Shared Talent: Traveling through a hundred worlds simultaneously

The City of Glory, the City Lord's Council Hall.

Beneath the golden dome, which once symbolized aristocratic authority and order, an unprecedented tension and restlessness now permeates the air.

The air seemed to freeze, so heavy it could crush the spine of a low-level martial artist.

On either side of the long table, the leaders of those powerful families who used to be high above and determined the fate of the city now had ashen faces and their eyes were fixed on the young man in the center of the hall with suspicion and uncertainty.

Su Chen stood there, his posture as straight as a pine tree. He was no longer wearing rough linen training clothes, but a well-tailored dark blue outfit with subtle spiritual energy patterns flowing through it.

His aura was as deep as the sea, and he had already firmly stood at the half-step legend level. The threshold of legend was as thin as a cicada's wing for him.

If you use your own equipment, your combat power can be increased by several levels.

What's even more unsettling is the slender figure standing behind him—Shen Xiu.

This once arrogant and aloof noblewoman, who looked down on commoners, has now shed her gorgeous dresses and donned a sharp silver-gray uniform that accentuates her still stunning figure.

She stood half a step behind Su Chen with her head bowed, holding an optical panel that flashed with data and blueprints, looking every bit like a capable assistant.

Only occasionally, when she glanced at those familiar faces across the way, faces filled with anger and disdain, would a complex, enigmatic, yet exceptionally resolute light flash in her eyes.

"Su Chen! You madman! How dare you openly murder the stewards of the Chen and Li families! What do you think of the laws of my City of Glory?!" An old man with a long beard and hair slammed his fist on the table and stood up. He was a representative of the conservative nobles, and his angry rebuke echoed in the hall.

Su Chen didn't even look at him. His gaze calmly swept across the entire room, finally landing on Ye Mo, who sat upright in the main seat, eyes closed in meditation, yet exuding an invisible pressure.

This ordinary person legend nodded slightly, silently expressing his support.

“The law?” Su Chen finally spoke, his voice not loud, but strangely overwhelming all the noise. “When the law becomes a shackle that protects the privileges of the minority and stifles the hopes of the majority, it should be broken.”

He took a step forward, and invisible ripples seemed to spread from his feet, making several family heads with slightly weaker cultivation feel breathless.

“I stand here today not to plead, nor to debate,” Su Chen’s voice suddenly turned cold, taking on a metallic quality. “I am here to proclaim. To proclaim the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one.”

"Absurd!" another family head shouted angrily. "With your strange skills and tricks? With the fact that you bewitched Lord Ye Mo and... and this self-degrading woman?"

He pointed at Shen Xiu with disgust.

Shen Xiu's body trembled slightly, but she straightened her back and met his gaze, a slightly mocking smile even curving her lips.

Su Chen was not angry; he simply raised his hand slightly. Suddenly, the wall on one side of the hall rippled like water, revealing a huge holographic projection.

The scene depicts a landscape in the wasteland outside the city: a mecha resembling the "Flame Dragon" that Su Chen once piloted, but much smaller in size and seemingly mass-producible, is confronting a "Splittering Dragon Rhinoceros" that exudes terrifying demonic power and whose strength is comparable to that of a legendary early-stage creature.

The next second, the mech's shoulder armor flipped open, revealing a honeycomb-like launcher.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only countless tiny yet extremely condensed beams of dark blue light shot out, as if they had a life of their own, precisely piercing the weak points of the dragon rhinoceros's demonic power defense, joint connections, eyeballs and other vital organs.

The enormous dragon rhinoceros didn't even have time to let out a complete roar before it collapsed to the ground amidst violent convulsions and a burst of light from within, its demonic core precisely extracted by a beam of guiding light.

The image freezes on a close-up of the dragon rhinoceros's unseeing head and the cold, menacing figure of the mecha.

The main hall was deathly silent.

All the heads of the families, including the most radical opponents, had their pupils shrink and cold sweat seep down their backs.

They could tell that the earth-splitting rhinoceros was no illusion, and its demonic power fluctuations were unmistakable.

And what defeated it... seemed to be some kind of "weapon" that could be mass-produced?
"This is the 'Hunter-III' individual psionic mech, which can be initially piloted by a bronze-level warrior after three months of training. With the help of the intelligent combat system, it can surround and kill silver-level monsters, and when assembled into a small team, it can threaten gold-level monsters."

Su Chen's voice rang out calmly, yet it struck everyone's heart like a heavy hammer: "Similar equipment includes the 'Swarm' autonomous attack drones, the 'Barrier' city defense matrix, the 'Dawn' civilian spiritual energy conversion furnace... These are not ingenious tricks, but science, a leap in productivity brought about by the systematization and instrumentation of knowledge!"

He paused, his gaze sharp as lightning, piercing the pale-faced family heads: "And you, you monopolize resources, monopolize knowledge, cling to the corrupt hierarchy, and besides infighting and enjoying privileges, what have you contributed to this city, to all of humanity? If a large-scale attack by demonic beasts were to occur, what could you think of besides running away in the face of the demonic beast horde?"

"You...you're threatening us! Using your evil and heretical teachings!" someone shouted, blustering but weak.

Su Chen suddenly laughed, a cold and cruel laugh. "A threat? No."

With a flick of his wrist, a palm-sized, dazzlingly intricate silver cube appeared in his hand.

A dangerous luster flowed across the surface of the cube.

"I'm just stating a fact." Su Chen's voice suddenly lowered, but it carried a chill that could freeze one's soul. "This thing in my hand, I call it 'Nirvana'. Its power is enough to completely wipe the entire City of Glory off the map, including everyone here, including the monsters outside the city, and of course, myself."

He gently stroked the cube, his gaze sweeping over the faces contorted with extreme fear.

“You can understand this as a kind of ‘guarantee’. It guarantees that my will to reform will not be hindered by foolish shortsightedness and stubborn self-interest.”

He stepped forward, approaching the old man who had first slammed his fist on the table, ignoring the man's terrified retreat.

"Change requires bloodshed? Yes." Su Chen's voice seemed to come from the depths of hell, "But I will only shed the necessary blood. The stewards of the Chen and Li families are merely sacrificial offerings."

Their deaths brought more opportunities for ordinary people to obtain cultivation resources, enabled the production of more new types of defensive weapons, and increased the overall survival probability of the city.

I think this is a great deal.

He suddenly turned around, facing everyone, and opened his arms as if embracing an unseen future, or as if demonstrating an unparalleled power.

"Now, the choice is before you." His voice echoed in every corner of the hall. "Either accept the rules of the new era, put down your unnecessary pride and privileges, and integrate into this change. You may lose some of the old things, but you will gain a stronger and more hopeful future."

“Either,” his eyes suddenly sharpened like knives, “leave this city now. I won’t stop you.”

But stepping out of this door means automatically relinquishing all rights and protection within the City of Glory. As for the monsters outside the city, or... what if there's some kind of 'unexpected' long-range precision strike...?

He then killed the other person without hesitation.

Then I showed them another video.

The power of firing thousands of bullets simultaneously, altering the terrain of a certain area.

He didn't finish his sentence, but the terrifying imagery evoked by that unspoken meaning made several timid family heads almost collapse in their seats.

The hall fell silent once more, broken only by heavy breathing. Fear, anger, humiliation, scheming... a complex mix of emotions clung to their faces.

They were afraid of death, extremely afraid of death. They were used to enjoying privileges and were even more reluctant to die.

Escape? Outside the city lie endless monsters and unknown dangers, not to mention... the shadow of "Nirvana" haunts like a nightmare.

Staying means bowing down to these commoners they once despised and accepting the collapse of their social class.

Shen Xiu watched this scene with mixed feelings.

She had been one of these people and could best understand their struggles and despair at this moment.

She looked at Su Chen's tall and proud back, a back that seemed to bear the weight of an entire era, yet remained so steadfast.

A mixture of awe, dependence, and even a touch of twisted admiration began to grow within her. She knew she had chosen the future, even if it meant betraying everything from her past.

Come to think of it, perhaps she should be grateful to him, right? A hint of shame crept onto her face as she thought about their private interactions.

There was also jealousy towards Ye Ziyun and the other woman.

She knew that her status could never compare to the other two.

Ultimately, under Ye Mo's slowly opening gaze, which carried an invisible pressure, and under the silent threat of the death symbol called "Nirvana" in Su Chen's hand, no one took the step to leave.

A silent surrender spread.

Su Chen put the cube away, as if he were just putting away an insignificant trinket.

His face regained its composure, even adopting a slightly formulaic smile.

"Very good. So, starting tomorrow, the 'Radiant City Resource Coordination and Contribution Point Act,' the 'Outline for the Promotion of Basic Cultivation for All,' and the 'Five-Year Plan for the Development of Psychic Technology'... will be officially promulgated and implemented. I hope everyone will cooperate actively."

He stopped looking at the dejected nobles, nodded slightly to Ye Mo, then turned around and, with Shen Xiu in tow, calmly walked out of the council hall under the watchful eyes of countless complex gazes.

Only Ye Mo and Shen Xiu could prevent them from resorting to desperate measures under threat, and could persuade them to hand over their resources to him, allowing him to concentrate those resources in his hands and break through to the legendary realm as quickly as possible, thus giving him a sufficient sense of security.

He only needs to use the knowledge and technology in his mind to gradually elevate himself from an ordinary existence to a higher level. At worst, he can use mechs and external items to enhance his combat power.

Sunlight streamed onto the newly paved, smoother, and wider streets of the City of Glory.

In the distance, the vibrant chatter of young students could be heard from the newly built "General Psionic Academy".

In the workshop area, the humming of new psionic machines could be heard incessantly.

On the city wall, new defensive turrets, gleaming with runes and electrical circuitry, are being installed and tested.

Shen Xiu quickly caught up with Su Chen and whispered the upcoming schedule.

As Su Chen listened, his gaze drifted to the vast and dangerous world beyond the city walls.

He knew that internal resistance was far from being completely eliminated, and those nobles would lie in wait in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.

The external threat of monstrous beasts is like the Sword of Damocles, ready to fall at any moment.

However, the seeds of science have been sown, the channels for advancement have been opened, and the gears of productivity have begun to rumble and turn.

Once the tide of the times begins, it is difficult to stop.

“Nie Li…” Su Chen murmured the name of the original chosen one, a complex smile curving his lips.

He had little contact with the other person anymore, but he would occasionally notice the unusually complex emotions, as well as the envy, jealousy, shock, and confusion.

Regardless of what that guy thought, Ye Ziyun kept pestering him every day. For example, she immediately came over and glared at Shen Xiu next to him.

"What an unexpected era it is."

Su Chen felt the surging power within his body, which was getting closer and closer to the legendary realm, and the endless technological blueprints in his mind, waiting to be transformed into real power.

"what are you talking about?"

Ye Ziyun tilted her head and said with a smile, "You're already so amazing, everyone says you'll become someone who surpasses legends."

She cautioned, "But you still need to be careful, as someone might do something detrimental to you."

"I will. But that's what makes it fun, isn't it?"

He strode forward, his figure blending into the light and shadow of the city undergoing tremendous changes.

Behind them lay the embers of the old era and the sobs of resentment.

Ahead lies the dawn of a new century, a time of intertwined iron and fire, light and electricity.

The path belonging to the Mechanic, to science, and to all those who refuse to be controlled by fate, is firmly extending beneath his feet toward an unknown and magnificent future.

Ye Ziyun strode after her, looking every bit the fangirl, while Xiao Ning'er stood on the other side.

Now, his strength has increased rapidly. Although it is due to the power of technology, combat power is still combat power.

The knowledge and ideas it has brought have had a tremendous impact on the world and have allowed it to go very far.

Regardless of whether the protagonist relies on his past life's experience to rise to power more quickly, he cannot stop the inevitable trend of the times he has brought about.

So who cares about the main characters? These two girls are happy to accept them!

Furthermore, his methods are not limited to those powerful weapons. Although he has promoted his technology and made it accessible to aristocratic families, technology is based on industrialization. This development in all aspects, from military to civilian industries, has given him many opportunities to exploit.

He will secretly transform Glory City into a war fortress, enabling it to stand up at crucial moments and become his weapon to help him fight on all sides.

In the hall.

"You're so heavily influenced by your past life's memories and ideas that you actually wanted to create such a technological marvel!" (End of Chapter)