novelraw Chapter 42 : League Preparation
Chapter 42 : League Preparation
A week later, Chen Sui successfully analyzed an SSS-level energy crystal, completing the analyst energy analysis course.
She began learning the analyst summoned body editing practical course.
Late at night, Chen Sui, covered in mist, left the mountain forest. After returning to her dormitory and washing up, she sat at her desk and opened her light brain.
Summoned Body Editing had extremely high requirements for analysts, requiring them to clear chaotic energy from the energy crystal after analyzing values and find the most suitable energy convergence form for the values.
It required abundant energy body information to ensure maximum utilization of energy values.
Seeing she hadn't entered the sleep pod, the intelligent steward gently reminded: "Student Chen Sui, it's been two hours past your rest time, please go to sleep soon."
"Your StarNet package, number 147-255880, has been signed for on your behalf today."
Chen Sui had just retrieved the silver-white package. She opened the intact delivery wrapped in silver foil.
After entering the order code, the package opened.
She unwrapped the delivered nutrition solution and immediately opened one to pour into her mouth.
The steward tried to remind her again: "The current time is 00:12, please rest soon, your body is in..."
Chen Sui tilted her head back, swallowing the nutrition solution. She had grown considerably thinner during this period, the facial flesh she had painstakingly gained disappeared again, revealing a sharp jawline.
She glanced sideways at the intelligent steward, her eyes somewhat indifferent.
Before the steward finished speaking, Chen Sui turned off the power. "Sorry, steward, you're a bit noisy."
She said quietly, setting the system to restart at seven the next morning, then sat back at her desk.
The images projected by the light brain were a compilation of energy body materials found on the StarNet.
Star interstellar energy bodies were the creatures most compatible with energy structures, achieving balance in all aspects of energy.
Through energy body forms, Chen Sui could better allocate the various value data, thereby achieving a complete structure for the summoning body, ensuring tighter integration with the core crystal and preventing energy dissipation.
However, the biggest problem she faced with summoned body editing was: every form Chen Sui imagined tended toward alien species shapes, appearances that transcended normal creatures, bizarre and grotesque, even making people's hearts grow cold involuntarily.
With such shapes, energy couldn't fully support them. Once a part collapsed, like a balloon with a huge hole, energy would instantly dissipate, and the summoning body and energy crystal would be ruined in an instant.
Despite her efforts to remember the forms of energy body parts, trying to find good structural connections for their values, horrifying alien faces kept appearing in her mind, disrupting her thoughts.
The intertwined creatures from two worlds made it difficult for Chen Sui to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Looking at the energy body images before her, the AI voiceover's explanation in a calm tone gradually induced drowsiness.
Chen Sui propped her hand on the desk, her eyelids gradually drooping, but suddenly opened her eyes when a new energy body appeared.
It was a marine creature with a round, bulging head, various round protrusions, two eyeballs attached to the front and back of the head, and a mouth with multiple tongues and sharp black teeth. Below the head extended a snake-like body, with scales flapping to reveal purplish pus-filled skin beneath the black scales.
Her face showed a hint of delight.
If energy bodies could look like this, what was the difference from alien species?
After all, they weren't human. Alien species might be ugly, but as long as they achieved energy balance, they could potentially become summoning body structures.
Chen Sui thought.
There was no need to strictly differentiate between alien species and energy bodies.
Nor was there a need to forcibly find excuses from energy body forms suitable for values; alien species could work too.
In her mind, she recalled the values of the energy crystal she analyzed today, quickly mentally sketched the structure of the alien species, the body of the energy body, and balanced the values.
Perfect.
Chen Sui thought inwardly.
With this attempt in mind, she continued looking ahead.
The AI narration's voice grew increasingly calm, and finally at some point, Chen Sui's eyelids slowly closed, her head falling toward the desk, lightly hitting the surface as she fell into deep sleep.
Early the next morning, Chen Sui suddenly awoke from her dream.
Her stiff neck sent a tearing pain as it turned abruptly.
Chen Sui twisted her neck. Due to her incorrect sleeping posture, her entire body ached. She quickly stood up to move her limbs, and after relieving the discomfort, she hurriedly gathered her things and headed to the back mountain.
The problem that had troubled her for days was solved last night, and she had a bold idea in her mind.
If the form of a summoning body was to adapt to values and achieve maximum utilization.
For analysts, it meant modifying suitable values from the chaotic energy fluctuations in the energy crystal.
Then, based on the energy body's form and value adaptation standards, achieving energy balance through various preparatory form combinations, finally merging and editing to create the summoning body's true form.
She didn't understand all the energy bodies in the interstellar, didn't know what structural combinations best adapted to value balance.
So why not reverse the process?
First determine the summoning body's form, then confirm the values.
Let energy fluctuations adapt to the form.
After all, clearing and supplementing values within the energy crystal was simpler for Chen Sui compared to finding matching combinations for values from thousands of energy body structures.
She hurriedly greeted the newly activated steward, then quickly completed her washing up, grabbed a few nutrition solutions, and prepared to leave.
The just-started intelligent steward, detecting her movement trajectory, emitted mechanical sounds with some high-decibel fluctuations.
"Alert, Student Chen Sui's sleep time last night did not meet the 'Star Alliance Youth Growth Code' regulations. Please maintain adequate sleep! Eat meals on time! Do not over-rely on nutrition solutions!"
"Alright, little steward, your detection is wrong, I slept very well last night," Chen Sui said as she left, casually touching the steward's light screen at the door.
The steward's screen immediately displayed a shy, blushing data emoticon, then quickly changed to a wide-eyed, tight-lipped image, seemingly expressing anger.
But Chen Sui didn't look back, rushing out the door, leaving the steward to angrily spew a pile of gibberish.
She was eager to put her ideas into practice.
She first found structures closest to the values of the energy crystal she was about to edit from various energy body and alien species impressions, then began designing.
On the light brain's drawing interface.
Chen Sui raised her hand, her fingertips moving rapidly across the interface. With her movements, an image of a giant creature appeared vividly.
It was a deep purple giant spider-woman.
On top was an eerily beautiful human face, but below it abruptly transitioned into a spider's lower body, with spider legs branching into multiple spikes at the halfway point.
She was wrapped in a layer of white slime, standing three meters tall.
Since the energy crystal had lightning attributes, each spike could emit lightning bolts, conducted through spider silk to form a vast electrical net.
Chen Sui quickly prepared the values needed for each part, fully maximizing them, achieving maximum utilization for each part on the basis of balance.
Then she began her modification process.
At this time, at Zhu Jing Fu's main gate.
The school team members who had finished their training match, along with the borrowed analyst Tong Wei, met with Cheng Wei and He Lanxi who were welcoming them at the school gate.
"How is Student Chen Sui's progress?"
On the way to the school team building, as they discussed the Star League Competition and Star Ring selection matters, Cheng Wei asked.
There were three days left before the Star Ring selection. Having entered the Star League Competition main competition in the previous session, the school team members didn't need to obtain competition spots through the Star Ring selection.
But Cheng Wei, He Lanxi, and others forming a subteam needed to participate in the Star Ring selection. Only after passing could they participate in the Star League Competition elimination match selection.
Gu Qinxue only knew Chen Sui's progress before the training match.
After hearing this, Tong Wei was full of surprise: "To complete energy crystal analysis so quickly, I'd boldly guess she might complete summoned body editing by June. This way, after the elimination matches, there would still be time to design the school team's summoning body."
The Star League Competition consisted of two elimination matches and five regular matches.
There was a ten-day preparation period before each match.
If Chen Sui could complete the summoned body editing steps before the league began, she could use the time difference between the elimination matches and regular matches to complete the school team's energy body editing.
In the low-level elimination matches, strong teams generally wouldn't reveal summoning bodies, so there was no rush for now.
But if Zhu Jing Fu hoped to enter the official league, the form transformation between summoning bodies and spiritual bodies would become a key to victory.
The school team members nodded thoughtfully. Passing by the back mountain group, Xie Chunshi seemed to sense something and glanced in that direction.
Seeing this, He Lanxi explained: "Oh, the mid-term exams are about to start, the training rooms are full. Now everyone's taking the convenient option and practicing on the back mountain. Using too many energy simulation devices causes subtle energy fluctuations."
The back mountain had many energy field simulation devices, equivalent to several outdoor versions of training rooms.
Hearing this, Xie Chunshi's brow relaxed slightly, and he withdrew his gaze without further inspection.
The group chatted as they passed through the back mountain area, walking among the thorny rose bushes separated by Zhu Jing Fu's buildings.
Just when everyone was completely off guard.
A sudden loud noise came from the back mountain.
"BOOM------"
The massive rumble, accompanied by ground tremors, caused even the academy's ground to shake.
In classrooms, teachers' lectures were silenced by the tremendous noise, and everyone looked toward the back mountain in shock.
Below the school team building, as He Lanxi's voice was drowned out, everyone simultaneously looked toward the back mountain.
At the same time, Yan Mingyu, who had been waiting in her office for the school team meeting, suddenly pushed open the door.
The entire Seven Academy was startled by the explosion, all eyes turning to the same spot.
Meanwhile, on the back mountain.
A flash of lightning struck out.
The rubble of Mountain No. 2 was split into pieces, a huge hole blasted in the mountainside, and rocks rolled down the ridge with a clatter.
Under everyone's gaze, a huge shadow suddenly flickered for a second, and white spider webs carrying flashing lightning floated out in one direction.
The thunder cloud emitted a roar.
Just as people instinctively covered their ears, the giant figure revealed itself in the lightning.
The human-faced, spider-bodied monster looked toward the humans.
Its eerie face made people's hearts tremble with fear.
"Holy shit, what is that thing?"
"Ugh," some students, unable to bear the spider-woman's bizarre appearance, felt disgusted just from a glance.
"It's so ugly, well not ugly, just... ugh, so gross... my hair is standing on end!"
"Is it an energy body?"
"What's going on?!"
Commotion arose in classrooms everywhere.
Just as everyone was bewildered, an energy storm's aftershock swept across the back mountain, passing through Seven Academy, cracking the ground in many places.
Seven Academy's detection signal emitted an alarm.
"Has an energy field appeared?!"
"Alert! Alert!"
Some students were already on guard, fully focused and ready to enter combat mode.
The sudden energy intrusion made nerves tense.
But immediately afterward, the energy concentration rapidly decreased.
The alarm abruptly stopped, and Seven Academy teachers and students vigilantly watched the back mountain direction.
In midair, the white spider webs and lightning dissipated like smoke.
Mountain No. 2 then emitted a "rumbling" sound of collapsing rocks.
"Seriously, what's going on?"
In classrooms, students couldn't sit still and craned their necks to look, curiosity being human nature.
Classes were dismissed at this point, and excited students rushed out in droves, eagerly heading toward the back mountain.
The school team and Cheng Wei's group had already rushed over first.
When the school team arrived, they met Yan Mingyu leading a group of teachers. She greeted Xie Chunshi: "Go up first to check, Chen Sui and the Analyst Department students are still up there."
Then Yan Mingyu set up an alert net at the back mountain entrance, blocking all curious students.
"Stop looking, everyone go back to class."
Some curious students asked: "Teacher, teacher, what happened? Did an energy field land here?"
Yan Mingyu rubbed her brow. "No, hurry back, it's just noise from analyst training."
Hearing this, students became even more excited.
"Wow, is the Analyst Department this cool, making such a big scene?"
"What exactly are they practicing? Even the Summoning Department's spiritual bodies fighting in the simulation field don't make this much noise!"
"Help, my mountain peak exploded, can't book a training room, and now the mountain peak is gone too, the heavens want to destroy me!"
"I'm really curious, who can get first-hand gossip? I'll pay for it, okay!"
"I'm so anxious, so anxious!"
"Anxious about what?" Yan Mingyu glanced at the crowd. "Are you leaving or not? If not, go work for the Biology Department."
As she said this, a Biology Department teacher walked out with a smile, eyes gleaming, looking excitedly at the group of students.
The students immediately scattered, even the Biology Department's own students didn't want to stay.
Joking aside, those fertilizing and pig-feeding hard labor jobs in the Biology Department, better pass on those.
After the crowd dispersed, Yan Mingyu led the rescue team up the mountain.
Mountain No. 2, a certain simulation field area.
The regular training area had been blown apart, the ground blasted into a huge pit, buried under debris that piled up into a small mountain.
"This is..."
An Analyst Department teacher recognized it: "This is Student Chen Sui's training room!"
Chen Sui often used this training room, and Analyst Department teachers on rotation would come directly here.
Yan Mingyu gasped, worried about Chen Sui. "This child, what did she do to cause this?"
The school team helped the Seven Academy rescue team clear the rocks. Zhou Chen waved away the dust in front of him, coughing violently several times: "Damn, Chen Sui is this fierce?"
Gu Qinxue didn't even want to give him a cold look. She was so worried about Chen Sui that she forgot her usually neat image, crouching down to help move the rocks.
The settling dust made people cough involuntarily. Zhou Chen's black hair was covered in a thin layer of gray, faintly showing a bit of granny gray. He wiped his hand through it, then immediately helped move rocks.
Puluo's large build showed great advantage at this moment. He lifted the largest rock on top by himself, throwing it aside to create a small pit in the ground.
The Analyst Department teachers called a few times, then circled around the pit, and saw the remains of the exploded energy simulation device on the ground.
Yan Mingyu, who arrived shortly after, also saw it and couldn't help but close her eyes, feeling dizzy.
"What did she do?" Yan Mingyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Just as everyone was searching for Chen Sui's whereabouts.
At the bottom of the pit, countless vines rapidly extended, penetrating the top layer of debris, piercing through all obstacles from the bottom.
"Holy shit!!"
Zhou Chen was swept by the suddenly emerging vines, falling backward from the rock pile.
Gu Qinxue's long leg crossed to stabilize his form, then forcefully kicked him sideways toward Puluo.
Puluo grabbed him with one hand, like picking up a chick, and placed him on the ground.
"Suisui!"
Gu Qinxue called Chen Sui's name, looking at the vines.
"It's a spiritual body! Suisui must be below," Tong Wei sighed in relief.
Xie Chunshi suddenly spoke, his cold tone making people instinctively obey: "Everyone down."
Gu Qinxue's movements paused, she bit her lip, put down the rock, and jumped down from above.
Just after they retreated, the vines suddenly extended countless branches outward.
The branches formed a massive net, tightly embracing all the rocks above, then throwing them outward.
At the bottom of the pit, Chen Sui was wrapped in layers of vine netting. As the rocks were removed, the vines on her body were also withdrawn by the small flower.
Wood-Born Flower's remaining phantom image nuzzled against her dust-covered face, calling her softly: "Master..."
When it heard the commotion and emerged, the surroundings had already been blasted into a large pit. It could only urgently protect Chen Sui at the bottom, with no time for anything else.
Chen Sui's hair was splayed in all directions, her face had some black marks, and exposed areas like her wrists and neck all showed cuts from the energy storm.
She lay at the bottom of the pit, her limbs pressed by huge rocks, suddenly taking a deep breath while lying on her back, but inhaled a large amount of dust, causing her to cough. An iron rust taste surged into her throat, with fresh blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.
She reached out to pat Wood-Born Flower: "It's okay, go back."
The remaining energy from the energy simulation device was only enough for Wood-Born Flower to maintain form briefly. Chen Sui's hand hadn't even touched Wood-Born Flower before the wooden stump's phantom dissipated in the air.
"Suisui!"
The school team members called out in unison.
Gu Qinxue had already jumped down from above to rescue her.
She picked up Chen Sui and handed her to Xie Chunshi when he arrived.
The Team Leader calmly looked at the person in his arms: "First to the medical institute, prepare the medical pod."
Gu Qinxue watched her coughing and spitting blood, her face still worried. "How did you end up like this?"
Chen Sui felt her body leave the ground, her chest pressed by something heavy, cool liquid flowing from her face to her hair. This pain was almost routine for her. Hearing Gu Qinxue's voice, she opened her mouth to explain, although her voice was a bit weak, but her face wore a smile: "Editing the summoning body, then the energy crystal exploded..."
The explosion had happened suddenly, leaving even Chen Sui bewildered.
There hadn't been any problem, had there? Didn't the summoning body appear?
It had even walked around fine and could shock her with electricity, so why did it explode?
But what comforted Chen Sui was that she had successfully edited a summoning body.
She had completed the most difficult first step for an analyst.
Thinking of this, she contentedly rested her head in the Team Leader's strong arms, ready to go receive treatment in the medical pod.
Fresh blood flowed from her jawline, down Xie Chunshi's sleeve, and toward his palm.
Feeling the trail of cool blood, Xie Chunshi glanced at the defenseless Chen Sui who had closed her eyes, his gaze showing subtle concern.
The cool liquid and the smell of blood.
The strange feeling made Xie Chunshi frown involuntarily. Chen Sui, full of questions, coughed lightly a few times, then lay completely still, obediently waiting to be sent to the medical pod.