The Era of Gods

Chapter 444: Chapter 444: Landing and Camp

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The MK-204 Crystal Wall System, with “MK” indicating its considerable distance from the Main World, is at the very outer periphery of the current Main World’s influence and the most remote circle that Radiance has explored.

The reason for establishing an Outpost Base in this Crystal Wall System naturally stems from its sufficient strategic value.

This is a medium to large Crystal Wall System with the Crystal Wall Origin Will and transcendent powers. According to the information Lin Xiao could access, the system’s development value has been preliminarily confirmed, but a more in-depth exploration is required to determine its exact worth. Therefore, Yanhuang No.1 Super War Fortress, under the jurisdiction of the first military zone of Radiance, established a Large Outpost Base here and dispatched a division to be stationed at this location.

While it is not a main force division, the presence of a division here indicates how much the first military zone values this Crystal Wall System.

After all, according to past patterns, a medium to large Crystal Wall System theoretically has the potential to give birth to a great existence.

Yes, just theoretically.

Theoretically, a medium to large Crystal Wall System under the right conditions could give birth to a great existence.

The military’s establishment of a Large Outpost Base, stationing a division here with a brigadier general as the highest military authority, reflects the significance they place on this Crystal Wall System. Otherwise, the garrisoning officer in a normal Crystal Wall System would only hold the rank of a college officer, like in the AX-14 Crystal Wall System, where Lin Xiao’s family is located.

Of course, the military currently only tentatively assesses the potential here; it does not mean the system will indeed produce a great existence. In fact, most Crystal Wall Systems evaluated as potentially capable of fostering a great divine power ultimately prove incapable of housing such a birth.

However, as long as there’s a possibility, a complete exploration is warranted.

Traveling through Radiance’s exclusive channels, Lin Xiao arrived for the first time at Yanhuang No.1 Super War Fortress, a Super War Fortress located in subspace resembling a sun-like super fireball.

Yanhuang No.1 War Fortress is the first Super War Fortress constructed by humans, under the dominion of major powers led by the Brilliant Super College. The size of the fortress exceeds that of the Yanhuang No.5 Super fortress, and its strength is also greater.

Via a military-exclusive passage, over two thousand students from more than a dozen classes boarded a Large Void Warship escorted by five Military Void Battleships. After half a year’s travel in a Different Domain, they crossed countless billions of miles of Chaotic Void to arrive in front of a fireball that appeared to burst with red flames on its surface.

From the outside, this Crystal Wall System in the Void resembles a space M-class red giant, with its reddish spectrum visible from afar.

The Crystal Wall System is strikingly conspicuous in the Chaotic Void, with no obstructions; and before determining enough value, the military did not set up a Super Array to conceal its presence.

The Void Fleet crossed billions of miles of Chaotic Void to reach the Crystal Wall System, docking at the Large Outpost Base fixed on the outer shell of the Crystal Wall, where red flames erupted.

The red flames erupting on the exterior of this Crystal Wall System are true flames, a manifestation of energy leakage from within the system. Although not as hot as a star, they could easily melt steel, so the fixed Outpost Base on the surface of the Crystal Wall must constantly maintain an energy shield.

Yet at the same time, the Outpost Base can continuously convert these flames into energy to power the base, thus achieving a Balance whereby only a minimal amount of energy is consumed to sustain the base’s basic operation in non-combat times.

This phenomenon of energy leakage from a Crystal Wall System is not common in the Chaotic Void—typically, the external Crystal Wall functions to protect the system by isolating it from external energies and primarily to conceal and isolate the Crystal Wall System. The constant energy leakage from this system is, under normal circumstances, quite abnormal.

Logically, such continuous energy leakage would only be seen in Crystal Wall Systems with a shattered world origin.

However, based on the intelligence Lin Xiao can access with his current military rank, the preliminary data obtained by the first military zone from their long-term conquest of this system suggests that the world’s origin seems not to be shattered, which is rather peculiar.

Nevertheless, this information cannot be considered accurate since he belongs to the Fifth Military Region, while this is the jurisdiction of the first military region. Plus, he is not really a high-ranking military official yet, so it is normal for him to not have access to the true data.

Of course, Lin Xiao is not particularly interested in this. What difference does it make to know the truth when he hardly intends to meddle in these matters?

Were he now a colonel in control of a Level 3 Battle Group, perhaps… well, maybe not. The highest officer stationed at this Outpost Base is a brigadier general commanding a division, making his Battle Group leader not qualified enough.

As the Void Battleship gently docked at the Outpost Fortress’s berth through the high-temperature flame storm, Lin Xiao put aside his various whimsical thoughts and gathered with his girlfriend in the ship’s largest cabin, as announced by the broadcast.

The entire grade’s 2,200 elite students were all present, arranging themselves according to their different classes. From a distance, the crowd was bustling, with the occasional flash of light from various phenomena.

At their level of strength, they are basically capable of controlling and concealing their own unusual phenomena. For example, Lin Xiao’s head would not currently have a black hole or a Magic Cube contracting inwards, making him appear no different from an ordinary person.

However, there are still a small number of wealthy second-generation students who did not enter the Brilliant Super College through their own strength and now cannot easily conceal their aura. Even if they barely manage to do so, a slight emotional disturbance can cause a leakage.

All the class advisors and teaching assistants attended this joint class, and several high-ranking officials from the College came too. In addition to this, they would receive cooperation from the personnel of this Outpost Base and be protected by a fleet throughout.

After all, strictly speaking, this group of students ranks quite highly within the entire Radiance System, even higher than this Outpost Base.

As the saying goes, the children are the future of the nation. They might face a harsh reality after graduating and entering society, but during their studies, they remain the nation’s blossoms, deserving high-level protection and attention.

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It was similar to the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, that Lin Xiao remembered. On the day of the gaokao, everything had to make way for the examinees; even if someone ran a red light and hit someone else’s car, the other party would be careful to offer an apology, and the police would escort the examinee to the examination site.

But once the gaokao was over, if one failed to enter a university and stepped into society early, and hit someone else’s car just after coming out of the exam, the situation was the same: one had to offer a careful apology, only this time, it was you who would be apologizing to the car owner, and the police would be taking you to the station.

Just one day apart, and the treatment was as different as heaven and earth.

At this moment, a light screen popped up in front of Lin Xiao, displaying the mass-sent content of this period’s major class from their teacher.

As he examined the content displayed on the light screen before him, he was quite surprised.

The content was simple, summarized in two words—drifting.

As the literal meaning suggested, they were going to be deployed into the unknown void within the Crystal Wall Universe. Yes, the void, not a plane. This time they would be directly cast into the chaotic void, where they would have to rely on their own abilities to drift within the void and find a valuable plane within a set time limit.

This mission was extremely risky, unlike the major classes during high school where even if they descended into a plane, there would be teachers looking after them. This time, being deployed into the void, there would be no teachers to watch over them; any accident could lead to the fall of their incarnation.

Because of the danger of the mission, everyone used an avatar to descend. The girlfriend Lin Xiao was holding at the moment was one of her regular Divine Power avatars, not a Divine Position Incarnation.

The second phase of the major class was to find a valuable plane in the void and, relying on individual strength, somehow establish a Spatial Waymarker to contact the Outpost Base located outside the Crystal Wall System, then they could return.

The main difficulty of this major class lay in how to survive in the terrible void and find a valuable plane within the aimless and directionless void, then, with bare hands, craft various materials to establish a Spatial Waymarker and subsequently return safely.

As for the method of grading, naturally it was based on who could find a plane at the fastest speed, then assess the value of the plane, and finally the achievements within the found plane within the set time limit.

Merely finding a plane was certainly not the same as having already established a stable foothold and a power on a plane when it came to grading.

The mission time was thirty years, which was equivalent to one month in the Main World.

“Is it possible to team up?”

Lin Xiao raised his hand and asked.

The surrounding students all looked up; they were also interested in this point.

Jin Sisi looked over and nodded, saying,

“Teaming up is permitted, but the grades will be calculated separately. If two students descend together and discover a plane together, the grades will be split evenly between them for any joint action when assessing the results.”

Lin Xiao understood; if two people teamed up, and they only discovered one plane, then they would equally share the scores of that plane, which was certainly not as good as the grades of students who discovered a plane alone.

Of course, if the plane discovered through collaboration was very valuable, then even if the scores were split between the two, their grades could still be better than those of students who found ordinary planes on their own.

So…

Lin Xiao looked at Shen Yuexin, who also looked back and smiled slightly.

They understood each other as if they were in perfect harmony.

Just then, he suddenly heard someone nearby exclaim softly,

“Are there any additional rules behind this?”

Lin Xiao quickly scrolled the light screen, and as the display changed, indeed there was new content. Looking closely at the title, it was confirmed to be an additional rule; scrutinizing it, he revealed a look of joy—this addendum was very advantageous for him.

Under normal rules, each student was only allowed to descend in one avatar, and then could only summon a retinue of Clan members not exceeding a thousand in number to accompany the descent. This could be prepared before descending by summoning them into a spatial artifact, because the powers of the Main World had not fully penetrated this Crystal Wall System, making it impossible to open the Divine Realm and summon Clan members while descending into the depths of the Crystal Wall void.

The Clan members summoned would not be able to be recalled after entering the depths of space. They had to either successfully establish a waymarker to return or die out there.

Normally, the number of Clan members available for summoning was the same for each student, but in this additional rule, it stipulated that students holding an official military rank could receive an additional quota for summoning, or use