Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2473: Chapter 2474: Unexpected Data

The cooperative combat training for Beastmasters was held in a special layer of the Data City within Maomu City. While theoretically risky, it was much better to conduct training in the Data City than to create a separate simulated combat area within the Data Domain.

Even though Maomu City has made significant advancements in Data Domain research, starting over to create an orderly area within the Data Domain would be both troublesome and challenging.

Naturally, Qi Chen and the others did not miss this opportunity. However, contrary to their expectations, the cooperative combat was not about forming teams freely according to the Beast types. Rather, to facilitate command and action, self-team formation was hardly allowed unless there was a special reason, such as team members being incredibly in sync and complete.

Of course, for those who disagree with this, they could choose not to participate in the training, as this batch of Beastmasters was intended to serve as backup forces for Maomu City, making the standards relatively stricter.

It was because of this that Feng Yuan and the others were assigned to different teams.

"A frontline assault unit, huh? It matches their roles, but I didn’t expect not to meet any familiar faces."

Observing the Beastmasters who were getting ready, Feng Yuan muttered to himself as he found a corner where nobody was paying attention. People like Feng Yuan weren’t particularly numerous; most of the Beastmasters present knew each other, or at least had heard of each other’s names.

From Feng Yuan’s observations, these Beastmasters didn’t seem to be students. They lacked the distinctive immaturity of students, yet their strength was on par with academy students. It seemed that Beastmasters in society were relatively weaker.

Silently thinking to himself, Feng Yuan had no intention of greeting anyone. Others also gave him odd looks because, despite Feng Yuan not having the scholarly appearance, he still looked like a student at first glance.

"Everyone! Gather!"

The Commander in charge of this unit blew a whistle, interrupting the chats and preparations among the group. Judging by Feng Yuan and the others’ entry speed, the whistle was blown right as they got into position.

The Commander didn’t do anything unnecessary. After roughly understanding everyone’s Beasts, he started internal regrouping and led the team directly to the battlefield, advising everyone on some precautions along the way.

Feng Yuan remained silent. The Commander was probably temporarily assigned by Maomu City. Although he did a decent job, he was still too inexperienced. Besides Xiao Ji, during the introductions earlier, Feng Yuan noticed several very special Beasts.

Rather than being offensive-type Beasts, these Beasts seemed capable of combining skills for significant effects, yet the Commander didn’t address this.

Was it disdain, or lack of ability? Feng Yuan leaned toward the latter. If it were him, he would definitely single out the Beastmasters capable of special roles to form special task forces. In actual combat, there’s no clear division of labor. When the moment comes, even support units might have to execute offensive tasks.

If he had the chance, Feng Yuan felt forming an additional mobile special unit would clearly be a wise choice. As for keeping everyone in the same group?

Ordering around would hardly involve personal commands. Not only would it be difficult for the Commander, but this temporary combat team also lacked a complete command relay system. At most, everyone knew their targets, and collaboration depended on tacit understanding or rules used during training.

Under such circumstances, no matter how special an existence, individual orders couldn’t be given.

Just like Feng Yuan—even if Xiao Ji could perform other actions, in the team, Feng Yuan would only receive orders like attacking a specific target or holding off an attack for a certain duration.

Forget it, he was just there to make up the numbers anyway, so it didn’t matter.

Thinking this, Feng Yuan glanced at Xiao Ji and made a gesture, causing nine small shields to circle around him. Since he intended to slack off, Feng Yuan was naturally reluctant to use his own strength; relying on Xiao Ji’s power was more than enough.

"Feng Yuan went to join the cooperative combat training? What’s he doing that for? It’s useless for him, isn’t it?"

Wanting to discuss future defensive strategies with Feng Yuan, Yang Hongzhi was surprised and frustrated to find out that guy had gone to cause a scene. Najia, perched on Xiao Hei’s head, looked at Yang Hongzhi and said,

"Even if you go looking for him, he might not tell you anything. After all, he’s always said he doesn’t want to get involved in this war."

"He says that, but he’s always fighting on the frontline."

Yang Hongzhi smiled and retorted. Najia was momentarily speechless. Besides Beastmasters who got involved passively, Feng Yuan was fighting the fiercest against The Imperial Timeline, even more so than Old Wei, who was still causing destruction within The Imperial Timeline.

Passive defenders aside, who had suffered severe repeated blows, few forces dared to continue seeking opportunities through defense at this point, not even Yang Hongzhi himself, who was summoned by Great Xia. Of course, this was after consulting Najia’s opinion.

No way, Divine Pact Makers were too unique. Someone as special as Yang Hongzhi was rare, which is why the summons was essentially directed at Najia, not Yang Hongzhi himself, as Yang Hongzhi’s own strength wasn’t impressive.

Even Wu Feng had to rely on summoning Vermilion Bird for assistance in defense, unlike Najia, who acted freely in battle.

In fact, Feng Yuan’s situation might be similar to Yang Hongzhi’s because Feng Yuan often had one or two Divine Beasts around him for assistance, making his strength hard to gauge.

"Sigh, if only I had his strength."

Sighing, Yang Hongzhi said helplessly. Sometimes he wondered if he were like Feng Yuan, with several Divine Beasts by his side and decent personal power, could he defeat the unending onslaught of Imperial People?

"Data Domain’s capabilities are quite strong in some aspects."

Upon entering the battlefield, Feng Yuan looked around at the virtual structures, which were nearly indistinguishable from real-world cities, and remarked. Tamur floated invisibly around Feng Yuan, circling him.

"Especially when you think about it deeply."

"Uh, that’s not wrong."

At Tamur’s words, Feng Yuan awkwardly smiled. In a way, Data Domain’s capability was indeed fearsome because merely during the Empire’s recent contact period, their information had already been integrated into the Data Domain’s foundations.

The Imperial People serving as enemies were AI extracted from Maomu City’s Data City, though they didn’t realize that the thoroughness of this data surpassed even Feng Yuan’s understanding.

"Speaking of which, I’m curious how much of The Imperial Timeline’s information is supplemented into the data foundations. Perhaps... let Big Cat investigate?"

While Feng Yuan was unaware of the specifics of the information, his intuition told him that the AI serving as simulated enemies wasn’t simple.

Tamur gently swayed, summoning Big Cat from resting in the villa. Passing through the Data Domain’s doorway, Big Cat looked at Feng Yuan quizzically, meowing.

This region had been isolated from Data City for battle requirements to allow the training director group to deploy Beastmasters from the sky when necessary.

Since it involved civilian safety, even the training director group couldn’t acquire internal Data City permissions and thus couldn’t perform Spatial Transfer, which is why Tamur could easily call Big Cat from the real world.

After hearing Feng Yuan’s description, Big Cat acted promptly, retrieving information from the Data Domain. Because Big Cat had a domain in the Data Domain, it swiftly extracted data from those AIs.

Gazing at the colossal database, Feng Yuan furrowed his brow. After some thought, he randomly manipulated things, read some of the retrieved data, and said in surprise,

"Data Domain has gone beyond normal data recording."

In this documentation, it unexpectedly mentioned the addition of Anti-Divine Beast Runes. Astonishingly, Feng Yuan also noticed the existence of a warped Habilok therein.

"Perhaps for Agunas, this isn’t good news."

Tamur commented. Feng Yuan, holding his forehead, said,

"Indeed, but still, please inform them. I didn’t expect them to have Anti-Divine Beasts, even if they were only the weakest elemental types..."