Super Mechanic: God of Superpowers!

Chapter 165 Racial Evolution (Part 1)

Just then, Arosia, who was usually taciturn, suddenly spoke, her voice unusually hesitant, and she said a few more words than usual:

"Recently, I've noticed a kind of obstacle limiting the growth of superpowers, which should be the B-level bottleneck you mentioned."

"But strangely, this barrier isn't as difficult to break through as you described; it seems I could break through it at any time if I wanted to."

She paused for a moment, her fingertips unconsciously rubbing her cuffs. "Also, I've been having frequent dreams lately. The blurry images always have a certain familiarity, but when I wake up, only fragmented pieces remain."

"Do you think this could be related to my lost memories?"

Ye Xiu's eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately understood what the other party was talking about.

Indeed, Arosia has remained at the C+ level for quite some time.

Given her astonishing speed of ability evolution, breaking through to Rank B was to be expected.

More importantly, she has the requirement for the first stage of the A-level chain quest "Restart".

The reward is quite tempting, as it is precisely because we need to help her improve her strength to reach the B-level standard.

520 million experience points plus a chance for random rewards.

Although he already had the mission settlement card, Ye Xiu certainly wouldn't complain about having too many random rewards.

Considering the potential energy fluctuations that Arosia's advancement might cause, he decided to leave his spaceship on an uninhabited planet.

As for his upcoming second racial evolution, Ye Xiu plans to do so after returning to the Vais Nexus.

……

Arosia's feet were firmly planted on the ground, and as her eyelids closed slightly, her body gradually levitated.

Brilliant rays of light burst forth from her body, creating an energy tide within a radius of hundreds of meters, with the energy level increasing exponentially.

The howling wind, carrying sand and gravel, raged and the air waves spread out in layers, like ripples on a lake.

Ye Xiu and the others, who were standing and watching beside the spaceship, had their clothes fluttering in the strong wind, and fine sand particles were slapping their cheeks.

"That's quite a commotion," Caroline said, raising her hand to shield her eyes from the blinding light.

"Her awakening started at the peak of C-rank, and she possesses immeasurable energy dormant within her. Advancing to B-rank is merely a natural progression," Ye Xiu explained, gazing at the energy core.

Caroline's lips twitched slightly: "Am I the only one who feels that breaking through a boundary is like crossing an insurmountable chasm?"

Jason Wood placed his broad hand on her shoulder: "Learn to be content."

The overflowing light energy filled the entire area like liquid metal, transforming the space into a kingdom of light.

Aroshia's energy radiation intensity and coverage have already surpassed previous peaks.

With a high-frequency energy vibration, the tide of light suddenly stopped expanding and collapsed towards the center at several times the speed.

Countless light particles converge to form a spiraling hurricane, creating a vortex at its core that devours everything.

When the brightness reaches a critical point, the entire space turns an eerie dark color.

All the energy was compressed to a singularity and then exploded with a roar. A faceless light figure condensed from the sky full of light debris, with golden arcs of electricity leaping around its body.

Guided by the laws of supernatural abilities, the energy gradually materialized, reshaping Arosia's physical form.

The data displayed by the testing instrument has exceeded the Class B threshold.

[Task [Restart] - Part 1 Completed!]

[Congratulations on gaining 520 million experience points!]

[Resta's favorability +5!]

"Resta is coming, it seems the Kingdom of Xie is not far behind." Ye Xiu thought to himself.

He temporarily put away the system panel and walked towards the woman who was meditating with her eyes closed: "How are you feeling?"

"Energy reserves have increased significantly." Arocia's fingertips danced with light particles.

"What about other aspects?"

"The fragments of memory are becoming clearer." She gently rubbed her temples. "Those images are calling to me; perhaps I can find my lost past."

Ye Xiu noticed the subtle pain between her brows and ran his fingertips across her temple.

Just then, a new system notification suddenly popped up:

[The second questline has begun: Based on Aroshia's description, travel to some locations in his memories and help him retrieve fragments of those memories.]

[Current progress: 0/? ? ?]

[Mission Reward: 1030 million experience points, Riesda's favorability +5!]

[Mission failure condition: Arocia dies!]

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Ye Xiu glanced at it briefly before looking away.

After all, he was quite familiar with this mission.

Looking at Arosia in front of him, Ye Xiu suddenly felt that maintaining the status quo was not necessarily a bad thing.

If those long-buried memories were awakened, they might completely change her current personality traits, causing the tacit understanding between them to vanish.

This thought caused Ye Xiu to hesitate briefly—perhaps maintaining the status quo was the more prudent decision?

However, he was well aware that even if he deliberately avoided it, those fragments of memory would surface on their own as time went by.

There's no guarantee that they won't disappear without a word at that time.

Thinking about this, Ye Xiu realized that he ultimately needed to move forward with this special mission.

At the same time, from any perspective, this rapidly growing partner is gratifying.

As the second core member of the mercenary group to be promoted to B-rank, she is playing an important role in various fields.

Including Ye Xiu himself, the team now has three B-level combatants, which will not only significantly improve the mercenary group's rating, but also add a reliable backbone force.

With Arosia's advancement complete, the spaceship restarted its journey, heading towards the Vais Nexus.

On the spaceship, Ye Xiu regained his composure and began selecting which rewards to claim:

[Random selection is in progress...]

[Draw complete!]

[Congratulations! The reward you received this time is of the type: [Item]!]

"Huh? Is my luck really that good? Wouldn't Han Xiao next door be furious if he saw this?" Ye Xiu stroked his chin, feeling somewhat incredulous.

Please choose one of the following three items:

[Victory Condom: Duration +999.999%;]

[Ability Awakening Fluid (Standard Version): Has a 0.099% chance of awakening a superpower;]

[Skill Enhancement Card: Has a 70% chance to enhance a skill, doubling its effect, and a 20% chance to evolve the skill into a more powerful similar skill;]

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Ye Xiu's eyes lit up as he glanced at the scene.

Without the slightest hesitation, he directly chose the third option below the first one.

……

at the same time.

In a region of space at a supercluster level distance from the broken star ring, a Shadow-class stealth ship hovers in deep space in absolute silence.

Its streamlined hull presents a perfect mirror-like obsidian texture, as if the entire Milky Way has been condensed into a two-dimensional image and imprinted on the surface.

Viewed from the vertical axis, it presents a spindle-shaped outline, while from a horizontal perspective, it reveals a complex geometry with prismatic protrusions.

This ship belongs to the Glorious Federation's Shadow-class reconnaissance ship series and is codenamed "Blacklight Lurker".

Its technology is ahead of its time, thanks to the curvature occlusion field, multidimensional sensor array, and pulse transition engine.

This is enough to plunge the vast majority of interstellar civilizations into a cognitive dilemma.

In illegal interstellar equipment trading networks, even damaged parts of such advanced creations can fetch eight-figure innar prices.

It can be called the performance benchmark in the field of deep space reconnaissance.

If we draw an analogy using the concept of an old-era civilization, the value of this ship is roughly equivalent to a limited-edition antimatter-powered concept car launched by a certain Italian supercar brand.

Just a fraction of a millisecond ago, a set of quantum resonant waves with unique Fourier characteristics penetrated the dimensional barrier and precisely activated the teardrop-shaped crystal device on the top of the cockpit.

The communication terminal, which was blocked by multiple encryption protocols, suddenly emitted a pulsating glow.

The previously empty captain's seat suddenly exhibited a photon condensation phenomenon, materializing into a semi-transparent humanoid silhouette.

The energy body extends a simulated hand, formed by a Klein field, to lightly touch the device:

"Finally, the characteristics of the dissipated energy have been detected. The original coordinates have shifted to the broken ring region."

With the buzzing sound of the quantum communication channel activating, the command has been transmitted via the neural synaptic interface:

"Instantaneous jump protocol initiated. Target star system reset complete."

The entire starship completes curvature bubble encapsulation within picoseconds, leaving only fleeting boson trails in the observer's field of vision.

This maneuvering mode, which breaks the conventional physical rules, renders any traditional tracking method an ineffective observational activity.

……

Time passed, and the spaceship soon returned to the Vais Hub.

As soon as the spaceship landed, Ye Xiu couldn't wait to return to his room.

The latest novel is first published here!

However, before the second racial evolution, I'll use the skill enhancement card I just obtained, lest I forget it later.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Xiu quickly decided on the skill he wanted to enhance, which was [Willpower Burning].

In Ye Xiu's view, this enhanced instantaneous output capability is still very helpful to him.

If the skill cooldown time can be shortened, this enhancement will definitely be worth the price.

Ye Xiu's eyes flickered slightly. This special skill has two modes: active activation and passive triggering.

The former requires a ten-minute charging cycle, while the latter has a cooling limit of up to half an hour.

Despite the considerable damage increase, the excessively long skill cooldown means it can only be activated once or twice per battle.

If the cooldown time can be reduced, combat efficiency will increase exponentially.

It's important to know that Ye Xiu's lightning attacks have an absurdly high frequency.

This special skill he acquired from Bennett remains Ye Xiu's core skill to this day.

The extent of the profits the main characters make is evident.

Ye Xiu immediately used the skill enhancement card upon a thought:

[Skill enhancement card effect activated, target: [Burning Will] (lv10), enhancement has begun...]

[Congratulations on successfully triggering your skill mutation!]

[Congratulations on acquiring the new skill [Gene Liberation Lv1]!]

"Wow, the 20% success rate actually triggered!" Ye Xiu couldn't hide his excitement.

In the panel, the original [Will Burning] has been replaced by the advanced version [Gene Liberation].

A wealth of new energy utilization techniques are flooding into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Upon inspecting the updated skill panel, Ye Xiu was pleased to find that not only was the cooldown mechanism optimized, but the original fluctuation defect was also corrected.

The old version of the skill had four random amplification ranges, with a theoretical maximum damage of up to five times.

However, the actual probability of triggering higher-level bonuses is extremely low.

Since mastering the skill, he has only successfully activated the top-level effect four times.

The new version adjusts the peak output to 4.8 times.

However, reducing the random range to three levels significantly improves damage stability.

The most crucial innovation lies in the duration mechanism, where the amplification effect is no longer limited to a single attack.

Instead, it transforms into a gain state that lasts for 1.5 seconds.

For Ye Xiu, who excels at high-frequency firepower coverage, this is a qualitative leap in performance.

What's even more exciting is that this is only the effect at the basic level.

Ye Xiu didn't hesitate to invest a massive amount of experience points to directly upgrade his skill to the maximum level.

The duration has been extended to 2 seconds, the cooldown has been reduced to 420 seconds, the three amplification tiers have been increased to the range of 220%-480%, and the health cost has been optimized to 800 points.

For him, who possesses nearly 30,000 life reserves and the [Dawn of Life] ability, this level of cost is almost negligible.

"Wait a minute, I could just find a skill that consumes health points but deals massive damage!"

Ye Xiu's eyes lit up, feeling as if he had instantly unlocked a new pose.

With the skill enhancement complete, the next step is naturally the second racial evolution.

As for the advanced professional knowledge of the supernatural ability system, Ye Xiu had already prepared it beforehand.

Because of the choice to bypass the conventional faction contribution system, this privately circulated cutting-edge knowledge comes at a huge cost.

The two professional knowledge courses directly consumed more than 800,000 inars, and the account balance plummeted to 500,000.

But in Ye Xiu's view, the effort was entirely worthwhile.

Money can be earned again, but the improvement of one's strength is permanent.

The two advanced knowledge areas are the [Third-Order Gene Chain - Advanced Ability Enhancement], a branch of energy level.

And [Third-order gene chain - supernatural parasitism].

The former will greatly enhance the power and endurance of superpowers.

The latter will imbue the superpower with something akin to "life," and the effect is self-evident.

Because only a portion of the knowledge was being sold, Ye Xiu had to sift through it to find the more practical content.

The high-level knowledge system of supernatural abilities consumes potential points in a terrifying way: each piece of knowledge requires 3 points to learn initially, and each level up requires another 3 points.

Upgrading all fifteen advanced knowledge items to level five requires 225 points. If you include the complete mastery of basic and advanced knowledge, the total cost will exceed 450 points.

Considering the existence of higher-level knowledge in the future, Ye Xiu strictly planned the use of potential points from the initial stage.

"Hoo!" Ye Xiu took a deep breath and took out his mission settlement card to begin completing his advancement mission.

You have successfully used the [Task Settlement Card]

[Advanced Quest - Trial of the Strong - Completed!]

[Congratulations on successfully completing the Level 100 advancement quest! Stamina bonus has been increased: 1 Stamina = 50 Health = 60 Vitality!]

"very good."

With the dust settled, even though he was mentally prepared, Ye Xiu couldn't help but feel a sense of relief.

Unlike the level 60 breakthrough of the first racial sublimation, this advancement will trigger a second genetic reconstruction.

The Void Gene feat granted by the Void Dragon Marrow obtained earlier is now manifesting as spiderweb-like gray textures on the skin's surface.

As the evolution options interface unfolded, the capillaries in Ye Xiu's pupils suddenly ruptured, and the rhomboid crystal core between his eyebrows burst forth with chaotic radiance.

This indicates that a particular evolutionary path is being activated.

At this moment, a dense barrage of evolution notifications popped up in front of him:

[You have successfully taken another step forward on the path of evolution. Congratulations on obtaining the myth of a life level. Your current race has been detected as [Type I Cosmic Human Race]... Randomly selecting six suitable evolutionary directions...]

[Draw complete!]

[Please choose one of the following six options as your planned race—WARNING! Evolution is irreversible, please choose carefully!!!]

[【II型宇宙人族】-93%契合度、【III型宇宙人族】-91%契合度、【东胜神族】-72%契合度、【虚空基因者（人形态）】-89%契合度、【中级基因生命】-29%契合度、【半雷龙人】-56%契合度]

"Aside from the regular Type II and Type III, the rest seem pretty good, but compared to it..." Ye Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly, having already made his decision.

[Selection complete, racial evolution has begun...]

[Evolution complete!]

[Your race has changed to: [Void Geneticist (Human Form)], your molecular structure is complete, your organ structure is enhanced, your metabolism has been altered... Your potential has been increased!]

[恭喜你获得基础属性的补充：力量+27、敏捷+46、耐力+14、神秘+25、智力+20、气力+585，气力等级加成效果已变更！]

[Your racial trait, Adaptive Group, has been changed!]

Congratulations on acquiring the racial trait [Void Travel]!

Congratulations on acquiring the racial trait [Void Mirror]!

Congratulations on acquiring the racial trait [Genetic Light]!

(End of this chapter)