Hellish training! The Dragon Army undergoes a complete transformation, their combat power skyrockets!

Qin Pojun was as good as his word.

From the next day, the entire Longxiang Army entered an unprecedented, frenzied state of training.

The massive martial arts field in the eastern district of the Demon Suppressing Pass was divided into hundreds of simulated training zones.

In each zone, a squad or a small team was conducting high-intensity, realistic combat simulations against specific alien races.

"Wrong!"

"Position Three! Your blade's angle is off by three degrees! At this angle, you'll be parried by the Void Slicer's bone blade! Then it will use its secondary limbs to slit your throat! You're already dead!"

"Numbers Five and Six! There was a 0.5-second gap in your coordinated fire! That's enough for a Shadow Demon to dash between you and drain both your energy cores! You're dead too!"

"And you! The whole squad! What's your reaction to a Void Burrower's charge? Retreating and then focusing fire? Foolish!"

Lin Yuan's figure appeared in one training zone after another like a ghost.

He didn't need to look at the data.

With just a sweep of his eyes, he could instantly spot the most fatal and minute flaws in those squad tactics.

And these were flaws that no one had ever been able to detect in previous training or actual combat!

The members of the squads he called out turned red-faced, breaking out in cold sweat.

The tactical coordination they had practiced hundreds or thousands of times, thinking it was seamless, looked like child's play full of holes in Lin Yuan's eyes.

"Your... Your Excellency, what should we do then?"

A squad leader bit the bullet and asked humbly for guidance.

They were practicing being surrounded by three "Corrupted Giant Worms."

According to conventional tactics, they should use the mobility of their power armor to pull back, create distance, and take them down one by one.

"What should you do?"

Lin Yuan's face remained expressionless.

He simply extended a finger and drew several lines in the air.

"Give up the kiting maneuver."

"Form a Triangular Assassination Formation in groups of three."

"Position One takes the lead, feinting at its compound eyes to draw its attention."

"Positions Two and Three should push forward simultaneously from a forty-five-degree angle beneath its body, using high-frequency combat blades to strike the joint between its third pair of walking legs and its body."

"That is where its nerve bundles are densest, yet its carapace is thinnest."

"One strike will paralyze it."

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he turned and walked toward the next training zone.

He left that squad standing there dazed, their minds constantly replaying the simple yet seemingly profound attack routes Lin Yuan had just drawn.

Nerve bundles?

The third pair of walking legs?

They had been fighting for so many years; how did they never know the Corrupted Giant Worm had such a weakness?!

"What are you standing around for?!"

The squad leader was the first to snap out of it, roaring at his teammates.

"Do as His Excellency said! Drill!!"

"Yes!"

Half an hour later.

When this squad, in the simulation...

...took less than ten seconds to "kill" three virtual Corrupted Giant Worms.

All the members took off their helmets and looked in the direction Lin Yuan had left with eyes that seemed to be looking at a god.

Too... too strong!

This wasn't just tactical guidance anymore!

This was like using a cheat code!

This was slapping the optimal solution directly onto your face!

Similar scenes played out repeatedly over the course of a month.

Lin Yuan took the knowledge from the original novel in his mind.

He unreservedly taught the top-tier tactics against various alien races that Late Stage human powerhouses had spent countless drops of blood and wisdom to summarize.

He even...

...combined his own understanding of the essence of energy to optimize and improve these tactics.

He made them even more efficient and more lethal!

The entire Longxiang Army was undergoing a terrifying, bone-deep transformation!

For every soldier, it was as if a door to a new world had been opened.

Their attitude toward Lin Yuan gradually evolved from initial awe to a fanatical, almost religious worship.

In their eyes, Lin Yuan was no longer just a powerhouse.

He was a God of War!

The omniscient, omnipotent God of War!

...One month later.

The hellish special training concluded.

Qin Pojun stood before the holographic sand table in the command center, watching the soaring data curves representing the simulated combat performance of various units, his whole body trembling with excitement.

"A miracle... this is a fucking miracle!"

He couldn't help but swear.

In just one short month.

The overall combat power assessment of the Longxiang Army had at least tripled!

In the past, this was simply unimaginable!

"It's time to let them see some blood."

A calm voice came from behind him.

Lin Yuan had stood there at some unknown point.

Qin Pojun spun around and snapped to attention in a salute.

"Your Excellency!"

"Arrange a live combat mission."

Lin Yuan's gaze fell upon a region marked in red on the sand table.

"The Scar of Rot."

Qin Pojun's pupils constricted slightly.

The Scar of Rot was an extremely dangerous zone outside the Demon Suppressing Pass.

It was shrouded year-round in a highly corrosive toxic mist and was a paradise for various poisonous and stealth-type alien races.

Even for the elite squads of the Longxiang Army, entering that place required absolute focus, and the casualty rate had always remained high.

"Then send... the Falcon Squad."

Qin Pojun quickly made a decision.

The Falcon Squad was one of the Longxiang Army's aces, with overall strength ranking in the top three.

Sending them on this mission was the safest bet.

"No."

Lin Yuan shook his head.

"Randomly select a squad."

"Any squad."

Qin Pojun was stunned.

Randomly... select?

Isn't... isn't this joking with the soldiers' lives?

But seeing Lin Yuan's unquestionable gaze, he eventually gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Yes!"

...Half an hour later.

A twelve-man squad codenamed 'Thunder Dragon' finished assembling on the edge of the Scar of Rot.

The squad leader, Zhao Hu, took a deep breath as he looked at his slightly nervous teammates.

They were an average-to-above-average squad in the Longxiang Army.

To be randomly chosen for this mission, which could be called a 'graduation exam,' he honestly had no confidence in his heart.

"Do you all remember?"

Zhao Hu asked in a low voice, "Is all that shit His Excellency taught us engraved in your brains?"

"Engraved, Captain!"

All the members responded in unison.

"Good!"

Zhao Hu waved his hand.

"Move out!"

The twelve-man squad used a brand-new formation that had never appeared on the battlefield, silently slipping into the grayish-green toxic mist.

They had advanced less than a few hundred meters.

"Screee—!"

Three greenish-black figures suddenly lunged from the shadows on the left!

Void Slicers!

Almost at the same time they appeared.

"Right rear! Four o'clock! Energy fluctuations!"

The squad's scout reported calmly.

Shadow Demons!

Encountering two of the most troublesome monsters at once!

A month ago, their squad would have inevitably fallen into a hard-fought battle, likely suffering casualties!

But now.

There was no panic on Zhao Hu's face.

His voice was as cold as a block of ice.

"Plan Three!"

"Infrasound generator, activate! Frequency, seven hertz!"

"Everyone, Seven-Star Interweaving Formation! Target: the joints of the Slicers' third and seventh carapace segments!"

"Execute!"

The moment the order was given.

"Voom—"

A wave of invisible infrasound suddenly expanded!

Those Shadow Demons, which had just merged into the shadows to prepare an ambush, suddenly stiffened, forced out of the darkness like a glitching video!

They remained frozen in their pouncing postures.

Three seconds of absolute paralysis!

On the other side.

Facing the three lunging Void Slicers, the members of the Thunder Dragon squad didn't retreat an inch!

With eerie footwork, they completed their formation switch in an instant.

Three members, like three precision scalpels, bypassed the Void Slicers' prideful bone blades at an incredible angle.

The high-frequency combat blades in their hands lit up with a blinding glow.

Pfft!

Pfft!

Pfft!

Three soft sounds of blades entering flesh.

They accurately pierced the inconspicuous carapace joints on the bellies of those three Void Slicers!

"Sss..."

The three fierce monsters' bodies stiffened instantly, unable even to let out a scream.

The energy cores inside them instantly reversed and went haywire!

The next second.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Their bodies exploded violently from the inside!

And at the moment they exploded.

The other members had already aimed their energy rifles at the Shadow Demons still in a state of paralysis.

"Fire!"

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!

A dense barrage of energy beams instantly turned those Shadow Demons into Swiss cheese!

The battle began.

And then, it ended.

Total time: less than ten seconds.

The entire process was as smooth as flowing water, with coordination polished to the absolute limit.

Looking at the piles of shredded meat and black ash on the ground, all twelve members of the Thunder Dragon squad were stunned.

They looked at each other, seeing extreme, unbelievable shock in one another's eyes!

"We... we... just... won?"

A young member asked with a trembling voice.

"Zero... zero casualties?"

Zhao Hu looked down at his armor, which hadn't even been stained by a single drop of blood.

He suddenly looked up and let out a wild roar into the communicator with all his strength.

"Reporting to Command Center!!"

"Thunder Dragon Squad, mission complete!!"

"Lord Lin Yuan is fucking awesome!!!"