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GDN Chapter 33: Past Three Stars!
Water under 50 degrees Celsius was obviously not something normal people could handle, even espers that enter will soon freeze to death.
And the training that put his life on the line was also what made Han's training so different. Maybe no one else's training method was more unique.
Under Pathless Origin's mentorship, Han placed himself constantly in extreme conditions in order to forcefully activate the zero-degree brain region to fully unleash the power of that unknown predecessor.
Hard work yielded results and due to Han's unique way of training, his level had been increasing at an insane rate, breaking past both 2 star and 3 star within one month. If other people heard about this speed of progression, many will doubt that Han was even a human.
Of course Han was a human, he's just a bit more special.
Everything in this world came with a price, and Han's lightning speed of improvement obviously didn't just fall out of the sky. He traded it with hard work and sweat, constantly walking at the edge between life and death was not something anyone can do.
The cold water domain stimulated Han's physical body and mental state, also triggering his zero-degree brain region to madly generate source energy.
So, is inheriting someone's power a good thing?
Of course it is, an elite's essence of lifelong training getting absorbed by another person, why would it be bad?
It's just that absorption is easy, but what was difficult was the infusion. The majority of people that acquired their predecessor's power crystal wouldn't be like Han, paying heavy and cruel costs just to increase zero-degree brain region and infusion rate. That's why, they only got the power, whereas Han will actually completely activate everything left behind by his predecessor.
In the negative 50 degrees Celsius pool, for every 10 minutes Han trained, he would get the same results as 10 hours of training done by normal people. After close to an hour, Han felt that his zero-degree region was actually pumping and trembling.
After having the last experience, Han knew that this was the harbinger of breaking through a star level!
The insane training had brought even more insane result! After only a month, Han had already reached three stars!
Hong~
The collision of force was much stronger than when he was breaking past 2 star, and Han almost felt like his body's going to explode from having too much source energy.
The water inside the pool was roaring and splashing in all directions. With Han's body as the center, a giant vortex appeared inside the pool. Esper soldier 3-star level has been reached!
Han spent an entire half hour relaxing his body before finally climbing up ashore. He put on his battle suit and picked up his tritanium dagger.
Tremor was a typical melee weapon. It had a sharp edge that also had an intricate curve and the back of the edge was as heavy as an axe. The handle was metal as well in order to increase weight to balance out both ends of the dagger.
Han picked up Tremor, the dagger that he once felt was way too heavy now feels very light and maneuverable. Even as a heavy knife, it can still be used with great dexterity in Han's hand.
As for the battle suit Black Celestial Python, its weight wasn't even one fifth of Tremor, so putting it on felt like Han was still naked. Han tried to stretch his body. It felt quite comfortable with no resistance.
The material that went into the construction will indicate the level of the armor. Black celestial python was recognized as the king of pythons, capable of growing to 25 meters, and with a body covered by a layer of scales so refined that it didn't even allow air to pass through.
But although the scales were very refined, it had an outstanding tolerance for physical attacks. In fact, the black celestial pythons were known because of this, because there species tolerance for physical attacks were just way too unfair. With that seemingly invincible scale and skin, they often picked fights with opponents even ten times larger than them in size.
However, the Black Celestial Python's weakness was as outstanding as its strength. Although being almost invincible towards normal physical attacks, it was not so great in terms of defending against other powers. Thunder, fire, and ice elements could all do serious damage on black celestial pythons. That's why Pathless Origin kind of despised the Black Celestial Python battle suit and labeled it as 2.5 star.
But for Han it was a completely different story. He could already defend against power attacks, and now he just needed protection against physical attacks, which made the Black Celestial Python a fantastic combination with him.
Han excitedly returned to the pool for practice, and due to the battle suit, the cold water wasn't able to hurt him at all. Han followed Pathless Origin's advice and slowly practiced the 46 Ensemble training, continuing to relax his body and mental state.
"Teacher finally allowed me to use the weapon. For the next step, he's probably going to teach me weapon techniques right?" Han started to wonder.
Training with bare hands was totally different from when you had a weapon. Generally speaking, training with a weapon required greater control of balance, because after all there was another 40 something pounds added to your right hand.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, Han ended his training on schedule and was ready to go back to his room to rest.
Pathless Origin said continuing to push oneself was necessary, but occasional relaxing for a bit was also necessary. After a long one month of extreme training, it was time for Han to loosen up his tight mental state.
Suddenly, just when Han was about to take off his battle suit, a huge sound came from the ground, as if a nuclear bomb was detonated around the base. The water inside the pool started trembling, the stone ceiling and walls began to fall apart.
It was immediately followed by more explosion sounds, but they were far weaker than the first one, sounding like mines or hand grenades.
"Something's wrong?!" Han was shocked for a second, he immediately grabbed his tritanium dagger Tremor and rushed towards the gate.
Before even reaching there, Han could already hear the sound of fighting and killing.
Shua~
Han accelerated, he jumped out of the side path, and witnessed a fight breaking out at the front of the Extinction Domain's gate. Gold hair Charlie was already lying in a pool of blood lifelessly, and Fo Liman was surrounded by two unknown espers in the corner.
Gengci~
Gengci~
A fireball was fired right into Liman's face, and he had no choice but to raise his arm to block it. At that moment, the other esper on the side took advantage of this and sprinted at Liman, stabbing him twice in the chest.
"NOOOOO!" Han yelled in despair.
But it was already too late, Liman and Charlie, the two loyal guards had already collapsed onto the floor.
At that moment, Han finally saw the enemies clearly: a small-sized fat man and a muscular man, both in black battle suits with a strange bird icon on the back.
One tall and one short, the two espers quickly turned to Han. The strength descent big man led the charge with the short fire descent esper following behind. It seemed to be their typical combination.
Another raider group from space!
Han's eyes became widely open as if they were about to explode! He had seen that type of battle suit before, it was the same as that fight in Shanghai, the group of enemies that took away 7 lives of Earth's espers.
With eyes filled with red anguish, Han charged right into those two, raising his dagger at the same time as the strength descent raider raised his sword!
"Void End! Open!"
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Chapter 34: Han vs. Thorn Bird Raiders
Han charged right at the muscular raider, his eyes turning red!
A cunning smile appeared on the face of the tall and muscular raider. He saw that Han was about to step right into their trap and quickly stepped aside. Immediately the shorty raider suddenly shot two fire balls right at Han.
This was their usual combination, the big guy tried to attract the enemy attention and dodge immediately before the clash to create an opening for the shorty to shoot fireballs. When the fireballs hit, the big guy will then wickedly take advantage and jump onto the enemy and end their life right there.
It was a very logical and efficient tactic which utilized great synergy between range and melee. It was also a trap that enemies could easily fall into if they were not prepared.
But today, they faced Han! The Han that possessed the Void End!
Secretly, the void domain was already summoned. Han didn't even need to dodge the enemy fireballs, and he held on tighter to his Tremor, ready to strike.
Shua~
The fireballs that entered the Void Domain immediately vanished, and the two raiders were completely confused for a second.
But at that moment, Han had already arrived right in front of the big guy.
The black edge drew a beautiful curve under the quiet night sky, slicing through that big guy's neck.
Gengci~
Killed in one shot!
Han didn't hesitate at all, continuing on closing in the shorty.
When had Shorty run into this kind of strange event, seeing the big guy get his neck cut by Han. He wanted to keep on using his fire power to attack Han. Unfortunately, he lifted his hand, but nothing came out. Han's void domain had completely taken his fire power!
What welcomed him was only Han's icy cold dagger! The edge passed through both of his hands, and sliced his head right open like a watermelon!
Gengci~
Fresh blood mixed with white brain fluid, it splashed up at least 3 meters high!
Double kill!
Han couldn't care less about those two bastard raiders, he anxiously kneeled down beside Charlie. Charlie's signs of life had been weakening drastically, he felt very weak but he struggled and opened his eyes, took a look at Han. The usual smile appeared on his face again, "Hairstyle, is it still fine?"
"Very!" Han quickly responded.
His eyes turned lifeless and he passed away.
Han closed Charlie eyes and felt his eyes tearing up. He lifted up Charlie and wanted to bring both Liman and Charlie to the doctors.
Han only saw Liman putting one hand on his chest, struggled to sit up in his pool of blood, trying to stop Han with his eyes.
"I… can't make it. Defend this place… Please! Defen…" Without finishing the sentence, Fo Liman collapsed and his breathing stopped.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Han let out a painful cry, his eyes were blood red, and blue veins were popping out all over Han's forehead!
Suddenly, Han heard footsteps from the passage ahead, it was the enemy closing in.
Han clenched his teeth and stood up.
"Fuck! We were delayed by a bunch of weak Earth espers. The Ken brothers should have opened up the Extinction Domain portal yet."
"Those people were stronger than predicted, but that's okay. We have completely sealed off headquarter so they won't have any reinforcements coming in. It's our world now!"
Due to the echo from the passage, Han could clearly hear their conversation. Delayed by a bunch of Earth espers? They were probably the brothers on nightshifts at headquarter. If they were sacrificed too, it was very likely that Han's the only man left capable of defending the portal.
Headquarters was sealed off, this meant Han won't be able to wait for any reinforcements, he had to face everything on his own.
About 20 raiders have closed in, the two sides spotted each other at the same time.
Wu Di's words were still resonating in Han's ears, today decided the fate of Earth. If the Extinction Domain could be successfully captured, then Earth will have hope in the future!
And Liman's last words, at the final stage of his life, he was still thinking of his duties.
Han doesn't have any big principles to live by or any important responsibilities, but he really loved his home. If that little park where Han and his mother used to fly kites was no longer there, if his friends were no longer there, if those places and people that created the precious memories inside his brain no longer existed, then what was the reason for continuing to live?
Han once thought, with a Galactic Passport, if Earth fell he would just go live on another planet.
But now, he realized. Even if his physical body was to leave this place, his heart and soul will always belong to his land!
Instead of running away like a pussy, he would rather die trying!
He will sacrifice his life, and defend this homeland that he truly loved!
"Tonight, I will protect this place for you guys, I swear on my life!" Han felt blood surging inside his body.
Han held tighter onto Tremor, at this moment he has no other choice. He had to stand here, and stop those raiders at any costs!
Even though he was alone, even though he would probably die alone!
"There's one more left?"
"I will finish him!"
"Careful, the Ken brothers died to him!"
A black-haired man with a stubble quickly charged out of the crowd. He was very quick, and was able to jump again before his feet even touched the ground. He opened his arms, summoning a dark cold wind.
Wind descent!
Han was shocked for a second, he chose to charge instead of dodging.
Shua~
That man was called Wang Xiaoshan. He was a very powerful fighter in the Thorn Bird gang, a 3 star ranked esper and was also the right-arm man of Pan Gongjin.
Wang Xiaoshan smiled faintly, crossing his arms in front of his chest, forming a weird gesture.
Wind had always been a very cool looking ability, and what Wang Xiaoshan was using was called the Double-edged wind blade, a long range wind attack. The strong wind soared like blades, capable of wiping out an entire army!
It seemed like Han wanted to engage in a melee fight, but Wang obviously wouldn't give him that chance!
Shua~
He swung both arms, the move was as good-looking as always.
But what was strange was, not even mentioning any wind blades, he didn't let out a single fart! After being within 10 meters range of Han, Void Domain had mercilessly robbed away his power!
Just at the moment of shock, Han already arrived in his face, lifting up his Tremor and sliced down as hard as he could!
If Wang immediately stopped relying on his power and fought Han in melee, maybe he would have had a chance.
But humans always have a habitual way of thinking, Wang never knew how powerful Han's power was, and he was still thinking of letting out another wind attack.
He folded his hands and gestured towards Han, still trying to say, "Mad win…"
But before even letting him finish saying the name of his ultimate, Han's Tremor had sliced through Wang's shoulder, removing his entire head and neck from the rest of the body!
"Mad wind your mom!" Han cursed.
Triple kill!
That was Void End, the most brutal power in this world. The moment someone entered the Void Domain, no one's power was useful! Either you fight Han like a caveman with a weapon, or you die!
"Stop!" Pan Gongjin found it very odd, he raised his arms and halted his squad.
Di Fu strongly recommended him to lead this operation not without reason. Pan Gongjin was not only cold-blooded, but very intelligent, he was not like the typical brainless warrior that just jumped right into a fight.
"What happened?"
"How did Xiaoshan die?"
"Where was his wind blade? Where did Xiaoshan's wind blade go?"
The raiders began to worry. They've never seen an enemy as strange and mysterious as Han, it looked like Han took away all of Wang Xiaoshan's abilities.
If he can take away Wang Xiaoshan's then couldn't he take all of theirs? With his back to the Extinction Domain, Han raised his head. He held a blade in his hand, a black dagger.
The body of the blade was as black as the night, fresh blood was dripping nonstop from the tip of the sword. The enemy's blood. At this moment, he was on his own. He had no other choice.
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Chapter 35: Penta Kill!
Pan Gongjin had a pair of cunning eyes. It was only for a brief moment and he already figured out a plan.
"You and you. You two go kill them." Pan Gongjin ordered emotionlessly.
The team led by Pan Gongjin were all 3-star fighters, the rest were defending the outside. Among the assault team, the two strongest espers were the Ground Descent Ze Nite and the Wind Descent Wang Xiaoshan. Seeing how Han killed Wang Xiaoshan in one shot, Pan had no choice but to be cautious.
The two fighters he sent were two of his weakest followers. Pan was planning to send them as sacrifices to gain more reveal Han's fighting style and power.
The two fighters knew what their cruel leader was planning, but they had no choice but to man up and charge at Han.
Pan's caution was usually an advantage, but it was the largest mistake he would make today.
Han could triple kill the enemy because he relied on nothing but two things. First, he was the unique mystery descent Void End user, capable of robbing anyone's ability. Second, he had the balls to fight on the verge of life and death!
Against someone as hell-bent as Han, the most effective method was to all attack at the same time. As the saying goes, two fists are tough against 4 hands, Han couldn't possibly take so many at the same time in a melee match.
But Pan Gongjin was too cautious, when being pressured by time, he actually chose to gather intelligence on Han first, giving up the best opportunity to kill Han.
Shua~
The two 3-star raiders charged towards Han, they were both power descent espers. Although they didn't have fancy powers, they have a lot more strength than others and they tend to focus on doing their physical training. Their muscles weren't something Han could ignore. That's why it was actually tougher for Han to go up against two power descent espers than the other raiders he had faced before.
But, there was another fate-deciding factor on the battle field, and that's the sheer force of character.
From the moment Han became an esper, he was always learning with the most extreme training and battle methods, even when he's spectating fights he watched the Broadcast of Death that only aired bloody brawls to the death.
That's why, Han's will power far exceeded his control for techniques. He was using the most basic techniques but he fought without worrying about death!
You give me a cut, I will give you 3 cuts in return!
But the thing those two espers lacked was the sheer force of character. The moment they entered Han's Void Domain, they suddenly felt as if their power was taken away, so they lost the mental battle right off the bat. Then, after getting chased by Han who was swinging his dagger like a mad man, the two matured esper raiders were completely suppressed by Han on the battlefield! They were too busy defending yyagainst Han's attacks and couldn't find any opening to attack.
Han knew very clearly, he took advantage of Void End's power. Anyone that enters his domain will feel weakened at first, and he needed to finish them off completely before they could ever had a chance to adjust.
But one against two, it was already hard for Han to be the winning one, how could he finish the battle quickly?
There was no other way, you need to trade it with your life!
"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!"
Han suddenly remembered what Pathless origin had told him in the past!
Shua~
The black edge suddenly came slashing down, Han started trading blows with the enemy, it seems like he doesn't care at all about the enemy's edge ending up on his body.
What's called hell-bent?
You can give me a slash, but my next slash will kill you!
The enemy was completely lost against his attacks, Han didn't block nor dodge but chose to slash right back?! Is this guy insane?!
Han was completely committed, but the enemy couldn't do the same. He nervously tried to flee to the side to dodge, but his speed was not as fast as Han's edge. His blade landed on Han's shoulder and left a bloody cut, but Han's tremor landed on his neck! It ripped him apart!
Tonight's Quadra kill!
Injured Han turned around and his eyes were set on the other raider. He used the same method, without even bothering to dodge, Han began to fight him with his life!
Kacha~
The enemy saw how insane and fearless Han was and also how his teammate got ripped apart. Seeing Han turned the target to him, he was so lost in fear that he turned around immediately trying to run.
Gengci~
Han slashed opened that guy's back!
Fifth kill!
New York, Headquarter of the Earth Esper Administration
A big screen was broadcasting the situation at South Pole live, only to see a Reaper Class frigate pierced headfirst into the center of the base, activating its energy shield and using it to completely separate the center of the base from its surroundings.
That's the tactic the space raiders used, isolating the center so that none of the surrounding espers that were resting could attend the battlefield.
In the display, the esper soldiers at the Extinction Site Administration were trying very hard to attack the energy shield. Unfortunately, the Reaper class was a medium sized frigate. How could a bunch of average espers rip open its shield with only their bare hands.
A heavy weapon was needed to destroy the energy shield generated by a medium sized frigate, but the South Pole base was an exploration site, not a military base so it was not equipped with any heavy weapons.
Another large screen was playing Han's battle, the quality was a bit blurry but people could still see Han and how he was defending the base on his own.
The Reaper class frigate could cloak and it was equipped with powerful defenses, but signal disturbance was its weakness. Although separated by an energy shield, headquarters could still acquire real-time signal and information from the South Pole base.
When Han finished off the fifth enemy in one swing, everyone watching at the headquarters in New York was speechless.
It was a result that no one predicted. It wasn't because there was no elite espers in the Extinction Site Administration base, since Li Yu's army was probably one of the strongest on Earth, but unfortunately they were all stuck inside the Extinction Domain, leaving Han on his own outside.
Although it was only Han, but his hell-bent and fearless character was able to fend off the enemies!
"That was beautiful!"
"Who is that guy?!"
"According to our record, he's the Han Lang that was brought in last month by exception. He's from the Asia district, possessor of the powerful dark descent Void End ability."
"That can't be right?! One month ago he was just a beginner, now he's 3-star?!"
When Han's personal file was found, people saw a steady line that was going through the roof. This was Han's Power Source Index progression graph.
His number was like a rocket soaring towards the sky, showing no sign of slowing down!
Chief of the New York headquarter, Talin, was also very excited from seeing Han's courageous performance, but he was very clear that it would be impossible for Han to defend against the raiders by himself.
"How long till our Air Fortress arrives at the South Pole?!" Talin yelled.
"At least 3 minutes."
"That's too slow! The enemies chose to attack us at this time, they most likely want to destroy the Extinction Site. Command Air Fortress to advance at full speed!"
"Chief, they already are! Our brothers on the ship are also very anxious!"
Talin didn't say anything. 3 minutes? It's still unclear whether little Han could hold out for the crucial 3 minutes. If he loses, then it means that the entire Earth will have lost!
The lady of destiny showed its merciless face, putting the fate of the entire Earth on some unknown boy. Can he defend against these brutal raiders?
Suddenly, someone at the control center yelled, "FUCK! The raiders are storming Han!"
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Chapter 36: I still got a bunch of tough bones!
After all, Pan Gongjin was an experienced fighter. From the last fight, he completely understood Han's power and his style.
In conclusion, Han's power was most likely a unique power that could grant him immunity towards other powers. Another possibility might also be that it was some mind-controlling power that restricted enemies from using their abilities.
But regardless of what power Han had, he needed to get into melee range in order to kill, and that was his only method of combat.
A merciless smile surfaced on his face, Pan yelled, "This guy isn't scary at all. Everyone follow me and storm him at once! Let's finish him!"
Right after the sentence, the 11 raiders that were still alive followed Pan Gongjin and charged at Han.
One against 11 enemies, which also included a 4-star esper. This was clearly a hopeless fight.
But, Han had no other options, if he retreated then he would be at the Extinction Domain entrance, where Li Yu and his brothers were fighting with their lives on the line! If Han couldn't hold off the enemies at this spot, not only would he die, but everything Li Yu and the brothers had been fighting for would be in vain, and Earth would lose its last hope!
It didn't matter how small and weak Earth was, it's still my home!
Han suddenly thought of the last words that Pang Zuolin yelled before he sacrificed himself, he felt a stream of hot blood coursing through his veins!
Earth wasn't just Pang Zuolin's beloved home, it was also Han's, and every brother and sister on Earth!
Han was born here and grew up here, this beautiful blue star had left Han with memories that he wouldn't ever be able to discard. Even if it meant death, he still didn't want to see the home he grew up in lose all hope and see his brothers and sisters become either homeless or slaves.
They charged! That group of ruthless raiders charged at Han, pairs and pairs of evil and malicious eyes, weapons reflecting cold and merciless light.
Suddenly, Han raised his left arm, his expressions began radiating a feeling of darkness!
If there's no other way out, then let's all die here!
Ka~
The combat medicine box was opened, entirely opened! All the drugs stored inside the box were swallowed in one mouth full by Han!
Source energy pill, 67 doses!
Nuclear energy, 10 doses!
Sensory enhancement pill, 10 doses!
Shockwave, 10 doses!
Zero degree relaxation, still 10 doses!
The people that saw that scene at headquarters started shedding tears!
That was a big hand full of drugs, all of those combined far exceeded the tolerance level for a normal human, and Han would be dead for sure!
The people at Headquarter thought that those were just normal pill manufactured on Earth, but little did they know, the handful that Han swallowed were all illegal drugs from the dark net! It would be poisonous enough to kill a normal human more than 100 times!
But, even if it would cost his life, Han wasn't planning to back away from the fight even one step!
Han's eyes suddenly changed color entirely, turning into a crimson shade of red!
The large doses of illegal drug quickly circulated to his entire body. The source energy was originally flowing like a little stream inside Han's body, but within one second, that little stream had become like the rushing tides of an ocean, surging into every cell inside Han's body!
AHHHHHHH!
Han let out an angry battle cry, and started charging towards the group of raiders! His hair was all standing up and his face was twisted like a demon from hell!
Illegal drugs in more than ten or twenty doses really had an insane effect!
When slashes landed on Han's body, he couldn't feel a thing and quickly counterattacked!
He was already surrounded by too many enemies, but Han discarded the feeling of fear, and the killing became more fun and free!
"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!"
Han really understood the meaning of all those words!
Within a blink of eye, Han's body had taken 7 or 8 cuts, but the group of raiders also lost 2 fighters!
And as for the raiders, they were disgusted, completely disgusted!
The moment they came close to Han, it was like as if they saw a demon or something and became completely powerless!
Their only option was to trade blows with Han!
For espers that never imagined a day where they could only use weapons like ordinary people, they dedicated their entire lives on mastering their power and left physical strength aside.
Unfortunately, Han's Void End was that unreasonable!
Capable of nullifying all power!
Want to kill Han?
Ya sure! You just have to show what you are really capable of doing it without your power!
In Han's world, it didn't matter how fancy the power, they were all useless! The only things that mattered was who was more merciless and lethal, whose strategies were more subtle and whose combat consciousness was more insane!
Talking about consciousness, it had to be said that Han's sensory skills in combat was excellent. He noticed a guy among the enemy group that was a bit different from the others, carrying a big military backpack. When Pan Gongjin commanded everyone to storm, he was the only one that didn't join in but took two steps back instead.
Something was definitely fishy!
Han seemed like he was aimlessly fighting and trading blows with the enemies, but he had a clear goal!
His goal was to get to that guy with the backpack!
After killing two enemies and taking 7 hits, he forced open a bloody trail in the enemy crowd! He suddenly rushed to his target, raised his tremor up high and struck down with brutal force!
Kacha~
As the enemy tried to dodge, Han cut the string of the backpack and took the heavy green military backpack into his arms, and gesturing immediately to slice it open!
At that moment all the raiders went crazy!
Inside the bag was nothing short of a small ion tremor bomb! They planned to place it inside the Extinction Domain and destroy Earth's hope with it!
Ion tremor bombs were extremely powerful but very unstable as well. If Han actually tried to cut the bomb then it was very possible that everyone will die!
Although Han fought like a madman, he wasn't stupid.
He saw the fear and nervousness inside the enemy's eyes, so he only slashed hard enough to cut open the bag and show the grey spherical bomb.
He grabbed the bomb in his arms and took a few steps back.
Now it was time for the enemies to be nervous, they all looked at Pan Gongjin asking about what they should do.
The people at headquarter saw the scene, they were in complete shock and couldn't believe their eyes!
By himself, facing a group of ruthless raiders, Han not only killed 8, but also took control of the situation?!
Looked like the raiders were actually scared to make any moves, fearing that someone insane like Han would actually set off the bomb.
Now, Han's only thought was to keep the enemies away from the entrance to the Extinction Domain and try his best to get Li Yu more time. So, he led the raiders to where he trained, that pool of freezing cold water where he's most familiar with.
Time was passing by second by second, and Pan Gongjin knew that they were running out of time. Earth had an air fortress class frigate, it was an extremely powerful battleship and if that thing were to cut them off then they were done.
By now, Han already retreated to the edge of the pool, the drugs were rolling in his body like tens of thousands of sharp daggers, stinging his organs and muscles, and it felt even worse than death.
But Han was still holding on, because he knew, that was his only option if he wanted Earth to keep its last hope!
"Little brat!' Pan Gongjin finally broke the silence and yelled, "I will give you two options, either you give me that thing and I will let you live, or we will attack you all at once and kill you!"
Han's face already became pale white, and he started laughing like a madman and yelled, "Let me live? What kind of joke is that? I don't have anything else, but I still got a bunch of tough bones! I will die, but you mother*ers don't think of living either!"
Hong~
Pan Gongjin felt a sudden dizziness from getting too angry and embarrassed.
He brought his best subordinates and he couldn't chew the tough bone Han!
"Retreat!" Time's up, that fearful air fortress was about to arrive, and there was nothing they could do about Han, so someone cautious like Pan Gongjin chose to retreat.
Retreating back to Thorn Bird would be impossible. Screwing this up means that Lucas won't let him live, Pan Gongjin's only option would be going to another raider group.
The raiders heard Pan's command to retreat and felt a sudden feeling of relief.
No one wanted to continue playing with someone as insane as Han, this fight was disgusting since the beginning.
Suddenly, just when they were about to retreat back to their ship, an aged voice loud enough to tremor the ground sounded.
"NONE OF YOU ARE LEAVING TODAY!"
Completely swallowed by the drugs, Han focused his eyes and saw Li Yu, they were out! The strongest army on Earth, the army that was executing the hardest job on Earth! They finally came out of the Extinction Domain with victory!
That moment, Han had reached the end of his tether. He was able to stand for this long in front of so many enemies and not back off from the fight, he relied solely on his undying battle will, and the drugs that far exceeded normal dosage.
Now, those illegal drugs have begun devouring Han's body. He finally lost consciousness, and fell.
He fell into the cold body of water, one hand with the bomb, one hand holding the dagger, that black dagger that was still dripping blood.
At headquarter, everyone started crying.
Han's last words were still lingering in everyone's ears, not going away…
"I don't have anything else, but I still got a bunch of tough bones!"
Hi guys, thank you so much for being patient with me. I have two more exam and one final project due in the next 4 days, but I will try to squeeze out some time to get some translation done.
Anyways, thank you guys so much for the support so far!
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Chapter 37: Galactic Chess of Chaos
At last, Han collapsed. He fell down into the -170 degrees Celsius pool, his body was covered in wounds, which quickly froze in the presence of the extremely cold water.
In fact, under such a temperature, the wounds were not the only things freezing. The cold had shut down every cell inside Han's body.
When Han lost his consciousness and gave up resisting, there was still one thing struggling inside his body, and that was Han's zero-degree brain region. Under the stimulation of the extremely cold water, his zero-degree brain region was shining with a strange light, blinking on and off, like some emergency signal.
After undergoing the extreme training, Han's zero-degree brain region had adopted a habit: whenever the extreme cold pushed Han towards death, it would release abnormally large amounts of source energy to ensure Han's survival.
Pathless Origin's extreme training method forced the fusion between Han and his inherited zero-degree brain region, not only was the potential of the power crystal fully revealed, the power and his body synced perfectly.
This time, the zero-degree brain region still didn't want to give up, it was struggling. However, Han already went unconscious due to fatal injuries and drug dosage.
And this time, without the support of Han's body, that brain region couldn't go on by itself. After struggling for around 20 seconds, the light started to dim, eventually going out, and leaving Han's brain in total darkness.
On a mysterious planet in Milky Way, in a castle constructed in the forest, lived a strange old man.
People sometimes saw him in long black dust coat lost in thought inside his backyard full with fallen leaves, with a cold, expressionless face. He never opened his mouth to talk.
The old man didn't have any kids, he lived in the dark castle by himself. The nearby villagers started gossiping that this old man was the incarnation of devil so they never allowed their children to go close to that castle deep in the forest.
This strange old man was Pathless Origin, the man that led Han to the most extreme path of training and combat. His clothes were always black; Black coat, black shirt, black boots, black hat.
Pathless Origin had a pair of very sharp ears that seemed to be capable of sensing and seeing through everything, but today he was trapped in confusion, because Han hadn't asked him any questions for many days already.
He always thought Han was just some little brat that bothered him every day asking random stuff, which was very annoying. But now that Han stopped, he realized that his life had become much less interesting.
Go back to selling on the dark net?
Don't joke anymore, Pathless Origin's website didn't sell more than a few items every year. Due to his odd and impatient temper, his only customers were introduced to him by Night Walker, and most of them got so verbally abused by him that they never showed up anymore.
Han was his only loyal customer. Although he almost never bought anything, he always asked basic and funny questions. After time passed, answering a few of Han's questions and scolding him a few times had become an essential dose of fun every day for Pathless Origin. Now that Han had disappeared for a few days, Pathless Origin actually couldn't really adapt.
Di, di, di~
Finally an email! Pathless Origin clicked it open and frowned, it was just Night Walker wanting to play chess with him.
"This little black *!"
Pathless Origin cursed. He went to an old but very exquisite virtual pod in the corner of his room and laid down.
Shua~
A few seconds later, Pathless Origin and Night Walker met in the virtual world. Night Walker looked like a dork no matter how you saw him, in his gold framed glasses sitting under a big tree. Under the tree was a white chess board carved out of granite, it was quite big and looked really complicated.
This was the Galactic Chess of Chaos, a very ancient but challenging chess. The legend said that the universe at birth was just a giant ball of chaos, incapable of separating black and white, or by planets. The way to play was not put pieces onto the board, but to take them off. Whoever controlled a larger portion of the galaxy wins.
The younger generations barely touched this type of chess anymore simply because there were much more fun things to do out there, leaving only these nostalgic old people to still play this kind of long and dry game for fun.
Pathless Origin sat down in front of Night Walker and mumbled, "That brat couldn't be dead right? Before, he always annoyed me with questions on a daily basis, but now he has disappeared for many days already…"
Night Walker slowly took away a piece, and answered, "Oh, you are talking about Han. His drug index isn't updating anymore too, and the people on the forum were pretty angry. He's going to lose a big chunk of his clients this time."
Pathless Origin gave Night Walker a white eye, "Old Black, sometimes I really don't get you. Why would you associate yourself with those ignorant retards, and try to coax a bunch of children in that stupid forum? Is it fun?"
Night Walker shrugged his shoulders, "Of course, although the younger generations are a bit short-tempered, but they are ambitious. And now I'm someone with wife and kids, and when my daughter gets married, I will have grandchildren, and great grandchildren. So, of course it's necessary for me to stay in touch with what the younger generations are up to these days right? And also to make some money to feed the family."
"Money?" Pathless Origin looked at Night Walker in a strange way, it seems like he really despises money, "Old Black needs to make money? That's the biggest joke I've ever heard."
Night Walker very sincerely nodded, "Ya man, last month I made about 2 million GC, and I was so happy that I accidently agreed my daughter to give her a big house when she gets married, and I've been deeply regretting it ever since."
"So, that's why I need to work harder and make more money. There's also my wife, she wants a big ring with a big cobalt ultramarine galactic diamond on it. I accidently agreed too… That thing costs at least 5 or 6 million GC, and now I'm still sad about it."
"I'm saying, do you really plan on hiding in dark net forever?" Pathless Origin asked in curiosity.
Night Walker answered plainly, "If we can't fight it then of course we have to hide. And if we are going to hide then we have to be good at hiding. You, you named your website Origin of the Ten Thousand Paths, and your name is Pathless Origin, that's called hiding? That's you showcasing your ass online."
"Mind your own business!" Pathless Origin scolded back in a rude voice.
Night Walker smiled a bit, "But as I was saying, I don't care about what you do on the dark net, but if you do something too out of line and cause our identity to get exposed, then I'm going to care, a lot."
"Let me ask you, what did you really teach Han?"
Pathless Origin lowered his head to avoid eye contact, and mumbled, "Teach him? Am I bored out of my mind? I don't find a genius to teach, but find someone insanely stupid among the trillions of people and teach him? Am I retarded?"
Night Walker laughed and pointed his finger at him, "You are such an unreasonable old man, your whole life you've been getting the worst of it because of your mouth. Take a look at this."
He gently swiped his finger across the thin air and dragged out a display, in screen it was playing that fight between Han and the raiders. He not only completed 8 kills, but ultimately robbing the bomb and forced the raiders to retreat.
That fight is the true definition of heroic and exciting, Han charging fearlessly into a group of strong enemies as if it's nothing.
Especially that moment when Han yelled, "I don't have anything else, but I still got a bunch of tough bones!" No one's blood was not boiling and calm after watching that scene.
Then it was the scene of Han falling into the water, his body becoming a block of ice, and that was the end of the clip.
Night Walker pointed at that block of Ice, "Look at him yourself, that body of demonic spirit, he's almost a monster now, and you said you didn't teach him?"
Pathless Origin was silent like usual, but he let out a slight sigh, his two fingers that were holding of a piece of chess shivered for a few times, "So, is Han really dead?"
Alright homies, one more exam this weekend and then I will be free until one more exam on the 27th. Thank you guys for being so patient, so watch out for how many chapters coming your way starting from this Sunday night!
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Chapter 38: Monsters
"So Han's really dead?" Pathless Origin tried to ask while hiding his emotions.
Night Walker hesitated for a second, and lightly shook his head, "Nope, he just went into a coma that's all. I noticed that Han's index number wasn't updating for a few days, so I went onto the web servers on Earth, where Han lives, and did a bit of research. As a result, I came across this video about Han that went viral, it seemed like everyone on Earth sees Han as a hero now."
"That video's content was very short, it wasn't everything you just saw. That's because I found a famous hacker on the dark net and paid him to hack into Earth's United Government's Esper Administration. That video you just saw was what we got."
But suddenly, a strong light came across Night Walker's eyes, "Pathless, seems like age didn't set your skills back that much. Han didn't know you for more than a month and, not mentioning other things, Han's sheer force of character already resembles you quite a bit."
Hearing that Han was still alive, Pathless finally let out a long sigh and a bitter smile, "I'm not going to lie, I really got old. Just moments ago when I thought Han was dead, I was actually really disappointed and sorry."
Pathless continued, "But actually, Han was able to achieve this height was not all because of me. I just taught him how to be a true warrior, and also taught him effective ways to practice for combat as someone who had power immunity, and that was all. Today's results was more due to his hardworking character."
Night Walker laughed, "You really think Han's power is Power Immunity?"
Pathless waved his land, "Of course not, if I can't even notice that then I might as well run into a wall and die. Let me show you something."
Quickly, Pathless pulled out a large graph, and which was Han's power source index's progression scale. Although verbally he said that he couldn't care less about Han, but behind the curtains he took the time and carefully summarized all of Han's progression data into graphs. Below the graphs were a lot of notes Pathless made, it was obvious how much he valued Han.
Night saw the graph and was shocked, "Such a steep slope?"
Pathless nodded, "I've never seen it before too. Without a question, he inherited a super soldier's power crystal. Now that I come to think about it, Han took so much drugs, why was he still able to escape death and survive? You are the expert in this realm you should know."
Night lost in thought for a brief moment, "To be honest, Han's survival actually troubled me for a few days as well. It shouldn't be. An overdose of illegal drugs in one mouthful, not just some 3-star esper like Han, even you might be half ruined."
"The reason I invited you to meet today was also for solving this mystery. Coming with the training method you taught Han, maybe it can be explained why he was able to escape from death."
Pathless laughed and said, "Old black, Old black, you told me to stay quiet on the dark net, but aren't you the same as me? The moment there's some challenging problem about drugs, you get excited."
Then, Pathless quickly changed his tone a voice and answered seriously, "What I taught Han was the Extremity Oppression Method, risking one's life to force out the power crystal's potential during early stages. I forced Han to train in cold water. Rather than calling this training his body and skills, it is more suitable to be described as training his life."
"Since I never inherited anyone's power, I never actually put this method into practice before, Han was the first one. Forcefully activating the full potential of the power crystal, I actually didn't know what would happen too."
Night Walker continued Pathless' chain of thought, "So what you are saying is, maybe it was because Han's power crystal was too powerful, it protected Han at the most crucial moment and forced Han into a self-defence mode. Kind of like the electric fuse box tripping when the current is too high."
"And because Han was always practicing in the freezing water, every time he entered the cold water would simulate his zero-degree region to a high degree. And when he fell down into the freezing water, the result that occurred was the unexplained coma situation."
"Oh right, there's also something else that's interesting. Han's not really a power immunity esper, do you know what his real power is?"
Pathless thought for a bit, "Don't laugh at me, but I feel like his power is Void End. Of course, I know it's impossible because the only one in this world that has that power is Ye Shuihan. It's impossible that Han got Void End because that would be too much of a coincidence."
Suddenly, before Pathless even finished, a crafty smile appeared on Night Walker's face.
"What are you laughing at?"
"It's really Void End?"
"Han actually inherited that monster's power?!" Pathless questioned in excitement.
Night Walker nodded slightly, "It's really Void End. When I saw the data I was shocked too. Couldn't believe that after that old monster Ye Shuihan comes a little monster Han. Looks like the Milky Way won't be at rest with the birth of Han."
"Holy shit! It's really Void End?!" Pathless slapped his leg loudly and yelled, "When I first saw Ye Shuihan I was so disgusted that I was going to puke. I couldn't use any power, not even a single skill. I felt like a complete moron at that time!"
"At that moment I thought, I never want to meet that guy again, ever. That monster, it's not enough that he doesn't have any fancy powers, but he doesn't let anyone else have any too! What kind of unreasonable power is that? I can't believe Han actually inherited that monster's Void End."
"Oh that doesn't even end there. After inheriting that monster Ye Shuihan's power, he also got trained by a monster like you, Han's like a monster among the monsters now." Night Walker laughed and said, "I named myself Night Walker out of my respect for Ye Shuihan (TL: Ye Shuihan directly translates to Night Water Cold). The moment he enters the battle, all of you guys became idiots, oh boy, it's funny every time I think of it. The days with Ye Shuihan was actually pretty fun, countless of elites were trolled hard by him."
Pathless curled his lips, Night Walker opening up his old scars made him kind of depressed and speechless, but he had to admit it, Ye Shuihan was really a troublesome guy back in the days, and almost all espers hated him.
Night Walker once again took off a piece from the chess board. Both of them had a very unique style of playing chess, Pathless' style was cruel and merciless, but Night Walker was always able to calmly resolve any dangerous situations with a few moves.
"I'm thinking, Han already inherited that monster Ye Shuihan's power, and also got trained by a monster like you, I might as well do something too." Night Walker said.
Pathless was shocked for quite a bit, "Old Black, you are finally going to do something now?"
Night Walker nodded slightly, "We will see. Han's current comatose state is a challenging question I've never encountered. I want to try to solve it."
"Also, you tested a training method on Han that you never tested before, how come I can't test a drug on him that I've never made before on him? It's only fair that way."
Pathless shrugged his shoulder, and said helplessly, "Fine, Han's the lab rat. Ye Shuihan's power, my training, your poisonous monster's medicines, if all three of us monsters all use force on his, I have a feeling, if Han can wake up from this, his life is going to be really tough."
Night Walker smiled slightly, "Then that's settled, tomorrow I will ship some special medicine for him. If he can wake up, then he will continue to train under you, you monster."
"Oh by the way, do you think that our other monster is interested in giving Han a hand?"
Pathless Origin quickly waved his hand, "You want to involve him too? What do you want Han to turn into? A real monster?"
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Chapter 39: Golden Injections
New York, Esper Administration Central Hospital.
Han still laid unconscious on his bed, his room was filled with flowers. The majority were sent from his colleagues at the Extinction Administration, and some were from his Friends from the China division, like Cheng Zhong, Li Qi, the Monk, Li Muyun, Chu Li, etc.
Overnight, Han had become a hero. It was unclear who but someone uploaded that video of Han fighting off an entire group of raiders on his own, and it soon went viral globally.
At first, there was that Bronze Bull Warrior Peng Zuolin and his last words, "Doesn't matter how weak Earth is, it's still my home!" It was known to everyone on Earth, motivating countless espers on Earth.
Now there's Han, shouting out another war cry that made everyone's blood boil.
"I don't have anything else, but I still got a bunch of tough bones!"
The name Tough Bone Han spread like wildfire and everyone sincerely prayed for Han. Outside of the hospital, everyone day there were people coming to send flowers. They couldn't get into the highly classified hospital, so they just left the beautiful flowers neatly placed at the front yard, which became a beautiful sight.
Li Yu and Wu Di arrived to visit Han again.
To Han, Li Yu was full with appreciation. He smiled bitterly, "At first, I just wanted to find a good place for him to train, so I brought him in by exception. Now that I think about it, I actually took advantage of Han instead. If it wasn't for him that day, then the Extinction Site would be long destroyed by the raiders, even we would be dead too."
"I really hope that he wakes up soon, Earth really need talented espers like Han."
Wu Di said in great grief, "He defended the gate to the Extinction Domain with his life and protected Earth's last hope, but he didn't even get a chance to look at the Domain once. God is so unfair, giving someone so talented such bitter ending."
Li Yu's feeling towards Han's level progression was both excited but also suspicious. In just one month, Han climbed from a beginner all the way to a 3-star rank. This speed of improvement, can't say that it can't be surpassed but at least there weren't any who can claim they can mimic it.
Now, no one even compared Han with that legendary Ke Lake, because Han's potential has far exceeded Ke Lake's!
Wu Di's hidden communicator sounded, Wu Di had a brief conversation and turned to Li Yu, "Teacher, there's a delivery for Han, it's from a foreign planet."
Li Yu was shocked for a bit, "Han did mention that he had a very powerful friend from space, and that miraculous zero-degree brain region revitalizer was from that friend. Hurry, let them bring in the package.
Very quickly, a security guard from the gate delivered the bag to Han's room. The bag didn't have any caption saying where it came from, nor was there a name of the sender. But judging by the shipping company and the packaging, it's obviously a delivery from outer space.
Li Yu thought about it, "Maybe Han's mysterious friend knows that he's in a coma. That's why he sent this package. But how did he know to send it to the hospital address instead of Han's house?"
Wu Di frowned and asked, "Teacher, should we open it for Han and check?"
Li Yu considered for a brief moment and decided to open the package. It was their only chance, because with the medical skills and equipment on Earth it wasn't even clear why he's in a coma, not to mentioning curing it. Li Yu knew that Han had a friend in the medical field from outer space, and in his eyes this package could very likely be the last hope. The important thing right now was waking Han from the dead.
He quickly opened the package only to see a very refined alloy safe box, it looked really high-end, and after opening it, they saw that the inside was filled with cold air, containing 12 automatic injectors and a set of instructions.
Li Yu carefully read the instructions. It seemed like those automatic injectors were really medicine to cure Han. The sender of the package didn't state his name but only said that he's Han's friend, knew that Han's in trouble and that he prepared a special course of medical treatment for Han.
About whether the special medicine could cure Han, this mysterious person didn't make any promises. According to him, this injections meant hope, and without them there won't be any hope for Han to wake up.
Li Yu thought about it for a long time, decided to first test the drug ingredients, and use it on Han when he made sure it's safe. After all, Han's already in this kind of condition, Li Yu couldn't let go of any hope.
So, Li Yu found the most experienced doctor, the head of the hospital, Qiu Taibo. He told Taibo everything, and Taibo immediately agreed to drop everything he was doing, use Earth's most advanced and only lab that was fully equipped with outer space technology to analyze the mysterious golden fluids inside the injectors.
The lab had a glass wall facing the hall, and Li Yu was staring nervously from the other side. The investigation continued from afternoon all the way until midnight. Qiu Taibo and a few of his assistants walked out of the lab in confusion, took off their lab protection clothing, and wiped off the sweat off their forehead with the back of their hands.
"What's the result?" Li Yu asked anxiously.
Qiu Taibo responded slowly, his eyes full with surprise, "Too miraculous, these medicines are truly miraculous. The degree of activity of the molecules is unimaginably queer, we used all the equipment in this lab and still couldn't gain any understanding on this medicine."
Li Yu was shocked, "Chief Qiu, you are someone that was sent by United Government to an extremely developed planet to learn medicine, not even you can figure it out?"
"Not just me. My teacher when I was out there studying, is Kelun Republic's top 10 specialists in pharmacology. I sent him the data we took, and not even he could figure out what's going on."
Li Yu thought about it, "That means this medicine is actually really high level?
Qiu Taibo said in a deeper voice, "Very high. My teacher said, this medicine's molecules are very active, even if you leave it for 10 thousand years it wouldn't degrade at all. The combination of different materials is highly precise, not even the most advanced machine can reach this level of precision. And as for the components of the medicine, it is totally unknown. It probably used some hidden pharmacology technology."
Li Yu was really confused now, "That means, the friend that sent this medicine is actually a grand master in medicine?"
Qiu Taibo look around to check that there's no one else, and lowered his voice, "My teacher said, unless it is one of the top 20 grand medicine masters in Milky Way, no one else would be able to reach this level of precision. It was prepared completely by hand, and that master's strength is beyond measure.
Gudu~ (Sound of swallowing saliva)
Li Yu swallowed a heavy load of saliva, he thought that grandmasters in medicine was already the top existence, but who would've thought, Han's friend was actually the present medicine god?! And he's ranked within the top 20 in the entire Milky Way?!
After a long time, Li Yu finally withdrew his surprised expression, and he said in a deep voice, "We must keep this confidential."
Qiu Taibo nodded, "That goes without saying. My teacher told me numerous times too. Attempting to reverse engineer the receipt of a medicine god, if that existence finds out about it, then I would be truly screwed."
Li Yu still couldn't wrap what he just learned around his head as he returned to Han's room. He realized that the longer he knew Han the less he knew about him. A teenager that was able to jump to 3-star in a month, an existence that convinced the present medicine god to prepare treatment for, the Han Lang that is currently lying lifeless on the bed, he was definitely a monster!
Wu Di asked quietly, "Teacher, should we use the medicine?"
Li Yu hesitated, bit his teeth and said, "Of course, a grandmaster in medicine sent this from outer space, maybe Han can really return from the dead like a miracle."
Wu Di nodded as he carefully carried the alloy box over. If Li Yu didn't know how high-level this medicine was then it would've been fine. But now that he knew about the complexity and value of these injections, his hands started to shiver.
Rolling up Han's sleeves and sterilizing with an alcohol rub, Li Yu ultimately made up his mind, and pushed the injector into Han's vein.
Even the injector is so high-tech, the whole process was automatic. There was a chip inside the injector that checked Han's heartbeat and blood pressure level to monitor his reaction towards the injected medicine, then adjusted the injection speed accordingly. After the injection, it self-destructed and erased any leftover content of the medicine.
Shua~
The golden fluid was injected into Han's body, it quickly spread throughout Han's body. Han's skin slowly turned ruby red, with strange white steam coming out.
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Chapter 40: Half of the Heart of Darkness
In the Virtual World.
Pathless and Night met again, still playing that Galactic Chess while talking about Han.
"Old Black, judging by the time, Han should be doing his last injection now right. What did you give him? Will it wake him up from the enclosed state that his zero-degree brain region is in?" Pathless Origin asked curiously.
Night Walker pushed up his golden framed glasses and responded mysteriously, "I don't know about waking up or not, but I know that if he does wake up, he would be a true monster."
Pathless Origin was shocked for a second, "Monster? What did you give him? Is it your best Force of Milky Way?"
Night Walker slightly shook his head.
"Then it's 9 layer starlight?"
Night Walker still shook his head, and smiled, "Do you still remember the Heart of Darkness?"
Pathless Origin curled his lips, "Of course, that heart is one of the reasons why we are stuck in the dark net. It's all your fault, you were so possessed and determined to steal that thing. Wait, no, don't tell me you actually used the Heart of Darkness as a base for the medicine you made for Han? That was your treasure!"
Night Walker answer indifferently, "The most valuable materials are only valuable because of what they can make. Han's Void End belongs to the dark and mysterious descent, which is kind of related to the power of darkness, and the Heart of Darkness is among the highest concentrated dark material you can use in medicine, so the two should be able to work together."
"All these years, I've been focused on investigating the properties and medical reactions of the Heart of Darkness, and I discovered that its true nature is really scary. Normal people can't use it, only espers like Han with dark mysterious descent powers can possibly trigger the effect of the heart."
"A few hundred pills were swallowed at once by Han yet he's still alive. That's says enough about how unique Han's zero-degree brain region is. It has a powerful self-defence mode, but it's still not the solution. That's why I chose to fight poison with poison!"
"Fight poison with poison?" Pathless asked curiously, "You mean letting the Heart of Darkness to attack the poison that already resides in Han's body?"
Night Walker nodded, "I used half of Heart of Darkness combined with Thousand Golden Yellow and Silver Blue Skyline to make this special medicine and divided into a course of 12 injections. If my calculations aren't wrong, Heart of Darkness will first react with the existing poison in Han's body."
"The first three injections that enter Han's body won't hurt Han because his lifeline has already been isolated and protected by the zero-degree brain region."
"After three doses, not only will Han not die, the poison inside his body would be cleared empty. At that moment, Han should already build up immunity towards Heart of Darkness, which means that Heart of Darkness is no longer a poison that can kill Han."
"At that moment, injecting large of amounts of Heart of Darkness will allow Han to completely adapt to the power of the heart. After the 12 doses completely enters Han's body, then his tolerance to Heart of Darkness will also reach the pinnacle. At that moment, the heart isn't just not going to kill Han, but will become a part of Han's body.
Pathless Origin swallowed a mouthful of cold air, taking advantage of the defensive measures of Han's zero-degree brain region to force Han to adopt the Heart of Darkness therapy, ultimately absorbing the most dangerous and unreasonable dark medicine in Milky Way, Night Walker's technique is still as on point as before.
"If everything you said happened, Han will ultimately clear out all the poison in his body and take control of the Heart of Darkness, then what happens?" Pathless asked in curiosity.
Night Walker answered in a deep voice, "Two main effects. First, Han will naturally wake up as healthy as ever."
"Second, because Han's body will gain the power of half of Heart of Darkness, Han will grow an extremely strong tolerance for poison. I can't say he will be totally immune, but it can at least provide up to 90% immunity from poison damage."
Pathless clapped out of excitement, "90% reduction to poison? That means, if other people can only eat 2 or 3 nuclear energy pills before dying, Han can eat 10 or 20 consecutively and still have no problem? That means he can eat the drugs with less severe side effects like candy!"
"And since Han already has Void End, if he has to face a strong opponent, he can still kill them by just taking drugs and pills! An overpowered physical property of almost full immunity to poison, it's awesome just thinking about it!"
Night Walker smiled, "It doesn't even end there. Why did Han improve that fast? It's because he absorbed Ye Shuihan's power crystal. Ye Shuihan had the foundation of a 6 star warlord, and with your extreme training methods to add a bit of pressure and force some of that energy from the zero-degree brain region, that's why Han's level skyrocketed!"
"But about what will happen later, you know too, it is almost impossible to fully inherit the power from the predecessor. Ye Shuihan's a 6-star warlord, minus that loss from inheritance, then Han would only be able to reach around 5-star tops.
Night Walker stopped for a second, and continued, "Now if Han can really wake up, his body would naturally gain half of the Heart of Darkness. What does that mean? It's the natural antitoxin, which means that unless he takes something more poisonous than the Heart of Darkness, no other drug will hurt him."
"That means, Han can take large amounts of support medicine during training, like source energy pills that boosts training efficiency. Other people can only eat one per day, but now Han can eat 5, 10, or 15 and still be fine!"
"Then top that with your unique extreme training, even if Han uses up all of the potential that Ye Shuihan left him it's still okay, because those drugs will still allow Han to keep on reaching breakthroughs and let his level soar through the sky! You tell me if it's awesome or not!"
Pathless Origin had never been this excited in a long time, "AWESOME, too awesome! I can't even wait to see the expressions on other people's face when they meet Han! They finally waited till the death of Ye Shuihan and now here comes Han! Not only did he inherit that Ye Shuihan's power, his potential is even better than him! All the espers will go insane after meeting Han!"
"But Old Black, this time you really used your most hard-earned capital, the Heart of Darkness is unique in the entire Milky Way and thus it's priceless. You used half of it at once for Han, wouldn't it make your heart ache?"
Night Walker's eyes suddenly dimmed, he let out a long sign, "I must say, being stuck here in the dark net, you aren't the only one getting bored. Although I got a wife and daughter and the management of a company to keep me busy, it's still incomparable to before."
His gaze moved to the horizon, Night Walker continued, "We both can never return to the past, we can only sit here in boredom. But luckily, fate finally showed us its good side, and gave us the chance to meet someone interesting like Han. Helping him is actually helping me."
"Han has the talent, determination, hardworking character, stubborn personality, he really resembles us when we just entered the Milky Way. Being able to watch Han grow bit by bit, is my biggest spiritual sustenance right now."
Pathless Origin let out a long sigh too, "There's nothing we could do for ourselves at this stage, at last we offended someone that can't be offended. This huge Milky Way, actually doesn't have anywhere else for us to go."
"Let's just wait and see, today's the day for Han's last injection. Hopefully he will get better soon."
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Chapter 41: An Enhanced Version of Han
Li Yu picked up the automatic injector, this was the last one but Han's still in a coma. If Han still couldn't wake up after this, then it would have come to pass that Earth had forever lost this miraculous young man. That was not something they wanted to see.
All the life monitoring equipment in the room displayed that Han condition was normal, but he was still unconscious. He had a regular respiration rate, heart rate and his brain was still working, but he just didn't have any consciousness. From a medical standpoint, this was an incredibly odd sign.
Letting out a small sigh, Li Yu injected the medicine into Han's arm. The gold fluid slowly got pushed into Han's body, and at the same time, Han's skin was becoming red as if he was burning. The monitoring equipment displayed a rapid increase in the activity of cells inside Han's body, reaching 1200 times the normal rate of ordinary people.
This intense level of metabolism caused Han's body temperature to rise rapidly, his whole body was sweating nonstop, pores expanding and a grey white fluid start to come out from the pores.
Every time they used this special injection, Han had a similar reaction. At first it was black fluid coming out of Han's body, but as more doses were applied, the fluid's color became lighter each time, ultimately becoming the grey white color right now.
But it could be clearly observed, after consecutively using those 12 doses, Han's skin had become smoother each time. From observing Han's eyes, they could see that it was getting purer, as if Han underwent a complete change each time.
The medicine's effect ended and the heat started to drop, but Han's eyes were still tightly closed. There was no sign of consciousness.
Li Yu shook his head, and said to Wu Di who was standing beside him, "Let's go. The new extinction site's exploration plan is now at a crucial stage. As for Han, I hope fate can take care of him."
Wu Di nodded in disappointment but just as these two were about to leave the room, there was suddenly a sound inside the room.
The two were immediately shocked, they turned around only to find Han waking up! Just when they are about to give up, Han woke up! He comfortably did a long stretch, and looked at Li Yu and Wu Di with a big smile.
"Where am I? It seems like I slept for a long time."
"You are awake?!"
"Han, how are you feeling right now? Does your body hurt anywhere?"
Li Yu and Wu Di asked in excitement. At the same time, the monitoring equipment detected Han's return and quickly signaled the nurse and doctor on shift to quickly come in.
Han thought for a bit, got up.
"It doesn't really hurt anywhere, but I need to go to the washroom."
When Qiu Taibo anxiously rushed to the hospital room and found that Han wasn't there, he yelled, "Where's Han?"
Li Yu pointed at the closed washroom door, "Taking a bath."
"TAKING A BATH?" Qiu Taibo was shocked, "He was unconscious for a whole month and was just awake for a few minutes, and he already has the strength to take a shower?!"
Wu Di shrugged his shoulder, "How should I put it? Han seemed really energetic when he woke up, a lot more active than before."
Qiu Taibo took a deep breath, this was really a miracle in medical history. Normally, after being in a state of coma for such a long time, the patient should be completely out of strength when they wake up. But for Han, it was like nothing really happened, and being unconscious for a whole month was like an afternoon nap for him.
But Qiu Taibo thought for a bit and came to acceptance of the fact. After all, the medicine that cured Han came from a medicine god's hands, so this kind of effect was expected.
The sound of running water in the washroom finally stopped. No one knew where he got it but Han came out with his Black Celestial Python clothes on.
After coming out, Han looked at the torn parts on his shoulder, leg and back region, and lightly sighed, "What a pity, I didn't even get to wear this for a few times and it's already in this condition… It was pretty expensive…"
There no words to describe how confused everyone was inside the room. After recovering from such great catastrophe, the thing Han cared about most was his clothes?
"Han, lay down and let Chief Qiu perform an overall assessment." Li Yu saw that Han was fine and felt like the huge weight on his shoulders had disappeared.
It was just Qiu Taibo and Li Yu in his office.
"His Power Source Index is 1013, at the 3-star rank." Qiu Taibo said in a deep voice.
Li Yu nodded, "That didn't change. It's the same as when he was taken into the hospital. That night when he was fighting the raiders, he had just reached 3 stars."
Qiu Taibo took a look at another stat. He was shocked at first, and then he put on his glasses and stared carefully at the screen for a while. Then finally, he said in astonishment, "His total source energy count didn't change, but his natural growth rate changed. It's now 5."
Li Yu was shocked, and asked curiously, "Is that the weekly or monthly increase?"
"Neither. It's the daily increase…" Qiu Taibo took a deep breath and said.
Hong~
Li Yu felt a huge sound in his brain, daily growth rate is 5 units? That's way too overpowered! Before, Han's natural growth rate was only 2.1 units per day, and now it's more than doubled?
Li Yu thought, this severe injury Han had, if it couldn't kill him then it would at least leave behind some consequences. But instead, not only was Han completely fine, but he's a lot stronger than before! How is that even possible?!
Qiu Taibo was completely shocked by every aspect of Han's body, he carefully examined every result from the assessment. Han's cells' activity rate at least tripled, which meant that Han's speed of recovery from an injury is now a lot faster.
His brain's cognition region expanded, meaning that Han will be able to learn a lot quicker now.
His body's self-cleansing rate and resistance to poison have also dramatically increased, meaning that most types of poison in this world were now completely ineffective to Han, and that he had a body immune to almost all poisons.
As Qiu Taibo was analyzing each result, Li Yu was so astonished that he couldn't even close his mouth.
His eyes got all sparkly, Qiu Taibo couldn't hide his excitement and said in a shivering voice, "In conclusion, what you see now is an enhanced version of Han. Every aspect about him has far exceeded his past. It's just like the old saying, not dying in a huge catastrophe must mean that a great fortune awaits.
Li Yu nodded, he couldn't be happier. What he was most worried was Han's inability to recover from this incident and Earth losing a great talent that it has never seen before.
Now, Han not only miraculously recovered, but he's a lot stronger than before! It's a result that no one expected!
After dialing a few numbers on his phone, Li Yu found his student Wu Di. On the other end of the phone, Li Yu heard heavy breathing, as if he was doing some intense exercising.
"Wu Di, is Han with you?" Li Yu asked in curiosity.
"Ya, we went to the rehabilitation center. Han's really strong, I practiced a few rounds with him and still couldn't get any hits in." Wu Di answered as he tried to catch up his breath.
"You guys went to do combat training?! Han just woke up, don't you know that?"
"I didn't have a choice, how could I stop him. But Han is nothing like someone that just recovered from a severe injury. He's even more alive than before."
Turning off the communications, Li Yu and Qiu Taibo looked at each other, completely speechless.
Qiu Taibo shrugged his shoulder and finally said, "Without a question, Han is really a monster."
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Chapter 42: The First Esper Legion of Earth is here
Li Yu saw Han and Wu Di in an intense fight at the rehabilitation center.
From a level standpoint, Wu Di was at the pinnacle of the 3 star level, expecting to level up anytime soon. His Power Source Index was over 9000 units, which meant that he should be a lot stronger than Han who currently sat at around 1000 units.
But when they really started fighting, Han actually wasn't disadvantaged too much as Li Yu expected. Wu Di, just like other espers, was used to using his ice descent abilities. When fighting against Han and getting robbed of his power, it was really hard for him to adapt.
In addition, Han's attacks were very fierce, displaying an attitude that he wouldn't give up until he died, and it was actually hard to tell who was winning.
Li Yu slightly nodded as he observed, Han completely took away his opponent's power, and then forced everyone else to fight with their lives on the line like Han was.
Wu Di knew about Han's power but he wasn't familiar with that odd and fearless combat style. Not to mention those people that don't even know about Han's power, the moment they notice that their power was gone and Han charging at them fiercely like a beast, of course they would get scared and be at a major disadvantage.
In fact, Han was able to go against all those raiders by himself because he relied mainly on two things. First was the element of surprise. When everyone loses their power, there is always a moment of shock that Han could take advantage of. Second, he was fiercer than anyone, as well as more fearless! The moment he gets the chance, he wouldn't hesitate to deliver the fatal blow.
"Time to stop!" Li Yu shouted, "You two, come over here!"
Han and Wu Di finally stopped fighting and came over to Li Yu. Wu Di scratched his head and said with a little tone of embarrassment, "Sorry that I embarrassed you, Teacher, I went even with Han. I must say, Void End is really brutal. I've practiced ice attacks for my entire life, and when it got suddenly taken away I couldn't adapt for a long time."
Han responded humbly, "I just took advantage of that this time. Next time we fight, I won't be able to go even with 5th Brother."
Li Yu really liked Han's attitude. Even though Han was famous now and everyone knew about the Tough Bone Han, he was still as humble as always.
Li Yu thought about it and said, "Han, this time you were able to escape death, what's your plan for the future?"
Han smiled and said, "Of course I have to continue training hard. Time is running out, I must try my best to compete for a spot at the Milky Way Galactic Meet. Also, I want to apply to join the Assault Army.
Wu Di said in a pretty proud tone on the side, "You might not know yet, but when you were unconscious, the United Government officially approved the formation of our first ever Esper Combat Legion, and now the Assault Team has been renamed as the United Government's Esper 1st Legion!"
Han was shocked, and he laughed, "Then that's even better! I want to apply to join the 1st Legion."
Li Yu confirmed, "That's obviously no problem. This time you can wake up was all thanks for the medicine your friend from outer space sent. Did Wu Di tell you this yet?"
Han sighed with emotion, Night Walker was always really nice to Han, and the reason he was able to escape death was all thanks to him. He was like a mentor to him.
Also, Han finally remembered his drug index numbers. He hadn't updated in a month and he couldn't even imagine how his customers have verbally abused him already. Breaching the agreement of daily updates meant that he needed to pay his subscribers back for damages… Han finally made some GC and now it might not even be enough as compensation.
Whatever's coming will come, now there are other people and Han couldn't get a chance to log onto the dark net. After Li Yu and Wu Di left then Han will go and clean that mess he made on dark net.
Li Yu doesn't know what Han was thinking, but he remembered what Qiu Taibo asked him earlier, so he tried to test the water and asked, "Although the 1st Legion is now approved, it still needs to stock up suitable equipment and medicine. Right now the United Government doesn't have too much knowledge on the outside world, so I was thinking, maybe your friend that sent you the medicine might be able to help us out a bit."
"Of course, I will ask him later about medicine, and for the equipment I have someone else that can help. But for both the equipment and medicine, it will probably cost a lot."
Wu DI patted Han on his shoulder, said proudly, "Don't look at Earth like the old days. Now that the Extinction Domain at South Pole has been captured, we now have a stable source of income. I wouldn't call us rich yet, but of course it won't be poor like the old days anymore."
Han didn't really understand how extinction domains worked, so he asked in curiosity, "So extinction domains can bring in income too?"
Li Yu smiled slightly and answered in a serious tone, "Oh you reminded me. Han, would you like to see the extinction domain that you put your life on the line to protect?
Visiting an extinction domain?!
Of course, Han even dreamt about going there!
To protect the extinction domain at South Pole, Han pretty much lost half of his life during that battle, and the Assault Army lost about 50% of their brothers. The cost was way too heavy.
Han have heard a lot of rumors about extinction domains, but he's never seen one with his own eyes. So, he accepted the invitation right off the bat and agreed to return to the South Pole with Li Yu. But just to be safe, Li Yu wanted Han to stay in the hospital for a little longer just to monitor his conditions.
Han had no choice but to stay, and after Li Yu and Wu Di left, Han got someone to deliver his personal laptop. He took out the login program in his necklace, and entered the dark net's public forum.
He didn't know what to say after seeing Night Walker's pinned post on the forum, stating that Han couldn't update the index numbers because he got into a little accident and was hospitalized.
Night Walker was very high up in the hierarchy in the drug industry, and with him personally explaining for Han, the majority of Han's customer all showed understanding. After all, it's a subscription cost of only 3 GC per month, no one's going to be angry over that little money.
Han felt very grateful, he rushed to Night Walker's website, found him and thanked him right away.
"No need to mention such easy task. Your situation was a bit special, it was a great opportunity for me to test my newly invented drug." Night Walker answered Han in a very relaxed manner, but little did Han know, the reason he was able to survive miraculously, costed Night Walker half of his priceless Heart of Darkness.
Han said, "Regardless, without you I would probably be dead already, so I still need to thank you, and also for the drug index. If it wasn't for you to show your face and explain to the public, my subscribers would probably want to eat me alive.
Night Walker answered in a careless manner, "This is the dark net, you took the money and worked hard and that's already really good. There's no good people on dark net, I saw countless swindlers taking money but never sent the products or the other way around, it's all too normal."
"But now that you mentioned it, what do you plan to do with the drug index?"
Han hesitated for a bit, index report was like the light novels online, it required daily updates in order to get readers. It is still okay to take a day off occasionally but it requires prior notice to clients.
This time the break was too long, Han's reputation was seriously damaged. Although it is still possible to continue, but he's very busy now and he will only get busier. A job like this that required daily effort was no longer suitable.
After thinking about that, Han had no choice and said, "Although it wasn't my intention to take such a long break, but the impact is already done. I should just sell it all at once, and refund the residual subscription fees back to my clients.
Night Walker knew about Han's condition, of course he wouldn't have that much time to waste on writing those numbers, after all his destiny was to become a fine warrior.
"That's fine too, writing an Index is time-consuming and makes very little money, how do you plan on selling it?" Night Walker asked in curiosity.
"Actually, there were always a few people that wanted to buy my original data. I can find someone that I can trust, and sell all my previously collected data to him. In addition, I can advertise for him, and recommend all my subscribers to him, so that can count as like an additional value.
"Okay, after you are done negotiating I will act as a guarantor."
"And there's something else I want to ask you, the planet I'm from, Earth, its United Government is looking to purchase a shipment of drugs, mainly for source energy pills used for training, and also some other drugs that can temporary boost a soldier's combat performance."
"But my home Earth is still really poor right now and can't take out too much money, so would I be possible for you to give me a discount?"
Night Walker started laughing on the other end of the dark net, Han really cared about Earth and he knew about it. Otherwise Han wouldn't have risked his life to fend off those fearsome raiders.
"Fine, I don't need that money anyways. From now on, anything you buy, I will give it to you at base price, but you still have to pay for shipping though."
"Thank you so much!" Han didn't expect Night Walker to be this nice about it and he was really happy, "Later I will give you the list, now I will go visit Pathless Origin and see if I can buy some cheap equipment from him. I have no choice, our United Government is really tight on finance, so I have to save for them as much as I can."
Han said farewell to Night Walker and went to find Pathless Origin to ask where he could buy cheap but good equipment.
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Chapter 43: Equipment of the Dead
Pathless Origin was as cold as before, "Oh, you got hurt. I thought you little brat finally stopped bothering me. What do you want to ask me this time?"
Han anxiously asked, "I do have a lot of questions, can't help it because I'm young and inexperienced. But I really want to thank you, from my last battle I finally understood, you taught me that the most important thing isn't skills, nor how to train, but the battle spirit! That's the foundation of a soldier!"
"For the lifetime, everyone will keep on running into challenges and obstacles, and enemies will always show up, but for a warrior with the true spirit and will of battle, he will be able to hack his way through difficulties and accomplish more in life! Thank you for teaching me something that important!"
Pathless rarely shows emotions but he start laughing on the other end of dark net, seems like Han's pretty savvy and finally understood the underlying lesson he was trying to teach.
But Han also did well himself, seeing how Han yelled his famous words in front of a group of stronger opponents, "I don't have anything else, but I still have a few tough bones!", Pathless was really proud.
At least the time spent on Han was not wasted, this little guy really showed some good fighting spirit, and he's like a true warrior now.
"Don't kiss my ass." Pathless was happy but he doesn't want to show it, so he said in a strict tone, "You are still a long way to becoming a true soldier. Killing a few robbers doesn't meet anything, a true warrior need to not display emotion even when facing an entire army."
"Also, did you do an assessment on your body? Did the injury leave behind any sequela?"
Han typed, "The doctor checked, he said I recovered really well and there weren't any sequela. In addition, my natural growth rate was increased a little from before."
Pathless Origin frowned a little, "Be clear, how much is a little? 1 unit? 1.5 unit?"
Han replied honestly, "The system said, my natural daily growth rate is at around 5 units."
First, Pathless was astonished, then excited, then that changed right into anguish, "You little bastard! From 2.1 to 5, that's called increased by a little by?! That's more than doubled! How did it grow by that much?!"
Han thought for a bit and replied, "I don't know, maybe it was the medicine given to me by teacher Night Walker."
Pathless sneered, "If that Old Black has that ability, I will write my name in reverse." Pathless said to himself on the other end of the dark net.
He's very familiar with Night Walker's background, so he was sure that it had nothing to do with Night Walker's medicine but with Han himself.
To be honest, Han's natural growth rate increasing to 5 units per day really shocked Pathless, but on the outside he still have to play it cool and emotionless, "That's just okay, this kind of speed in Milky Way isn't that impressive, you can't be arrogant because of this."
"But now that you have recovered, you must not slack off. Let's dial the training progress back a notch, starting from -20 degrees Celsius, and slowly increase to the -50 degrees Celsius you were at before the fight. You must be patient with this."
"Do you have any other questions?"
Han anxiously asked, "Teacher, I noticed that of among all the stores that sell equipment and skill scrolls on dark net, you charge the lowest price. Now my Earth's United Government wants to form an esper legion, but we are really poor and can't afford too much. Don't know if teacher has any ways of helping us get some cheap skill scrolls?"
"All the things here are second handed, you know that?"
"Yep, but that's okay, as long as they are cheap." Han didn't mind at all, because with the current financial ability of Earth, being able to give every soldier some second hand equipment is already good enough.
"The equipment sold on dark net, they are usually acquired from illegal channels, you don't care about that either?"
"That's no problem, whether it's stolen or robbed. Right now we just need something that's cheap but also decent, we can't afford to care about where it's from."
Pathless hesitated for a second and said, "I will be honest, the things I sold were all from stripping the dead. Many great battles took place in Milky Way, and those large scale wars involved over millions and millions of espers killing. After the war, dead bodies were left everywhere. Some of the equipment I sold still have bloodstains, and that's why."
"In the Milky Way Alliance, it is illegal to strip and sells the stuffs of the dead. But there's someone called the Skinner, that's all he does. How about this, let's book a time and I will take you to see the Skinner. If you want some good equipment but don't want to spend too much money, then that's the only way."
Han didn't even hesitate to agree. So what if it's taken from the dead? Right now 90% of the esper soldiers don't have any equipment. Last time, Han was able to survive in that fight mainly because of his Black Celestial Python. Without the protection from armor, even one blow from the enemy might end Han's life.
Han booked a time with Pathless, and reported everything to Li Yu on the second day on their way to the South Pole base.
Li Yu couldn't help but frown a bit, "Han, what kind of friends do you have? He suggested taking the equipment from the dead soldiers? Is that even illegal?"
Han wanted to say, he met both Night Walker and Pathless Origin on dark net, and if the business are legal then that would be strange."
But of course, Han wouldn't tell Li Yu the secret about dark net, so he replied in a deep tone, "Chief, I was there at the fight at Shanghai. Before the soldiers from Esper Administration arrived, the ordinary citizen espers didn't have any equipment. They couldn't even protect themselves and they had to risk their lives to protect the civilians? I never want to see that kind of sacrifice again!"
"Even if the equipment is second handed, stripped from the dead, illegal, so what?! In my opinion, the equipment that can arm our brothers and minimize avoidable sacrifices, are the best equipment!"
"As for the Milky Way Law, fuck that law! When did that fucking law protect us? Why should we respect it if it wasn't there when we are suffering?!"
Li Yu was deeply convinced. Not just the fight at Shanghai, the fight at South Pole was the same. If the equipment were better, maybe a couple more brothers could live.
Even if it can help one more brother live!
Earth has about 150 thousand espers, not counting the minors, low levels, non-combats, only about half of that number can actually go to war. Every esper's strength is very important, we can't let our brothers' blood drip in vain!
Thinking about that, Li Yu said in a deep voice, "Okay, do what you said! Let your friend get us a bunch of illegal equipment and arm our brothers first! I will handle the headquarter side of negotiation.
Shua~
The plane landed in South Pole. Li Yu and Han exited the plan, and walked towards that extinction domain that's hidden under the base.
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Chapter 44: C-Class Extinction Domain
When Han returned to the South Pole base, he received unprecedented amount of welcome.
"Yo, Han! You are finally back!"
"I missed you brother! Good as long as you are back!"
"Thank you! It was all because of you that we got to keep this precious extinction domain!"
Han smiled as he greeted everyone. Although he didn't know most of them since he didn't stay for too long at that base and he focused on training, and those people that saw Han as their close brothers only met him probably once or twice.
But that didn't affect how much everyone love Han, the Tough Bones Han. There's no one on Earth that's not familiar with that nickname. In everyone's eyes, Han may not be the strongest, but he's absolutely the most fearless existence!
One against ten and twenty times the enemies and still charged bravely without hesitation, fighting till the last moment and almost sacrificing his life, Han's story is like a legend to everyone!
Ever since the last incident, the security level at base significantly improved. Now there are two special force squads guarding the entrance to the extinction domain, that's about 22 people.
Han looked at that silver alloy gate and sighed, that's where he saw the death of Charlie and Fo Liman with his own eyes. Now revisiting this site, how could he not feel down?
Stepping past that mysterious gate, Han finally arrived at the legendary extinction domain that he heard so much about. A bit different from what Han imagined, there's no fancy decorations nor artistic statues, it's more like a metal fortress, the grand lobby connecting countless passages.
Most of the passages have rails installed, and electric transporting trains dragged out carts and carts of black minerals, sending everything to the gigantic machine at the lobby for refinery and sorting. The black coating of the minerals were scraped, leaving behind light yellow crystals.
The crystals are pretty small, like grinded transparent sand and the workers are in the middle of boxing them up. The extraction rate isn't too much, harvesting only a few pounds from a cart of mineral rocks.
Han curiously watched everything, the steel reinforced walls, roof, passage, and there are murals on the wall and roof, depicting the vast Milky Way, as if the pre-historic civilization were very fond of the starry space.
Li Yu let out a sigh of relief, "Now this is a C-class extinction site that belongs to Earth. It was a pre-historic ore yard that carries pretty good quality Sun Fire Crystals, which is that little yellow rock. It's used to manufacture high level alloys, and each ton can be sold for 50,000 GC."
"The ore yard's current production rate is 1 ton every day, and we can take these minerals to the Milky Way public market for sale. That way, United Government will have an income of about 15 million GC every month. As productivity picks up, the harvesting rate will increase as well. When it can reach to around 3 tons per day, that's 45 million GC."
"You must know, the United Government's income last year was only 50 million GC."
Han was a bit confused, "But I don't really get it, it's just exploring a mine, how did so many brothers die in battle?"
Li Yu looked at those dark passages and said, "Because there were dark beasts."
Han was slightly shocked for a bit, he doesn't really understand what Li Yu meant by dark beasts.
"Follow me"
Li Yu took Han through one of the pathways. The people working here are all ordinary people without power, seeing how sweaty and hardworking they are, they probably know how important this mine is to Earth so they are really trying their best to finish their mission.
A predicted monthly income of 45 million is still not enough for a populated place like Earth. All the espers will need equipment and medicine and that's already very costly, not to mention if they want to form a space fleet.
Right now, Earth only has one Air Fortress Class frigate, and it was a prize won by Ka Lake for scoring 9th place during last Galactic Meet.
But regardless of size, Earth is still a country. For a country to have only one space frigate, it's really a joke. But to obtain more ships and train more personnel, it's a huge expense.
In addition, United Government has to import some advanced energy sources, machines, training systems, and it also needs to travel for diplomatic reasons, and these all cost GC. So right now, for Earth, it's not a problem about being poor, but a problem being REALLY poor.
Han followed Li Yu and arrived at the depth of the passage, and marks left behind battles began to appear. The claw marks on walls were at least 15 cm deep, if those marks were left on soldiers, it would be an instant death.
Li Yu recollected his memory as he spoke, "Before the pre-historic left, they locked down many mines, research facilities, bases, and left large quantities of dark beast."
"Normally, the higher the class of the extinction domain, the stronger are the dark beasts that were left in them, and they also left traps inside extinction domains class B and up. So, for us to retrieve the treasure left behind by the pre-historic civilization, it wasn't an easy task."
"Like this ore yard, it's actually fairly easy to capture among all the other classes, but it still caused the Assault Army to suffer heavily. With Earth's current strength, if we would to explore higher class domains, it would probably bring extinction upon the whole army and possibly Earth."
Han slightly nodded, thought for a bit and asked in curiosity, "But how do people determine which class an Extinction Site is ranked as? Also, I don't get it. If the pre-historic civilization left Milky Way, then why did they seal way everything and make it that troublesome for other people to access it? If they don't want to other people to access it, why didn't they just blow them up?"
"The extinction sites are ranked based on their value and difficulty. The lowest one is D-class, it has no threat. C-class is a bit more dangerous, but still manageable. B-class means a significant amount of risk, and only the developed countries in Milky Way has the ability to explore a B-class, and lower level countries will either ask those developed countries for help or form an alliance with other countries, and then they would barely manage to explore it."
"As for A class, it's difficult beyond imagination. Even if the most developed countries of Milky Way form an alliance, it's still impossible to completely capture an A-class extinction domain. That's like the ultimate forbidden domain for humans, with countless of traps, hidden passages, and dark beast."
"Galactic Meet of Milky Way's primary objective is actually to gather all the talented young espers in Milky Way to form an alliance to explore those special A-class domains, which are A-7 domain, A-19 domain, and A-23."
"These three A-class domains are very unique, there's a restriction placed at the gate, allowing only people under the age of 30 to enter. That year, Ke Lake successfully explored A7 and his overall score was ranked 9th in the entire Milky Way, displaying an enormous amount of potential!"
"With powerful young warrior with such potential here on Earth, although after the Galactic Meet ended some country still suggested to colonize Earth, it was quickly declined by the Milky Way Alliance. After all, in their eyes, a top talent like Ke Lake might be really helpful to the Milky Way Alliance in the future."
"But sadly, after the Galactic Meet ended, he sent his Air Fortress class frigate back to Earth, but he never returned home and no one knew where he went. Until this day we still haven't heard anything about him."
After talking about Ke Lake, Li Yu could hardly hide his emotion. Ke Lake was a student of Li Yu and two others, and they all shared a deep bond.
It has been almost a decade. If Ke Lake was still home, then Earth wouldn't be in such a difficult situation, with even the raiders dare to push it around.
After a brief hesitation, Li Yu continued, "As to why the domains are heavily defended, it's because the pre-historic civilization believed that one day they will ultimately return to Milky Way, so that's why they carefully sealed everything away."
"They still want to come back? Then I'm more confused. Moving as an entire race is not a joke and it's really costly. If they are going to come back then why did they move away as an entire civilization?"
"I guess they have their reasons. That's why it has been the biggest mystery of Milky Way. Normally, an entire race moving is usually due to a threat. But from the materials and technologies harvested from the domains, it's clear that before humans there was a very intelligent race with high degree of civilization. Humans only learned a fraction of the technology results of the pre-historic civilization and it has already been so useful. Battleships capable of crossing Milky Way, fusion electric energy technology that's like a free source of energy to the entire world, those are all technologies left over by the pre-historic civilization."
"In fact, no one knows the type of threat that the powerful pre-historic civilization was facing that caused them to feel so determined to move towards the unknown distant. But there's one thing certain, the existence that forced the pre-historic civilization to completely leave Milky Way, must be a very dangerous enemy, and that dangerous existence is still here somewhere in Milky Way. It's still in a dormant state, and we just don't know more about it that's all."
"Regardless, Milky Way is a chaotic and dangerous place. As a member of this galaxy, Earth is way too weak. The only way is for us to get stronger, and then it will be possible to fight off all external threats."
"The most I can do, is to put in all my effort to develop extinction domains. As long as Earth has a stable financial income, we can slowly accumulate strength. And you just need to find a way to make it to the Galactic Meet, I believe that you have the potential!"
Han nodded, "Don't worry, I will try my best. To my knowledge, headquarter also has a team of professionally trained young espers, they should be going for the advancement match to the Galactic Meet right?"
Li Yu looked dignified, "Tough to say. Now they are like you, shut away from the world to train. Oh right, you will meet those guys soon. Also, Cheng Zhong and Monk, they are all coming to attend 1st Legion."
Han was so happy to hear that. Although they haven't known each other for a long time, but they've fought side by side like brothers sharing the same life, and that's the best kind of relation.
Soon Han and Li Yu came to the end of the pathway, the rails are still being installed, and the mineral pit is going to be explored soon, to provide valuable financial support to Earth.
Li Yu stared at the blood left on the wall, said in a deep voice, "If we can't secure a good spot at the Galactic Meet, to avoid becoming a colony of other countries, our only chance would be to forcefully activate the B-class extinction domain here, and let our brother espers on Earth fight for the last hope."
Han was shocked and asked in surprise, "Earth still has a B-class Extinction Domain?"
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Chapter 45: Ancient Battleground
Han was shocked and asked surprisingly, "Earth still has a B-class Extinction Site?!"
According to what Li Yu just described, a B-class extinction site was an extremely valuable existence that can only be captured by the more developed and powerful planets in the Milky Way galaxy. The result of excavating an extinction site was, of course, an immeasurable amount of wealth. Han never would've guessed, a small planet like Earth was capable of having a B-class extinction site!
Li Yu slightly nodded, "Earth really has a B class extinction site, and since you are already an official member of the Extinction Site Administration, I don't have to keep it confidential towards you anymore."
"But you know what's sad? It's that we defend a gold mine but we can't harvest any of that gold! We have no choice but to watch the wealth sleep underground."
Han was shocked for a second, "Because we are too weak? But didn't you say before that we can partner with other big countries to explore these high class extinction domains?"
Li Yu showed a bitter smile, and his eyes dimmed, "It's not that Earth hasn't tried negotiating the exploration with other countries. The closest planet, the Centaurus Sally Empire's initial offering was 95%! The extinction domain is on Earth and they want to take the majority of it, how can anyone allow it?"
"Also, the side effects of that negotiation was that the intel that we have a B-class domain got out, and the Sally Empire has been eyeing us menacingly ever since. I suspect that the past raids were all ordered by them!"
"Unfortunately, that day you almost died to stop those raiders, we still couldn't kill them all. Some ended up fleeing, so we felt really guilty."
Han hastily responded, "I knew what happened that day. When our brothers got out of the extinction site they had already reached the end of their tethers, so it's already a success to be able to kick them off Earth."
Li Yu smiled bitterly, "1st Legion's formation, it's also part of a plan to explore B-class Extinction. If the Milky Way Alliance really ratifies Earth as a country that needs to be colonized, then we will force open the B-class domain! Right now, the main army has already moved to the location of that extinction domain. The 1st Legion's headquarter, the air-fortress class frigate, is positioned there as well, and this C-class location will be turned into a simple ore yard. After a few days, let's move to the new base with the last batch of soldiers."
Li Yu stayed at the base to finalize some moving arrangements, and Han resumed his daily training. As the base moved, that freezing yet still unfrozen strange body of water will be completely moved too, to create a place to train for Han at the new base.
After training, Han felt a great sense of refreshment throughout his body. He asked for two meat buns and one large cup of hot chocolate at the café, then he returned to his room and started to think while eating.
Earth was not in a good position right now.
Possessing a B-ranked extinction domain was Earth's luck, but it's also a source of disaster. If it wasn't for Ke Lake, Earth probably would have already became a colony 10 years ago.
It's very easy for the developed and powerful countries in the Milky Way galaxy to claim Earth, they just need to write a report during the Galactic Meet of the Milky Way, saying that Earth was too weak and unprotected. Then they would request for the "responsibility" to "protect" it.
Then, the members on the executive committee will do a vote, and if the majority doesn't reject, then Earth will become a colony.
But like Li Yu said, betting with everything on the line to force the opening of B-class extinction domain is also not feasible. A low level C-class domain already took the lives of many esper soldiers, so it won't be enough capture the B-class domain even if they send all the soldiers on Earth into the domain.
Sigh~
It's time to attend the appointment with Pathless, Han let out a sigh and headed towards the training center. He found a public virtual pod and logged onto the Galactic Dark Net, they agreed before to visit Skinner, the guy who strips dead bodies for equipment, to talk about buying weapons.
Shua~
After a flash of light, Han was sent into the virtual environment created by the computer. There was a little stream with many bluestone chairs and tables, four sides surrounded by green grass and pleasant sound of nature, it was really peaceful.
Pathless Origin still hasn't show up, so Han waited patiently near the little river. This time Pathless was so nice that he agreed to take Han to see the buyer, that's really a rare opportunity.
Soon, Pathless showed up, looked around, and said, "Once you are ready we will get going."
Han nodded. Pathless opened the address display, entered a link, and then copied the link to Han.
"Note this down, and next time you can go find Old Mo yourself."
Han and Pathless teleported one after another to Skinner's camp.
Han suddenly realized, this camp site wasn't virtual but instead was real. Right now Han and Pathless' consciousness got placed into two walking robots. The dark net had connected the robot's data end, and that way, although being thousands of light years apart, Han and Pathless can still be physically present.
Han looked around in curiosity, and observed that the place Skinner lived wasn't that great: a ragged tiny industrial ship parked on a cliff, with an energy shield protecting the top, and surrounded by small mountains of equipment and weapons piled randomly after being taken away from the dead.
There's no one at the camp site, just a few robots covered in rust stains, and we don't know how long it had been since they were last cleaned. Missing an eye, or short an arm or leg, it was very common.
Around the campsite were large quantity of robot remains, they were taken apart by someone and thrown into piles.
Han looked down at himself, the robot he got placed in is actually quite interesting. Different from those common crawler-type robots, the one Han's controlling is more human-like, with two arms and two legs, and the workmanship and material that made this robot also seems higher class.
Moved fingers around, attempted to jump a few times, Han then saw Pathless Origin. He's a robot too now, and there's a screen on the head, and on that screen is that emotionless cold wrinkly face of Pathless.
Pathless said in an arrogant voice, "What, you've never seen robot before right? These things are a big taboo in Milky Way. Using intellectualized robots? Death! Repairing robots? Death! And manufacturing robots will also result in the whole family getting death sentence! I trusted you, that's why I brought you here! So you can't tell this to anyone even if you get beaten to death."
Han nodded, but asked in confusion, "Robots violate Milky Way's law? Although I've never came in contact with one, but I've watched a lot of movies on robots."
Pathless said in a serious voice, "Anything related to artificial intelligence is a big taboo of the Milky Way Alliance, because they are scared of the power of artificial intelligence. They feel that robots might one day betray the human race, so they strictly forbad all research and work related to robots."
That Skinner Old Mo built his camp ground on the side of a cliff, and there's a shaky steel chained bridge linking to the other side of the cliff.
As Pathless took a broad view over the boundless field on the other side, and said in a deep voice, "That's the main battle field of the Zi Zhu Empire and Luo Lan Republic, where over 20 million espers fought to the death. The war continued on for a year and 7 months, and all the killing resulted in blood running like rivers and bodies covering every inch of the ground!"
"Ultimately, both powerful countries used super nuclear weapon at the same time, instantly killing all the soldiers on the field regardless of them being ally or foe! The bloodiness of that war was beyond imagination."
"After the detonation of super nuclear, this planet became a forbidden zone for humans, the average radiation index reach 76,000. Especially the land right across from us, which is the center of the battle field, the radiation index passes 5 million! No one, not even warlords were able to survive in radiation that strong!"
Han asked in confusion, "If there's so much radiation, how can Skinner Old Mo survive and live here?"
Pathless Origin waved his hand and said carelessly, "You will know in a second. Old Mo isn't even human."
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Chapter 46: Skinner
Pathless waved his hand, and said carelessly, "You will get it when you see him later, Old Mo isn't even human."
"You… Always saying bad things about me behind my back."
Right after Pathless' words, Han heard the industrial ship's hatch door open, and someone with messy hair and wearing thick black goggles spoke as he walked down.
Han found out in surprise, Old Mo really isn't human, he's in thick armor with only two hands exposed. He has very long nails, just like hard eagle claws. He's covered in grey scales, and his body size is far larger than humans too, approaching 3 meters.
This must be Skinner Old Mo. Although he's not human, but just like Han and Pathless, he spoke Milky Way's common human language. Right now, Milky Way already has its unified language and writing, and since Earth is a new comer to the Milky Way Alliance, different languages still exist based on where you are from on Earth. For instance, as Han, Cheng Zhong, Li Qi and other friends from China still speaks Mandarin when they are together, but they all speak Milky Way's Unified language during other times.
Pathless saw Old Mo is here, he smiled and said, "When did I say bad things about you, you are not a human."
Pathless turned around and explained to Han, "Old Mo belongs to Kui race, a very rare race in Milky Way. They were born on a planet that's really radioactive, so they originally have very high tolerance to radiation."
"Later, Milky Way Alliance wanted to take over the planet due to its rich nuclear resource, and since Kui is a small race, they couldn't defend against the invasion of a large human army. So, the Kui race got scattered. And due to the fact that they have high resistance towards radiation, a portion of them became skinners."
"This Old Mo has been wanted by Milky Way Alliance for a long time so if you need money one day, just chop off his head and hand it in and you can redeem quite a large bounty."
Old Mo has really good temper, he didn't get angry and he stopped beside Pathless and Han.
Pathless was very straightforward, "Old Mo, this is Han, he wants to buy some equipment from you."
Old Mo nodded and pointed at the nearby small mountain of equipment, "Too be honest, due to the heavy nuclear pollution on this planet, all my equipment here are contaminated and that's why they are so cheap. After shipping them back they still require some processing to be useable."
Pathless added, "Old Black knows a few things about processing, you just have to buy something that neutralizes radiation that's all."
After Pathless and Old Mo's explanation, Han finally understood, the so-called skinners are not merciless outlaws, but just someone that uses robots to clean up battlefields.
For example Old Mo, he belongs to a rare race and lives in difficult conditions under the oppression of the Milky Way that's dominated by humans, that's why he made the risky move and started this kind of business that can get him killed.
Right now, United Government of Earth has 10,000 official members, they are all elite espers picked from the entire planet, the majority being 3-star espers with some 4-stars as well. According to plan, Han will need at least 10,000 3-star battle suits and 10,000 weapons.
During a large-scale battle, aside from battle suits, espers usually wear another layer of alloy armor in order to strengthen their defense. Rarely being able to find a low-price supplier like Old Mo, Han of course wants to finish buying all the equipment at once.
Usually, 3-star battle suits are around 100,000 GC each, armor and weapon depends on quality and material.
Han thought for a bit, weapons and armors don't have to be exceptional quality, but buying battle suits is quite troublesome. Battle suit is the most foundational equipment, not only must it have good defense, capable of entering water or space and maintaining life, it also needs the flexibility of being able to adjust when wearing, too loose or too tight are all not good. They require an advanced degree of technology to manufacture, and it's also costly to make. Even these contaminated second-handed battle suit are still not cheap.
Han and Old Mo negotiated, Old Mo considered for a while and finally said, "How about this, 3-star battle suits I can sell them for 8000 GC each, and then armor and weapon, including shipping, I will charge another 2000. That's my bottom price."
"As for my 4-star battle suit, I only have around 10, I will charge 1 million GC. During the time of that war, high level soldiers were all concentrated at the center of explosion, so the equipment leftover on the battle field are usually from soldiers of average and lower rank, the high rank equipment were mostly destroyed with those high level soldiers, so they are rare to find."
Han saw Pathless nodding slightly on the side to show his approval of this being a good price, so Han agreed to the deal. It costed 101 million GC to buy this shipment of equipment, and if Han were to buy it from legal galactic market then it would cost at least a billion or two.
Then Han thought about the problem with shipping, Old Mo laughed and said, "I've been cleaning this battle field for many years, there shouldn't be too much stuff left over. Later, I will tidy up the items you ordered and ship it to Earth myself, and then I will head to another battle field."
Han and Old Mo were still talking about shipping arrangements while a large group appeared from the distant. It's a group of hardworking robots that goes onto the battlefields to retrieve equipment. They stopped at the camp ground and started sorting the equipment they retrieved.
Han became very interested in the system of control Old Mo has in place. Although Old Mo came from the Kui race, he still can't tolerate the high radiation at the center of battlefield, and he had no choice but to stay on the outer ring. He still can't expose himself to the radiation too much, so he always take baths with medicines regularly to make sure that he doesn't die from a prolonged exposure to radiation.
As for the robots, they aren't afraid of anything and they don't understand what it means to be tired.
If robots aren't banned in Milky Way, Han really want to buy one too.
"Old Mo, where did you get those robots?" Han asked curiously.
Old Mo laughed and said, "From a junk planet. The robot were destroyed after the ban, but there were a portion of the parts still on that planet so I resembled them. Unfortunately, these robots had logic chips installed before, and they were taken out before the robots were destroyed."
"There's a big difference between the robots with and without logic chip. The ones without has very basic intelligence and they only understand to follow orders. If the robots have a logic chip installed, then it becomes just like a human, capable of smiling and thinking."
Old Mo also told Han that to avoid being copied, Milky Way Alliance took away all the logic chips and sealed it at a highly secured location.
It is said that logic chips are also something left behind by the pre-historic civilization, and it is impossible to be produced under the current level of technology that humans possess. So, as long as Alliance doesn't remove the seal, then Milky Way Galaxy will never have truly intellectualized robots.
Han listened and thought emotionally, using large quantities of robots can significantly improve human's production capability, and it's such a pity that they were sealed away.
Old Mo saw Han asking so many questions about robots, he laughed and said, "You are really interested in robots?"
Han nodded rapidly.
Old Mo said with great sentiment, "Me too. Ever since I was a child, I already became obsessed with robot technology. These robots are not just tools that I use to clean up battlefields, they are more like families that I know will never betray me."
"If you like them, I will let you lead a group and explore the ancient battle field later."
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Chapter 47: Exploring the Battlefield
Han took 2 cleaning robots and decided to go take a look at the battlefield that Old Mo and Pathless have talked so much about.
Both robots are crawler-type, suitable for moving in complicated terrain. Their arms carry digging tools, and because they don't have logic chips implanted, they look kind of dumb, only capable of listening to orders. Han told them to go sit on the car and wait for him, and they ran to the car and waited there like a good boy.
Old Mo told Han that the robot Han's in right now used to be the most advanced model in the old days, named R7, made from high level tritanium alloy, has an identical body of human, with arms and legs, height at 1.8 meter, connected and controlled using the dark net communication port.
After getting ready, Han waved goodbye at Old Mo and Pathless, stepped down on the gas petal, and the vehicle rushed onto the steel chained bridge towards the battleground remain.
Old Mo commanded the rest of the robots to start picking out the equipment that Han wanted, and pack them all into his sketchy industrial transporting ship, waiting to leave the planet to get them cleansed first before sending them to Earth.
In the blink of an eye Han has already traveled very far, Old Mo's base became a small black dot behind him, and in front of him is the limitless desert. After the cruel nuclear explosion, the land has become completely lifeless, only Old Mo and maybe the robots count as the only life on this planet.
The vehicle is called a Land Speeder, a very common mean of transportation in Milky Way. It has no wheels, uses magnetic suspension system to float about 1 meter off the ground, with 2 high-powered jet turbo engines providing the Speeder the necessary propulsion, capable of traveling up to 3000 kmh.
Old Mo's Land Speeder doesn't have a top and also carries a cargo box like a truck. It looks really simple, but after all, he's an engineer that can even repair the complicated robotic devices. With his tuning, the land speeder has excellent performance and great drifting speed, topping it off with powerful jet engine that set off a huge amount of sand behind them as it roars.
Han controlled a robot to drive the land speeder, so the air resistance and noises were not a threat to him, allowing him to fully enjoy the pleasure of speed. After only 2 hours, they arrived at the heart of the battle field.
Here he saw the land clouded with giant craters that resulted from bomb explosions. Some of these bombs didn't detonate on the ground but in the air instead, releasing super shockwaves capable of shattering the internal organs of soldiers to create more casualties.
The large empire level countries in Milky Way have incredible strength. At this war between Zi Zhu Empire and Luo Lan Republic, just espers alone, both sides putted in as much as 20 million. In comparison, Earth has at most 15 thousand espers, and that's including those non-combat ones like the esper that can grow more teeth or do math faster. It's clear to see, the huge gap that exists between Earth and those great powers in Milky Way.
It was said that the most powerful countries in Milky Way – the 12 permanent members of the Milky Way Alliance, each has at least 100 million espers. For countries with such strength, destroying Earth is as easy as stretching fingers.
The ancient battlefield has a long history, coupled with the robots led by Old Mo that have being here for decades, there wasn't any remaining equipment in sight.
In fact, Han also knew that it would be impossible for him to find anything valuable on this ancient battlefield because they would've long been taken away by Old Mo. Now he just want to get a feel of the atmosphere of the battlefield.
Despite the battlefield now looking like a deserted desert, there is one thing that will not die out because of time but grow more and more intense, and that is the soldiers' indomitable soul.
The wind blows and the water gets cold, warriors leave home but never return. The barren desert filled with a chill atmosphere, the warriors that fought bravely here in the past have died, but their souls are still here wandering. Before the dark and stormy night, the sound of wind on the desert is their lamentation. (TL: translated from a Chinese poem)
Han imagined the scenes of the war that year, picturing rivers of blood running on the desert. Before he knew it, he has driven past the heart of the battlefield and came to the end of the desert, facing layers and layers of mounds.
Han stopped beside a mound, he looked at the time and 5 hours have already passed. Blazing past over 10,000 kilometers, it is very hard for people that aren't personally experienced to understand the joy Han had riding that Land Speeder.
Although Han knew that it's highly unlikely that he will harvest anything, but after all, for a journey on the battlefield, he should at least get something as a souvenir. He's really not reconciled to go home empty-handed, even finding a dagger to bring back is good enough for him.
So, Han decided to enter the hilly area.
Driving in the desert just need speed, but driving in this hilly terrain requires more skills. Han slowed down his speeder and advanced along the valley between the hills. A sudden turn will drift up the center of gravity of the speeder, adding on a thrilling pleasure that wasn't present in the desert.
Two more hours quickly flew by, Han still hasn't made any discovery. Not even the main battlefield have any more remnants, not to mention this region outside the battlefield.
"Well, it's not early anymore, time to go back."
Thinking about that, Han tilted the steering wheel and got ready to turn back to the camp.
After all, Han is still a beginner at driving land speeder. He rushed between the hills and was a little anxious when making a quick turn, after hurtling sideways the speeder actually couldn't stop and began to quickly drifting sideways."
"Shit! Too much speed!"
Han cursed, quickly activating the brake. At the presence of an opposite force, the speeder began to react by shaking violently, sending dirt flying all over the sky.
Shua~
The speeder finally came to a difficult stop only a few meters away from a small mound, barely avoiding collision, the scene was breathtaking.
Han turned his head to check on the robots. Crap, he and the land speeder are okay, but those two robots got thrown out of the cargo container due to a shift in gravity, landing head first into a mound.
Han hurried and got off the speeder to dig out the two silly robots from the soil.
Huh?
Suddenly Han froze, because as he dug out the robots and pulled them out of the dirt, he noticed that the dirt wall is actually hollow inside. There is a cave with its entrance covered by dirt, and as Han dug out the soil layer he was able to see the cave from a top corner.
"Come, let's dig open this hole and take a look." Han asked the two crawler-type robots.
So, Han and the two robots struggled as they finally opened up an entrance big enough for them to fit, then the robot opened a flash light and accompanied Han into the cave.
The cave is a natural formation, not large in area. The nuclear explosion that year possibly shook off the top layer soil, blocking the entrance to the cave.
The light shined onto the end of the cave, Han seemed to see two dark shadows.
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Chapter 48: 90 Million GC
There seems to be 2 dark shadows inside the cave, Han hastily walked over and saw two long-dead soldiers both knelt on the ground, the one on the left pierced the other one's chest with a knife, but the one on the right landed a sneak attack right with a dagger hidden in his sleeves right before his death. The edge went into the neck dealt a fatal blow.
Undoubtedly, there is a significant skill gap between the two warriors, one of them took all the advantages and straight up slashed the other one's combat armor into a mess while not getting a single scratch on his body.
Unfortunately, the weaker one was more sinister, releasing his dagger right before death and ended the enemy's life.
Han felt incredibly lucky, it's an unintentional move but a traffic accident knocked open a cave, and the weapon and armor left by both soldiers are his!
The warrior with a pierced chest was wearing a leather combat suit, it was severely damaged, possibly wasted. But the warrior that got stabbed in the neck, his uniform was intact, black, it feels like a fiber texture but also a bit different.
Han quickly ordered the two crawler robots to take off the items on the corpses. The silly robots are used to doing this kind of work, they quickly scavenged the bodies and also dug out an inheritance power crystal from one of their skulls, golden, sparkling.
Han knew, generally speaking that only high-level espers will possibly leave behind inheritance power crystals after death, and the probability is less than 1 out of 10,000. Judging by the color and purity, the crystal can easily sell for one million GC!
And if this person is a high-level soldier, then the items he left behind must be quality stuff as well.
But after digging around, aside from his combat suit he only found a ring. Perhaps because of his confidence, he didn't bother wearing a layer of alloy armor.
The soldier in leather combat suit did wear armor and he also carried a leather backpack, although there isn't anything valuable. But the dagger in his hand is really unique, it's actually not metal, but made with animal bones.
Han quickly packed everything up in excitement, got on his Land Speeder and went straight back to Old Mo's camp site.
"Come check this out, I found something!" Han landed the speeder safely and shouted in excitement.
Soon, Old Mo and Pathless got out of the industrial ship, and they were surprised to find that Han actually found some equipment after circling the battle field once, and it looks very good too.
A complete combat suit, a broken combat suit, a blue ring, a backpack with a few gems and other food supplies, a silver dagger made from animal bones, an alloy armor, plus a power crystal.
Old Mo skillfully picked up and armor and knocked, "Ah, this is a protective armor built with Fuli Dragon alloy, good stuff. Although it has many scratches, but it can still sell for 120,000 GC. As for the power crystal, it should be metal-bending descent, worth about 10 million GC."
On the other side, Pathless picked up the dagger, weighted it with his hands, tilted his head and said, "This is a dagger made with black celestial armor beast's tailbone, a very insidious weapon that not only can escape the scanner but is also highly toxic, it can sell for 70 or 80 thousand GC.
Han nodded on the side, no wonder that higher level warrior dead right away after being stabbed, the dagger was poisonous.
Old Mo checked out the leather combat suit and backpack and felt quite impressed, he said in a deep voice, "This dead man appears to be from the witch race, he not only uses the dagger made from black celestial armor beast but also used red tail viper's leather as armor and backpack. Both of these are poisonous, distributing a scent that will trigger hallucination after inhaling.
The Witch race?
Han was shocked, the Witch race is one of the Milky Way wisdom race. Its scale is smaller than the Kui race Old Mo is from, and it was said that they are all insidious people that are skilled with using poison.
Pathless stared at that last combat suit and blue ring for a long time, and asked in a deep voice, "Han, where did you get these stuff?"
So Han told Pathless and Old Mo the whole story. After hearing it, Pathless laughed, "I get It, Luo Lan Republic was said to have hired soldiers from the Witch race, so this 4-star soldier should belong to the Luo Lan side. But the owner of the other battle suit and ring, should be a young aristocrat from the Zi Zhu Empire.
"First let's talk about this knife, Silver Moon Crescent blade, top tier blade in the Zi Zhu Empire, annual production was no more than 10 and they were only given to the elites of the empire and never sold to public. Its price is at least 1 million GC. This combat suit is even better. It uses a special type of soft metal, named Black Kylin, ranked Low 6 star. Without at least 20 or 30 million, it's impossible to buy an all-round combat suit of this high quality."
Han was shocked, he placed his hand on that black combat suit, stroked it a few times, and said in surprise, "So this is soft metal? Its texture feels like fiber, no wonder this guy only wore this combat suit but not the alloy armor, it's actually because he's really confident in his equipment."
Pathless nodded slightly, "Although his equipment is good, but it's certainly not 6 star. Or else, how would the 4-star esper from the Witch race be able to kill him?"
Old Mo said carelessly, "Zi Zhu is an empire with many wealthy aristocrats. Maybe this person is a noble offspring so he was able to play with these high-level equipment. Pathless, what's the deal with the blue ring? It's been in your hand for a long time."
Pathless slightly smiled, "This thing is even better, you have never seen it before right? This ring inlaid with the blue stone is the legendary Blue Sky Ring, a dimension ring left behind by the pre-historic civilization to store items."
"Old Mo, right now I'm in a robotic state so I can't use my source energy. You force some of your source energy into the ring to open it, maybe there's something valuable inside."
Old Mo nodded, the Sky Blue Ring is quite amazing. A DNA detecting chip is installed on the ring, so whoever wears it, only his or her source energy can activate the ring, and ordinary people without source energy won't be able to use it.
Soon, Old Mo opened the Blue Sky Ring and poured out a lot of good stuff, most of the things are supplies, food, medicine, water, underwear and stuff, in addition there's some letters and a notebook, and a pile of money."
Pathless picked out the money and medicine and passed it to Old Mo, threw away all the food and water, picked up the letters and notebook and began to read.
Quickly, a faint smile appeared on Pathless' face, "It really is a young noble offspring of the Zi Zhu Empire, and he was also in a relationship. These are all dairies and letters to his girlfriend that he didn't have time to send out."
After readily throwing away the letters, Pathless picked up the piles of banknotes and counted, one of the pile is in notes of 10,000 GCs, the other two piles are in 1000 GCs, and there were a few hundred GC bills too.
Pathless smiled and said, "Noble's children are really spoiled, carrying this much money just to go to war. These are all GC cash issued by the Milky Way Alliance. Although the majority are now using electronic money, but these notes can be converted anytime, it's about 2.23 million."
"Han, now you are rich! Silver Moon Crescent blade is worth million, 20 million value of 6 star Black Kylin combat suit, 10 million value of power crystal, 2.23 million in cash, the bone dagger is about 2 million, and these medicines seems pretty decent and can go for around a few hundreds of thousands, and not to mention this Sky Blue Ring that can generate an one cube dimension for you to use as storage."
"On dark net, Sky Blue Rings of one cube large is worth at least 50 million GC. Adding everything together, your loot has a value of about 90 million GC."
"A harvest of 90 million GC worth!"
Han was so excited that he want to jump. Not long ago, due to the loss of his drug index, Han started to worry about his source of income. But today, he was able to gain this enormous wealth all of a sudden.
You must know, Li Yu and the brothers putting their lives on the line to explore the C-class domain and their monthly income is just about 45 million GC in total. Han took a visit to the ancient battle field and he was able to harvest loot equivalent to 2 months of Earth's income, which after conversion is more than 100 billion in United Government currency! Talking about being wealthy enough to compete with countries!
Of course, these wealth are mostly just on paper. Black Kylin battle suit, Sky Blue Ring, Silver Moon Crescent Blade, White Bone Dagger, Fuli Dragon alloy armor, these just make up a complete set of combat equipment, and of course Han wants to keep them for own use.
Pathless thought for a bit and said, "Sell the power crystal, and let Old Mo bring you the cash and equipment when he goes to Earth."
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Chapter 49: Nazca Base
Tomorrow is Earth Calendar's New Year. Before New Year, Li Yu, Han, and the last group of personnel that are moving from the South Pole Base loaded up the ship with supplies, and arrived together at Southern Peru's Nazca wilderness. Headquarter of 1st Legion and the undeveloped Class-B extinction site are all located here as well.
Sitting on the plane looking down, the first sight was the well-known Nazca Lines, a line stretching for several kilometers, constituting a variety of vivid patterns engraved above the field, and its origin still remains a mystery up to this day.
Hercules Transporter skipped those miraculous patterns, and the atmosphere changed suddenly when an enormous interstellar warship appeared into their sight.
This is the Air Fortress class cruiser, Atlantic Cruiser. Its length covers more than 1500 meters, width expanding to nearly 400 meters. 30 stories high, 6 main artilleries at the front and back, 18 secondary side cannons as support, 4 linkage missile launchers, two fixed space torpedo launchers, and two decoy launchers and so on, the Atlantic Cruiser is equipped with a series of heavy firepower attack means.
Atlantic Cruiser carries 800 crewmembers. As Earth United Government's only interstellar cruiser, Atlantic shoulders the important mission of guarding Earth.
Unfortunately, although Atlantic has incredible firepower, there's only one which can't protect every corner of Earth. Those space raiders are currently taking advantage of this to carry out hit and run tactics, normally fleeing before Atlantic even arrives.
After crossing the Atlantic Cruiser, they saw the 1st Legion headquarter, which is also the entrance to the B-class Extinction Domain.
Numerous white circular buildings surrounded the entrance to the domain, over 10 thousand espers are guarding on Atlantic Cruiser, and so if the raiders plan to destroy to Earth's B-class domain again, they will have to check if they got what it takes.
Christmas just passed and it's New Year's Eve, but there's no colorful lights nor celebration at the base. The Hercules landed in solitude just a few miles away from the airport.
Han followed Li Yu and got on a jeep towards the base. On the way, he saw many soldiers jogging in the dark night, people holding thick books and studying under the outdoor lights, and the training facilities were crowded as well.
The jeep stopped at the back of the base, Li Yu looked around and said in a deep voice, "Next year is the Galactic Meet, everyone in the legion is very nervous, so when Long Chuan proposed to have a New Year celebration, no one responded at all, and that's how much pressure everyone is under right now."
"Come with me, I will take you to see another group of young men that are participating in the Pressure Exam."
The Nazca base has a separate spherical building saved for the most promising group of talents that are attending the Galactic Meet. They deemed Han as one of them, so Li Yu took him to see his future comrades.
"Your department is the expansion of the headquarters' talent team. There were originally 7 little monsters under the age of 30 but reached 4-stars. Now, plus the 32 espers selected on Earth that have the hope of making it to the Galactic Meet, there's a total of 49 members."
"Your supervisor is Long Chuan, he is also the captain of Atlantic Cruiser. Because of how busy he is, you might not always get to see him. Also, your good buddy Cheng Zhong is also here."
Han nodded, he has already heard of the famous Long Chuan, who was one of Ke Lake's 3 teachers. Comparable to Li Yu and Talin, the three figures have made an indelible contribution to Earth.
Now they all occupy pivotal positions in the United Government, with Li Yu being the Chief of the Extinction Domain Administration, Talin being the Chief of Headquarter, and Long Chuan taking over Earth's most important military power, the Atlantic.
As elsewhere, there is no celebration in the training camp. Han and Li Yu came straight to the training center, only to see Fatty Cheng Zhong training his leg muscles, doing exercises while chewing nonstop on a bucket of beef jerkies.
Compared to the first time Han saw him a few months ago, Cheng Zhong got a lot fatter again, with cheeks bulging and belly almost sticking to heaven.
"Han!"
Cheng Zhong saw Han and he immediately ran towards him while holding his bucket of beef jerky, As he ran, the training center's alloy floor trembled as well.
"Brother, I missed you man!" Chen Zhong shouted in a very affectionate voice.
Han looked around, "how come only you are here, where's Monk?"
Chen Zhong curled his lip and said, "Monk didn't pass the pressure exam and got eliminated, he's on the Assault team now."
There are several other people in the training room, and Chen Zhong's open personality strikes again as he dragged Han and introduced him to everyone.
Li Yu still got other tasks to attend to so he left early, Chen Zhong enthusiastically took Han on a tour around the building. United Government spent a lot of money on this promising group of youths to prepare them for Galactic Meet, the training center has a personal simulation pod for everyone and also all kinds of training facilities.
It's been awhile since he last saw Chen Zhong, and just as Han was excitedly chatting with him, a cold voice suddenly came to Han's ears.
"You are Han?"
Han turned around and saw 7 people walking out from the training center. They are all really young, and the obvious difference between them and others is that they are each in decent quality combat suit and wearing a 4-star honor badge on their chest.
Han knew, they are the legendary 7 geniuses from Headquarter. Being able to reach 4 stars before the age of 30, these people all have impeccable potential. As for Han and Chen Zhong and the others, they are all late-comers to the department, and they are all 3-star espers.
It looks like these geniuses aren't that gregarious, especially the tall, thin blond young man that's leading the group, his eyes are somewhat domineering, has a flat mouth that coldly shouted Han's name.
Speaking about them, the biggest difference between Han and the 7 geniuses is the sheer force of character. Although his level isn't as high, but Han fought real battles, saw blood, and also witnessed the kind of cruel and merciless fights at Broadcast of Death. Although Han's younger, but he seems more calm.
Slightly smiling, Han reached out his hand and got ready to shake hands, "I am Han, haven't asked what your name is brother?"
The tall blond youngster hesitated, reluctantly reached out and gave a little "high five" to Han's palm, and frowned, "You are very late. As of now, everyone is here."
"The old saying goes, no rules then there's no results. Tonight we will elect the battalion commander and a deputy battalion commander so that we can also have a voice and a backbone for subsequent activities."
Han doesn't have any objections but Chen Zhong already retreated to the side.
Chen Zhong seemed to be a bit angry at them, "These guys are most annoying. Just because they are higher level, they show no respect to all the late-coming 3 star warriors. They don't even train with us, and they always act alone."
After talking with Chen Zhong, Han knows that the tall blond youngster is called Xin Beige, Germanic origin, intermediate 4 star level, and among all 49 people in the training camp he's the only one that reached such a high level.
Of course in a battle, level doesn't mean everything. Experience, courage, power and so on are all important factors.
Xin Beige really has a great surge of leadership gesture, he gathered all 49 students into the exercising room and said in a deep voice, "I suggest, we perform simulated battles to pick out the battalion commander, and the deputy commander will be picked by the commander. After that, everyone have to listen to the commander's arrangements, stick close together and grow this department into the strongest combat team as soon as possible."
"We old genius battalion all agree to elect me as a candidate for commander, you late-comers can elect a candidate now."
Han slightly frowned, he's not very impressed by Xin Beige's decision. After all, everyone belongs to the same training camp and are fighting for the same goal, there's no need to distinguish between veteran members and late joiners.
Xin Beige stroked his blond hair, scanned the field of audiences and said in a deep voice, "Then, if you guys have no other opinions, I will be the commander, and I appoint Ann Beibei as the deputy commander, who is also a very outstanding member among us old members."
Ann Beibei is a very lively girl, looks like in her early 20s, has a nice tanned skin and a pair of slender legs. When Xin Beige mentioned her, she smiled and waved at everyone, she obviously has an open and cheerful personality.
"I disagree!"
The decision was almost settled and Chen Zhong suddenly shouted, "I think Han is more qualified than you to be the battalion commander. Unlike us, he once single-handedly blocked a dozen times more enemies and protected the Earth's vital C-class Extinction Domain. Talking about battle experience, Han is 100 times stronger than you guys! If you put yourself in Han's shoes that day, do you think you can block them?"
Chen Zhong suddenly carried out Han and that slightly stunned him. Xin Beige's face doesn't look in a good now, he has always considered himself as a genius and thought he's better than everyone else.
"If not satisfied, you dare to fight?" Xin Beige said coldly.
"Of course, you think we are afraid of you?!" Chen Zhong immediately rolled up his sleeves, and revealed his arms which are even larger than other people's thighs.
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Chapter 50: Long Chuan
Xin Beige didn't try to hide his overbearing character. He arrogantly asked Han, "What did you say? Do you dare to fight me?"
Shua~
All eyes gathered on Han. Against Xin Beigei and his team of geniuses, a lot of people all felt grudges against them, but they knew that they were too weak so none of them dared to speak up.
However, now that Han's here, the soldier that was known as the possessor of the strongest super power and bones on Earth, everyone including Cheng Zhong all hoped that Han can stand up for them and challenge Xin Beige and his arrogant group of geniuses.
Smiling faintly, Han stood up and said, "Brothers of Earth do not fight amongst themselves. But since it is just a contest, I guess there's no problem for us to just practice against each other. I also really want to see Brother Xin Beige's skilled moves."
Han accepted the challenge so readily which surprised everyone including Cheng Zhong, who was very familiar with Han. Usually, the boys from China were more shy and constrained. But after not seeing him for a few months, Han's personality seemed to have gone through big changes, becoming calmer and more fearless.
But little did Cheng Zhong know, during the past months Han had been closely following Pathless' training method, and Pathless obviously didn't teach Han those old and constrained Chinese training methods. What he taught Han was extreme training, extreme combat techniques, fighting with his life on the line and never giving up until his body was in a grave!
Although Han was still young, he had already begun to think like a true iron-blood warrior. Lowering his head and acting cowardly like a turtle? Not even a chance! True warriors shoulder responsibilities, if Han ever had the thought to hide like a turtle in a battle, then that could cost the lives of many citizens or comrades.
Cheng Zhong looked at the person, he's no longer that nerdy version of Han, but an unyielding warrior version of Han!
Turning around, Han didn't even bother to look at Xin and said in a deep voice, "Since it's a team battle, I need 4 teammates. Who's willing to accompany me and fight by my side?!"
Of course, Cheng Zhong was the first one to step up. Then Han picked out 3 others that looked really calm from the crowd.
"We will see you on the virtual battle field in a bit." Han immediately said.
Li Yu waved farewell to Han, turned around and went to Long Chuan's office.
Opening the door, there sat a thin white-skinned middle-age man in front of the monitor. The expression on his face showed that he was eagerly looking forward to something.
This was Long Chuan, the youngest one among the 3 teachers of Ke Lake, and also the highest level, sitting at the pinnacle of a 4-star esper.
The famous Long Chuan didn't look like a warrior at all, but rather more like a scholar in a thin and weak body with a severe stomach problem and a face as pale as the snow. He actually looked like he was suffering from malnutrition.
Li Yu and Talin all nicknamed Long Chuan the a sick dragon.
Of course, nickname jokes were always just jokes. Only Li Yu and Talin who were very close to Long Chuan truly understood how fearsome he could be. Not only is he powerful, but also very intelligent, completely different from those common kind of powerful but simple-minded warriors.
Last Galactic Meet, Long Chuan had just past the age of 30 and went over the maximum age limit. Otherwise, if he fought together with Ke Lake, they would probably receive an even better score.
Unfortunately, also Long Chuan had the talent as rare as dragon and phoenix, but he was still a sick dragon, inflicted with a condition that is dragged him behind a lot. At the age of 20, Long Chuan already reached the pinnacle of 4 star, but his level stayed the same till now, at the age of 39 he still couldn't make that final step and break through the barrier to 5-star.
But he certainly had a cheerful personality though. Ge saw Li Yu and he immediately yelled at him, "Hurry, hurry! They are about to fight!"
Li Yu's head became filled with question marks, "Who? Who's fighting who again?"
Long Chuang was so excited that his eyebrows are dancing, "The little boy you brought, Han, he's challenging Xin Beige's group."
Li Yu was shocked for a second, then muttered, "I just brought him to the training camp and it's already chaotic. Xin Beige's group are all geniuses taught by you, how can Han be their opponent?"
Long Chuan was very looking forward to it, "That's still uncertain. Look at his team picks, Weight Conversion descent's Cheng Zhong, Mind Control descent Bai Xueying, Rock descent Tu Lamu, Ice descent Nicholas, they are all powerful espers.
Li Yu was shocked and said in surprise, 'Good picks! These are all the strongest espers among the 3-star soldiers. Han doesn't even know them, Cheng Zhong probably picked for Han. From what I know, Cheng Zhong and Han fought together before so their relationship is very good."
Long Chuan shook his head and showed a footage of Han picking to Li Yu in a slow motion, in which Han quickly picked out those strong members from the crowd and Cheng Zhong didn't say a thing.
Long Chuan thought about it and said, "I understand, Han made his choices based on looking at others' eyes."
"Eyes?" Li Yu is still a bit confused.
Long Chuan said, "Look carefully, when Han was picking, he scanned everyone's eyes once, if there is any fear or if one is undetermined, those people all can't become Han's teammate. Cheng Zhong stood up right away so that's that. But Nicholas and Bai Xueying and the others, they are all very strong, and their eyes shows a feeling of eagerness, and that's why Han picked them."
"That's probably it. Otherwise it can't be explained why the strongest 3-star esper Luo Yuyin wasn't chosen by Han. She's an opponent that even Xin Beige is kind of scared of but unfortunately she's just a shy girl with an introverted personality. That's why Han chose others but not the strongest Luo Yuyin, Han must have saw through the cowardice in Luo Yuyin's bones."
Long Chuan is a very intelligent soldier, Li Yu obviously trusts his analysis. He also thinks that Han made his choices based on one's sheer force of character, otherwise only fools won't pick Luo Yuyin as their teammate.
"Who's going on the Xin Beige side?" Li Yu asked.
Long Chuan said in a somewhat angry tone, "An Beibei, Tie Hongliu, Bu Luke, and Parker. That's the strongest formation in the gifted class, they are all 4 stars. Against Han's temporary team, they still chose to use their strongest combination, that way there's no grace if they win."
Li Yu laughed, "You can't eat grace for food. I actually think Xin Beige made the right choice going all out. After all it's the Tough Bone Han, despite his level, Void End isn't a vegetarian's technique. As soon as the Void domain is activated, any power is eliminated, and Xin Beige will have no choice but to charge at Han and trade melee blows."
"Believe me, anyone against Han isn't a joke. His moves are really cruel and merciless."
Long Chuan nodded slightly, "I've watched the clip that made Han famous countless times. He certainly doesn't lack the courage and perseverance of a true soldier, but don't underestimate my crew, I've spent great effort on Xin Beige and his team."
"Doesn't matter how strong Han is, it's just him that's strong, but tactics are the most important factor in team fights."
In the monitoring screen, Han and the others have entered the virtual pods and were discussing each other's characteristics.
Li Yu slightly frowned, aside from Cheng Zhong, Han doesn't even know the other guys, let alone understand their characteristics. A temporary team formation like this, maybe really isn't a worthy opponent of those geniuses.
Long Chuan was still fueled with excitement, "I've been looking forward to this fight for a long time. Even if they didn't trigger a fight today, I would still look for ways to get them to fight. Let's watch together, I really want to know who's stronger, Han from the wild, or the group of geniuses that I carefully taught and tuned."
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Chapter 51: Tactic Wolf Fang!
As the main training platform for espers across Milky Way, virtual battlegrounds enjoyed a great deal of popularity. Of course, Han also trained in virtual battlegrounds before, but only under the influence of the dark net and Pathless. Han always felt that this virtual method training of simulating combat always seemed to be missing something.
Maybe it's as Pathless said, a battle without blood doesn't count as a real battle.
Shua~
When the virtual battleground got activated, the setting was chosen at random. Han and his temporarily formed team got teleported to a tropical forest, and Xin Beige's group would be somewhere within 5 miles of Han.
After sincerely asking about everyone's power, Han began to think. No one else talked, because everyone had already accepted Han's position as the team leader. After all, Han's fame and achievement was already out there, and he was also the one that accepted the challenge."
A faint smile appeared on Han's face as he said in a deep voice, "We will use this strategy."
After listening to Han's battle arrangement, everyone was shocked and confused. In their eyes, Han's tactic was way too unexpected.
Cheng Zhong scratched his big head and asked, "Is this really going to work?"
Han answered, "Why not? Xin Beige must think that I will use Void End to force everyone into a melee fight with our lives, but we won't do that. The best tactic is one that the enemy would never expect. If you guys believe me, then let's spread out and start preparing."
Han's words did make sense and everyone nodded. Under Han's lead they quickly disappeared into the jungle.
On the other side of the virtual battlefield, Xin Beige's group was also making their arrangements. Surrounded by teammates that they worked together over years training, Xin Beige was already too familiar with everyone's abilities, so it wasn't necessary to ask everyone like Han.
Xin Beige gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Han is in fact nothing. His Void Domain will make us lose our super powers, so we have to fight them head on."
"But unfortunately, he forgot. We are all 4-star espers and we have higher Power Source Index and better tactical coordination. Coordinate around me, we will solidify our position and wait for them to rush us! By that time, Han will know that we are better fighters in melee range as well!"
Everyone agreed to Xin Beige's tactic, against the unreasonable and fearsome Void End power, the vast majority of tactics seemed incredibly vulnerable because Han was capable of summoning a void domain of 10 meters in radius, where no one inside could use any power nor get attacked by any power.
So, the best way to deal with Han is to exchange melee blows head on with him. When Han's group arrives everyone will swarm them, there's no way that a group of four-star espers will lose to a group of lower level opponents in a melee fight.
After the plan was set, Xin Beige's 5 men team formed a circle, back to back, and stood on a vacant ground in the jungle waiting for Han. Because there was no weapon settings, everyone was unarmed.
Suddenly~
Not far from the jungle a figure flashed by and the trees began to shake.
"Here they come!"
"Don't worry, as long as we hold formation, we won't leave them any chance to attack!" Xin Beige shouted to everyone to boost morale.
At that moment, they were in the open space inside the jungle, surrounded by dense trees and bushes. Silhouettes, shadows, wind blowing, trees shaking, it all made Xin Beige's team very nervous, not knowing which direction Han's group would attack.
Suddenly, something crashed into the formation. All they saw was a flitting shadow dashing out of the forest and a huge fat man. That was Cheng Zhong, the Weight Conversion power esper! He held Han in front of him, it seemed to be that tank strategy they used last time.
What's strange was not that Han and Cheng Zhong charged at them, but there was only two of them?!
Bai Haiying, Nicholas, Tu Lamu, where did the other three go?!
Xin Beige and his team didn't get a chance to think why Han didn't use his Void domain and lead his whole team to charge, and the huge Cheng Zhong already crashed into Xin Beige's formation like a bomb!
BOOM~
Imagine how powerful a big fat 600 pounds fatty charging in like mad would be! Han didn't activate his power at all, so after the violent collision Xin Beige's team was immediately off their feet, the second strongest "deputy battalion commander" even got sent flying away from the formation.
It couldn't be denied that that move of Han and Cheng Zhong was really cruel, and they even specifically targeted a little girl like An Beibei. All they saw was that the An Beibei with two beautiful long legs got sent flying immediately. Suddenly, from the other side of the forest three shadows dashed out, it was Nicholas and the others!
Those three are mind control, ice, and rock descent espers. Bai Haiying immediately used mind control to attack An Beibei's consciousness, and Nicholas and Tu Lamu quickly surrounded her. 3 against 1, also with mind interference, despite An Beibei being the second strongest pro in the entire training camp, she was immediately killed on the spot.
This case was something Xin Beige never thought of before the start of battle. Han and Cheng Zhong acted as an assault team, stabbing straight into the heart of the formation like a sharp knife to occupy Xin Beige's team. Then the trio will ambush the outer perimeter and execute individual enemies caught out of position!
It has only been a few seconds since the beginning of battle, and the number two pro An Beibei on Xin Beige's side had already left the battle field! The genius squad that originally had all the advantages is now is facing the difficult situation of number shortage.
And that's not even the worst part yet. Han didn't use his void domain right? But just when Xin Beige and his team decided to use their powers to attack, they suddenly realized that Han's void domain was activated!
It was really a nasty void domain that could make people puke blood. Only the devil knows when Han will active or deactivate, something like this domain can't be touched or seen, it's really hard to defend against it!
Xin Beige and his team couldn't use any super powers, so they concentrated on dealing with Han and Cheng Zhong, only to find that these two guys weren't easy to deal with!
Han was like a pile of die-hard bones, you give him a punch and he would not even hum once. As for Cheng Zhong, that was a 600 pound block of meat right there. Although he's lower level, but his tolerance to physical attacks was still incredibly high!
Boom~
In the blink of an eye, Bu Luke flew out too, Han quietly closed the void domain, and Cheng Zhong took advantage of the deactivated domain and knocked Bu Luke right out of the formation again, where the already waiting tri0 immediately rushed out again, killing the third ranked pro in Xin Beige's group within a second!
Within 9 seconds, Xin Beige's group already lost two generals, and not even a single guy got hurt on Han's side!
Now it's 5 against 3, Han did not hesitate and he waved towards the enemies, signaling the stomping to begin!
Yes, when void domain was fully activated and the trio that was ambushing now joined the fight against 3 enemies, that's stomping! As the saying goes, losing the battle is like a mountain falling down, after miscalculating twice, Han led his team and slaughtered Xin Beige's group in one breath!
Five to nothing!
Absolute stomp!
Han and Cheng Zhong were like two sharp wolf fangs, biting directly into the enemy body and abruptly tearing their defense apart, then start chewing away on the body!
Han gave a very suitable name for this tactic, Tactic Wolf Fang!
It has only been 17 seconds since the beginning of battle, but Team Xin Beige, all out!
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Chapter 52: Operation Divine Sword
The training camp was completely silent, even the sound of a pin drop could be heard. Everyone couldn't believe it, the team led by Han was able to neatly execute the battle in seconds, stomping the higher level Xin Beige team in one breath!
When Han and his team got out of the virtual pod room, the crowd burst into noise and quickly gathered around Han's squad. They all wanted to know how Han won, and how he came up with this fearsome Tactic Wolf Fang.
Xin Beige was still somewhat angry, but his teammates were all very convinced of the loss. An Beibei energetically ran to Han and tapped him on the shoulder, she acted depressed and said, "Han, you are so mean, I'm the only girl and you still took care of me first. Hurry and talk about that Tactic Wolf Fang, how did you come up with it?"
Xin Beige felt embarrassed, but he wanted to know Han's secret too so he hid behind the crowd and straightened his ears to listen.
Han paused a second to organize his thoughts, and then he said, "Tactic Wolf Fang is something I thought of in the shower. When I activate my void domain, everyone will charge at once, and the enemies will of course be rattled when they lose their power, and my team will know how to fight without powerful through long-term cooperation."
"As a result, it will be us who are prepared, against the completely unprepared enemy. That way, one bit from the fangs will either kill them or make them semi-disabled, so that's why this tactic is called Wolf Fang, which means to deliver a ruthless bite whenever there's an opportunity."
"Void domains can't be seen, other than me, no one knows when it's active and when it's deactivated. If we take advantage of this and let me deliver signals to my teammates, then we can suddenly deactivate the void domain and let everyone release powerful super ability attacks at once. Then, we can summon the domain again right when they want to use their power, and take advantage of their vulnerability and go up and deliver merciless bites. Every bite will let the enemy bleed heavily and after a few rounds, I don't believe that I can't bite him to death."
Everyone was attracted by the Tactic Wolf Fang described by Han, and they all felt that if they could join the Wolf Fang Squad and strike enemies together with Han, it would be very satisfying!
Han saw the depression on the face of Xin Beige and other 4-star geniuses, he walked up to them and patted Xin Beige's shoulder and said to everyone, "Whether Tactic Wolf Fang can be successful, it's fully reliant on everyone's support and needs everyone's effort. Like Xin Beige, when we were in simulated combat, this guy was the toughest to deal with, it required all five of us to cooperate to take him down, which shows that his foundation is really solid."
"That's why, I hope Xin Beige can join our Wolf Fang squad, and strike enemies with us in the future!"
Seeing how easily Han can let go of the past and bury the hatchet, everyone was really surprised, after all, Xin Beige's attitude towards Han earlier wasn't that friendly.
Han paused for a second and continued, "With so many foreign enemies targeting us, it is not an easy thing for Earth to keep its spot in the Milky Way, that's why we must remember. The people of Earth should never fight other people of Earth! You can't prove anything to others through factions! If you are strong then point all of our guns against the hostile foreign and go find our real enemies!"
In Long Chuan's office, he quietly lit a cigarette, and remained silent for a long time.
Li Yu was very happy for Han. After all he was not just a member of the 1st Legion, but also a subordinate of the Extinction Site Administration. Seeing how Han stomped the students that Long Chuan was so proud of, Li Yu could feel the glory on his face too!
Long Chuan blew a smoke ring, smiled and said, "It's truly unbelievable. Han isn't just a powerful soldier, but also a tactical genius?! Take advantage of the nature of Void End, establish a special tactic squad to strike with Void Domain, it shouldn't be something a boy at this age can think of."
Li Yu proudly said, "After this New Year Han will only be 17 years old. His battle spirit, will, understanding and adaptability of tactics, are all very developed and sophisticated now. For someone like it, the sky could be the only limit."
Long Chuan's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked in a deep voice, "Suppose I send Han to the battlefield right now, would you think that I'm crazy?"
Battlefield?!
Li Yu was very shocked, "Could it be 1st Legion got its first mission that quickly?"
Long Chuan quickly took out a battle plan with the printed words "Top Secret" on top and said in a deep voice, "I'm planning to launch a surprise attack on the Thorn Bird Raiding Group after 2 months, it's that group that attacked Shanghai, almost blew up the South Pole base, and caused Han to be unconscious for a month!"
"Our current problem is that we only have one starship, but based on our intelligence, the Thorn Birds have up to 4 destroyers, 11 frigates, 2 industrial ships and an electronic reconnaissance ship."
"If we use the Atlantic to attack their base, it will likely set off star wars. Although our Atlantic Cruiser is stronger than any of their battleships, but our number's at a disadvantage and it would be difficult to kill them all. The most likely outcome is lose-lose!"
That's why, we need a more audacious plan that can annihilate these guys but also preserve our fighting strength at the same time, so I came up with this Operation Divine Sword. Without Han and his Wolf Fang Tactic, we have only 50% chance of succeeding. But now, we have 80%!
"Old Yu, you should understand what this Tactic Wolf Fang means when it's against a large battalion scale battle right?"
Li Yu was completely shocked by Long Chuan's adventure operation. Earth had always been the one getting bullied by others, and it's completely unheard of that Earth would take the initiative to attack others!
Li Yu listened as he quickly read through Long Chuan's battle plan.
"Of course I know, if Han's Wolf Fang tactic is successful, then it's like as if a soldier that was fighting barehanded now had weapons! It's like a rabbit grew sharp teeth, and it can bite people now!"
"Essentially, Han's Wolf Fang tactic was like a battlefield metronome plus compass, used to adjust the whole campaign's attacking rhythm. Wherever needed, the Wolf Fang would be there to bite. The Wolf Fang squad can lead the entire assault force's attacking direction, and at the same time protect the vulnerable spots of our battalion. It's not excessive to call it the versatile tactic on the battlefield." Li Yu expressed his opinion on the Wolf Fang tactic.
Long Chuan kept on nodding, and his eyes kept on getting brighter.
"We are all aware, the hateful Thorn Bird Raiders are just a pawn of our real enemy. If we can't even take care of the pawn, then the manipulating hands behind the curtain will become more unscrupulous.
"It's time for Earth to shine its sword and let those hands behind the curtain know, it won't be so easy to swallow Earth! Within all of the espers on Earth, there is no coward!" Long Chuan said in excitement, but then he started coughing immediately.
Li Yu was very clear, as the current number 1 esper on Earth, Long Chuan's body was getting worse. That's why he's very anxious to shine the sword, his time was running out.
Li Yu laid down Long Chuan's battle plan, considered briefly and said, "The only problem is, if we want to win this war, we must take the risk and send the members of the genius camp and Han onto the battlefield, while Han and them still shoulder the heavy responsibility of competing in the Galactic Meet. We can't afford to have any loss of these talents."
Long Chuan laughed bitterly twice, looked out into the pitch black night, the wind of the Nazca plateau is strong, also cold, like someone screaming.
"Of course I know it's very risky, but we are already out of time. The Galactic Meet is next year, you think if the youth of Earth can get a high score, the Milky Way Alliance will reject the proposal of colonizing Earth again?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple. All these years, I have always wondered, Ke Lake loved Earth so much, he's even willing to sacrifice his life for Earth. Such a determined and patriotic soldier, why did he leave without saying goodbye after the Galactic Meet? Is there really no hidden reason? No conspiracy?"
"Pinning the hope on others is the greatest tragedy of Earth. Of course, we need to fight in the Galactic Meet, but we also need to fight at the Milky Way federal level! If we want others to think highly of us, we must first do things to make us think highly of ourselves!"
Li Yu was suddenly stunned. About Ke Lake, everyone had doubts in there heart, but only a few will speak up like Long Chuan.
Ke Lake really just left without saying goodbye that year? Could it be Sally Empire, or some other enemies that want to colonize Earth had secretly laid their hands on Ke Lake?
No one knew the truth, and people didn't want to think towards the tragedy side.
If Ke Lake was assassinated by an enemy that year, then even if Han and others can get a good score during Galactic Meet, it's very possible that the enemy will strike again!
The Earth that was in possession of B-Class Extinction Domain, has been the ideal land that several nearby empires want to colonize.
Dong~
Dong~
Dong~
The old-fashioned clock tower at the base rang, it was the New Year bells.
But there was no celebration, no joy, only pressure.
Because this year is when the Galactic Meet takes place and also the judgement day that decide whether Earth will be colonized!
Long Chuan rubbed his temples with his fingers, and said to himself, "In any case, the year that decides our fate still showed up at our door, leaving us only a few months left."
Pa~
Li Yu slammed Long Chuan's desk, and said in a deep voice, "Let's go find Talin together. Don't let the information about Operation Divine Sword leak out, not even to Han and the others."
"There's still some time, we have to look closely to see to what extent can Han perform his Wolf Fang tactic. If he can really perfect Tactic Wolf Fang, then we will go and get rid of those damned raiders! We will let that bastard Sally Empire see, although Earth is small, but no one here's a coward!"
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Chapter 53: Old Mo's Visit
A few days have arriving at Nazca base, Han's daily routine was completely restored. Training every day, practicing Wolf Fang tactic with the group, asking Pathless questions nonstop, and aside from those, Han would also study the pharmacological book that Night Walker gave him.
Han originally thought pharmacology would be a particularly boring skill to learn, but when he really started studying he discovered that being a pharmacist was actually quite fun too.
The most important science behind pharmacology is alchemy. For example, the expensive Shirakawa smoke orange can accelerate cell metabolism, and if you can't afford it then you can also use mix the extraction of yellow land roll, west vanilla, and Hualien to get the same effect.
All in all, the era of interstellar pharmacology was a field concerning very complex harmonic technology. Starting with the purification process, to drug interactions, drug formulation time, temperature, and even adding bacteria into the medicine sometimes too, in order to enlarge pharmacological effects.
Han felt that pharmacology was like a microscopic world, full of mysterious changes, and the real masters were the existences that have mastered the art of changing the potency of pharmaceutical products.
Of course, Han's learning of pharmacology was just for fun, he didn't not spend a lot of time on it. His primary mission right now was still training himself, improving his level, and also helping everyone master the Wolf Fang tactic.
After a few days of time, Han received an email from Old Mo on the dark net saying that he had currently reached the outer solar system, carrying equipment sets for a battalion of million units, some basic herbs and experiment tools that Night Walker wanted to give him, as well as Han's own equipment set.
Han got very excited and got the license to enter Earth's airspace from Long Chuan for Old Mo, and hurried to fly to the Sahara desert to see Old Mo.
Shua~
It was still that old tattered industry ship, it appeared at the horizon and landed at the boundless desert.
As a businessman that did illegal trades on the dark net, Old Mo has always been cautious when making contact with outsiders. So Han had to meet him alone, and the Combat Falcon fighter hid far away after dropping Han off. In addition, Han also told Long Chuan to not attempt to communicate with this ship, because the cautious Old Mo didn't want to even leave behind any communication record.
After all, the dark net was a shady place hidden from the light, most of the businessmen there are as cautious as Old Mo. He was willing to personally deliver the goods to Earth, which was already showing a great amount of trust in Han.
The door opened, Old Mo and a few robots walked out. He was not wearing protective clothing so his real face showed, and Han thought he resembled a pangolin, eyes were very small, wearing wind sunglasses, and his body was covered in blue scales.
"Old Mo!" Han waved and shouted.
Old Mo looked at the burning sun in the sky, and sincerely said, "Such a beautiful place and no one's living here? You people on Earth are really wasting precious resources."
Han smiled and looked around at the sand hills, "What good place? It's just a desert and you can't even find a drop of water. We people on Earth don't like living in deserts, we prefer living by the sea or the plain."
Old Mo shook his head, sighed and said, "Before landing, I carefully looked at Earth. A planet as beautiful as Earth is really rare in Milky Way, no wonder a lot of empires want to colonize you guys… Even I want to spend my old days here."
Han didn't say anything, anyone living on Earth knew very clearly the empire isn't really desperate about Earth because of how beautiful it is, but rather because of the priceless Class B Extinction Domain here.
"Did you bring all the stuff?" Han asked.
Old Mo gesture, those hard-working robots opened the ship's back door and carried down a few alloy cargo containers, and Old Mo took off the Blue Spatial Ring on his finger and handed it to Han.
"Do not worry, I've fully cleansed my ship, now my Vulture (TL: name of ship) doesn't have any radiation, it's very safe. Look, the stuffs inside the ring are your personal belongings, and these are the goods you bought for Earth."
Old Mo led Han and opened each container to check.
"Oh right, this box is also your stuff. Night Walker had me give you some raw materials and a set of equipment to make medicines. Also, this box contains your own medicine, like Nuclear Energy pills and stuff. Also, Pathless told me to give you this, a versatile training suit."
"He said, your current training method isn't convenient when you are doing long distance travelling, so he gave me this to give it to you. With this suit, you can train anytime and anywhere." Old Mo opened one of the boxes, and explained how to use it.
Han looked curiously at the equipment for drug formulation, it seemed quite advanced and Han didn't recognize most of them. Then Han picked up the training suit Pathless gave.
It was a very heavy suit with complex circuitry installed and it carried an alloy backpack-looking thing, the instruction says that the suit can adjust the temperature, gravity, and even imitate the pain you receive from getting attacked.
Han was so glad, this odd man Pathless Origin, he always scolded him like no tomorrow, but secretly he's been really good to him. This versatile training suit is probably worth a lot of money. With it, Han can travel to distant destinations without having to carry around that huge pool of water, and also have something with so many functions.
Lastly, Han opened the Sky Spatial Ring. These alternate dimension storages were really convenient, anyone wearing it can activate it, and all it needed was some source energy poured into the ring.
The powerful soft metallic combat suit Black Kylin, the sharp Silver Moon Crescent, white bone dagger, cash, they were all in there.
Old Mo said, "I've sold that power crystal for you for 12 million GC, already transferred it into your account."
Han chuckled, "Thank you thank you! To express my appreciation, I prepared some food and drinks. It's getting dark soon, leave after eating dinner."
Old Mo thought for a moment, decided to stay behind and try the delicious Earth cuisine that Han was talking about.
So, Han took out the already prepared military folding table, propped it up, and from the backup he pulled out 12 heat insulated lunch boxes, a bottle of Maotai. He used the portable pot and heated up the food. Han sat down on the floor with Old Mo and had a simple yet pleasant dinner.
Chinese cuisine enjoyed great fame through ages, and all the dishes bought by Han were classics: braised lion head (TL: just big meat ball, not actual lion head), boiled shrimp, spicy chicken, Beijing sauced ground beef, boiled fish, and others, and the main course is of course Han's favorite, meat in bum.
Due to Old Mo's perennial life in the wilderness, of course he never had the time to enjoy such delicious meal. He took a big spoon and praised the gods literally after every bite. In the Kui culture, everything is a gift from God, everyone from the Kui race is very pious.
Han had two glasses of drink, sat and watched Old Mo eating everything. The delicious cuisine and beautiful site of Earth significantly improved Old Mo's impression of Earth. Half way through the meal, he put away the leftovers into a fridge carefully and said that he will save it for later to slowly enjoy it when he craves for more.
It seems no matter what culture or race, the love for delicious food is the same, and the delicious Chinese cuisine easily conquered Old Mo's appetite.
Other than loving meat in bum and hot chocolate, Han feel okay with most other cuisines. In comparison, he likes Old Mo's robots more.
During this visit, Old Mo's number of robots increased a bit to 20 something, and he said it was from repairing during the voyage when he had nothing else to do.
Seeing how interested Han was about robots, Old Mo patiently explained to him, from the history of robots all the way to all the different types robots today, how the internal structure, and whatever he knows.
Unfortunately, Han is still a novice, and he could only understand a little bit about the robot technology left behind by the pre-historic civilization.
Needless to say, robots could improve work efficiency, and the key was how loyal and obedient they were. When Old Mo was eating with Han, they just blankly stood there and they came to clean up after Old Mo and Han were done. They just do whatever they are told to do.
Old Mo sighed, "Earth got delicious cuisine and a good environment, but unfortunately, it's still time for me to go." Old Mo said and he's already sounding nostalgic.
Han laughed and said, "If you like then just stay! With your knowledge in robotics, you can easily become the federal chief mechanic, and by then, you will have great food made for you every day and also be able to live wherever you want, and isn't that better than going to distant battlefields and live every day under fear?"
Han was very sincere, although Earth is short on money, but it's more desperate for talents. If Old Mo can fix such complex robots, then obviously he's a very skilled mechanic.
Old Mo said in a deep voice, "I want to too, but unfortunately I'm not at the age of retirement yet. When I was young I wished, if I'm going to be a Skinner, then I will be the best one out there, and I won't stop until I can retrieve a set of godly equipment from the battlefield."
"This time, I'm going somewhere really good. Although it's a lot riskier, but it's very possible for me to accomplish that goal of mine."
"Then let's make a pact, if I succeed this time, then I will come to Earth to find you for sure. By then, you just have to get me a small house here and I will be satisfied.
"No problem! I got you." Han smiled and asked, "You mentioned Ares-class equipment earlier, what's that?"
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Chapter 54: War Approaching
"You mentioned Ares-class equipment earlier, what's that?" Han asked in curiosity.
Old Mo said, "You probably know, in Milky Way, any espers at 6-star level are called quasi-god of war, also known as quasi-warlord. When they get to 7-star, then they became the real god of war or warlord, and those so-called Ares-class equipment are equipment used by those warlords."
"Due to the fact that 7-star espers will have at least over 10 million units of Power Source Index, even the powerful tritanium in the hands can be easily broken like plastic. So, the warlords all use special equipment and they are all unique models."
"Ever since I was young, I loved playing with machinery and metal. Now that I have robots, if I can collect one set of Ares-class equipment, then my life can be considered not lived in vain."
Han slightly nodded, 7-star espers were obviously powerful existences and they were basically legends in the Milky Way. Want to collect a used set of Ares-class equipment from those warlords? Old Mo's ambition was really not small.
Slightly smiling, Han said to Mo, "Anyways, I wish you to be successful, and then come early to Earth for to spend your pension plan here."
Old Mo laughed, he let his robot find a thick notebook and handed it to Han, saying, "Accepting your hospitality, I don't really have anything to give you in return. I might as well give you the notebook that holds all my research on robots in the past few years. These are all my years of research experience, so you can't even buy it with money."
"Of course, you have to be careful because robotics is illegal after all, be care that people might send you to jail after knowing about it."
Han waved the notebook, "Thank you then! Such a precious gift, I will take good care of it for sure!"
Shua~
The old industrial ship took off and left Earth in a sketchy and shaky manner. Han watched Old Mo leave and had some strong feelings. He was a little envious of Old Mo's lifestyle, leading a group of loyal robots, digging around ancient battlefields and being able to see different landscapes every day.
"Someday, I want to become a galactic adventurer." Han thought in silence.
Everyone needed a dream, but Han's only goal right now was to make it to the Galactic Meet's main competition and avoid having his home become the colony of another empire. Otherwise, if Han comes back from an adventure in Milky Way and oh shit, his home is gone, that would be a really sad thing.
With the communicator, Han called the long waiting transport troops on the periphery, and they took all the equipment back to the Nazca base to distribute it to the troops.
Despite being second-hand goods from the dark net, all the soldiers were very happy. After all, they now finally have their own equipment. With the perennial lack of funding, espers on Earth are actually very easy to satisfy.
The routine life continued, training, studying, practicing tactics, and one and a half month passed in the blink of an eye. During that time, the problem with galactic pirates and raiders became even more severe.
Due to the powerful Atlantic Cruiser that was guarding Earth, the galactic raiders did not dare to openly loot, but instead, they always rushed to a small city to grab whatever valuables they could before fleeing.
Han and the soldiers in the 1st Legion were very angry but they couldn't do anything. The raiders steal quickly and left quickly as well, making it very tough to prepare for these raids. Within just one and a half month, Earth was actually attacked more than 100 times, averaging to about 3 times a day.
On the worst day, 9 attacks were recorded in one day which really brought panic to Earth. Now people didn't even dare to live in small cities with insufficient defense, desperately swarming into big cities with better defense, causing all major cities to be overcrowded. On the streets, more and more homeless people appeared, and they are all lacking food and clothing.
Han knew, the raiders and pirates are that rampant because Thorn Bird's achievement was spread: one raiding group, looting the same planet multiple times and almost blew up Earth's C-class Extinction Domain.
After hearing it, other raiders and pirates naturally perceived Earth as a good bullying target, and they all began to target Earth.
Good people get bullied, obedient horses get ridden, the Galactic Meet haven't even started, and Earth's situation is already worsening.
Like usual, Han conducted several pharmacological tests and headed towards the training center, where there were a series of pools of cold water constructed specifically for Han.
Before even entering the door, Han already saw the depressed Cheng Zhong.
"My mom just called me, the city that my 2nd Aunt lived in were attacked by a group of galactic pirates, my 2nd uncle was hit by a stray bullet and had to get his leg amputated. He's going to live the rest of his life in a wheel chair… And my two little cousins, just 8 or 9 years old little girls, they were so scared that their face turned blue, aside from crying, they couldn't even speak a whole sentence."
"My mom asked me, aren't you a soldier? Where were you when your 2nd aunt's house was attacked? Why weren't you on the battle field? I didn't even know how to f*king answer!"
"I'm so pissed! What the f*k is Long Chuan doing? Why didn't he dispatch us to defend Earth? Why form 1st Legion if all we do is training and more training? If we can't even protect the city our family lives in, then what the f*k are we training for?! Han, you tell me, don't you agree with me?"
Cheng Zhong was very loud and the whole training center heard it, the An Beibei with two beautiful thin legs also pinched his waist and said, "Cheng Zhong's right, last month my dad went on a business trip to a small town and that city also got attacked. He almost didn't make it home! Now I told my dad to quit his job since my government bonus is good enough to feed my family, I'm never putting my family under risk again."
The impatient Parker cried, "One and a half month and there are 139 attacks! Did the pirates really think of Earth as a soft punching bag?! Han, let's go together and protest against Long Chuan! What are we still training for? It's more urgent to assign everyone to defense to prevent more attacks!"
Since the last time Han stomped the group of 4-stars led by Xin Beige, he naturally became the leader of the group. Plus, they have all been practicing the Wolf Fang tactic and it was led by Han, so everyone formed the habit of discussing things with Han first.
The recent series of attacks on Earth angered everyone.
Han lowered his forehead, came to the glass window and looked out at the open, and he said in a deep voice, "Look."
"Look at what? It's just snowing. I've seen it multiple times back at home." Nicholas from Siberia said in a careless tone.
Han shook his head, he pointed and whispered, "Look, 1st Legion's practicing in the snow again, and Long Chuan is personally leading the team. These large-scale trainings went from once every three days to now daily."
"And each soldier are training with a full set of equipment on, all commanders were present at the training, even Chief Talin of United Government flies to Nazca base every few days, do you guys not feel that tense atmosphere of an approaching war?"
After listening to Han, everyone was shocked.
Cheng Zhong scratched his big head and said, "Speaking about that, I have a friend that manages logistics on Atlantic Cruiser, he's currently super busy loading large number of supplies and he didn't even have time to answer my phone."
Xin Beige stroked his chin and said, "That also reminds me, my cousin's on the maintenance team on Atlantic Cruiser, and they are all busy doing first-class maintenance for the cruiser, all the equipment including the toilets were completely checked. Maybe it's really like what you said, we are not making any moves because we are preparing for something big?"
Han slightly nodded and said, "We will wait and see. When I was doing experiments I occasionally observe what's happening outside. From what I saw, the atmosphere in the base is getting more and more intense. Long Chuan's office light hasn't been off for a long time, every day he was in the office working until dawn."
"If I were Long Chuan, I won't assign the soldiers of the legion to small cities for defense. Earth has a hundred and fifty million people, tens of thousands of small cities, what's the use of scattering our small legion?"
"There's a good old saying, deal with thieves you deal with their chief. If we want those space pirates and raiders to never dare setting a foot on Earth, then we have to fight a war that can prove that Earth's not a soft punching bag! We must let them know the price they pay for harassing Earth!"
"Is that true?"
"Great, we have all been waiting for this day!"
"Han, when do you think this battle is going to be? Who's our target?"
The crowd surrounded Han and they all asked.
Han thought about it and said, "It should be within the next two days. After all, the training frequency of the 1st Legion has brought the soldiers close to their limit. Right now, we will just patiently wait and not cause any trouble."
"Got it!" Xin Beige nodded heavily, and he strode toward the training center.
"Where you going? Aren't we going for bubble tea?" An Beibei yelled at Xin Beige.
"Not going, you go yourself."
Xin Beige got into the training room, and there came immediately sounds of weapon slicing through air. Looks like Xin Beige is taking the initiative to increase his training load.
Han looked out the window in silence, the snow is coming down heavier, the whole world outside is covered in white. 1st Legion's high intensity training is still going, the soldiers' figure gradually turned into a bunch of black specks in the distance.
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Chapter 55: Tragedy at Sydney
Two more days passed by, Han soaked himself in the cold water with a temperature unimaginable by ordinary people. Now, Han is able to withstand water as cold as -110 degrees Celsius, and train within it for 3 hours without getting harmed.
At the end of training, Han climbed out of the ultra-cold pool, white steam pouring off of his crimson red skin.
Gabon~
Han swallowed a Nuclear Energy Pill, which was an illegal drug that was used to temporarily increase source energy. It could stimulate the zero-degree brain region to produce and release source energy in large scale. Every year, millions of soldiers died or became paralyzed due to taking Nuclear Energy Pills, so it had long been recognized as the most dangerous forbidden drug by the Milky Way Alliance.
But, Han had the very unique toxin-resistant body, so now he could not only take Nuclear Energy pills on a daily bases, but he would take it once before and once after training. If normal soldiers were like Han and ate these pills like candy, it was probably enough to kill them more than 100 times.
Shua~
Large amounts of source energy started to surge into Han's body, clearing out his fatigue and filling his body with energy. Every after going through as much as 3 hours and 40 minutes of extreme training, Han still felt like he had the energy to fight a few rounds with anyone.
This was the power that only belonged to Han. He practiced like crazy, studied like crazy, and consumed drugs that no one else dared to use like crazy, so his level was increasing like a rocket.
There was a mirror inside the training room, Han faced the mirror and put on his jacket. Very distinct muscles were bulging on his body. If someone were to go up and feel Han's biceps, they would notice that Han's muscles were way too special and felt as tough as steel, completely unlike the type of muscles that humans were supposed to have.
That was a side effect of undergoing long term extreme training, aside from drastically leveling up, Han had also became as tough as a robot. He once practiced with the highest level esper on the team that wasn't him, Xin Beige. Xin Beige was a 4-star intermediate esper, who was recognized as a proud genius that was hard to spot in millions. He was an existence with a power source index close to 50,000.
It was just a melee fight without using power, but it was already way too difficult for the Xin Beige with nearly 10 times as much power source index units to end the fight with a draw against Han. Han's muscles were too solid, it was like wearing a full set of armor, giving him a high tolerance for melee attacks and Xin Beige could barely hurt him. On the other hand, whenever Han landed a punch on Xin Beige, it was usually painful enough to make him scream.
In conclusion, under the mentorship of that odd fellow Pathless Origin, Han grew at an unprecedented speed, radiating the aura of a monster and becoming less and less like a normal human.
The equipment at the training facility were very advanced, inside the room there was a high configuration computer with a large screen. Han took off his necklace, took out the dark net login program inside the USB and habitually found Pathless Origin.
As Han got more familiar with Pathless, they started to use video chat. Now, Pathless wasn't as cold as before but he became even stricter with Han. Even if there was a tiny mistake during training, Pathless would criticize Han like there was no tomorrow.
Han saw that strict old face of Pathless, smiled lightly and said, "Teacher, I finished your mission. I think I can go to -120 degrees Celsius water to train."
Pathless slightly nodded, and started to carefully review Han's training record today. The portable physiological assessing machine Han carried will send his daily training records to Pathless, and the records included heartbeat, blood pressure, source energy consumption, and a lot more.
Han slowly realized, Pathless wasn't just give Han training advices casually, there seemed to be some sort of science behind it, like when to lower temperature, when to increase intensity. Pathless decided these things all based on the recorded data.
Pathless slightly nodded, "Alright, Power Source Index at 4257 units, according to Milky Way's current level standard, you are now an intermediate 3-star esper, and all indicators are excellent. Tomorrow you will enter the -120 degrees Celsius pool, and your training goal is still to practice the 46 Ensemble."
Han scratched his head and said, "Teacher, why still 46 Ensemble? Now I'm like the odd one in my battalion. I'm already at the level of intermediate 3 stars and I still only know the 46 Ensemble, I didn't even study any other martial arts."
Pathless glared at Han, "So? You are not satisfied?"
Han hastily shook his head and said, "Nope I'm fine with that, I always trust Teacher's arrangement."
Then, Han said. "Recently, Earth's situation is worsening. Yesterday, Earth was attacked 13 times and that's the worst so far. There was even a raiding group that attempted to attack a large scale city on Earth and caused heavy casualties."
"But our 1st Legion have been training like crazy these days to prepare for war, the troops would practice from morning all the way to night. The chief of our legion visits us daily to see how the practice of Wolf Fang is going."
"Teacher, if I guess correctly, just in the next two days, we are probably going to war."
Pathless slightly raised his eyelids, then nodded and said, "I'm aware of your situation, you feel like if you can learn a bit of martial arts then you can perform better on the battle field right?"
"That's my intention." Han didn't try to hide it.
Pathless sighed, "To be honest, you are indeed at the stage to learn martial arts, but not mentioning this battle, two months later when you are doing your last test for the pressure exam, you will need martial arts more at that time"
"But you must know, you are a bit different from others. Other people learning martial arts might be a good thing, but for you, it's a disadvantage in most cases. After all, your power and combat features are too different. Picking a style of martial arts, you must be careful and careful and more careful."
"As to the war you are going to be fighting, don't worry. Your body now is tougher than anyone's, your toxin-resistance is stronger than anyone's, and your power is also unique. These three are your foundation. If you can exert the true battle spirit on top of that foundation, and be able to freely bring into play the features of 46 Ensemble, then you are already an excellent fighter."
Han thought a bit, nodded and said, "I got it. Being desperate for speed might actually slow me down. Rather than cramming it all at once, I'm better off just focusing on how to fully utilize what I already know."
After training, Han still needed to take the comrades at the Talent Battalion to practice the Wolf Fang tactic together. Han saw that it was almost time, he said goodbye to Pathless, left his personal training room and went to the lobby.
Han saw that everyone was already there, surrounded by the big screen and watching intently, while An Beibei was nervously dialing her phone on the side.
"Let's go, we are starting!" Han waved his arm and said.
Strangely, no one responded, these people were all very energetic about training before.
Cheng Zhong turned around, said in a deep quiet voice, "Let's wait a bit, Sydney was attacked."
Han was seriously shocked, he hastily came to the screen and saw that it was broadcasting the famous Sydney Opera House. That once symbolic landmark was now engulfed in flames, and that shell-shaped structure completely collapsed.
The camera slowly panned out, the whole city was in a mess with countless spots of flame dotting the entire city, and the sounds of sirens and commotion in the distance.
At the side of a shattered street, there was a broken street light pole pressing down on a mother, who had curled up to protect her little son. That little boy was crying loudly, but no matter how hard he cried, his mother still didn't wake up.
A skyscraper collapsed, and under the ruins a thin arm broke the surface. Obviously, this arm belongs to a young woman. She pointed her finger at the sky, and her voice crying for help began to faint. Under the rubble, it's still unknown how many lives were buried, maybe they lost their consciousness before even getting a chance to shout for help.
The camera on the helicopter constantly switched scenes, broadcasting the tragedy that took place in the Sydney city. The live TV broadcast was in awkward silence, perhaps even the broadcaster didn't know what to say at a time like this.
An Beibei still kept on calling, but the phone was always playing the busy tone.
Xin Beige let out a quiet sigh, and said to Han in a low voice, "Her family is in Sydney."
Han didn't say anything, and everyone was quiet.
Suddenly, the always cheerful An Beibei finally broke out of silence, smashing her phone against the wall into pieces, and finally punching the alloy wall, punch after punch.
AHHHHHHHHHH!
It's hard to imagine that the sound coming out of the throat of such a beautiful girl was not the painful cry of a beast. An Beibei rushed out of the lobby into the yard, facing the starry sky she finally cried, the cry was that painful and hopeless.
"I will go see her, you guys keep on training." Xin Beige stood up and said.
"At this point, who even has the thought to train?!" Cheng Zhong patted his head with his big hand and said with red eyes.
Xin Beige's figure finally stopped, he didn't look back but said, "Originally, I shouldn't say this. But my cousin that's working on the Atlantic cruiser told me, they were ordered that at the latest tonight, the ship must finish its 1st class maintenance."
"Han, I think you guessed it. Tonight might be the last joint training we have before leaving so it's very important."
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Chapter 56: Gathering
After hearing about the confirmation of finally going to war, everyone participated in the last joint training with great enthusiasm. In the training camp, the majority of the espers were young people so past training sessions were always full of laughter. But now, everyone was silent, and they were trying their best to suppress their rage.
The news media continued to criticize the 1st Legion for not defending Earth. For the past few weeks, Earth was constantly under attack, and that has already worn down the citizens mentally. The Sydney event became the fuse that detonated all the pressure that the citizens were under.
People began to question, when Earth was getting attacked again and again and again, where was that 1st Legion that the United Government of Earth invested so heavily in? Why didn't they stand up and protect Earth?
With the Thorn Birds gang as the lead, all the active pirate groups near Earth had gathered together and attacked this major city that was located in Australia.
Since Sydney was located in Oceania, which was far away from the mainland and didn't have immediate access to large-scale reinforcement, the pirates and raiders were able to act brazenly.
Worse, after several big pirate groups swept clean Sydney, the pirates actually started firing at the city using the cannons on their battleships, razing this beautiful coastal city to the ground as well as causing heavy casualties.
Undoubtedly, the pirates and raiders were full of contempt for Earth, completely ignoring Earth's government and army.
Although many espers were in the army, the few espers left still living in the towns still stood up bravely against the intruders, and actively cooperated with the police to resist the invasion. Of course, many of them were never leaving the battlefield ever again.
Unfortunately, the raging citizens couldn't see that, and the media directed all the hostility towards the Esper Administration. There were even voices of doubt among the United Government's House of Commons.
After a full 4 hours of joint training, Han ordered dismissal but the majority of them didn't leave the training base and continued to strengthen themselves in other subjects.
Han knew, all his comrades felt helpless. It was not that they didn't want to protect the civilians, but they were restricted to the barracks.
An Beibei had stopped crying and locked herself away in the training.
Han let out a small sigh and walked out of the training center. He came to the yard. The snow had stopped but the air was still unusually cold, the weather this year here was quite unusual, and no one knows why.
Han saw a slim dark shadow in the dark, it was Long Chuan, and he was coughing violently in the dark.
Han slightly frowned and walked over to him. Long Chuan saw Han and offered him a cigarette, Han shook his head and refused.
"All the members of the Genius camp probably hates me now right?" Long Chuan smiled bitterly and said.
Han replied, "Not really hate, at most they just feel depressed,"
Long Chuan said bitterly, "You are very honest, it doesn't matter. Hate or not hate, I don't care. Sometimes, in order to achieve a strategic goal it's necessary to make sacrifices."
Han nodded, "So we are really going to war?"
Long Chuan didn't deny it, he looked down at the time and said in a deep voice, "There are still 3 hours. You still have some time to sleep."
Han shook his head, "I can't sleep, so I will go back and pack up."
"Okay." Long Chuan said emotionlessly.
Han laid on his bed, stared out the window into the night. Long Chuan said that we are leaving after 3 hours, and that was at 3 o'clock in the morning. Han already packed the things he needed to bring in his Blue Spatial ring. Although the room inside the ring wasn't too big, only 1 meter cubed of space, but it was still enough to hold weapons, his combat suit and many medicinal drugs.
At a quarter past two, the base suddenly lit up, all the spotlights were instantly turned on and followed by a hard military siren.
Han sat up from his bed, took his backpack and went straight out of the room.
All the members of the training camp all lived on the same floor, Han just stepped out of the door and he saw Cheng Zhong, Xin Beige, Nicholas, and the others. Everyone's heart seems to share the same beat, they all packed up long ago and were ready to roll. Cheng Zhong carried a giant three hundred liter travel bag, and Han knew that it was full of high-calorie foods, the essential source of Cheng Zhong's battle strength.
An Beibei also came out. She had changed into her battle suit, showing the curves of her body, but her eyes were still red and she didn't look too well-rested.
Everyone went out in silence, and followed the main troop to board the long-waiting Atlantic Cruiser. From the sound of siren to everyone boarding the cruiser, it only took 35 minutes. Although it was recently formed, but everyone in the 1st Legion seemed to be already very well trained.
After all, these were the elites chosen from the 150 thousand espers, so the 1st Legion's combat power was definitely the highest in the entire army of Earth.
Han laid beside the porthole looking down, he saw the three giants of Esper Administration saying farewell to each other, Li Yu, Talin, and Long Chuan. Of the three, only Long Chuan will command the 1st Legion into battle, and the other two will stay behind to defend Earth.
In the current organization of Earth's army, aside from the 1st Legion of over 10 thousand members, there were only several Special Tactics teams from Headquarter and other branches. On the Atlantic Cruiser, Han saw Chu Li and his 4 Special Tactics teams from the Shanghai Division, which meant that the whole region of Shanghai was currently only being defended by one team, and that was a total of only 11 espers.
Clearly, the operation was out in full strength, putting all their cards on the line.
"Long Chuan is probably under a lot of pressure…" Han laid in front of the windows and thought silently.
"I'm leaving all the resources of the Administration in your hands, so for this war, make Earth proud! You are only allowed to win!" Talin said in a deep voice in Long Chuan.
Long Chuan slightly nodded, smiled and said, "Leave it to me. According to our intelligence, the Thorn Bird Raiding group is already gathering. Without the cooperation of such a large group, Earth will face less pressure. But you guys still have to be on guard. After all, I'm taking all soldiers with me, and our home is just an empty shell for now."
Li Yu pointed at himself and Talin, "Look at us, do we f*ing look dead to you? Just take care of your team, and leave everything at home to us two. Don't worry about anything!"
"Understood, Bye!"
Pa~
Long Chuan stood at attention, and paid a very standard salute to Li Yu and Talin. Li Yu and Talin solemnly saluted back.
Turning around, Long Chuan lightly coughed twice, and started walking forward in big steps. The north wind blew, Long Chuan's slim yet tall and straight figure soon disappeared in the wind.
Li Yu gritted his teeth and his eyes turned red, with a suppressed voice he said, "Long Chuan's illness is getting worse. This time he's putting everything on the line, he's probably didn't think about coming back alive."
Talin nodded slightly, and said in a very deep voice, "I know. Before passing away, he wants to do something for the planet he love so much. As friend, the only thing we can do is to not stop him. Long Chuan is a true warrior, he has his own pride and glory."
Shua~
Loaded with the one and only esper legion, the Atlantic Carrier ejected intense blue flames out of its engines, ascended into the sky, and then disappeared into the starry night sky in the blink of an eye.
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Chapter 57: Set Sail
The Atlantic Cruiser wasn't a troop transport ship but 12 thousand soldiers were crammed in with an additional 8000 crew members that were already onboard, so it was very crowded. Rooms had not been assigned so everyone was stationed in the hallway with their luggage and equipment.
Most people here were leaving Earth for the first time so everyone was curious to take a look from the port window and see their home planet getting smaller and smaller, eventually becoming a humble black speck in space.
Only by being in space could humans feel their insignificance. The deep sky outside was seemingly endless, so vast and extensive, and triggering mixed feelings for the warriors visiting space for the first time.
To have a home in such a desolate vast universe, it was not an easy thing but could still be counted as a blessing for the humans on Earth. If one day Earth gets colonized by another empire, then I'm afraid that most of the people here today would become homeless, wandering endlessly in the Milky Way.
The beautiful and fertile Earth was the shared home for all of mankind on the planet. Unfortunately, there weren't a lot of civilians on Earth that had any combat strength, leaving the burden and tremendous pressure of protecting their homeland to the small group of espers.
Shua~
The Atlantic opened up a transition channel and a bright circle appeared, lighting up the dark sky like a holy aura.
The Atlantic Cruiser went into the transition channel, and as the channel shuts, the cruiser began to move across the space. Its surroundings are no longer starry sky but only colorful streams of light passing by at the speed of light, the scene was extremely dream-like.
*Cough cough*
Suddenly, the all-channel broadcasted on the Atlantic, the soldiers head the iconic cough of the 5-star esper Admiral Long Chuan. He cleared his throat, and said in a deep voice, "Atlantic, this is your captain and commander for this operation, Long Chuan."
"Here's our tactical layout!" Cheng Zhong was suddenly shocked, and he nudged Han to listen carefully to the announcement. The Atlantic suddenly became unusually quiet.
Long Chuan paused and then said, "As we all know, recently Earth was under constant attack from pirates and raiders. After the enemies took turns to attack, there were a large number of civilian casualties which placed the rest of citizens in panic."
"According to our intelligence, we know that these attacks were in fact caused by someone who hired the Thorn Birds gang to lead organized crime groups in the hopes of creating chaos. Their goal was likely to cause the civilians to lose hope in Earth's United Government and military. That way, on the Milky Way Meeting, the enemy can use 'The Government on Earth cannot maintain normal order on their own grounds' as a reason to take control of Earth. Ultimately, they wish to colonize Earth, and then raid Earth's resources and population.
"As a soldier of the United Government, as the strongest esper legion in the United Government Army, we cannot allow that to happen!"
"So the United Government authorized me to gather the United Government's Air Force, the Atlantic Fleet, the Esper Administration's 1st Legion and the Special Forces to advance into the lair of the Thorn Bird gang and to launch the final attack!"
"This operation's code name is Divine Sword! There's only one goal, and that is the total elimination of all existing Thorn Bird raiders and criminal groups threatening Earth! While they are all gathered on one planet to hold a join assembly, we will seize this opportunity to annihilate them all! Fully eradicating the enemy's threat to Earth!"
"Since we chose to fight, then we must eliminate the enemies! Cripple them! Stomp them until they no longer dare to even come close to Earth! From now on, the Atlantic Cruiser will enter radio silence during the voyage, with an estimated time of 24 hours before entering the battlefield. May god be with you!"
"Over!"
After Long Chuan's speech ended, everyone finally realized how crazy of a battle this is. Directly finding the enemy's gathering spot, and then fight head on against the raiders?!
The advantage of this is obvious, if successful, then we will eliminate all these nasty raiders and pirates in one fell swoop, fully eradicating their threat to Earth. If that fails, Earth will lose most of their elite troops and never be able to recover.
From Long Chuan to normal soldiers, everyone was feeling tremendous pressure. After all, this was the first large-scale war after the establishment of the United Government, and also the first war outside of Earth, so everyone was very nervous.
The head of the Thorn Bird Gang, Lucas, was recently described to be having his best luck. He got an important order from the Sally Empire to cooperate with the nearby notorious criminal organizations to harass Earth, with everything being funded by the empire.
The Sally Empire was located in Centaurus, which was only a few hours of flight beside the solar system where Earth resided. They had long desired Earth's environment and its untapped B-class domain, and they were not stopping until they got what they want.
The only problem is, above the empire, there was still the Milky Way Alliance. Depriving Earth of its sovereignty and colonizing it was not a tough task for those empires in the Milky Way, as long as they can prove that Earth was too weak to sustain normal operations and couldn't guarantee the safety of civilians.
But how could they prove that the federal government couldn't protect themselves nor their citizens?
It was simple, just hire criminals to attack. Then, the evidence of Earth being too weak to defend and retaliate against these attacks will be added to the public documentation at the meeting of the Milky Way Alliance in two months. If this was to happen, then it would make the Sally Empire's proposition to colonize Earth a lot easier to pass.
Now, the Thorn Birds Gang was regarded as the Sally Empire's imperial agents to gather everyone. The Thorn Birds had 5000 fighters, placing them as one of the largest among all the nearby criminal groups. Chief Lucas was also an intermediate 5-star soldier with a level approaching quasi-warlord, he had the strongest fighting strength among all the nearby criminals.
Although the plan of having multiple pirate and raider groups attack Earth seemed to be a good plan, it still had its problems. Since outlaws didn't have rules, many problems would arise. Who contributed more but were not rewarded any money as well as those who hid and didn't participate but were paid anyways.
After nearly two months of experimental attacks, Lucas also discovered the problem, the existing scale of attacks was not enough to completely embarrass Earth and bring it to its knees.
What the Sally Empire wanted was 24-hours harassment, and it was best to completely cripple Earth. As to how many people died on Earth, it was not their concern at all. After all, the Sally Empire just wanted the territories and extinction domains but not the civilians on Earth. The empire already have enough civilians to care about.
Since the contractor demanded a higher requirement, Lucas and his Thorn Bird raiding group needed to find a way to get it done. The counsellor Di Fu came up with an idea. Instead of assigning groups to individual missions, it was better to just unite all the pirate and raider groups into one, and have Lucas command them all. After the contractor's satisfied then all groups will be dismissed, and those groups will all be paid based on the percentage contribution in terms of battleships and soldiers.
This idea is obviously wise, because during and after the war, the Thorn Birds could also eliminate a few of those smaller and weaker groups along the way, and take over their people and ships for themselves.
The greedy Lucas felt that Di Fu's idea was very good so they held the alliance meeting on planet No. N65871 to discuss the team up plan and implementation of strategies in more detail. The other pirate and raider groups all agreed because of the money. After all, the Sally Empire was very generous.
Shua~
Shua~
Battleships of various sizes arrived one after another to this dirt yellow barren planet. The outlaws started setting up tents in the desert, and then went on to eating and drinking while discussing matters of how to attack Earth together.
But, they could never have dreamed, a heavy battlecruiser carrying the elite espers of Earth was also heading this way.
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Chapter 58 Close the doors, Let the Dogs out:
When the outlaws gathered together, three things definitely wouldn't be missing: alcohol, women, and gambling.
Looking around, with the desert as the center, the scene was full of sights like drunk men doing adult things to women, and people swearing and gambling everywhere.
In a white tent, the head of the Thorn Bird Raiders, Lucas, with two women in his arms, was sitting together with the chiefs of other outlaw groups. In comparison to their men that were fooling around outside, they were behaving in a civilized manner.
"Come on, let's finish this cup! From today, we make money together and spend it together!" Lucas raised his full glass of ale and proposed a toast.
The head of the Gerbil Pirate group, Donald, rubbed his mouth, and said cautiously, "I don't have anything against the money offer, the golden contractor behind this is generous enough. But we still have to be careful, after all Earth is still a country, their esper population exceeds ours and they also have a heavy battlecruiser."
The Mad Cloud Raiders' chief, Amir, disagreed, "What kind of shit country is Earth?! It just joined the Milky Way Alliance a few years ago, and they got nothing other than that Ke Lake and the Air-Fortress class cruiser, there's nothing to worry about. We will just follow Lucas's plan, take turns to execute that 24-hour battle every day until Earth is on its knees!"
"Oh by the way, Lucas, the golden contractor really did say, if he successfully takes ownership of Earth he will let us go berserk and kill on Earth for three days and three nights?"
Lucas nodded, "Of course, our boss only wants Earth and he obviously don't want the burden that comes with Earth. The more people we kill and abducted, the more hassle we save for our boss so of course they are happy with it."
Amir laughed out loud, "Nice! I love working for this type of boss! I heard that the quality of chicks on Earth is pretty good. After we are done I'm going to grab a few ships of them!"
All the chiefs started laughing, the Sally Empire agreed that once it colonized Earth after the Milky Way Gathering (TL: previously known as Galactic Meet), they will allow the pirates and raiders to do whatever they want on Earth for 3 days, and that was something the outlaws were very willing to do.
However, the always cautious Donald said again, "Chief Lucas, our intelligence reported that Earth's heavy cruiser disappeared. Now that our alliance is settled, why not let us go back so that our base isn't vulnerable with most of our troops here."
Lucas sneered, and threw his glass at the table, "Chief Donald, you've been just a pussy since the beginning, is it that you don't want to make money together with us? If so, then leave and I won't stop you!"
He pointed to the sky and continued in a deep voice, "You take a look yourself, we have a fleet size of more than 30 warships, just the ones in the air on watch is already more than a dozen, rotating on 6 hour shifts. Earth in total has one cruiser, so it's even better if it comes! After destroying Earth's only battleship, then it would be even easier to take down Earth!"
"Well said!"
"They won't dare to come even if we give them 100 guys. Donald, man, you think too much!"
All the other chiefs didn't worry too much. Seeing everyone being so dismissive about his words, Donald chugged down a glass of alcohol and displayed a downhearted mood.
Starships relied on transition channels for mobility. If Earth's Atlantic Cruiser wanted to attack the outlaws, they first had to create an artificial wormhole, and then let the starship through the wormhole to arrive in the combat zone.
The key stage was here. The outlaws had air defense, so the moment the transition channel opened up, before the Atlantic Cruiser even entered the territory, the defending battleships would already begin its ferocious attacks on the Atlantic. Most likely, the Atlantic would explode before it even leaves the transition channel.
These outlaw chiefs were not worried at all because they really didn't believe that Earth will send their only battleship to die.
"Come on, cheers!" Lucas was right in the middle of having fun, and he gave another toast.
BOOM!
His voice just faded, and in the desert not too far away, a sudden burst of wind started blowing. The dust covered the sky, the ground started shaking violently, all the food and drink on the tables scattered over the ground, and all the outlaws that were having fun all stood up and looked towards that direction.
Lucas slightly frowned, could it be a sandstorm?
Although the planet N65871 had an atmosphere as well as oxygen that was essential for the survival of humans, but it already went through desertification. There was severe weather, lack of water, and frequent earthquakes and sandworms. This planet was uninhabitable by Galactic standards and that was why the outlaws could easily occupy and hide on it.
But before the gathering, Lucas already ordered someone to predict the weather and there shouldn't be any large scale sandstorms appearing. Could there be an error in their calculation?
After a few seconds, the earth began trembling even harder and the outlaws began to panic and start to slowly retreat.
Rumble~
There came an extremely loud noise powerful to almost shatter eardrum. It was very similar to the sound of high-speed rotations of a battleship engine when the space transition ends.
"It's a transition channel!"
"OH SHIT! Someone's driving their ship straight into the desert!"
"Run! Hurry and retreat!"
"Call air support! Call air support!"
In the sky, a huge black shadow appeared, it was the Atlantic! Earth's only heavy battle cruiser!
Air defense?
Under the command of Long Chuan, the Atlantic Cruiser skipped right past the air defense! He didn't establish Atlantic's endpoint of the transition channel in space but directly in front the outlaws face!
No sane captain would do something like this, because opening up the channel directly near the planet's surface was way too risky. If there was any error and the channel opened up not at the surface of the planet but beneath the surface, then the spaceship would immediately become an excavator and get buried alive.
In addition, when the transition channel opens up, if it inhales too much sand and rocks, then the channel become instable which also leads to a horrible result.
In the instruction manual of starships, it stated clearly that the transitional channel needed to be established away from any physical object, and Long Chuan completely ignored it because he knew very well if he used conventional tactics, then there was no way he could eliminate this group of outlaws. If Earth wanted to win in adversity, then they should be the greatest risk!
Kacha~
Kacha~
Before Atlantic came to a full stop, two huge noises sounded at the same time, one was the sound of the detonation of a super interceptor bomb, and the other noise was the sound of Atlantic's landing door opening up!
BOOM~
With the detonation of the interceptor bomb, a cloud of bright light quickly surrounded the entire barren planet.
Interceptor bombs could release strong interference waves for 30 minutes, capable of stopping engines from starting and depriving all battleships of their mobility, it was a tactical weapon that sacrificed 800 to destroy 1000. The moment it was activated, the battleships of both the ally and foe were all staying! No one could even think about leaving!
Shua~
The 12 battleships on watch in space couldn't move at all because of the interference from the bomb, being unable to provide any support to their allies on the ground. The same situation went for the ships parked on the ground.
Under the orders of the godly commander Long Chuan, the Atlantic was like a sharp knife that went straight into the hinterland of the enemy! At the expense of their own mobility, the Atlantic immobilized all 30 or so battleships on the raiders and pirates' side!
Success! Long Chuan's insane Divine Sword operation really succeeded!
The United Government of Earth with only one battleship, really forced the outlaws with over 30 ships into a dead corner!
The protector of Earth Ke Lake was no longer here. That was really unfortunate.
But Earth still had its godly commander of the generation, Long Chuan!
His stratagem, courage, and plotting were all unparalleled in the world!
Now, the door is closed. The next step is, release the dogs!
Kacha~
The landing door of Atlantic completely opened, and more than 12 thousand of Earth's finest espers all rushed out! They have been suppressed for way too long! And they rushed out like a tsunami of mad dogs!
Earth vs. Outlaw Alliance, the war broke out immediately!
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Chapter 59: All on the Line
The war had broken out in the desert!
More than 12 thousand espers soldiers rushed out of the Atlantic. They have been supressing their rage for a long time, and now they all ran out like a group of mad dogs towards those raiders that were in the middle of having fun.
In the past few months, Earth was under constant attack from these outlaws and suffered great casualties.
Now, the only way out was laid in front of the soldiers from Earth: if they wanted to prevent these tragedies from happening again, they have to eliminate all these enemies in front of them right now! Stomp them until they no longer dared to set foot on Earth.
Rumble!
Just as the soldiers flooded towards the enemies, the Atlantic also began its violent battle with the pirate battleships.
Although the interception bomb could paralyze the engine, it couldn't interfere with the energy and weapon systems so the battleships could still fire their cannons.
The Atlantic opened up its four missile launchers and fired towards the sky, bombarding those battleships that were stuck. It also started firing its heavy cannon into the sky even though, at the same time the Atlantic was also under heavy fire from enemy ground fire. As Earth's only battleship, it had no choice but to rely on its energy shield and thick metal armor to defend against the enemy attacks.
The battle situation was very tricky, Atlantic chose to not target ground units and focused all their effort on bringing down the 4 destroyers and 8 frigates in the air. This was a strange tactic, because the raiders had more battleships parked on the ground, there were at least 6 destroyers and 19 frigates.
The Atlantic's firepower strength was undoubtedly powerful. Its primary cannons could one shot an enemy frigate, and its heavy canons only needed 7-8 shots to sink an enemy frigate. Although the enemy's destroyers had very tough defenses, against the cruiser class warship's heavy firepower, they could hardly last more than 30 seconds under the Atlantic's full onslaught.
However, even if the Atlantic could completely shoot down all the enemy battleships in space, what about the other 25 parked on the ground? Now their cannons were all locked onto the Atlantic, under the siege of so many enemy ships, the Atlantic's energy defense system started quickly depleting. Could Long Chuan be planning on giving up Earth's only battleship?
On the ground battle, the one leading the charge was the United Government's 1st Legion, personally led by Long Chuan. Han and his Wolf Fang squad was placed behind the 1st Legion, and behind them were the special tactic squads from difference major branches of the Esper Administration.
This was also an arrangement that Han couldn't get his head around. Placing the crucial squad that could both attack and defend in the rear, Han could still understand. Long Chuan didn't want to lose the young talents that were Earth's hope of competing in the Milky Way Gathering, so he wanted them to execute coordination and support missions.
But what about the special tactics squad?
Different from the 1st Legion, Special Tactics troops were the senior troops on Earth and they have been cooperating with each other for years. Other than the fact that they were smaller with only 2000 members, their fighting strength was ahead of the 1st Legion for sure.
However, Long Chuan placed such a strong army in the very rear rather than having them lead the charge, it didn't meet the conventional tactical arrangements.
Rumble~
Kill them!
Suddenly, the 1st Legion that was leading the charge had collided with the enemy. Large-scale battles among espers were very cruel. Both sides had powers, fire balls, ice arrows, tornadoes, all kinds of super powers appeared, and the chaos and anxiety of this battle was far from being comparable to conventional wars.
According to Long Chuan's arrangement, the two wings of Earth Federation Army consisted of espers that specialized in long range attacks, and the center assault troop primarily consisted of strength descent espers, the Monk that was good friends with Han was placed in the central assault team. This arrangement was conducive to strengthening fire coverage as it was also the typical blitzkrieg tactic.
Bang~
As the leader of the Wolf Fang squad, Han was not only responsible for assault, but he also needed to constantly observe their surroundings and maintain a clear head.
Just when he turned around to see how the Special tactic troops were doing, he was suddenly shot in the chest. The bullet hit his black Kylin suit and Han felt a burning pain. The outlaws began to use firearms to prevent the 1st Legion from advancing.
In modern warfare, the role of firearms had been extensively weakened. The modern firearms now generally used shell-less kinetic energy ammunition, where the warheads and propulsion mechanism were directly connected as one piece, eliminating the need to dispose shells when firing, and greatly increasing shooting speed and firepower.
Not only were the small to medium sized firearms using shell-less kinetic energy ammunition, even the Atlantic Cruiser's 600 heavy-caliber cannon also used this type of ammunition
Over all, heavy artillery still posed a deadly threat to espers, but the firearms generally wouldn't be able to penetrate the combat suits that espers wore. In addition, all espers had a layer of source energy protection, so unless a heavy firearm of over 37 caliber was used, the bullets wouldn't even be able to penetrate source energy protective layer, not to mention being able to kill espers.
The real significant threats to esper soldiers were laser weapons. However, these weapons used a lot of energy, nor were there handheld models. Most of them existed in the form of guns armed on ships, and the smallest laser weapon in the Milky Way still needed a strength descent esper to be able carry it. It was very costly and heavy, so it's not suitable for large-scale investment.
Brothers, let's charge!
Han did not care that he was hit by a bullet, but what he was surprised to find was that all of the special tactic troops started sprinting!
They received clear instructions and quickly passed through the Wolf Fang squad that was originally in front of them, they split up into smaller units and started rushing towards those parked enemy ships in the rear of the battlefield.
Suddenly, Han finally understood Long Chuan's intention. The special tactic troops were at the very rear because they were given a very difficult mission, and that was to take advantage of the chaos of war to seize those enemy battleships on the ground.
After all, on this battlefield, the outlaws had up to 37 small and big battleships, positioning them in absolute dominance in terms of firepower. Although the Atlantic had heavy armor and firepower, but it still could not resist the continuous bombing from the enemy ships.
Hence the plan was to capture the enemy ships, seize them and then turn their fire around at the enemies!
They don't even need to seize all to be successful, as long as part of the special task force successfully controlled some enemy ships, the situation on the battlefield will be completely reversed!
"Let's go too!"
"Let's go, even the special tactics team is ahead of us now!"
"What are we waiting for? We are the Wolf Fang squad, why are we hiding behind our main force?"
Cheng Zhong and the impatient Parker were all shouting at Han. Everyone was young and hot blooded, seeing the front was already in the heat of battle and the special tactic forces behind them went all out too, then the Wolf Fang squad was really left behind everyone else, and became the "safest" troop in this battle.
Safe?
This was war!
The war with blood running and people dying every minute!
Saying a troop was safe was almost the same as insulting them! Wolf Fang's brothers all became blood boiled and anxious.
"All of you shut up! Be quiet!" Han turned around and shouted, "We are on a mission! Don't you guys get it?!"
Up until now, Long Chuan's tactics were very successful, the special tactic squads began quickly seizing control of enemy battleships, which really gave the unsuspecting raiders a surprised.
But not only did the pressure he was feeling not decrease by a single bit, it got even heavier.
It was because he knew very well, the strongest special tactical troops were now dispatched to execute the plan of seizing enemy ships, and that meant the crucial and difficult mission of annihilating as many as 15,000 raiders and pirates had totally fallen on the 1st Legion.
Without the support of the Special Tactical squads, the 1st Legion was now definitely at a huge disadvantage of fighting against the enemies' strongest ground troops at a numbers disadvantage of approximately to 2 to 3.
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Chapter 60: Four Eyed Celestial Dragon!
Han finally understood Long Chuan's strategy, and he also realized the risk associated with this tactic. With the Atlantic cruiser facing the enemies in the sky while the special tactic teams seizing control of enemy battleships on the ground, there were no problems with these two moves and they could even be called a plan written by god, easily qualified to be included in textbooks.
But, there was a huge problem in this battle plan, and that was the 1st Legion plus Wolf Fang squad in total having only about 10,000 esper soldiers. Was it really enough to annihilate the enemy's 15,000 merciless galactic raiders?
If the 1st Legion cannot win this fight, then the tactics, no matter how brilliant they were, would be overshadowed. In this war, the ground battle was the key that decided everything. If the raiders won, then they will immediately provide reinforcements for their own fleet and attack the Atlantic, resulting in all of the previous tactics and achievements becoming completely overturned!
So, the 1st Legion must achieve complete victory. There was no other way!
As Han envisioned, the 1st Legion took advantage of the enemy's panic phase and achieved good results. Long Chuan led the vanguard and pushing forward nonstop, slaying countless raiders on the way.
But soon, the raiders got a firmer footing. Under the pressure of a few powerful leaders' strong pressure, any deserter would be beheaded, leaving no choice for all the pirates and raiders but to strike back at Earth's army.
"I will kill whoever that dares to take a step back!" Lucas raised his arms and released two lightning bolts, instantly turning two retreating men into burned black carbon.
The chief of Thorn Bird raiders was not only an intermediate 5-star esper, but also an extremely powerful thunder descent esper! And thunder descent had an S rank among all super powers, equipped with high speed and powerful damage.
All other groups' chief also followed Lucas, and for those outlaws that had always been ruthless, they killed a crowd of raiders that were thinking of leaving without any hesitation.
"Fight or retreat, either way is death. Brothers, let's give it our all!"
"Kill those damn monkeys from Earth!"
"Kill them, and then we can go grab women on Earth!"
The pirates and raiders all rallied together out loud and began to strike back.
These people are all brutal murderers that could kill people without blinking. They had lived their lives licking blood off of their weapons so they were extremely vicious when it comes to battling to the death.
Suddenly, the situation started to progress towards the unfavorable direction for the 1st Legion. After all, the 1st legion was just recently established. In terms of battle experience, they were not the outlaws' opponents, so when these raiders started to strike back desperately, the 1st Legion actually couldn't make any further advances, and the vanguard troops were stuck in a close combat situation.
At this moment, Long Chuan was at the center of the regiment leading the main attack, and he knew very well, in addition to tactics, what was also extremely important in war was momentum and morale!
There was a good old saying, do it in one breath, or then you will tire and finally you will be exhausted. If they can't take care of all the enemies at once, then with the 1st Legion's fewer numbers and without the reinforcement of special tactical troops, the situation will only get worse.
So far, the special tactical troops had successfully completed their mission and seized at least 4 enemy battleships, quickly turning their cannons around and started firing back at the raiders together with the Atlantic.
But, the special tactical troops and the Atlantic were already barely dealing with a large number of enemy battleships, so it was impossible for them to provide any reinforcements to the ground troops anytime soon.
The efficacy of interceptor bombs still had 27 more minutes before ending, so even if the special tactical troops and Atlantic could establish superiority in aerial warfare, they still wouldn't be able to fly around the battleground to provide reinforcements. Now, the 1st Legion could only rely on themselves and its 49 men Wolf Fang squad.
If not dealt with quickly, the enemies will only gain more advantages!
Long Chuan finally decided, he raised his arm and delivered a hint, it's the signal for everyone to take drugs!
Kaka kaka~
Seeing the signal, all soldiers quickly took out the long-prepared nuclear energy pills, and then swallowed it whole!
These were illegal drugs are from the Galactic Dark Net, one single pill could increase their source energy index by 50%.
That is, for a soldier that originally had 1000 units of power source index, after taking the nuclear energy pill, it will increase to 1500 units, substantially increasing the combat power.
Illegal drugs, they have become a characteristic of the Earth army. Drugs like nuclear energy pill were only sold on the dark net, and its usual buyers were criminals or killers. Who can expect the official army of a country to take illegal drugs together?!
But in order to win, Long Chuan couldn't consider too much anymore, the stakes placed on this war was too much, almost dispatching all the elite forces on Earth and putting the fate of the entire planet of Earth on the line!
AHHHHHHHH~
The 1st Legion espers that were just feeling exhausted took the drug, and they immediately felt their body bursting with energy! Even their eyeballs turned red!
And Long Chuan, he threw a handful of drugs into his mouth when no one was looking. No one knew what types nor how many types of forbidden drugs he took, but in fact, Long Chuan was already giving this battle his all. Ever since the beginning, he didn't intend to go back to Earth alive!
The serious illness did not leave too much time for Long Chuan. For now, he was the strongest esper soldier on Earth. He felt that it was his duty to fulfil the obligations of a soldier during the last stage of his life, and that was to lead the United Government's troops and secure a historical iconic victory!
So, that was why Long Chuan would be this crazy this time, completely disregarding everything else!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Long Chuan let out a tremendous roar, raising his hands high above his head with white light gathering between his palms. Suddenly, a stream of light rose out and coiled into a giant dragon!
"Look! It's Long Chuan's Four Eyed Celestial Dragon!"
"So powerful! Wasn't there a rumor saying that Long Chuan was seriously ill and no longer has the energy to summon his celestial dragon anymore? Looks like we really underestimated him."
All the soldiers of the Wolf Fang squad saw the giant dragon that suddenly appeared in the sky and admired.
Not only did Long Chuan have the highest level, without the appearance of Han's Void End, Long Chuan's also the possessor of the strongest power on Earth! The rare source energy fantasy descent!
Espers that possessed this type of power could summon a eudemon through the release and materialization of their source energy. The shape of the eudemon differed based on the ability type. According to standards in the Milky Way, the eudemon that Long Chuan summoned should be called mad python, but since Long Chuan's name had a "dragon" in it (TL: Long means dragon in Chinese), people were more willing to call this snake a celestial dragon.
Due to the overdose of nuclear energy pills, the dragon that Long Chuan summoned was a lot bigger and even more shocking than any he summoned before!
The dragon had four eyes because Long Chuan's level was at the pinnacle of 4 stars. Although he was born with excellent talent, he could never make the final step to five stars, otherwise this dragon would be five eyed and also substantially more powerful.
Woooooo~
The Four Eyed Celestial Dragon out! Both the heaven and earth were in shock!
Under the control of Long Chuan, this dragon started to rip through the enemy formations, tearing through any life it saw!
Because it was made of source energy, the celestial dragon wasn't afraid of any attacks and it was completely fearless! It drove the pirates and raiders right into disarray!
"F*k! They actually have a source energy fantasy descent!"
"Such a powerful snake! We can't hold it anymore! We must retreat!"
The raiders and pirates were all crying, just when they finally established a firm foothold, they were forced to retreat.
The situation was reversed again!
The 1st Legion's powerful offense was like the tidal wave, giving the enemy so much pressure that they couldn't even breath!
Long Chuan looked up proudly, watching the retreating enemies, he decided to inject a cardiac stimulant to this war!
"Let the Wolf Fang group go to right wing! We must remain resolved and win this war!" Long Chuan said to his deputy Ge Ce in a hoarse voice and bloody red eyes.
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Chapter 61: The Wolf Fang That's everywhere
On the planet number N65871, the war was still going.
On the situation of capturing the starships, the special tactical forces really maximized the effect with this surprise attack and within only 3 minutes, they managed to take over 2 destroyers and 5 frigates.
Their attacks were quite brutal. They would immediately rush to the targeted ship, place explosives on the outside of the pressurized capsule, blow the gate open and then charge in to kill all enemies inside. After seizing control of the ship, they would finally start bombarding heavily at other enemy ships!
Under the cooperation with the special tactical force, the Earth's federation army had also taken hold in this starship warfare, and started to gradually form an advantage.
In comparison to the victory secured by the Atlantic and the special tactical force, it was a lot harder for the ground troops.
The 1st Legion used a strategy called the tactical three wings, which let the left, centre, and right wings to advance all at once to siege and lock down the enemy espers.
The advantage of this three wings tactic was that it had strong control over the battlefield, and it was very difficult for them to provide reinforcement for their air units, which gave valuable time for their allies to seize and control enemy starships.
However, the disadvantage of this strategy was the three wings must all advance at once. If any of the wings gets broken, then the entire formation will be completely disrupted, causing the other 2 wings to loose coordination and become surrounded by the enemies.
Now the situation was very dangerous, the right wing 1st Legion's deputy chief Soros seemed like he couldn't advance any further, but the centre wing led by Long Chuan was still formidable and rushed all the way to the enemy main force's center.
Thus, the lagging right wing could not provide any support to the centre wing, and it will in turn also hurt the left wing troops led by the other deputy chief Wu Chengfeng. This is because they will have to provide more reinforcements to the center wing to make up for the right wing, and that really increased their pressure several times.
Soros had become very anxious. While covered in blood, he raised his three tip double edge sword and shouted, "Brothers! Let's charge forward together! Charge! We must charge forward into the enemy crowd!"
Boom~
Under the leadership of Soros, the right wing troops launched another round of brutal assaults. This three wings tactic must be quick in order to be effective. The faster the rush, the less time enemies had to be ready and react. Otherwise, if the enemies established a firm footing, then it will force Earth's ground troops into fighting in a disadvantageous position!
Do it in one breath, or you will tire and finally you will be exhausted. That's why it was already the right wing's third time trying to advance without any success. Soros was already anxiously stomping the ground but he couldn't do anything. The enemies were already growing in number and stronger ones were showing up. Now that they had a firm footing, the right wing's situation was becoming more and more difficult.
Seeing how the centre wing was still advancing like a tidal wave, the left wing Wu Chengfeng's troop, although were in tremendous pressure but still closely following Long Chuan's footsteps, Soros and his brothers at the right wing really hated how they weren't strong enough to provide more help!
Suddenly, just when Soros was anxious enough to hit a wall with his head, a team immediately arrived like a mad gale. Han's Wolf Fang squad!
After receiving Long Chuan's order, the 49-men Wolf Fang Squad finally started brandishing the butcher knives in their hand!
"Void Domain, Activate!" Han roared in anger and activated a domain of 10 meters in radius, instantly depriving all powers inside!
"Onslaught position, KILL!"
Just when the raiders were about to use their powers to attack the Wolf Fang squad, they surprisingly found out that they couldn't do shit anymore?!
For these esper soldiers, their powers had already became a big part of their life, and when they suddenly realized this cruel reality they quickly fell into a panic.
Enemy's panicking, what do we do?
Of course, we cut them!
Enemies are resisting, what do we do?
Lift our weapons, cut harder!
The 1st Legion's right wing brothers suddenly realized, the Wolf Fang Squad was like a legendary violent battalion! They take turns cutting enemies like cutting open melons and slicing through vegetables! This suddenly solved the stalemate, and suddenly the enemies corpses were everywhere!
"Follow Wolf Fang! Cover their back!" Soros shouted in excitement.
Before the war, Long Chuan already told Soros that the Wolf Fang squad would be the joker card of the 1st legion, but Soros never knew that the Wolf Fangs were that ferocious! The moment they arrived at the right wing, the situation immediately changed and they instantly freed up the right wing to advance again!
This was called one fresh strategy being used for days! The enemies hadn't seen this type of fighting formation yet, of course they wouldn't have the time to come up with ways to deal with it.
Han's Void Domain robbed all enemies of their powers, forcing them to use their weapons which made the enemies adapt to a strategy they haven't used for years.
But this was war and this sudden change could easily cause many to lose their lives!
So, the moment the Wolf Fang squad showed up, they took down hundreds of enemies and achieved unimaginable victory!
They were like the opening bloody mouth of a beast, biting into the enemies and tearing apart their flesh!
"Han, look at the left wing!" Xin Beige was now Han's assistant, and he reminded Han during a brief pause in battle.
Han turned around and saw that Wu Chengfeng's left wing as also slowing down. They encountered the organized ranged troops from the enemy side. Fire balls and ice arrows were flying all over the places and the 1st Legion's left wing suffered heavy casualties and looked like they couldn't hold it anymore.
"Cheng Zhong, Left Wing!" Han raised his arm and shouted.
Shua~
The Cheng Zhong that weighed more than 600 pounds played the role of a diligent old cattle, there were fiber ropes attached onto his combat suit which allows the soldiers of Wolf Fang to grab on. Once Han deactivated his void domain, Cheng Zhong used his unique conversion descent power and launched himself right off the ground, instantly bringing the Wolf Fang to the left wing.
"Onslaught formation! KILL!" Han commanded loudly.
The Wolf Fang that just appeared at the right wing magically arrived at the left wing, and they began to diffuse the pressure from the enemies on their brothers at the left wing, slaughtering their way into the enemy formation again and creating a path of blood leading all their brothers at the left wing straight into the enemies!
From the right wing to the left wing, then from the left wing to the right. After a few rounds, the 1st Legion's brothers realized just how magical the Wolf Fang squad was!
They didn't really have a fixed place on the battlefield. They were like free men, quickly appearing at wherever there was need for them! Where the soldiers couldn't hold it anymore, the Wolf Fang squad would arrive!
What a group of bloodthirsty and violent wolves!
With incredible melee prowess and the penetration capability of a sharp fang, they even had the ability to rescue when there were brothers and sisters that were left behind!
They have now single-handedly moved the entire legion forward!
The powerful void end ability not only made Han more violent, it also made everyone around him violent as well! They used that violence and completely steamrolled the enemy!
There was Long Chuan in the center driving the entire legion forward, and there was the Wolf Fang squad appearing at random times at the left and right wings to catch the enemies off guard!
Suddenly, the main battle field was pushed forward at least an entire kilometer, leaving behind rivers of blood and bodies everywhere.
Seeing how the three-wing tactic was achieving an overwhelming amount of success, the three wings finally started converging towards the enemy centre.
Suddenly, the atmosphere changed completely!
Another giant dragon suddenly appeared on the other side of the battlefield, it was as if a blue lightning bolt had struck down from the sky directly at the Four Eyed Celestial dragon! Flames suddenly erupted like the volcano!
The strongest raider Lucas against the strongest warrior from Earth, Long Chuan. The ultimate matchup between the two legends finally began!
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Chapter 62: Violent Siege
When the battle has arrived at this stage, it could be said that the end was already decided. The Earth Federation army was fully prepared, utilizing subtle tactics coupled with the wild card of the wolf fang squad to force the outlaws into a dead end.
The interceptor bomb was still releasing wave interference, so even if Lucas and his team wanted to flee, none of the battleships could take off.
Thus, the only way left for them was to fight to the death against Earth's army!
So, Lucas led the chiefs of several other major raider and pirate groups. This group of the most powerful outlaws all rushed toward the middle to find Long Chuan, thinking that this man with the four-eyed dragon was their biggest threat.
Rumble~
The collision between the lightning and the four-eyed dragon sounded the battle horn of the aces! Han at the left wing saw this scene. He didn't feel nervous at all, but instead, his blood boiled!
"It's time for the final battle!" Han's eyes glanced over the last members of the Wolf Fang squad and shouted, "All of that hard training was for this moment today! Let's go!"
Shua~
Cheng Zhong played the role of the diligent old cattle again. He took all the comrades of Wolf Fang and rushed straight to the middle of the formation. After all these series of rushes, Chen had lost a lot of weight already.
In the middle, the ill and skinny Long Chuan was carrying the smile of a joker, and his face was still as pale as snow.
At this moment, he was already surrounded by the group of high level espers led by Lucas. The army obviously was not strong enough to be their opponents so they all stood aside.
However, Lucas was still very confused, because Long Chuan didn't look busy at all and all the Earth soldiers surrounding them were also gearing up and getting ready to strike.
Lucas was completely angered by Long Chuan's smile. He was just a weak guy stricken with a severe illness, so how dare he be this dismissive of him?
Ka~
Another blue lightning bolt struck towards Long Chuan, but the four eyed dragon proudly swum towards the lightening to take the hit.
Boom~
The blue lightning dealt a critical blow to the dragon, and the Four Eyed Celestial Dragon that Long Chuan was so proud of got completely crushed, turning into a cloud of bright white dust, dancing in the wind like snowflakes.
"The source energy eudemon is dead! KILL HIM!" Lucas shouted.
Since the summoning, Long Chuan's eudemon dragon was the sole pillar of support that was keeping the center wing moving forward. The giant and magical source energy eudemon was invincible, but as the stronger Lucas made his move, Long Chuan's Four Eyed Celestial Dragon was taken down. In a short time, it would be impossible for Long Chuan to gather his source energy again and summon a second dragon.
The situation turned into an unparalleled crisis. The 1st Legion and the outlaw alliance both began their assault again, but there was a clear gap between the two sides. The 1st Army only had a Long Chuan, but the outlaw alliance had aces like Lucas, Defoe, Amir Khan, Donald, etc.
If the two sides got into melee battles, Long Chuan's side will be at a disastrous disadvantage!
Suddenly!
Seeing the two sides were in close proximity just before clashing, the outlaws had saved up their energy to unleash all their ability attacks to win this war from one swoop. And just when they were lost in the dream of victory and about to strike….
The Wolf Fang squad arrived!
Its appearance appeared to have lit up the hopes and pent force of the 1st Legion, and Lucas noticed that the 1st legion's center force actually left an opening to welcome the Wolf Fang, as if they've been expecting their arrival.
Then, an embarrassing and awkward scene followed right after their arrival: Lucas's side suddenly realized that they can't use their power anymore!
"Leave them all here!" Han roared. (TL: it means, they won't be leaving and after this battle, their bodies will be left here.)
In Han's eyes, when the enemy's ace cards all gathered to attack Long Chuan, it was not a crisis but rather the crucial turning point he was waiting for! He had been waiting for the enemies to show all their ace cards at once!
Han clearly remembered what Long Chuan was telling him before the war: The Wolf Fang couldn't be used as a last resort card but instead as a trump card that was designed to kill the enemy's ace cards!
The violent attacks immediately unfolded!
The Wolf Fang squad and all their brothers in the center all started charging like crazy! They gave up attacking the enemy ranged troops and began to focus everything to get the heads of Lucas and other enemy aces!
Only one goal!
No matter the price they had to pay, they will kill this group of the strongest outlaws on the battlefield!
Within the 10 meters radius void domain, it was the most brutal and most violent battleground!
Inside the void domain, all powers were taken away, and even the ranged ability attacks wouldn't be able to get into the domain, so melee brutality was the only way!
If they did not have the void domain, could the 1st Legion kill someone as powerful as Lucas?
Maybe, but they were bound to pay a painful price. After all, Lucas's level was too high, and his power was already strong to begin with.
But now, Lucas entered the Void domain, his famous thunder descent super power had been robbed and couldn't be used anymore, leaving him no choice but to fight these violent warriors from Earth in melee combat.
On Earth's side, the soldiers used their bodies to stop the blows of the enemy aces and traded blows with their life on the line. A life for a life, even three or four lives for a life was also worth it for them!
All in all, now that you guys are here, you guys won't be leaving anymore!
Full on violence, it was originally just Han's own style of combat, but now has spread throughout the entire legion!
Void End was activated with Han as the center so he must always follow Lucas, biting into his flesh and never letting go!
After all, Lucas was an intermediate 5-star elite, his power source index was close to 600,000! Even without his super power, his combat strength was still very powerful! In a blink of an eye, 7 or 8 warriors from Earth were smashed into the ground by Lucas. Although Lucas also received several cuts himself, but with his advanced combat suit and even stronger source energy, none of the wounds were life-threatening.
There was a good old saying: to catch bandits you must first catch the ring leader. If we could kill Lucas in one swoop, then we could end this difficult battle and end all hopes for the enemies.
Anyways, Lucas must die! He was the biggest threat to Earth, and to our brothers!
"I'm taking your life!"
Stepping on the corpses of brothers, Han charged, waving his Silver Moon Crescent Blade, biting onto Lucas and started trading blows with him!
Lucas had a higher level, but Han had stronger equipment!
Lucas had a pinnacle 5-star combat suit named the Lucky Sirius, but Han had the junior 6-star combat suit, Black Kylin, forged with soft metal.
Lucas used a pair of black crystal titanium swords, Cross Wind, but Han had the Fremont (TL: previously translated as Folin) Dragon titanium forged scimitar, Silver Moon Crescent Blade!
On the battlefield, an unbelievable scene appeared: Han and Lucas were trading blows with each other, slashing back and forth! Then, the tide of battle tipped.
This scene left everyone stunned with eyes starring and mouth opened. With crimson red eyes, Han actually was the one that chased the Lucas who was a lot higher level than him, and Lucas kept on trying to run but he would still occasionally turn around to try to kill Han!
Han's blood was already boiling, he was very excited, and it was an unprecedented feeling of excitement!
Honestly, Long Chuan had already done a good enough job, he fully grasped and controlled the situation even though the 1st Legion was on the inferior side. But there were those damn elite outlaws! If Lucas didn't die, then all his brothers will die!
Kill him!
Kill him!
Must kill him at all cost!
The voice constantly ringed inside Han's brain, with a rapid acceleration of blood flow and heart rate, the Han that was madly slashing seemed to have triggered a hidden existence of some sort inside his body.
Darkness began to spread from the position of Han's heart, quickly spreading to Han's arm, turning his right arm black, and then it even spread to half of Han's face and his eye.
"Are you really a human or demon?!" Lucas shouted angrily at Han.
Now, the Han that appeared in Lucas's eyes was extremely terrifying, his entire right face turned completely black, especially Han's right eye, bleak without any light reflecting.
The Han that transformed into a being half covered in darkness…
Could it be because of that half of the Heart of Darkness that he absorbed before?
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Chapter 63: Darkness Awakened
Power, endless power!
With Han slowly transforming into a being of darkness, his power was growing at an extraordinary rate. In the past, Han tried to overdose himself with lots of drugs and after swallowing 10 times the normal dosage, Han became almost invincible and could even single-handedly go against enemies 10 times his strength.
However, this was fundamentally different. Han felt that the power originating from the darkness was more substantial, it was like a power that belonged only to him! On the other hand, the power gained through drugs was comparably more unreliable which faded away after the drugs' effects passed.
The Darkness not only brought Han tremendous power, but also the Eye of Darkness!
Now, when Han's eyes looked at Lucas's body, he could clearly see the paths of Lucas's source energy flow, the zero-degree brain region that was rapidly working, and even the enemy's bone marrow!
Kill him!
Kill him!
I must kill him!
Han shouted internally louder and louder.
It was unbelievable, the half-dark transformed Han was like a god of war descending from above, and began to chase and attack Lucas like a madman.
Boom~
Boom~
As Han's strength rapidly increased, his handling of the Silver Moon Crescent Blade also became more and more fierce, aiming straight at Lucas's combat suit, leaving behind clearer and clearer marks! The cuts were deeper and deeper. As this continues, Lucas's defense will undoubtedly fall apart sooner or later!
"I want your life!" Inspired by the energy of darkness, Han suddenly shouted and slashed down with full power!
Gengci~
This time, there was actually the sight of blood!
Han violently tore apart Lucas's combat suit, and he began to slice through flesh and chop up bones!
Han's killing intent became larger and larger, cuts after cuts landed on Lucas's body, and Lucas's originally tall and big figure became smaller and smaller, into smaller and small pieces!
Violence!
An unimaginable degree of violence!
The head of all evil, the chief of the Thorn Birds Gang, Lucas was cut into pieces, by the hands of Han. Cut into pieces while he was still alive!
"You all need to die!"
Immediately turning around, Han stared with his black right eye and shouted.
Combining both the void end and the power of darkness produced devastating attacks that were capable of eliminating the last glimmer of hope from the remnants of the outlaws!
Han's attacks were basically two steps. First, take away all the enemies' powers!
Second, use the powerful strength of the darkness and annihilate the enemies to the last one!
"Whoever dares to blocks me, DIE!"
Gengci~
Gengci~
Almost one hit one kill, Han charged straight into the enemy crowd using his brutal and merciless attacks and sliced through all the enemies in front of him!
Boom~
Suddenly, Han opened up a path of blood. His speed was incredible and even his comrades in the Wolf Fang squad were left far behind.
What if he accidently went too far and missed someone?
Of course he would just turn around, and kill the on his way back!
The Atlantic Cruiser, medical cabin.
The war was already over. Long Chuan laid on his deathbed, looking at Han that was busy by his side.
Originally, Long Chuan didn't intend on going back to Earth alive. He knew that he didn't have much time, and being able to contribute to Earth one last time was his greatest wish.
However, things didn't progress as Long Chuan originally planned, and the Long Chuan that had already decided to sacrifice himself was saved by Han.
Originally, Long Chuan wanted to detonate his zero-degree brain region and die with Lucas and the other aces of the outlaw alliance. However, before Long Chuan even got the chance to, Han sprang right out, chasing and killing. He even chopped Lucas into pieces while he was still alive as well as killing countless enemies, fully displaying his potential as a super executioner.
So Long Chuan didn't die, he just passed out due to a drug overdose. Han read Night Walker's pharmacology book, and had Long Chuan take 6 zero-degree joy pills. Miraculously, Long Chuan slowly came back to life again.
As well, Han seemed to have returned to normal. The black color that was on his face and arm had already receded. He was back to normal now, with that friendly and humble smile on his face again.
The contrast was really huge! Just now, everyone witnessed how Han turned from a soldier into a demon and how he killed more enemies than the rest of the Wolf Fang squad combined. The deep cuts and traces of blood on his Black Kylin combat suit was the best proof.
"Come on, let's drink this."
Han melted a couple of pills and fed it to Long Chuan. Without the proper machines, Han can only use the emergency measures he read from that book.
Gudong~ Gudong~ (TL: sound of drinking)
Long Chuan thought for a bit, and then he drank the entire bowl of bitter medicine as instructed by Han, and continued to use strange eyes to stare at Han, as if he was looking at a monster.
"Don't look at me, I don't know what happened either. I was just really mad back then, and that seemed to have trigger some sort of power that I had never experienced before, that's all."
Han tried to explain to Long Chuan why he suddenly erupted. Long Chuan nodded, and didn't say anything else.
At this time, Long Chuan's three deputies arrived. Osman was the vice-captain of the Atlantic, while Soros and Wu Chengfeng were the deputy army chiefs of 1st Legion.
All three of them were injured, but they don't care at all and seemed really excited.
Osman clenched his fist and said, "Chief, the record's out. The Atlantic and Special Tactical troops destroyed 24 battleships, seized 4 destroyers and 7 frigates! After this war, now we have 12 battleships! Now we can really claim to have a fleet with a pretty good combat strength!"
Wu Chengfeng immediately said, "For the ground war, we lost 2389 soldiers, but our legion annihilated more than 15,000 enemy soldiers! It's an unimaginably huge victory!"
Long Chuan felt that this victory is worth celebrating. He was just going to say some words of celebration, but suddenly his noticed that Han slightly frowned.
Curious, Long Chuan asked, "Han, the result of our victory has finally come out. Our brothers fought a hard battle and they are not quite tired. I want to give order to clean up the battlefield and return to Earth for a rest. What do you think?"
"We can't go back now!" Han was anxious and he blurted out.
Long Chuan and his 3 deputies all looked curiously at Han, Long Chuan asked sincerely, "Why not return to Earth? You made a significant contribution this war and everyone saw it. There's no outsider in this room, so relax and speak boldly."
Han nodded and said, "Although the battle's already over, but these raiders and pirates all have their own base. If we leave them, they will come back and seek revenge for sure. If I'm the commander, I would lead the brothers that can still fight and head straight to the enemy base! We will cut the grass and remove the roots for complete eradication! As for here, we just need to leave behind a small troop enough to clean the battlefield and then send all the wounded soldiers back home."
"After all these years living outside of the law, these raiders and pirates must be hiding a good amount of wealth. In the past they robbed us. Now it's our turn to rob them! As for the enemies that were left back home, we need to deliver a fatal blow! We need to kill them all! Rob everything! Lastly, we will incinerate the enemy's lair!"
Osman slightly hesitated and whispered, "You know that this is the Three All Policy (TL: Kill all, take all, and destroy all)… After all, we, the Earth Federation, are still a lawful country, and the Milky Way's law of preferential treatment of prisoners still apply here."
"F*K that rule!" Han immediately retorted, "The Atlantic and all those battleships we robbed from the enemies all need repair when we go back, and all the soldiers' equipment need change and repair. As well, the Earth's Federation needs to expand the esper legion's scale, and all of these need money!"
"As long as Earth can safely endure through this time of crisis, I don't care about any rules! Instead of just guarding our C-class mine and make the small change, I prefer grabbing more. We should drive our fleet to the enemy's lair and start robbing right away! Time is running out, if the enemies get the message that their main force were all annihilated, then it will be too late!"
"Tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye! They dare to kill our citizens, then we will annihilate their entire clan!"
Long Chuan and the others were all awed by Han's words. For them, this battle's victory was good enough to let them feel satisfied. But Han felt like that was not enough, and he could only feel satisfied if they drove directly into the enemy's lair and stomped them into the ground.
Long Chuan thought for a moment, and gestured Han to leave first, so Han turned around and exited the room, leaving only Long Chuan and his three deputies there.
"Han's only 17…" Long Chuan sighed deeply, and said with some emotion, "Now that Earth has young people like Han to protect, even if I die I can rest in peace."
Osman nodded, "Han's personality is cruel, but yet very warranted. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even realize that we could take advantage of this opportunity and storm the enemy's lair. So, what should we do?"
Long Chuan's eyes briefly scanned across his three deputies. His eyes suddenly became cold, and he said in a deep voice, "Do what Han said. Gather the brothers and we will immediately move out to wipe out their lair!
On a little unknown planet in the Milky Way, Night Walker sat in his office, slightly frowned, and gently adjusted his glasses.
For some reason, Night Walker's right eyelid had been jumping for the entire day today, and it was making him feel unease, as if there was something on his mind.
Night Walker stood up from his chair, and started pacing back and forth in the middle of his office.
"Could it be something happened?" Night Walker scratched his chin and said to himself.
There was a row of bookshelves in his office. He stopped in front of them and gently pressed a button hidden behind a shelf. After his identity was verified, the bookshelf automatically moved aside and revealed a hidden safe in the wall.
Night Walker opened the cabinet and checked the items inside one by one. Some represented the badges of glories from his past, some were his hand-written notes, and there was a small rosewood box, placed in the bottom of the safe.
When Night Walker picked up that little box, his hands slightly shivered. The patterns on that wooden box were ancient yet still clear, emitting an indescribable aura, and the box itself was actually shaking in a very rhythmic way.
Night Walker began to get nervous, his heartbeat accelerated, and clear veins appeared on his forehead.
He quickly opened this mysterious rosewood box. The inside was covered with red velvet, and embedded inside was half a heart, or an unknown object that really looked like half of a human heart.
At this moment, this black and mysterious heart-shaped object, was actually beating! It was even a rhythmic beat! As if it was revived!
Plop~
Plop~
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Chapter 64: Sally Empire's Deadly Trap
In the Sagittarius constellation was the Sally Empire Palace.
There were countless countries that wanted to colonize Earth but the Sally Empire was the closest and was also one that showed its ugliest side to reach its goal. They didn't even bother hiding their greed, playing underhanded tactics one after another, and they even hired raiders and pirates to harass the small and weak planet of Earth.
Sally Empire's incumbent king was called Figaro the 149th. After experiencing 149 generations, the imperial throne was passed on to the King Figaro who had a pair of sinister slits for eyes. The empire wasn't as powerful and resourceful in comparison to the true giants of the Milky Way, but it still had thousands of years of tradition and counted as a veteran figure in the Milky Way, way stronger than the developing nation of Earth.
After a dissolute night, King Figaro waited until noon to get up. Although his height reached 1.9 meters and he was regarded a big guy, he already depleted his body early with wine and women. If it wasn't for the help of some drugs, he couldn't even satisfy the two little seductive chicks last night. Thinking back to last night with his favorite twins, the king's face was full with pride.
But he wouldn't favor that pair of twins again, because he was the king, the most distinguished king in the empire, and anything the king used are now old and should be thrown away. The king only wears new clothes, and sleeps with new women.
Half lying on the sofa, the servants carried over a hearty breakfast as well as today's newspaper. Seeing the headline of today's paper, King Figaro was immediately shocked, and his eyes suddenly opened wide.
This was a standard Milky Way Daily newspaper, titled "Small Earth's fighting force bursting off the chart, wiping out the stronger raiders and annihilated more than 15,000 outlaws!"
Reading the content, King Figaro was so angry that his bearded face became distorted and the reporter writing this story emphasized that Earth was just a very small country in the entire Milky Way, with an entire army barely over 13,000 soldiers. But just with this small army and Earth's only battlecruiser, Earth's United Government completed the annihilation of a large portion of the active raiders and pirates in the 57th Sector of Milky Way.
Pa~
King Figaro smacked the paper down on the face of a young girl who was just serving him breakfast, and the pretty girl was so scared that her whole body trembled and she almost started crying on the spot.
Then, Figaro picked up the second newspaper, it was a reputable newspaper in the Milky Way, called the Daily Milky Way.
The Daily Milky Way actually also had an article on that battle on the front page, and they reported from a very interesting point of view: Starting from a report on the previous Milky Way Meet's Ke Lake. He left the world with the impression that he wasn't just a powerful warrior, but also someone with an unyielding will who, in a situation with no helping hands, finished alone in ninth place when fighting in the A7 Extinction Domain, wowing the entire Milky Way galaxy.
Daily Milky Way felt, Ke Lake might not be an exception. Maybe the tiny and distant planet Earth perhaps are filled with warriors with similar unyielding wills. Otherwise, it was impossible to explain how Earth, with such a weak army, was able to eliminate an enemy much stronger than them.
What pissed Figaro off more was that the Daily Milky Way listed several countries in the 57th Sector that failed to eliminate these criminals for years, and rather a small and developing Earth was able to, thus leaving the Daily Milky Way to question what the developed countries, including the Sally Empire, were doing,
Pa~
King Figaro flew into rage, tore the newspaper into pieces and threw it onto the desk. The waiting servants hurried to clean up, but they ended up receiving kicks after kicks from the pig-like fat Figaro.
"Get me Levi!" Figaro shouted.
The servants hastily went to summon the empire chancellor, Levi, while King Figaro still raged silently in his chair, picking up the third newspaper. This was the Globe Star News published in Sally Empire, and it had always served as a henchman for the Sally Empire, always complimenting how much of a saint King Figaro was, and its choice of words were always as flattering as possible.
Globe Star News didn't put the news about Earth on the front page but on the far more irrelevant third page. Unfortunately, King Figaro took a closer look at the content and he became even more mad than before!
Globe Star News really couldn't find any arguments to attack Earth, so they actually talked about how cruel the Earth Federation was to kill more than 15,000 outlaws and also destroying their home, completely wiping out their lairs and setting everything on fire.
There actually existed a teammate stupid like a pig! The Globe Star News actually wrote the news from the perspective of sympathy for the criminals, that's called being politically incorrect okay?!
Even fools know how much the people hated the star pirates and raiders, how could the dignified imperial voice speak on behalf of these criminals? Now the entire Milky Way was talking about the satisfaction of eliminating all those bandits, and the Globe Star News was sympathizing with the criminals?
Originally, the Sally Empire's ass wasn't clean, and now the Globe Star News was showing how depressed and bitter they were when the pirates and raiders were killed by Earth. Wasn't that slapping the empire's face with its own hands?!
Crash~
King Figaro flipped the entire table. The hot soup poured onto several female servants' faces and burned them. Not only did Figaro not care, but he also added a few more kicks in order to release his anger.
At this moment, the chancellor of the Sally Empire, Levi, arrived. This man with red curly hair was called the fox of the Sally Empire, and he was also the king's most trusted think tank.
Seeing the mess inside the room, Levi frowned and ordered all the servants to get out. He paid a deep salutation to King Figaro and said, "Your Majesty, surely you are angry because of the Earth Federation things right?"
Figaro snappily replied, "Damn that impotent Lucas! You go contact all the raiders from other Milky Way sectors, no matter how much money need to be spend I want to get Earth down to its knees!"
Levi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, at this critical stage, all the major Medias in Milky Way are paying attention to the 57th Sector. There are already rumors about us hiring those bandits, and if we continue to do so then our plan will be debunked."
Figaro stared with his eyes wide open and shouted, "Are you trying to persuade me to quit? Impossible! Whatever I want must always be mine! Originally, I was okay with leaving the citizens alive after we colonize Earth, but now I wish I could kill every damn living soul on that damn planet! Let them be man, women or kids! How dare they fight back! Now none of them should even think about living!"
Levi smiled, "I agree. Our empire already has a huge population, the 15 billion people on earth will simply be our burden. Kill or sell to slavery are all good options."
"But, Your Majesty, this means that we have to change our method a bit. Now that the Milky Way Meet is happening soon, we can't leave a bad impression to the 12 permanent members of the Milky Way Alliance. I think we can split this operation into two steps. First, we have to find allies, whether it's someone in the 57th sector or one of the 12 permanent members of the Milky Way Alliance, we need to try to convince them to support our proposal of colonizing Earth."
"It might take a lot of money, but there's a B-class relic (AKA Extinction domain) on Earth. As long as we capture that relic, its output will certainly be more than our investment. In addition, fostering good relationships with other planets can only be advantageous for us with no harms."
"Secondly, of course we need to teach those people on Earth a lesson. They still have a couple contestants left in the Milky Way Meet exam, so let's get all of them eliminated so that they don't have a single qualified contestant to compete in the final Milky Way Meet. That's going to be a really hard slap in the face for Earth, a country that couldn't even get a single spot at the Meet. Earth will be the largest joke in the Milky Way! A disgrace!"
King Figaro was shocked and he suddenly slapped his desk and said, "What a good strategy! Put out a reward, focus on anyone from Earth that's attending the Meet and eliminate them all! We will let the entire Milky Way witness Earth's incompetence!"
Levi smiled and echoed, "Your Majesty is very wise! The contestants from Earth attending the Milky Way Meet's preliminaries are chosen elites from that planet, and we will smack them all to death, and that will be equivalent to slapping Earth right in the face!"
King Figaro laughed and said in a deep voice, "Hurry and make the arrangement, kill all the soldiers from Earth that are in the Milky Way Meet!"
Galactic Dark Net
Han finished the mission and returned to the Nazca base. The first thing he did was to meet Pathless Origin. What happened to him during the battle was too strange, Han really wanted to find out what that inexplicable dark power was and where it came from.
Arriving at the agreed virtual meeting space, Han found that Night Walker was actually here too, and it was actually his first time meeting both mentors together. Looking at their expressions, they didn't look to be at ease and had a rather worried look.
"Teacher, Mr. Night!" Han was already very familiar with them so he immediately jumped into his question, "Something really strange happened to me. I seem to have somehow awakened some sort of dark energy. At the same time my own power was strengthened, such as my right eye became able to see a lot of strange things, as if it can completely see through the enemies. His meridians, his zero-degree brain region, all in one glance. How did that happen?"
"That's the Eye of Darkness." Pathless Origin thought for a bit, and said to Night Walker, "Old Black, you know the details, I think you should explain it."
Night Walker slightly nodded his head, pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice, "Han, what I'm going to say next will be very strange, I want you to be mentally prepared and don't be scared by it."
After taking a deep breath once, some light flashed in Night Walker's eyes, and he said one word at a time, "All in All Han, you really hit the jack pot this time!"
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