already past 2 stars! He's now a 2-star ranked esper!

At the icy pool, when his zero-degree brain region suddenly releasing a large amount of source energy, it was actually a sign of advancement in rank! Within one night, Han's Power Source Index increased by 55 points! It had more than doubled, that's incredible!

Han grabbed a large cup of hot chocolate and two meat buns from the cafeteria and went back to his room. He turned on the computer and logged onto the Galactic Dark Net.

"Teacher, I've followed what you said, and something unbelievable happened. My Power Source Index increased by a lot in one night, my level is also two star now, what's happening?" Han opened the chat box and asked Pathless Origin.

It was as if Pathless Origin waited because he knew Han would ask him right away after training, so he quickly responded.

"Stupid! Inheriting someone else's power was never an easy thing, the power crystal was moulded by the esper's undying soul. Transferring someone's power into your brain is the easy part, the hardest part is the refinement. Because the power crystal not only has source energy, but also the esper's soul that is unwilling to disappear, it's a lot more difficult."

"Those greedy power crystal smugglers obviously told you a lot of benefits to inheriting a power, liars! Those people's existence relies on tricking ignorant people like you! Successors and the deceased espers have different physical attributes, past experiences, and also consciousness. If something goes wrong, it won't be as simple as not being able to fully inherit the power. It's also very possible for the deceased esper's consciousness to collide with yours and cause the zero-degree brain region to explode. Yes, literally, an explosion, inside your brain."

"So, the inheritance type esper need to use the most extreme method to fully active the full potential of the power, which is this method I taught you. So yes, inheriting power can go either way. You can either take over all the training results and abilities that the previous owner of Void End mastered, or if you fail, you will die faster."

Han was left speechless, he never knew that inheriting someone else's power could be this dangerous. No wonder that even if the power crystals were sold on the dark net, the sales volume was always not too hot. It was actually because of the high risk associated with inheriting the power.

Han thought for a bit and asked, "Teacher, I never told you that I got my power from a power crystal, how did you know?"

"Are you stupid? You are this old and you are still learning basic stuff, if you didn't get your power from a crystal, did it just fall out of the sky then?"

"Okay, in conclusion, martial arts, you need to train with your life on the line! Successors of other people's power, also need to train with their lives on the line! So now it's your destiny to put your life on the line for everything! You need to do that for training! Also for battles! If you want to be successful, then you have to push yourself with the most extreme methods and trade it with a comfortable life!"

"Now, tell me how much did your Power Source Index increase?"

Han answered, "Under the -10 degrees pool, I trained for around 4 hours and my index number went from 48 to 103."

Pathless Origin always respond very quickly but after Han sent the last message, he actually didn't respond for a while.

After many minutes, Pathless Origin finally replied, "Yep, not too bad. Looks like you inherited from a very powerful esper. If you still have energy you can do a bit of training in the normal training room, but you don't need to train that hard in the pool any more. Now just focus on solidifying the source energy you just gained."

"Next time you go to the pool to train, you just need to take one source energy pill, keep the time you train to within 4 hours. Extreme training isn't about the time but the intensity. As long as you can push yourself to your limit for 10 minutes, the effect is way better than just doing normal training for 10 hours."

"You can come ask me again after you are done training tomorrow, that Little Black (TL: a cute nickname Pathless Origin has for Night Walker) left your little troublesome brat with me, I'm going get him back for this!"

After sending that message, Pathless Origin left the chat room. He actually voluntarily told Han to find him tomorrow, that's the first time he's said that.

It was as if Pathless Origin has slowly gotten used to Han's daily questions, if one day Han doesn't ask him questions anymore, he might actually get lonely and feel uncomfortable.

Han felt a great boost of confidence. Now his experience and physical strength were all increasing nonstop, only after a few hours of sleep he was already able to jump out of bed fully rested. It was a bit too early to write the drug index, so Han decided to go to the training room to do a few normal training exercises.

And since it was normal training exercises, Han could finally wear his brand new battle suit. He put on the Black Celestial Python. It felt a bit cold, yet really soft, and there was an exquisite layer of scales which was what really protected the wearer.

About the tritanium dagger Tremor, it was really heavy, at least 80 something pounds. It was the weapon that enjoyed quite a bit of popularity among the fighters.

Han tried to swing it around for a few times, but it felt kind of heavy so he couldn't do it with high proficiency. But that was okay since Han's level was increasing quickly so being able to freely use the weapon was just a matter of time.

"In theory, now that I'm a two-star esper, I should be able to create a void domain of 1 meter in radius…" Han started to think about it as he walked to the training facility.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 28: Deeper Layer of Dark Net

The Extinction Site Administration had hundreds of espers employed. In order to keep these espers in shape, there was a huge and advanced training facility.

The training center had a large gym, and the equipment were all tailored to the strengths and capabilities of espers. Other than that, there were also single training rooms where espers were allowed to shut themselves away to train in peace.

Han wanted to try his Void End, so he booked a large single training room. At this moment, the majority of espers were exploring the Extinction Domain so there weren't a lot of people there. Han went to the single training room on the top floor. It was about 200 square meters with large glass windows that extended to the ground. The floor and the wall were all built from enhanced carbon fiber. The structure was even stronger than steel, but also lighter and more resilient.

Han stood in the center of the training room with his eyes closed, trying to use his mind to slowly gather all the source energy.

Shua~

When the source energy was gathered to a certain degree, it suddenly triggered a property change, and opened up a dimension that was one meter in radius with Han at the center!

This was the Void Domain!

The moment anyone entered this domain, their power would be immediately taken away. Any long range superpower attacks will vanish the moment they entered this zone!

This was a bit different from the power immunity Han already had. Power immunity acted no matter when, even if Han was sleeping. If an esper attacked him with a power, for example an ice arrow, the moment that ice arrow touched Han, it would melt immediately.

But the Void Domain needed Han to consciously activate it, as well as draining some source energy. If he didn't activate the domain, no one would ever know that he had such skill, so it could be pretty deceptive.

Only Han will be able to see the coverage of the Void Domain, which appeared as a thin layer of light in his eyes. No one else will be able to find out whether Han activated the domain or not. It was very possible that the enemies will charge right into Han to use some power attacks, and then suddenly realize that their power was gone and be completely exposed to Han's counter attack.

In conclusion, Void End was a very overbearing and unreasonable power. The moment one entered the domain, everyone would be powerless and be forced to fight against Han with martial arts.

Of course in order to forge iron, the tool itself must be tough. Even if Han could take away the enemies' power, he still needed to be strong enough himself in order to stay alive in fights.

Han practiced many times to release and withdraw the domain and used up quite a bit of source energy. Then he started practicing the 46 Ensemble Training. To every esper solider, 46 Ensemble was still the basics of the basics. Even if they were in later stage with high achievements, they still won't stop practicing it, because there was a whole list of benefits for practicing this. For instance, when you are tired, it can help you regain energy, relax your body, and increase power and flexibility.

Han looked at Pathless Origin's database, apparently high level esper soldiers will usually practice 46 Ensemble once before they begin their training as a warm up, and once more after they are done to regain energy and relax the muscles. And Pathless Origin himself was also inclined to recommend practicing 46 Ensemble. He thought that as an esper soldier, regardless of how high level they were, they should never ignore the effects of practicing 46 Ensemble and continue to do it until they die.

Han turned on the frequency spectrograph and started practicing every move after the holographic teacher. The rhythm during battle and any fundamental skills and practices related to battle were all touched upon in the 46 Ensemble. Although it looked like a simple exercise, it was able to exercise every piece of muscle inside Han's body.

Han's shadow in the training room became very agile, one moment suddenly imitating an eagle soaring in the sky, another moment mimicking a crimson rabbit surging towards the moon.

The benefits of activating the zero-degree brain region with extreme conditions slowly began to surface. As Han's source energy drastically increased, he also felt like he had woken up the memory from a long time ago, making him feel like the 46 Ensemble couldn't be more familiar.

The predecessor that left behind the Void End power crystal must have practiced 46 Ensemble very frequently and now that Han inherited the power from the predecessor, he was able to progress a thousand times faster in comparison to other novices.

Han had looked up the people that previously possessed this power, and the search result was a bit unbelievable for him. There was only an old senior called Ye Shuihan, a 6 star Warlord ranked esper who was naturally talented. He did not work under anyone during his time, and he used that unique and unreasonable power of his to cause havoc everywhere. His whole life could be concluded as a life full with dispute, and he was quite famous in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Then Ye Shuihan disappeared in the end, no one knew if he was still alive. But if we hypothesize that he died on a foreign planet and passed on his power to Han, it was actually very likely. It was just that, Han couldn't believe how lucky he was, a "garbage" power crystal he bought for 10,000 GC was actually left behind by the warlord Ye Shuihan?

Han couldn't believe it nor deny it. Maybe the answer to whose Void End and legacy he inherited will always be a myth.

After the afternoon training was completed, Han had some dinner, took a break and went back to his room for some rest. Then he started to write the drug index number and started training in the pool after he was done. Following Pathless Origin's instructions, every time Han trained, he will put half of his life on the line in order to push himself to the verge of death. Starting from the second extreme training session, Han only took one source energy pill each time. According to Pathless Origin's explanation later on, it was actually because he was scared that Han would die from the first training, so he told him to take 3 times the normal dose of nuclear energy to protect his life at crucial moments.

Now that Han had slowly adapted to this type of crazy training, his drug intake also decreased to the normal amount.

With a godlike speed of improvement, Han could always increase his Power Index by 30 points every day. If compared to the natural growth rate, it was more than 10 times bigger! Even Pathless Origin said more than once that Han's speed of improvement was okay.

And with Pathless Origin's strict character, when he says it's okay, then it must be really "okay".

This continued on for a week. Han followed Pathless Origin's pointers and trained hard every day. His Power Source Index also successfully past 300. On the night Han past 300, Pathless Origin suddenly gave Han a link to a website.

"From today forward you don't have to do regular training anymore, it's pointless for you. Your power is from inheritance, so you just need to fully activate your zero-brain region and then your fundamental skills will naturally be there. Do you have a virtual pod over there? Go visit that website." Pathless Origin told Han.

"Doe this belong to the dark net as well?" Han looked at the address and asked curiously.

"Yep, websites like little Black's drug market is just the first layer of the dark net, they are just the things floating on the surface. But what I'm giving you belongs to the second layer, and normal people have no way of even coming close to it. I already added you to the white list and gave you access." Pathless Origin explained, "And about the website's content, you will know after you see it. But you have to pay close attention.

Han nodded and inserted that address onto the login program. He had become more familiar with the dark net's rules now. The dark net was actually like the network rule, most of the websites need a referrer to give permission in order to let users log on.

Han first met Night Walker, and with Night Walker as a guarantee, Han was introduced to Pathless Origin. As he became familiar with Pathless Origin, Pathless Origin also acted as a referrer and introduced Han to another website that was hidden even deeper in the dark net.

All these relationships were created to form a hidden network, and those so called public forums in today's Han's eyes were really ordinary, way too far away from being the dark net's deepest layer.

Just how deep was the Galactic Dark Net? What was its deepest layer?

Han was completely lost.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 29: Live Broadcast of Death

Han took a break for a few hours, and went to the training center at around noon as per usual. In the training center there was a row of public virtual pods for the use of espers that live at the base.

After picking one in the corner, Han took out the dark net access card from his necklace. Accessing the dark net required a login program as well as DNA information, so even if someone managed to get Han's access card, without Han's DNA information it will still be useless.

The dark net login program was really intelligent. It will automatically encrypt the data, so even the central control system will only know that Han used the virtual pod. About what specifically that pod was used for will be completely confidential.

Laying down in the virtual pod, Han pressed the start button.

The virtual pod and the laptop had similar functions but using the pod enhances the user experience. For instance, every day Han when visits Pathless Origin's website, the laptop shows the website on a flat screen whereas the virtual pods will generate a virtual store and the experience was like shopping in real life.

After typing in the address on the screen, the login program verified Han's DNA data and started connecting to dark net.

Very quickly, a virtual world appeared in front of Han's eyes. The address led to a door with blood stains splattered across it. Han stood on the outside and read the descriptions displayed on the screen.

This website was called "Live Broadcast of Death". It was a dark net video broadcasting website. The description was written as follows: "Chosen the most fearless esper warriors of Milky Way to fight to the death in Arena. Due to the amount of blood violence, please view at your discretion."

Han was shocked for a bit, real people fighting to the death broadcasted live?

The dark net was really a screwed up place, they even have this?

With tons of curiosity, Han entered the website. A screen popped up to let Han choose the broadcasts he wished to watch. According to the rules of Live Broadcast of Death, the viewing will charge according to the fighters' ranking. A fight between two star espers costed 100 GC, three star espers costed 200 GC, and four star espers costed 400 GC. And as for fights between five stars or above, it's only available at certain times and it costed 1000 GC.

Other than that, there were also esper survival competitions and mass chaotic brawls, which were pretty expensive to watch and were only available during certain times.

Aside from watching live broadcasts, people could also watch videos from the past which only costed 1/10 of its broadcast price. So watching two stars fight only costed 10 GC. Han saw a lot of loyal fans. They all had a warrior they admired so they were willing to pay a large amount of money to watch the live broadcasts to get the most updated news about the fighters. They can also set bounties or give rewards to the warriors, so it was kind of like fangirling. Only just that what these guys fangirled about killing.

Han wasn't some fan boy, so of course he chose to watch the cheaper replays for past broadcasts. After some consideration, Han felt like his fighting style was closer to a strength descent esper so he decided to watch a 2-star brawl between two strength descent espers. The system automatically withdrew 10 GC from Han's account and sent him onto the battleground.

Virtual live broadcast had a huge benefit, and it was that the audience didn't have to watch from their seats, they could also watch on the stage closer to the fighters. Han chose to watch the fight from up close. He figured that Pathless Origin sent him to this place because he wanted him to learn real combat experience from others.

Both fighters walked into the iron cage, which was spherical in shape and about 100 meters in radius, so the one losing had nowhere to run. The fight only stopped when one of them died.

As for the fighters participating in this duel, there was one muscular man in black hair and another blond middle-aged man that was smaller in size but still muscular.

The stopwatch counted down to zero and the green light flashed on. The two men charged at each other at the same time. They didn't have any weapons other than their fists.

The muscular giant swung his right fist aiming for his enemy's head, but the smaller fighter was very smart. He lowered his body to dodge while returning a hard punch into the enemy's vulnerable belly region, and the giant shouted in pain.

A fight between two strength descent espers was the most brutal kind. After all the taller warrior had the height and weight advantage, and had a higher tolerance to the amount of hits he could take. He saw how sneaky the enemy was, so he held his breath, used his body to tank a punch and immediately swept his big right hand into the face of the smaller fighter.

Gengci~ (Sound of blood coming out)

That giant's hand was like a block of concrete, thick and tough. The smaller fighter couldn't dodge in time and the giant's fingers hooked into his mouth and immediately ripped it apart! Blood start to rush out and it went all over Han's face.

Although it was just a virtual environment, Han could still smell the thick scent and feel the warmth of the blood.

The smaller fighter was placed at a huge disadvantage. He covered his face and started to retreat towards a corner. But as a result, he was oppressed and received a hard beating. All he could do was raise his hands to protect his head.

Then when the smaller fighter was about to get killed, he intelligently spotted an opening as the enemy relaxed his stance. He quickly charged out of the suppression and grabbed the giant's two arms with his hands, but he lacked the power and couldn't move him.

Under desperation, the smaller fighter started to bite!

He took a huge bite at the giant's ear and ripped it off along with half of the giant's face!

Hong~

The giant fell to the ground, but the smaller fighter was not done yet. He took advantage of this and used his fingers to gouge the giant's eye balls.

Then what happened after left Han in extreme shock. The moment the smaller fighter had the advantage, he started using the most merciless and brutal attacks like a mad dog to attack the enemy. When the fight was over, the corpse on the ground was already badly mutilated, even the stomach was ripped open.

As a spectator, Han had a sudden urge to puke. That fight was beyond Han's wildest imagination, so at the verge of life and death humans can reveal that much potential and become that merciless. In order to survive, the smaller warrior turned from a human to a wild animal under Han's own eyes.

The screen displayed the winner, the smaller fighter, and he was awarded a prize of 8 figures in cash. But there was no smile on his ace, because his mouth was ripped open and was still dripping blood. One of his eyes was already blind and the eyeball was dangling from the socket.

That's when Han suddenly realized the reason why Pathless Origin told him to watch this merciless Live Broadcast of Death. This was the true face of a battle!

If it was just a virtual battle where no one could die and nothing was to be worried about, how could there be such desperate struggle in the face of death like what Han just witnessed? For survival, any moves or tricks that was conventional or unconventional could all be used. For survival, there was no rules you had to worry about.

And real battles were just as merciless!

Virtual battles can help someone develop their skills, but it can never teach the struggle in the face of death.

The fight had ended, and Han's mood still couldn't calm down for a long time. On Live Broadcast of Death, what he felt was the atmosphere of a real battleground. Everyone that participated in the fight were all like demons, putting everything on the line.

It was only here, someone can be taught what real battle was!

Train using the most extreme method, study the most merciless fights. Without realizing it, Pathless Origin, the odd man that Han met by accident, was leading Han into an unpredictable future.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 30: Base in Danger!

The dark net was really a lawless place!

When Han left the assessment pod and returned to his room, he was lost in thought.

Originally, Han thought that the slaves, illegal drugs, military-grade firearm black market were the darkest trades hidden on the dark net. Now that he witnessed the battlefield with blood flying everywhere, Han finally realized, the dark net is not as simple as he thought. The people that made the Live Broadcast of Death channel obviously didn't care about the Milky Way Galactic Law.

Han really wanted to talk to Pathless Origin about that broadcast channel, but he resisted the urge.

Although Han always called Pathless Origin his teacher, their relationship was not really like that since the term "teacher" was just a polite form of address.

Han was scared of pissing him off because after all, having such a knowledgeable man from another planet to help him was a very precious opportunity that he didn't want to tamper with. If it wasn't for Pathless Origin, Han might never have come in contact with the deeper levels of dark net in this life time.

"Pathless Origin said that Live Broadcast of Death was the second layer of the dark net, does that mean there's still a third layer?" Han thought to himself in excitement.

Then, Han shook his head, he spent too much time on the broadcast channel and it was already midnight. He should go back to work now… Drugs, equipment, watching broadcasts, they all costed money, and that 1,300 GC he made from writing index reports every month was his only income…

The increase in level was not only increased source energy, it also enhanced Han's intelligence. Now, Han could keep the time to write up an index report to just below half an hour. That was a speed that the Han a few weeks ago could never even imagine. Including the one and half hour needed to collect additional data, Han only needed to work for about two hours every day, making his life much easier than before.

After finishing the report, Han asked Pathless Origin 3 questions as usual. It seemed like his relationship with him has been improving. In the past Pathless Origin always used the simplest language to answer Han but now he usually added a few more sentences to his answer as if he was scared that Han didn't fully understand.

"In conclusion, your power is power immunity, you are destined to face other people in a fight for survival. You didn't make the wrong observation, I never emphasized the importance of techniques. Techniques are obviously important, but they can be developed through repetitive training. However, your will and confidence isn't something you can develop at home. It needs you to go onto the battle field and participate those bloody battles!"

"Training in the extreme cold or watching the live broadcast of a merciless brawl, it was all to train you to become a warrior with a strong will. A true warrior should carry a strong will, and even if one day he is killed in battle, his will still can't scatter! You must reach that degree in order to be qualified to be a true warrior, and that's also the only way to reach the pinnacle!"

"Of course, at this stage it is still more important to train under the extremely cold environment. After all, you inherited someone else's power, so if you don't completely reveal the source energy and potential of your predecessor, you are not only not fulfilling the responsibility to yourself, you are also being irresponsible for that warrior that left behind the power for you."

"Tonight you can go to the -20 degrees Celsius water, you just need to take one source energy pill. I trust Little Black's skills, his drugs won't have any problems. But just to be safe, bring the zero-degree joviality pill too, and take it when you can't hold it anymore."

"About your training progress, I don't care. What's most important is for you to enter the struggling state in the face of despair. As long as you enter that state, any type of training you do will have doubled effect, and any training exercise will activate potential, you got it?"

Han quickly replied, "Understood, thank you teacher for your pointers."

"Get lost, you wasted so much of my words and time. If it wasn't for Little Black, who has time to even look at you!" Pathless Origin never forgot to scowl at Han for a bit at the end of his answer, it had become a habit of his.

In fact Han can clearly feel, under those harsh words there was some caring. But of course, a person with that much pride will always use Night Walker as an excuse.

But Han didn't tell him about one thing, it was about his power. Pathless Origin always thought Han's power was power immunity, but it's not. What Han had was a power that was infinitely times stronger than power immunity, but now that Pathless Origin had a fixated idea of what Han's power was, Han became scared that he would piss off him if he tells him that he actually had Void End.

"I guess I will wait till later to tell him…" Han thought for a bit and said to himself.

Training, writing index report, watching death broadcasts, it seemed like Han's life only had these three things to do now.

He had been making great training progress, and every week he could achieve an increase of 230 points in his Power Source Index score on average. Pathless Origin also instructed Han to enter a colder layer of the pool after every week in order to increase the intensity of training.

The changes that have been taking place on Han's body were very noticeable. One month after coming to the base, Han was a bit skinnier than before. The intense training had taken away the last bit of fat on Han's body, making his body shape more standard, with broader shoulders and a slimmer waist. Although it looked skinny in clothes, but the muscles on his body were very resilient.

Another night of training was completed. The time was still early but the cafeteria was already filled with people, a lot of them sporting eye bags. No one was talking and they all had their heads down in the food. It was a completely different atmosphere than when Han just arrived to the base. In the beginning, every time he came to the cafeteria it was filled with laughter and joy, with people talking about all kinds of gossips.

But now, the base's atmosphere made Han feel much more stifled. It was as if suddenly no one liked to talk anymore.

"Still want a meat bun?" That old lady serving food asked in a smile.

"Yep, and one large cup of hot chocolate please." Han added.

"Why do you like to eat meat buns that much? I feel like all the meat buns I made were not enough for you to eat." The lady joked with Han.

"It's obviously because you have great cooking skills, I've never had a meat bun this tasty so I can never get enough of it."

"You little boy!" The old lady had a bit smile on her face, and she quickly put in a few extra pieces of delicious meat when making the meat bun for Han.

"Thank you Ms." Han took the breakfast and was about to go back to his room to eat, but just when he walked to the door, he saw a 27-28 year old soldier running out from the direction of the Extinction Domain, in his full battle suit and his body was covered in blood.

"Doctor Ri! Hurry to the clinic! Someone's injured!" That soldier yelled.

Doctor Ri who was in the middle of eating breakfast quickly put down that half bowl of soup he was drinking, grabbed his glasses and ran right out of the cafeteria and to the clinic with that soldier.

After a few seconds, an electric jeep appeared from the direction of the Extinction Domain, a few soldiers jumped off carrying a stretcher and sprinted towards the clinic. The guy on the stretcher seemed to be in a really bad condition. His face was all pale white and his body was covered in blood, dripping all over the ground as they moved. After the stretcher past the cleaners quickly mopped clean the blood stains on the floor.

The people in the cafeteria discussed in small voices as they cleaned.

"How many is it now?"

"Today's third."

"That's so unfortunate, don't even know if he can be saved or not. Chief Li is still down there, they haven't come up in a long time right?"

"Of course not, the assault troops have been down there for about half a month now, now even the people working above ground are already nervous to death, we can only imagine how much pressure the troops working in the domain are experiencing…"

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 31: Thorn Bird Raider Group

Under the dim star light at some corner of the Milky Way, there was a space station.

From the structure and design of the station, it should be an old model that was used as a hub. Any industrial space ships that passed this station could all park here to rest a bit. The crew members could partake in recreational activities like getting drunk at the bar, picking up some chicks and refilling fuel.

Now that the space station was abandoned, it was taken over by a group of raiders. On the sides of the space station were painted two giant bird symbols, showing that the present occupants of this place were the members of the Thorn Bird Raider Group.

In the Milky Way, there was a big difference between raiders and space pirates. Space pirates never land, they just intercepted transporting or commercial ships, while the raiders would go anywhere to rob as long as the loot was valuable.

Generally speaking, raiders were a much more violent group that was developed on the foundation of space pirates. They were much more powerful and cruel as well.

The four star esper, the strategist of Thorn Birds Di Fu walked past the mess at the lobby. The pirate all had three big hobbies: money, women, and alcohol, and Thorn Bird raiders were no exception. A group of captured girls were forced onto the floor by the drunk raiders, and made to play a game called drunken chicken.

This game was really simple and cruel. You forced the girls to drink, and when they were drunk on the floor, then the obvious will happen.

Di Fu slightly frowned, he didn't like this kind of uncivilized game, but of course he wouldn't stop his bros. If it wasn't for the lawless environment and piles of cash, which esper would be willing to be a robber?

For the raiders, they could do whatever they wanted during their free times, as long as they give it their all on the battle field.

Di Fu walked past the lobby and arrived at Lucas's, the boss, office. Lucas was a bit drunk already, and in his arms were two naked little girls. He wasn't wearing any clothes either, showing off his terrifying scars and bronze colored muscles.

In this world there were two types of robbers, one were those criminals that had nowhere else to go so they could only join raider groups, like Di Fu. He was the most intelligent existence in the group, his shirt was always pure white with not even a speck of dust on it.

And then there was the second type that were natural born outlaws. They loved the chaos, insanity, and living their lives on the edge of knives. Like Lucas, who was born as an outlaw. Fresh blood and alcohol were his favourite past time.

"Oh my counsellor is here, what is it?" Lucas reluctantly pushed away those two beautiful girls, gestured them to get out and invited Di Fu to sit down in front of him.

Di Fu sat down and said in a deep voice, "Our client wants us to hurry up and execute the deal, the United Government of Earth is very likely going to finish discovering the C ranked Extinction Domain soon. If that happens, Earth might have enough income to form a stronger military, and by then our client's plan of colonizing Earth will have a lot more obstacles."

Lucas started to laugh out loud, stood up disapproving and yelled, "It's easy, I will just go myself and kill and loot everything on that place called Earth."

Di Fu shook his head, "Boss, Earth isn't suited for large-scale war."

"Why?" Lucas was a bit confused, "A lowly planet that just joined the Milky Way Alliance under 20 years ago, do we not have enough men to stomp it?"

Di Fu slightly frowned, "Boss, on the meeting a month ago, I already analyzed the situation, did you forget this quickly?"

Lucas scratched the back of his head and carelessly said, "I forgot, but that's why I have you right? Why can't we just attack Earth?"

Di Fu actually disliked Lucas's careless character, but he was a smart guy and obviously wouldn't display his true emotions. He only responded sincerely, "9 years ago, the Earth esper Ke Lake won a huge spot at the Galactic Meet. After the event was over, Earth got a Space Fortress ranked battle cruiser as a reward."

"Now that 9 years have passed, I believe that Earth is potent enough to command the cruiser to quickly join battles. The strongest class of battleship in Thorn Bird is your Eris Ranked Destroyer. Although we have a lot more battleships than Earth, but without such a large ranked battleship still puts us at a disadvantage, and in a battle of assault and fortify we might not be able to win."

"Secondly, although the rumor says that Ke Lake went missing right after the Galactic Meet, we still can't rule out the possibility that it's not Earth's tactic of deception. The Space Fortress ranked battle cruiser and a five-star esper Ke Lake, these are Earth's only two cards in their hand, but they pose a large threat to us."

"Third of all, we sent Duo Ear to raid Earth before, it was a business but it was also our initial assessment of the strength of Earth's power. The result was the complete annihilation of Duo Ear. The espers on Earth are very courageous and united which was beyond our expectation, and they actually killed Duo Ear before the military arrived. In conclusion, I strongly disagree going head to head with the United Government of Earth. Regardless of how weak they are, they are still a country."

Lucas nodded slightly. Actually he didn't like Di Fu's style either. He doesn't play with women, doesn't drink, and doesn't gamble. Nothing about Di Fu looked like a robber. But he knew, Di Fu's intelligence was essential to Thorn Bird.

"Counsellor, what do you think we should do?" Lucas asked.

"Very simple, hit and run. According to our intelligence, the guy responsible for discovering and conquering the Extinction Domain is called Li Yu, a 4 star ranked esper. As well, there are about 10 to 20 three star espers. They must be the core strength of Earth's Extinction Site Administration. "

Lucas scratched his chin and said, "But our client wants the extinction domain. If we destroy it, our client will be unhappy."

"That's no problem. There are 4 extinction domains on Earth, 2 D class, 1 C class, and 1 B class. Up until now, Earth has already explored the two D class but they weren't able to provide too much income, but B class is too difficult for Earth at their current state to explore by themselves."

"So the only obstacle is that soon-to-be-explored C class extinction domain. If we destroy it, then we will have destroyed Earth's hope to get back on its feet. And by the end of next year's Galactic Meet, if Ke Lake really went missing, then our client can take over Earth without using a single soldier."

"What our client really wants is the B class one, how can they not be happy if we destroyed a C class so they can get a B class? That's why, for us, the fastest and most efficient solution is to destroy the C class extinction domain. "

"We will sent Pan Gongjin on the Reaper class frigate to execute the plan, use an energy field to completely seal the entrance to the extinction domain so that the enemy can't send any reinforcements. Then let Nan Gongjin lead a troop to rush into the domain, plant the bomb and quickly retreat, completely blowing up the site and all the espers inside!"

"From start to end, we only need 3 minutes to finish the battle, and we can avoid facing their battle cruiser that way too."

Lucas actually didn't care about how many of his guys died, but it's obviously better if the job can be done without any sacrifices.

"Good, then this task will be assigned to Pan Gongjin and those guys to finish. There will be large rewards after that job gets done!"

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter

Chapter 32: The Dangerous Night

Extinction Site Administration, South Pole Base.

The base was shrouded by an intense and anxious atmosphere. Han finally understood why he hadn't seen Li Yu or Wu Di for such a long time. They were actually working hard in the extinction domain. No wonder the training center was always empty, the majority of the espers here were actually on the assault and they were fighting with their lives on the line inside that extinction domain…

As to the progress in extinction domain exploration, Han didn't understand at all.

It seems like exploring extinction domain is quite different from those archeology projects, a high number of espers were stationed inside the domain and it was also extremely dangerous. There were always espers either severely injured or killed getting carried out of the domain, and the medical team was the second busiest department in the base.

Even the janitors at the base became a lot more careful than before. Everyone's walking pace were significantly faster, and no one spoke in a loud voice in public anymore.

Han's circumstances were a bit special, although he was registered as a member of the Esper Administration, he doesn't really have any duties. Li Yu just wanted to return the favor and let Han use the training facilities at the base.

Now, Han already had 983 points in Power Source Index, and he was at the gate of breaking the barrier to becoming a 3 star esper.

At midnight, Han finished writing the index reports like usual, set it as a scheduled post, and went to find Pathless Origin.

"It's a bit unbelievable, you managed to reach the gate of a 3 star esper in under a month, that speed is a bit insane. I'm starting to worry whether progressing this fast will leave an unstable foundation and other side effects."

It seemed like he was really satisfied with Han's speed of progress, maybe even proud. He started talking more and more to Han. In the past, Han always had to be careful and ask only 3 questions, fearing that the odd Pathless Origin will get irritated. But now, even if Han asked him 30 questions in a row, he will still answer one by one.

Han's fingers were quickly typing on the keyboard, "That shouldn't happen, right? Every day I put in a lot of effort on those fundamental exercises. I heard from others that normal esper soldiers started to learn higher level fighting techniques when they reach two stars, but I'm still practicing the basics and it seems like we are planning to continue practicing them."

Pathless Origin was a bit unsatisfied, "Why do you care about what other people do? They started learning higher level martial arts at 2 stars because it usually takes them 1 to 2 years to advance to 2 stars, and you only took a little more than one month, how could that be the same?"

Han quickly responded, "Teacher don't get angry, I was just saying it… And for my achievement up to date, I feel like it's mainly because of your help, otherwise I would be nowhere as close to what I am now. I will soon be pushing for 3 stars, teacher do you have any pointers?"

You had to admit it, Han really knew what to say to change his teacher's mood, staying very humble and respectful. Han also discovered, Pathless Origin kind of had the temper of a little kid, he got mad easily and frequently, but he quickly forgets about it later.

"With your potential, you are going to reach 3 stars for sure. So, the main objective is still to stabilize your foundation, today you can practice in the -50 degrees Celsius area of the pool. The moment you reach 3 stars, go back to the shore immediately, put on your battle suit and go back into the water."

"Training in extremely cold water is mainly for exploring potential, and now that you are progressing at such a fast pace, you will occasionally need a break and focus on stabilizing the new energy you gained. Tonight just do what I say and you will be good."

Han nodded, "Understood, I will go train right away and report back to you when I'm done."

"Alright, go, remember to use the proper dose of source energy pill."

Han brought his battle gear, including his tritanium dagger, and came to the familiar pound in a delightful mood.

Today's guard on duty was still blonde haired Charlie and big nose Fo Liman. Every night Han will meet them at the entrance so they have already became friends with each other.

Charlie was a guy that liked to smile. He had a great personality and he always joked about Han not being able to give birth to a son because of staying in the cold water for so long.

Big nose Fo Liman was a serious guy, his eyes were focused on Han the entire time. With Han's authorized level of access, he shouldn't be anywhere near the entrance to the extinction domain, and seeing Liman's expression, it was as if Han will get arrested if he gets one step closer.

Seeing Han coming from far away, Charlie smiled and yelled, "You are on time again, Han. I told you before, my grandpa said… "

Not even waiting for Charlie to finish, Han said, "I know I know, stay in cold water for too long and I won't be able to have a son. You are a really boring man, everyday making the same joke. I would say, a daughter is pretty good too, when my mom was alive she always said that a daughter is like a little cotton padded jacket, and she always regretted not giving birth to a little sister for me."

"Here, here's some midnight snacks for you two."

Han smiled as he give a bag full with food to the two guards. Those two couldn't leave their post, and Han always came at around 3 o'clock in the morning so he brought them food.

Han was about to head to the little path on the side when suddenly, the heavy gate of the extinction domain opened up. Wu Di walked out and saw Han.

"5th Brother, I haven't seen you in a long time. What's the situation down there?" Wu Di was the youngest student of Li Yu's 5 students, so Han called him 5th brother.

Wu Di let out a long sigh, "Heavy sacrifice… But finally we are close to taking control of it."

Han asked curiously, "I don't really get what happens in the extinction domain, but I saw that all of our brothers at the base were all very worried and nervous. Also there were many severely injured brothers getting carried out… Thanks for the hard work!"

Wu Di shook his head, "Our brothers even sacrificed their lives for this, so our hardwork is really nothing in comparison to their contribution. You don't know how important this extinction domain means for Earth. Since we are already at the last stage of taking control of it, I will just tell you. As long as we can secure this extinction domain, there is hope for Earth!"

"Now, the biggest program for Earth is money. You saw the equipment that Charlie and Fo Liman are wearing? Those are all from the second hand market from space, and the quality is only okay. And that's our Earth's Extinction Site Administration department, the other departments' equipment quality is even worse."

"The entire Earth army only has one battleship that can travel across the Milky Way, and it was still something that Ke Lake won from the last Galactic Meet. We have around 15,000 esper soldiers, but the majority of them don't have any weapons or equipment, not even access to training facilities."

"If we can take down this extinction domain, Earth will have waves and waves of income. We can use the loot from the extinction domain to trade for GC, buy some equipment for our troops. And if we are lucky, we can even buy a few more battleships, now you tell me how much this extinction domain means to us."

Han was shocked, "It means that Earth can finally be really recognized as a country in the Milky Way, it means that we can finally form a real esper military, it means hope for Earth?!"

Wu Di answered in excitement, "That's right! That's why teacher said, even if he has to die in the extinction domain this time, he will make sure that we take this extinction domain. For Earth and the future of us humans on Earth, this is our responsibility. All the brothers in there have all swore to god, even if it costs them all of their lives, they will still take over this extinction domain today!"

Maybe it's because it's almost over, Wu Di's mood was a lot better, that's why he chatted for a bit with Han and got Han's blood boiling!

Although Han don't know what was really happened in there, but with over a 40% death rate, the assault troop is still in there giving it their all, they are really the true men!

"Can't talk more, I have to go to the control center. There's no signal in the domain, and headquarters is still waiting for my report."

Wu Di patted Han on the shoulder and started walking towards the control center with big, proud steps. However, Han realized Wu Di was walking with a limp, it seemed like his leg was injured.

"Looks like there will be a result tonight, pray to god that nothing goes wrong." Han was rethinking about what Wu Di just said and he said to himself, "After tonight, I will be a 3 star soldier too, how about I signup to join the assault team and offer my contribution too."

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know report chapter so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Report chapter