章節 2: Chapter 2: Torch Warship
"Attention everyone, successful Awakeners proceed to the Torch Building with your class teachers, those who haven't awakened please leave the campus within an hour."
A deep voice came from the teachers' office building to the side, causing all the students to turn and look. An astonishing figure rocketed from the rooftop, clearly visible dark energy burst around him, and in the next second, a ring of black flames popped out from under his feet, followed by his figure vanishing into the sky above the office building.
When he appeared again, he was standing above all the students.
Zhu Yaokui, the principal of Jiangyuan First Torch Academy, was said to control a high-level Torch Warship. His life hierarchy had also escalated to the Third Rank, and having served as the principal for one hundred and fifty years, his authority was substantial.
Feeling the faint but present pressure from above, Song Chi felt as if he was carrying a heavy burden. Although the Guidance Technique he mastered was already at lv4 and it wasn't anything significant for him, he was well aware that this was the result of Principal Zhu Yaokui intentionally restraining his aura.
Had he released the full essence of his Third Rank life entity, all the students present would likely collapse on the ground, possibly even with their bones shattering.
Song Chi breathed somewhat heavily, not showing any discomfort on his face—in fact, his eyes shimmered with excitement.
Walking on air as if treading the wind, a superhuman from all the fantasies of Blue Star people appeared right before him. Even having seen it multiple times, his heart could not remain calm.
...
With the principal personally supervising, the efficiency of the students and teachers was extraordinary, and nearly two hundred people quickly made their way to the Torch Building.
Out of the corner of his eye, Song Chi noticed that among the successful Awakeners of class 5, there were only sixteen students, and among them, only two with the white Seed of Torch—Sun Hao and another named Wang Yuan. The other fourteen had the Colorless Seed of Torch.
On the second floor of the Torch Building, in room number 5, the Spectral Cultivation Room, under the guidance of their teacher "Yang Minghui," the sixteen students from class 5 one by one lay down in separate Spectral Transformation Chambers.
Once everyone was ready, Teacher Yang Minghui pressed the start button. The chambers slowly closed until they were completely sealed,
and almost immediately, a dark spectral energy quickly filled the space inside the chamber.
Seeing this, Song Chi wasn't nervous. He had already learned about this. It was a necessary Spectral Transformation for those who had awakened the Seed of Torch.
After the awakening of the Seed of Torch, it would grant its Awakener, and the corresponding assigned Torch Warship control over the Spectral Energy.
As one of the many forms of energy in the Shattered Starry Sea, the uniqueness of Spectral Energy was its inclusivity—it could convert the vast majority of known energies into homogenous Spectral Energy.
Through this mechanism, Torch Humanity could effectively utilize various resources from the Starry Sea to rapidly strengthen themselves, which was the fundamental reason for the vigorous and expanding domain of Torch Human Civilization.
At the initial stage of awakening, although the Awakener had successfully controlled Spectral Energy, their bodies could not adapt to this new type of energy in a short time, which caused various rejection reactions.
Only through long-term baptism with Spectral Energy to completely transform their bodies into Spectral Energy Bodies could this issue be perfectly resolved, and the Spectral Transformation Chambers were products designed to speed up this process.
With his eyes tightly shut and palms open, the Guidance Technique he thoroughly knew circulated within his body.
After an unknown period, Song Chi felt a swelling at his brow—an indication that Spectral Transformation was about to complete.
Because only when the body was completely transformed into a Spectral Energy Body could the "Ancestral Torch" be fostered at the brow—it was the dwelling place of the body's Seed of Torch and also for the future storage of the Torch Warship.
Minutes later, all sixteen students of class 5 completed the Spectral Transformation, successfully developing their Ancestral Torch.
"Alright, follow me, there's one last step: integrating with the Warship."
"Only when the Seed of Torch successfully integrates with an ordinary Warship, transforming it into a Torch Warship, can one be deemed a truly qualified inheritor of the Torch."
...
Behind the Torch Building was a massive conventional Warship base where all the students from Jiangyuan City's advanced Torch academies who had successfully awakened the Seed of Torch needed to integrate with their initial Torch Warships.
Scout Class Starry Sea Shuttle Hangar, where nearly two hundred people gathered, orderly engaged in Torch fusion. There was no selection involved, as each Seed of Torch could only fuse with one type of warship, the Scout Class Starry Sea Shuttle.
Torch-Spectral Shuttle, which was also the standard model for all initial Torch Warships.
"Song Chi!"
As the call rang out, Song Chi immediately took strides.
In front of a standard Scout Class Shuttle, Song Chi awkwardly manipulated the spectral energy circulating within him, guiding it to converge at his forehead. Soon, a beam of ghost light shot from his forehead, directly entering the body of the shuttle ahead.
The next second, a strong pulling force emanated from the Ancestral Torch in his forehead, under which the shuttle before him gradually shrank until it was the size of a fingernail, then burrowed into Song Chi's Ancestral Torch.
At the same time, Song Chi quickly closed his eyes to perceive the situation inside the Ancestral Torch.
In the center of Chaos Space, a strand of black flame hovered, while above it, the Scout Class Shuttle was undergoing continuous searing by the black flame.
Minutes later, a flash of brilliance swept before Song Chi's eyes, and an attribute panel appeared beside the miniature shuttle.
[Name: None (please name as soon as possible)]
[Model: Torch-Spectral Shuttle]
[Level: lv0]
[Basic Components: Colorless Torch Warship lv0, Spectral Main Cannon lv0, Spectral Secondary Cannon lv0, Warship Armor lv0, Spectral Engine lv0, Spectral Shield lv0, Sky Patrol Radar lv0, Spectral Cultivation Room lv0 (8/8)]
[Additional Components: None (0/2)]
[Spectral Energy Pool: 100/1000]
[Materials: None]
His gaze swept over this attribute panel, Song Chi skipped the first three lines, focusing on the Basic Components section.
As the name implies, basic components are structures that all newly fused Spectral Shuttles possess, equivalent to standard equipment.
Firstly, there was no need to elaborate on the Colorless Torch Warship; it was linked to the Seed of Torch within the Ancestral Aperture and would upgrade as the Seed of Torch ascended.
To upgrade the Seed of Torch from level 0 to level 1, it required 5 strands of Floating Land Origin and 200 Spectral Energy Points.
Just as Song Chi prepared to continue browsing, the urging voice of his old classmate Yang Minghui timely arose. Reluctantly, he had to exit the Ancestral Torch and give his spot to the next fusing student.
Quickly, all the Awakener students completed their fusion without any incidents of the low-probability failure, which relieved all the academy teachers.
There was a possibility of failed Torch fusion, although it was very slim and almost negligible.
However, once the fusion failed, the Seed of Torch would need to buffer for a month before another fusion attempt could be made.
The problem was specifically because of this constraint since after awakening the Seed of Torch, only the initial three days were a special protection period during which the risks of exploring the Alien Star Domain were significantly reduced.
It was like a special benefit for newcomers, basically safeguarding them from any lethal danger as long as they didn't act recklessly, allowing them to accumulate experience in exploring the Alien Star Domain for free and gain additional resources. For newly awakened rookie captains, this was an opportunity not to be missed.
But once the fusion failed, the long month of buffering couldn't be changed, forcing one to helplessly waste this beneficial opportunity, which was a cause for regret.
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