Chapter 753 Striking Firs
[Emperor chanic] was the next stage of [Apostle chanic], which had a maximum level of 35. As the na suggested, an Emperor chanic could rule countless chanical soldiers. Its abilities and talents provided huge bonuses to the Army Style while also having the ability to gather much more power into the chanic themself.
The introduction of the [Machinery Emperor] talent was ‘Machinery obeys you like your people.’ Its effect was a 150% increase in Virtual Intrusion efficiency and a 200% increase in Machinery Affinity, as well as an increase of one level to all machinery related abilities. This bonus could exceed the maximum level.
This talent also had another core effect. Just like the [Apostle chanicJ’s talent, [chanical Force Ascension- Apostle Body], [Machinery Emperor] also caused his chanical Force attribute to ascend once again, acquiring the ability to gift machinery stronger powers. This was the prerequisite of many of the Emperor chanic’s abilities.
Of course, the new Machinery Affinity ability, [Emperor Machinery Affinity] was stronger than [Apostle Machinery Affinity], which gave 150% Machinery Affinity at the max level.
[Emperor’s Gift] was one of the core abilities. Its effect was to use chanical Force to enhance a single machine permanently, giving it extrely powerful additional attributes. It could only be used three tis on the sa target and had a very long cooldown. The extent of the enhancent depended on Han Xiao’s own attributes, and the target had a random chance of receiving an extra special ability.
To put it simply, this ability could enhance common mobs into elites or even mini-bosses!
chanics had the ability to enhance machinery from the start, but this ability only started to ascend to another level at this stage.
As for the other ‘Unactivated’ abilities, they could only be used once the corresponding Cutting-Edge Knowledges or even Ultimate Knowledges were learned, which Han Xiao had yet to do.
[Quantum Infinite Distance Transmission Channel] required a few Cutting-Edge Knowledges including [Advanced Space Application]. It was an enhanced thod of transmitting chanical Force through the Void.
Due to his race, Han Xiao could transmit chanical Force across long distances, but this was only achievable because he was a Void Race. [Quantum Infinite Distance Transmission Channel], however, was technology that could be used widely, not just on himself and not just on chanical Force, but any kind of energy. It was a much more advanced thod of transmitting energy over long distances. This was also the technology that Manison used to make an AI civilization into his ‘Indestructible chanic Empire’.
[Secondary Dinsion Army] could hide his army in a secondary dinsion. He would maintain the connection to this secondary dinsion and could then open it anyti to summon the army. This was a more advanced portable technology than the compressed orbs.
[chanical Force—Emperor_s Power] was an ability that could gather great forces onto himself, like an advanced version of Machinery Apostilization.
At the sa ti, once the chanical army receiving chanical Force bonuses reached a certain size, they would provide attribute bonuses to himself through the chanical Force link. This bonus depended on the size of the army.
The larger his army was, the more bonuses [chanical Force—Emperor’s Power] would provide, which ant that the Army Style benefitted from this the most.
Once he activated this ability and provided bonuses to the chanical army through his chanical Force, he would receive a huge amount of bonuses. Of course, the energy consumption of this ability was enormous. Normal chanics would not be able to activate [chanical Force—Emperor’s Power] for a long ti if they did not have the ability to recover energy quickly.
[King’s ntor] and [Emperor’s Gift] were similar; they were both abilities to enhance machinery. The difference was, [King’s ntor] was an AOE ability. Its effect was also rather special. It could store the special chanical Force enhanced by [Machinery Emperor] in machinery over long periods of ti. With the machinery’s energy furnace, that chanical Force would be kept within the machinery’s body, giving the machinery self-growth capabilities.
This ant that the machinery would level up on their own without Han Xiao improving them manually.
As long as the enhanced chanical soldiers were not destroyed in battle, their attributes would slowly increase, and they would turn into elites. Blue grade chanical soldiers might slowly beco purple grade; level 100 chanical soldiers might slowly acquire the attributes on par with level 120 chanical soldiers.
This was like turning the chanical soldiers into real living soldiers that would beco experienced war veteran as long as they survived.
The ability introduction was ‘A king is one who has survived hundreds of battles.’
These abilities had already showcased the specialty of [Emperor chanic]—a ruler of countless chanical soldiers that were treated as living soldiers. This was where the machinery started to ascend into becoming chanical lives.
The upgraded chanical Force could turn into a special form of energy that could beco the machinery’s own energy source, like the ‘energy’ of the chanical lives.
[Apostle chanic] was the watershed of the late stages of the chanic class. The later the stages, the closer the chanic’s abilities would resemble acts of God. The word ’emperor’ was the perfect word to describe the chanic’s ability at this stage—the absolute ruler of machinery.
In the training room, Han Xiao’s eyes were overflowing with electric sparks as he endured the pain brought by the changes of his Class Advancent.
This was not a Race Evolution, so Han Xiao’s body did not change, but the energy in his body beca violent as if his chanical Force was boiling. At a microscopic level, it was as if every one of his cells turned into a supernova, absorbing chanical Force continuously then compressing themselves ti after ti.
Through this process, his chanical Force slowly changed and ascended.
Enormous chanical Force surged within his body. Han Xiao could almost hear the tide.
After a short while, it was as if the cells in his body finally beca exhausted, and the energy in his body started to calm.
Whoosh!
Han Xiao took a deep breath. His senses felt refreshed once again.
Energy was fundantal to Supers. It was not just the fuel of great power—it was also the catalyst of the evolution of Super-Genes. This Class Advancent caused his chanical Force to evolve to another level. Although his race was still the sa, Han Xiao could feel his genes beco stronger.
At the later stages, every Class Advancent required even more levels than the twenty level Promotion requirent, along with the increased benefits of the Class Advancent.
This Class Advancent improved his chanic abilities trendously. Although his attributes did not change much, all these new abilities and talents were extrely powerful.
While browsing the new abilities, Han Xiao was quite joyous.
“Four unactivated abilities that need the corresponding Knowledges to activate. Tsk, I will only be able to test their effects after activating them...” Han Xiao pondered. “As of now, only [Machinery Emperor], [Emperor Machinery Affinity], and [Emperor’s Gift] can be used. Also, the abilities and talents related to Virtual Technology are enhanced by thirty-five percent, so hacking into Sardeem’s floating city is more likely to be successful.”
After contemplating for a while, Han Xiao decided not to level up any of his abilities. Level 240 was right around the corner, so he did not want to spend his experience anywhere else.
He then spent the rest of his Experience in leveling up to see how much more he needed exactly to reach level 240.
The remaining Experience only filled up three-quarters of his Experience gauge and was not enough to level up.
He should be just two levels away from Beyond Grade A.
“Hmm, about the sa as my estimates. In just a few days, the Experience provided by the players should be able to fill this gap.” Han Xiao nodded.
He would have more than enough ti to study his new abilities in the future, but he had another goal that night. He imdiately connected himself to the quantum network.
His vision turned dark. The next mont, the nodes in the quantum network lit up one after another like fireworks.
The size and brightness of these nodes varied. Beams created by information transmission connected those nodes with one another, forming a network illustrating the shape of the city.
Han Xiao looked up. Above the main city, the quantum network nodes of the floating city were as bright as stars, shrouded in countless silk shaped defense asures like a crystal covered in runes.
With one thought, Han Xiao headed directly to the floating city’s quantum network nodes. The floating city node expanded in his vision as he entered right into this node.
A thick wall ford by data streams entered his eyes, and many data dots patrolled around like an army.
This was the most outside layer of the floating city’s control center firewall.
“Phillip, get him.”
Of course, Sardeem understood the threat of Virtual chanics. As a Grade A chanic, he had deployed many defense asures for his base. The virtual defense of the floating city’s control center was many levels above that of the Cornerstone Summit Corporation. Usual Calamity Grade Virtual chanics would not have been able to penetrate it at all.
However, Han Xiao’s Virtual Technology had just been enhanced after his Class Advancent, so it was rather easy for him to deal with the floating city’s virtual defense.
After all, Ard Branch chanics were not strong in this field. Furthermore, Han Xiao’s raw strength was already above Sardeem to quite an extent.
Hacking without living a trace and without being noticed was harder than directly demolishing the opponent’s artificial intelligence. Even Han Xiao did not dare act too hastily. He worked together with Phillip and slowly hacked through the defenses of the floating city’s control panel to avoid triggering the alarm.
While his base was quietly being violated by Han Xiao and Phillip, Sardeem had no idea that this was happening.
After spending quite so ti, Han Xiao finally went around the defense of the floating city’s control center and entered the control center, gaining temporary access.
“Got it.” Han Xiao was content. “Phillip, search his database for the Eternal Light blueprint.”
“Searching, hum... Found it, hum!” Phillip’s tone was very cheerful.
Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled as he could not hold back his laughter any longer. “As expected, this guy did not put the blueprint in the database of any of his businesses but his own base.”
Sardeem most likely exchanged this blueprint from the chanic Empire with contributions. chanic Empire’s ho was so far from the Shattered Star Ring, so there was no way the physical copy of the blueprint would be transported there. Hence, the initial way he received the blueprint was definitely through data transmission. It was highly likely that Sardeem still had the complete blueprint stored in the data form.
As the defense of the floating city was on a completely different level compared to the Cornerstone Summit Corporation, most Virtual chanics were not able to hack it. That was why Sardeem felt safer storing it in the database of his base.
Because of that, Han Xiao did not have to steal the physical copy of the blueprint; he just had to copy the floating city’s database which was much easier.
Han Xiao chuckled. “Phillip, copy all the blueprints in his database.”
Since the complete blueprint of Eternal Light was in the database, all the blueprints that Sardeem had obtained from the chanic Empire were likely in it as well.
Since he had gone through so much trouble to hack into it, Han Xiao did not mind taking everything that Sardeem had in his storage.
While doing so, Han Xiao took a look at what Sardeem was doing, which made him feel rather strange.
Sardeem happened to be browsing his database as well. As the alarm had not been triggered, even though they were using the database at the sa ti, he did not notice Han Xiao. He had no idea that Han Xiao had entered his control center and that his ho was basically being robbed right now.
As Phillip was copying the blueprints, he had nothing else to do, so he opened the command log of the control center to see what Sardeem had been doing lately.
The log recorded all of Sardeem’s commands. Han Xiao was initially just scanning through casually, but when he noticed the history of Sardeem manually operating the control center today, his eyes stopped on that line of the log.
“Deploying a large number of chanical law reinforcent troops to Sub-City No.2 to monitor a group of people? Interesting, isn’t Sardeem neutral? Why is he suddenly surveilling people? It must be at least a Calamity Grade, like Ba, to attract his attention... Hmm, I got it, this guy is probably going to recruit soone else under the chanic Empire’s na once again. If it really is a Calamity Grade, I might be able to snatch a talent away from him before leaving Planet Macipher.”
Han Xiao could not help but giggle. He casually brought up the image of the target of the surveillance. When he saw the image clearly, his smile froze on his face.
It was Colin and his gang in the image. Han Xiao has never seen these people before, but he recognized one of them.
Orozen!
A wanted criminal of the Tyla Civilization, the killer of Harrofal, and a possible subordinate of EsGod!
This man was the mission target of the Grade A Bounty Mission [Harrofal’s Revenge]!
This was completely unexpected to Han Xiao. He was stunned as guesses flashed through his mind.
“It’s these people? They’ve been missing for many months, so why are they suddenly here?”
Han Xiao started to feel alard.
Harrofal’s last words said that these people were very likely EsGod’s subordinates whom he had sent to avenge him. Harrofal was already dead, and now these people had suddenly appeared on Planet Macipher after a few months...
Could they have finally found him?
Han Xiao did not feel that was the case. He had kept his whereabouts hidden and disguised his identity; there was no way EsGod’s subordinates would have been able to find him.
“This is Planet Macipher, the edge of the Shattered Star Ring. Now that they’re here after a few months...Hmm, could it be that they’re planning to leave the Shattered Star Ring and escape from the Tyla Civilization, not coming for anymore?”
Han Xiao frowned, deep in thought. From his perspective, what had happened regarding Harrofal was their only link. With such limited clues, he could only make very little speculations.
He did not expect to et EsGod’s subordinates there. Was this their plan, or was it a pure coincidence?
After pondering for a while, Han Xiao had made up his mind.
“No matter what, since these people are here, be it to avenge Harrofal or to complete the Bounty Mission, there’s no reason to let them get away!”
Harrofal was his friend that had fought alongside him. Though Han Xiao did not have the ti to search for the culprit, he would not let them go since they had appeared right before his eyes.
Han Xiao looked at the surveillance footage again, and he thought that he had guessed Sardeem’s goal.
“Humph, it seems this guy wants the bounty as well. I have to strike first!”
This was not difficult for him at all. Since he had already hacked into the floating city’s control center, he just had to make the chanical law reinforcent troops not trigger the alarm, and he would be able to get to these people before Sardeem.
The only problem was, Han Xiao felt that these people might have EsGod’s doppelgangers.
Han Xiao clenched his fists. Due to that possibility, the threat of Orozen and his gang was very close to Beyond Grade A to him, so he remained cautious.
“Currently, I’m hidden, and they’re not. My only choice is to kill them before they can summon the EsGod doppelganger!”
Han Xiao clenched his teeth.
He did not know how strong these people were except that Orozen was Calamity Grade, but he could easily beat a group of normal Calamity Grades.
He should have a fifty percent chance of killing them before they could use the EsGod doppelganger!
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