Chapter 245: Someone's Going to Die!
There were over a hundred trainees in this group. Even at night, the tracks they left as they raced through the rainforest were as obvious as lanterns in the darkness to the reservists.
Some of them had even begun developing unusual physical adaptations. In essence, they were using Full Awakening of the body to nourish the soul, supplemented by regular infusions of Magic Crystal power, forcibly triggering human evolution.
Some had a keener sense of smell than wild beasts. There was no chance of them following the wrong trail.
Among Qin Xiaoxia's Dawn research projects, this phenomenon had been identified as an effective route to safely becoming a Silent Knight. The Association's senior leadership had reached a consensus: they had finally managed to "partially reproduce" the process by which ancient Silent Knights had been created.
Thanks to this breakthrough, most candidates who wanted to become Silent Knights and attain the power of soul-burning no longer had to follow the original four Knights' example-having their souls shattered and being left half dead before narrowly being saved.
In other words, now that they had reached the stage where their bodies nourished their souls, these thirty-odd reservists were far stronger than Ding Yi, Gou Junbao, and the others imagined.
However, Baru and Joseph, who was currently pursuing further studies in biology, believed this method only brought them to the threshold of becoming Silent Knights. Even the original four Knights were only a little stronger, nowhere near the level of the elite ancient Silent Knights.
This was no idle speculation. The wall carvings at the Association's various ruins made that clear.
The military doctrine for a new-era Knight Order's supernatural combat, developed by Baru and the other Silent Knights, had become an important guiding text for the