Without waiting for Chen Luo to ask what "should be" meant after truly sensing a terrifying threat, the artificial intelligence "Nine Dragons," with great submission, rapidly explained.
Half a month ago, after Long Jiu issued a summons, the permanent troops of the Nine Great Battlefields and the soul-hearts from various branches returned to headquarters.
The entire process took only one day.
After everyone returned, all the Apostle-level Nine Dragons members were brought into the Zero Battlefield by Long Jiu.
Less than a minute later, under a flash of black light, all living people within the base died!
"Because the battle armor awakens various unscientific abilities, after the research department's dedicated research, I, as the core intelligence of the Nine Dragons headquarters, also possess numerous observation methods."
"For example, you, ah no, when you previously probed using a method similar to mental brainwaves, although your energy level was extremely high, any passage would leave a trace, so I still caught a glimpse of your trace."
The intelligent brain at this moment was extremely flattering. As a high-intensity intelligent brain that had already developed self-awareness, although its ability to act independently had always been restricted by the Nine Dragons high command, even actions like operating robotic arms to collect corpses required full human participation. xxs壹贰
But it still knew very well that if it dared to be any more arrogant at this moment, the young man in front of it would definitely obliterate itself and the entire base.
"The reason I believe 'Leidi' should still be alive is based on the uniqueness of Apostles."
Following the Nine Dragons intelligent brain's narration, Chen Luo finally understood the truth about the Apostle level in this world.
In Chen Luo's home world, the Doomsday Game divided enemies of different levels within each tier into different danger levels, such as Zero-tier Purgatory and First-tier Calamity.
But in fact, the danger level was merely the strength displayed by that life form at its current tier. The more fundamental factor behind it was the life tier.
And in the life tiers divided by the game, Chen Luo currently knew of four levels.
Zero-tier: Simple use of skill power, gaining some enhancement, a mini-Superman, with no characteristics that transcend common sense, a standard mortal tier.
First-tier: Marked by the first life leap, beginning to break through original racial values, meaning the life form has begun to change, no longer confined to the original design of the Great Source, and begins to advance towards the limit of mortals.
Second-tier: Marked by the second life leap, continuing to break through racial values while beginning energy transformation. This is the start of complete transcendence and the transitional stage from human to god.
Third-tier: Mostly unknown. Chen Luo speculates that the Great Lords are Third-tier existences. Currently, it is known that Great Lords possess the power to cross life and death, drag worlds across the void, and even face the Great Source directly.
Life tier, in a sense, does not completely equate to strength.
Different life tiers can carry different strengths.
Just as at Zero-tier, the highest strength could be called Purgatory level, and at First-tier, the upper limit reached Abyss. At Second-tier, the upper limit crossed into Domain.
During the first two life tier leaps, strength was not the absolute condition for life leap.
The advancement missions given by the game did not require life to reach the limit of the current strength to advance, which is why.
But the higher the life tier, the more difficult it is to break through. Therefore, often only the elites of the previous life tier have a greater chance of reaching higher life realms.
This is the overall path summarized by the Doomsday Game for the myriad power systems across all worlds.
Under this advancement path, as the life tier increases, the life form itself becomes more perfect and powerful. Both body, spirit, and soul will strengthen without any flaws!
Compared to the simplicity of 0-tier to 3-tier, and even the convenience and standardization of direct life leaps with system assistance.
The power systems in the myriad worlds are more varied, and not necessarily standardized, and can even be dead ends!
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Game World No. 9 possesses the indigenous extraordinary system, the "Path of Heart and Soul."
The core of this system is Heart and Soul Fire and Heart and Soul Steel.
Even a mortal who has not undergone any life leap, essentially a Zero-tier life form, can experience a surge in power after igniting the Heart and Soul Fire and equipping Heart and Soul Steel!
But it is only the strength that surges, not the essence of life!
Even the strongest True Guard level experts in this world, when paired with the SSS-grade battle armor known as the "Ultimate Battle Armor" during the past Seven-Day War, could only barely reach the combat power of a First-tier Purgatory level.
But note! These True Guard level experts, with the help of external items like Heart and Soul Steel and Sun Fire, and by burning their own souls as a price, temporarily possessed this combat power!
Their life tier, in fact, was still that of ordinary people!
So under normal circumstances, once they reached the True Guard level, with no enhancement to their souls, they were highly likely to die instantly!
The reason Lin Qing and the others could persist for seven days was simply because the cultivation Chen Luo taught them before had truly improved their life tier, thus driving the improvement of their souls.
Therefore, the "Path of Heart and Soul" from the outset is a dead end that only cultivates combat power, not the essence itself!
Chen Luo, from the first time he came into contact with Heart and Soul power, had sensed the terrifying side effects and formidable effects of this path.
Perhaps many people would think that even if this path reached its peak, it would only be the instantaneous combat power of a First-tier Purgatory level, which in front of Domain level experts like Chen Luo, they might not even survive for an instant!
But one must consider a problem: these First-tier Purgatory level combat powers, capable of instantly destroying cities, are operated by individuals who are essentially still mortals!
Even though the burning of Heart and Soul power brought some negligible improvement to their own strength, their life essence was still that of the weakest Zero-tier life!
This degree of improvement could not but be said to be the most terrifying existence among the power systems Chen Luo had ever seen.
It's just a pity it's a dead end!
But life always seeks new paths in desperation. After countless experiments and calculations, the Nine Dragons Company found a new realm above the True Guard level with 100% soul burning!
Seeking life from death!
Man becomes armor!
With an extreme stimulus, the soul that reached 100% burning degree instantly burned to a whole new level!
In that instant, the soul's flame would extend into reality, incinerating the physical body, spirit, and battle armor!
And in the flames of destruction, the souls of humans, burnt to ashes, would abandon their past bodies and completely merge into the molten Heart and Soul Steel.
Henceforth, they would soar freely!