Chapter 468 - The Terrifying Sages (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

On Earth.

Ever since the beginning of the “Revival of Magical Powers” and the return of the Protoss.

The fortune of mankind begun its continuous decline.

As the concentration of the spiritual energy increased and the Protoss continued to get stronger, human beings could be said to have become more and more miserable.

Of course, when the concentration of spiritual energy became insufficient and the tendency towards the technological side of things became dominant, humans gained three consecutive victories in the three “War of the Races.”

But the Protoss was on a winning streak for the next ten games.

Human beings were forced to make compromises ten times.

For example, in the most basic aspect of territory, humans had lost their mother planet. Billions of humans had emigrated to other places.

Then, they lost the moon. All humans on the moon were all driven away and the Protoss, again, occupied their territory.

Then they offered 20 space cities to the Protoss and other benefits too.

Ten times that they had lost; ten times that they had made compromises.

Each time that they had to make a difficult compromise, they had to dig out a portion of their “cake” from their gradually dwindling interests and profits.

It was akin to cutting off part of their flesh.

Until the humans only had Mars left as their very last home base in the end.

There were few immigration bases on Mercury.

Most of the human population lived in space cities.

The resources that they controlled were less than one-third of the Protoss’.

Even so, the strength of humans had still been growing for the past number of decades.

For example, the growth of the human population was originally stagnant and was even slowly getting smaller and smaller. But, it had grown to 40 billion in the past few decades… which was about twice the Protoss population.

The total economic output had increased by more than five times.

More importantly, human cohesion, scientific and technological strength and cultivation power had all increased dramatically.

What was more, under the modernized system, the organization, mobilization, and operative power of human society far exceeded those of the Protoss.

In the outbreak of border frictions between the human and the Protoss, even though the Protoss army could always emerge with an amazing fire exchange ratio, in general, they could not withstand the attacks of the human army. If the Protoss insisted on forcibly seizing the territories, it would only result in casualties.

A strong cohesion and organizational strength ensured that human beings would never be completely overwhelmed when faced against the Protoss.

And decades passed.

Human beings were also finding their way when it came cultivation; they were accumulating knowledge and skills and growing. Hence, they had made very significant progress.

This kind of progress was mainly manifested in the human masters of the Jiedan order. There were only five years between the emergence of the first Jiedan master and the ten-thousandth.

Now, the Jiedan phase practitioners in human society had exceeded one million.

There were also more than a hundred super-geniuses among human beings–the practitioners who first broke through the Yuanying phase to enter a new realm of cultivation.

As for the most genius among all geniuses, there were rumors that he or she had already entered the Jushen phase… Even in the history of the Protoss, this was also a rare genius that would only appear once in ten thousand years.

The number of master practitioners had exploded.

This indicated that the implementation of the federal plan of “Cultivation For Everyone” had been extremely successful.

However…It was the so-called “technology” that brought about the greatest help to mankind and quickly compensated for the gap between the strength of humans and the Protoss.

For example, the cultivation mecha, which enabled practitioners who were only of the Ningye and Jiedan order to raise their attack power by one or two steps, all by themselves. With this rise in their attack power, it became possible for practitioners at those phases or orders to kill other practitioners from the Jushen order.

The highest grade of the cultivation mecha could allow its driver, if he or she was at the later stage of the Jiedan order, to have a chance to kill one of those ancient freaks of the Shenguang order.

There were also a variety of magical weapons that brought about a very large increase in combat power.

As time marched onwards, this sort of accumulation, which was quantitative at first quickly led to qualitative changes.

The reason why the general public opinion was shouting, “the rise of the human race” was not to feel good about themselves. Instead, this was because analysts had seen a clear trend via several incidents.

One, the 14 “War of the Races.” After 40 years of war, the human army finally defeated the Protoss once again and achieved a triumphant victory.

In the course of the battle for victory, the process made one’s heart alarmed and tremble in fright, it was extremely heart-wrenching. A lot of things had been due to luck.

All of mankind was impassioned. It was the first comeback of ten consecutive defeats.

However, some analysts believed that it was also somewhat inevitable that human beings would win.

“In the first ten consecutive losses, we can see these trajectories. In our first losing battle, the human army was destroyed, but the other side was completely unharmed; in the second, the human army was destroyed, and one member from the other side was slightly injured….. Although the human armies were all annihilated In the next eight sessions, on the Protoss side, the number of minor injuries had increased from one person to two, three, five, ten…and then the first person to be seriously wounded appeared, followed by the first casualty.”

“These two key nodes have made the humans excited and impassioned, and they have played a hugely inspirational role to lift our spirits; these two key nodes had also caused the Protoss to fly into a rage, it made them extremely angry… The morale and courage inherent in the struggle of human beings have never dissipated.”

“And thus we gradually saw hope.”

“And in the 14th “War of the Races,” we humans have deployed as many of our best personnel as we could. We’d dispatched 1,480 masters at the peak of Jiedan order and 20 Yuanying geniuses. All of them drove the latest ‘Tianshen Mecha,’ with a 95% death rate in this battle, we’d killed 18 of the ancient Protoss freaks of the Shenguang order.”

“We’ve scored a brilliant victory this time with a ‘counterattack by the weak against the strong.’”

Of course, this is also something that we have to be glad about because the Protoss underestimated their enemy, they did not dispatch the naga bio-mecha produced by the Chen family’s fortress into the war….. But the naga bio-mecha is a biological mecha, which belongs to the category of unmanned equipment and it cannot replace personnel to be deployed in the war.

However, the Protoss would request to amend the rules of the game. In the next War of the Races, the Protoss would recruit 100 naga bio-mecha to take to the field, using mecha to fight against mecha.

Second, the technology of human beings had finally developed to the extent that the Protoss would be afraid of their consequences.

In particular, the celestial technology, which was a combination of the celestial powers and science and technology. After decades of research, development, and progress, an extremely horrible level of strength had erupted from technology.

Among them was a weapon called the light bomb, it had an explosive yield of more than 20,000 tons.

Its power was equivalent to the atomic bomb at the end of World War II.

In the face of the light bomb, practitioners who were of a lower order than the Sages could be killed if they were too near to the core of the explosion.

More crucially, the manufacturing cost and technology contained in such a weapon were not very high. As long as some funds were invested, the raw materials were sufficient, they could produce more than 1,000 of those bombs annually.

Of course, the light bomb was a highly kept secret in the human world, the Protoss were even less aware of its existence. Chen Jin also learned about this through some special intelligence channels.

He understood that humans now had a trump card in their hands that could provide a sufficient level of self-protection.

Besides, with more than 100 times the organizational and mobilizational abilities of the Protoss, it was estimated that after another decade or more, the Protoss would not be able to suppress the humans with their power any longer.

From this one could know that, in the face of adversity, human beings could always break out 100 times, 200 times the potential harnessed in their bodies. They must not be taken lightly.

The pros and cons, the reversals of the humans and the Protoss; their contrasting strengths that rose and fell in succession; the nearing of their gap and overtaking of the Protoss. A reversal might soon be seen in the upcoming years.

If the Protoss kept their promise in good faith.

Possibly after the end of the last few “War of the Races.”

Venus, the moon, and some asteroid resources would all return to human hands.

Humans might even take back some land on their mother planet where they could settle, which many humans could not stop thinking about and longed to return to.

The pre-requisite was that the Protoss would keep their promise.

But…the strong were used to make rules; they were not good at obeying rules.

The strong could win ten wars, a hundred wars, but if they were defeated in even one war, they found the fact difficult to accept. When that happened, they would fly into a rage.

Under extreme anger, forget about the rules agreed by the two sides, even the tacit understanding that had been nurtured for a long time would all be tossed aside at this moment. They would just want to take vent their rage!

At that point, they would only want to kill human beings, their behavior would be just like that of a sore loser.

Thus, in the border areas where friction often occurred, the Protoss suddenly increased their troops on a large scale. The troops were increased by five times, ten times. Countless masters were dispatched, and they crashed through the ranks of the human army, launching an incomparably crazy attack.

In a short period, humans lost countless strongholds in outer space.

More than one million soldiers were killed in battle.

The soldiers who had surrendered to become prisoners and the human civilians were all killed by the Protoss army.

They looked to be killing off every single human, none were left alive.

They were simply trampling on the most fundamental aspects of civilization and morality. They were demented.

The massacre by the Protoss army caused tens of billions of humans to tremble fiercely. They vowed to avenge the victims.

It was just that…the individual combat strength of the Protoss was very strong.