Death-Cycle Arena

At this moment, the team from Subspecies Class Three had already taken shape.

Shi Hongyu, one second-level master pugilist, two first-level master mech pilots, one novice second-level blade enchantment specialist, and two first-level master battle standard bearers.

Six people in total.

Because the amount of Passive Energy that could be mobilized within a target Arena Zone was often limited.

A team of six was optimal.

Any more people, and there might be a risk of delayed energy allocation. In a crucial battle, insufficient Origin Force intensity could be fatal.

Shi Hongyu handed each of them another four Energy Crystal Blocks.

Fu Junlin and the others were all surprised when they accepted the crystals.

Twenty Energy Crystal Blocks in one go—eight thousand credits!

Shi Hongyu truly was a little rich girl...

When Shi Hongyu handed Fu Junlin his crystals, she gave him a meaningful look.

By then, quite a few people had gathered on both sides of the Teleportation Array.

Someone stepped up to the Teleportation Array, inspected it, then inserted a red Energy Crystal Block to activate it.

Soon afterward, the massive screen above the Teleportation Array lit up.

The screen appeared to show footage from a drone. After taking off, it circled above the Teleportation Array on the other side. Once it confirmed that the area was empty, safe, and clear, it began emitting several strange sounds.

One of the teachers operating the Teleportation Array from this side called loudly to Shi Hongyu:

"Transmission level: 90%. Safe. Microbial index normal. Energy intensity normal. Terrain unchanged..."

After verifying a whole string of data, the teacher nodded at Shi Hongyu.

"You may depart."

Shi Hongyu nodded as well and accepted something handed over by another teacher beside her: a large silver suitcase.

Inside was monitoring equipment. After taking down the Arena Zone, they needed to place it inside to observe whether monsters would fail to respawn the next day. Although prior assessments had basically confirmed it was a Death-Cycle Arena, verification was still necessary.

"Let's go!"

Shi Hongyu took the lead into the Teleportation Array and stood facing the others.

The principles behind the Teleportation Array had already been cracked by humanity. All matter was composed of molecules and atoms, and humans were no exception.

A wormhole that only connected two spaces within the same dimension was the lowest-level kind of wormhole, far simpler than wormholes connecting multidimensional spaces or crossing through time.

Humanity was already fully capable of controlling this kind of wormhole.

Nor was it necessary to break the human body completely into molecules and atoms during teleportation. They only had to arrange those molecules and atoms into sequences in the form of matrices, then form the matrices.

In the end, they only needed to deconstruct several matrices and transmit them together. It was almost one hundred percent safe.

Since the invention of the Teleportation Array, no one had died during a normal teleportation.

The ultimate Teleportation Array, of course, recorded the human body as one complete matrix. Transmitting it as a whole was the simplest and safest method.

Such Teleportation Arrays had already appeared, but generally only the large city Teleportation Arrays could use them. They had yet to become widespread.

All the teachers and students who had come to watch simultaneously raised their fists in salute.

They shouted to Shi Hongyu and the others in unison:

"May your energy be limitless!"

Shi Hongyu, Fu Junlin, and the others also covered their chests and returned the salute.

They shouted loudly:

"Limitless energy!!"

After the blessing was called out, the Teleportation Array flared with light, and Shi Hongyu, Fu Junlin, and the others were teleported away one after another.

They appeared within the Arena Zone shown on the large screen.

Though it was not his first time, Fu Junlin still could not help feeling tense whenever he entered an Arena Zone.

This was, after all, a lawless land—the territory of mutated creatures, a battlefield between life and death.

This small Arena Zone was a small teleportation point with two Teleportation Arrays. It had only recently been developed, and the surrounding Arena Zones had not yet been explored much.

More unknowns lay hidden within.

At that moment, each of the four surrounding walls had a glowing transparent gate.

Only humans could pass through those gates; monsters could not.

It was as though the Arena Zone held some preference for humanity as well. In any case, the Arena Zone held far too many unsolved mysteries.

How exactly had the Arena Zones appeared, and why? To this day, no one had been able to fully answer those questions.

"Prepare for battle!"

Shi Hongyu rolled her neck and shoulders as she spoke to the group.

Fu Junlin and the other War Banner Master simultaneously took out four Battle Banners each and planted them behind their backs.

Their Battle Banners could not be stored in Battle Banner Belts, because the Battle Banners needed to recover energy on their bodies at all times. They also had to be easy to draw, and more importantly, the captain needed to see what Battle Banners they currently possessed.

Fu Junlin put on his waist armor, and the four Battle Banners drifted behind him, making him look more like a general than anyone else.

But once everyone else switched into combat mode, the battle standard bearers' appearance seemed rather underwhelming.

Shi Hongyu was a Fistmaster. She took out a device and slapped it onto her hand.

After a series of sharp cracking sounds, Shi Hongyu's right fist and forearm were wrapped in a compact red gauntlet.

The gauntlet had a matte texture and a heavy feel. In particular, the blue energy source on it gradually lit up, and the gauntlet emitted a low-frequency vibration. The sound slowly disappeared from Fu Junlin's ears.

He knew the sound had not truly vanished. Rather, it had been drawn inward into the gauntlet, allowing it to inflict even greater destructive force.

A Fistmaster's combat gear was that simple, yet it possessed the most terrifying destructive power.

The two Mecha Masters also summoned their respective mechs.

Mecha Masters were divided into many schools: Turret Style, Melee Style, Precision-Kill Style, and so on. Each was further split into even more branches, making the system exceptionally complex.

Qiao Zishu.

A stunningly beautiful woman with waterfall-black hair and an icy demeanor. Her figure was flawless, her looks unrivaled in Class Three, and she had always been one of the top students in the class.

Many boys from the Superior Gene classes had even pursued her, but unfortunately, she had no interest in dating.

Yet even more people believed she simply disliked Superior Gene people. This left many Superior Gene boys who thought highly of themselves dissatisfied with her, and some had even verbally attacked her.

From then on, Qiao Zishu had shown even less goodwill toward Superior Gene people.

Qiao Zishu was a Mecha Master of the Precision-Kill Style. She specialized in sniping, heavy artillery, and armor-piercing, implosive, and other specialized bullets, giving her extremely powerful offensive capabilities.

Qiao Zishu took a massive heavy sniper rifle from her belt. This sniper rifle, with its strong personal style, was an ink-black color. An antique silver pattern stretched along its body. The rifle was nearly 1.7 meters long, about the same height as she was.

Seeing Fu Junlin studying her, Qiao Zishu swept her beautiful eyes toward him and gave him a small glare.

Fu Junlin hurriedly looked away.

This already counted as Young Miss Qiao being gentle. Normally, she could not even be bothered to glance at a man, much less glare at one like this.

But when Fu Junlin did not dare look at her, Qiao Zishu instead watched his profile, a trace of interest faintly appearing in her eyes. After all, she was also an expert with sniper rifles. When she saw Fu Junlin display such overwhelming power that day, she had been the one who found it hardest to believe.