Chapter 187 One Year Later.
"After you finish fighting with Aoko, Akemi, and Shiho, I can give you a new sword and potion. Once you get used to your new weapons and powers, you will have two more sparring partners next time.

After completing the next sparring session, you will be eligible for the genetic modification surgery. But after completing the genetic modification, you need to join the Hero Association. My requirements are not high, how about two years of service? "Li De asked Sonic.

"Just two years?" Sonic confirmed with Reed.

"Just two years. If you want to stay after two years, I welcome you. If you want to leave, I will see you off." Li De nodded and replied.

"Okay! But I have a request." Sonic nodded.

After all, the entire supercontinent knows one thing now, that is, the heroes of the Hero Association have no other duties except defeating monsters, and all their time is at their own disposal.

Of course, if you want to make more money, you must explore your own business value through the association, which will definitely waste some personal time.

But this is a personal wish and is not mandatory.

But overall, the degree of freedom has been greatly improved compared to before.

After all, previously C-level heroes had to carry out heroic activities every week, while heroes above B-level had to shoulder patrol responsibilities.

But now these duties are gone, and the hero has only one duty, which is to defeat monster disasters.

Of course, investigations involving monsters are inevitable, but the association has additional task bonuses as compensation for this.

In addition, unlike before, the association did not designate someone to complete the task, but it was directly posted to the task hall built by Child Emperor.

The tasks are released according to the level that can be accepted. As long as there is a hero who meets the level of the task, it will be a matter of speed. Whoever is quicker will go.

Sonic had understood this before when things were fine.

Even Sonic has considered whether to join the Hero Association. After all, the current Hero Association is a completely different organization from the original one.

It was precisely because he had considered it that Sonic agreed so readily.

"What do you want?" Reed asked Sonic.

"When I join, you must give me information about Dragon-level monsters." Sonic said, because he looked down on monsters below Dragon-level.

Reed understood the reason behind Sonic's request very well. It was just that he didn't want to be under Flash.

"No problem. I can even ask other S-class and A-class players to give you face." Li De nodded with a smile.

"As long as the S-class don't interfere, I don't care about the A-class even if they come," Sonic said calmly.

After all, he is confident that by the time he joins the Hero Association, his strength will definitely be much stronger than it is now.

By then, even if he encounters the shining Flash, he will definitely have an absolute advantage.

"Okay, I've satisfied you. Can we continue now?" Li De asked again. After all, it's not easy to find such an experienced killing expert to practice with.

Of course, if Li De had taken over the mission of the Naruto world earlier and was able to poach people from the Naruto world, he wouldn't have to be so obsessed with Sonic at this moment.

"Give me a knife that suits my hand." Sonic's eyes turned cold and he said to Reed.

"No problem!" Li De said with a smile.

After Sonic got a new sword of the same weight, the battle resumed.

This time it's Nakamori Aoko's turn.

And Aoko Nakamori did not disappoint Reed. Although she was a little slower than Ran Mouri, she kicked Sonic out of the speed in the fifth second.

However, the two sisters Miyano Akemi and Miyano Shiho who came later were far inferior to Mouri Ran and Nakamori Aoko.

Even if the two were equipped with the Stream Rock Crushing Fist and the Whirlwind Iron Slash Fist, they still couldn't defeat Sonic in a short period of time.

Of course, Li De’s requirements for these two women were not that high.

The reason why the sisters appeared on the training ground was because Li De deliberately requested it.

Li De's requirement for them was that they must not have strength without corresponding combat experience.

Even though they are positioned as researchers, in Li De's opinion, they may not be very skilled in combat, but they must not be easily defeated when they are attacked.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t win. As long as you don’t get killed instantly, you can delay time and hold on until rescue arrives.

This is the meaning of their sister training.

Therefore, no matter how much time the two sisters spent with Sonic, Reed didn't care.

It was not until the battle with the two sisters that Sonic's frustrated heart finally regained some confidence.

In fact, it’s no wonder that Sonic was hit. Ran Mouri and Aoko Nakamori are the girls of destiny who follow the template of the heroine. It is natural that they have good talents.

Moreover, judging from the huge amount of films that Li De has watched, there are not many supporting actresses who can suppress the heroine in terms of talent.

Miyano Shiho's talent in certain aspects is indeed far better than Mori Ran and Nakamori Aoko, but unfortunately, this talent has nothing to do with combat.

And Akemi Miyano is just an ordinary person, so when the Miyano sisters first fought with Sonic, they were naturally taught a lesson.

In other words, the weapons provided by Li De were very ordinary. If they were replaced with weapons made of mithril, the two sisters might really have been dismembered.

Although I can't die, it is definitely not a memory worth keeping.

Fortunately, Li De took all these into consideration, so the Miyano sisters did not lose face.

Of course, no matter how much time it took, Li De's goal of training the two sisters was indeed achieved.

Once everything was back on track, a year passed quickly.

A lot of things have happened in the past year.

First of all, the scale of the Hero Association has skyrocketed unprecedentedly. The number of S-class heroes has increased from the original two to the current nine. The newly added seven are Tornado, who is currently ranked first in performance, Sonic, who is ranked third, Metal Storm, who is ranked fourth, Superalloy Darkshine, who is ranked fifth, Kamikaze, who is ranked sixth, Pig God, who is ranked seventh, and Dog Man, who is ranked eighth.

Together with Claire, who is now ranked second, and Blast, who is at the end, they form a new S-class hero sequence that is completely solid and capable of fighting against dragon-level monster disasters.

Even the S-level group increased by seven people, and the A-level group naturally increased by even more, a total of 20 people.

Of course, this does not mean that only 20 demon-level monster disasters occurred in the entire supercontinent in the past year, but that 20 people were upgraded through demon-level monster disasters.

In fact, there were a total of 28 demon-level monster disasters, and the remaining 8 were resolved by the original A-level heroes.

Currently, the top three in Class A are Bang, Nichirin, and Bang.

Apart from A-class heroes, the number of B-class heroes promoted is even higher, not to mention the current number of C-class heroes which has exceeded 300. Currently, except for the number of S-class and A-class heroes which have not yet recovered, the number of B-class and C-class heroes has exceeded that before the system change a year ago.

And what’s different from that time is that the heroes nowadays are not watered down at all.

In addition to the development of the association, Shiho Miyano's genetic modification project has also achieved remarkable results. Although clinical operations have not yet been carried out, it has now entered the stage of screening the first batch of personnel.

However, there are not many genes that can be modified and added at present. After all, the main purpose of Miyano Shiho's research on this project is to help her own people strengthen their bloodline, rather than to enhance the overall strength of the Hero Association. Therefore, the research direction is quite biased.

But with the help of Child Emperor, Miyano Shiho also took into account the genetic modification of ordinary people, but she was not so serious about it.

Of course, even if Miyano Shiho wanted to take it seriously, she couldn't, because research has found that ordinary people's genes cannot withstand too many gene replacements, even with interventions that have healing abilities.

Moreover, it is impossible to use the genes of powerful monsters, and only the genes of ordinary creatures can be used. This is because the mutated monster genes are much stronger than ordinary genes, and forced replacement can easily cause the collapse of the gene chain.

After getting this result, Child Emperor felt very regretful for a while.

After all, the genes of ordinary creatures are much worse than those of monsters.

Apart from other things, through testing, it was found that the power difference between the giant rhinoceros beetle obtained a year ago and the ordinary rhinoceros beetle was as high as 650 times.

In other words, the rhinoceros beetle was able to lift objects 1500 times its own weight.

This is such an exaggerated statistic.

However, the fact that ordinary people cannot use the monster genes does not mean that Li De and others cannot use them.

Don’t think that a monster has extraordinary bloodline just because he has strong genes. In fact, this is not the case.

Miyano Shiho has focused on studying this and knows very well that the reason why the genes of these monsters or strange insects are so powerful is mainly related to the special rules of this world.

Strictly speaking, these genes are the mutation products when monsterization occurs, and can only be regarded as mutant genes.

If it is not extraordinary, then it is within the scope of use.

Once we get the results from Shiho Miyano, we can put the reconstruction surgery on the agenda.

But before that, Li De and others still need to wait.

In the internal hospital of the Hero Association in City A, Li De was sitting in his office listening to the report from Spring Beard on the other end of the video.

"To sum up the above, I think Zhengyi's physical potential has been developed to the limit. Even if he can use his Qi skills to the extreme, I am afraid he can only reach the end of A-level at best."

After listening to Spring Beard's report, Li De couldn't help but sigh secretly. Li De knew that the Unlicensed Knight, that is, the Knight of Justice in Spring Beard's mouth, had poor talent.

After all, whether it was martial arts or kendo, Li De sent someone special to teach him.

But unfortunately, he really doesn't have much talent in fighting.

As for the body of the Knight of Justice, after using the Flame Tiger Potion on him, Li De also gave him a portion of the Dragon Blood Potion.

But even so, he could only barely reach the so-called end of Grade A in Springbeard's mouth.

Of course, Reed knew that Spring Beard said this because he didn't want Reed to be too disappointed. Therefore, the current strength of the Justice Knight is actually only at B level, which means that he can easily kill tiger-level monsters.

But it doesn’t mean that there is no hope for him to fight against a higher level opponent. He just needs the extraordinary equipment provided by Li De.

Relying solely on its own strength, the Justice Knight currently only has the combat power to destroy the Tiger-level monster Disaster.

He can't even defeat the Demon-level monsters, let alone the unreachable Dragon-level monsters.

"I understand. Then let him carry out more heroic activities according to his own wishes." Li De nodded.

"I understand, President!" Spring Beard nodded and replied.

"Okay, go and get busy!" Li De waved his hand.

"I understand. Please excuse my impoliteness." Spring Beard said and hung up the video call.

After Springbeard hung up the phone, Li De immediately said, "I want to talk to Dr. Miyano."

Under normal circumstances, Li De would not use a contract to convey messages unless there was something particularly urgent.

"Received the command, connecting!" the intelligent voice replied immediately.

In less than two seconds, a virtual screen appeared in front of Li De. At this moment, Miyano Shiho was working on the opposite side of the screen.

However, when the virtual screen appeared, Miyano Shiho immediately raised her head and looked at Li De.

"Shiho, how is the preparation for the genetic modification of the Knights of Justice going?" Reed asked immediately.

"President, with the computing power of the supercomputer, we can get the best results tonight, and then we can carry out the final genetic modification surgery." Miyano Shiho replied calmly.

"Tonight? Not bad." Li De nodded upon hearing that. After all, he has been here for more than a year, and seeing that the plot will begin in more than half a year, Li De also felt a sense of urgency.

After all, he doesn't want to wait until the earth is really destroyed and still be unable to leave.

Therefore, he needed the Knight of Justice to have dragon-level combat power and become an S-level hero before then so that he could complete the mission first.

"Just." Miyano Shiho said immediately.

"Go ahead." Li De gestured to Miyano Shiho to continue.

"The Knight of Justice alone takes up most of the supercomputer's computing power. You also know that there are many people waiting in line behind him." Miyano Shiho said this on the surface.

But in fact, he conveyed other information to Li De through the contract.

"Master, according to my research, as long as the gene modification surgery does not involve extraordinary genes, the stability of the gene chain will not be affected by the number of times it is performed, so the replacement surgery can be performed at any time.

In addition, the sisters in the main world may also need to come over. Without their gene samples, it is impossible to complete the debugging for them. We have supercomputer modeling and analysis here, which will save a lot of time and effort. "

"Do you need to add a few more supercomputers?" Li De asked Miyano Shiho directly.

"At least three!" replied Miyano Shiho.

"Approved. You can place the order directly with the relevant company." Li De replied immediately.

But what was actually conveyed through the contract was: "I understand. I will ask Victoria to return to the main world and call everyone over. This will also allow them to learn about the technologically advanced modern world and broaden their horizons."

(End of this chapter)