Chapter 1432: Chapter 1146: Being Targeted
Bang!
The energy sword and the alloy greatsword struck their targets at the same time, tearing a gash in the armor around Long Yi’s waist. The warrior opposite him was severed at the waist! The sliced armor flew off, and out tumbled the white-skinned warrior, who was lucky to have curled up his legs at the last moment. Otherwise, the strike would have definitely severed his legs!
The armor was breached again, and the warrior inside was forced out of his armor, Henki had once again secured victory without question!
The warriors who had just been cheering were now stunned, the sneers still fading from their faces. This style of fighting—rotating twice in succession—was completely absent from their textbooks and training, nor did those who used energy swords have any experience in leveraging the inertia of heavy weaponry in combat! No one expected that such ancient weaponry could make a comeback!
Not only had the warriors not anticipated this, but the instructors hadn’t either. To say nothing of whether this battle method was unpopular, it certainly didn’t seem like something a rookie still in the recruit camp could execute.
Unless...
The instructor immediately looked up at La Sang, the instructor of the sixth squad in the distance, only to see La Sang also staring over. Realizing he was being watched, La Sang quickly turned his head away, pretending to be indifferent.
It was indeed him! La Sang!
During the later stages of the civil war, in order to regain the trust of the Emperor, La Sang’s Family had almost entirely mobilized, amassing plenty of combat experience by the end of the conflict. If La Sang personally trained Henki, it wasn’t out of the question.
But even with this knowledge now, of what use was it?
The battles continued, and Henki was unstoppable! The tactics initially agreed upon had failed, and the entire eighth squad disintegrated in an instant, warriors flipping over one after another. And as time went on, the warriors became more and more timid in the face of Henki, to the point that the last few simply forfeited!
Thus, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Henki was promoted to the seventh squad!
However, the instructor of the seventh squad was not worried. Since he was on good terms with La Sang of the sixth squad and suspected that this was La Sang’s doing, he didn’t mind doing a favor.
"Tomorrow, the promotion matches. Everyone, prepare yourselves for today," said the instructor of the seventh squad.
"Huh?" The entire seventh squad was stupefied.
Indeed, stupefied. If it had been before, they would have been eagerly rubbing their hands together in excitement. But now, that bizarrely powerful Henki had just arrived, and they were to hold the promotion matches? They hadn’t even had time to familiarize themselves!
"What, you’re all so eager to have the promotion matches today?" the instructor asked with a laugh.
"No!" they joked. No one was that crazy!
"Since it’s not that, then prepare well. The battle starts tomorrow morning!"
At this time, the fifth squad was the one that couldn’t sit still. The instructor of the fifth squad came from a different Family than the instructor of the sixth squad; in fact, they could be considered rival Families, having impeded each other at every turn. Seeing such a formidable figure climbing up step by step, apparently even personally coached by La Sang, how could he stand it?
"The day after tomorrow, we’ll also have the promotion matches," the instructor of the fifth squad announced. "Everyone, get ready."
Theoretically, only one squad was allowed to have promotion matches per day. The instructor of the fifth squad feared that following the promotion matches tomorrow, the warrior named Henki would be promoted directly to the sixth squad, after which La Sang would immediately declare promotion matches, so he wanted to book the time first. La Sang seemed to realize the plan of his adversary and responded only with a friendly smile, showing no more. However, that friendly smile couldn’t pass through his armor.
La Sang and Henki’s series of actions finally made the Family’s high-level officials restless. From a fool to an excellent warrior, the upper echelons of the Family did not understand what La Sang was doing. Therefore, the Family urgently recalled La Sang to inquire about the details.
La Sang now stood in the center of the Family’s semicircular grand inquisition platform, with the Family Elders dressed in Elder armor seated in front.
"Then, please explain this matter, La Sang," an Elder spoke.
"Yes, Your Excellency the Elder, this is exactly what I planned to report back to the Family recently. Not long ago, I inadvertently discovered that Henki is not a fool but a genius. It’s just that his talent does not lie in controlling energy alloy but in improving energy alloy!"
"Improving energy alloy? By how much can it enhance the properties of the alloy? Can it surpass two percent? If it can reach two percent, indeed, he has value that warrants our investment and support," said another Elder while the rest nodded in agreement. After all, the energy alloy had been invented thousands of years ago, and the improvements had reached their limit; despite efforts to innovate, the results were hardly notable.
"No, the number is much greater," said La Sang.
"Much greater? How much? Five percent?" the Elder asked. If it was this figure, then the Family could definitely turn the tide with this discovery.
"More."
"Eight percent?"
"More."
"Could it be, ten percent!?" The Great Elder, sitting in the middle, could not sit still and asked. As soon as he spoke, the surrounding Elders immediately fell silent.
