The Name of a Genius
By the time the drill and military training sessions ended and I returned to my dormitory, it was already evening.
Lister's mind was still preoccupied with his conversation with Major Qi.
The other party's unprovoked care made him feel uneasy.
Especially since they don't even know whether this so-called special resource is actually useful to him.
How to handle this good intention made it even more difficult for him to assess.
He had already found information about Major Siegfried on the recruit camp's intranet.
Information is scarce. He is a major in the Thirty-Ninth Central Army Group and belongs to a first-class civilization; nothing else is known about him.
Lost in thought, his gaze involuntarily drifted to Reck, who was walking towards him.
"Lister... are you... are you alright?"
Meeting Lister's strange gaze, Reck had just finished washing up, was somewhat puzzled.
She subconsciously touched her long, thin forehead, but eventually took a few steps closer to him, her face showing some nervousness.
"Reck, I have some information I'd like you to help me find out."
"Um...?"
"Of course! Which recruit's information is it? I promise to give you all his data by tomorrow night."
Upon hearing that it was just to gather information, Reck's expression immediately relaxed.
He wondered what it was that made Lister look at him like that.
It turned out he was just gathering information; that was a piece of cake for him.
"It's not for new recruits, it's for the instructors."
"Information about Major Qi from our recruit camp."
"Major Qi...? This... is difficult!"
"He belongs to the Central Army Group, and most of his information is kept secret. There's no way we can know!"
Upon hearing that it was Major Qi, Reck's expression immediately turned troubled.
Information about other people was easy to obtain, but the officers of the Central Army Group were completely beyond his capabilities.
He's just a first-class civilized citizen; he doesn't have that many channels.
"Just try to find out for me. I don't need the information to be true; even a rumor will do."
"Okay... I'll go ask for you, but don't get your hopes up too high."
Driven by his inner desire to emulate Lister, Reck finally agreed.
Lister himself didn't have high hopes; he was just giving it a try.
Day 5, classroom A407.
A group of new recruits were making strange, unsettling movements inside.
They also occasionally mocked and explored each other's ideas.
Meanwhile, most of the right side of the classroom was intentionally left empty.
Lister was receiving individual training from Coach Kata.
Through information exchange with other new recruits, including individual mentoring that began yesterday.
Lister could naturally see that this was a special favor given to him by Instructor Kata.
Compared to Major Qi's inexplicable care, Professor Kata's was clearly genuine.
His attitude changed drastically after he initially offered deliberate guidance, but then yesterday, after fully demonstrating the Federation Basic Footwork.
The joy of seeing promising students and the sense of accomplishment from successful teaching were written all over his face.
Seeing that Lister was only one step away from mastering the Shunpo technique, he became even more excited and gave him special guidance.
"You charged up too much power, hold back a bit, and feel the explosive force first!"
"Don't rush at the beginning, don't focus too much on the distance you move, these things will improve as you get more familiar with them..."
Lister is once again trying to build up his strength. With the foundation laid by the Federation Basic Footwork, he is now adjusting very quickly in this area.
Then, without pursuing distance, he would simply take a few sudden steps in place at a specific rhythm.
Suddenly, it felt like a huge force was pushing him from his calves, and in the next instant, he was already two meters in front of him.
At the same time, a system notification also appeared.
"Congratulations, you have mastered the Federation Shunpo."
Sure enough, even an A-level skill, if Lister really learns it, can be mastered in just five days.
Even skills like the Federation Basic Footwork can be mastered a day faster than expected.
Congratulations, you've leveled up.
[Federation Shunpo (Rank A) LV5 (1/500000):...]
All the remaining million experience points were added to this Shunpo, but it only raised the level by five.
The downside after the second job advancement is that the experience required for skills before level 60 has been increased tenfold.
The more advanced the skill, the more experience points are required.
"You... you really learned it?"
Instructor Kata stared blankly at Lister as he darted two meters away, muttering to himself in disbelief.
The surrounding recruits seemed to sense something was amiss and immediately stopped their training, moving closer to Lister while maintaining a certain distance.
Lister was flashing in various directions before their eyes.
Although the 10-meter Shunpo distance is short for now, it ultimately makes up for the movement skill that I lack most at this stage.
"Is this what Overlord Tier genius is like?"
"This is incredible! I don't even know the basic footwork, and he's already mastered the Shunpo?"
"I can't even see his footsteps clearly, he's faster than Instructor Kata! It's unbelievable!"
"Even those two Galactic Nobles aren't as good as him!"
The surrounding recruits began to exchange exclamations and comments.
Admiring Lister's talent, they gained their first direct understanding of a genius of Overlord Tier.
At the same time, his learning talent was entirely attributed to his Overlord Tier talent.
Little did they know that he was actually just blessed by the system panel.
While communicating with each other, the new recruits also secretly sent messages to their friends in the recruit camp.
Fortunately, the recruit camp's intranet didn't have group chat functions like Baidu Tieba, otherwise news about Lister would probably have spread even faster.
Instructor Kata stepped forward again, sighing with satisfaction.
"As expected, a genius of your Overlord Tier is truly exceptional."
"This is the first time I've ever seen a recruit at the Overlord Tier, and the first time I've ever seen someone learn Shunpo in just five days."
"Instructor Kata, thank you for your guidance."
Lister was genuinely grateful to the instructor who had taught him so diligently.
"You're welcome. You've learned it all thanks to your talent and hard work."
"Besides, you've only just learned it and you're already faster than me. Keep up the good work, and you should be able to surpass me soon."
With a high agility attribute of 160 points, Lister's displacement distance is not as far as Instructor Kata's, but his speed is significantly better.
Most recruits couldn't directly observe Lister's movements; they could only see where he stopped at the end of his Shunpo.
With the end of the military formation and command courses, the recruits in the boot camp have become increasingly relaxed.
The camp does not mandate any specific learning schedule or intensity for the new recruits.
This caused many new recruits to become lazy, while Lister began to value this learning opportunity even more.
By the end of the second week, his reputation as a genius had truly begun to resound.
Not only did he learn the Shunpo in five days, but he also mastered the Teleport skill in just five days.
It's important to know that learning this teleportation skill in the Federation is no less difficult than learning Shunpo.
Most new recruits, only those with a natural talent for spatial reasoning, can learn the skills within one to three years.
Lister himself was somewhat disappointed with the teleportation skill he had learned.
The professor's instructors themselves only possessed C-level skills, which is not a high rank.
More importantly, this so-called teleportation skill wasn't the targeted teleportation he had been longing for, which left him somewhat disappointed.
After much deliberation, I used the remaining Radiance of Extreme Transcendence to upgrade this teleportation skill to A-level.
[Federation Teleportation Array (Class A) LV1 (1/100000): Utilizing the Galactic Federation space system architecture and directional teleportation materials, it can construct ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays within 100 light-years.]
Although it's not the kind of directional teleportation used by the Hoffman puppet, this teleportation array skill is still worth learning.
Lister considered setting up a teleportation array on the Merrick Planet, which would both guide the players' future storyline and serve as a plan for his own future.
As for the other Federation Fighting Technique (Level A), he has also mastered it perfectly, but it is still not as easy to use as the Knee Strike.