Chapter 1-2

As the others turned their eyes to Xuan, he smiled. “These are the items I can think of with the three rules. We have too little rules. If there’s a few more, I can craft more items, like the magical items used by cultivators in legends.”

WangXia got excited. It seemed like he was sensitive to these items from legends. He immediately asked. “Which magical items? What rule do we need?”

Xuan thought for a moment. “The ones that attack with electricity. We will at least need rules for remote control, finer control over energy, and energy encryption. Maybe also energy projectile type of rules. Anyway, it requires a complex set of rules for these items.”

“The items aside.” Zheng asked with confusion. “Why do you plan to revive Gando? First of all, we don’t know anything about him nor him as a person. He said he’s skilled with driving but that doesn’t have anything to do with piloting robots. You can’t be sure a person can pilot a robot just because he can drive a motorcycle. Can you tell us about the reason?”

Xuan nodded. He took out a sheet from his pocket. “This is the electrical jet engine I designed. The one on the side is the design of the bear suit. Due to time constraint and materials, I won’t be able to craft one myself. So we have to gather the funds together to exchange one for him. You can see from the design that the suit’s movement speed will increase by three times with the engine, up to a 200 kilometers an hour on the ground and 600 kilometers an hour during flight.”

Zheng was surprised. “I saw that suit before. I don’t think it can fly. It’s just a mini robot with good defense. You have to exchange weapons for it separately. To be honest, I don’t have faith in this robot.”

Xuan nodded and said. “The original one can’t fly. However, we have the anti-gravity rule. This rule can also be applied to the tier B VF-1 Valkyrie or the tier A RX-78 Gundam that we may get in the future and gives flight ability to non-aerial robots while enhancing ones that can already fly. Furthermore, with the addition of the electrical jet engine, any robot will have achieved an increase in quality.”

“Another reason is all these robots have a critical flaw, energy reserve. The tier C suit can fight for an hour before needing to change battery. The tier B robot can only fight for thirty minutes. Tier A robot drops to as low as ten minutes. If we give it the energy storage device filled with qi or blood energy and an energy conversion device, their combat duration can increase to four or five hours.”

“In conclusion, we may be able to get a main combatant with an extremely low investment. There is no reason not to take this risk.” Xuan said calmly.

Zheng said. “I think I get what you meant. Since Gando died in his first movie, it doesn’t take anything to revive him. So all we need is to exchange a robotic suit. If we succeed, we will gain a main combatant, otherwise, we only lost a modified robot.”

Xuan nodded. “Correct. Compared to the cost of reviving veteran members and the need to protect their lives, he doesn’t cost anything. The modified robot will also be at least two to three times stronger than its original.”

Zheng breathed out. “Ok. We will do as you said. However, since you are here already, let’s discuss about our exchanges for Starship Troopers. Do you have any suggestions?”

Xuan shook his head. “No suggestions. You can decide on this area since you are the leader.”

Zheng stood up and said with a smile. “Let’s go. We will discuss further on the platform and revive Gando.”

They came to the platform. Xuan seemed like he hadn’t rested for several days but he stood among them. Those black circles make the others worry about him. Zheng exchanged a bottle of potion as soon as he came to the platform and threw it over to Xuan.

“Drink it. A potion to remove fatigue.” He said.

Xuan opened the cap and drank it with one gulp. At the same time, Zheng took out the Book of Amun-Ra under God. When he opened his eyes again, Gando had already appeared on the floor. He seemed to be sleeping peacefully.

“Then we will discuss how to spend our points and rewards. First, Kampa and Zero only have two rank D rewards left because you need to buy freedom for the girls you created. Understand?” Zheng sat on the floor and said to the two.

They were surprised then nodded. Zheng continued. “For the rank D rewards, Zero can use it to exchange powerful bullets for the sniper rifle. I checked it, there’s one called nuclear fusion gauss bullet that costs a rank D reward and 500 points. The effect is nuclear fusion explosion in a 250 meter diameter upon impact, about the same area as the gravity mine. Why don’t you exchange two of these bullets? You should save the remaining 3000 points since the next movie is a team battle. We can’t be sure that no newbies will die.”

Zero nodded quietly. He walked over to God and closed his eyes. A moment later, two long and narrow yellow bullets appeared in his palm. Such an inconspicuous bullet with a powerful effect over 250 meters.

Zheng then turned to Kampa. “I think you can exchange for an enhancement. Didn’t you said you want the werewolf enhancement? You can spend a rank D reward for the entry level bloodline. It will increase your stats by a lot. Your speed and strength will further increase after transformation.”

Kampa cried with excitement then ran to God and closed his eyes. A beam of light enveloped him. The light came and went fast. Kampa howled as he opened his eyes. His muscles began to grow.

The others looked at him with anticipation. Yet, his muscles only grew by a little before they stopped and his body hair only grew a little thicker. Not only was the others baffled, Kampa also stood there in shock.

“Uh. This is only the entry level bloodline. It basically makes you look hairier. Haha. You probably need the intermediate or even high level bloodline to transform.” Zheng laughed out.

Kampa was a Russian to begin with. He was hairy and had a big build like a bear. Now that his muscle and hair grew a little more, he looked even more like a bear.

Kampa’s disappointment aside, Zheng advised him to save up the remaining points and rank D reward. Then he turned to Lan. “This movie is important since it is a large scale war and we have to fight against another team. So your effect will be even more crucial than usual. You are the team’s eyes and connection. I plan to give you a rank C reward then you can exchange a CC psyche force ability, called psyche whip.”

“Psyche whip, when a team member is being watched or controlled by another person, the user will form a whip with his psyche force to attack the other person’s psyche force. This ability gets more powerful as your mental capacity stat increases and can be enhanced to the next level, psyche shock. This is your offensive ability.”

30 comments:

  1. thanks for the chapter

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  2. thanks for the chapter

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  3. “Want to know the meaning of life? Want to live… a real life?”

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  4. You know that probably wasn't the time to revive that guy. If they revived him or some other Newbies before the battle against the Vampire they would have gotten 4000 points and C rank rewards as well. It's only Xuan's guess that there's a limited to the number of people who can gain rewards in a mission. Fighting the dragon had contribution, but not a final number.

    Also, why did they expect him to become a Werewolf? Isn't it how Zheng can't fly and either needs a higher level of his enhancements or Genetic Constraint to transform?

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    1. It makes sense and is actually perfect for Starship troopers.They probably got hyped up with curiosity and seeing the crazy guy in team India with the same enhancement.The thing with bonuses is all Xuan spotting newbies didn't get any and making a theory out of it.There probably exist other factors that will not be explained

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    2. yeah but before the battle against the vampire they didn't have the rules that could make him really useful and even if xuan had a guess that he could obtain the rules before fighting the vampire, he didn't known wich rules he was going to gain. reviving a dead weight at that times would have been stupid except if they can predict future.

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    3. He would've easily been killed again if revived in the last bonus mission. Gando would've just been nothing but a liability.

      Secondly, they didn't expect him to be a werewolf, he WANTED to be one. If you've been reading and not skimming, you'd know.

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    4. It says they looked at Kampa with anticipation, meaning they also had high hopes or expected a Werewolf transformation. Afterwards, Zheng even awkwardly said that it was probably too low level to transform.

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  5. Well this exchange sucks so far.Reviving and wasting points on a mecha seems counterproductive long term because even if a mecha can last 4-5 hours items with rules have greater potential in terms of recharging,capacity,efficiency and require the user to be able to hold his own without those items which means it is easier for the author to just kill off Gando and have the plot so the materials are just scraps or fall into enemies hands be they movie chars or teams with a grudge and less symbol knowledge

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    1. That's true, but they need someone as a sacraficial pawn. And if he survives long enough they can arm him with artifacts, even if they only give him a load of batteries his suit will make him extremely powerful.

      The reason gundamns last so little time is because they bring the user's capabilities many many times above their own. So it will be like he has 3rd stage unlock, who else can shoot lasers and move like Zheng for 1 hour?

      And Zheng is already the most powerful character in team China so that speaks a lot, considering that they are facing a team battle.

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    2. Xuan expect him to become has strong has zheng and I think he is right if they can obtain more rules then that gundam could really be cheated, every bullet could be like wangxia mine, the machine could fly and if they obtain electric conversion rule I am sure they could do far more stuff than I can think. And all of that at a cost far lesser than a regular enhanced fighter.

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    3. And 4-5 hours is long enough. zheng can't fight that long and his full power only last a moment.

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    4. That is the problem.A mecha is limited in terms of potential,those same rules are not exclusive to mechas meaning Zheng will outpace it in terms of battle strength and utility in a few movies(bonus missions,stats,usable and compatible items,skills,..).I am not saying it is useless but it will only be usable so much before it can't develop further,it's upkeep becomes too much and alternative solutions have to be found just like real life machines and I am actually very interested how are they gonna tweak it?How much terrain can it blow up?Will anyone else pilot it?Can it pull off combos with other items(sci-fi and magical ones) and energy users?

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    5. Also the only guy with sci-fi enhancement went all Allah's terminator but was limited(rigid in terms of what he could do,sense and how to deal with magical attacks).That said though it should have greater effect with someone enhanced(unless it is somehow incompatible).

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    6. Just reread a part of masterfrime's earlier comment and they do have the electricity conversion rule

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    7. Like the mecha element, but it limits the pilot. He won't advance beyond the First Stage.

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  6. You know what would be awesome if they used the book starship troopers instead of the movie. Because they actually have mechanized suits capable of hours long operation and kilometers of range with jump jets. Not to mention the troopers are better trained with way better araenals

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  7. If only this were real I would so be there....

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    1. If this was really real, you'd set a death flag right now and be the first one to die.

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  8. Hmmm, I thought this must be the Chapter 1(2) of Vol 14, for starship troopers....

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  9. Gando = revival =/= characterization = death flag. He's the only one that the author forgot to mention the past.

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