Chapter 1179 Black Star's Evaluation

The spaceship carrying the first batch of graduates from the Black Star Superpower Academy followed the traffic network and quickly arrived at the Central Xigoma Galaxy of Black Star territory from the border Zizhe Star System to meet Black Star.

In the past six years, the Black Star Army had invested a lot of resources in the construction of their territory. They had established the second headquarters in the Xigoma Galaxy—a space fortress composed of seven mechanical fortress planets and a large number of mechanical defense satellite rings, which was called the "Black Star Palace" by the majority of the Legion members.

The spaceship arrived from afar and reached the predetermined location on the star map. The appearance of the Black Star Palace was displayed on the viewing window. Seeing this mechanical behemoth, many students couldn't help but open their mouths wide, their faces shocked.

This thing was much more magnificent than the Dragon Talon floating island in the sky of Aquamarine Star!

Each mechanical fortress planet was covered with several mechanical defense satellite rings with different inclination angles, forming a symmetrical pattern. The planets were divided into seven inner and outer layers of orbits, which jointly revolved around the center point, like a miniature version of a solar system.

The center was not a star, but an extremely large metal sphere, with a silver-black color all over, and a smooth surface like a mirror, like a non-luminous black star. No one knew what it was.

Everyone needed to undergo routine inspections. The spaceship stopped at Fortress Airport No. 7 on the outermost orbit. As soon as Nilo stepped onto the dock with his classmates, he saw a familiar face.

"Uncle Fording?!" Nilo was overjoyed and quickly trotted forward on his short legs.

"Hello, Nilo." Fording smiled slightly and reached out to touch Nilo's head.

"Are you here specially to wait for me?"

"Yes, we haven't seen each other for about five or six years. You've grown up." Fording touched Nilo's head and looked him up and down, his tone a bit emotional. "It's a pity you haven't grown much taller."

"...Don't mention this, we can still have a good chat."

Nilo's face darkened. Not being able to grow tall was his eternal pain.

He had the life energy gifted by Aurora in his body, and he often drank dragon blood potions. Logically speaking, he should have grown very tall, but he didn't understand why he was developing so slowly. His father, Bennett, wasn't short either!

Nilo once suspected that the pressure of studying had suppressed his height, and he was full of resentment.

"Speaking of which, Uncle Fording, you haven't changed at all. You're still so good-looking."

Fording shook his head and smiled. "It's normal. Calamity Grades can control their metabolism. It's easy to stay young. Six years is only equivalent to a few months for ordinary people."

At this moment, the martial arts girl in a tight suit walked to Nilo's side, her big eyes staring at Fording, her face involuntarily turning red, and she became nervous.

"This is..." Fording turned his head and looked over.

"Oh, let me introduce you. This is Mia Moloto, she's my...my...ahem, she's a female classmate I have a good relationship with. She's one of the best graduates in this year's martial arts department.

Mia, this is Fording, a guard officer under Black Star. He's an elder who watched me grow up. You...huh? Why are you blushing?"

"I'm not blushing!" Mia hurriedly covered her cheeks, her tone flustered.

She was the dark and thin girl who met Nilo when the Aquamarine Star Black Star Superpower Academy opened. As the saying goes, a woman changes eighteen times, and after six years of study and training, her body had developed, her appearance was pretty, and her skin had turned into a healthy wheat color, exuding a vitality.

Seeing another girl attracted by his beauty, Fording looked helpless and took the initiative to extend his hand. "Hello, I'm Fording."

"Y-you, you're honored to meet me...ah, no...I'm honored." Mia was so nervous that she was incoherent. She quickly grasped the hand Fording offered, and the blush on her face became more and more obvious.

Nilo looked at Fording, then at Mia, feeling like he had eaten a lemon. His heart was sour and astringent, and he couldn't help but cough heavily, separating the two people's clasped hands, stiffly changing the subject:

"By the way, where's my godfather?"

"He already knows you're here. Go to his throne to see him."

"Throne?"

"Yeah, it's the big black ball in the center." Fording chuckled. "Speaking of which, Nilo, how much progress have you made in the past few years? He will definitely examine your homework later. If you don't pass...I won't intercede for you."

Speaking of machinery, Nilo immediately shrank his neck, recalling unpleasant memories, and said uncertainly: "I think my progress is quite big, godfather should be satisfied, right?"

"Ask him yourself, don't keep him waiting. We'll chat after it's over."

Fording smiled and turned to leave.

As his back gradually faded away, Nilo turned his head to speak, only to find that Mia was still staring in the direction Fording left. He suddenly felt a surge of anger and said unhappily:

"He's already gone, what are you still looking at?!"

Only then did Mia reluctantly withdraw her gaze and excitedly poked Nilo's waist. "Hey, how come your uncle is so charming? His smile is so beautiful, I was stunned."

Nilo felt jealous and said sourly, "Why have you never looked at me like that?"

Mia immediately looked disgusted. "How long has it been since you looked in the mirror? Where did you get the face to compare with your uncle?"

"..."

Nilo was speechless.

His heart ached.

After six years of getting along, the two were very familiar with each other. Mia gradually came out of her closed state and became lively. The two often quarreled, but their relationship was very good, like siblings.

After arguing for a while, everyone completed the routine inspection and changed to a spaceship to go to the big black ball in the center of the Black Star Palace.

As the spaceship approached, a small hole appeared on the surface of the big black ball, and inside was a landing orbit that could just accommodate the spaceship.

The spaceship entered the orbit and stopped, and the walls on both sides of the orbit were sealed, with no dock.

Just as everyone was wondering, one of the walls suddenly separated.

Rumble—

Countless nano-particles and mechanical structures were moving, and a brand new dock was generated in front of everyone, extending the only road.

"Is this an instantly constructed dock?"

For this group of students, the scene in front of them could be called magical. Everyone stepped onto the dock in surprise, looking around, and found that this dock only had one road to take, and the other directions were all black metal walls.

Everyone looked at each other, calmed down, and could only walk down this road. As everyone walked forward, the road continued to extend under their feet.

"Gulp."

A clear sound of swallowing saliva rang out from the crowd. Only then did everyone suddenly realize that no one had spoken for a long time. Everyone was silent.

The atmosphere became tense. Only the pale lights stretched along the road. With each step they took, the pressure in their hearts increased, giving rise to fear of the unknown ahead.

These students were originally filled with excitement and anticipation at the thought of meeting a big shot, but at this moment, this excited emotion had completely turned into tension and awe.

Although they hadn't seen Black Star with their own eyes, they could already feel the omnipresent sense of oppression.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the front suddenly opened up, and everyone walked out of the passage and arrived at a huge circular hall.

In the center of the hall was a stepped high platform, and on the high platform was placed a mechanical throne. Streaks of lightning-like blue-gold mechanical force unfolded below the throne, spreading like a spider web, still flashing and jumping constantly.

A black-robed man sat on the throne, tilting his head slightly, one hand propping his cheek, and the other drooping on the armrest of the throne, looking at them indifferently.

A simple gaze, however, made all the students present feel a surge of pressure and their legs weakened.

"Your Excellency Black Star!"

"This is the power of a Super-A Grade...so terrifying."

Many people couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and they regretted it, wishing they could turn around and leave immediately, the farther the better.

Before they came, many students yearned for Super-A Grades, but at this moment, most people realized that they were just Ye Gong liking dragons.

"G-godfather."

Nilo greeted cautiously, muttering to himself.

He hadn't seen him for a few years, and his godfather's aura was getting more and more amazing...

However, his appearance hadn't changed at all, he was still as young and handsome as he was six years ago.

In front of Fording, Nilo dared to joke and tease, but in front of Han Xiao at this moment, he found himself involuntarily becoming nervous and in awe, even if Black Star was his godfather.

What's going on, am I that scary...Looking at the crowd's unbearable performance, Han Xiao frowned.

He glanced down at the mechanical throne under his butt and realized what was going on.

He almost forgot that this broken thing had the effect of amplifying his aura. No wonder it scared these little leeks into shivering.

Han Xiao put away his aura and stood up, and the oppressive feeling suddenly disappeared. Everyone couldn't help but gasp for breath, their backs already drenched in cold sweat.

Scanning the crowd, Han Xiao said slowly: "You are the first batch of outstanding graduates since the establishment of the academy. Since you have chosen to serve the Legion, then I, on behalf of the Legion, welcome you to join us..."

Hearing this, the tension in everyone's hearts gradually dissipated and became excited. Getting personally encouraged by a Super-A Grade made many people feel inspired.

Han Xiao encouraged them for a while before letting the excited students leave the way they came, leaving only Nilo and Mia behind.

Walking down the high platform and coming to the two, Han Xiao lowered his head and glanced at the top of Nilo's head, nodding, "It's actually good to be short, this way the target appears small. As a mechanic, it's not easy to be hit by the enemy."

The corners of Nilo's mouth twitched.

What's wrong with these people, why do they all like to talk about his height?!

Although he was slandering in his heart, seeing Han Xiao joking with him like this, Nilo's tense nerves also relaxed, and he smiled:

"Long time no see, godfather, I miss you so much."

I don't miss you at all...Han Xiao sighed inwardly.

With the Observation Mark in hand, he could peek at any time. He even knew the average time Nilo spent in the toilet.

In the past six years, Han Xiao had mostly stayed in the Flickering World to accumulate his foundation. The accumulated experience had been spent to the point that it was almost gone. His personal level had risen to 303, and the rest had been invested in skills and synthesis blueprints.

His hard power hadn't increased much, but in terms of the mechanical army, it had been comprehensively and greatly improved!

This nearly planet-sized black sphere was the Mechanical God made up of a mechanical army!

Maintaining the appearance of a planet, like a black star, Han Xiao would often activate this skill and maintain it for a long time, so as to exercise his mastery of the Mechanical God, without slackening.

In terms of building machinery, Han Xiao hadn't been idle either. He had already built a secondary dimensional factory and continued to improve and expand it, continuously providing himself with troops.

In the past six years, the mechanical civilization had developed rapidly. More than 80% of the surface of Apostle Star had been completely covered by mechanical cities, and mechanical life had been hatched to the eighth generation.

Due to the weakening of the Fire Seed energy iteration, the performance of mechanical life after the sixth generation had declined significantly. With continuous reproduction, the more backward mechanical life was, the more they were "ordinary people" in the mechanical civilization, only serving as cannon fodder. This was a limitation that existed in any mechanical civilization.

The first generation of mechanical life was still the best batch of elites, among which the many apostles, including Youzu, were the most powerful. The social structure was gradually approaching the galaxy structure—the universe was like this, ordinary people accounted for the vast majority, and mechanical life before the sixth generation was equivalent to "superpowers" in mechanical civilization, possessing powerful individual power and being respected.

The Black Spirits were still digesting knowledge. Compared with six years ago, the Black Spirits had appeared researchers who had achieved success in different fields, and began to teach knowledge to other clansmen. The effect of the mind network had begun to appear.

Normal species use textbooks to teach, how can the efficiency be as fast as the Black Spirits directly imparting knowledge, like the difference between straining from constipation and diarrhea.

The Legion's power was developing steadily, the education plan was carried out smoothly, more academies were set up, and the first batch of students had graduated, which was Nilo's class...

Thinking of this, Han Xiao looked Nilo up and down, then turned to look at Mia next to him, his eyes narrowed.

Seeing this, Nilo misunderstood Han Xiao's meaning and hurriedly introduced his companion, "This is Mia, a female classmate in my class, she's also very powerful."

"H-hello...uh, greetings, Your Excellency Black Star."

Mia looked uneasy. Black Star gave her a completely different feeling from Fording.

Fording made people feel like they were in the spring breeze, their hearts fluttering, while Black Star made her involuntarily feel awe and not dare to be presumptuous.

"I know you, you have a lot of potential."

Han Xiao had recognized this former follower of Hela in his previous life a few years ago, and she was also a good leek, so there was nothing unexpected at this time. He nodded in greeting.

"Thank you." Mia was immediately flattered, not expecting that a big shot like Black Star would recognize her. She was excited.

"You wait outside for a while, I have something to say to Nilo."

"Okay, okay."

Hearing this, Mia glanced at Nilo and had no choice but to turn around and leave.

Watching Mia leave, Han Xiao withdrew his gaze. With only the two of them left in the room, he no longer held back and looked at Nilo with interest, teasing:

"Not bad, kid, are you going through puberty?"

Nilo's face immediately turned red, and he argued: "Nonsense! I, I'm not..."

"Alright, you don't have to explain to me." Han Xiao interrupted Nilo and waved his hand. "It's been a few years since I saw you, let me check your progress. If you're only busy with dating and forget to study, hmph."

As he spoke, without waiting for Nilo to refute, Han Xiao directly poked Nilo and revealed the combat information.

He opened the panel and looked over, and Han Xiao nodded slightly.

This kid's potential was still good, he already had a C+ Grade, and he estimated that he could reach B Grade before the age of twenty.

Looking down at the ability bar, Han Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw what he had been dreaming of.

Nilo's Mechanical Sense specialty had finally grown to [Perfect Mechanical Sense]!

The leek that had been cultivated for so long was finally ripe!

'It took almost ten years to get him to develop this ability, not easy, not easy!'

Han Xiao was overjoyed and patted Nilo's shoulders vigorously, laughing happily.

"Not bad, very good, I'm very satisfied with your progress!"

Nilo's shoulders were patted so hard that they hurt, and his bones seemed to be broken. He couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "I-I'm glad you're satisfied."

Han Xiao couldn't help but rub Nilo's round face, feeling happy in his heart.

He hadn't neglected his studies because of young love, he was very gratified!

The leek was already ripe, and the next thing to consider was the method of harvesting!

That jerk Leonard was impervious to persuasion, refusing to give him missions no matter what, but Nilo was different. He possessed the High-Level Lucky Halo physique, and he had just started his career, his life had just begun, and there were still plenty of plot missions that could be triggered in the future. The probability of obtaining [Perfect Mechanical Sense] from him was many times higher.

If it really didn't work...he could also actively create some situations for Nilo, throw him into various dangerous situations, and try to make him experience dangerous situations in various ways.

According to Grand Technician Han's experience, as long as Nilo asked for something from him, there would be a greater chance of triggering a mission.

But, doing so required a reason.

The excuse of practical combat training seemed to be very good...Han Xiao's eyes rolled around.

If this still didn't work, Han Xiao had a final move. Nilo's potential was stronger than Leonard's. He would find a way to cultivate him, and then...publicly beat him up!

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Han Xiao's gaze towards Nilo also became playful, with a sinister smile in his heart:

'Little guy, what awaits you next is the real hell, you will know how happy your study life used to be.'

Sensing Han Xiao's malicious gaze, Nilo suddenly felt a chill and a bad premonition arose.

He felt a wave of malice sweep over his body just now...

Nilo scratched his head and asked cautiously:

"By the way, godfather, I have one more thing I want to ask you to help me with."

Han Xiao's eyes lit up.

Heh!

Look at him, he was so sensible, he made a request as soon as he came, he was much better than that Leonard guy.

"Say it, what do you want me to help you with?" Han Xiao asked kindly.

Nilo hesitated a little, his tone stuttering:

"Mia is a martial artist, she hits people very hard when she's angry. I, I want to learn how to become fleshy. Godfather, you are a grandmaster in this field, can you teach me how to take a beating?"

"...Get out!"