Published: February 7, 2025
The battle began normally, but ended very suddenly. After the Nine-Headed Level Five Monster from the divine hall clashed head-on with the Liao Brothers from Cloud Summit, both sides chose to halt the fighting.
Having revealed their trump cards, the probing was over. Strictly speaking, this round of testing was a victory for Cloud Summit, as they only suffered heavy injuries to the Liao Brothers and four destroyed Magic Crystal Long Spears. In contrast, the Anti-Cloud Summit Alliance lost seven Level Five Monsters and had two severely injured.
Both sides cooperatively sent out people to carry back their wounded. Of course, the magic crystals were not meant to be given to the villa, and the villa had no intention of taking them, because once they reached out for them, it would lead to a brand new battle.
Inside a house at the base of the city wall, some core members who had nothing to do sat around casually discussing things while watching Le Da Yuan fiddling with parts on the table.
"Magic crystal weapons are good, but they’re just too fragile. We don’t have craftsmen to process the related materials, and the strength simply can’t meet the requirements for weapons of this power level. One shot and they’re ruined. What a waste," Le Da Yuan lamented as he looked at the parts, which were from the four spears that had just been used. Firing one shot rendered them useless, a problem that Le Da Yuan currently couldn’t solve.
Of course, they could fire using Grade 2 Magic Crystals, which would allow for two shots, but the power would not be enough to pose a lethal threat to evolved beings above Level Four.
"It's not just these materials that are wasted; there’s also the magic crystals. Just now, with four shots, we had two dead and two injured. The result is decent, but we’ve lost four Grade 3 Magic Crystals, and most of these materials were exchanged with magic crystals. These few shots are a loss, roughly equivalent to six Grade 3 Magic Crystals gone," Little Tiger said, resting his chin in disappointment.
When Ye Zhongming left, he established a strong foundation for Cloud Summit Villa, putting the starting point of the people here on par with those superpowers. However, he also left behind Le Da Yuan and Liu Zhenghong—two key individuals for training along with their laboratories. These two core departments of Cloud Summit were almost money-burning entities, where every experiment, whether successful or not, was funded by magic crystals.
At that time, Liu Zhenghong jokingly remarked that without these two laboratories, Cloud Summit would likely have an extra five-star stronger now.
Though this was a joke, it indirectly proved that gene experiments and magic crystal experiments indeed burn through money.
But now it seemed that all this was worth it. Without the results from the two laboratories, the Liao Brothers and the magic crystal weapons, Cloud Summit might not just have been breached but would have at least been embroiled in a fierce battle, perhaps even suffering casualties.
"If these parts had been processed by Zhongming, they could at least withstand the energy impact of Grade 4 Magic Crystals. That power would be a threat to six-star evolvers. If they were sturdy enough for using Grade 5 Magic Crystals, it would be entirely possible to take out Level Six evolved beings with a direct hit,"
As soon as Ye Zhongming's name was mentioned, the people in the room fell silent. It was a name everyone had been trying to avoid lately.
"Don’t think too much; the battle isn’t over yet," Xia Lei said, standing up with a complex expression, encouraging everyone with a few words before taking people out to patrol.
Outside the city, within the camp of the Anti-Cloud Summit Alliance, several five-star leaders gathered together.
"Dr. He, what do you think?"
Little Brother Jiu asked an elderly man who had recently joined. He was dressed in a white metallic protective suit, yet it was soft as if made of cotton. Upon closer inspection, one could see a faint white glow on it.