Armed Train in the Apocalypse

The mechanical apprentice is the epitome of hardcore mechanics, focusing on mechanical manufacturing without physical augmentation.

Although weak in combat initially, its potential grows immensely in the later stages.

Pure flesh is played with by those who dabble in forbidden arts, destined to destroy themselves eventually.

Finally, there’s the mechanical flesh only owned by major powers, employing extensive mechanical augmentation to bypass the vitality barrier and reach the level of a Tier Two Evolver.

It’s infamously known as a dead-end path, peaking at Tier Three with no further progress possible.

Moreover, it has significant hidden dangers, prone to catastrophic failures when mechanical and organic parts become incompatible.

Gradually, it was abandoned by major companies.

However, the substantial resources invested early on birthed numerous technologies in physical augmentation.

These evolved from combat enhancement techniques to standard medical procedures.

Yet, these issues couldn’t overshadow the excellent combat abilities brought by such augmentations, with ”Flesh Colonization” enabling bare bodies to be equivalent to wearing an exoskeleton, with fundamental physical qualities surpassing same-tier defenders.

Furthermore, various knowledge can be implanted using memory chips.

Survival, combat, repair, reconnaissance, medical care...

The profession of ”Flesh Colonization” spans various fields.

The ambition of large corporations is evident.

They aim to forge hexagonal warriors.

Zhao Kuo’s cold expression showed a flicker of emotion, ”As expected of the Genetic Primordial in both power supply and defense domains, but you are not my match. Though I won’t kill you, I will break your limbs; that doesn’t feel good.”

”Ah, it’s fine.”

Su Huan licked his lips; with just a single blow, his forearm radius was fractured.

But the lengthy speech wasn’t because Zhao Kuo was kind-hearted.

Zhao Kuo furrowed his brow, seeing Su Huan as a humanoid high-energy bomb, even after overestimating him, still got paralyzed by that explosion.

Yet the hierarchical gap was not something mere words could bridge.

”Stubborn fool!”

Stepping forward again towards Su Huan.

A cold smile appeared on Su Huan’s face, forcefully realigning his fractured bones as if lacking any sense of pain.

Having confirmed the opponent was a Tier Two, he didn’t waste any more time.

He clapped his hands together.

”Snap—”

The six Tier Two Pan-energy Crystals in his palms shattered abruptly.

The crisp sound instantly pierced through the battlefield.

Even the dullest person felt something being wildly extracted from the air, forming a vortex-like funnel above Su Huan, pouring into every limb and organ.

As the pan-energy entered the body, it quickly integrated into the circulation, then compressed by the Energy Storage Core at the heart into higher-density energy.

Then it cycles again, compresses, cycles...

Several previously suppressed skills suddenly absorbed energy like sponges.

”Pan-energy Transformation” lv6!

”High Energy Compression” lv6!

”Energy Shaping” lv6!

”Energy Circulation” lv3!

”Pan-energy Absorption” lv2!

All three original skills of the ”Energy Storage Core” reached lv6, except for two newly awakened skills.

This signifies the minimum standard for ascending to Tier Two.

The promotion condition for Tier Two ”Circulating Vortex” is: lv6 ”Energy Storage Core” + lv2 ”Pan-energy Extraction” + lv1 ”Energy Circulation”.

The hardest challenge is constructing an energy cycle within the body using highly compressed energy.

But last time, Su Huan not only awakened this skill but exceeded two levels.

Only a small step away!

Just as Zhao Kuo’s shocked gaze had not transformed into terror yet, Su Huan instantly advanced to Tier Two ”Circulating Vortex.”

A full-strength Tier Two Evolver!

”Tier Two... how did you do that?”

Zhao Kuo’s lips trembled, a dignified Tier Two Evolver looked as if he saw a ghost.

It wasn’t that he was spineless, even if there were ghosts here, he’d charge ahead to launch a standard attack.

But advancing to Tier Two on the spot was just beyond words!

What about all the suffering he went through?

Su Huan raised an eyelid, smiling gently, ”It’s not that hard as long as there’s enough pan-energy, plus a bit of willpower, a bit of luck, a bit of Four Spirits Soup, a bit of snow white...”

”You’re mocking me!”

Zhao Kuo initially listened intently but sensed something wrong as it continued; what does evolution have to do with Four Spirits Soup?

Realizing he was being mocked, his face could no longer hold up, coldly shouting angrily.

”As expected, you’ve got nothing, kid.” Su Huan spread his hands asking seriously, ”Why should I tell you my narrow-escape method of advancing to Tier Two?”

”Seeking death!”

After several turns, Zhao Kuo completely lost control of his emotions, charging angrily at Su Huan.

”Explode.”

Su Huan smiled, uttering a monosyllable.

A thunderstorm blossomed abruptly on the path of Zhao Kuo’s charge, engulfing him within.

The violent thunder drowned all chaos.

”If you don’t bring out some finishing moves, you won’t have another chance.”

Although saying villainous lines, there was no sign of the lightning before him dissipating.

In fact, it gathered even more fiercely.

The new skill, Thunderstorm, has just two core techniques.

Increase the output!

This is the conductor’s gift, more for the same price!

If 10% energy isn’t deadly...

What about 20%?

If Tier One electricity doesn’t paralyze you...

What about Tier Two?

Though metal mechanics in you resist electricity, does your flesh do the same?

No matter what skills you have, as a ”Power Supplier,” I only have this one move.

Lightning struck through the rain onto the water on the ground, not dissipating but illuminating the muddy sleep in a blue glow.

Centered around Su Huan, this azure blue deepened.

From covering a hundred-meter radius, it concentrated to fifty meters, thirty meters, ten meters!

The ground became not a flow of water but a terrifying field of liquid lightning!

The simple probing skill Static Swamp was upgraded to a domain-like forbidden zone by Su Huan.

Like a deity’s Thunder Pool, punishing any intruders with thunder.

HT-426, charging ahead, was firmly pressed back by Lin Jin and Xiaoba combined.

The other Evolvers of the Armed Corps may not be as powerful as the two.

But their numbers are ample!

More than five hundred peculiar skills combined, even Su Huan wouldn’t dare to test it.

HT-426 and the others never expected that the train housed so many Evolvers.

For a moment, they were battered and exhausted.

Additionally, without the ”Fighting Master” suited for a strong attack, it temporarily reached a stalemate.

”Zhao Kuo! How much longer do you need over there!”

HT-426 gritted his silver teeth.

After a while, Zhao Kuo’s voice wasn’t heard, but the terrifying sound of a thunderstorm was.

Turning back, he saw the train conductor exhibiting phenomenal power.

A figure in a black shirt stood in the downpour, with a light orb over two meters in diameter hovering half a meter high, the bright lightning rendering Su Huan’s figure as just a black silhouette.

Wild black hair danced, wantonly frenzied!

Instantly overlapping with the 3D image in the records of firing an electromagnetic sniper rifle at jumping targets.

Since taking on his task, HT-426’s eyes showed shock for the first time.

’How can it be...’

’That’s the Tier Two Evolver painstakingly cultivated by the company!’

The great light sphere created by Su Huan simultaneously attracted everyone’s attention on the battlefield.

He Jie, standing on the train, wiped the charred marks from his face, revealing a grin of white teeth and laughing heartily.

”I told you he’d stir up a big commotion!”

Lin Jin watched Su Huan’s back in a daze, thinking that after all the effort, he could finally be close to Su Huan.

Unexpectedly, Su Huan grew stronger at a terrifying speed, so strong it rendered people hopeless.

Unlike He Jie, who didn’t feel despair at all, having long accepted through countless challenges that Su Huan was stronger.

He wouldn’t even consider comparing himself.

People chase the figure before them, who considers the road beneath or the sky above as rivals?

The road has no end, the sky no boundary.

No chase is possible.

Director Xu and the factory manager always knew Su Huan was strong but still underestimated him.

As for Lu Xiao, Jiang Rong, and others, they had already gotten used to it.

Such changes have become challenging to shock them.

Even if the train conductor were dismembered today, they believed this menace would be lively tomorrow, claiming he ended the apocalypse.

(Note: Pan-energy perception is a pre-awakened Tier Three skill)