Simulation Battle Room

Seeing the number on the screen, everyone around her let out a gasp.

Vanessa's face showed disbelief as well.

"God!"

Just a day ago, her strength had barely surpassed 900 kilograms.

She had never dreamed that in just one night, her strength would increase by nearly double.

"That's incredible!"

Her mouth hung open in an O.

When she had gone to shower earlier, she had already suspected that her strength had increased significantly. Her movements had become somewhat distorted under the sudden surge of power, but she had never expected it to be this exaggerated.

One had to know that the further one progressed, the harder it became to increase one's strength.

The nine of them had surpassed 800 kilograms of strength in just over a month by eating ferocious beast meat.

But over the following month, their strength had only increased by a little more than a hundred kilograms.

In their eyes, even that had already been unbelievably extraordinary.

In just over two months, they had gone from less than 200 kilograms of strength to nearly a ton.

That already counted as surpassing the limits of humanity.

Even during their previous careers as mercenaries, they had never encountered a human with a physique that could reach such a level.

They had not expected to receive another enormous surprise today.

Their strength had directly risen to one and a half tons.

They could practically lift a car with their bare hands.

And according to Xu Mo's explanation just now, this was only the beginning. By cultivating this technique, their strength could continue growing with almost no limits in the future.

Xu Mo, standing to the side, merely nodded silently.

"Test your speed!"

He pointed at the speed-testing machine nearby.

Vanessa nodded at his words.

After a running start, her body flashed across the speed tester's track.

"38 m/s!"

"Not bad!"

Xu Mo nodded. As a woman, Vanessa had a smaller build, and speed was one of her strengths.

She was already close to the level of an Intermediate Warrior.

Sauron, the team captain, recorded it on the sheet in his hand.

"Next, Harry!"

Harry, whose name had been called, strode forward excitedly.

"1650 kg!"

"34 m/s!"

Over the following period, everyone underwent the test.

Most of them had strength of around 1,600 kilograms.

Only Sauron reached 1,960 kilograms, just one step away from becoming an Intermediate Warrior.

He would likely advance to Intermediate Warrior in just a few days.

At the other end of the island.

"What? Appointing new instructors to put the soldiers through intensive training?"

"I disagree!"

"These soldiers were trained by me strictly according to special forces methods. I don't believe any instructor can do better than this!"

Colonel Harry stared stubbornly at Strucker across from him.

"Colonel, all you need to do is carry out orders!"

Strucker warned him sternly.

"Don't cause trouble for me, or I won't let you off!"

After saying that, he turned and left the soldiers' temporary encampment.

Although he privately shared the other man's thoughts, he did not have the final say now.

Watching Strucker leave, Colonel Harry's face turned livid.

Over the past few days, Baron Strucker had first ordered the base moved to this island, then confiscated all the soldiers' weapons.

Now, it seemed that he intended to appoint new instructors as well.

Every one of these actions gave him a sense of crisis.

It seemed that he, the commander in charge of the base's soldiers, would soon be stripped of his authority.

But he did not have the courage to defy orders.

He could only secretly make up his mind that, once he met those so-called instructors, he would make them suffer.

He would make them understand who was truly the most suitable person to lead this team.

He had once been an instructor for the United States Special Marine Corps, and he believed his soldier-training and combat skills were inferior to no one.

Inside the Astral Tower.

Xu Mo stood outside the Simulation Battle Room.

He opened the door and entered. The room contained equipment resembling space capsules.

Without any hesitation, he lay down inside one of the capsules.

As the hatch closed, a flash of light passed before him, and he was already standing in a void.

A mechanical voice that seemed devoid of all emotion sounded beside his ear.

"Please select your combat opponent and combat environment!"

As soon as the voice fell, a selection panel appeared before him.

He could select either a Spirit Reader or a Martial Warrior as his opponent.

Xu Mo first selected a Planetary Level One Martial Warrior and chose the grasslands as the location.

As he pressed the confirm button.

"Please select your weapon!"

After choosing a somewhat heavy battle saber.

Light and shadow flashed.

The starry scene around him began changing at Super Speed.

In almost the blink of an eye, it became a boundless grassland.

Looking at the azure sky, feeling the realistic texture of the grass beneath his feet and the breeze against his face.

He reached down and tore up a handful of grass, and the fresh scent of vegetation filled his nostrils.

"So realistic!"

Xu Mo sighed in amazement.

Although he knew this was only a virtual world, it was far too realistic.

What difference was there between this and a real world?

At that moment, the figure of a middle-aged man slowly formed not far in front of him.

At first, the man's eyes were dull and vacant.

But when the sound announcing the start of battle rang in Xu Mo's ears, the man's eyes instantly came alive. Then his figure flashed, and gripping a battle saber, he charged toward Xu Mo.

Xu Mo tightened his grip on his own saber and met his charge.

In an instant, their figures collided.

After a thunderous boom.

Xu Mo turned into an afterimage and was sent flying backward at even greater speed.

His body skimmed across the ground, plowing a long furrow through the grass.

Xu Mo halted himself and sprang back to his feet. Looking at the figure in the air, he rubbed his numb and aching right arm.

Unless special requirements were specified, opponents simulated by the system were all at the peak of their current level.

Just like this Planetary Level One Martial Warrior before him.

He was at the peak of Planetary Level One, with strength reaching 2,000 tons.

In pure strength alone, he was nearly twice as strong as Xu Mo.

Under normal circumstances, Xu Mo would not fear him with the support of Psychic Force.

But Martial Warriors of this rank had an average force amplitude of around five times.

Xu Mo's force amplitude was only three times. Even after imbuing his saber with Psychic Force, he could only wield around half of the other man's power.

One had to understand that Psychic Force Amplitude referred to how many weapons one could control simultaneously while making each of them reach its maximum output.

It did not mean multiplying the enhancement on a single weapon several times over.

For example, if a person had one ton of strength, both their hands could each strike with one ton of force, but no matter what, they could not deliver two tons of force in a single punch.

Psychic Force worked the same way.

With 1,000 tons of Psychic Force and an amplitude of 12, Xu Mo could control twelve weapons at the same time, making each weapon exert 1,000 tons of force. But when controlling a single weapon, he could at most unleash 1,000 tons of force.

Of course, Psychic Force weapons bearing special inscriptions were different.

That was the very purpose of Psychic Force weapons.

If he had not reacted quickly just now and used Space Freeze, he would probably have been killed in an instant.

After all, being twice as strong did not merely mean being twice as powerful.

Against an opponent like this, even facing several hundred Martial Warriors like himself at once would not take much effort.