VCRMM: Chapter 421

The second mecha competition was held on the planet Ampsonton, designed by the Interstellar Alliance.

Ampsonton didn’t belong to any nation. It was located in the famous lawless star zone, the Gravel Belt. The army of the Interstellar Alliance was stationed there to deter the forces entrenched in the Gravel Belt.

The forces within the Gravel Belt were a complex mix. There were interstellar star thieves, wanted criminals who had defected from their home nations for various reasons, and those who failed in political struggles and fled to the Gravel Belt to establish new forces.

The Gravel Belt had a dangerous geographical environment, but it also had many resource stars. This attracted many forces, both overt and covert, to occupy it.

In order to reduce the threat posed by these forces to the alliance, the Interstellar Alliance stationed troops on nearby planets and regularly sent out troops to deter them. Ampsonton was the largest of these stationed planets.

The troops stationed here used the most powerful and comprehensive mechas that were among the best in the interstellar space. Not only were there the mechas developed by the Interstellar Alliance, but also the major mecha powers. The mecha divisions were top-notch in the interstellar space.

Finn and the others who led the team to the Roland Empire were powerful mecha fighters, but they were still slightly inferior to the troops who were actually fighting on the front lines.

The mechas originally sent out were the latest developed by the Interstellar Alliance and hadn’t been tested in actual combat. This time, in order to avenge the previous shame, the Interstellar Alliance spent all its resources.

The Roland Empire sent a mecha team led by Yu Sen. This included Val’s mecha as well as four other mechas of different models, with different functional focuses.

Valor focused on super firepower, while Yu Sen’s Wing focused on extreme speed. Brady’s Shadow Messenger was a perfect fusion of technology and magic.

It used shadow inscriptions. In addition, he was a mecha master who was a dark warrior, so the mecha could hide in the shadows after the inscriptions were activated, and attack by surprise.

That’s right. Brady had served as Val’s shadow guard and followed her to leave Escher Star, so he had also received training in piloting a mecha.

He later returned to Roland with Joan and wandered in the wild during the beast wave for four years, but he quickly regained his original feeling under Yu Sen’s training.

After all, sensor mechas were known for being easy to use and they required higher quality from the mecha pilot.

As a warrior, Brady wasn’t inferior to the top mecha masters in terms of physique and combat instincts. Even in terms of combat skills alone, without using elemental skills, Yu Sen wasn’t his opponent.

So this time, he was among the mecha team sent out.

As for the remaining two representatives, one was a young man who had returned with the exiled elementalists and had obtained Roland citizenship.

He was a soldier who had retired due to injury. His original mecha piloting skills were quite good. He received proper treatment after returning to Roland with his grandmother. After recovering, he stayed in Roland and passed the naturalization application due to his contributions.

The last mecha master was quite unexpected. It was actually a player.

Xu Sili was a bit surprised when he received the information sent by Yu Sen. He knew this player. He was the always active player, enemy of the Magic Box Guild and president of a large guild, Lin Mu.

Xu Sili was really surprised that he could defeat other NPCs and qualify to be the representative this time. After all, the personal attributes of NPCs were ten times that of players.

However, based on the few times he had met Lin Mu, he was still a relatively reliable person. Since Yu Sen presented this list, Xu Sili approved it.

He didn’t intend to win this mecha competition. He just wanted to show Roland’s mechas to the entire universe in order to attract more scientific and technological talents to work for Roland.

The Roland Empire had more than just magic!

While waiting for the competition, the latest interstellar comprehensive national strength rankings were also released. The biggest change this time was undoubtedly the Roland Empire.

Due to the popularity of the Fox House series of stores on the Star Network, as well as the rapid development of the tourism, beauty and medical industries, its economic strength jumped directly from 265th to the top 50.

The most terrifying thing was its military strength, which had risen from second last to 11th place, just outside the top ten powers.

This was because the Roland Empire had never fought the top ten powers. However, its brilliant record of taking down a powerful military power in a week caused its military strength to be ranked 11th. It was absolutely well deserved.

If Roland could show more strength, its ranking might move up.

However, apart from the economy and military, the other strengths of the Roland Empire were too weak. Politics were often linked to the military. However, Roland’s participation in interstellar affairs was relatively low. There was still a lot of room for improvement.

Not to mention science, technology, culture, education, etc. Roland was still in a state of vigorous development.

Of course, thanks to its excellent military and economic strength, the Roland Empire’s comprehensive national strength ranking was still among the top 100.

Everyone knew that this wouldn’t be the end. No one in the entire universe could stop the rise of the Roland Empire unless the ten major nations declared war on Roland.

However, no one could guarantee victory in this war, and the Interstellar Alliance wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen.

People seemed to be seeing a rising star. Perhaps in the near future, the Roland Empire would become another interstellar overlord.

Xu Sili was still very satisfied with the current ranking.

After all, it had only been three years since he came to Roland. It was already very good to be able to move up from the bottom to the top 100. They must always leave some room for players to be active.

Moreover, he had already sensed that an era of interstellar turmoil was about to begin.

Three months ago, his warming to the Interstellar Alliance seemed to have been ignored. However, thanks to Adrian’s efforts, the alliance still sent inspection personnel to that remote star field.

They did find some unknown beetles there. But after eliminating them, the matter was left unresolved.

According to the information sent back by Xiao Wu, during these three months, insect plagues had occurred in hundreds of the 266 nations of the alliance. It could be said that they had spread across most of the universe.

Moreover, these bugs had changed a lot compared to the information initially received. Their physical characteristics varied from region to region.

The black beetle that Luoye Ranchen had encountered was only the size of a fingernail and was completely black. According to what Xiao Wu had collected, at least ten variants had appeared.

First of all, in terms of color, there were also yellow, red and turquoise.

Black beetles were omnivorous and would eat anything. As for the other colored ones, yellow ones preferred metal, red ones liked flesh and green ones preferred plants.

The diet range had become smaller, but the problem was that these colored bugs had increased fire resistance.

Then there was the size. Now there were bugs as big as fists. In the future, there would probably be even larger ones, just like the giant zergs in interstellar novels.

In addition to becoming gigantic, there were also bugs that evolved into smaller ones. These bugs were only the size of green beans and flew even faster.

The headache was that no matter what type of bug it was, the attack power was very strong.

Xu Sili always had a headache when he saw the information sent back by Xiao Wu. Those densely packed photos of bugs would definitely make people with a phobia towards bugs vomit and faint.

In order to not expose Xiao Wu, he couldn’t directly submit this detailed information to the alliance. He could only tactfully remind Adrian to pay attention to the situation in various places.

Fortunately, his reminder was effective.

After all, he was the ruler of the Roland Empire, representing the Roland Empire that ranked 11th in military strength. Once the latest ranking came out, the weight of his words increased sharply.

This wasn’t a type of reverence for unspoken rules, but a real increase in authority.

It was just like Roland only could buy some basic things from the Interstellar Alliance when they were at the bottom of the rankings. Now that their ranking had been improved, they could buy more things.

What he said and what he wanted to do would be given a higher priority by the Interstellar Alliance. Even the liaison officer team led by Adrian were all promoted and given salary increases.

Due to his occasional reminders, the Interstellar Alliance’s epidemic prevention department finally realized the seriousness of the matter after a detailed investigation. Now it was urgently mobilizing manpower and material resources to take measures against this newly emerged species.

However, Xu Sili wasn’t optimistic about their actions.

After all, judging from the posts he searched on the future forum, when players entered the universe five or six years after the server was launched, the entire universe was in chaos. Some nations were even destroyed by the zerg, and their entire planet became a zerg nest.

It was the players who took action and finally liberated the planets.

Xu Sili certainly sympathized with the innocent people of other nations, but he knew that he wasn’t a savior and these people weren’t his responsibility.

He had already given reminders and warnings that they had to take action to save themselves. After the interstellar beasts on Escher Star were cleared out, he might send troops to help other friendly nations. But this was impossible now.

Xu Sili decided to go out more often while the interstellar world was still at peace. Thus, he also came to the scene of this mecha competition.

The Interstellar Alliance attached great importance to this competition, so it could be seen that their mecha pilots were very confident. When Xu Sili arrived at the venue, he was alert and heard a lot of arrogant discussions.

He had a calm mind, but he couldn’t help feeling a bit upset.

To his surprise, Roland’s unfavored mecha team actually achieved good results.

Among them, Aunt Val was the most ferocious, directly blowing up the opponent’s mecha. Fortunately, she held back and allowed the opponent to activate the emergency escape device.

The whole audience fell into silence when the result of the battle came out.