With a clang, the iron bars of the holding cell were opened by the teachers. In a long Victorian dress, she looked like a queen. Her cold gaze pa.s.sed through the bars and fell on Zero, who was in the holding cell. He was lying flat on the ground, his gaze focused on the ceiling. The only indication that he was not a corpse was the rise and fall of his chest.
For the next twelve hours, since he had been caught in the tavern, he had been given a few hard repairs to Instructor Caelio. There was no doubt that he was very skilled at beating people up. His punches and kicks landed on the inconsequential parts of Zero"s body, but every hit caused him to feel an incomparable pain. It was as if Carrion"s techniques had bypa.s.sed the defense of his ability and muscles and truly affected his nerves. As a result, there were only a few of them, and Zero was on the verge of collapsing.
The fact that he could now lie like a vegetable surprised him.
However, after being tormented by Kalio a few times, he now had a whole new understanding of how to use his strength. Not knowing whether it was due to some skill or method, he could use his power, or even call it energy, between dispersing and concentrating. This allowed him to bypa.s.s most of the defenses and directly affect the target"s body with every punch, kick, and kick.
Zero believed that Caelio"s "lesson" was only a small part of his total strength. It was conceivable how much damage he would cause when he went all out.
However, unlike most people with such abilities, he did not pursue the power of destruction on the surface. He was more focused on internal destruction, as far as killing a person was concerned. Using luxurious attacks to kill the target while destroying the large area of the physical environment wasn"t much different from directly killing the target with a single punch.
Carío"s skill in energy conservation and efficiency is more outstanding, but also has a vaguely enlightening effect on zero.
Zero"s thoughts were completely immersed in recalling the scenes of Carrion"s punches and kicks. He used his far superior memory to record the entirety of his movements, and at this moment, he slowly replayed them. By observing the changes in his muscles during the attack, as well as the angle and landing point of the attack, Zero was constantly a.n.a.lyzing his skills. In this way, Zero had learned a little, but the skill he had imitated was at most twenty to thirty percent of Callio"s power.
"Get up if you"re not dead, if you still want to attend cla.s.s."
The cold voice of Valkyrie broke through Zero"s thoughts, and his eyes began to focus. Numerous signals are transmitted through the brain to all parts of the body, when the nerve is not the end of the signal to return back to the brain. Although this process didn"t even take a second, it felt strangely long.
But in fact, in Valkyrie"s eyes, Zero jumped at her words. However, his face suddenly changed slightly. His body trembled slightly, but in the blink of an eye, he returned to normal. It was an aftereffect of being taught a lesson by Carrion, but in general, zero was fine.
Valkyrie turned and walked away, and the teacher who opened the door made no attempt to stop him, so he pa.s.sed through the thin door. The holding room was located behind the instructor"s office, with only an iron fence separating the punished soldiers from the outside world. As far as Zero was concerned, as long as he wanted to leave, the fence would not hold him back at all. Therefore, the iron bars were more meaningful than they actually were. Of course, it was easy to leave, but one had to consider how to withstand Callio"s anger.
That definitely wasn"t as simple as just punching him a few times.
When Zero followed Valkyrie to the instructor"s office, he was standing with his feet on the desk, two cigars still in his mouth. He seemed to smoke cigars all day long, and even if he could afford the expensive tobacco carío, he was not afraid to smoke himself to death.
"I want to borrow your tactical guidance room."
"Just take it and use it. No one uses it normally anyway." He took a set of keys from a drawer and tossed them on the desk.
A teacher quickly picked them up and led them to the guidance room. When he reached the door, Zero suddenly turned around and said, "Thank you."
"Thank me for what?" Carío was confused.
Zero did not answer and just left the office. After exhaling two large mouthfuls of smoke, he muttered to himself, "This guy looks like he needs a beating."
The tactical guidance room was next to the office. It was a separate room. Equipped with projectors, intelligent computers and a number of devices. Usually, as a cla.s.s for tactical theory, there would be teachers who would list out some representative wars and explain to the recruits the tactics involved in the wars, as well as the weapons, personnel, etc.
However, there were only two people in the room today. What was involved was not tactics, but knowledge of the area of power.
Valkyrie opened a root-shaped diagram on the backlight screen, using the intellectual brain installed in the room. At the center of the diagram, there was the words "Evolution Tree". Valkyrie looked at Zero, saying indifferently, "There is a saying in the new era that talent determines one"s ability, while ability determines one"s destiny!"
"As we all know, ability originates from the first genetic oscillation. Furthermore, the ability produced by the gene shock was related to that person"s talent. And only by cla.s.sifying and distinguis.h.i.+ng different abilities will there be the so-called Five Great Power Regions. " At this point, Valkyrie added in a more serious tone, "However, this is the first time you have acquired the ability, such as strength strengthening, defense strengthening, and so on. In the ability system, it is cla.s.sified as the basic ability. Thus, the question arose. In this turbulent era where everything was evolving, would abilities also evolve? The answer is yes, that"s why it"s here! "
Valkyrie tapped the light screen behind him and said, "Evolution Tree, or Power Map. However, they were actually all the same thing. After going through previous generations of sorting and researching, modeling by basics, comparing and deducing by ma.s.sive amounts of data, the great project of determining the direction for the evolution of humans began 30 years ago and was nearing perfection. It can be said that right now, other than the rules of the theoretical stage, the other four areas can be found in the tree diagram as well as their corresponding abilities and their branches. "
"And our Heroic Spirit Hall, or the Dark Council, all have instruments called ability debugging machines. This allows the ability to meet the basic conditions from the low level to the medium level, high level of development. Of course, those with abilities in the wilderness could also use genetic drugs to advance. However, there are common flaws in genetic drugs, and relatively stable ones are more expensive. Furthermore, they can only provide the first stage of advancement, so they are not widely used. " Valkyrie added, "This is also the reason why middle-rank and high-rank espers are only in the hands of large organisations. In the wilderness, there are only low-rank espers!"