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Character List
Qiao Zhiya: Half-elf, half-dwarf MC.Chu Rong: Marshal ML.
Fan Xiangnan: ML’s second-in-command.
Zhuang Yu: A doctor in ML’s army.
Lin Zhen: MC’s designated teacher during his stay in ML’s warship.
Chu Yan: ML’s younger brother. Is the same age as MC.
Chu Huai: ML’s older brother, he’s now the President.
A1: A household robot in ML’s house
Gu Yan’an: Chu Huai’s wife. She’s a doctor.
Qiao Yi: MC’s father. An elf.
Mi Lai: MC’s mother. A dwarf.
Yuan Lie: Yuan Xiu’s father, a Lieutenant General.
Yun Xiachu: MC’s ex-classmate, about 6 years younger, but skipped a couple of grades to match MC’s pace.
Ning Kongran: Ning family current heir. Studying mecha manufacturing, unlike his family.
“Elder”: the mastermind of the conspiracy. Also called the “monster” by many people.
Neitaxi: General from the Empire, the strongest mecha soldier in the Empire.
Feng: The Imperial High Advisor.
Jian: the Imperial High Advisor’s son. Studies History.
After about a dozen experimental subjects fell out, nothing else appeared in the array. However, Qiao Yi still sensed a lingering pull from within the array. Frowning, he persisted.
Qiao Zhiya glanced at him with concern and increased the output of magical power to lighten his burden.
Three minutes passed without any new experimental subjects appearing in the array, yet the pull grew stronger. Qiao Yi felt something was wrong. He pointed his staff again, and a floating attack magic array appeared above the bloodline attraction array. A dense green flash descended upon the array.
“Ah! Stop!”
A slippery voice suddenly came out from the array. The magic array began to distort and shake, as if about to collapse. Chu Rong’s eyes sharpened. “It’s the mastermind!”
Mi Lai’s expression darkened upon hearing this and she intensified her magical output once more.
After stabilizing the magic array, Qiao Yi shifted his attention to the attack array, attempting to weaken the opponent’s strength and lure them out. His eyes filled with killing intent.
The Imperial High Advisor, who had slowly regained his strength, also heard the voice. After drinking the potion given by Zhuang Yu, he pressed his chest and frowned, saying, “I sense the blood attraction. That monster also has some of my blood inside it.”
He couldn’t help but retch at the realization that the mastermind had absorbed some of his blood.
Jian saw his discomfort and hurriedly patted his back to reassure him, his expression grim.
The colors of the emerald jade and ink jade in the room began to fade rapidly. Qiao Zhiya hurriedly continued to pull out more jade stones while directing his magic towards the attack array. His heart raced.
Today, they had only intended to help the Imperial High Advisor deal with those experimental subjects that could affect him. They hadn’t expected to grab hold of the mastermind’s tail.
‘If only we could directly kill that monster, then no one else would be harmed.’
He thought this and subconsciously released his magic, all of which turned into metal-type magic, merging into the attack array, causing it to emit waves of golden light. Another part of it tentatively probed towards the attraction array, slowly mixing with the Imperial High Advisor’s blood power.
“Roar!”
A roar seemed to echo in their ears. At the same time, the bloodline attraction array began to twist wildly, and a black hole slowly appeared in the middle. Meanwhile, the experimental subjects confined by earth magic in the room began to awaken one after another, responding to this roar.
“The monster is counterattacking,” Mi Lai said with a tense face, showing a look of endurance. Faced with so many experimental subjects resisting at the same time, she was beginning to struggle.
Chu Rong quickly stepped forward, using his spiritual power to suppress these restless experimental subjects one by one, covering them with isolation barriers, while directing his spiritual power towards the black hole, trying to suppress the monster’s counterattack.
“You bastards!”
The slippery voice suddenly erupted, and a strange power emanated from the black hole, causing the magic array beneath Mi Lai’s feet to collapse directly, just when Chu Rong had relaxed his expression somewhat with his help.
Qiao Yi’s hand holding the wand also trembled suddenly, the light of the magic array weakened, and his face turned slightly pale.
“Mom!”
Qiao Zhiya hurriedly went up to support Mi Lai, taking out a piece of ink jade and handing it to her.
Mi Lai indicated that she was fine and looked worriedly at Qiao Yi.
With no replenishment of magical elements in the air, and employing the most energy-consuming bloodline attraction array, which had been supported for so long, Qiao Yi was likely struggling to hold on.
Receiving concerned glances from his wife and son, Qiao Yi sensed the frantic resistance in the array and frowned. He waved his staff again, and another magic array appeared next to the black hole, rapidly expanding.
The other two arrays began to converge towards the new one, merging into a comprehensive array. Then, the array’s light surged, and a muffled roar echoed. The bizarre force in the room suddenly disappeared, and the black hole abruptly expanded, spitting out something along with the collapse of the magic array.
As the anomaly subsided, Chu Rong used his spiritual power to trap all the experimental subjects in isolation barriers, and the body of something resembling a limb of the Zerg lay on the floor in front of the magic array, covered in blood and a foul stench.
Qiao Yi put away his staff and went forward with Qiao Zhiya to help Mi Lai, checking her magic pool and finding it undamaged. He relaxed his wrinkled brow and carefully used a bit of his power on her. Then he looked at Chu Rong and said, “We only managed to injure their body.”
Looking at the ugly limbs on the ground, Mi Lai felt regretful, more than guilty. “I’m sorry, I held you back…” If she had held on a little longer, maybe she could have directly caught the monster and killed it.
But Qiao Yi patted her head and reassured her, “You did great. the mastermind’s bloodline is complex, and the bloodline attraction array’s influence on them was too weak. We were unprepared this time. Even if we all persevered, we probably wouldn’t have lured them out, and instead, we would have suffered backlash from their frenzied counterattack.”
So being able to injure them was already the best outcome of this attack.
After comforting his wife, he looked at Chu Rong and spoke in the lingua franca, “The monster’s hiding place is very secretive, able to block my magical penetration. There’s also a strange force field around him. To kill them, we must first find where they’re hiding and draw them out.”
Through this attack attempt, he found that the mastermind had a strong home advantage, while magical power was limited in this world, unable to exert its full power.
“A strange force field?”
Chu Rong frowned, recalling the enhanced spirit stones. “They must be hiding on a hidden planet. I will have the army intensify the search.”
Qiao Yi nodded and said no more. After gesturing to the Imperial High Advisor, he turned to the worried Qiao Zhiya and headed back to the main house to rest.
Although they hadn’t caught the monster, the harvest from this time had lifted a huge weight off everyone’s hearts — without the influence of experimental subjects’ bloodlines, the mastermind could no longer casually locate the Imperial High Advisor and Qiao’s positions and silently create black holes to capture them.
At the military headquarters, the federal army, which had just finished resting, set sail again, starting a new round of searches for the monster.
After recuperating, Qiao Yi and Mi Lai used the Zerg limbs torn from the monster to draw another bloodline attraction magic array, but unfortunately, there was no harvest. It seemed the mastermind had become wary, and the bloodline attraction magic array could no longer sense him.
“There are two possibilities. Either he forced out the dragon bloodline belonging to Feng-xiansheng from within himself, or he soaked himself in the blood of other creatures to disrupt the magic array’s detection,” Qiao Yi said, dispersing the array and taking the magic stone handed over by his son, explaining as he replenished his power.
Chu Rong recalled something. “That monster likes to stay at places filled with blood. Every teleportation field I saw has traces of blood there.”
“Most likely the latter option then,” Qiao Yi replied, looking at the Imperial High Advisor and reassuring him, “There shouldn’t be much of your blood inside the mastermind now. Without the experimental subjects, he can no longer affect you. Later, I’ll engrave a magic stone pendant with protective and interference arrays for you. Remember to carry it with you, just in case.”
“Thank you,” the Imperial High Advisor said, with relaxation and gratitude evident in his expression and eyes.
He had been tracked for years. Now, hearing that it would finally be over, he felt relieved. Even his breath felt much brighter, no longer as oppressive as before.
Qiao Zhiya looked at the Imperial High Advisor like this, his ears shook in happiness.
After this attempt, Qiao Yi and Mi Lai once again planned to deal with those experimental subjects and teleportation devices.
A few days later, in the mecha battle hall cleared in advance and equipped with the highest level of protection, Qiao Zhiya replaced Mi Lai and stood in the arena. After reviewing the drawing method of the magic array in his mind, he buried himself in drawing the protective magic array.
Affected by the dragon bloodline, Qiao Zhiya, although at the level of a mage like Mi Lai, had a slightly stronger magical power intensity and content. The only thing lacking was understanding and application of advanced magic arrays.
Fortunately, he was smart and learned quickly, and with Qiao Yi’s guidance, after several days of intensive study, he had mastered the drawing of advanced protective magic arrays proficiently.
Both father and son had wood-elemental magic. In theory, their cooperation would be more effective than that of Qiao Yi and Mi Lai. Considering the importance of this counterattack, Qiao Zhiya found a way to convince his mother and took her place.
Mi Lai stood on the side, watching Qiao Zhiya focused on drawing the array in the arena, and Qiao Yi waiting beside him. She felt a little low in spirit.
Before, when Qiao Zhiya had no magic, she worried. Now that Qiao Zhiya had become stronger than her, she was still worried. Advanced magic arrays carried risks of backlash, and she didn’t want her son to take risks. But reality didn’t allow her to be capricious. So she increasingly regretted her previous lack of effort in practicing.
“Come on, Baby! You’re the best!”
She cheered up and cheered for her son, silently vowing to practice diligently in the future and become a strong mother who could protect her son!
Qiao Zhiya heard her voice, looked up at her, and remembered his mother’s timely encouragement whenever he failed to forge due to lack of magic when he was young. His heart warmed, unable to help but smile, his ears perking up.
Mi Lai was immediately comforted by her son’s smile, quickly putting her loss aside and starting to draw protective arrays along the edge of the arena, providing as much protection as possible for her husband and son.
Seeing this scene, Qiao Yi smiled, his eyes filled with indulgence.
The protective magic arrays of wood and earth elements gradually covered the entire arena. Chu Rong transformed into a logistics specialist, holding a spatial button filled with emerald jade and ink jade outside the field, ready to replenish the jade reserves on the field at any time.
After the protective magic arrays were completed, Qiao Zhiya stood in the inner circle, Mi Lai in the outer circle, both looking towards Qiao Yi.
Qiao Yi smiled, nodded gently, and then both mother and son began to infuse magic into the magic array.
The protective magic array began to glow and slowly rotate. Qiao Yi raised his staff, condensed magic in the air, and began to draw a reverse tracking magic array. After completing it with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen experimental subjects appeared. With another tap of his wand, black-red blood mists suddenly rose from the experimental subjects’ bodies. Then, a new magic array appeared, flames of magic burned, and the experimental subjects disappeared, leaving behind charred ashes. However, the blood mists did not dissipate but floated towards the tracking magic array.
Upon contact with the blood mists, the array instantly lit up and began to rotate.
Qiao Yi didn’t stop, throwing out all the black hole teleportation devices and teleportation slates obtained from Chu Rong, laying them out according to the pre-arranged patterns. Wood-element magic surged, and the tracking magic array suddenly expanded until it covered all the teleportation devices and slates, accelerating its rotation.
Before long, the red patterns on all the teleportation devices and slates seemed to be drawn out and gradually boiled out, spreading across the ground like blood.
A red liquid-like substance flowed over. Qiao Zhiya and Mi Lai quickly moved positions and increased their magical input, firmly controlling the blood within the area of the protective array.
After losing the patterns, the teleportation devices and slates suddenly shattered inch by inch, turning into gray-white stones. At the same time, the array covered in blood mist suddenly shone with green light, spreading outward. Soon, a dull groan came, and the magic array began to twist, emitting strange forces.
It’s a success!
Qiao Yi again drew an array in the void and threw several top-grade fire-elemental magic stones.
Qiao Zhiya gathered wood-element magic, directed it towards the array Qiao Yi had newly drawn, and forcefully integrated it. When the magic array began to shine with golden light, they exchanged a glance—one ignited their own magic, the other activated the array.
“Boom!”
Golden-red magical flames ignited on the field, burning the blood on the ground with a simmering sound. The blood gradually vaporized into blood mists, drifting towards the initial tracking magic array, where the magical flames made them eerily sway.
