Legend of the Supreme Soldier Chapter 512

Celest had shocked Ye Chong beyond words . It basically overturned everything he believed in about mechs . This mech was new territory .

"Cough cough!" Abruptly, Kui coughed violently, and brought Ye Chong back to the present . He turned to see Kui's chest rising and falling rapidly, his face reddening quickly .

"It's time," Kui smiled at Ye Chong, returning his gaze .

For some reason, Ye Chong felt deeply sorrow for the man . He watched quietly, not knowing what to say .

Kui's expression turned solemn and he spoke, ignoring his condition, "Celest is not invincible, though . There isn't enough time, and it's not quite completed yet . Take off the armor on its leg and have a look . "

Ye Chong did as told, and saw exposed metallic structure underneath the black armor . The metal structure was half covered by muscle tissue, but the other half was exposed and shining with a typical metallic glimmer .

"According to the schedule, Celest needs another 15 days to complete . However, I don't have much time left, I can't see it completed . " Kui looked at Celest with an unreadable expression . He was equal parts dismayed, regretful, proud and hopeful .

"Take it," Kui smiled at Ye Chong, "Celest is yours, our legacy will live on . You must take care of it, the leg will be its weakest spot . Moreover, maintenance work on Celest will be tricky . You have to study enough biology to know how to do it, or the bio-mech will be useless if it's too heavily damaged . Don't worry about minor scratches since it can heal itself, much like actual living organisms . "

"Thank you!" Ye Chong bowed to Kui respectfully .

Kui waved away his gesture, "Don't worry about it . Take care of the mech, and unleash its true potential . And, if you're interested, expand on our work . I will be eternally grateful . "

"I will," Ye Chong said . His voice was soft but resolute .

Kui smiled, satisfied . He took out three memory chips and a ring from some hidden corner . "These three chips contain the bulk of the Consortium's research work in three different stages across time . The chips are made of special biological material and have a large memory space . They can only be read with a bio-mech, Celest's bio-photon processor . Haha, all the mechs out there are fakes, to confuse outsiders . This is Celest's dimension keystone . Take it . But first, you have to enter Celest and activate it . Take anything in here that catches your eyes .

"Look," Kui pointed towards the mainframe computer in the lab, "All the information is there . You can check it out yourself . This ring unlocks the information . "

Celest's dimension keystone was a simple metal ring . Ye Chong put it on his finger, and the ring tightened immediately like a life animal, latching on to his finger . He could not take it off now .

"The dimension keystone has other features . A lot of our work on spatial science is incorporated into this dimension keystone . You'll find out more when you try it out yourself . " Kui was pale as a sheet by now .

"Cough," he coughed out a mouthful of blood .

"It's time," Kui smiled wanly, "I'm so lucky to have met you .

"Live well . " Suddenly, Kui fell backwards .

Ye Chong was surprised, and quickly stepped forward to catch him .

Ku had stopped breathing . Ye Chong felt something slippery in his hands . He looked down and found that Kui was already bleeding everywhere . His skin was cracking all over into many tiny slits, where blood began to flow out .

Kui's pulse and breathing stopped .

Ye Chong put him down . Right after that, the man's body immediately burst open like a balloon . His bone and flesh exploded into a mess .

The blue poison was strong, that was for sure . Ye Chong looked at Celest . The bio-mech stood with its eyes closed, like a magnificent warrior . He looked back at Kui's ruined corpse and felt sorrow for him .

The joy of obtaining Celest was dampened by Kui's death . However, Ye Chong recovered quickly, and began to inspect the bio-mech .

The more he looked, the more surprised he was .

He realized then that the Research Consortium was at the forefront of biological sciences .

Celest's pilot cabin was at its chest . Unlike the metallic pilot cabin in normal mechs, Celest had a pilot cabin made of organic material . There were modified plant substrates and compound materials used everywhere in there . The pilot cabin's oxygen supply system was unique . A kind of plant that Ye Chong had never seen before made up its main structure . It could produce large amounts of oxygen, maintaining the balance of air composition in the pilot cabin . The insides of the pilot cabin were covered with these green plants . They exuded a nice, faint scent that was refreshing .

The most interesting part of the mech was its bio-photon processor .

It looked nothing like any of the photon processors that Ye Chong had seen before . The object was a semi-transparent hemisphere, suspended on top of the main control console, made of some unknown material . It was soft like taffy, and malleable as well . For example, it could stretch out into a thin, flat disc to display images .

If a memory chip was put on top of it, the photon processor would engulf the chip and display the information within .

Aside from the usual controls, the photon processor can be accessed directly via brain waves . Placed beside the pilot's seat was a helmet . Through it, the pilot can communicate directly with the photon processor and even control the mech through the helmet .

However, this novel method of using brain waves required the mech pilot to be mentally well trained . Ye Chong felt that a mentalist would be able to better make use of this bio-mech . He himself had no talent in skills of the mental sort .

The weapons were just staggering .

He felt like he was looking at a weapons exhibition . There were all sorts of them, from archaic weapons to modern laser based weapons . There were too many for the mind to absorb . The weapons were mostly in black and red . It seemed that the researchers had put in a lot of effort to make the weapons look matching with Celest . Many of the weapons were either carefully polished or decorated with patterns, mostly out of aesthetics . Longer weapons like the archaic lance and spears were either foldable or could be easily disassembled .

Ye Chong also saw the weapons box that Kui mentioned . It looked like a black colored emergency medical box . On top of the box was a large, red flower . The weapons box had an auto latch that could be secured to a slot on Celest's back . The pack itself could store up to six weapons . When in combat, the weapons could be accessed from the sides of the box, making it very handy .

He picked a black colored lance of archaic design, a dark red colored alloy sword, a diamond shaped shield, a laser cutter, 20 auto lock-on shurikens, and a small sized egg-shaped light grenade launcher .

There was a slot on Celest's wrist, which could hold two parrying spears . Han Jia's daggers were taken, while Celest's original daggers were left behind .

Shang also had a huge makeover . The G-Z was relinquished in exchange for a high accuracy sniper rifle, Pierce . Shang commended its shooting accuracy and impressive rate of fire .

Celest also had a cutting edge engine . It was suitable for both short bursts and long distance flight . The only thing Ye Chong thought regretful was the fact that the engine ran on conventional energy sources .

This was not a big problem . Ye Cong had a few teardrop mineralites on him still . Just one would be enough to solve his problem . Ye Chong had wanted to modify Shang's energy source as well so that he could run on teardrop mineralite . Shang's body structure was unique, and any modifications would require all kinds of equipment . That was an issue that he could not solve before . However, here he was now, in the most advanced laboratory of the Research Consortium . What more could he want?

Han Jia was heavily damage . The mech already had many tiny cracks on its structure in the beginning . After that intense battle in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt, it was now close to breaking down . Ye Chong thought that Celest was an impressive mech, but Han Jia was still easier to use . However, upon closer inspection with the equipment around him, Ye Chong found that the mech was now beyond saving . It was not only the exterior that was damaged . The mech's internal parts, such as the engine, were also showing many cracks that he could not hope to repair .

Ye Chong was surprised to find Han Jia so heavily damaged . He knew that the mech was in bad shape, but the severity of it left him taken aback . He had been flying in a mech that could have broken down at any moment . The thought left him with a chill down his spine .

Han Jia was the mech that he had used the longest . All these years, he and the mech had conquered powerful foes here and there . However, it was now time to retire it . Ye Chong suddenly thought of Kui . If Han Jia had a conscious mind, it would probably count itself luckier than Kui .

When Ye Chong realized what he was thinking, he was surprised that such a bizarre idea came to his mind .

He took out the teardrop mineralite in Han Jia . The teardrop mineralite was truly the pinnacle of all energy sources . It remained largely unchanged after such long usage .

Now, Ye Chong faced his next obstacle .

Celest's unique structure presented a challenge . Ye Chong knew little about the bio-mech, much less how to modify its engine to use teardrop mineralite .

He recalled then the bio-photon processor in the pilot cabin .

"Perhaps it's worth a shot," Ye Chong thought to himself . Celest's pilot cabin was at the mech's chest, where the armor was thickest . Ye Chong slipped into the pilot cabin and approached the photon processor . It looked like liquid metal, or a chewy candy . Ye Chong found the photon processor's appearance odd .

Ye Chong held the teardrop mineralite in his hand for a moment, hesitated, then finally placed the mineral on top of the bio-photon processor .

The bio-photon processor engulfed the teardrop mineralite quickly, like a slug eating its meal .

Crack crack crack! There was a series of faint noises . The bio-photon processor glowed suddenly in a rainbow of colors .

"Structure evolution commencing," Ye Chong heard a cold voice spoke .

"Skeleton fortification complete!"

"Structural fortification complete!"

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The cold voice spoke again and again from the bio-photon processor . The pilot cabin was changing rapidly . The green plants growing along the walls turned a brighter green . The controls altered into a more comfortable texture . The bio-photon processor itself changed the most, the semi-transparent glob now a fully transparent crystalline hemisphere .

Ye Chong still had a shred of calmness left in him . He spoke to the voice, "Commence full inspection of the mech's structure immediately . " He needed to have at least a general understand of Celest as soon as possible .

The bio-photon processor replied sternly to Ye Chong's order, "Commencing . "

When Ye Chong saw the numbers displayed on the bio-photon processor, now changed into a holographic screen, he was shocked once again .

The teardrop mineralite had been moved to the engine . The original energy storage space was no longer there, having been rendered obsolete by the bio-photon processor in favor of the teardrop mineralite, and therefore relinquished . Celest's incomplete leg grew new tissue quickly, triggered by the vast energy source it received . The bio-mech was now fully completed . Its muscles and the external metal armor fit into each other seamlessly, providing a whole new level of defense .

The original muscle tissue was also triggered to evolve by the teardrop mineralite . Under the bio-photon processor's assessment and modification, Celest's body structure was now enhanced .

Since the armor was also able to absorb energy, it now shined in a polished jet black, like molten black metal .

After some calculations, the bio-photon processor found that the remaining energy in the teardrop mineralite was enough to for Celest to fly for another 62 years . This meant that Ye Chong did not have to worry about its energy source for a long time to come .

It was a pity that there was not enough space around him right now . He would have liked to test the mech .

After that interesting series of changes, Ye Chong did not do anything more to Celest . He had not figured out what happened just now . Celest was a mystery to him . This was new territory to explore . What he did just now was just a lucky guess . He would not try it again .

Shang's modification works were also progressing rapidly . The lab was well equipped, offering advanced machinery that would never be found outside . Shang would have been able to fix his arm had there been enough coraplatinum . Unfortunately, the rare metal was not found in the Consortium's inventory .

Ye Chong regretted it very much . Fixing Shang was his greatest dream . He thought of the huge mass of coraplatinum in the sunken starship in the free space zone, and felt like jumping straight into the sea to get it .

However, even escaping Gray Valley was a problem for him now .

Ye Chong quickly composed himself once more and began to search the lab with Shang .

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Arwa's fleet had entered the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . Arwa was not the only one who had been into the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . Mech pilots from Gray Valley and the He Yue Galaxy would often brave the journey in their younger days . This risky endeavor offered them combat experience, allowing them to improve faster . More importantly, they would do anything to get the money to fund their journey, be it in mech repairs or buying more advanced mechs . Many of the mech pilots came from a poor background, and had to work dearly for their dreams .

The Calamitous Asteroid Belt was deadly . Almost every mech pilot would hear the same story from their seniors . Nonetheless, many were brave enough to enter the place . Mech pilots would enter either solo or in groups, but they would usually keep near the edges of the asteroid region .

Their mechs were not like Ye Chong's, equipped with almost infinite energy . Hence, they had to stay near the edges . Starships were still the default choice for long distance space travel . No mech can achieve long distance space travelling without a starship .

However, no one had ever heard of a starship entering the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . That would be suicidal! Rocks were flying everywhere in the asteroid belt, enough to destroy even the strongest hulls . With the massive structure of a starship, avoiding the rocks would be impossible . That was what made the journey dangerous .

Entering the asteroid belt with a starship fleet was even more unimaginable .

However, in just a short space of time, two starship fleets had already entered the Calamitous Asteroid Belt .

No one knew if Sir Jay's fleet survived the journey, but now Arwa's fleet was already following his footsteps .

Arwa's experience was not enough to guide him in this journey . He would need his wisdom and trust from his people .

Like Ye Chong, Arwa was not short of followers . The young genius tactician was a hero of the common people . He was widely respected in Gray Valley, especially amongst the middle lower class . Countless young people viewed him as their role model .

Before Jay appeared, Arwa was the most famous young man in Gray Valley . However, Jay's appearance had robbed him of the people's attention . Now, the only person who could be on the same level as Jay was Arwa .

Arwa approved of Jay's assessment of their situation, and later facts came to prove his judgment . His fleet members trusted him even more after that . They called him and Jay as the Twin Stars of Gray Valley . People commended him and Jay, calling them Gray Valley's last hope .

In fact, there were also many people who disagreed with this sentiment, especially Arwa's supporters . They thought that Jay was a genius in truth, but still lacking compared to the experienced Arwa .

Whenever his subordinates vented their frustrations about this, Arwa only smiled .

He knew exactly how strong Jay was! He was a truly formidable opponent . In fact, he believed deep down that of the two of them, Jay was probably more likely to bring everyone to victory .

This was a humbling thought . Arwa was a generous man who thought little of fame and self-interest . However, underneath it all was a sense of pride that few knew about .

This was their first day in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . So far, the fleet progressed slowly and smoothly . No one slacked, however . They all knew that this was just the beginning .

As expected, they faced tremendous pressure on the second day . This was apparent from the casualties they suffered .

Arwa remained calm . Underneath his amiable appearance was a resolute heart . Whenever Xiao Wan watched his not-quite-handsome profile, she would feel a touch sentimental . The man was much wiser beyond his age .

Arwa knew that his fleet had a strong advantage that Jay's fleet lacked .

They had long range weapons .

Jay's fleet had almost no long range weapons . While this allowed him to face the red-tailed beasts more easily, it would render them powerless in the asteroid belt . Arwa's fleet had long range weapons, powerful ones, and this made their journey in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt much easier .

Only large rocks could damage the ship's hull, and their weapons allowed them to destroy these large rocks before they hit .

However, the threat of the Calamitous Asteroid Belt was far more severe than Arwa and his fleet mates could have imagined .

They were not aware of how Jay's fleet had pushed their way through the rocks, creating stronger currents of asteroids in the place that were far more dangerous than before .

It was only on the third day that they came to realize this mistake .

Chapter 512 Unexpected Profit IIITranslator EndlessFantasy Translation Editor EndlessFantasy TranslationCelest had shocked Ye Chong beyond words . It basically overturned everything he believed in about mechs . This mech was new territory . Cough cough Abruptly, Kui coughed violently, and brought Ye Chong back to the present . He turned to see Kui s chest rising and falling rapidly, his face reddening quickly . It s time, Kui smiled at Ye Chong, returning his gaze . For some reason, Ye Chong felt deeply sorrow for the man . He watched quietly, not knowing what to say . Kui s expression turned solemn and he spoke, ignoring his condition, Celest is not invincible, though . There isn t enough time, and it s not quite completed yet . Take off the armor on its leg and have a look . Ye Chong did as told, and saw exposed metallic structure underneath the black armor . The metal structure was half covered by muscle tissue, but the other half was exposed and shining with a typical metallic glimmer . According to the schedule, Celest needs another 15 days to complete . However, I don t have much time left, I can t see it completed . Kui looked at Celest with an unreadable expression . He was equal parts dismayed, regretful, proud and hopeful . Take it, Kui smiled at Ye Chong, Celest is yours, our legacy will live on . You must take care of it, the leg will be its weakest spot . Moreover, maintenance work on Celest will be tricky . You have to study enough biology to know how to do it, or the bio mech will be useless if it s too heavily damaged . Don t worry about minor scratches since it can heal itself, much like actual living organisms . Thank you Ye Chong bowed to Kui respectfully . Kui waved away his gesture, Don t worry about it . Take care of the mech, and unleash its true potential . And, if you re interested, expand on our work . I will be eternally grateful . I will, Ye Chong said . His voice was soft but resolute . Kui smiled, satisfied . He took out three memory chips and a ring from some hidden corner . These three chips contain the bulk of the Consortium s research work in three different stages across time . The chips are made of special biological material and have a large memory space . They can only be read with a bio mech, Celest s bio photon processor . Haha, all the mechs out there are fakes, to confuse outsiders . This is Celest s dimension keystone . Take it . But first, you have to enter Celest and activate it . Take anything in here that catches your eyes . Look, Kui pointed towards the mainframe computer in the lab, All the information is there . You can check it out yourself . This ring unlocks the information . Celest s dimension keystone was a simple metal ring . Ye Chong put it on his finger, and the ring tightened immediately like a life animal, latching on to his finger . He could not take it off now . The dimension keystone has other features . A lot of our work on spatial science is incorporated into this dimension keystone . You ll find out more when you try it out yourself . Kui was pale as a sheet by now . Cough, he coughed out a mouthful of blood . It s time, Kui smiled wanly, I m so lucky to have met you . Live well . Suddenly, Kui fell backwards . Ye Chong was surprised, and quickly stepped forward to catch him . Ku had stopped breathing . Ye Chong felt something slippery in his hands . He looked down and found that Kui was already bleeding everywhere . His skin was cracking all over into many tiny slits, where blood began to flow out . Kui s pulse and breathing stopped . Ye Chong put him down . Right after that, the man s body immediately burst open like a balloon . His bone and flesh exploded into a mess . The blue poison was strong, that was for sure . Ye Chong looked at Celest . The bio mech stood with its eyes closed, like a magnificent warrior . He looked back at Kui s ruined corpse and felt sorrow for him . The joy of obtaining Celest was dampened by Kui s death . However, Ye Chong recovered quickly, and began to inspect the bio mech . The more he looked, the more surprised he was . He realized then that the Research Consortium was at the forefront of biological sciences . Celest s pilot cabin was at its chest . Unlike the metallic pilot cabin in normal mechs, Celest had a pilot cabin made of organic material . There were modified plant substrates and compound materials used everywhere in there . The pilot cabin s oxygen supply system was unique . A kind of plant that Ye Chong had never seen before made up its main structure . It could produce large amounts of oxygen, maintaining the balance of air composition in the pilot cabin . The insides of the pilot cabin were covered with these green plants . They exuded a nice, faint scent that was refreshing . The most interesting part of the mech was its bio photon processor . It looked nothing like any of the photon processors that Ye Chong had seen before . The object was a semi transparent hemisphere, suspended on top of the main control console, made of some unknown material . It was soft like taffy, and malleable as well . For example, it could stretch out into a thin, flat disc to display images . If a memory chip was put on top of it, the photon processor would engulf the chip and display the information within . Aside from the usual controls, the photon processor can be accessed directly via brain waves . Placed beside the pilot s seat was a helmet . Through it, the pilot can communicate directly with the photon processor and even control the mech through the helmet . However, this novel method of using brain waves required the mech pilot to be mentally well trained . Ye Chong felt that a mentalist would be able to better make use of this bio mech . He himself had no talent in skills of the mental sort . The weapons were just staggering . He felt like he was looking at a weapons exhibition . There were all sorts of them, from archaic weapons to modern laser based weapons . There were too many for the mind to absorb . The weapons were mostly in black and red . It seemed that the researchers had put in a lot of effort to make the weapons look matching with Celest . Many of the weapons were either carefully polished or decorated with patterns, mostly out of aesthetics . Longer weapons like the archaic lance and spears were either foldable or could be easily disassembled . Ye Chong also saw the weapons box that Kui mentioned . It looked like a black colored emergency medical box . On top of the box was a large, red flower . The weapons box had an auto latch that could be secured to a slot on Celest s back . The pack itself could store up to six weapons . When in combat, the weapons could be accessed from the sides of the box, making it very handy . He picked a black colored lance of archaic design, a dark red colored alloy sword, a diamond shaped shield, a laser cutter, 20 auto lock on shurikens, and a small sized egg shaped light grenade launcher . There was a slot on Celest s wrist, which could hold two parrying spears . Han Jia s daggers were taken, while Celest s original daggers were left behind . Shang also had a huge makeover . The G Z was relinquished in exchange for a high accuracy sniper rifle, Pierce . Shang commended its shooting accuracy and impressive rate of fire . Celest also had a cutting edge engine . It was suitable for both short bursts and long distance flight . The only thing Ye Chong thought regretful was the fact that the engine ran on conventional energy sources . This was not a big problem . Ye Cong had a few teardrop mineralites on him still . Just one would be enough to solve his problem . Ye Chong had wanted to modify Shang s energy source as well so that he could run on teardrop mineralite . Shang s body structure was unique, and any modifications would require all kinds of equipment . That was an issue that he could not solve before . However, here he was now, in the most advanced laboratory of the Research Consortium . What more could he want Han Jia was heavily damage . The mech already had many tiny cracks on its structure in the beginning . After that intense battle in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt, it was now close to breaking down . Ye Chong thought that Celest was an impressive mech, but Han Jia was still easier to use . However, upon closer inspection with the equipment around him, Ye Chong found that the mech was now beyond saving . It was not only the exterior that was damaged . The mech s internal parts, such as the engine, were also showing many cracks that he could not hope to repair . Ye Chong was surprised to find Han Jia so heavily damaged . He knew that the mech was in bad shape, but the severity of it left him taken aback . He had been flying in a mech that could have broken down at any moment . The thought left him with a chill down his spine . Han Jia was the mech that he had used the longest . All these years, he and the mech had conquered powerful foes here and there . However, it was now time to retire it . Ye Chong suddenly thought of Kui . If Han Jia had a conscious mind, it would probably count itself luckier than Kui . When Ye Chong realized what he was thinking, he was surprised that such a bizarre idea came to his mind . He took out the teardrop mineralite in Han Jia . The teardrop mineralite was truly the pinnacle of all energy sources . It remained largely unchanged after such long usage . Now, Ye Chong faced his next obstacle . Celest s unique structure presented a challenge . Ye Chong knew little about the bio mech, much less how to modify its engine to use teardrop mineralite . He recalled then the bio photon processor in the pilot cabin . Perhaps it s worth a shot, Ye Chong thought to himself . Celest s pilot cabin was at the mech s chest, where the armor was thickest . Ye Chong slipped into the pilot cabin and approached the photon processor . It looked like liquid metal, or a chewy candy . Ye Chong found the photon processor s appearance odd . Ye Chong held the teardrop mineralite in his hand for a moment, hesitated, then finally placed the mineral on top of the bio photon processor . The bio photon processor engulfed the teardrop mineralite quickly, like a slug eating its meal . Crack crack crack There was a series of faint noises . The bio photon processor glowed suddenly in a rainbow of colors . Structure evolution commencing, Ye Chong heard a cold voice spoke . Skeleton fortification complete Structural fortification complete The cold voice spoke again and again from the bio photon processor . The pilot cabin was changing rapidly . The green plants growing along the walls turned a brighter green . The controls altered into a more comfortable texture . The bio photon processor itself changed the most, the semi transparent glob now a fully transparent crystalline hemisphere . Ye Chong still had a shred of calmness left in him . He spoke to the voice, Commence full inspection of the mech s structure immediately . He needed to have at least a general understand of Celest as soon as possible . The bio photon processor replied sternly to Ye Chong s order, Commencing . When Ye Chong saw the numbers displayed on the bio photon processor, now changed into a holographic screen, he was shocked once again . The teardrop mineralite had been moved to the engine . The original energy storage space was no longer there, having been rendered obsolete by the bio photon processor in favor of the teardrop mineralite, and therefore relinquished . Celest s incomplete leg grew new tissue quickly, triggered by the vast energy source it received . The bio mech was now fully completed . Its muscles and the external metal armor fit into each other seamlessly, providing a whole new level of defense . The original muscle tissue was also triggered to evolve by the teardrop mineralite . Under the bio photon processor s assessment and modification, Celest s body structure was now enhanced . Since the armor was also able to absorb energy, it now shined in a polished jet black, like molten black metal . After some calculations, the bio photon processor found that the remaining energy in the teardrop mineralite was enough to for Celest to fly for another 62 years . This meant that Ye Chong did not have to worry about its energy source for a long time to come . It was a pity that there was not enough space around him right now . He would have liked to test the mech . After that interesting series of changes, Ye Chong did not do anything more to Celest . He had not figured out what happened just now . Celest was a mystery to him . This was new territory to explore . What he did just now was just a lucky guess . He would not try it again . Shang s modification works were also progressing rapidly . The lab was well equipped, offering advanced machinery that would never be found outside . Shang would have been able to fix his arm had there been enough coraplatinum . Unfortunately, the rare metal was not found in the Consortium s inventory . Ye Chong regretted it very much . Fixing Shang was his greatest dream . He thought of the huge mass of coraplatinum in the sunken starship in the free space zone, and felt like jumping straight into the sea to get it . However, even escaping Gray Valley was a problem for him now . Ye Chong quickly composed himself once more and began to search the lab with Shang . Arwa s fleet had entered the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . Arwa was not the only one who had been into the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . Mech pilots from Gray Valley and the He Yue Galaxy would often brave the journey in their younger days . This risky endeavor offered them combat experience, allowing them to improve faster . More importantly, they would do anything to get the money to fund their journey, be it in mech repairs or buying more advanced mechs . Many of the mech pilots came from a poor background, and had to work dearly for their dreams . The Calamitous Asteroid Belt was deadly . Almost every mech pilot would hear the same story from their seniors . Nonetheless, many were brave enough to enter the place . Mech pilots would enter either solo or in groups, but they would usually keep near the edges of the asteroid region . Their mechs were not like Ye Chong s, equipped with almost infinite energy . Hence, they had to stay near the edges . Starships were still the default choice for long distance space travel . No mech can achieve long distance space travelling without a starship . However, no one had ever heard of a starship entering the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . That would be suicidal Rocks were flying everywhere in the asteroid belt, enough to destroy even the strongest hulls . With the massive structure of a starship, avoiding the rocks would be impossible . That was what made the journey dangerous . Entering the asteroid belt with a starship fleet was even more unimaginable . However, in just a short space of time, two starship fleets had already entered the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . No one knew if Sir Jay s fleet survived the journey, but now Arwa s fleet was already following his footsteps . Arwa s experience was not enough to guide him in this journey . He would need his wisdom and trust from his people . Like Ye Chong, Arwa was not short of followers . The young genius tactician was a hero of the common people . He was widely respected in Gray Valley, especially amongst the middle lower class . Countless young people viewed him as their role model . Before Jay appeared, Arwa was the most famous young man in Gray Valley . However, Jay s appearance had robbed him of the people s attention . Now, the only person who could be on the same level as Jay was Arwa . Arwa approved of Jay s assessment of their situation, and later facts came to prove his judgment . His fleet members trusted him even more after that . They called him and Jay as the Twin Stars of Gray Valley . People commended him and Jay, calling them Gray Valley s last hope . In fact, there were also many people who disagreed with this sentiment, especially Arwa s supporters . They thought that Jay was a genius in truth, but still lacking compared to the experienced Arwa . Whenever his subordinates vented their frustrations about this, Arwa only smiled . He knew exactly how strong Jay was He was a truly formidable opponent . In fact, he believed deep down that of the two of them, Jay was probably more likely to bring everyone to victory . This was a humbling thought . Arwa was a generous man who thought little of fame and self interest . However, underneath it all was a sense of pride that few knew about . This was their first day in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt . So far, the fleet progressed slowly and smoothly . No one slacked, however . They all knew that this was just the beginning . As expected, they faced tremendous pressure on the second day . This was apparent from the casualties they suffered . Arwa remained calm . Underneath his amiable appearance was a resolute heart . Whenever Xiao Wan watched his not quite handsome profile, she would feel a touch sentimental . The man was much wiser beyond his age . Arwa knew that his fleet had a strong advantage that Jay s fleet lacked . They had long range weapons . Jay s fleet had almost no long range weapons . While this allowed him to face the red tailed beasts more easily, it would render them powerless in the asteroid belt . Arwa s fleet had long range weapons, powerful ones, and this made their journey in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt much easier . Only large rocks could damage the ship s hull, and their weapons allowed them to destroy these large rocks before they hit . However, the threat of the Calamitous Asteroid Belt was far more severe than Arwa and his fleet mates could have imagined . They were not aware of how Jay s fleet had pushed their way through the rocks, creating stronger currents of asteroids in the place that were far more dangerous than before . It was only on the third day that they came to realize this mistake .

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