Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Rewinding to the time of the great evacuation from the underground base, Blue City, leading the Eleventh Legion to its ultimate level, had gone berserk. The shared range of the legion had expanded to allow the sharing of abilities even at a distance of 500 meters. Furthermore, the power of each individual in the legion could be switched between different people at a microsecond frequency, thus enabling them to deal with dozens of top-level enemies simultaneously.

Lan Cheng's command skills have even been shared, something he's been planning to achieve all along. Keeping command skills solely on one's own isn't entirely safe. While keeping them offers greater flexibility, allowing for random switching between leading different legions and thus applying the skills to various units, it seems that the command skill with the highest compatibility with the Eleventh Legion isn't necessarily his. However, the legion with the highest compatibility with his command skill is undoubtedly the Eleventh Legion.

Only this legion can provide him with an inexhaustible supply of energy to unleash his command skills. With other legions, he would have to rely on his own spiritual power and the true essence within his body to drive his command skills, and he would only be able to unleash them on a large scale a few times.

And at this moment, he finally succeeded in unleashing his command skill. Utilizing the unique characteristics of the Eleventh Legion, he integrated the command skill into the legion.

After sharing the command skill, he never retracted it. As a result, everyone in the Eleventh Legion can now use the time-reversal ability when needed. Although one person's use prevents another from using it, this situation means that even if the commander dies in battle, this killer move will remain within the legion. In a sense, it becomes the legion's third war weapon. As long as the legion isn't completely wiped out or its structure utterly destroyed, this move can continue to be passed down. Even if the army has changed generations, and hundreds of years later there are no longer any original legion members, this command skill can still be passed on within the legion like a war weapon.

After completing the transfer of the Commander skill, Lan Cheng no longer had any scruples when fighting. Previously, as a commander, he had never dared to go too deep into the enemy's territory, because if he were to die, this strategic killing move would be completely lost. But now he was like a real warrior, personally heading towards the tentacles that the eldest son had extended.

The evacuation of the underground base is still underway, and the foundation for the safe evacuation of people from all walks of life and all regions is that they can block the large tentacles of the eldest son. Although they are nominally small, each one is tens of meters thick. Most of the small monsters in the Ultraman world are only dwarfs in front of these tentacles.

With this thing crushing them, it was fortunate that he could temporarily borrow the power of the entire legion; otherwise, there would have been absolutely no way to stop it. The wall behind Blue City guarded a boarding school in an underground base, where tens of thousands of children studied. At this moment, they were being led by their teachers to evacuate quickly, but it would take at least another ten minutes for them to be completely evacuated.

The underground base was too vast, and he was the only one in the area with enough combat power to confront the eldest son's tentacles head-on. Others needed to be responsible for more war zones.

In the underground environment filled with mud, conventional weapons of war were ineffective. All Blue City could do was rely on the legion's strength to unleash deadly attacks. He equipped himself with a weapon that allowed him to move freely through the mud, and then used the sonar he carried to scout the location of the eldest son's tentacles.

Sonar is often unnecessary because the eldest son's movements are so loud that anyone who isn't deaf can usually pinpoint his location.

The enormous tentacles, carrying the force of a mountain crashing down, slammed down on the outer shell of the underground base. Although the outer shell was the thickest part during construction, and not only thick, but also a composite material similar to reinforced concrete with ridiculously high hardness and toughness, even such a structure could not stop the eldest son's tentacles.

For a fleeting moment, Lan Cheng entered a state of blankness, while the specially crafted beam saber in his hand gleamed. This was a special weapon hastily produced by the Armed Forces to deal with the eldest son. It could extend the blade by simultaneously infusing extraordinary power, spiritual power, and the legion's profound energy. Because it was a beam saber, the extension itself did not damage the blade's strength or reduce its destructive power. The resistance during swing would not increase significantly. However, the cost was an enormous amount of energy required to extend the blade; even a typical individual powerhouse at the fourth rank could only extend the blade by seven or eight meters. Only with the help of the legion's power could the blade be stably extended to forty or fifty meters.

Since the beam saber's weakness lies in its energy consumption, it often implies that it possesses exceptional power, and this is indeed the case. Previous combat tests have shown that the beam saber's blade is strong enough to slice through the eldest son's skin and can even sever small tentacles.

The light blade in Lan Cheng's hand was only two inches long. It looked no different from an ordinary dagger, cutting through the surrounding soil and bursting into sizzling sparks. To the uninitiated, it looked like a firework.

With his own strength, the light blade can only maintain this length without exhausting himself in a short period of time.

He used most of his strength to propel himself forward, swimming towards his target.

His movements in the mud were like swimming, except in a medium that was slightly more viscous than water.

In this situation, as long as the thrusters on the body are activated, the forward speed is very fast.

But not everyone has the courage to charge head-on into those enormous tentacles, some tens of meters thick.

The oppressive feeling of this thing is far more terrifying than a speeding truck. Even a fully loaded truck would only weigh a hundred tons at most. But these tentacles, even the very tips at the very front, weigh well over a hundred tons.

Lan Cheng, however, seemed accustomed to this life-or-death struggle. His sonar system locked onto the target's location. His light blade was poised to strike, propelled by his propulsion system, he closed in on the edge of the tentacle. In an instant, he borrowed the legion's power—a moment, but enough. His beam saber instantly expanded to 70 meters in length, far exceeding the tentacle's diameter. The light blade struck, blood splattering into the soil; the tentacle was severed in two. But he dared not relax his guard. The extremely complex underground environment, combined with the pressure of the earth, would press the severed tentacle back together. With the eldest son's insane self-healing ability, he could heal the cut wound in a flash.

The previous cutting was merely to create a burn wound that wouldn't heal instantly. The surface of the wound was charred, though only a few centimeters thick. But given the eldest son's insane self-healing speed, even this layer would take over ten seconds to fully repair. During that time, destroying the severed tentacle was more than enough; deprived of its power supply from its main body, the tentacle's performance dropped to less than one-tenth of its previous level.

Lan Cheng reached the fracture site with lightning speed. He pressed down on the severed half with one hand. Then, he once again shared the Legion's power. This time, he used the Legion's ammunition; high-explosive shells were released from his palm in the form of an energy blast. It was as if he had fired a beam of light tens of meters wide from his palm. Wherever the beam passed, the tentacles, deprived of support from their main body, were instantly blasted into dust. Without the support of the eldest son's own extraordinary power, these tentacles were merely flesh and blood; how could they withstand such a high-yield, directional explosion?
The entire attack took less than 0.1 seconds of the legion's strength. Even with such a fast pace, the coordination among the soldiers of the Eleventh Legion was still quite strained.

There are too many formidable enemies, even if each person only uses 1/100th of a second. The entire legion consists of 30,000 people. Each person, on average, can only borrow the legion's power once every 5 minutes. And during those remaining 5 minutes, they themselves are in a weakened state. Their main bodies can only use the small amount of power left by the legion, at most ensuring their own mobility. Their combat capabilities are almost entirely borrowed.

Anyone who dares to charge forward under a hail of bullets at this moment is undoubtedly a top-tier warrior. Blue City, of course, lacks courage. But sometimes, under the deliberate calculations of the enemy, such courage can be his downfall.

The eldest son was even smarter than they had imagined. Even though he had spent most of his energy dealing with the immortals, he still had enough mental capacity to analyze the battle situation.

The Eleventh Legion is already ridiculously strong, capable of unleashing power surpassing the peak of the fifth rank and approaching the level of immortals from dozens of points almost simultaneously. Their output power is simply unbelievable. If they truly possessed so many top-tier experts, the Eleventh Legion wouldn't be in such a passive position.

Based on his observations, the eldest son easily discovered that the different members of the Eleventh Legion used their abilities at different times, and it was rare for two Eleventh Legion warriors to unleash their full power at the same moment. Even when multiple warriors occasionally unleashed their power simultaneously, the average level of their power was lower.

From this, it's easy for the eldest son to deduce that these people's strength is likely unique, relying on some mechanism to be used in rotation. In other words, if pressure is applied to multiple points simultaneously, there's a chance to eliminate these strange, wandering soldiers. Under normal circumstances, the entire legion could be used to escape the predicament. However, if other comrades happen to be in trouble at the same time, then there's probably no chance.

At the same time, hundreds of locations were under fierce attack. These locations were precisely where the soldiers in the underground base had to hold their ground. A breach in the defenses could result in hundreds or even thousands of casualties. The Eleventh Legion, as the legion defending the largest area, was the first to be attacked. With the legions borrowing resources from each other, it eventually became insufficient. Some were unable to borrow strength in the critical moment, and were immediately plunged into dire straits. Blue City was one of the tentacles' primary targets.

Because his performance was 3 points stronger than the other players.

Although the entire legion, in its ultimate state of advancement, can achieve a certain degree of sharing even things like gene locks, it is ultimately impossible to lend all gene locks to one person.

One's inherent foundation determines their upper limit. If someone's genetic lock is completely locked, even if they share everyone else's unlocking, they can only barely reach the threshold of the second tier. However, if someone has already unlocked their genetic lock, or even unlocked the second-tier genetic lock, then it's possible to unleash third-tier strength or even approach the fourth tier. Lan Cheng has lost count of how many times he's faced life-or-death situations. His unlocking of his genetic lock has already reached the threshold of the second tier. However, he can only occasionally break through his limits in extremely critical moments. This level doesn't make him the strongest in the Eleventh Legion. The battlefield is the place where one is most likely to face life-or-death dangers. Among the frontline soldiers, some have experienced more life-or-death situations than him, yet he still ranks in the top ten and became one of the first to be targeted by the eldest son.

In an instant, dozens of tentacles lunged at him. Meanwhile, within his shared field of vision, his other comrades faced an unsolvable crisis at the same time, their computational power concentrated on one person. As all thought processes were momentarily cleared, the sage responsible for thinking instantly devised the optimal solution.

By abandoning three people, concentrating our strength, and sharing the legion's power equally when necessary, we can stop the vast majority of offensives and weather this wave with minimal sacrifice.

Previously, as the legion commander, he possessed leadership skills, and in this situation where sacrifice was necessary, Lan Cheng should never have been the one to step up. But this time, it was finally his turn. His location required only a single self-destruction to clear most of the surrounding tentacles, without needing the legion's assistance. He only needed to detonate his own explosives simultaneously. This brief delay would be enough for reinforcements to arrive. However, this also meant losing the legion's support; in the self-destruction, Lan Cheng had absolutely no chance of survival.

After unlocking his second-tier genetic lock, his powerful survival instinct made him subconsciously refuse to carry out the mission. However, what distinguishes humans from beasts, as intelligent beings, is that willpower can overcome instinct, especially when life and death hang in the balance. He abandoned his attempt to forcibly extract the legion's power and resolutely pressed the self-destruct button.

The next instant, light enveloped his vision, and when he opened his eyes again, he was surprised to find himself in a completely unfamiliar world.

[To be continued]

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