Chapter 140: Piloting a Specialized Metagen (1/2)

”Alright. Give me your codenames as well as your current Rank and Brain Capacity Rank.”

I calmly said in front of the five Elite Members of the League. They are the prepared Elite Members who will accompany me on the Patrol Mission that will last for 3 days. Due to the reports about the Darkbugs or the Darkgens appearing near the highway which connected the Free City of Nysia to the Moonlight Confederacy, the merchants coming to and from it felt threatened.

”Sen. Gold-rank Tier 3, Rank A!”

”Dali. Gold-rank Tier 4, Rank B!”

”Oni. Gold-rank Tier 2, Rank B!”

”Pasuta. Gold-rank Tier 5, Rank B!”

”Nell. Gold-rank Tier 2, Rank A!”

All Gold-ranks and two Rank A. If I convert that to Intelligence then Rank B is 4 and Rank A is 4.5 and if I convert those to the maximum output they can exert when using a Metagen, 60% for Rank B and 70% for Rank A. It's 10% increment per rank. That's why a Rank SSS can exert a maximum output of 100% and can utilize it like it's their own body.

Then there's me, a Rank SSS+, if I follow the 0.5 increment in Intelligence and 10% increment in maximum output per rank. My 7.9 Intelligence will amount to almost 140% of the maximum output.

The standard Metagen, the Primeval Knight, of the Primeval Aegis League which was being used by Elite Members was manufactured to have a maximum output of 70%.

Right. The same as that one I used on the assessment and the Metagen Nysia gave me during my first day. Though what I used during that assessment was a previous model which could only exert 50%. The new model was raised to 70% so that those Rank A could utilize it to the best of their abilities.

The Specialized Metagen, on the other hand, always has a maximum output of 150% despite it being piloted by Rank S to SSS. That's why the reaction of Lexie during my Brain Capacity test was that extreme. I could tap on that excess 50%. It's like Gigantifying and empowering myself at the same time.

The Ultimate Metagen which only Mythic-ranks can use has a maximum output of 200% to 300% and it depends on the skill and the resources used when building it.

With these 5 Elite Members to complete my team who will go on patrol, each of them was piloting a standard Metagen which was slightly altered to suit their needs.

Also, there are three variations of the standard Metagen, the same as the Metagen of the 3 Heroes. Light-armored, balanced and heavy-armored.

Sen and Nell who are both Rank A have the balanced variation.

Dali, Oni and Pasuta have the light-armored variation.

Since we need mobility, a heavy-armored variation isn't ideal.

As a Core Pilot, I should have my own Specialized Metagen however, due to it still in the process of building which Nysia estimated to be 2 to 3 months, she let me pick one that I could borrow on the League's Armory.

Though it's called an armory, it's actually a place to enshrine the Specialized Metagen of those Core Pilots who died in the line of duty. Having it be borrowed by a newly promoted Core Pilot was a system they put in place so that they could still do their duties while their own Specialized Metagen was still being built.

With a lot of choices in place, it showed how many subordinates of Nysia died while fighting the real enemies.

After browsing everything, I picked an old Specialized Metagen that was previously owned by a Legend-rank Core Pilot during one of the major battles against the Invading Forces and Alien Civilization.

It's a purple light-armored Metagen named as the Purple Haze. It boasted longer legs than the normal ones, it's even supposed to be faster than Kazeyoshi's Crescent Hurricane. However, that's not the Metagen's true specialty. It's a specialized one so it was built to accommodate the previous owner's awakened ability which involves fogs, mist and smoke. Letting the Energy circulate through it, it will release a haze that could cover the Metagen.

Err… that's actually the reason why I chose it. A fast Metagen who spewed out smokescreen as it ran. With only a short blade and a pistol type of gun as a weapon, it relies on quick attacks which are aligned to my ideal, however, I changed the short blade to a sword. Intermediate Sword Mastery was still accumulating experience even if I'm piloting a Metagen after all.

Though I wouldn't be able to fully utilize the advantage of the Specialized Metagen because of my different ability, just that smoke is enough. I'll make up for the lack of variety using my above SSS capabilities.