922 Auction and Ambush 2 (1/2)

”If I made a move now, even an idiot would know I was the one behind it.” Garen was speechless. ”Plus there are two Resonance pilots here, if their Mechs are excellent as well, it will be very troublesome. Even I might be no match for them.”

”True, and Fila is here too. His power is near Two Moons Level, so he's a huge threat as well.” Celine frowned too.

”Unless, I could mobilize large-scale forces to raid them, bring out the brigade. But that may result in many casualties.” Garen took a deep breath. As a Captain in the army who fought alone, he also had an independent squad under his leadership. After two years of selections and training, the members were now all powerful pilots, at least Level Three or above. Some of them were even Level Five like him, and were just slightly weaker in combat power. And there were many more people in the squad than there were when they raided Red-White two years ago. Perhaps it was due to special wartime privileges, but there were more than seventy members in the squad, more than seventy of the strongest students from all the different schools.

After they were brought together by mutual benefit, Garen also successfully built bonds between these pilots, so that they had the same goals in mind, and all swore loyalty to him.

Such a force, driving Mechs to attack a bunch of Resonance pilots with no Mechs, could easily result in a one-sided slaughter as long as they had good battle ethics. Pilots without Mechs could only rely on their Willpower's attacking skill, but that had too short a range, and faced with the Mech's complete dominance in all areas, it would be no fight at all.

Of course, the other side was politically powerful as well, but there was one very important point, being that the area closest to this auction was Garen's territory.

Garen was slightly hesitant as well, wondering if he should go ahead and rob them of the Ring Light Silver. Once he did that, the conflict now would instantly escalate, and he was not mentally prepared to face off against a Divine Wind General yet.

In the two years, his Living Secret Technique, the Hellfrost Peacock Technique, had already reached a very crucial point. It was now over 90% complete, perhaps he could soon break past this level's extremely slow progress pace.

But according to the latter part of the Living Secret Technique records, the seventh and eighth levels after the sixth all required a lot of time and devouring to advance steadily, so they were not something he could accomplish in a short time. After all, the peak of the eighth level should be the theoretical Army Level power.

According to Garen's calculations, the Army Level should be equivalent to Inherited Level and above in this world, but he did not know which level within the Inherited system it would reach.

Similarly, it was not that easy to reach Inherited Level. It required a lot of time and an increase in understanding.

”Once I reach the seventh grade, the Living Secret Technique will probably change completely. And I have the ingredients prepared for my Biochemical Pool, and I finally found the most critical one, the Mila Cells. When I match the Biochemical Pool with the Living Secret Technique, I wonder how they will change...”

Garen had already prepared the ingredients for more than two years, but he never found that key item, the Mila Cells.

That was the main reproductive cell in the Biochemical Pool, it constructed the main body. It always came from the middle of some strange rocks that grew in the radiation belt, so it was also known as Stoneheart Flesh. Eating it could greatly strengthen someone's vitality, prolong their lifespan, and it could only be kept for a very short time, like five days.

That was why Garen could never find suitable Mila Cells.

”Do you want to grab it or not! I can mobilize some of my family's forces to help as well, we probably can't stop them from leaving, but if you want to grab that heavy Ring Light Silver, it shouldn't be a problem,” said Celine softly.

”There's no rush, once the auction is over, just pay constant attention to their transport route.” A hint of flint flashed through Garen's eyes. ”I'll go ask my teacher first.”

”Alright.”

There was a fountain of white light spewing from underneath the leaping point and engulfing the two of them. In an instant, the white light vanished, and the two of them disappeared from the leaping point as well.

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The radiation belt outside the Blackboard Region

On the wide grey-black grassy plains, the sun was setting, the red twilight rays casting a layer of golden-red all over everything.

A black convoy lined up like a long snake, driving out endlessly from the entrance checkpoint into Blackboard, driving out endlessly into the white veil that separated the region from the radiation belt. It was as though they had come out of a foam filter, the many large heavy-duty trucks rumbling along, headed towards the distant grasslands.

The commanding soldier at the checkpoint waited until the last heavy truck had left before he finally put down the automatic wall behind the veil of light slowly, surrounding the whole Blackboard Region once more.

There were many levitating airships on each side of the convoy, and one black-armored guard standing on each airship. They each held long machine guns in their hands, and had curved warswords in their hands. Their left eyes twinkled with a faint red light, as they constantly scanned the movements around them.

There was no cargo inside the hold of one large truck in the middle of the convoy. Instead, it was decorated into a comfortable lounge for resting and chatting. Looking through the cracks in the windows and the curtains now, you could see some people partying, drinking, and singing inside.

Far away from the convoy, there were several small black dots hiding behind the small hill rising from the plains, watching the moving convoy from afar. These small dots were actually several pitch-black tall humanoid Mechs.

Two of the Mechs were hiding behind the hill, and seemed to be the leaders of the lot.

”It's confirmed, the mission is to kill Fila and all the Mech guards in there. If you can't do that, destroy the radiation protection, then they'll all become radiation people,” said the leader coldly.

”Leader, are we really going to do it? The opponents are Resonance pilots at the peak of Full Moon,” the assistant pilot beside him said quietly.

”Riches come with risks, as long as he doesn't have his Mech, and he's not Inherited Level, what's there to be scared of!? And after that we can get a billion in rewards. Once this gig is over, we call go back and live peacefully, we won't have to live life on the edge anymore,” said the leader calmly. ”So even if I know there's a high chance we can't make it back, and we're being used as scouts to test the opponent, I have no other choice.”

He looked at the convoy moving slowly in the distance.

”I'm forty now, my talents have reached their limit. There's no point in continuing to fight, so I might as well end on a bang, we'll take this load and call it quits!”

His Mech gave a jolt, and the faint force of a Level Four pilot was released slowly.

Similarly, all the Mechs around him emitted Level Four forces slowly. They were the elite force that Garen had carefully chosen and gathered over the past two years. At first these had all been killer pilots who had committed crimes, but Garen used his position and the wartime bureaucracy to secretly bail them out with money, so that they were now one of his secret assets.

But now, this force was going out as cannon fodder just to test Fila and the others.

”Move out.” A pale blue light appeared slowly on the back of the leader's Mech.

Similarly, the other Mechs replied dully, all their Mechs lighting up with a faint blue light from the back.

Boom!!