When the guards arrived, Rockwell was flipping through the previous night's Legion report.

Rockwell had a habit of dealing with the most important things in the first place. As soon as he goes home for the night, he will take care of last night's affairs at breakfast. Because the scope of the power of each warlord has been roughly delineated, the top priority of each force is to consolidate the scope of power, and for the time being, no warlord has the ability to launch a foreign war, so the affairs of the legion are relatively simple, and most of them are some standing reports.

Nothing significant happened last night, and the only incidents were civil-military disputes.

Rockwell was in a good mood, at least for the time being, there was nothing to do that needed to put down his breakfast and get his hands on it right away.

It's just that the arrival of the guards cast a shadow on Rockwell's mood. The guards were in a hurry, every step was big, and Rockwell knew that something very important must have happened, and it had just happened. Otherwise, the guards would not have come to disturb him at this time.

"What's going on?" Rockwell took the initiative to ask.

The guard's name was Sam, a young man in his early twenties. Although he is only a sergeant, he has a fourth-level enhanced superpower, which is equivalent to the combat power of a major. He was not an ordinary soldier, but a close confidant of Rockwell and belonged to the Command Guard. Rockwell's ability to gain the support of the officers and men of the Legion had to do with one of his specialties, namely his ability to remember every officer and soldier he met, at least by name. As for the officers and men of the Command Guard, Rockwell will not forget even more, because they are all cronies.

"General, the Chengbei Guard has discovered a fugitive with a fifth-level superpower."

"Level 5 enhanced superpowers?" Rockwell was a little surprised. The fugitives are civilians, and civilians have no chance of strengthening their superpowers.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no powerful characters among the civilian population.

Superpowers are innate, and some people are born with strong superpowers. What's more, in the course of natural evolution, some people don't need to be modulated at all to enhance their superpowers. Although there are very few such people, it definitely does not mean that there are none.

"It's a fifth-level modulation superpower."

"What!?" Rockwell's eyes immediately widened and he looked at Sam in disbelief.

"I've already inquired, and the Chengbei Guard has sent a second report, which has been confirmed to be a fifth-level modulation superpower."

"Civilians!?"

Sam nodded, not saying anything more. As a guard, his duty is to defend the commander, and the work of reporting information belongs to the staff officer.

"Let the Chengbei Guard send that person to the headquarters, and I'll go over right away."

"Yes."

"Also, let the people below be polite and don't provoke him."

"Yes."

Rockwell waved his hand and let Sam go.

Looking at the fish sauce on the plate in front of him, Rockwell suddenly lost his appetite. Compared to the expensive snowfish, a person with a level 5 modulation superpower is more valuable.

You must know that in the entire Storm Legion, there is only one person with a level 5 modulation superpower, and that is Rockwell.

In the entire empire, to be precise, the former empire, there were definitely no more than ten thousand people with fifth-level modulation superpowers, perhaps less than five thousand.

The reason is simple, natural evolution could not have produced modulation superpowers.

What does it mean to be a Level 5 modulator? If that person wants to, he can easily kill half of the officers and soldiers of the regiment. If he has the unique mental control of a legion commander, he can even control thousands of legion officers and soldiers to form his own legion.

For any warlord, there are only two ways to deal with such a person, either to encircle or to get rid of him.

Of course, the cage is the first choice.

Rockwell knew very well that if he had a fifth-level modulation superpower under his command, not only would the strength of the legion be doubled, but he would also be able to form a second legion and form a group army.

With a second legion, Rockwell was able to attack nearby cities and expand his reach.

If all goes well, it will even be able to control the entire northern region and become the hegemon of the north. Then it's time to go south, attack the eastern and western regions, dominate the entire United Continent, and build a new empire that rivals the Doomsday Empire and belongs to the Rockwells!

Of course, these are too far away.

While the servants were tidying up the table, Rockwell left the mansion and headed for the regimental headquarters.

It was the first time in nearly a month that Rockwell had gone to corps headquarters so early.

During the first three months of the war, Rockwell lived almost at the Corps headquarters in order to deal with various issues in a timely manner and ensure that the troops sent out to complete their tasks smoothly. For the next two months, Rockwell did not stay at the Corps Headquarters, but often went to the Corps Headquarters very early. It was only recently, as the situation stabilized and the resistance in the jurisdiction was eliminated one by one, that Rockwell was relieved.

In a sense, the use of legions to build up the sphere of power is to recruit talent.

In order for any warlord to thrive, the first thing it needs is talent, especially civilians with powerful superpowers. It is precisely because of this that in the **** that lasted for half a year, the warlord's armed forces attacked everywhere, searching for and arresting civilians everywhere. These civilians may not necessarily join the warlord camp, but their existence is an immeasurable value in itself. Even civilians who don't have superpowers are highly valuable, because they can be used to stimulate their potential superpowers through methods such as modulation, so that they can become legionnaires. The legion needs commanders like Rockwell, and even more so grassroots soldiers.

It's just that the strength of a regiment is definitely not determined by the number of soldiers, but by the officers.

A strong legion, certainly with a strong corps of officers.

It is precisely because of this that warlords everywhere are trying to win over civilians with the potential of officers, and in some places they are even openly recruiting civilian superpowers.

Rockwell also plans to recruit superpowers in the people, but Storm City is too small and too remote, and the real powerhouses don't look down on it at all. In the past six months, apart from the civilian people who have been captured by the army, there have been very few superpowers who have come to Storm City.

As for the powerhouse with a fifth-level modulation superpower, it is even more unheard of.

That's a strong man, a real strong man.

Of course, Rockwell didn't make up his mind. Before meeting him and testing his strength for himself, Rockwell still had a trace of doubt.

Perhaps, there are fifth-level modulation superpowers that have evolved naturally.

In any case, natural evolution is something that no one can fathom. For at least the last few hundred years, even the best scientists have not figured out how much potential humanity really has. Scientists have long predicted that sooner or later humans will evolve into a completely new form.

The question is, how did such a strong man come to Storm City, and from the north?

To the north of Storm City is the desert that occupies half of the United Continent, and there are no towns with a population of more than 10,000 except for a few towns. Although there are no exact statistics, in peacetime, the total population of the area north of Storm City is definitely less than 100 million. Compared to the total population of nearly 20 billion people on the United Continent, this is indeed too small. If there were naturally evolved fifth-level modulation superpowers among these people, then how many such powerhouses would there be in the central region of the United Continent, that is, the most densely populated region?

So far, at least, Rockwell has not seen a fifth-level modulation superpower created by natural evolution.

Maybe there was a problem with the instrument used to test the superpowers, or maybe the officer of the Chengbei Guard made a mistake when reporting, that guy was not a fifth-level modulation superpower at all, but only a fifth-level enhanced superpower. Of course, even so, he is a very rare strong man. Although it is not as good as a modulation superpower, such a person has a very solid foundation, and only needs to be properly modulated to become a real powerhouse.

You must know that Rockwell was originally a fifth-level enhanced superpower, and after modulation, he became a fifth-level modulation superpower.

The headquarters of the corps is on the edge of the city and is a separate building, more than a kilometer high. Like other tall buildings in the city, at the base of the building is a factory, nothing more than an arms factory. The commander's office area is on the roof of the building, which alone occupies a full three floors. Rockwell alone could not use such a large place, which was also the office area of many staff officers of the Corps Headquarters.

The Commander's office was very large and a suite, with a bathroom, lounge and dressing room in addition to the main study. Although Rockwell did not live in the headquarters in the past month, the orderly was very diligent and prepared all kinds of daily necessities for the commander at all times.

Rockwell had just entered the office, and before he could sit down, the orderly brought a hot drink.

is a female soldier, not pretty, belongs to the kind of beauty that the more you look at it, the more flavorful it is. It's just that Rockwell didn't look at her much or talk to her, as if she wasn't human at all, but an emotionless machine, or rather that Rockwell was an emotionless machine.

Standing by the window, you can't see the city, but the wilderness of the suburbs.

Although Storm City is on the edge of the desert and the vast savanna is to the south, the headquarters is located northeast of the city, and the view is still endless desert.

Rockwell had lived in the city for fifty-four years.

Rockwell knew the city too well and the people here. He may be seen as a legion commander in the eyes of others, but few people can understand his situation. This is an era of upheaval, and this is an era in which only the strong can survive. Rockwell was not a common man, he had no choice but to do his best to get a chance to survive for himself.