“Hahahaha, what does Wang Kaiyu have to do with this?”
“Real ‘gods’ fighting!?”
“Holy crap! Infantry, mech pilots, and commanders duking it out, switching roles on the fly and still holding their own—that’s insane!”
“Where else can I watch fights this good besides the military academy tournament?”
“I haven’t been back to Shuomo Star since Zero Point got rid of its ‘biggest headache.’”
“Sister Zebra, you’ve already hacked into their comms—take our stream viewers with you, why don’t you?”
“Right?! I swear I won’t make a sound, just quietly listen to Sir Huang’s voice. Hooah hooah!”
“That last one’s sus…”
The First Military Academy never expected to run into Qilin again so soon on Blizzar Star.
They set out as soon as the blizzard stopped this morning.
Because they’d spent yesterday chasing down frost wolves, they still had a huge chunk of their route left, so they had to cut into some rest time.
The weather had improved quite a bit, making visibility clearer, but they ran into a swarm of mutated ice spiders—so numerous it made your scalp crawl. They were a nightmare to deal with.
Attacked and lured by them to this spot, they found Qilin had beaten them here by a step, already wiping out the ice spiders’ nest and collecting a good haul of silk and webbing.
Wang Tianwei had stripped the cave clean. Just… how?
Leola, of course, couldn’t stand for that and immediately demanded Wang Tianwei leave some behind.
He Siyu, meanwhile, heard Huang Yan’s voice and instinctively knew he was about to go into full wheedle mode, so she never even gave him a chance to speak from the start.
In the final match, no one was giving anyone an inch—and who knew when the next blizzard would hit?
Both sides wanted to finish the other quickly, and the clash was about to erupt at any moment.
The two teams had sparred constantly back at the camp, and the moment they met, each was struck by how much the other had improved and what they’d been hiding. So they fought with even more ruthlessness, holding nothing back.
The safety officer teachers aboard the rescue flyer watched with pounding hearts, until finally both teams deactivated their cloaking systems and just hovered in midair, waiting for the kids to wrap things up—also an indirect way of signaling them to ease up.
The higher the level of combat, the more it turns into a stalemate. Fifteen minutes ago, the comments were full of excitement and jokes—now they were pure awe and respect.
Wang Tianwei was thrilled to see the hertzing radar module Leola had built. Was this a gift from the First Military Academy!
But the moment she whipped out her tools, the other side knew exactly what she was planning, and instantly warned everyone on the team channel to watch their pockets—then proceeded to unleash everything she’d learned in recent melee assault drills, to the absolute limit!
“I’m telling you to be nice—you can forget about that radar!”
“…Then can I at least—”
“No! Talk after the match ends!”
Leola started having a knee-jerk reaction at the familiar “can I” and put so much fire from her mech’s burst rifle that sparks nearly flew! She fired shells like they were free, launching one after another.
Anyone who underestimated Wang Tianwei was basically asking for a death sentence—and on top of that, there was no way she’d let her get close to her mech again!
For a moment, the battle between the two mech pilots made more noise than the infantry, and the livestream viewers were stunned.
“Leola’s this violent now too?”
“The kid’s been corrupted.”
“Uh… that one’s not on Qilin.”
A student from the First Military Academy jumped in to explain.
“Well, actually, the most bloodthirsty members of our academy’s first squad aren’t Fu Xingyuan—it’s Leola and Wu Pingzhuo.”
“Can vouch. Both of them are the type to march straight to the training room for a duel over any disagreement. Even if they don’t look that impressive in hand-to-hand against Qilin…”
“Don’t believe it? Go watch the marksmanship competition. They’re both monsters!”
“So Fu Xingyuan is just pure natural talent? And in private, he’s actually an easygoing good guy?”
“You could say that.”
“…”
Back in the camp livestream, the instructor teachers from both academies had long gone silent, eyes glued to the monitors.
The kids’ clash was far beyond standard cadet level—even regular military soldiers wouldn’t all perform at that standard.
Through this fight, everyone saw exactly what they were truly made of.
The First Military Academy was worthy of being the Federation’s top-tier military institution. Whether individually or as a team, they had almost no weak points.
Qilin, meanwhile, was even more absurd—every single member was a hexagon warrior!
The instructors could already predict this footage would be used as teaching material at every military academy.
Of course, if someone could just mute their audio, that would be even better…
Wang Tianwei’s tools reached out several times, only to get smacked away or blown back.
She’d basically turned into a helpless fire-support, because nobody was willing to let her get close at all!
And she’d already been punted backward several times by Fu Xingyuan, who took full advantage of his long legs and speed…
Damn it. What was that vine thing from yesterday called? Next time, she was definitely going to attach something that would let her latch onto someone else’s mech. Just watch her!
Kes, aboard the rescue flyer, watched this battle in utter excitement.
This was the power that mechs combined with the human body would bring! Soon, they too would have that power—and then they’d never be easily killed by human firearms again!
Unlike the two teams locked in fierce combat, Valk’s team was still struggling to make progress.
The weather had cleared up a bit, but who knew if Barry really had a raven-mouth curse.
The whole way, they kept running into star beasts and mutant creatures, and the ice beneath them had caved in twice for no reason?
Just after killing three frost wolves, they got surrounded by a swarm of mutant worms.
Seeing the splashes of blood and feeding traces on the snow, Wu Fangyu figured out why the frost wolves had shown up—these hideous creatures were their food… ugh.
The mutant worms were thick and fat, each about the length of a forearm, their flesh segmented, skin an icy blue. Hiding in the snow, you could barely see them unless they opened their mouths.
They moved by jumping?! They weren’t hard to kill, but the moment a mech touched them, the worms secreted a strong acidic, low-temperature-resistant slime.
Earlier, Taylor hadn’t noticed one worm crawling up his shin during combat, and in no time, a large chunk of his mech’s outer armor had corroded away…
It really was a case of one creature’s poison being another’s meat—those frost wolves didn’t care about the slime at all.
Hiranuma Yusho found these creatures might not have much in the way of thought, so his psychic illusion techniques had little effect. He switched tactics, using Elizabeth’s attack method instead.
But these worms were unlike other star beasts and mutant creatures—once they burrowed under the ice and lay still, they were incredibly hard to detect with psi powers.
He could only rely on his mech’s infrared scope to find them one by one, which meant he couldn’t wipe out a large number of enemies at once.
“Crick.”
A faint sound came from beneath his feet. Barry immediately froze. No way, again!?
“AAAAHHH!!!”
Next time I leave the base, I’m definitely borrowing that Guan Yu statue from Qilin’s team to pay my respects first!
