The Geared Immortal

Chapter 689 - Lifeless Planet

Chapter 689

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In a monitoring room, inside a large cavern, hundreds of people are currently controlling the arrays on the ground where each of them is standing. A large amount of energy fluctuation could be feeling inside the cavern but it is being shielded by its special structure.

Inside one of the adjacent rooms overlooking the busy cave, two beautiful women and a handsome young man are currently looking at the situation below.

"What is the current status of the alchemy association?" the woman, who is standing with her back on the two, while looking down below, asked.

"They still refuse to create more than the current production of their pills. It seems that they are unwilling to follow your plans…" the young man replied.

"Those pompous and arrogant people are getting on my nerves… If only we could… Sigh… They have already almost monopolized the alchemist in every town and clans, in the city. We have no other choice but to follow their demand…"

Upon hearing her words, the other woman in the room suddenly showed a faint smile on her face.

"Head Saint, I discovered a prodigy amongst the new craftsmen in the craftsmen association. He is from a small town called Vitol."

"A prodigy? The craftsmen association in the city is unable to progress and has been constant in their production of the armors and weapons. If they can have another prodigy it would not matter…"

"Ah… but this one is something else… my nephew who is a lord in Vitol town told me about his prowess in craftsmanship as something unique… He could disassemble silver and gold armor along with the swords. And… he is also something else..." The woman deliberately stopped.

"What? Spill it out for crying out loud." The two who are listening to her have already turned their heads towards her direction.

"Hihi… Do you really want to know? But I promised my nephew not to tell anyone though…"

"You… Saint Falma… what is it you want?" the man who seems to be impatient due to his failure in his task in the alchemy association is a bit irritated.

"Nothing… I just want to tease you two… In fact, two months from now, you will still hear about this from your two subordinates. So I guess it won't be bad telling you two ahead of time… Hihi…"

The teasing tone from the saint made the other two saint rulers glare at her. But since they are curious about it, they decided to listen to Saint Falma Vin, the 2nd counselor of Head Saint Latonia Hilda.

"Alright, alright, I won't tease you two anymore… his name is Shin Jiao. A weird kid, his body does not emit the universe energy passively. So you can only tell his current physique as a peasant. But from what I have learned he is already at level 70."

Hearing the words from Falma Vin, the two showed an astonished expression on their faces. Suddenly, the expression of Latonia Hilda change. This is because, on her way to the competition ground, she saw a peasant among the crowd.

He is the only peasant amongst all those in that area, hence she already noticed him at that instant. But she didn't pay him any attention at that time.

Who would have known that he is a so-called prodigy? Upon thinking up to this point, the corner of her lips curved a little. No one knows what's going on in her mind, but the two could feel that she is thinking of something outrageous again.

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While the three most powerful people in Ta'al city are discussing something underground, Shin Jiao is currently on another planet, a lifeless planet, fighting against a woman.

The woman's movement is very nimble and fast which made it hard for him to counter each of her attacks. But he is able to easily dodge her moves. She relies purely on her power and her skill lacks finesse and accuracy.

After a few exchanges of blows, Shin Jiao suddenly dodges a strong and powerful blast from her palm which obliterated a small hill into dust due to the sheer power of the energy is emitted. Dust was blown all over the place covering the two fighters.

She wanted to go on a defensive stance, but before she could retract her hand, she suddenly felt a strong hand holding her wrist. This startled the woman and she wanted to react but it was already too late.

All she heard was a thunderous sound and a slight pain in her stomach. Then she slowly looks down and saw that half of her body is already gone before her consciousness faded.

No one saw what happened inside the cloud of dust. What the audience saw was a strange ray of light coming out of the dust and clearing a part of it.

And when the cloud of dust died down they saw the already disappearing figure of a woman lying on the ground and a young man standing calmly on the side while squatting on the ground as if checking for something.

Shin Jiao was a bit interested in the lifeless planet that he is on right now. As he looks at the starry skies, he showed confusion in his eyes as he could not recognize any star formations.

"I guess I'm really too far from planet Gaeus Ro or earth." He muttered to himself.

Suddenly he feels his body suddenly disappearing and then when his vision came back, he is already on the stage.

On the other side, he could see that there are already two of their opponent team wearing silver armor has won. He also noticed Vitina Kawazo looking at him with a surprised look on her face.

When Shin Jiao was paired with the short-haired woman, she knew that he is already a goner. That woman has entered the top 100 in the last competition and is a formidable foe. But who could have known that Shin Jiao was able to defeat her without even a scratch?

"You really are something…" Vitina while shaking her head and chuckling.

The two on the opponent's side are also looking at Shin Jiao with a bit of fear in their eyes. Then not long after another figure appears and it was on Shin Jiao's team, Rum Joss, the blue-haired young man who is the older brother of Suga Joss which Shin Jiao substituted. His body is filled with wounds, but he was still able to win.

When Rum Joss saw that Shin Jiao was able to survive the short-haired woman, he too showed a surprised look on his face.

His jaw was even wide open and was a bit stunned for a while.

The two who won now showed a bit of a depressed look on their faces. With their ability, the two knew that the silver armor team of their town is done for. They would not be able to enter the top 100 this time.

Meanwhile, in the gold armor matchups, only Jade Sin from the Wine clan was defeated. The rest from the Vitol Town won their battles.

The rest of the people from the gold armor team also showed surprise on their faces upon seeing that Shin Jiao was able to survive the battle. They now discover that this secretive person is hiding a lot of his talents. They mentally take note to visit that new building in the town and try to figure out who really that young man is.

After the group return to their seat, they have to wait for their next match up. Shin Jiao suddenly feels the two spears he has trapped in the air suddenly moving. But they just move on their position and pointed their sharp tips towards his direction.

Then suddenly, Shin Jiao felt a strong killing intent but it suddenly vanished in an instant. He then roams his gaze to the crowd but noticed no one. So he just shrugs his shoulder and once again locks those sharp spears into place.

Meanwhile, not too far from him, Jul'la is looking at Shin Jiao's back with a sinister smile on his face.

In fact, when he saw that Shin Jiao was able to survive the battle he too was astonished and is now showing curiosity towards the young man. So he decided to wait before taking action for his revenge. Since the group still won even though they lack one person, he didn't worry about the upcoming battles anymore.

Meanwhile, the battles continue, and now before night time came, around 150 towns are left. Shin Jiao fought two more battles and won every battle mysteriously.

It was like he would deliberately cover his final killing moves before executing it, either via dust clouds, mists, or underground. And his wins baffled all those who have watched his battles. He is proficient in dodging and is like a slippery eel on the battlefield. Which irritated his opponents, and when that happens, he would make his move and win.

So in this contest, there are already people who have him in their mind as one of the strongest silver armored contenders.

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The next day, the battle for the top 100 towns started around 8 am.

This time, the positioning would not be by towns but by individual fighters that would just carry the name of their town. Shin Jiao is going to face a tall and bulky man who has placed 95th in the last year's town battle. A silver armored young man named Gerard Hung.

Just like Shin Jiao, his silver armored seems to be costumed made for his body and not a standard one. As someone who has always entered the top 100 for many years now, Gerard Hung's name is already well-known and is one of the favorite contenders this year.

Many audiences like his brutality and seemingly indestructible body which could make his opponent despair in attacking him.

Plus they heard that he has developed some sets of new moves, so they are excited to see him in battle. And what made this fight excited is that his opponent is one of the dark horses in the contest. An unknown silver armored young man who is said to have arrived in the immortal land just a couple of months ago.

The stage is set, and the contenders are ready.. The next battle is about to begin.