1349 Battle of Ideas

Outside a teleportation door in the 17th floor of the Endless Abyss, in the E37 area, corpses were lying everywhere in the huge wilderness, and blood was flowing everywhere. The air was filled with the pungent smell of blood and the stench of feces poured out when various mutated beasts died. When mixed together, the smell of the air became extremely disgusting and unbearable.

Prince Lekas stood in the pile of mutated beast corpses expressionlessly. Be it the air filled with the smell of blood or the blood flowing on the ground, they had automatically changed direction before they touched him and could not approach him at all.

This wasteland was now as chaotic as a bloody hell, but in the small area around him, it was as clean as another world.

Elkart carefully stepped on the clean ground beside Prince Lekas, but he stretched out his head desperately. He even had a gas mask on his head that covered his mouth and nose, looking quite comical.

Prince Lekas glanced at him and frowned slightly.

“Actually, you don’t have to come down with me. Can’t you just wait for the news outside?”

“No, that won’t do.” Elkart shook his head forcefully. Then, as if these shaking of his head had exhausted him, he panted heavily.

After a long time, he took the oxygen bottle handed to him by a fully armed soldier behind him and took a few deep breaths before gradually calming down.

Seeing him like this, Prince Lekas frowned even more.

“Although your Noctem Chamber of Commerce has always praised technology as the top priority, as a higher-up of the Chamber of Commerce, you should at least know some martial techniques. With your intelligence, I believe that if you’re willing to spend some time cultivating martial techniques, even if you might not be able to become a Star-Grade Martial Artist, your current strength should be not bad. At the very least, it won’t be so difficult for you to endure only 3.7 times the standard gravity on this planet.”

With the help of the soldiers behind him, Elkart finally put on a set of clothes that looked not much different from ordinary clothes. However, there was an additional circle of strange buttons around his neck. Then, he operated it and his entire body seemed to have relaxed greatly. He finally recovered his ability to speak normally to Prince Lekas.

“No, Your Highness, my time is very precious. If I can’t spend these precious time on things that I’m interested in, it’s a pure waste to me. Although I’m confident that I can become a powerful martial artist, I’m not interested in cultivating martial techniques, so I won’t waste time on it. Look, I only need to pester such a fourth version of adaptive light clothes developed by our Chamber of Commerce to resolve the problem I encounter. This is much shorter than cultivating martial techniques.”

“It’s impossible for you to bring this with you at any time.” Prince Lekas shook his head, “Compared to external equipment, we Declan people have always only believed in our own ability. Look, if you have my strength, you can easily move here without any equipment.”

“You must be joking.” Elkart sneered, “Your strength is the top existence in the entire Milky Way. No matter how talented I am or how willing I am to spend time, it’s almost impossible for me to reach your level. Why waste this time? The usual goal of our Chamber of Commerce is to use technology to provide more time. With the help of technology, we humans can save more time and energy to do things we’re more willing to do. Don’t you think this life is better?”

“However, when you encounter an accident, only you can save yourself. Technology is useless,” Prince Lekas shook his head and said in a low voice.

“No, no, no. Your Highness, you still have some misunderstandings about technology. In fact, with the current level of technology, we can completely implant many convenient things into the human body. We can even directly turn an ordinary person into a good martial artist through genetic implantation and some appropriate and scientific forced catalysis. In that case, why spend so much effort and time cultivating martial techniques?” Elkart clearly did not agree with Prince Lekas’s point of view.

Prince Lekas narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Elkart for a while before asking coldly, “How far has your Chamber of Commerce’s research on artificial cultivation of martial artists gone?”

“This is a secret.” Elkart smiled, but he replied, “Of course, I’m qualified to reveal some to you alone. In fact, our research level has already reached the Heaven Control Realm.”

“Oh? Is that so?” Prince Lekas raised his eyebrows, and a trace of surprise flashed through his expression. Then, he snorted in disdain, “When you can artificially nurture a Star-Grade Martial Artist, come argue with me about this.”

“Alright.” Elkart shrugged helplessly, “It seems that until our guild agrees to nurture a martial artist as powerful as you, you will never agree with our thoughts.”

“As strong as me?” The corners of Prince Lekas’s mouth curled up into a sneer, “If you can do it, the Milky Way can no longer satisfy the ambitions of those lunatics from your Chamber of Commerce. You should look further away.”

As he spoke, Prince Lekas suddenly took a step forward with his right foot.

With just a step, countless thin and dense black patterns suddenly appeared in the large space in front of Prince Lekas. Before the mutated beasts in this space could even roar, they were cut into countless pieces by these black threads.

However, among these shattered pieces of meat, there was always a ball of meat that remained intact and emitted all kinds of dark light. Clearly, it was the core of these mutated beasts.

Prince Lekas casually stretched out his hand, and a larger, darker, and purer core automatically flew into his palm.

He lowered his head to look at this core, and his expression became slightly more serious.

“I can only see an A-rank mutated beast on the 17th floor. It seems that the other party really plans to play big this time.”

Elkart’s gaze also landed on the core in Prince Lekas’s palm, and his expression was equally serious.

“Chu Nan and the others must have already entered a very deep place. According to the situation we saw in the previous levels, I’m afraid there’s a chance for an S-rank mutated beast to appear after the 30th floor. If they encounter it, with their strength, it will probably be a bitter battle and they might even be severely injured.”

“I’m still very curious.” Prince Lekas frowned, “Why are you paying so much attention to Chu Nan? Is there anything worth you or your Chamber of Commerce paying special attention to?”

Elkart smiled, “If I say that the hope of us being able to artificially nurture a Star-Grade Martial Artist is on him, do you believe me, Your Highness?”

Prince Lekas was slightly stunned before he looked up and laughed dryly.

“Ha, that kid might not even be able to become a Star-Grade Martial Artist himself, but you actually want to place your hopes on him?”

“If he can’t break through, it naturally proves that our calculations are wrong. However, if he can, he’s our greatest hope,” Elkart said firmly.

Prince Lekas fell silent. He looked at Elkart for a while and suddenly asked, “What if he dies?”

“Then it can only be said that the route he chose still can’t be taken. Of course, we can only give up.”

“Then let’s hope that he won’t die.” Prince Lekas nodded lightly, “In fact, from the perspective of a martial artist, I also hope that a young martial artist with super talent like him can grow steadily and continue to share his strength for the development of the martial technique. Therefore, we have something in common in this aspect.”

“Of course. We’re in a cooperative relationship now.” Elkart immediately smiled, “It’s fine if it’s other times, but our goals are naturally the same now.”

Prince Lekas smiled and shook his head. Just as he was about to say something, a soldier in the uniform of a high-level officer of the Declan Empire quickly walked over.

“Your Highness, there’s a situation…”

The officer whispered into Prince Lekas’s ear and saw his expression suddenly change.

“What happened?” Seeing Prince Lekas’s expression, Elkart immediately sensed that something was wrong and could not help but ask.

“This is a data report. You should understand it.”

Prince Lekas took the opportunity to open his personal terminal and display the information he had just received on the virtual screen.

Elkart’s ability as a genius data analyst was displayed. He quickly read it quickly. Then, his expression immediately became extremely ugly, and his eyes revealed disbelief.

“Are these guys crazy?!”

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