Beginning with the first encounter with the alien base in the Republic in 523 of the rune calendar, the infiltrators, including Nesta, have experienced many things together or separately in the following time, such as the common dormancy that continues to this day at the Yin Ba base, and the journey of Nesta to the Legion Headquarters, and the study that has also continued to this day after arriving at the station;

In the expression, although the time and distance span of these things are often measured in units of 'years' and 'light years', because the 'years' here refer to the galactic year rather than the parent star year, it is very different from the traditional algorithm of the elven home planet.

The reason for this is, of course, that there is a difference between the rune calendar used by the country elves and the galactic calendar

In the council galactic calendar used by the great river system, 1 galactic day is equivalent to 16 elven lamp hours, and there are 600 galactic days (400 earth days) in a galactic year, so 1 galactic year is equal to about 200 parent star days and about 0.4 elven years (1.1 earth years);

From this, it can be seen that 1 galaxy light-year is equal to about 0.4 elven light-years, so the expression of the local river system with a diameter of 220,000 elven light-years will be very different in the general unit, although there is no difference in essence, but it will sound much larger in vain.

In fact, most of the time calculations of the civilizations in the river system also originated from the original homeland, so there have been one or more sets of calendar schemes since ancient times, so there are obvious differences in the units of time, speed, and light years.

In order to eliminate the inconvenience caused by this difference, after the establishment of the Council, out of consensus, we synthesized the characteristics of the calendars of various civilizations, set up a simple and clear galaxy calendar timekeeping scheme as a common one, and specially corrected many related units such as light years based on it.

In addition, other common weights and measures, such as mass and length, also have their own common schemes, although no one cares what kind of unit each civilization uses in their own homes, but at least they will default to the 'universal system' when dealing with foreign countries;

This is no exception even for criminals, which is why elven lurkers have been using universal units for some time, especially Nesta, who is now active outside the egg.

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Although the Torto Legion is a criminal organization, it has an efficient cadre training mechanism, and when the resident managers are determined to train excellent employees in the future, the corresponding educational methods within the regulations appear in front of Nesta one after another.

So, within a few days of the 'interview', Nesta began a more orderly and intensive learning process than before, and he continued to be further educated in the cycle of virtual training and actual combat, and then quickly grew according to the requirements of the residency.

And this kind of growth is not completely false, although the caster profession brings a completely different intelligent composition model from the usual flesh and blood life, and the data integration as the foundation of this model does bring him powerful computing power, high-speed thinking ability, and the abundance of hundreds of millions of threads;

However, any high-level spellcaster, including Nesta, must also accumulate experience and insight if they want to use these advantages to gain some kind of real progress.

Therefore, the training that took place in this garrison was of great value to Nesta itself and to all the elves of the Republic;

In this process, the former can use the corps as a medium to familiarize themselves with the combat theories and related technical means of the river system, and these experiences and insights are also being continuously transmitted back to the Republic headquarters along the link of thought;

As a result, the country elves of the distant juniors or their peers have gained valuable growth through the information window provided by the legion in this situation of almost staying at home.

At the same time, Nesta wasn't really focused on his studies like a good baby, and he continued to carry out missions that might be terrible for the Legion.

Nesta, who can stay in the garrison for long periods of time without too many restrictions, actually has too many opportunities to come into contact with other legionnaires;

Among them, there are slaves of all races and types, as well as official legionnaires, and grassroots cadres of the legion, who have not forgotten their true purpose, not only collected information samples of almost all flesh creatures, but even left the 'Nesta Transformation Seed' in their respective bodies by the way.

They are special and ordinary molecular structures, which continue to spread in the station like an asymptomatic infectious disease over time, and are buried in the central tissues of almost all flesh and blood organisms through respiration, physical contact, and body fluid exchange;

With the technical support provided by the Ministry, the 'seeds' that burrow into the bodies of slaves at all levels are usually the first to take root, seeking to assimilate them into clones with different superficial consciousnesses, just like the four-armed Nusser's body is now.

However, when confronted with the rest of the flesh creatures with titles rated 0-5, the Transmutation chose to go semi-dormant due to 'unknown' after merging with its body structure, and then waited for the day when the many Nestas in the station would upgrade and turn the unknown into the known.

At this time, it is unknown that in fact, with the exception of the Level 6 administrator and a very small proportion of non-flesh life, most of the legionnaires, including the lieutenant who has excellent training for Nesta, have contracted 'Nesta disease', regardless of whether they are resident or practitioners;

Some of them are in the process of transformation equivalent to the onset of the disease, while others are still in a state of transformation that is more similar to the incubation period, and then it only takes time to wait and the time comes, and they can turn this place into a 'Nesta base', so that the infected people in it can become a part of the Nesta forest.

In this anticipation, ten galactic years passed in a flash, and there were two seemingly unrelated things that might have the same consequences, and as the seeds ripened and fell, a certain established fact was generated.

Let's start with 'things'.

First of all, in the various actual combat tasks carried out in the training stage, the four-armed Nesta in the station climbed from minus 9 slave to minus 1 slave under the special arrangement of the management, and then passed the thinking audit of the station and was able to completely get rid of slavery, and at this time he has become a peripheral member with a rating of 0 within the legion;

Then, the distant Yinba black market ended its self-inspection and started business again 7 years ago.

Let's talk about the same 'consequences' that resulted from this.

Nesta was given a new bootstrap plan when she was promoted, and after retraining the new plan and consolidating it for a period of time, she experienced the same state again without ritual assistance;

On the surface, this gave him a stronger sense of belonging to the legion and a stronger sense of loyalty to the legion leader, but in essence, through the simultaneous analysis of the cutting-edge spellcasters of the headquarters, he mastered the ability to secretly transform level 0 members;

As a result, the 'Nesta disease' of the outer members of the legion in the garrison also ended its incubation period, and since then they have collectively entered the official stage of onset.

Similarly, when the black market ended its self-inspection, its internal supervision returned to its original level, so the rest of the molecular-level spellcasters except Nesta also began to act;

They precipitated part of their body matter out of the egg hatch, formed a molecular-level transformation seed, and buried them in the bodies of the slaves for sale, preparing to use the new ideas they had discovered by accident to spread themselves into the rest of the tissue, whether light, dark, or gray, like the four-armed Nesta.

Finally, let's talk about 'established facts'.

Over the past ten years, Nesta has possessed nearly 30,000 bodies outside the Republic, the vast majority of which are permanent or resident slaves, and the immediate consequences and indirect effects of this are self-evident.

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When the molecular-level spellcasters over there were activated, and when nearly 30,000 Neonesta were serving as 'eyes' in various areas, his four-armed body also ushered in the most important level, that is, the assessment that he needed to pass when he was promoted to level 1.

Before the assessment, Nesta officially met with the Resident Administrator for the first time, the mist being who had been glimpsed through the ritual and had given him some guesses, and learned a lot about the assessment.

The manager made it very clear that the peripheral members of level 0 are the end point of most 'ordinary genius' slaves, and in principle, they need to obtain an evaluation similar to 'root and seedling black' in order to be eligible to continue to walk through a series of promotion levels in the future.

However, this approach has no reference value for the purchased slaves, and the supplier will often choose to completely castrate them before selling them in order to ensure their own exclusivity over the unique slave species to a certain extent;

Nesta's body at this time is theoretically a slave of this type, although this does not mean anything to him who can be released at any time, but if he does not want to bear more attention than he can bear, he needs to keep this persona;

Therefore, Nesta can't actually choose to let his 'offspring' advance by accumulation in the usual way.

But 'principles' are often meant to be broken, and the Legion also offers a strict path for unconventional geniuses to choose from, allowing them to join the Legion instead of the descendants of an unknown number of generations.

Strictly speaking, at this moment, Nesta is actually an ordinary genius who has gone through the 'genius road', and the leap from minus 1 to level 0 is the result of the system, but each subsequent level will usher in an exponential increase in difficulty, otherwise how can you prove that you have the qualifications to make the legion break the principle?

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After leaving the manager's office, Nesta created complex feelings of apprehension and fighting spirit in her heart, and at the same time thought about how to go forward.

As far as the current situation is concerned, there is no need for him to really be an extraordinary genius again

Because at this time, there are actually a few peripheral members in the station who are already qualified to be promoted to level 1 after generations, and they will naturally become part of Nesta in the near future.

That is to say, he only needs to wait here quietly for a few more galactic years, and when those seeds that have germinated at this moment complete the dove and occupy the magpie's nest, they will be able to take on a new identity and be promoted through meritorious service without attracting too much attention.

But Nesta seemed a little hesitant about this, and the point of hesitation was not whether to use the rest of his status to achieve promotion, because that was the plan that would inevitably be carried out in the future;

What really made him uncertain was whether he should let this current body continue to walk as an extraordinary genius.

This may attract attention and increase the risk of future actions, but the risks often appear in succession or at the same time as opportunities, and there may be a difference between those who are promoted on the path of genius and those who are promoted on the regular path that are not yet known at the moment.

Naturally, such a question would not be decided by himself alone, so Nesta immediately convened a consultation meeting with the headquarters and made a decision after everyone weighed the pros and cons;

The end result of the deliberation is to continue the genius before the risk of insurmountability is truly felt, and to see if it will really be different.

So, after a few days of superficial 'risk consideration', he reported his willingness to accept a special promotion appraisal with great risk, and since his genius category is 'strategic and tactical command', the subsequent appraisal will be based on real combat considerations.

Similar to the old saying 'thieves don't go empty', in addition to measuring the strength of resources and intelligence support obtained during the assessment process, the amount of benefits that can be gained after the war will also be included as an important indicator of whether to pass or not.

First of all, the value of the equipment applied for, the number of troops, and the intelligence strength applied by the reference will become a type of exponential parameters that can affect the performance.

Second, losses during or after the war, including material and intelligence, will be treated as a category of minus points and will directly affect the final score.

Finally, the post-war gains, which also include material and intelligence, are the initial results that need to be tested by 'indexes' and 'minus points', so the amount of gains is important to whether they pass or not.

After learning a lot of information related to the assessment, his promotion task officially began.

In the first target selection process, a piece of information from the remaining parallel stations in the distant star field was the first to catch Nesta's attention

According to the station's subordinate front-line intelligence unit, an energy company in its intelligence monitoring area would release some of the 'annihilated material' at regular intervals and hand it over to the same armed merchant group for transport, and the reporter later preliminarily estimated that the shipment should be around 1,000 tons through surveillance.

It is known that the 'Galaxy Coin' issued by the Central Bank of the Great River System is the currency that has been in circulation since the establishment of the Council, and this type of currency is also known as the 'Extinction Coin';

Judging from this point alone, we can also know how valuable the 'annihilation substance' is, according to the exchange rate of the last 100 years, 1,000 tons of annihilation material is worth about 20 million galactic coins, and this is only its normal price in the regular market.

Since this kind of substance is an efficient energy source required for many aspects such as spaceship jumps and wormhole openings, it is also an important bargaining chip used by powerful civilizations to win over or limit the rest of the forces, and whether it is sold or transported, it contains a certain degree of political significance;

Its suppliers are usually those powerful civilizations that are at least second-tier upward, and a few third-tier civilizations can also master manufacturing technology for various reasons, but they are limited by various considerations and cannot sell openly, and even if they choose to ship secretly, they are often only supplied in small quantities.

All in all, under the influence of many factors including but not limited to technical difficulty, it is a special commodity in the large river system, which is in short supply for a long time in the market, so there are often quotations in the black market that are at least five times more than those of formal channels.

For now, it is unclear whether the Torto Legion will be able to produce its own annihilation, but he has made an analysis based on the known merit credits, and has come to the general conclusion that the output may be limited.

That is to say, if you can successfully make a 'business' with the goal of destroying matter, then you can at least get an extra layer of strategic significance for your choice, and then only need to pay attention to the loss rate in the process, which should be enough to complete or even exceed the promotion assessment.

So he chose this information as the initial target, and applied to the garrison for 20 raiding ships and the corresponding 20 legal merchant ships, and then added 5,000 slaves of various types and supporting weapons, and embarked on the road of assessment including detailed intelligence acquisition, tracking, and combat;

Later, under the cover of two partner wormholes along the way, he led the team to a third-tier civilization that was 130,000 light-years away from the starting station, that is, the area where the energy company was located.

Immediately, in the name of intelligence communication, he sent ships to this side's supervision station, and sowed his own seeds there.

In this way, even if the trip collapses due to various accidents, it can guarantee the most basic, or very strategically valuable gains, and before the mission is completed, he has already gained a new identity pool outside his station, and at least more than 10,000 slaves and peripheral members are waiting to become one of the many Nesta.

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(End of chapter)