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“Super Soldier Serum, tsk, it’s a pity it’s not some top-tier 50/50 balance. But in terms of combat power, it can reach up to rank 5–just the price is a bit steep. Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters can extend their life by 500 years after reaching rank 5, but these Super Soldiers can only live for 5 years.”

“The cost, relative to cultivating a rank 5 Martial Artist or Secret Spirit Master, is much lower, but their combat effectiveness naturally falls short since they inherently lack spiritual attributes, relying more on quantity for victory.”

“Not that it can’t be improved, but the Duke Federation is just thinking about cutting costs. They could even mess up bioengineering.” Qin Muye quipped.

“Even if it’s leveraging an overextension, ordinary people need something to overextend in the first place. Drawing on so-called lifespan or life force is actually not correct.”

“Secret Martial Conference canceled, and the blame actually fell on the Duke Federation. Interesting, although the Duke Federation is no easy target, with things like Super Soldiers…”

“No wonder the Secret Martial Conference was canceled. If 1000 rank 5 Super Soldiers emerged, both the Secret Spirit Masters and the Martial Artists would be uncomfortable.”

“Three Super Soldiers for one Martial Artist or Secret Spirit Master is a bit hasty. It should at least be ten to one, the defects are too great.”

“So, what’s being overextended definitely isn’t something like life force, but something deeper.”

“The overextension is severe, but they can still be mass-produced, that’s the terror of industrialization.”

“Whether it’s lifespan or life force, it’s all integrated, and overextension inevitably hurts the body. It’s good enough that they don’t die of exhaustion–how could they possibly get stronger?”

“First, they exploit the spirit to enhance the physique, then forcefully extract the spirit from the physique, repeating this over and over until they ultimately produce short-lived rank 5 Super Soldiers.”

“It’s a nice idea for overpowering the weak, but the flaws are too great. With insufficient spirit, they’re easily blown apart by Martial Arts Will. Normal people facing Martial Arts Will might only suffer minor damage, but these Super Soldiers would have to endure a major damage.”

“That is, Super Soldiers are essentially modeled on Martial Artists. Right, in the eyes of the Duke Federation, replicating Secret Spirit Masters is more difficult. They mainly use Secret Spirit, but the physique of Martial Artists suits them better.”

“So that’s it, a genius idea. It seems someone in the Duke Federation realized the essence of Martial Artists is the Martial Arts Will not just the person, which is why they invented this bug-level thing like Super Soldier Serum.”

“Found it, what’s being overextended is not cells or life force, but… spirit?” Qin Muye was surprised; he hadn’t expected what was being overextended to be something so intangible.

“What is this, a blind cat finding a dead rat?” Qin Muye snarked.

“Just can’t let me handle it. It could be handled in a corporate or company manner, using local registration as a disguise, to avoid unnecessary trouble later. Let the dark hands take care of it. How about that for an idea?”

“Super Soldiers with overall enhanced abilities, but they also have disadvantages. Foundation is very important. If they encounter a genuine True Martial Rank Martial Artists, it would take at least three Super Soldiers to match one from the True Martial Rank.”

After all, rulers are just ordinary people, not Transcendents.

But these were just criticisms, and he didn’t really treat the invention of the Super Soldier Serum as a blind cat finding a dead rat.

The existence of Super Soldier Serum represents an extraordinary black technology, whereas mainstream firearms haven’t seen much development.

From this set of experimental data, it can be seen that the laboratory had already had subsequent optimization technology, which was a stepwise increase.

Probably because ordinary firearms can’t effectively harm Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters, whereas mass destruction firearms do exist but would affect ordinary people.

Regarding the Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters, the two Extraordinary Groups, Qin Muye was not very interested; he was more concerned about experimenting on them. If it really came to reaping benefits, he naturally leaned more towards the Duke Federation with its complete system.

Then he pondered, “Is there any benefit I could extract from this?”

Or rather, in the eyes of the Duke Federation, the Super Soldier Serum is itself a kind of Secret Medicine used by Martial Artists, rather than a biological modification.

There aren’t as many Secret Spirit Masters and Martial Artists combined, and they all follow the command of the Duke Federation, so it is highly likely that the target to tackle first is the Duke Federation.

The Super Soldier Serum had only recently been successfully developed and although it passed the clinical trial, it hadn’t been further optimized yet. Due to Qin Muye’s major moves to capture Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters, it was disclosed prematurely, which would likely distress the Duke Federation.

Next, under the pressure of the two Extraordinary Groups, the Martial Artists and the Secret Spirit Masters, it had to be scrapped, and even the researchers couldn’t escape death.

Qin Muye didn’t care about all that; he just wanted to know if he could profit from the situation.

As Qin Muye went through the experimental data, he frankly felt overwhelmed because the normal scientific social structure had been distorted by the two Extraordinary Groups, the Martial Artists, and the Secret Spirit Masters, making the data more akin to records of Secret Medicines–an understanding of what it is, but not why it is.

Qin Muye picked up a vial of Super Soldier Serum. The capabilities of the Spirit Monsters were unquestionable; they not only secured several doses of Super Soldier Serum but also managed to copy a set of the research materials.

Qin Muye was knowledgeable and naturally spotted the issues once he discovered the principle of mental overdraft.

While observing the Sky Hawk and Starry Sky test subjects, Qin Muye was also continuously deducing the subsequent experiments and checking on the situation within the Duke Federation.

This way, he could preemptively grasp the benefits of the world and gain more advantages.

Earlier, Qin Muye believed the two Extraordinary Powers were the strongest, but after looking into the low-key yet impactful existence of the Duke Federation, he couldn’t help but reflect that none were ordinary.

Firstly, the Duke Federation was sure to stumble this time. If the Super Soldier Serum had already been mass-produced, they might have turned the tables. But the fact was, not to mention mass production, the Serum had just been created and hadn’t even been optimized yet.

Quick solutions are good, but naturally, they don’t compare with the training of using a sword and a gun. In terms of combat, they shouldn’t be underestimated because they opted for industrialization, not elitism.

Though it might be possible to steal them, wouldn’t it be better if they were delivered to him? After all, what Qin Muye needed to do was essentially risk-free, with the main loss possibly managing the Spirit Monsters’ affairs.

Although the current focus is on the Secret Spirit Masters and Martial Artists, the Duke Federation has also inserted quite a few spies within it.

Thus, high Attribute, diverse Skill, after becoming a Hero they can still convert into corresponding Talents.

This is akin to dividing a vial of Super Soldier Serum into several stages, thus minimally overdrafting the spirit and maximizing the conversion to strength, meaning one could live longer and unleash greater Power.

Like Qin Muye’s Spirit Monsters, if it weren’t for the ‘Lord Era’s recruitment system, the output wouldn’t be too high, as they follow the elitist route.

The developers are truly talented, although their record-keeping leans towards Secret Medicines. If a Martial Artist really managed to steal it and treated it with the approach of Secret Medicines, what would be created wouldn’t be Super Soldier Serum, but a lethal poison, specifically targeting Martial Artists.

Because the Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters had unresolvable, sharp conflicts with the Duke Federation, Extraordinary individuals rarely entered into the systems of the Duke Federation.

In such an environment, to unleash such potent forces; however, it seems they were outwitted by Qin Muye.

This can only be attributed to the existence of the Extraordinary System causing a direct distortion in the technology tree, and it is drastically skewed.

Focusing on the Martial Artists and the Super Soldiers, Qin Muye analyzed that while they were hastily developed and achieved a Tier-5 in Attributes, their Skills and Talents were blank, which is where the gap lies.

If one talks about the strongest, Qin Muye can now be certain it’s the Duke Federation.

Just as Qin Muye had perceived, in terms of universal applicability, the Martial Artists far surpass the Secret Spirit Masters, especially with the simplified Martial Arts Will system of the Martial Artists–it’s very popular.

As for the firearms of the Duke Federation, after Qin Muye looked at the data, aside from finding them novel, he didn’t have many thoughts because they were just too backward for him, so backward that they were not worth considering, thus he had to give up on them.