League of Legends in Multiverse

Lian Ye too, Hoover too, Reiner too, Annie too, Krista too, Ymir too...

So, can we have a little less pretense and a little more sincerity?

Of course not.

Since they were all hiding their true identities like this, Lian Ye decided to be "a little less sincere and a little more pretense" in a sadistic way, playing along with their impromptu performance.

"Then, for the time being, we are comrades on the same side. I look forward to working with you."

Lian Ye chuckled and extended his hand, fist-bumping two tall, burly men.

Speaking of which, Reiner, who is over 1.8 meters tall, and Hoover, who is over 1.9 meters tall. You're telling me both of them are under 14 years old? It's as if someone is deliberately trying to make me laugh. At best, they should be 14 years old (overloaded by 3 years), right?

(PS: 'Overloaded' refers to using something ahead of time, a meme from 'Hearthstone'.)

The following days were spent in adaptive training with the ODM Gear. The training grounds were no longer limited to a flat training field but moved to a tall forest.

This was one of the best places to utilize the three-dimensional movement skills of the ODM Gear to kill Titans. Another location was a town with tall buildings, but if Titans invaded a town, it meant humanity had no retreat.

Furthermore, the forest was also the home turf of the Pride Stalker. The dense branches of the trees provided the best anchor points for the hunter's super-burst of speed, allowing Lian Ye, with his physical capabilities, to maneuver flexibly through the woods even without relying on the ODM Gear.

However, for long-distance movement, it was better to use the rope recoil of the ODM Gear. This would save Lian Ye a considerable amount of physical strength, reducing the energy expenditure of explosive movements so that all his strength could be concentrated on the attack's power.

But the ODM Gear was, after all, just a mechanical tool. It wasted a considerable amount of time in the launching and retrieval of the steel cables, during which soldiers could only rely on their own hands and feet.

This brief period of lost mobility was precisely the window of vulnerability for human soldiers facing Titan attacks, a gap that the monstrous burst of the Pride Stalker could perfectly fill.

What Lian Ye achieved was perfect mobility linkage that no other soldier could accomplish, reaching a state of being "flawless."

End of this chapter

Chapter 27: The Burning Expedition

848. It had been a year since the new recruits of the 104th Training Corps began their training.

Soldier training naturally wasn't limited to physical and combat training on the parade ground, nor to the trial runs of the ODM Gear. After a year of basic training, the training began to enter practical combat exercises.

Of course, the so-called practical combat exercises didn't mean deploying new recruits outside the walls to fight the Titans beyond them. Instead, it involved medium to long-distance expeditionary training in the wilderness areas of the central region.

The mission was completed by departing from the training grounds, passing through rugged terrain such as dense forests and valleys, retrieving a token from a designated point 40 kilometers away, and then returning the same way.

Although expedition missions could be done on horseback, it was still not as easy a journey as it might seem.

Putting aside the inconvenient terrain of forests and rugged valleys, this three-day expedition required roughing it, camping along the way. The hardware conditions were already much worse than those of the already harsh Training Corps.

Moreover, the wilderness areas of the central region were not like towns or military garrisons. Along the route, there were also bandit groups, making it a lawless zone, a place even the Royal Government couldn't govern. Anything could happen.

Of course, it was precisely because this expeditionary mission had a certain degree of difficulty and unpredictability that it served to train the soldiers.

After all, in this world where Titans ran rampant and could break through the walls at any moment to prey on humanity, it was highly likely that soldiers of the Training Corps would have to face Titans directly, engaging in combat, instead of the tax-paying producers.

At that time, what would be needed was not only the basic physical fitness such as strength, leg power, and balance for flexibly operating the ODM Gear, but also the composure to remain calm in the face of changing situations, and the unwavering mental fortitude even when facing enormous Titans several times their own size head-on.

And this was not something that could be trained through simple aptitude exercises. It could only be honed through exercises that approached actual combat.

The expeditionary team was divided into two groups. Using the Midgar Valley along the route as a dividing point, they took two different paths along the valley.