Base

Reke shook his head in disappointment. He hadn't found what he needed in the murals.

He glanced at everyone and said, "If your energy readings are below 8,000, don't follow me."

As Reke walked farther away, Six-Arms asked, "Boss, what should we do? Are we following him?"

"Idiot, didn't you hear what he just said? Or do you have an energy reading of 8,000?" Big-Breasted Woman mocked.

"Poison Scorpion, you two go on ahead. I'll follow and take a look," Middle-Aged Man said after a moment's thought.

"Boss, if you're going, we're going too." Six-Arms refused to accept it.

"If you don't want to go, wait here for me." Middle-Aged Man didn't force him.

Big-Breasted Woman said nothing. She certainly wasn't going in alone. Who knew what things would be like once they got outside?

It was better to wait and leave with the others.

After Reke's warning, those with energy readings of 8,000 or higher followed him without hesitation.

Among those below 8,000, some stayed where they were, while others who refused to believe the warning secretly followed behind Reke.

Including the three with energy readings of 8,000, ten people headed toward the sixth barrier.

The sixth space was completely different from the previous ones. When Reke entered, there was nothing there. Only after the ten people behind him had entered and everyone began looking for another passage did an electronic voice sound.

"Congratulations on passing the previous trials and reaching the end."

"To enter G5 Base, you must defeat the opponents ahead."

"The trial will consist of one-on-one battles. Opponents will be assigned according to your energy readings."

"Those detected to be below the required energy level will now be eliminated."

"Rumble—"

Seven energy waves appeared overhead and struck the seven people whose combat power was below 8,000, destroying them in an instant.

Reke clearly saw what happened. The other three only heard a loud boom beside them. The seven had vanished, leaving seven deep pits behind.

Although Reke could have saved them, he didn't move.

He had warned them already. If they went looking for trouble, Reke wasn't going to get involved. They were all adults and had to take responsibility for their own actions.

"Those who failed to meet the requirements have been eliminated. The battle will now begin."

The ground ten meters in front of Reke and the others split open, and a robot appeared before each person.

The robots facing Middle-Aged Man and the other two were identical to the ones Reke had destroyed in the fifth space. They were clearly the same model, just with different combat power.

The one in front of Reke was completely different. At a glance, it looked just like a real person, about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a white outfit and a decorative ornament around its neck. There was a hollow space in its chest.

The instant its eyes opened, it vanished, reappearing beside Reke with a swift side kick.

Reke grew interested. Although the opponent was a robot and had no detectable aura, its speed just now told him that its combat power was no less than 100,000.

Reke raised his arm slightly and blocked the attack.

"Boom—"

A shock wave burst out from the point where the two collided, flinging the people and robots nearby into the air. They slammed heavily into the ground.

"What was that?" A bald, burly man hit the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood, crying out in shock.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang—"

Reke and the robot moved and clashed at incredible speed. One robot was unlucky enough to be directly beneath them when they collided. It was instantly crushed by the two.

The other three saw this too. Ignoring their injuries, they spat blood as they ran toward the barrier. They didn't dare stay there any longer and wanted to flee back to the fifth space.

The two remaining robots had been damaged by the shock waves. Their internal circuits had broken, and they lay motionless on the ground.

"What's going on? Why can't we get out?"

Middle-Aged Man pressed his hand against the barrier. It felt like steel, holding them back completely.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on?"

Bald Man clenched his fists and punched the barrier, only to find that he couldn't budge the thin wall at all.

"Don't waste your strength. We can't leave until the battle is over. Let's go over there." The last person was Old Granny. She pointed toward a corner of the space.

As Reke and the robot fought more and more fiercely, the three didn't dare delay. They hurried toward the corner.

You might wonder how they could tell what was happening when they couldn't even see the two fighters.

The answer was that the craters in the ground kept multiplying, and the sound of their collisions grew more and more frequent.

Reke's speed kept increasing as he tested the robot's overall combat strength.

He had nearly finished testing. The robot had reached its top speed, roughly 120,000 in combat power—about the same as the aura he had released earlier.

It was still a decent opponent for Reke to play with. His tail hooked around the robot's arm, and he kicked it in the stomach. The robot was sent flying and slammed into the wall.

Stone chips flew, and clouds of dust billowed up, obscuring the robot.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"

Before the dust had settled, a stream of energy blasts shot through it straight toward Reke.

Reke frowned. He wasn't worried about getting hurt; the space was simply too small. If the blasts exploded here, the whole place could be destroyed before long, burying him underground.

With that in mind, Reke coated his palm in aura and slapped at the energy blasts.

His arm swept back and forth, batting the blasts away one by one until they vanished into thin air.

With a blur, Reke appeared in front of the robot, grabbed it by the hair, and slammed it toward the ground.

"Bang!"

A deep crater appeared in the ground. Reke didn't stop. He grabbed the robot by the hair and flung it upward. Before it reached its peak, he followed close behind and appeared above it.

He clasped his hands together and raised them high. As the robot flew within reach, he brought them down hard onto its head.

"Zzzzt—"

The robot's head disappeared. Only the severed wires at its neck remained.

After destroying the robot, Reke slowly landed.

After waiting for a while, he realized the electronic voice still hadn't sounded. He looked first at the two robots on the ground, then shifted his gaze to the three people huddled together in the corner.

"Hey, whose opponents are these two? Hurry up and finish them off."

At the sound of Reke's voice, the three who had been huddled together with their eyes shut in prayer opened their eyes.

They looked at Reke in terror.

Seeing the three frozen with fear, Reke didn't get angry. He'd just gotten to stretch his limbs, and he was feeling good. Pointing at the robots again, he said, "Hurry up."

"Okay, okay, okay." The three had no time to rejoice at having escaped disaster. They hurried to do as Reke had ordered and finish off the robots.

"Congratulations. You have passed the final trial and may proceed to the base on your own."

The ground in the center of the space slowly split open, revealing a hole about ten meters wide.

Reke didn't know that as the hole appeared, an invisible wave spread out, instantly sweeping across the entire planet. Changes began to occur in some places across the world.