Chapter 101

The starter kit for newcomers!

Especially the last part: three escort missions by a cruiser and a full 5,000 points.

Never mind the freshmen; even the seniors are so jealous their expressions are distorting and their sanity is unraveling!

Five thousand points...

Most freshmen only get 50 points upon enrollment!

That’s a damn thousand-fold difference!

Envy, envy to the point of exploding.

However...

Following the release of another piece of news.

The freshmen, who were already exploding with envy, instantly boiled over!

No other reason.

Shenzhou Academy.

Values the strong above all else!

But it also values fairness and justice!

Fine, you’re envious of someone else?

Want to obtain that kind of treatment for yourself?

You can!

Go challenge them!

As long as you win the challenge, all those perks become yours!

As for whether Xu Zi'an can hold onto them...

The school doesn't care at all.

You were given such excellent treatment.

If you can't keep it, who can you blame?

That can only mean...

Your own talent is still insufficient!

It only proves that you aren't worthy of the treatment the school provided!

Of course.

This only applies to freshmen.

Only dissatisfied freshmen have the opportunity to challenge.

And each person only gets one chance.

And 1.7!!!

Here comes the important part.

If you want to defeat Xu Zi'an and claim his treatment.

You can't challenge him for free.

Since it’s about fairness and justice, if you win you get their perks, but if you lose, you don't have to pay anything?

Keep dreaming!

You must offer something of equal value!

As for what that is, negotiate it with Xu Zi'an yourself.

If he agrees, you can challenge; if he doesn't, you can't force it.

To prevent people from dodging fights, the school will provide arbitration.

If the arbitration results show that the wager offered by the challenger is deemed equal by the school.

Then Xu Zi'an cannot refuse!

For a moment.

The small number of freshmen who had confidence in themselves were all as pumped up as if they’d been injected with adrenaline.

Preparing for after the official start of school tomorrow.

To launch a challenge against Xu Zi'an.

On Brilliant Island.

Xu Zi'an was completely unaware of all this.

He was wholeheartedly preparing for the evolution of the Brilliant.

Six to seven is a hurdle.

And once this hurdle is crossed.

Then, the distance to a frigate.

Is truly only one step away.

No matter the world, no matter the era.

There will always be geniuses and ordinary people.

Starship evolution is no different.

As everyone knows.

A starship can only evolve to the next level once it enters the advanced stage.

But in reality...

What this means is that once you enter the advanced stage, you can evolve to the next level at any time!

For example, the Brilliant!

The Brilliant is currently at rank six, so that definitely won't work.

But!

Once it evolves to rank seven, it can evolve into a frigate at any time!

It doesn't necessarily have to wait until rank eight or even rank nine to evolve!

And that is where the difference between geniuses and ordinary people, or dreamers and salted fish, comes in.

The vast majority of those biological starship captains with mediocre strength and mediocre talent.

Generally choose to evolve to the next stage at rank seven.

The reason for this choice.

First, evolution points are too hard to come by.

Earlier evolutions were already difficult enough to scrape together points for, so naturally, they evolve as soon as possible.

Second, biological energy is too difficult to cultivate.

The maximum value for a rank six warrior is 450 biological energy.

But the maximum for a rank seven warrior becomes 550.

The maximum for a rank eight warrior is 670!

Such a large amount of biological energy.

Cannot be cultivated in a day or two.

Third, in the eyes of ordinary people, no matter how strong their scout ship is, it can't beat a frigate.

Of course, this is only in the eyes of ordinary people.

If you have those evolution points, isn't it better to just evolve to the next level?

Combining all these factors.

In the universe, whether it's the human race or other races.

Ordinary biological starship captains.

The vast majority will choose to evolve to the next level at rank seven.

Rank seven scout ship evolving to a frigate.

Rank seven frigate evolving to an assault ship.

That sort of thing.

And those with a bit of a dream, or some little geniuses.

Will choose to reach rank eight, and only when they feel there's really no point in waiting, will they evolve to the next level.

Only those truly top-tier geniuses will consider evolving to rank nine!

Only after reaching rank nine will they evolve to the next level!

The higher the evolution rank.

Perhaps it doesn't bring about a huge change in combat power.

But!!!

The changes brought by biological energy are huge.

Let's put it this way.

Most people reach the rank seven maximum of 550 biological energy, then break through to become a battle commander, and evolve their starship to a frigate.

Then 550 points of biological energy absolutely cannot support you in evolving your starship to its maximum length, width, and height.

And the duration you can control the starship in battle will be greatly reduced!

While the rank nine maximum is 810!

That's a gap of a full 260 points of biological energy!

This is definitely not a small number!

The sustained combat capability is not even in the same league.

And it's enough to support evolving your starship to the maximum length, width, and height of a frigate!

And the benefits of maximum length, width, and height...

Need not be repeated.

There are too many benefits.

You can install more powerful engines.

You can install more and larger heavy cannons!

You can carry more ammunition and fuel.

You can use thicker armor.

Your combat time is longer than yours... at the very least, it won't be worse.

You tell me who is stronger!

And Xu Zi'an...

His ultimate goal is not rank eight, not rank nine.

But...

The peak of rank ten!

Very few people know, and even fewer know.

In fact.

Above primary, intermediate, and advanced.

There is also a peak!

Rank ten warrior peak!

Rank ten scout ship peak!

The reason so few people know.

Is because very, very few people pay attention to this.

Top geniuses basically only focus on rank nine as the end.

Ordinary people...

Focus on rank seven or eight, and don't even bother with rank nine.

It's really because the rank ten peak drags out the growth rhythm too much.

Reaching rank eight, then rank nine.

You naturally need more cultivation time and a massive amount of evolution points compared to ordinary people.

By the time you reach rank nine, others might already have rank two or three frigates.

If you go up to rank ten, others might already have intermediate frigates.

It drags the rhythm too much.

Unless you are someone particularly stubborn, or a super-duper-invincible genius—

Like Xu Zi'an.

No one would evolve their starship to rank ten.

Xu Zi'an...

He's definitely going to rank ten, okay?

He doesn't need to worry about biological energy at all.

As long as he has enough wealth, he can have as much biological energy as he wants.

The only thing he lacks is evolution points!

He's a man with a system now.

Can he not have a dream?

Rank nine maximum is 810.

Rank ten maximum is 970!

Which means.

By the time he evolves the Brilliant into a frigate.

He will be able to pilot a frigate with maximum length, width, and height.

And be more enduring in combat than anyone else!

Of course, these are things to consider later.

Besides, the evolution points haven't even been secured yet.

Right now.

Evolving to rank seven is more important!

Early the next morning.

Xu Zi'an, who hadn't slept all night, was full of energy.

At this moment, the Brilliant was still evolving its keel on its own.

The necessary metal materials had already been added.

It just needed to wait for the Brilliant's keel to completely absorb the essence and expel the impurities to complete the evolution.

This process would continue for another three-plus hours.

Just enough time to attend the opening ceremony.

And also just in time to see the principal of Shenzhou Academy, one of the strongest in the Earth Federation—

A Star-Destroyer captain!

Within the scope of the Earth Federation.

A Star-Destroyer is already the most powerful existence.

Only outside the Earth Federation are there terrifying powerhouses who surpass Star-Destroyer captains.

On the massive plaza of the super-large floating city at the main building of Shenzhou Academy on the residential planet!

All the newly enrolled freshmen were standing there.

A rough estimate was at least over one hundred thousand!

After all, it's open to the entire Earth Federation.

This number of people actually isn't much.

The total number of students and faculty in the school exceeds seven hundred thousand!

Xu Zi'an.

Was currently standing on the side of the Evolutionist Department.

Including Xu Zi'an, there were only nine damn students in this year's Evolutionist Department at Shenzhou Academy!

The gazes of the surrounding classmates were as strange as could be.

They wanted to laugh but didn't dare.