Chapter 152: Mission Complete

For the next several days, the Seventh Squad remained at the rear base camp. Aside from handling a few logistical tasks, they spent the vast majority of their time engaged in adaptive training. They were never granted access to the core area again. However, as a trainee squad, they had already gained significant benefits from this joint mission, so they didn't push to risk entering high-danger zones again.

The mutated rats on the outskirts of Mount Hualan had been mostly wiped out through the concerted efforts of a large number of Transcendent warriors. The rock crevices and rat tunnels inside the mountain were also being resealed by the logistics engineering corps of the Transcendent Management Department. To be precise, the entire body of Mount Hualan was being replaced with permanent anti-nuclear materials in preparation for its complete reconstruction into a massive underground military facility.

The core area of this naturally-turned-artificial underground facility—the original location of the "anomaly"—was not only sealed off with multiple layers of large-scale, high-level barriers, making it as airtight as an absolute enclosure, but dozens of diversionary capture chambers were also built around it. Even if a large number of dimensional creatures were to surge out of the anomaly again, they would be guided into these intricate capture chambers, where they would be dispersed and temporarily imprisoned, preventing the buildup of overwhelming, lopsided pressure.

Once these dimensional creatures were locked within the capture chambers, the Transcendent Management Department could adjust personnel and combat power to handle them at their leisure, whether by extermination or capture. In this way, they could effectively ensure that dimensional creatures could not emerge from the anomaly, while mutated creatures from the outside could not enter, naturally preventing the formation of uncontrollable, large-scale extraordinary biological tides. A medium-scale crisis of an extraordinary biological tide had been suppressed before it could even spread.

Meanwhile, the members of the Seventh Squad, under the intensive training curriculum designed by their resident academic genius, spent nearly a week struggling to finally absorb the saturated super-energy particles in their bodies, stabilizing their combat power at approximately the F8 level. Furthermore, following their breakthrough in the sinkhole shaft, those who had not yet grasped Transcendent combat techniques finally mastered the energy-output mode that other Transcendent warriors referred to as "Super-Energy Attacks."

The "black foreigner," having taken on the role of the squad’s information broker, spent several days buzzing around the camp. He finally gathered crucial intelligence regarding "Super-Energy Attacks" from the Transcendent warriors he had befriended. It turned out that while few people mastered this energy-output mode, it was not as rare as they had initially imagined. As long as the super-energy particles accumulated in one's body reached a certain equivalent energy level, any Transcendent warrior who wasn't hopelessly dense had a chance to comprehend their own unique "Transcendent combat technique."

However, to skillfully master and apply Super-Energy Attacks in actual combat, one likely needed to reach the D-level of combat power and condense a "Super-Energy Core." Otherwise, the output would have limited power and consume far too much energy, making it impractical in real combat. As for why their academic genius, Su Xiaoke, couldn't find any information on Transcendent combat techniques on the Multi-Dimensional Super-Net, it was simply because their access level was too low. They were completely unaware of the concept of "authority levels" on the Super-Net.

It turned out that what they had been accessing was merely a public node of the Multi-Dimensional Super-Net; only by obtaining the corresponding authority could one unlock higher-level, deeper layers of the network. These deeper layers were physically isolated and constructed within separate, isolated "sealed-box systems." Without special "invitation cards" and "box-sealing keys," even the best hacking skills were useless. Upon learning this, the first-ever setback left the academic genius looking quite awkward; she dove into the camp's temporary laboratory and didn't emerge again.

Since the mission was nearing its end, there was essentially nothing left for trainee Transcendent warriors to do. However, due to movement restrictions, they could not leave early and had to focus their energy on developing "manga-inspired" Transcendent combat techniques. Setting aside those who had already grasped such techniques, among the others who had newly comprehended them, Jason developed a "Super-Energy Burst Punch" that resembled Bai Yuxie's "Particle Impact Punch." He mixed his own pheromone-carrying "super-active particles" and "X-particles" in a specific ratio and coated them onto his limbs or weapons. When these collided with super-energy particles carrying different pheromones, they would trigger a powerful energy explosion; depending on the mixing ratio, it could even produce different explosive effects.

"Chicken Leg," who specialized in defense, was different. Through the rare experience of "saturation overflow" of super-energy particles, he learned the technique of attaching his own pheromones to his super-active shield to rapidly absorb the free-floating X-particles in the air. Once the free X-particles formed an energy layer of sufficient density, he would release his own super-energy particles to bind this X-particle energy layer. In doing so, he effectively gained an additional energy shield, doubling his defensive power while significantly reducing his own energy consumption.

The only drawback was that this defensive method, which he dubbed the "X-Shield," had a formation process that was too slow and required too much prep time, making it useless in a pinch. Moreover, once the "X-Shield" was formed, it could not be maintained for long; as soon as he left combat, he had to dissipate the shield to avoid draining his stamina.

Willie’s development was quite interesting. The energy piercing he released through his weapons was named "Fatal Strike," while the energy propulsion he released through his feet was named "Gale Step," which felt quite like transitioning into the rogue class from a game.

What stunned Bai Yuxie most was that Captain Luo Fei had chosen a purely offensive, aggressive route. By pouring super-energy particles into her weapon, she created a special particle vibration. This not only enhanced her weapon's "armor-piercing" ability to penetrate an enemy's super-active shield but also allowed her to release the super-energy particles attached to the weapon the instant it struck the enemy, creating a tearing energy diffusion that amplified the damage.

Although these Transcendent combat techniques, developed through sheer ingenuity, still possessed various flaws and issues, the fact that they could comprehend and initially master such Super-Energy Attacks during their trainee phase was already an astonishing performance among the vast ranks of Transcendent warriors.