Chapter 969: Combat Skills and Spiritual Techniques
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
On the spacious training grounds was a majestic row of steel chas, each standing at over dozens of ters tall.
“You need to experience real battle and accumulate operating hours in order to beco an excellent cha pilot!”
A single-eyed instructor was giving a lecture to the students with a solemn expression. “Other schools use outdated models for training. So even use ancient first-generation machines. But here, all of you will use the K9999 model! You’re lucky to have this! It’ll be a seamless transition when you get into the military, and you will not require familiarization! You...” He pointed at a student at random. “Recite the specifications of K9999!”
“Yes, Sir!” A young man crossed his hands behind his back and yelled, “Gundam K9999, height, 24.5 ters! Weight, 177 tons! Its armor is made from Norman alloy, it uses a third-generation psionic reactor, and its main weapon is a shoulder-mounted laser cannon. It can carry additional weapons such as a photon clutch blade, nuclear sledgehamr, alloy battle saber...”
“Excellent! Return to your position!” One-eyed Ya Ge was rather satisfied with the answer. His gaze shifted, landing on Fang Yuan. “Discipline and obedience are the core values of my lessons. All my orders, no matter how unreasonable, must be completed at all costs. Understood?”
“Yes, Sir!” the students yelled.
“Now, enter your cha. Be careful not to step on the wrong valve. If anyone makes this kind of amateur mistake, I will make him clean the training grounds and toilets for a month!” Ya Ge shouted and entered his instructor cha.
His cha was a different Gundam model. It was around a dozen ters tall and black from head to toe, presenting an elegant and smooth yet slightly ferocious beauty of brutality.
It was obvious that it was an Elite-grade cha that cost an arm and a leg.
The K9999 series that students piloted was the best option that balanced price and performance. Their cost had been reduced to around a hundred million star dollars. On the other hand, Elite-grade chas could easily cost a few hundred million!
The even higher King-grades could not be mass-produced and had to be custom made. The materials were very precious, and it might not even be possible to gather them all.
cha pilots that could order custom-made chas were surely loaded.
Emperor-grade ones required the effort of the entire Human Alliance to produce.
After knowing this, Fang Yuan’s heart sank. “Damn... it’s hard to say if there are even a thousand Emperor-grade chas in the entire Human Alliance... Looks like I’ll have to dig deep into the mines. However, the Devil Galaxy is on the frontlines and not open for traveling. Is joining the military the only option?”
With these thoughts in mind, he entered the cockpit of a K9999 from the back and felt a sensation entirely different from when he was in the Wings of the Sky.
Emperor-grade chas were completely operated with spiritual will, even creating the illusion that the cha was your own body.
However, Soldier-grade chas were obviously not that sophisticated, and he had to put on a helt to establish the neural connection. There was also a slight latency to the connection.
There were even groups of levers and valves to assist in operating, making it much harder to pilot than the Emperor-grade chas.
“Activate!” Fang Yuan followed the textbook and activated the psionic reactor. The cha’s eyes lit up imdiately.
The monitors around him showed the view outside, providing an imrsive experience. A large stream of data appeared in the air and displayed all kinds of information.
“The efficiency of the psionic reactor is too bad! Negative review! There’s delay in the neural connection! Negative review! Even the seat is so hard! Even worse negative review!”
Fang Yuan’s face was brimming with disgust. He slightly regretted handing over the Wings of the Sky.
If the Wings of the Sky was a five-star hotel, the K9999 was not even a road-side motel. It was at most a lousy cardboard box, making him very aggrieved.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. After piloting a top-grade cha, he was imdiately disgusted beyond asure by this type of basic cha.
“Also, how big is the psionic crystal in this reactor? Is it rely the size of a grain of rice? It doesn’t even pique my interest in the slightest...”
There was an entire practice field of training chas, but Fang Yuan did not feel the slightest desire to devour them at all. Even Ya Ge’s Elite-grade was no different.
It was clear that the psionic crystals in these chas were too small. All of them combined was negligible in comparison to that of the Wings of the Sky.
“Damn... psionic crystals might be more valuable than I thought!”
Fang Yuan piloted the Gundam gloomily, moving it around.
With his talent and foundation, even piloting Emperor-grade chas was easy. Piloting the military’s Gundam required only so familiarity.
It did not take long before he made the cha bolt around while executing smooth battle techniques.
“Hmm?” Ya Ge, who was piloting the black Elite-grade cha, saw Fang Yuan’s actions upon turning his head. “This student who skipped a grade really does have talent. He has the potential to beco an ace!”
Ace cha pilots had taken the lives of hundreds of high-ranking star beasts at the very least. They were the pride of the Human Alliance!
There was sothing to be said about a student that made Ya Ge feel that he had that potential!
“His na was... Lin ng? He’s even self-funded...”
After looking through Fang Yuan’s information, Ya Ge was even more surprised. “Is he the second generation of so plutocrat? Otherwise, how would he build his own cha after graduation?”
Dealing with chas consud a huge amount of resources. The consumption of resources for regular training was, in fact, the smallest portion.
After graduation, those that signed agreents with the military would join them and pilot the Gundam K9999 without any problem.
However, self-funded students would be at a total loss. The school would naturally not rent Gundams to them, so their only option was to purchase or even build their own cha. The cost was astronomical.
To Ya Ge, it was apparent that Fang Yuan was the son of a wealthy family, ambitious and ready to make his own cha.
“Which organization is it? New Fokkers? Aladdin? Doesn’t look like it...”
With so doubt, Ya Ge shouted, “Now... In twos, begin combat training!”
Bang! Bang!
With his order, the steel monsters instantly began fighting.
Of course, the Gundams that the students piloted had had their most powerful main weapon removed.
The destructive force would be too great otherwise. Most importantly, it will accelerate the scrapping of Gundams to a level that even East Dragon University would find hard to sustain!
Despite that, the battles between the steel giants were still very exciting.
All around the training grounds, students and even instructors stopped to spectate.
Fang Yuan’s opponent controlled his cha to rush at him with strange footwork. The curved blade in its hands flashed with intense electric sparks.
“Spin Dance Step! Arc Blade!”
Fang Yuan’s eyes flashed, recognizing the two cha combat skills.
Evidently, this opponent would give it his all no matter who he faced and would not rely on luck.
“But... I haven’t studied specialized cha combat skills!” A light glinted in Fang Yuan’s eyes as he shifted the cha a few ters to the side to dodge the Arc Blade by a hair’s breadth. He then pulled a valve, and the tal giant took a step forward to deliver a kick.
Smack!
The next mont, the hostile cha that had rushed to Fang Yuan’s front received a kick in the knee joint, as though it had purposefully delivered its knee for the blow.
With a loud crash, the opposing cha’s knee broke, losing its balance and falling to the ground.
“Hmm? What precise judgnt!”
Ya Ge almost wanted to applaud. Such precise judgnt was rarely found in even experienced cha pilots.
The student did not understand why he had lost, but he was well aware of the difficulty.
Ya Ge thought for a bit and called another student. “Jonas, you go next!”
A Gundam felled its opponent with a single punch and approached slowly. There was even a slight montum gathering around him that made him appear skilled.
However, he was still fodder before Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had given it thorough thought. Compared to the talent that he showed earlier, there was absolutely no need to hide at this point.
Furthermore, the school’s higher-ups all knew that he had piloted the Wings of the Sky and defeated Wu Wudi. There was no need to cover things up anymore.
Therefore, despite Jonas’s strong boxing skills, Fang Yuan kicked his cha’s knee after three rounds and caused the humongous cha to fall to the ground with black smoke spilling out.
“Stand up!” Ya Ge’s face twitched. Jonas was his prized student, yet he was defeated by a rookie. It was quite disgraceful.
Being competitive, as well as curious how long Fang Yuan could last, the one-on-one warmup turned into Fang Yuan’s round-robin fight.
Fang Yuan wanted to raise his cha control proficiency as well, so he took everyone on.
“Who is piloting that cha?”
“H-he looks like he doesn’t know any combat skills at all! He just uses that kick no matter what!”
“That kick alone is scary enough. He defeated Jonas and a few other top students with his kick. It isn’t a senior playing a prank on us, right?”
...
More and more chas fell on the ground. They were all dumbfounded, looking at their chas that were all damaged in the sa manner.
On the other hand, Fang Yuan started to yearn for a challenge. No matter who the opponent was, he had broken their knee with a single kick. The logistics departnt would be in despair tonight.
“Good lad!”
After so ti, the only chas remaining standing were Fang Yuan’s and Ya Ge’s.
Ya Ge advanced slowly. “Show your true strength!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the black cha exploded with unparalleled speed. Only an afterimage appeared as it vanished into the sky.
Fang Yuan raised his head and saw the black cha aggressively crash down from midair.
A layer of radiance was shining on the cha. “Dao art—Immovable Mountain!”
The power of a dao art when used by a cha had its power amplified tens of tis!
“Heavens, it’s a dao art!”
“To use a dao art through the cha, the instructor is serious!”
“Standard chas can only use combat skills. Only Elite-grade chas and above are able to use magical powers and spiritual techniques... And their strength will increase dramatically!”
The surrounding students all exclaid in amazent as they watched Ya Ge’s cha, which had seemingly turned into a mountain, crash down while running to safety.
Fang Yuan’s eyes lit up. “I see. A high-grade cha can form a combination with a cultivator to increase the power of spiritual techniques... What kind of power would immortal techniques have when combined with an Emperor-grade cha? Would it be able to destroy planets?”
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