Luger's Invitation, Level 2 Battlefield
After expressing his gratitude and conveying the general's invitation, Kalan returned to the stronghold. After all, he still had a lot of aftermath to do.
After the war, the huge meteorite base of the outpost looked like a wreckage that had been chewed by a giant beast. The outer armor was covered with pits and scorch marks left by Kunmo Race corrosive weapons, as well as deep ravines plowed by energy cannon fire.
Several serious damage points were like hideous wounds, and the internal structure was exposed, flashing with intermittent electric sparks.
The rescue boat dragged the narrow blue tail flame and carefully towed the larger ship wreckage to the recovery point.
More engineering drones are like metal locusts, covering the damaged surface and carrying out non-stop welding and repair, adding a touch of busy life to this dead battlefield.
The figure of Aurelia quietly appeared beside Lin Yi.
Her Spirit Race style light armor remained motionless in the vacuum, and her skirt-like armor leaves did not ripple at all.
Ice blue eyes first scanned the airspace where Kunmo Race Xingxuan and the bone saw and sword were transformed into basic particles. There was only the aftermath of extremely weak energy disturbance, proving the complete annihilation of a Star Vortex level strong man.
Then, her eyes fell on Lin Yi's slightly pale face.
"Commander." Aurelia hesitated and said, "The blow just now drained your source energy almost instantly. In an environment where battlefield information is not fully controlled, it is a bit risky."
Lin Yi heard this and looked at Aurelia, a trace of surprise flashed in his heart.
In her previous life, she was the one who needed to be reminded "not to be so reckless".
Now that the roles have been completely reversed, the absurdity of time and space made Lin Yi move the corner of his mouth almost unnoticeably.
"This is not because you are here. Don't worry, I will pay attention when I fight alone." Lin Yi explained with a smile, which was a response to Aurelia's kind reminder.
Aurelia saw that Lin Yi knew the importance, so he tilted his head slightly to greet him. The two of them moved, disappeared from the place, and returned to North Wind hand in hand.
As soon as he returned to the North Wind bridge, Lin Yi issued an order to Xuanji:
"Send a general message to all friendly forces Mercenary Group. East Peak Mercenary Group thanks you all for your cooperation in this battle. We will see you later. Also, inform the whole group: the battlefield will be cleared within one hour. After one hour, the fleet will set off, target, Star Realm Army 93778th Border Legion station."
When each Stardust level member was wearing the Gentle Ripple universal battle armor and carrying out finishing work such as transferring the wounded and recovering equipment, the atmosphere in the rest cabin of the Sharpness III assault ship was so warm that it almost ignited the air.
"Hahaha! Did you see that? I just punched you like that!"
Andre waved his arm, which was thicker than an ordinary person's thigh and was wrapped with a thick biological bandage. The saliva almost sprayed into the face of his teammates on the opposite side. "He just smashed the insect's head into its own chest! Crack!"
His whole body was filled with the special smell of Kunmo Race's blood, like an ancient violent bear that had just finished hunting.
"Come on, Bro."
A young team member with a fresh scratch on his face who was treating the wound with disinfectant spray laughed and said, "If Captain Elizabeth's ice needle hadn't disabled its bone-blade-wielding arm in advance, how could you have crashed in so easily?"
"Haha, I'm afraid half of the shoulder armor will be cut off." Another person answered happily.
On the other side, a team member was sitting in the corner, carefully wiping the solidified dark green blood on his sword with a special solvent. Hearing this, he raised his head and interrupted with lingering fear:
"These Kunmo Race are so damn hard, they made my jaw go numb when I cut them, and my source energy consumption was more than twice as fast as during training."
"However, what Captain Liu Yuan warned me before was good. It saves a lot of effort to look for the joint gaps and those disgusting compound eyes. Even they know how to hide their landing spots. To put it bluntly, you still have to rely on strength."
Chen Yu, who was named, was leaning next to Liu Yuan, scratching his messy hair, and whispered in an embarrassed voice, "Old Liu, do you think I rushed too hard just now? It feels like I was almost made a dumpling by the two guys on the flank, as if someone gently pulled me from behind."
Liu Yuan was looking at the light, carefully inspecting every inch of the edge of his long sword, without even raising his head when he heard the words.
"Knowing that being fierce is a good thing, it means you can still be saved. Commander said that only living warriors can continue to output. Next time, pay attention to the connection of formations. You are not fighting alone. As for who pushes you. What do you think?"
Not far away, Elizabeth was sitting alone in a relatively quiet corner, naturally exuding a cold air that kept strangers away from him.
She was looking down at her open palms, and a ball of white cold air visible to the naked eye slowly rotated above her palms, repairing the deep mark scratched by the bone blade on Arm Armor.
The temperature around her was significantly lower than the average temperature in the cabin, causing several team members who wanted to get close to her to subconsciously avoid it.
At the same time, on another battleship, the Sharpness No. 4 assault ship, the atmosphere was somewhat different.
Several Spirit Race members from the Xina Family gathered near the viewing window. Although their bodies were more or less stained with battle scars and stains, they still carried a natural elegance in their manners, forming a subtle contrast with the excited Blue Star warriors around them.
"These Blue Star people should now be called Silver Blue Human Race. Their fighting style is really full of primitive impact." A young Spirit Race man with a handsome face whispered to his companions.
He recalled the scene during the previous landing battle, when a Blue Star team member shot at the dense bone spurs of Kunmo Race, locked the opponent with his arm, and punched the opponent's ferocious mouthpiece with the other hand, blowing it open. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly unconsciously.
"You mean to say, rough, right? But it works, doesn't it?"
Another Spirit Race woman who is slightly older and has a calmer temperament responded.
Her slender fingertips were lingering with a wisp of vibrant emerald energy, and she had just assisted the ship's medical officer in stabilizing the conditions of several wounded people.
"They lack the fine control and resonance of Life Rule that our family has inherited from generation to generation, but they have displayed their physical bravery, tenacity, and combat wisdom in desperate situations to an astonishing degree."
She did not continue.
Obviously, those brutal and wild fighting methods are also deeply imprinted in the heart of Spirit Race, who has been in peace for a long time.
"Master Aurelia chose to cooperate with them in depth. In addition to Master Lin Yi's talent, perhaps it is also because he has been the guardian of Silver Blue Civilization for a long time and has seen the potential and characteristics that we have not noticed."
The elder Spirit Race concluded, "What we need to do is adapt, observe, and learn."
At the same time, on the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group flagship "Wolf Howl" whose armor was full of scratches and looked weathered, it was a different scene.
"Check! Where did that Eastern Edge come from?"
Commander Buck took a hard sip of the pungent-smelling energy drink and shouted at the intelligence officer in front of him.
"Commander, yes. There is too little public information available."
The intelligence officer had a grimace on his face and quickly slid his fingers on the data pad, "They registered in a civilization called "Silver Moon Blue". The data shows that they just passed Civilization Advancement Assessment not long ago. Commander Lin Yi, the confidentiality level of personal information is ridiculously high, and our permissions cannot make in-depth inquiries at all."
"Fuck your mother!"
Buck flattened the empty drink can, "Do you think I don't know what the reward for the civilization assessment is?"
"A newly promoted civilization? Are you telling me that a newly promoted civilization can drive a North Wind-class as its fucking flagship, and bring an entire formation of Sharpness and Guardian classes around? Can it cultivate monsters like Star Core level that can instantly kill Star Swirl? And Star Domain level is sitting in charge?!"
Buck breathed heavily, with a glint in his eyes, "These people are not simple, show me your tricks! From now on when you meet Eastern Edge people at the border, help them if you can, and make a good relationship. Whoever dares to offend them without opening his eyes, I will be the first to throw him out to feed the space slugs!"
Similar discussions also quietly occurred within "Thorn Shield", "Eye of the Eagle", "Frost Ash" and several other Mercenary Group teams that participated in the rescue.
The name "Eastern Edge" began to slowly spread among the mercenary circles in this border star field.
An hour later, a detailed battle damage statistics report was presented to Lin Yi.
East Peak Mercenary Group, as the decisive force in this battle, faced an elite commando team of Kunmo Race and achieved an astonishing record of zero casualties. Only less than ten team members encountered the self-destruction attack of the Kunmo Race fanatics and were seriously injured due to their inability to dodge. However, they have been transferred to the life support cabin and are in stable condition.
Others mainly consume a lot of source energy, but no one has damaged the fundamentals.
This achievement can be called brilliant in an emergency support mission rated as Level 4.
Almost at the same time as the report was confirmed, Xuanji received the cross-star Information Flow from the Mercenary Alliance headquarters system.
[East Peak Mercenary Group (original level: Level 1), completed the "Emergency Support Base" mission (official final rating: Level 4), battlefield contribution evaluation: decisive leadership. Comprehensive consideration of team combat performance, task difficulty and final completion authority certification passed. East Peak Mercenary Group level is upgraded to: Level 2.]
[Corresponding permission update: The highest level that can receive and publish tasks is increased to level 3; unlock level 3 information reading and purchasing permissions; enjoy a 50% discount on the total consumption in all official and certified cooperative facilities under the Mercenary Alliance.]
Lin Yi is not surprised by this. When he accepted this task, he had already guessed this scene.
An hour passed quickly.
The fleet did not stop outside the dilapidated stronghold. The engines of all Eastern Edge ships simultaneously ejected dazzling blue flames and sailed into the vast sea of stars in the direction of the Border Legion's station.
The next voyage will take about ten days.
Lin Yi devotes most of his time to cultivation.
He was not just restoring the nearly dry source energy, but he was also concentrating on it, carefully analyzing every detail of the previous battle, especially when he finally used "Azure Radiance World-Breaking Flash", the mysterious process of extremely compressing and condensing Rule Domain, and finally condensing it to one point.
This subtle control of the power of rules is far more important than simple energy accumulation.
While he was concentrating on practicing, a subtle change was taking place inside East Peak Fleet.
Although the warriors of Blue Star were tired, the excitement of winning the first battle and surviving after fighting against a strong enemy, as well as the sense of honor brought by the improvement of Mercenary Group level, made them still full of lively discussions and jokes in the corridors and lounges, exchanging actual combat experiences with each other and bragging about their achievements.
The members of the Xina Family and Spirit Race are more of a quiet observer.
After all, although they had performed missions together for decades before, the drills in Virtual Network and the escort missions in a safe environment could not truly cultivate the kind of tacit understanding between life and death.
They began to have more proactive non-combat interactions with Blue Star warriors, asking about their training methods, understanding their cultural background, and trying to understand where this fighting spirit full of wildness and resilience came from.
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A few days later, East Peak Fleet followed the navigation signal and safely arrived at the warning identification area where Star Realm Army 93778th Border Legion was stationed.
When the huge man-made military artifact was completely displayed in front of everyone through the observation window, the Blue Star warriors who saw such a large-scale interstellar fortress for the first time could not help but make low comments.
It is not a natural celestial body, but a steel city made up of several meteorites comparable in size to small planets as the basic skeleton, forcibly connected, transformed, and expanded through countless thick alloy structures and armor plates.
The cold metal surface is covered with thick composite armor, showing a dark gray color.
Numerous turrets, unmanned aerial vehicle launch arrays, point defense energy towers and other various defensive weapons grew densely like a jungle, exuding a chilling and chilling atmosphere.
Warships of various sizes, along the waterway, seemed to follow the gears of some kind of precision instrument, orderly entering and leaving the huge shipyards that opened and closed like the breathing of giant beasts.
It is obvious that the entire fortress is a huge machine built for war.
East Peak Mercenary Group After submitting the identification code and passing three different levels of security scans, the fleet was allowed to follow a navigation path clearly marked by a beacon and slowly sail into the interior of the fortress.
Even the five-kilometer-long battleship North Wind no longer looks so oppressive when compared with the grand passages inside the fortress and the huge docking port.
Lin Yi only took Aurelia with him, and took a small traffic boat. Under the leadership of the Star Realm Army standard guide boat, they silently slid through the thick isolation gates, passed through the long passages filled with defensive weapons, and finally arrived at Command Center located in the most Core Zone area of the fortress.
The supreme commander of the 93778th Border Legion, General Luger, received them in an extremely simple room with almost no decoration except for necessary communication equipment and a huge alloy conference table.
General Luger has a tall and straight figure and a resolute face. He wears the meticulously ironed uniform of General Star Realm Army, just like a saber in a sheath.
He did not bring any adjutants or guards, but stood at the door of the conference room to greet the two of them, showing a very high degree of importance.
"Ms. Lin Yi Commander, Aurelia, welcome."
General Luger's eyes fell on Aurelia, and he nodded slightly in greeting. His eyes showed basic respect for a strong man of the same level, and a hint of surprise when he saw Spirit Race.
After a brief mutual introduction, Luger went straight to the topic without any unnecessary greetings or courtesy.
"I read the battlefield records and tactical analysis reports in detail, especially Ms. Lin Yi Commander and Ms. Aurelia's subsequent efforts to calm the situation."
"First of all, on behalf of the 93778th Border Legion, I would like to thank you two and East Peak Mercenary Group for their outstanding contributions in the outpost defense battle."
"There is no need to be polite, General."
Lin Yi's answer is equally straightforward.
Luger nodded slightly, and then changed the subject, with a hint of inquiry. "I understand that Lin Yi Commander comes from the new Silver Moon Blue civilization. It is rare for a Primary Civilization to give birth to an outstanding person like you."
Obviously Luger has used certain intelligence powers to conduct investigations, but the knowledge seems to remain on the surface, at least nothing is known about Aurelia's true identity and Lin Yi's apprenticeship.
In his perception, he is more inclined to regard Lin Yi as a certain super genius that Primary Civilization happened to meet, and then accept investment from other big forces except Mercenary Alliance.
As for why it was Spirit Race who was protecting him, he didn't think much about it.
Because Human Race and Spirit Race communicate very closely, and there are many intermarriages, it is not unusual for a major force to have members of Spirit Race.
And Lin Yi didn't pay much attention to Luger's praise.
After all, he didn't know how many times he had heard such words when those big forces came to visit him before.
Therefore, he just responded with a smile, "I am just a member of Silver Blue Civilization. Without civilization, I would not be where I am today."
"Without civilization, there would be no today."
Luger repeated softly, and then he leaned forward slightly, resting his elbows on the cold metal table, and looked at Lin Yi seriously.
"The sea of stars is endless, and there is no shortage of so-called geniuses. But you are indeed a genius who can get a level 7 evaluation. With the posture of Star Core, you can instantly kill Xingxuan head-on. Even if you are placed in Genius Battle, you are enough to be among the top 1000."
He paused briefly, looked at Lin Yi with burning eyes, and revealed the core intention of this meeting.
"Because of this, on behalf of the Star Realm Army 93778th Border Legion, I would like to formally extend an invitation to you, as well as all members of East Peak Mercenary Group who meet the standards, to join our "Ash Star Domain"Tiered Battlefield, which will be officially designated and opened soon."
"Tiered Battlefield?"
Lin Yi raised his eyebrows almost unnoticeably, with a hint of surprise in his tone.
"This star field. I remember that when I took on the logistics supply mission, I was still identified as Safe Zone, and now I suddenly have to officially launch Tiered Battlefield?"
Lin Yi In his previous life, as a veteran mercenary who struggled to survive on the border and climbed up step by step, he is very familiar with this set of "hidden rules" that prevail in the fringe areas of various races.
The so-called Tiered Battlefield is an unspoken rule adopted by various races in order to control the conflict within a certain range and avoid the situation sliding into an uncontrollable all-out war.
This is quite similar to Blue Star's past national border conflicts. In low-intensity conflicts, firearms were not allowed to be used, and only collisions, pushing and hand-to-hand combat were done to prevent the situation from escalating.
Tiered Battlefield has similar considerations.
This is like putting reins on two giant beasts fighting each other, forcibly limiting the destructive power and escalation risks of war in a relatively controllable cage.
In the previous life, it was not until the death of Lin Yi that the border friction with Kunmo Race started to reach level 4 battlefield.
Among the first 4 levels of battlefield, the level 1 battlefield is limited to Stardust level and below life forms.
There is the cannon fodder legion of the military star, the expendable vassal race, and the main battlefield for training grassroots commanders. Although it does not seem to be very powerful, the fight is huge, and the casualties are in the hundreds of millions, which is quite tragic.
The level 2 battlefield is strictly limited to Star Core level, which is also the main area where Lin Yi hung out in his previous life.
On the level 2 battlefield, it is strictly forbidden to have Star Vortex level and above forces, otherwise it will immediately attract severe punishment from the supervisors of both sides.
The supervisors are usually served by several World Derivation level beings under the Eternal Crown. No one is willing to bear this price.
Tiered Battlefield, this is not only a meat grinder for low-level warriors and geniuses, but also a place where low-level forces quickly accumulate resources, merits and reputation.
Lin Yi chose to take Eastern Edge to the border with the intention of using this relatively "fair" set of rules to quickly train troops and accumulate original capital.
When he heard Luger mention it, he immediately began to quickly calculate the pros, cons and opportunities in his mind, but he still maintained a basic calm on his face.
Luger is not surprised that Lin Yi knows about Tiered Battlefield. This is common knowledge in border areas. It is impossible for Mercenary Group who runs to the border not to understand this.
Therefore, he nodded, his expression a little more solemn than before. "The situation is changing. The frequency of recent activities of Kunmo Race and its affiliated races, the quality of the troops invested, and the intensity of the competition for key Resource Star areas have all increased significantly."
"Their sneak attack this time is to reduce our geographical advantage before K77 Star Domain Tiered Battlefield is launched."
Luger further explained in detail, "According to the framework of the agreement that has been initially reached, we will mainly open up level 1-3 battlefields. And I hope that East Peak Mercenary Group, and of course, mainly you, can undertake some mercenary tasks on level 2 battlefields depending on the situation."