To the west of the Central Continent, across the endless sea of radiation, through the "Abyss Gate", a huge whirlpool between the two continents, you will reach another continent, the West Continent.

The size of the Western continent is only one-third the size of Central Continent, and at the time of the cataclysm, the Eurasian plate, one of the original six continental plates, split into two. One of them was carried away by the disturbed currents and eventually penetrated deep into the trench. The sinking of tectonic plates had a huge impact on ocean currents and eventually formed a portal to the abyss of a huge vortex that disappeared for decades. The only remaining plates survived and became what is today's Western Continent.

In the catastrophe of that year, Rome, the capital of Italy, was fortunate not to suffer serious damage. So the human beings who were lucky enough to survive the cataclysm gathered in this city, and in that dark period when order collapsed, the Catholic Church in the Vatican became the spiritual pillar of people's hearts. The Church also used all its savings to help the survivors through the dark times, and eventually, while helping the survivors regain their faith, the Papal Room was born.

This was the first ruling force in the Xizhou Continent, and in the beginning, the Papal Hall only existed as a management and dispatch body. This is also the case with the super-prime, under the unified dispatch of the Pope's Chamber, the resources have been used to the greatest extent. An even grander underground city was built beneath the old Roman site, and the city called the new Rome was the place where countless people had placed their hopes.

In the heart of the city of New Rome stands a statue of God that can be seen from all corners of the city, and as the only true God of the Catholic Trinity, the merciful God watches over this new holy city with a merciful eye. This statue is both the symbol of New Rome and the seat of the Papal Chamber. Just behind the square where the statue is located sits a baroque church, modeled entirely after St. Peter's Basilica, which is the headquarters of the Papal Chambers and an irreplaceable shrine in the hearts of all the people of New Rome.

The twenty years following the Cataclysm were the most glorious golden period of the city of New Rome. The Papal Office is dedicated to the research and development of genetic engineering, working to improve the health of Cataclysmic survivors and solve all the problems left behind by radiation contamination. And with the advent of water purification factories and genetic food, survival is no longer an imminent issue.

After that, the first army of the Papal Hall was formed.

The Order of the Holy Seal, made up of passionate believers who have a sufficient center in the Papal Chamber. They were trained and swore that they would give their blood and their hearts to protect the peace and tranquility of New Rome! With the support of religious beliefs, this army had an indestructible faith, and they destroyed several strongholds of mutant beasts and living corpses near New Rome, and made an indelible contribution to the expansion of the territory of the Papal Chamber.

After another five years, the first generation of power armor "Paladin I" appeared. It's a bulky machine that uses hydraulic machines and titanium armor, but there's no denying that the Paladin-type armor has unmatched firepower. Therefore, after being put into use, it also became the trump card in the Holy Seal Knights.

If all goes on as usual, the new city of Rome will become the paradise of Eden. But just fifteen years ago, General Sauron, the head of the Knights of the Holy Seal, launched a rebellion, ousting the then Pope Paul V and putting Paul VI, who was only 5 years old, into politics. But in reality, it was General Sauron who was behind the scenes.

After Sauron seized power, the Papal Room began to deteriorate. In the second year of Paul VI's reign, the Inquisition was established, and anyone who dared to question Sauron's voice would disappear from the Inquisition. These people were branded heretics and burned at the stake, and the city of New Rome began to recreate the dark period of the Middle Ages.

The light is still coming, and the darkness continues to spread. After Sauron took power, he didn't care about how the inhabitants of New Rome were doing, he was more concerned about how to satisfy his ambitions. All the labs of genetic engineering were shut down, and all the technology was devoted to the study of power armor and other weapons of war. It has to be said that the warlike nature of human beings is vividly displayed in the study of this field.

Soon, the second and third generations of Knight power armor were developed one after another. Unlike the bulky armor of the original, the second generation of Griffon Riders focused on speed and agility, using lighter materials and being more resistant to pressure than the original armor, but weighing only one-third the weight of the first generation. Griffin riders even have the ability to glide over short distances, which makes their application more flexible and strategic.

The three generations of the Knights of the Round Table are completely war golems, they are a full ten meters tall and are equipped with Vulcan cannons known as the Barem cannon version, guided missiles, electric knight spears, and alloy tower shields. There are thirteen Knights of the Round Table, among which the special model codenamed King Arthur is Sauron's car, which is equipped with weapons that are more powerful and powerful than other Knights of the Round Table.

And in the past five years, the fourth generation of armored air angels is in the research and development stage. This is an unmanned power armor that is remotely controlled by the driver through the intelligent brain. Air Angel Power Armor is primarily used for reconnaissance, and they can also be used to transport miniature nuclear bombs when needed. But so far, the empty angel is still not put into actual combat, and there is still a considerable distance from the assembly line production.

While the Papal Chamber was fully engaged in the development of weapons of war, rebels gradually appeared in the city of New Rome out of disgust with Sauron's high-handed policies. However, the rebels were not comparable to the Papal Chamber in terms of numbers or weapons, but they were so popular that they were financed by the inhabitants of New Rome and some of the high-ranking officials in the Papal Chamber who were dissatisfied with Sauron.

Although the Papal Chamber had conducted several major military operations against it, the rebels were as dead as a hundred-legged worm. Whenever Sauron thought he had been relieved of this serious problem, it would not be long before they would linger at the edge of the papal chamber's line of sight, much to Sauron's distraction.

The new era is an era of capabilities, but the Papal Chamber does not know whether it pays too much attention to the research and development of science and technology, and ignores the development of capabilities. In short, in the army of the Papal Hall, there are not many of them who are capable. In the Middle-earth Continent, fourth-order powerhouses are only mid-to-high-level soldiers of giants like Valhalla or the Dark Council. But in the Holy Seal Knights of the Pope's Hall, fourth-order abilities can already hold captain-level positions. And the higher-order points can even be qualified for such a heavy task as the head of the sub-group. As for Sauron himself, he was only a Ninth Order, and he was the only Ninth Order in the entire New Roman City, and he had his own exclusive domain.

There are not many capable people in the Pope's Hall, but they have made up for this lack with the help of technology. On the contrary, among the rebel army, which does not have much technological support, the proportion of capable people is higher than that of the knights of the Pope's Hall, and it is for this reason that the rebel army has been able to survive until now.

Perhaps noticing the shortcomings in this area, the Papal Chamber also began to study the biochemistry of genes. Not so long ago, the rebels received a definite message from the upper echelons of the Papal Hall. Zoro is conducting a top-secret research in several secret bases on the Western Continent, and the object of the research seems to be some kind of life form from the previous era. The organism is said to possess genes that are close to those of humans, but much more powerful. Sauron's goal is to crack the genetic code of this lifeform and make all his soldiers have this super gene.

Once Sauron is successful, he will not only have a strong armored force, but also the strength of an assembly line production capacity. When the time comes, it will be the end of the rebels. Therefore, upon receiving this news, the rebels quickly organized an operation to sabotage the research and thus inflict a substantial blow on Sauron.

Just east of the city of New Rome, on the corner of the continent of the West continent sits a small town. This small town called Mota is mostly inhabited by fishing. Of course, they can't go to the deep sea like the fishermen of old, and in fact Mota's fishermen can only fish in the relatively calm bay nearby. The deviant fish they caught were not used for food, but were sold to merchants or biological research institutes in the city of New Rome. The former is resold to the wealthy as ornamental ornaments, while the latter is used to study the ecological changes in the radiated seas.

Fishermen, boats, fishing nets, and strange sea creatures are the impressions of the town to outsiders. But few people know that there is actually a secret base under the ground of the town, and the meaning of the base's existence is to conduct a top-secret life research jihua. Jihua's code name was "The Beast", which was also the subject's nickname.

Three years ago, the Sky Angel drone mech stumbled upon the wreckage of a spaceship resting deep underground. I don't know what happened before, the wreckage found by the Sky Angel was so badly damaged, it even looked like it was just some large parts, and the conclusion of the spaceship was inferred from the Pope's Hall after collecting all the wreckage and piecing together some images from the brain "Gabriel".

In that experiment, the wreckage obtained by the Papal Hall did not do much, but the shell armor of the hull was of great research value, so it was studied as a material model for the fifth generation of conceptual armor. In addition to these devastation, the Sky Angel also found more than two dozen oval-shaped metal objects. After the items were shipped, the Papal Hall confirmed that it was a hibernation chamber-like device.

They forcibly demolished one of the hibernation chambers, and the "beast" was obtained. The beast is its or his codename, and the code name for the entire genetic engineering. The Pope's Hall has found extremely powerful cells in the beast's body, and if the genetic code in this cell can be deciphered, then the Pope's Hall can officially put the imaginary "Angel Army" Jihua on the agenda.

For a long time, a humanoid weapon with no emotion and strong combat effectiveness proposed by Zoro has been another research topic in the Pope's Hall after the power mecha. Presided over by Dr. Jane Lockchev, who has considerable authority in biochemistry and genetics, but this "angel army" Jihua is not easy to implement. The emotional aspect is easy to deal with, and before that, there was an operation to remove the pain nerve for the wounded soldier. Later, in order to facilitate the battle, almost every warrior of the Holy Seal Knights has undergone the implantation of a pain masking element, making them fearless warriors.

As long as this nerve occlusion element is improved, the emotions of the soldiers can be completely obscured, and they can be completely turned into emotionless killing machines. However, according to Sauron's vision, the soldiers of the Angel Legion possessed at least an average of five to six levels of ability. This is a difficult problem, you must know that there are not many capable people in the Pope's Hall, and if the capable ones are forcibly recruited to form an angel legion, there are only a thousand people. Moreover, after using emotional masking, it will turn the capable into loyal and obedient killing weapons, but at the same time, it will also wipe out their potential to continue evolving, which is somewhat more than worth the loss.

The appearance of the beast gave hope to the stranded Jihua, and researchers found a series of information in the cells extracted from the beast. His metabolism is more than 20 times that of ordinary humans, his cell activity is 12 times that of normal humans, his base liliang, and his physical strength have reached the level of sixth-order strengthening. But most importantly, his cells have the function of modifying other organisms.

In one experiment, researchers injected cells extracted from him into a mouse. The rat immediately mutated, its size swelled rapidly, its teeth and claws were about four or five times sharper than normal of its kind, and it had also improved a lot in terms of liliang. But soon, the mouse died of genetic breakdown.

Since then, the research team led by Jane has been working on how to completely transplant the cells in the beast's body into ordinary soldiers, so as to transform them into strong warriors. However, the collapse of the cells of the beast due to mutual exclusion after modifying the organism has not been resolved, so the research has dragged on for three years, during which the number of soldiers and civilians who have secretly died in the experiment has reached a staggering number.

In order to cover up the death toll, so as not to bring panic after the exposure. The Papal Chamber decided to transfer the beasts, and the test subjects were mainly outcasts from the wilderness. The research base, located under the town of Mota, was secretly built a year ago for the continued research of the beast, and was only recently put into use.

The Central Laboratory, which is heavily encrypted and protected by a Paladin Mechazen. Two staff members are performing routine data records on a culture tank. One of them pulled out an information recording chip from the meter under the culture tank and inserted it into the slot of his tablet brain, which immediately automatically read the data and updated the relevant information base. After doing all this, the man put the wafer back in so that all the data in the tank could be stored automatically.

"I'm leaving, I'll leave it to you here. He waved the tablet brain in his hand, and the person before said so.

The rest of the one said with a helpless expression: "I really wish I could go back to New Rome, we have been here for almost seven months, and we are not even allowed to go out outside the base." I'm going crazy to be here. ”

"As long as the big problem behind you can be solved, we are not far from going home. ”

"Is it that easy? If this problem had been so easy to solve, we wouldn't have had to travel all the way to this town. ”

"Stop complaining and get to work. ”

Then came the sound of the automatic door opening, and when it closed again, there was only one researcher left in the lab on duty. It was late at night, and he sighed and sat down in front of the computer. Looking at the data on the screen almost unchanged from three years ago, the researcher felt a pang of exhaustion.

Maybe you won't get anything in the end, right?" he thought, and then put his legs on the workbench and fell asleep with his eyes closed. Why don't you sleep, there's no entertainment in the base.

Unbeknownst to him, just after he fell asleep, the data on the screen began to change slightly but continuously.

In the culture tank, there is a huge figure in those green base fluids. It was a giant, at least three meters tall and muscular, comparable to a paladin mech. He has a human body and looks like an Earthling, one size larger. In fact, from the structure of the body to the internal tissues, he is exactly the same as a human being.

Except for some cellular differences.

For example, the cells that are far stronger than ordinary humans, and the anterior trefoiled crystals of the forehead, which I don't know what they do. And now, there are three lights in the culture tank. The medium liquid changed from calm to bubbles and then to a boiling state. As the data on the computer screen on the workbench soars and reaches a certain tipping point, all the lights in the lab flicker.

Then two more red lights lit up in the cultivation tank, and then two scarlet energy flames sprayed on the cultivation tank. The culture tank could not last even 1 second before it exploded, and a large amount of green base liquid poured out of the broken gap. In this torrent pouring like a waterfall, a pair of huge fists stretched out, and a few punches widened the gap in the cultivation tank, and the tall figure inside jumped to the ground, and then stood upright.

Awakened by computer alarms and the sudden rupture of the culture tank, the researcher scrambled to the ground and saw him when he looked up again. Under the constant flickering of lights, the researchers saw the perfect body. The body was rigid and wild, as if it had an infinite liliang, so tall that his face and the light source behind him were backlit. But on the unclear face, there was a three-leaf light on the brow. When he looked at it like this, he actually made this giant, codenamed Beast, have a divinity or two.

At this time, an alarm is heard. The automatic doors of the laboratory opened, and two paladin mechs rushed in, only to be greeted by two scorching death rays. The researchers on the ground clearly saw that these two blood-red beams of energy erupted from the beast's eyes, and the red flame stream erupted more than ten meters away, easily slashing through the two paladin mechs as the beast's head swung. When two scorched black marks appeared on the mech's chest, which still had sparks, the mecha exploded into two fireballs with a loud bang, and a strong shockwave swept across the laboratory, lifting the researchers up and hitting the computer screen behind them. By the time the hapless man hit the ground, he had already fainted.