120: Chapter 120 Super Five-Star! Black Gold Glory and Luck Collapse!

"Activate the phantom-3 model, maximum power. Ten times gravity plus B-level mental oppression, test for one minute!"

As the voice fell, the entire martial arts arena fell into a strange, deathly silence.

Ten times gravity!

What kind of concept is that?

If an ordinary person weighing seventy kilograms stepped inside, they would instantly have to bear the weight of seven hundred kilograms, like Mount Tai crushing down on them.

Their bones would crack on the spot, and their internal organs would be squeezed until they ruptured and bled!

Even a Tier 3 Silver Awakened would need to operate their Source Energy at full capacity to protect their body just to barely stand firm in such an environment.

Not to mention, there is also the simultaneously released B-level mental oppression!

That is an invisible attack sufficient to make a Tier 2 Awakened mentally dazed and suffer severe hallucinations!

Under this dual pressure, let alone lasting for one minute, being able to stand for ten seconds without kneeling would count as a strong person with firm willpower!

"Crazy... The Federal Examination Committee is trying to take his life!"

"This isn't a test; this is torture!"

"Too ruthless! Even if the Physical Body is strong, the internal organs and brain are still fragile!"

The examinees in the stands subconsciously took a few steps back, as if that area were the lair of some man-eating Vicious Beast.

A cold sneer appeared on Zhao Kuo's face.

Of course, he didn't think Su Ming could be stronger than him, but he was happy to have more opportunities to watch his opponent make a fool of himself.

It would be best if he were crushed into a puddle of meat on the spot!

However, amidst tens of thousands of gazes—some fearful, some worried, some gloating—Su Ming grinned.

He turned his head to look at the serious-looking Chief Examiner Li Feng and asked, "Teacher, if this thing breaks... I don't have to pay for it, right?"

"..."

Chief Examiner Li Feng's mouth twitched.

This kid was actually still thinking about compensation.

"No need." He paused, afraid that this monster would stir up some other trouble, "The Federation bears all losses. You just need to complete the test according to the rules."

Su Ming grinned and turned to step into the phantom testing area.

As soon as his foot crossed that virtual line, the robot's core chip immediately activated.

The air in the space began to distort, and ripples visible to the naked eye spread outward from the center, forming an invisible dome with a diameter of about six meters.

The air inside the dome twisted violently, like an asphalt road under the scorching sun of midsummer.

The surrounding examinees jumped back reflexively, and one timid person fell directly to the ground.

The terrifying ten-times gravity field had arrived!

But Su Ming remained relaxed, even raising his foot to stomp on the ground with interest.

His true form of one hundred tons had long been pressed into his bones by [Mass Concealment], so what the outside world saw was just a slim youth weighing about eighty kilograms.

Mere ten-times gravity falling on him was no different from sleeping under a summer quilt.

He even had the leisure to calculate in his mind.

What would happen if he turned off [Mass Concealment] now?

Would his one-thousand-ton weight crush this alloy arena down by half a meter, or would it directly blow out the power limit of this machine?

His own [Gravity Domain] could create a gravity field with a radius of ten meters and an upper limit of ten times, and it had no restrictions whatsoever.

Unknowingly, he had become a minor expert.

Wait...

Su Ming's eyes lit up. He still had [Kinetic Siphon].

[Kinetic Siphon: Forcibly strips the Law structure from an attack, converting 50% of the original kinetic energy into pure mass points stored in the System; the remaining 50% of energy naturally decays by 30% because the core Law is torn.]

He asked the System in his mind, "Can I use [Kinetic Siphon] to absorb this continuously expanding gravity field in front of me?"

[Kinetic Siphon only captures instantaneous burst-type energy attacks. The gravity field is a continuous physical force field and cannot be devoured.]

Su Ming raised an eyebrow.

"Your skill description didn't say instantaneous! Let me ask you, does a gravity wave have kinetic energy?"

[...The gravity field belongs to a continuous field of spatial distortion and long-range gravitational interaction...]

"Just answer me, does it have kinetic energy or not?" Su Ming interrupted impatiently.

[...Analyzing from the perspective of classical mechanics...]

"Yes, or no?!"

[...Yes.]

"Then that's that!"

"Since it has kinetic energy, why can't I absorb it?"

Su Ming argued righteously in his mind, "Why do you care if it's instantaneous or continuous? It opened a gravity field over my head to leech off me for free; do I still have to follow the rules with it?"

"Tell me, what rank are you in the cheat Family? You're too backward,"

"I've already found a bug for you, why aren't you patching it quickly?"

"If you keep being this passive, I'm giving you a bad review!"

The System in his mind was once again silenced by Su Ming's shameless, rascal-like, yet bizarrely self-consistent logic.

A full three seconds passed.

[Detected that the host is sophistically arguing, fundamental physical logic has experienced a violent conflict, cheat patch is loading urgently...]

[Currently performing a magic-modification upgrade on [Kinetic Siphon]... Upgrade successful!]

[[Kinetic Siphon] new effect: Can force deconstruction and devouring of continuous and Domain-type kinetic energy. Consumes 100 mass points per minute, runs continuously after activation.]

"That's more like it; only by listening to advice can you eat your fill."

"Don't be a picky eater in the future!"

[...]

[Kinetic Siphon] activated!

The next second, the data began to jump...

[mass points +100]

[mass points +100]

[mass points +100]

...

One hundred points per second?

That's six thousand points per minute!

Rounding up, that's a huge profit for a small investment!

This deal is worth it.

Su Ming was happy over here, but the "phantom-3 model" robot responsible for applying the gravity field suffered.

To maintain the ten-times gravity field intensity, its core was already running at full power.

Now that it was being frantically drained by Su Ming, the brightness of the runes on the machine's surface increased sharply, and the internal cooling fans emitted a shrill, wheezing scream.

If its AI brain had emotions, it would already be cursing by now.

——This AI is filing a formal complaint!

——Someone is stealing electricity!

——Someone is acting inhumanly!

Chief Examiner Li Feng stared nervously at the wheezing robot, his heart tightening.

Don't do this... please don't let this one be scrapped too!

He prayed silently to the Bodhisattva for protection.

...

Su Ming looked at the constantly jumping numbers on the panel, feeling wonderful.

Although one hundred points were nothing compared to his mass of one hundred thousand, even a mosquito is meat no matter how small.

Wait!

He suddenly remembered something.

"What about the B-level mental attack? Why don't I feel anything at all?"

"System! Can mental attacks be swallowed?"

[No!]

The System answered crisply and cleanly this time.

"If you had answered any slower, I might have actually believed you."

[Mental attacks do not belong to the energy category and cannot be analyzed by Kinetic Siphon.]

"But it's a wave, right? Electromagnetic wave? Brain wave?" Su Ming pressed step by step in his mind,

"As long as it's a wave, it will produce oscillation, and isn't oscillation energy conversion? Do you dare say waves don't have kinetic energy?"

[...Yes, they do, but the carrier of that wavelength is carbon-based neural frequency.]

The System seemed to give up struggling and gave the conclusion directly.

[The host's current life form has transcended the carbon-based category; silicon-based neural circuits are incompatible with such mental frequencies. This attack is ineffective against the host.]

Su Ming's expression suddenly collapsed.

Getting stronger comes with its own troubles too...

...

Over at the martial arts arena, everyone saw Su Ming standing motionless in the gravity field, his expression changing from silly joy, to frowning, to full of regret.

"Is he... is he crushed silly?"

"He looks like he's already mentally unstable..."

The cold sneer on Zhao Kuo's face gradually stiffened.

He had expected to see Su Ming looking wretched under the pressure, but the guy was standing there like it was nothing.

He even looked a bit relaxed.

This wasn't scientific.

The one-minute test time passed in the blink of an eye.

Su Ming was still somewhat reluctant to let go.

Just as the countdown hit zero——

"Bang!"

A muffled sound of being unable to bear the load!

The "phantom-3 model" robot, which had been used by Su Ming as a power bank for a minute, suddenly spewed out a thick cloud of black smoke, and all the runes on the machine's surface instantly dimmed.

It crashed!

The hearts of everyone in the audience jumped to their throats.

This is... broken again?!

However, the rating screen on the robot's chest did not go out.

After lagging for three seconds, it suddenly erupted with an extremely blinding dark golden light.

Two lines of evaluation were branded onto everyone's retinas.

[Talent file encrypted, insufficient authority]

[Star rating: Ultra Five-Star!]

On the edge of those five stars, there was also an inlay of black gold luster symbolizing the highest privilege of the Federation.

"Holy crap! Golden Legend?!"

Someone, unknown who, shouted this exclamation originating from an ancient game in the silent crowd.

The whole place exploded again!

"Ultra Five-Star?! There's an Ultra Five-Star in the rating System?!"

"A high school student, and the file needs to be encrypted?!"

"What kind of background does this King of Posers have?!"

"If I could be as arrogant as him just once, my life would be worth it!"

"I'm sorry, King of Posers! I threw a brick at you earlier! I'll kowtow to you!"

In the back stands, tens of thousands of examinees stood up reflexively.

No one dared to criticize anymore, and the atmosphere instantly reversed from "target of public criticism" to "worship".

Even the group of lackeys who had been barking the loudest before were now shrinking behind Zhao Kuo, their heads lowered like quails.

...

In the corner of the auditorium, Liu Ruyan's mind let out a "buzz".

It was as if something had snapped.

Her A-level talent suffered the ultimate backlash.

That strand of Luck was snapped by the power of Law.

"Pfft—!"

Liu Ruyan screamed and spat out foul-smelling black blood.

It splashed onto her delicate white light armor.

Her whole body collapsed onto the seat.

Zhao Kuo subconsciously dodged to the side, his face full of disgust.

His eyes stared fixedly at Su Ming on the arena, full of gloom.

The surrounding examinees exclaimed, some rushed forward to help Liu Ruyan, and medical team members also began to rush over.

In the chaos, Zhao Kuo quietly retreated into the shadows of the preparation area.

A middle-aged man appeared like a ghost and stuffed a syringe into his hand.

The liquid inside the syringe exuded a dark red, fishy smell, and the tube wall was imprinted with a mark, strange, eerie, and terrifying.

"If you want to survive the arena battle this afternoon, use it."

The middle-aged man's voice was hoarse and cold.

After speaking, he disappeared into the crowd.

Zhao Kuo gripped the syringe tightly.

The liquid shimmered with an eerie dark red luster under the lights.

...

Somewhere in the auditorium, a figure was rapidly typing encrypted information on a terminal.

[Target confirmed.]

[Combat power assessment seriously flawed, far exceeding estimates.]

[Requesting... initiate Plan B!]