This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 415 - 221 Gabriel’s Decisiveness Seriously Slowed Development Speed_2

Chapter 415: Chapter 221 Gabriel’s Decisiveness Seriously Slowed Development Speed_2

"Gone." Li Ming shook his head, "Your Excellency the Star King, thank you for taking action."

"Mutual aid." Monroe nodded and melted into the crowd.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Ulrich was sweating profusely, "Where is the person?"

He pointed at an empty space, it was right there that he watched the Azure Dragon vanished into nothingness, disappearing without a trace.

"I don’t know." Theo appeared much calmer.

"Don’t know?" Ulrich gritted his teeth: "He ran, he ran away!"

"We should’ve anticipated this, him wandering around here was him looking for an opportunity to escape."

Theo glanced at him, "I’ve already been tricked by him twice. If he wanted to run, he would’ve done so long ago."

"Maybe we were just a bit slow during the pursuit, and someone switched places with him."

"You’ve been fooled by him twice?" Ulrich was astounded, "How did you keep an eye on him?"

"Who knows what ability this is, it’s too bizarre; the Phantom has a physical body, a scent, the same behavioral habits as him, and even a state of information. You’ve just experienced it yourself, how could you tell?" Theo frowned, unbothered:

"His spoils, Tiago has been transported back already, they’re worth a lot; he wouldn’t just abandon them."

"Besides, do you still think it’s time to consider him a prisoner, when he’s trying his best to escape?"

At a loss for words from the retort, Ulrich heard Theo say, looking up: "Here, he’s coming."

He was slightly stunned and turned around abruptly, only to see Azure Dragon strolling leisurely from another direction.

"You..." Ulrich started to speak but couldn’t finish his sentence.

"Let’s go back." Li Ming called out, and Ulrich hesitated before following, looking at Theo’s indifferent expression, feeling a sense of absurdity.

"Your Excellency, shouldn’t you also explain to us why this attack happened?" Ulrich had been questioning this all along, his complexion looked quite grim:

"This attack caused me heavy losses, so many spacecraft were destroyed, those Raiders won’t just let this go."

"They won’t let it go?" Li Ming stopped in his tracks, puzzled, and looked back: "Are you afraid of them?"

Ulrich faltered, angrily said: "This time it was just an A-level life form, what if ten A-level life forms suddenly appear next time?"

"You definitely should give an explanation." Theo added, clearly, this guy was scheming in the shadows.

Li Ming glanced at Theo, frowning and said: "I have a student named Li Ming, you should all know him; he has a friend who is a high-ranking official of the Yitelan Civilization."

"Not long ago, he suddenly contacted him and he realized it wasn’t the person himself but someone using him instead, so I set a trap for them, and that’s how this ambush happened."

"Just like that?" Ulrich hesitated, with heavy doubt: "Asimara believed it that easily? And also fell into your trap."

"How did you come to believe me at that time?" Li Ming countered.

Ulrich grew silent.

Li Ming? Theo’s eyes shifted, "So that’s how it is, Your Excellency’s student seems to be involved with many parties’ attention, not a simple character either; is he also in the Land of Stars, when can we meet him?"

"Meet him?" Li Ming smiled, "There will be an opportunity."

Li Ming turned, his voice coming through: "Don’t worry, there won’t be another attacker in the short term."

Back in the castle, Cassis came to report, the person had been placed in the jail, located on the third level underground.

"Damn it, this guy just wouldn’t shut up the whole way." Sandro complained, then clenched his fists with anticipation: "When do we start the interrogation? I can help."

"No hurry, I’ll check his detailed information first, to find out his weaknesses." Li Ming smiled menacingly, making his way back to his room.

Sandro watched Li Ming disappear, whispered: "This Tiago kept shouting all the way that Azure Dragon betrayed us, what do you guys think?"

Theo remained silent and left on his own, while Ulrich sneered, "Even Brown would laugh at your pondering."

Sandro flew into a rage, "Stop with this vague nonsense, if you’re so smart, then you tell me, why is it not possible?"

"Do you really think your mere two ounces of flesh are worth Asimara’s attention?" Ulrich shook his head, unwilling to elaborate.

In the room, Li Ming sat cross-legged on the bed as usual, opening his intelligence terminal, accessing the Black Hole Network, and purchasing information about Tiago.

As an A-grade life form of an intermediate civilization, much of his information was confidential, thus the price was also higher.

Li Ming spent all of his remaining balance just to get a rather detailed set of data.

"Hmm... the development progress is only 21%..." His eyes flickered as he scanned through the information line by line.

He also logged onto the Star Network, created a new account, and sent a set of information to both accounts.

He even took a moment to scan the Star Network. Located in the Land of Stars, the positioning was marked as unknown, connected to the Silver Star Cluster network.

The news encompassed everything, facing several dozen civilizations, big and small, within the Silver Star Cluster.

Those that made it to the trending topic were all significant incidents.

"Massive navigation incident occurs on Vephis transit route, resulting in unexpected accidents involving over five thousand interstellar citizens, suspected to be due to signal interference from the United Fleet..."

"The United Fleet has annihilated several powers designated as terrorist organizations, but there are reports that the casualties among the innocents have exceeded one hundred thousand..."

"A-grade life form fight suspected to have occurred in the Land of Stars..."

"Eh?" Li Ming blinked in surprise, actually seeing news related to himself.

He clicked into it with interest to take a look; it was an extremely vague combat video, and the combatants were not even clearly visible,

Not because the intelligence terminal used for filming was too outdated, but because of the interference field radiating from Star King Monroe, disrupting all visual recordings.

"Damn, that’s intense, an A-grade life form battle, haven’t seen that before..."

"The Land of Stars, all a bunch of atrocious fellows, why doesn’t the United Fleet go annihilate them?"

The discussion was quite animated, with all kinds of comments. A-grade life forms in certain civilizations are revered, almost at the level of "deities".

"One of them is Mechanical Azure Dragon, whose student belongs to our civilization..."

Li Ming skimmed over a comment, with the IP address from the "Blue Star" civilization, seeming to know a lot, and there were even replies to him, asking for more details.

After browsing for a while, Li Ming lost interest, as much of the news was entertaining, like interstellar celebrities and such; there was too much junk information.

He didn’t know what message he was waiting for, so he simply put the intelligence terminal aside and began developing the Genetic Seed.

Elemental power surged, and in just a moment, he opened his eyes as Red Arc flashed by, and he clicked his tongue, "This development speed, really not used to it."

Too slow, too slow...

Compared to the rapid progress he made at the C-grade life form stage, the current development speed had significantly slowed down.

It’s even more severe slowdown than when he first became a C-grade life form, let alone making 1% progress in a day, it might be difficult to advance 1% in ten days.

"If it slows further after 30%, it will probably be even slower." Li Ming shook his head, at this rate, it would take at least three years to develop to 100%.

For other life forms, this was already fast; Duke Bai Ye, Atom, and others, who hadn’t spent over a decade, or even decades, at the B-grade life form stage?

But for him, it was still not fast enough.

"No wonder it has been thirty-two years since Tiago became an A-grade life form, and the development progress is only 20%, the slowing of developmental speed is more severe than I imagined."

Li Ming murmured softly, but he had an easier time than others when it came to increasing developmental speed.

He opened the Control page and glanced at it, six Evolution Theories in a row, all B-grade, although they could still be enhanced, they were no longer enough.

"I have two complete Evolution Theories, Flame Thunder Emperor and Judgement Holy Blade; previously during the Control, I only split the B-grade parts, now I just need to fill them in."

Due to the Trait of [Genetic Warrior], he didn’t need to consider the attributes of the Evolution Theory but could directly enjoy the power enhancement.

However, the control effect couldn’t be produced, so he didn’t plan to upgrade them as the cost-performance ratio was too low.