Chapter 745 - 233: Prodigy Hunt List! The Mechanical Race Arrives, the Iron Men Rebel
Chapter 745: Chapter 233: Prodigy Hunt List! The Mechanical Race Arrives, the Iron Men Rebel
Just as Qin Feng’s fighting spirit rekindled and he set the grand goal of the Eternal Singularity for himself, a communication request suddenly popped up on the virtual light screen before him.
It was Caesar.
With a thought, he accepted the call.
"Qin Feng, what’s your status?"
Caesar’s magnetic and proud voice came through. In the background, there seemed to be the faint glow of a flashing star chart data stream.
"I’m out of seclusion."
Qin Feng’s reply was as concise as ever.
"Good."
Caesar replied with a single word.
The next second, the space within the ice cave suddenly rippled violently.
A Subspace channel was forcibly opened, and a tall, straight-backed figure clad in magnificent golden Battle Armor stepped out, appearing precisely in front of Qin Feng.
It was Caesar himself.
He glanced around the simple cave, which contained nothing but ice, and his brow twitched almost imperceptibly. He seemed surprised by Qin Feng’s choice of seclusion environment, but he quickly focused his full attention on the matter at hand.
"Qin Feng, the situation has developed in ways I didn’t expect."
Caesar’s expression was extremely serious, his azure eyes flickering with contemplation and gravity.
As the commander of the alliance, he very rarely used the word "unexpected," which was enough to illustrate the seriousness of the issue.
"Before participating in the Cosmic Genius Battle, I specifically looked up the Empire’s public recordings of the last few Cosmic Genius Battles."
Caesar said in a low voice, "However, because the competitions are simply too long, I only gained a superficial understanding. But it was enough to draw one conclusion: while the core format of each Cosmic Genius Battle might be the same, the specific details are always different."
He extended a finger, tracing streams of data in the air.
"For example, the points-based elimination system, the hunting system, and the hidden item system that we’re experiencing now—these core frameworks have been in place for four entire competitions.
However, the galactic environments, the scale of the arenas, the time mechanics, and so on are completely different each time.
This has led to some errors in my previous assessments of the situation, which were based on a ’conventional war’ model."
Hearing this, Qin Feng’s gaze also grew serious.
"What do you mean?"
Qin Feng asked, "I’ve just had some new thoughts myself. Why don’t you share your perspective first?"
"Alright."
Caesar nodded, gathered his thoughts, and began, "To be honest, everyone who qualified for this major battle zone is, without exception, one of the most outstanding prodigies from the younger generation of the major Warbands and various galaxies.
They are top-tier geniuses who have clawed their way up through bloody battles, step by step, from among billions of Martial Artists. Before... I’ve been underestimating the other contenders."
Caesar’s expression was candid as he said this.
"Although our progress is the fastest in the entire major battle zone, we haven’t established a decisive, breakaway lead."
"The rate at which these guys are improving is also incredibly fast.
Moreover, there are quite a few who made preparations in advance.
According to my intelligence analysis, before the competition even began, there were at least a hundred people who had already prepared an inheritance for a Level 8 Killing Technique!
Not to mention those who obtained a Level 8 Killing Technique inheritance during the competition from the various top-tier Resource Points that have been appearing."
Qin Feng nodded slightly at Caesar’s words, showing his agreement.
He understood this point deeply from his own experience.
He himself had obtained the Level 8 Killing Technique, "Vast Savage Mountains," as a reward from a Betting Order.
And if he could have such a fortunate encounter, then other top prodigies naturally could as well. It was simply a matter of probability; with a large enough pool of contestants, the number of such people was bound to be significant.
Caesar then continued, his tone growing even more serious.
"The most direct reflection of this can be seen in the Combat Power Rankings and the Interstellar Alliance Rankings."
"First, the individual Combat Power Rankings."
Caesar pulled up a dynamically changing leaderboard where countless names scrolled wildly. "Seventy years ago, you killed seven Martial Artists from the Kapudo-Kale Alliance, who had just entered the Constant Star level, with a single strike. It was an astonishing feat that shot you to first place on the Combat Power Rankings. At the same time, you were also number one on the individual points leaderboard.
But in the seventy years you’ve been in seclusion, the individual Combat Power Rankings have fluctuated dramatically."
He pointed at the leaderboard and said in a low voice, "It’s no exaggeration to say that in these seventy years, not a single Martial Artist who made it into the top ten has been able to hold their position for even a full year!
A year at most—often, it only takes a few months before they’re inevitably pushed down by a newcomer with an even more spectacular achievement.
The list of the top ten has been replaced time and time again."
"Over and over, countless prodigies, true Demons, have ascended to the top ten, only to be pushed down by even stronger Demons."
Caesar’s gaze finally landed on a spot outside the top one hundred, where an already "outdated" battle record was listed.
"Look, your record of instantly killing seven Constant Star Martial Artists has now been pushed out of the top one hundred."
"You’ve been pushed out of the top hundred on the points leaderboard as well."
This fact alone said everything.
Qin Feng understood perfectly.
This meant that the geniuses of the entire major battle zone had passed their initial accumulation phase. With the appearance of more and more resources, the Martial Artists were entering an explosive growth stage.
Constant Star level experts were now springing up like mushrooms, madly fighting and plundering from one another, creating astonishing battle records in the process.
"As for the Interstellar Alliance Rankings,"
Caesar changed the subject, switching to another leaderboard. "The situation is the complete opposite of the individual Combat Power Rankings.
Decades ago, the competition on the Interstellar Alliance leaderboard was just as fierce, with rankings changing every day.