Chapter 513 - 325: Reward of the World Fragment; Personally Constructing a Teleportation Gate
Chapter 513: Chapter 325: Reward of the World Fragment; Personally Constructing a Teleportation Gate
"However, remember this: if the Clan members you summon die in the Inner Earth World, we will not intervene.
"After you summon your Clan, we will also not concern ourselves with how you choose to interact with them.
"Unless you personally enter the field to battle the Giant Beasts, thus breaking the rules, or if an accident occurs and a student’s life is in critical danger.
"Only then will the instructors on our warship provide assistance."
...
This part of Vice Admiral Qin Rui’s speech made some of the students’ expressions change slightly. Clearly, this friendly competition was not going to be simple.
"And finally!" Vice Admiral Qin Rui said sternly, "After entering the Inner Earth World, students are forbidden from attacking one another.
"Anyone found maliciously harming another student will have their eligibility for the University Alliance Training Camp immediately revoked and will be handed over to a military tribunal!
"Conflicts between one Clan and another are not subject to these regulations.
"Now, you have one final hour to prepare.
"In one hour, all students will assemble on the lowest deck of the warship. We will deploy you into different rifts leading to the Inner Earth World.
"Good luck."
Vice Admiral Qin Rui finished his speech.
「An hour later.」
In the landing bay on the lowest deck of the Xuanwu-III Type Integrated Warship, five small transport ships stood ready. Each transport ship would carry fifty students from the same federation and take them to different starting points in the Inner Earth World.
Zhang Yi led the students from the Yanhuang Federation aboard the first small transport ship. As the overall team captain, Zhang Yi was the last to board. But before boarding, a sudden impulse led him to glance over at the second transport ship.
There, he saw Elias making a provocative throat-slitting gesture at him.
Zhang Yi never would have thought that the Candidate Saint Child, Elias, could be so childish. Still, before the ship’s door closed completely, Zhang Yi mouthed the words "Just wait" back at Candidate Saint Child Elias.
As the small transport ship’s hatch slowly closed, the vessel sailed deep into the rift of the Inner Earth World. An automated navigation system was in place, so Zhang Yi and the others didn’t need to worry about piloting the ship. Once they reached the location designated by the University Alliance Training Camp, the ship would stop, and all they had to do was disembark.
Inside the transport ship, after the students of the Yanhuang Federation had taken their seats, Hong Tianyi, who was sitting near Zhang Yi, was the first to speak up, asking, "Team Captain, do we have a strategy for the upcoming mission?"
All the students’ gazes focused on Zhang Yi. Hong Tianyi had asked the question on everyone’s mind.
After a moment of thought, Zhang Yi gave a slight nod. "You all remember the map of the Inner Earth World that Vice Admiral Qin Rui showed us, I presume?"
The other students all nodded forcefully. With their strength as High Transformationed Demigods, memorizing a map was as easy as could be.
"Although the map of the Inner Earth World’s internal structure had some vague and uncertain areas, one thing is certain: its internal structure is extremely complex.
"If all fifty of us stick together to explore one area, our progress will be far too slow.
"Therefore, I suggest we split into groups!
"As for the group assignments, we’ll stick with the decisions we made during our rehearsal training.
"Five people per group, for a total of ten groups.
"Each pair of groups will provide mutual support for one another.
"This way, we can spread out for reconnaissance while still having partners for support."
Hearing Zhang Yi’s plan, the other students nodded subconsciously. After the second round of assessments at the University Alliance Training Camp and the rehearsal training conducted by Chief Instructor Yang, they had grown accustomed to obeying orders from Team Captain Zhang Yi.
At that moment, however, Gu Yun raised a question. "Team Captain, if our summoned Clan encounters a Clan summoned by students from another federation while hunting Giant Beasts, and they try to fight us for our spoils, how should we handle it?"
A brief silence fell over the small transport ship.
"If students from other federations dare to fight us for our spoils, then we naturally fight back hard!" Hearing Gu Yun’s question, Zhang Yi’s eyes sharpened. "Remember, we are a team.
"All the Points each of us earns will contribute to the team’s total score.
"If it weren’t for the rule that we can’t get Points for scavenging Giant Beasts killed by others, we would probably change our strategy and just go straight to...
"In any case, we must make them remember that we students from the Yanhuang Federation are not to be trifled with!" Zhang Yi said.
"All squads are to maintain Divine Power communication. If you encounter a problem you can’t handle, call for backup.
"Report your findings and status every six hours. We will use this information to create a map."
"Understood!" the other students replied in unison.
A dozen or so minutes later, the small transport ship began to jolt slightly, a sign that it was traveling deeper into the rift. Through the ship’s porthole, Zhang Yi could see that the rift’s passage was not straight, but winding. After twenty minutes, the light outside the porthole shifted from dim to bright, and the small transport ship came to a sudden halt.
The students inside knew they had arrived at their starting point.
The hatch slowly opened, and a wave of hot, humid air rushed in.
As the team captain, Zhang Yi was the first to exit the transport ship. The sight before him made his pupils widen slightly. It was a massive subterranean space. The distance from his feet to the ceiling high above was at least three hundred meters, and its width stretched out of sight. In the rocky corners of the ground grew many enormous, fluorescent mushrooms.
Relying on his strength as a Ninth Transformation Demigod, Zhang Yi could hear the sound of water in the distance. The air carried the scent of sulfur mixed with fermenting plants. Further away, he could faintly hear the roar of a beast.
After coming out and finding no immediate danger, Zhang Yi went back to inform the others. The rest of the Yanhuang Federation students then disembarked from the small transport ship one after another.
"Proceed according to the plan!"
At Zhang Yi’s command, the Demigod students, operating in their squads, all activated their Divine Power and began to explore the surrounding area.
Zhang Yi led the squad from Tianya Academy and flew off in one direction. They flew for seven or eight minutes until they reached an area with a river to the south, high mountains to the north, a forest to the west, and a flat plain to the east.
Only then did Zhang Yi stop. "This is the spot. Let’s open the Teleportation Gates and summon our Clans!"
Hearing Zhang Yi’s words, the other four students flew a short distance away, each putting about five kilometers between themselves. Then, seeing that Zhang Yi had already begun to channel his Divine Power to construct a Teleportation Gate, Hong Tianyi, Lu Mei, and the others quickly followed suit.
Zhang Yi’s Natural Divine Power was a verdant green, exuding an extremely pleasant feeling. Lu Mei’s Divine Power was a scorching golden-red, Hong Tianyi’s was a fiery red, Zhao Wenjie’s was black, and Zhou Zongcheng’s was a light blue.
As the Divine Power of all five erupted, each forming the shape of a gate, space soon began to warp. Like pebbles dropped into water, spots of different colors rippled out from the Teleportation Gates formed by their Divine Power.
"In my name, open the Teleportation Gate!"
This is the first time I’ve built a Teleportation Gate in an external world—sending one part of my consciousness into my Divine Realm while the other remains here to control my body and channel Divine Power. This kind of multitasking was a first for Zhang Yi.
Fortunately, just as Vice Admiral Qin Rui had said, the University Alliance Training Camp had lowered the difficulty for this first attempt at building a Teleportation Gate. As a result, Zhang Yi succeeded on his first try, creating a medium-sized Teleportation Gate five meters high and fifty meters wide. Through the center of the gate, he could faintly see a plain on the other side, along with a marshaled army of Elves.
Once Zhang Yi had finished constructing his Teleportation Gate, he looked up at his four teammates. He saw that they, too, had successfully constructed their gates one after another, all basically succeeding on their first attempt.
At the exact moment Zhang Yi finished building the Teleportation Gate, in his Divine Realm, on the Harvest Plain, an army of thirty thousand Elves already stood assembled on the largest training ground.