Chapter 326: Chapter 218: Civilization Relic, Rapid Digestion_1

Over a month has passed since Planet Blue Star ascended to a Level 2 civilization.

The first batch of mecha pilots who participated in the all-Planet Blue Star Talent Competition had already advanced to 2nd Rank, unlocking Legendary Shadow.

However, Legendary Shadow was quite difficult.

Out of caution, they first constructed and strengthened their mechas, bringing their strength to the pinnacle of their rank.

Only now did they begin to challenge Legendary Shadow to farm Resonance Equipment and material modules.

Meanwhile, they also brought a little shock to the many civilizations in the Purgatory layer—

The Protector trait that Planet Blue Star possessed had no yield for high ranks but offered a multiplier as high as five times for low ranks!

The champion of the talent competition, Parvin, with a base mecha pilot talent multiplier of nine times, reached an astounding forty-five times with the blessing of the Protector trait!

Her talent was related to the number of mechas; for every extra mecha, the base multiplier increased by two times—

With three mechas at 2nd Rank, her base multiplier rose to thirteen times.

After the Protector’s blessing, the talent multiplier skyrocketed to sixty-five times.

What did that concept mean?

Ying Tian, as a divine prodigy of the Level 8 Divine Lord Civilization, had a talent multiplier of only eighty times!

With a talent multiplier of sixty-five times, combined with some trait enhancements and weapon upgrades…

She could already challenge a low-ranked 6th Rank legendary overlord, just like other level 7 and 8 civilizations!

This was because Parvin had chosen “Fire Transmission” when she became a Light of Hope candidate.

If she had chosen the “Protector” authority, the multiplier could have increased even further.

However, Planet Blue Star was still a bit lacking in depth.

Especially with respect to traits, which had a bit too much influence on combat power.

As a result, although Parvin had a talent multiplier of sixty-five times, she still couldn’t challenge the Legendary Shadow of the 6th Rank.

So, she followed Jiang Chen’s Legendary strategy posted on the alliance forum, took the lead in challenging the Purgatory Asura, and went to improve her skills at the Luo Family Martial Arts School.

Even if she couldn’t grasp a Legendary Trait, just by upgrading [Weapons Master] to [Weapons Grandmaster], she could still increase her multiplier from 1.5 to 2.0.

Combined with the upgrade in combat skills, it was also a considerable enhancement.

She was just a microcosm of the Planet Blue Star civilization.

The base multipliers of these first batch of selected geniuses were mostly around seven or eight times.

With varied progress in subsequent growth, after multiple enhancements, they all had talent multipliers of over forty times—

Based on their talents, each of them chose a Legendary Path.

With Legendary Shadow as their trial, they honed their own traits.

Even if they couldn’t awaken in the end, they often could improve their trait multipliers or obtain some non-numerical strength enhancements. It was a net gain.

Moreover, perhaps out of admiration for Jiang Chen,

Almost 99% of Planet Blue Star’s geniuses chose the [Extreme Battle Soul] path as their first Legendary Path.

However, they were not as strong as Parvin.

If they were to fight Master Luo alone, they’d only get beaten up. It was difficult to get recognized and impossible to enter the Luo Family Martial Arts School for intensive learning.

Therefore, they could only challenge other legendary overlords first to accumulate some Resonance Equipment and proficiency in traits.

Once they became stronger, they would go to the Luo Family Martial Arts School for further studies.

It was these series of actions that brought an incredibly strong shock to the many civilizations of the abyss—

Newborn civilizations are the foundation of the [Abyss Levels], being born and destroyed almost every moment.

In the Purgatory level alone, countless newborn civilizations were struggling, gradually becoming stronger.

Among these newborn civilizations, even the strongest Lights of Hope could only challenge senior 4th Rank legendary overlords at 2nd Rank.

As for those who were not Lights of Hope, they generally could only team up to farm the 4th Rank.

5th Rank? It wasn’t even worth considering!

This gap when compared to Planet Blue Star was just too large!

Both being newborn civilizations, Planet Blue Star produced an unprecedented genius like Jiang Chen; one might say it was good luck, a one-in-a-million chance that emerged from the endless civilizations of the abyss.

But how could one explain this situation where the average person is at the 5th Rank?

Could it really be due to cheating?

…

“Is it a civilizational trait?”

The Lights of Hope of Ancient Eon Civilization and Bluegreen Deity Civilization, upon seeing the information transmitted from the Purgatory level, thought of this possibility first and foremost.

These Level 8 Civilizations, after experiencing countless years and numerous generations of Lights of Hope and candidates,

also possessed a great number of “Lights of Wonders,” which allowed them to reset when choosing civilizational traits.

As a result, they had recorded a large number of civilizational traits.

Among them, there were traits similar to the Protector.

However, ancient civilizations never chose these traits—

Or rather, civilizations that chose these traits mostly had already headed towards destruction and did not become ancient.

The reason was simple.

“They’re too insignificant.”

“If it’s a civilizational trait that greatly enhances the talents of mecha pilots, there must be massive restrictions.”

“Often, it’s only aimed at specific members of the civilization, with lots of limitations.”

“Especially traits that enhance the talent of higher-ranked civilization members; the bonuses are usually minimal, with poor effects…”

“In the long run, it would be better to choose traits that increase the potential of members of a newborn civilization.”

“And this kind of trait, which enhances low-ranked mecha pilot talents, usually has no effect on the high ranks.”

“In times of future catastrophes, it would be equivalent to automatically losing a civilizational trait slot, much weaker—”

“Jiang Chen already possesses the talent to compete with the low ranks and can obtain resources like the ‘Light of Wonders.'”

“Why would he waste a civilizational trait slot on such a ‘useless’ trait?”

The Light of Hope of Ancient Eon Civilization dismissed this answer.