Age of Cosmic Exploration

Chapter 155: End of Combat

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

One thing of note was that when Yao Yuan first created the Homo Evolutis Faction, there were rumors circulating around the Hope that its purpose was to capture Homo Evolutis as test subjects. There was a brief period of unease on the Hope. Nevertheless, the faction had come up with multiple interesting results in the past few years.

One of the faction’s aims was to analyze each Homo Evolutis’ specialty, usage, effect, and future importance.

Among the Homo Evolutis, the Perceptors, Seekers, and Thinkers were the easiest to analyze. According to the CAT scans, when these 3 types of Homo Evolutis activated their powers, their brain would go into overdrive, working 10 times faster than normal human beings. Of course, this was supposed to be fatal. They should have died from lack of nutrition or extreme body heat.

That was prevented by changes that were found in these 3 Homo Evolutis’ genome chart. It turned out that strands of DNA that were thought to be useless coded a special protein when their power was activated. This protein helped to lower the strain felt during power activation. Of course, there’s a limit to the capacity of the protein since people could still die from overexertion.

Simultaneously, the faction had found out the best method and time to train these 3 powers... Next would be the Whisperers, Animas and Diviners. The Whisperers were the backbone of the Academy. The Animas relied on something called the soul web. The concept of soul itself wasn’t even scientific to begin with, so it was hard to analyze this particular power.

The Diviners had seen the most analytic progress among the 3 because at least they knew it had something to do with a sixth sense. However, because it was also something that had plenty to do with pseudoscience, it was hard to construct a scientific analysis around it.

The most unique and most difficult to understand Homo Evolutis were the All-Rounders and the Deceivers. The All-Rounders had access to all the superhuman powers except the Deceivers’, and speaking of the Deceivers, the only Deceiver on the Hope was still in a vegetative state, so almost no progress had been made on these 2 types of Homo Evolutis.

All of these analyses fulfilled one important purpose: to distill and replicate the Homo Evolutis strands in normal humans using chemicals, and that was to be the Homo Evolutis Faction’s next big thing... Human Modification Project!

If used in combat setting, the Animas and All-Rounders were determined to be the most precious.

Due to the presence of creator’s particles, communication had become incredibly close quarters, while the battlefield had only gotten bigger. In such situation, the Anima’s power was pretty much a cheat. The fact that you could have access to information while your enemy couldn’t was a big deal in deciding the sway of the battle.

Therefore, after the 4th revolution, the Anima became a tactical importance, and the All-rounder, who also had access to the Anima’s power, only became that much more important!

For example, with the arrival of Yao Yuan, the whole battlefield had a seismic change.

First, the military morale was instantly raised. While the soldiers feared Guang Zhen, they respected Yao Yuan.

Because Yao Yuan had performed his Anima power during military drills, no one was shocked to find his voice in their heads. In fact, they felt comforted. They quickly fell into position. With their Homo Evolutis leaders spearheading the charge, every team of 9 followed through with Yao Yuan’s orders.

Before long, the electromagnetic shield aliens were annihilated. In the next moment, the medium-sized Gaussian rail cannon started firing. Without the shields, the layer of alien foot soldiers was punctured. Yao Yuan knew the wind of the battle was shifting.

Even though the aliens still piled high like mountains, with each skirmish, Yao Yuan could see the enemy lines retreating.

"Stop charging! All Black Star Troopers, stop charging and hunker down for defense!" Yao Yuan ordered with his Anima power. He noted the time that was shown within his space armor. It had been almost 10 minutes since he reached the battlefield. In other words, Support Battalion B was arriving.

Battalion B was actually the Hope’s artillery and missile men. Unlike Battalion A, their strength was not in close-quarter combat or clearing perimeter but in large-scale long-distance assaults. For example, their Gaussian cannons were so powerful that it could shred through electromagnetic shields as long as the shield wasn’t generated by a battery as powerful as the Hope’s.

After Yao Yuan’s order to stop charging, about 10 seconds later, the enemy too stopped rushing into combat. They started retreating. However, Yao Yuan realized that they were retreating with their fallen comrades in tow. As the mountains of aliens were cleared away, other than pools of green goop and broken flesh pieces, there were almost zero intact alien carcasses.

Yao Yuan stood at the front of the troopers with his seeker power open. Then he whipped his head around. In the middle of the temporary base, a few more shuttles were arriving. Without hesitation, he submerged in a world of silence.

The material world slowly fell away, leaving behind an expanding emptiness. Gradually, he could feel his own presence. It was a fireball as radiant and warm as a small sun. After some time, other orbs of fire of varying sizes appeared around him.

(Yes, that’s Ren Tao, Ying, and Ebon...) The emptiness around him gave an impression that time had slowed down, but in reality barely a second had passed. Thanks to his training, he entered communication with Ren Tao, Ying, and Ebon almost instantly.

"Ren Tao, Ying, Ebon, this is Yao Yuan. Order Battalion B to initiate a blanket fire. I want those disgusting aliens to be out of our sight!"

The trio jostled awake. It was Ebon who shouted, "Captain’s order: issue a blanket fire on the mass of aliens!"

The other 2 chimed in agreement. They were within the range of the shuttle isolator, so Battalion B mobilized after receiving the order. A turret base to support the Gaussian weaponry was erected. Small and medium sized Gaussian cannons, Gatling cannons, Gaussian shrapnel cannon, and other long-ranged siege weapons were added and charged.

"Small Gaussian cannon artillery unit, unit 1, 2... and 9 preparation complete! Reporting for duty!"

The artillery unit leaders reported to the battalion leader through a communicator. Soon after, the commander also received similar report from 4 other medium Gaussian cannon artillery units and 3 Gaussian shrapnel cannon artillery units.

"Fire!"

The ground shook unceasingly. The bombs flew past so fast that the naked eye couldn’t capture their trails. Their targets were 3 spots of level fields about several tens of thousands meters away from the base. Each bomb fell like an asteroid hitting the planet. Even though the bomb shells were small and compact, the moment they hit the ground, several hundred meters of ground was leveled in a halo of dust. Even the shielded creatures weren’t safe from destruction... Furthermore, this wasn’t a single bomb drop, it was a carpet bombing. The terrain seemed to change before the troopers’ eyes... The bombing lasted for almost 20 minutes. A small troop took a shuttle to survey the area from the sky and they found 0 enemies alive.

The first battle between mankind and the fleshy aliens had reached an end, but everyone on the battlefield knew... this was only the beginning!