Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 576 - 576: Potential Army

At the very edge of Evermore's mapped territory, above a stretch of forest, a black structure rose.
It looked like a tower stabbed into the earth, but the upper half floated, detached from the base, held by chains of light.
Around it, the very air twisted.
Lithe flows warped, forming a whirlpool pattern around the ruin.
Message flashed at the edge of the projection.
[Dungeon Type: Unknown]
[Difficulty: Not Rated]
[World Message:
All kingdoms may challenge this ruin.
Rewards scale with contribution.]
The commanders exchanged glances.
"A world dungeon," someone whispered.
"Last time we had one of those was…"
"Two century ago," another finished. "This is bad omen. Las time Three kingdoms fought over it.
But no one come out as winner. They're destroyed..."
"The ruin is not inside our land," Asmon said slowly.
"It is on the line.
Basilea will move. So will Tharion. So will the southern coalition.
If we ignore it, whoever claims it first will crush the rest."
Despite the bad reputation, the reward from dungeon on this scale cannot be underestimated.
So they doesn't plan to backdown.
"High command requested Lady Eva's unit as first response," the acolyte added quickly.
"Together with a detachment from the prince's guard.
Basilea already dispatched their legendary class and an elite corps to the opposite side of the ruin."
Aira disconnected the device and stepped back behind Eva.
On her private interface, additional data scrolled past.
[Let MingYue handle the rest, you should disappear in the dungeon.
I need your help to meet up with other city lord tomorrow.]
Eva as see similiar message but this one is different
[Do what you want I already finished the admin panel, you should be able to modify things now as you wanted.]
Eva lips curled into a small smile.
"Prepare my unit, we leave in one hour."
The meeting dissolved.
The projection dimmed, but the image of the black tower lingered behind everyone's eyes.
As the general left, the second wave of rumors began to spread.
It started small, like everything else. A few soldiers talking near the barracks.
"Did you hear? People say Lady Eva get her power from ruin like this three months ago."
"That cannot be right. They said her power came from Valkarion's direct blessing."
"Blessing? Do you know only one person can get it?
The prince guard already have it, how could we have another one."
"Then where did she get that strength?
She came from nowhere. Three months ago she was just a poor villager.
Now even the prince listens when she talks."
"You are saying she entered a ruin before this and came out like that?"
"Who knows. But I believe this is more possible than another legendary class appear."
The words traveled fast.
"Eva's strength comes from some hidden dungeon, not from Valkarion."
In the lower barracks it turned sour. "If she is not god blessed, what is she? Human? Monster? Something in between?"
The priests hated it. The more the rumor spread, the more their control slipped.
If the people believed they could get power from ruin instead of gods, temples will start losing their influence.
High in the cathedral, a bishop slammed his staff into the floor.
"We must correct this. Lady Eva is Valkarion's instrument. The ruin is a gift from the God."
In the war council, a noble with too many rings scoffed.
'Just say you afraid losing your hold on the kingdom.'
In this world each kingdom has their own patron Gods.
This make religion have a huge influence.
They could even give 'suggestion' to the king.
Although it's called as suggestion it's not something they could reject.
Seeing all this progress, Alex sighed.
He was both excited and gloomy about the possibilities.
In the end it was still a huge war. He could not just give a free pass to everyone.
Some people would die and run out of their lives.
In that situation, the best he could do was put them in indefinite sleep and only let them wake up after humanity's situation became better.
A weak citizen would just add to their burden right now.
They had no time and no strength to take care of them.
'The best I can do is send them all to Edonia, but looking at the numbers…'
He swiped his hand, calling up a map of the world.
The Mechalyte had completely conquered Ainode.
Even the red and black zones were now covered in cities.
Based on the data, there were more than eighty billion people living here now, all being farmed inside the tubes.
'I wonder just how many planets like this the Mechalyte have enslaved.'
The structure on the planet was quite simple.
At first he thought there would be some representative on each sector, but it turned out it was just all the city lords grouped per sector, with one administrator overseeing the whole planet.
The administrator was the only Mechalyte actually standing by here.
So it could be said the whole planet was being maintained by AI.
'Did I miss something, or is the information here just not complete…?'
Alex still felt skeptical that this was the whole structure.
It felt too simple.
'The only thing they have is the annual meeting for city lords per sector. This is my opportunity.'
Alex raised his interface again and asked the AI to give him all information concerning the Mechalyte.
But everything that appeared was what he already knew.
The AI did not keep any real history, only important data and city logs.
Shaking his head, he raised another interface, this time showing the list of humans inside the city.
Lines of text appeared.
[City Ainode - Central Farm Hub 183]
[Human Population Overview]
Total population in pods: 328,447,912
Gender ratio: 51.3% female, 48.7% male
Age range:
0 - 14 years: 19.8%
15 - 39 years: 47.5%
40 - 64 years: 26.1%
65+ years: 6.6%
[Life Force Quality]
Low grade: 61.2%
Medium grade: 28.7%
High grade: 9.4%
Extreme grade: 0.7%
[Potential Recruits]
Candidates flagged: 18,732,554
Top priority pool: 2,103,887
'Two million potential troops…'
Alex stared at the number.
The "Potential Recruit" list was something he had added himself.
First, the filter removed people based on personality.
Anyone too narrow-minded was excluded.
Then came age.
Everyone above thirty was also removed from the pool.
The remaining candidates were ranked based on loyalty, fighting potential, intelligence, and several other factors.
Each one was scored on a scale from 1 to 10.
Those at the top were the people who scored above 7.
There was also another hidden pool that did not appear on the main screen, containing only those who scored above 9.
There were less than a hundred of them.
Alex planned to send that group to Edonia, to be trained directly under the Sovereign.
He then looked back at the planet map.
'With over eighty billion people, if I can even get a million with a score above nine, competing against those species in the main universe will not be just a pipe dream.'
He let out a dry chuckle.
After all, these numbers were just numbers.
To create true elites, they still needed experience, to pass through many life-and-death battles, and to have enough resources.
The life-and-death part could be handled by making them fight in the virtual world with their souls, since he could just resurrect them back.
The problem was resources.
The amount needed to raise elites was enormous.
Even with what he had now, he doubted he had enough to fully train all two million people in the top pool.
And this is all just estimation, he still lack knowledge on top elite strength in the universe.