Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 43: Kun - 12 Official Debut

83rd day of school.

Only seven days left until the opening of Fixed Monster Valley!

Xun Hu, Ning Rong, and Su Bai hurriedly left the school and walked more than two kilometers south, finally arriving at a training ground built by the river, where they saw someone waiting for them.

"This place is so desolate!" Ning Rong looked at the wilderness with grass growing everywhere and the distant gray mountains. "There doesn't seem to be anything special about this place!"

The entire training ground was large, except for a metal fortress next to it that was a bit unique.

"Are we going to train here?" Su Bai asked. "Did you buy fierce beasts and release them here?"

"There shouldn't be any fierce beasts!" Xun Hu said softly.

After receiving three months of elite education, Xun Hu's temperament had changed significantly since he first boarded the ship. For example, his tone was no longer firm, and his expression was somewhat dejected.

Hmm, why did it get worse?

He smelled the air, which was harmless and didn't have the scent of fierce beasts.

"We are going to train here, but there are no fierce beasts!" Yang Ning smiled. "Living fierce beasts are expensive. I've already spent a lot of money on forging weapons, so I can't afford fierce beasts!"

"Then it's just martial arts training?" Su Bai blinked. "If that's the case, couldn't we use the school's training ground?"

"The school's training ground is too small, and it's not secure!" Yang Ning said. "The weapons I've made need to be kept confidential. At least before the trial, it needs to be kept secret!"

"Confidential?" Xun Hu curiously asked. "It's just a weapon, why does it need to be kept secret? Could it be...?"

He thought of a possibility, and his eyes lit up. "Did you forge a Low Grade Mortal Weapon?"

Su Bai and Ning Rong's eyes also lit up. After three months, Xun Hu had just reached the Third Layer of the physical body, while Su Bai and Ning Rong had steadily reached the Second Layer of the physical body.

Although they couldn't use their qi and blood, it didn't prevent them from wanting a Mortal Weapon.

"Not exactly!" Yang Ning patted the steel fortress behind him. "What I made is this!"

"Hmm?" The three of them were stunned and looked over.

This fortress had been here all along, and the three of them thought it was something that the training ground originally had. Now they knew that Yang Ning had made it, and they were instantly confused.

The fortress was green, about six to seven meters tall, and had a circular shape with a larger bottom and a smaller top. There was also a long pipe extending from the top, but they didn't know what it was for.

Overall, it looked like three stacked pancakes.

There were three white characters painted on the fortress: Kun - 12.

"Is this the weapon you forged?" Xun Hu walked around the fortress in confusion and asked, "How do we use this? Do we stand on top and shoot arrows?"

You spent 400,000 taels of silver on this?

Although the fortress was indeed sturdy and smooth, was the top area a bit too small? It could only fit one person!

"It seems like I'm the only archer in our team?" Ning Rong asked.

Su Bai nodded. He had been studying a martial art called "Indestructible Diamond Body" and hadn't even touched a bow and arrow this month.

"Let me introduce it to you!" Yang Ning smiled as he saw the three of them looking confused. He then pushed aside the dense grass and said, "This is not a fortress, but the Kun - 12 Mobile Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Look at the bottom, it has wheels!"

"Oh?" Ning Rong squatted down and took a look. There were indeed wheels, with two at each of the front, back, left, and right positions, totaling eight.

"A mobile fortress?" Ning Rong asked.

"It can be moved or stay still!" Yang Ning pointed to the two pillars beside the wheels. "These can be lowered to support it on the ground, turning the mobile fortress into a fixed fortress!"

"The armor of this fortress is three fingers thick. Even a fierce beast at the Fifth Layer of the physical body or the Eighth Layer of the physical body can't break it!" Yang Ning said. "As long as we get inside, we'll be completely safe in the Fixed Monster Valley!"

"Ah?" Xun Hu's eyes widened. Can it really be used like that?

But it sounded reasonable. After all, that was a place only accessible to higher-grade students. Even with teachers guarding them, the safety of their own bodies couldn't be guaranteed.

But if there is a fortress, as long as the ferocious beasts cannot break through, then Innate will be invincible, right?

"But in the Fixed Monster Valley trial, killing ferocious beasts earns points. If we hide in the fortress, won't we earn any points?" Ning Rong asked.

Xun Hu shook his head. "We entered to gain experience. Why talk about killing ferocious beasts? Just staying alive is already impressive!"

The only problem is that if we keep hiding in the fortress, we may not be able to become famous.

But as long as we're alive, why worry about not having the opportunity to become famous?

"You're mistaken!" Yang Ning shook his head, then stood up and pulled something on the second floor of the fortress. He unexpectedly pulled out a terrifying giant sword that was 4 meters long and 40 centimeters wide!

"This sword!" Xun Hu's eyes widened. The sword was so large and heavy that it would require a physical strength of the Fifth or Sixth Layer to wield!

"This is the close combat weapon from the Kun-12 armor set. I call it the Tank Spiral Sword!" Yang Ning said. "It can rotate forward or backward. Let me demonstrate, but stand back!"

The three of them quickly moved backward. Such a large sword could be deadly even if it just grazed them.

Then, Yang Ning leaped onto the top of the tank, opened a lid, and climbed inside.

They heard mechanical sounds, and two more swords of the same size emerged.

Immediately after, the second floor where the three swords were located began to rotate faster and faster, until all they could hear was the sound of the giant sword whistling through the air.

Although it didn't physically attack anything, no one would doubt the effect of a 4-meter long, 40-centimeter wide giant sword hitting a ferocious beast at a speed of 20 meters per second.

After a short while, the Tank Spiral Sword stopped rotating, and Yang Ning climbed out from the top, asking, "How does it feel? Is it powerful?"

"Amazing!" Xun Hu widened his eyes and gave a thumbs up. "How did you create this? It's incredible!"

He could already imagine himself entering the Fixed Monster Valley, driving the tank, and using the spiral sword to slaughter everything in sight!

"Indeed, it's impressive!" Ning Rong nodded, finally understanding a bit of Yang Ning's design concept. She then pointed at the cannon barrel and said, "This should be an equipment for long-range attacks, right?"

Since they already had close combat weapons, it was natural to have long-range ones too. Ning Rong believed that Yang Ning had thought it through.

"You're right, as expected of you!" Yang Ning patted the cannon barrel in front of him. "This is an arrow launcher. It can launch a 1.5-meter long, 8-centimeter diameter iron arrow at a speed of 280 meters per second. If the loading speed is fast enough, it can launch 20 arrows per second!"

After speaking, Yang Ning climbed back into the tank. The three of them watched as the cannon barrel rumbled and turned a full circle, then aimed towards a distant breakthrough and made a buzzing sound.

An iron rod flew out of the barrel at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, traveling several kilometers in an instant, and heavily hitting the slope.

"Wow!" Even cultivators couldn't help but be amazed by such a powerful creation. Moreover, the three of them were still young.

When they saw that the iron rod had penetrated more than a meter into the hard rock, their eyes lit up even more.

"Brother Yang, let me try it!" Su Bai shouted.

"Of course, I'll go first!" Xun Hu instantly forgot his royal demeanor. "I'm the sponsor of this tank, so I'll let you have a turn after I'm done!"

"Wait, wait!" Yang Ning shouted again. "The tank has four positions. While controlling the tank's movement, each person is also responsible for different functions. One person is in charge of observing the outside and releasing arrows, one is in charge of operating the tank's spiral sword, one is in charge of operating the tank's poisonous water, and one is in charge of loading arrows into the arrow launcher. In addition, there are four crossbows on the tank's spiral sword, one for each person. Let's assign the positions."

After listening, the three of them immediately started discussing where they wanted to sit, and quickly made their decisions.

Ning Rong was in charge of operating the arrow launcher, Yang Ning was in charge of operating the poisonous water, Xun Hu was in charge of operating the tank's spiral sword, and as for Su Bai, he had no say and could only be in charge of loading arrows.

All four of them entered the training ground and began practicing the control of the Kun-12.

The weapons were easy to handle, just switches and directional controls. The most difficult part was the movement.

With four people and eight wheels, even if they fixed the direction, the tank could still spin in place or move in circles due to differences in the force applied by each person.

Even though Yang Ning had installed angle and speed indicators at each position, it was still difficult to control in practice.

There was no shortcut, they could only rely on time to develop their teamwork.

(End of this chapter)