48: Chapter 48 Ranked Battle

Rewards for the Strongest King rank: A-grade customizable Special Ability formula, or federal credits.

Great Master rank: B-grade.

Diamond: C-grade.

Level 5 Ability User.

Top ten: Rewards of two customizable S-grade Special Ability formulas, or money, and receipt of a Silver Medal.

Strongest King: Reward of an S-grade Special Ability or money, and receipt of a Bronze Medal.

Great Master: A-grade.

Diamond: B-grade.

Platinum: C-grade.

Level 4 Ability User rewards.

Top ten: Three customizable S-grade Special Ability formulas or money, and a Gold Medal.

Strongest King: Two S-grade skills, and a Silver Medal.

Great Master: One S-grade, and a Bronze Medal.

Diamond: A-grade.

Platinum: B-grade.

Gold: C-grade.

Note: The top three will definitely receive Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medals.

Special Ability formula and money rewards require maintaining the rank for one month, while medal rewards are based on the final ranking at the end of the season.

Lu Qingfeng also knew that these medals were very difficult to obtain.

Human Alliance Contribution Medal.

It represents supreme honor and status.

If you wear the medal, you will receive respect wherever you go.

For example, with a Bronze Medal, if he wore it back to Hongzhou City, government personnel would immediately send someone to escort him the entire time upon knowing, and everything would be arranged perfectly for him.

The mayor would personally receive you.

This is the ultimate manifestation of social status.

Furthermore, with this medal, one would directly obtain a higher military rank upon entering the army, and promotions would be faster.

But a glance is enough to know how hard it is to obtain.

He is now a Level 4 Mecha Combat Master; how could he reach the Great Master rank among a group of Level 5s and 6s?

This difficulty can almost be described as unimaginably hard.

The simplest way is still to reach Level 6 and take the top three.

But looking at the scores of the top three, one can see how fierce the competition is.

Fighting above one's level is still too difficult.

However, that is for others. Lu Qingfeng thought for a moment, what if they were all like that blockhead from earlier?

It is not impossible to give it a try, is it?

Thinking of this, he recalled that because he was too excited when getting into the mecha earlier, there was a System notification: Mecha Fusion rate 100%.

The school had not taught this knowledge, but he had heard Great Master Xiao mention it once.

A Psychic Esper's Mecha Fusion rate will be very high, which is why they are natural Mecha Combat Masters.

And for those who Cultivate National Martial Arts, after reaching the Transformation Jin stage, their spirit is complete, and the Fusion rate will be even higher.

By this logic, does that mean the situation of the blockhead on the other side was equivalent to a low Fusion rate?

...

At this moment.

Proxima Centauri.

Calamity Legion Mecha Combat Training Base.

A young man walked out of the pod with a bewildered expression.

His eyes were vacant.

His mind kept replaying how he could have been beaten to a pulp, punch by punch, by a mecha that had no shields and no weapons.

He had been beaten to a pulp without any ability to fight back.

Because it was a random match, he couldn't see the opponent's information. He watched the video several times; the opponent's fluid movements easily beat him up.

That is why he could not figure it out.

The opponent should be a Psychic Esper.

But no matter how strong a Psychic Esper's Mecha Fusion rate is, he had never seen one this strong.

All his attacks missed; he could not even touch the opponent once.

It was just like a three-year-old child holding a torch trying to fight an adult strongman.

It posed no threat at all.

"Liu Nantian, why did you come out of the pod? Lie back down, are you done with training?"

Liu Nantian snapped back to reality, looked up and discovered it was the instructor, immediately stood at attention, and answered loudly:

"Report, Instructor. I encountered a strange thing. I was beaten up by a mecha that had no shields or weapons, so I cannot figure it out."

The instructor frowned, "Liu Nantian, how trashy are you to be beaten by a mecha with no shields or weapons? You still have the nerve to say it? Play the video, I'll correct you."

"Yes..."

He immediately projected the video via his wristband.

The video was very short; excluding the countdown time, it was only a few seconds.

The opposing mecha's speed was extremely fast, and the movements were fluid and exceptionally dashing.

The more the instructor watched, the more shocked he became.

What kind of god-tier maneuvering is this?

A mecha can actually perform such movements?

He had Liu Nantian slow it down, playing the part of the Baji Quan Great Coiling Hand.

After watching, he patted Liu Nantian on the shoulder: "You didn't lose unjustly... This is a super Genius, a Psychic Esper with a very high Fusion rate. Keep training hard."

After saying that, he walked out.

Liu Nantian: ...

What about the guidance you promised me?

...

Guoshu Academy, third floor.

Since Lu Qingfeng already knew the rules of the ranking battles.

Then he prepared to start ranking.

He clicked on Rank Battle.

And directly started matching opponents.

Instant match. It seems quite a lot of people play the ranking battles; after all, the rewards are too rich.

The screen flashed, arriving at the arena, and the System began the countdown.

The opponent's mecha held an alloy long blade in its left hand and an alloy combat shield in its right.

Lu Qingfeng's gaze became serious; one attack, one defense.

This might be a Psychic Esper.

Everyone knows that Psychic Espers are not powerful in reality outside of piloting mechas. As for the ability to control objects in the Void Realm, unless you reach Level 7, you cannot do it at all.

In reality, at most your eyes might be brighter, but your combat power is simply not good.

But that excludes piloting mechas; if the Fusion rate is high enough and you are agile, then you are very strong.

As soon as the countdown ended, the opponent immediately launched several missiles from its back, which rushed towards him.

Lu Qingfeng had already discovered it; the missiles had locked onto him.

He quickly rushed towards the opponent; the mecha's speed was lightning fast.

The opponent seemed to know his movements too, slashing a blade towards him.

There was blade light in front and missiles behind.

He performed a sliding tackle, passing through the crotch of the opponent's mecha.

The missiles came whistling over.

"Boom..."

The opponent brought it upon itself and was knocked back a few steps.

But because it had an energy shield, there was almost no impact.

However, Lu Qingfeng stood up, clamped its head, gave it a twist, and the opponent fell to the ground.

He began to pummel it wildly. After a few hits, the shield shattered, and the opponent turned into a beam of white light and disappeared.

The opponent had thermal weapons; knocking it down and beating it up was the most reasonable approach.

However, thermal weapons are very useless in the mecha era, especially in the starry sky, where they are almost useless.

Mechas in reality can easily break the speed of sound.

Thermal weapons can't hit them, and there are special energy shields; even if they hit, it's like a tickle.

On the contrary, cold weapons like alloy long blades are easier to kill the opponent with.

You can imagine a hundred-meter or even thousand-meter steel monster that can fly and burrow into the earth.

Holding a tens-of-meters or even hundreds-of-meters special alloy long blade cutting through the night sky.

This is the power of the mecha.

"Congratulations on defeating the enemy, points +10. You are nine matches away from successfully placing."

Lu Qingfeng did not hesitate and started ranking again; his confidence was up now.

Psychic Espers are just like that; not very smart and relatively blockheaded.

Their reactions are not fast enough.

Except for the waiting time and countdown, all opponents were dealt with in a few seconds.

It was like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

Very quickly, he had finished ten matches.

"Congratulations, fishing old man from Yanjing University. You have successfully placed. Current rank: Silver 3. Please keep up the good work."

Lu Qingfeng was very happy to see this; ten consecutive wins right off the bat.

One must know that this rank is hard to climb; winning a match is +10 points, losing a match deducts 10-15 points.

It relates to whether you lose multiple times or just once while practicing martial arts.

But his rank jumped to Silver 3 all at once, so he was still very happy.

Note: Thermal weapons have greatly reduced power in a vacuum environment; this is true. Thermal weapons mostly rely on shockwaves to damage enemies, and there are no shockwaves in a vacuum.

Therefore, the author set it so that thermal weapons are useless in the starry sky.