Chapter 579 - 370: Titans in Chaos
Heaven-Reaching Tower stands alongside Crown Plaza, and from slightly higher floors, one can overlook the plaza’s entire scene.
For countless years in the past, regardless of day or night, the Heaven-Reaching Tower was always so quiet because silence is the greatest expression of authority.
However, at this moment, unrest and chaos are spreading across its floors.
Today is March 20th, the joint anniversary celebration of Hegemony Company, Iron Blood Alliance, and Black Domain Group. The personnel movement between the three towers of the Heaven-Reaching Tower is more frequent as everyone prepares for the grand event.
Especially the executives who received intel in advance, they sing, they dance, while drinking red wine in the gaming room, observing the execution of Fenrir, reminiscing about the past of the giant corporations and looking forward to many years to come.
Yet all illusions were shattered under the Wolf King’s claws.
From the high floors, the Crown Plaza appeared as a sea of blood, with shattered remains of both humans and Mechanical Ferocious Beasts scattered, stretching to the farthest reaches of sight.
The elite forces of the giant alliance composed of tens of thousands of extraordinary elites are beaten back repeatedly. Although they’ve dispersed to avoid being wiped out in large swathes by Fenrir, as before, each encounter leaves more corpses on the ground, and the battle line steadily pushes towards the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
In the Hesu Company Tower’s office on the 199th floor, Zhao Yiming stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, incredulously witnessing the carnage in the plaza.
The highest representatives of the other two giant corporations in New Moon City, Alexander and Tsukimori Ryuuichi, also appeared in the office via holographic projection.
Tsukimori Ryuuichi’s eyes widened, his face pale as ash: "This is impossible! Just a mere hooligan, without professional guidance or cultivation resources, how could the blood code reach Divine Protection Level? This is impossible!"
Alexander also reprimanded harshly: "Zhao Yiming, what is your intelligence department good for? Didn’t they say that her blood code, upon evaluation, was only a high-tier exceeding limit, at most Blazing Blood Low Tier? How has it become Divine Protection Level?!"
Zhao Yiming clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging into his flesh unknowingly, his gaze wandering indecisively: "My intelligence department cannot be wrong; we recorded and examined all her battle records over a year, including last year’s Rust Wall collapse, this year’s wolf attack and Scythe of Death dispute, as well as her combat performance during the recent beast crisis in the Northern Border District."
"The intelligence experts concluded it was high-tier exceeding limit, at most Blazing Blood Low Tier, I verified personally and even asked experts from headquarters for assistance. Absolutely no mistake."
Alexander questioned: "Then what is going on now?!"
Zhao Yiming: "The intelligence wasn’t wrong, but Fenrir suddenly became so strong, leaving only one possibility."
His eyes filled with unwilling emotion, he said through gritted teeth: "She leveled up after the beast crisis... The blood battle in the Northern Border District directly forged her blood code into Divine Protection Level."
Upon hearing this, it seemed as if a chilling aura of death filled the surroundings.
If Zhao Yiming’s words were true, Fenrir was originally at the threshold of exceeding limit and Blazing Blood, then, after the beast crisis, directly ascended consecutively to Divine Protection Level... What concept is this?
Blood code is unlike prostheses; prostheses leveling up is relatively simple in some aspect.
Prostheses leveling up only requires the host to have sufficient potential, fitting the upgrade component, then lying on the mechanical table for surgery; close your eyes, open them again, and the leveling up is complete.
Whereas blood code leveling up can only be achieved through rigorous honing, either practicing to sweat or battling to bleed, there is no other pathway.
As for shortcuts, there are some; namely, consuming Blood Circulation Factor during training or combat to accelerate the cultivation process.
Those high-level blood code carriers rely on personal talent, and money, consuming all sorts of top-tier Blood Circulation Factors as meals, are nurtured by sheer financial force.
According to internal data from Hegemony Company, cultivating a "Ascended Level" blood code carrier costs around 500 to 1000 million.
Cultivating a "Critical Level" blood code carrier costs billions.
Cultivating an "Exceeding Limit Level" blood code carrier costs tens to even hundreds of billion.
Moreover, the cost of creating a "Blood Burning Level" blood code carrier approaches the trillion mark, the expense enough to construct several aircraft carriers, which cannot be borne without the capital scale of a giant corporation.
So don’t be fooled by the association of blood code with "cultivation" as being a pathway for the poor to counterattack; in fact, its implicit expenses are no less than prostheses.
Do you think there’s extraordinary power in this world, and the downtrodden can change their destiny, even overturn the upper echelons?
Quite the contrary, the greater the rampant extraordinary power, the more the force of capital is exponentially magnified.
Because if you don’t have capital support, you don’t even have the qualification to become stronger.
But what is the current situation?
Those select elites picked from thousands by Hegemony Company need thousands of billions in auxiliary training funds to ascend to Divine Protection Level and take decades with a small chance of success.
Whereas a hooligan leader from the border, who never collaborated with giant corporations, without money and resources, eating factory-synthesized foods that even dogs refuse, managed to forge the blood code inside to Divine Protection Level through a single blood battle...
This is beyond miraculous, even when seen firsthand, Zhao Yiming and others are still unwilling to believe subconsciously because it exposes a bloody fact—