032 Grand Army

032 Grand Army

Pant, pant, pant… For the last 30 days, Arc has been addicted to training in the 1-STAR rank training machine, he spends most of his time training non-stop, and ever since he first steps into it, he becomes addicted to it. The training machine is an octagonal-shaped room, its exterior is jet black metallic except for the door that's golden in color.

From the outside it looks like a regular fancy room, but the moment it started it's like a whole new world was created, every time Arc entered it, it's like he was transported into another world,

so for the last 30 days, Arc experienced a lot of things, he died a lot too and the pain is real, so he suffered a lot, but the training machine would stop every time he can't take it anymore to protect his mind, most people would be traumatized by the experience, but Arc was different he only felt excitement and trill it's a first for him, he wondered if this is what the adrenaline junkie felt like whenever they risk their lives for fun and excitement...

And right now he was fighting a monster using only a handmade knife his body is already bloody, and his left hand is dangling from his shoulder his face was pale, but his eyes tell a different story, his enemy is also not looking good, one of its eyes is destroyed from a deep cut, a huge wound can be seen across its body and one of its arms is missing.

And it keeps on roaring at him, the monster looks like a huge Orc it's remaining hand is holding a club full of spikes and blood can be seen dripping from it, it suddenly charges at Arc while trying to smash him to death, it swings its club at Arc, he has already seen this kind of attack and was used to it, but his body is barely responding, he tried to roll over to avoid the swing, but it clipped his foot smashing one of them, he winced, he felt the pain he can never get used to it no matter how much he tried, but he can endure it longer and longer the more he experiences it and he no longer panic like the first few time he got hurt, and honestly, he's been through worst than this at least one of his hand is still working.

He stabs the orc-like monster in the thigh, and he put all his weight on it cutting it all the way down, felling the monster. The moment it fell, his knife is already ready to cut its throat, but not everything went according to plan. When it fell, it fell on top of him crushing his head, and he died.

As he exited the training machine, his face is pale,

"shit!, so unlucky I almost have it," He cursed

He looks at the time, it was already late at night. he went to the bathroom and took a shower. This has been his life for the past 30 days except giving his order once in a while, he spends most of his time training...

A lot of things happened in the last 30 days. Shadow units already started training their first batch of recruits, most of them are girls aged around 15 to 20 yrs old many of them are rescued from the criminal organization, and the rest were recruited by Eve from all over the United Government, the first batch is numbered around 80+, they will be trained and possibly brainwashed by Ruby and Jem for the next 60+ days. Their training started 10 days ago...

As for Tom and Jerry, they were able to recruit over 400 people, Arc didn't bother to know where they came from. Their training started 15 days ago, Biggs and wedge are also there helping.

20 days ago, Arc uses his energy units on a rank 5 [Enhancement serum factory] that cost 150 energy. Upkeep is 5en every 100 days if materials are provided if not upkeep 10+ energy a day, luckily materials can easily be bought in the market, although some are quite expensive, money is something, Grand Trading Corp. never lacks. Just the sales of solutions are providing Grand Trading Corp. billions of revenue on a weekly basis, not to mention the Hunter Equipments. In other words, Grand Trading Corp. is swimming in money, and most of it was being used for training and developing a new facility...

Who would have thought that in just a month or so, from being poor to a billionaire, in fact, the first time Dianna gives him the weekly financial report and saw the numbers, he thought it was a typo. He couldn't stop grinning the whole day on that day.

The enhancement serum will be given to the new recruits, it will never be sold.

Also, 5 days ago Grand Trading Corporation opens up a new company branch called Grand Technology Corp. Along with the release of the product called GM alpha, it's a mobile phone similar to the one Arc has only severely downgraded. Arc bought a new factory, a rank 5 Mobile communication factory for 250 energy, its upkeep is 10 energy every 100 days if materials are provided. If not, 500+ every 10 days. This is the first step in Grand Trading Corp. stepping into the military business.

Also, 25 days ago Lisa come back to tell him the response from their higher up, as expected they refused. But funny enough 10 days later the first skirmish of HFA against the alien Force they nicknamed Ganesh. As it resembles an old idol, Ganesha. They look like bipedal elephants with four arms, and they are heavily armored, they were 3-5 meters tall. The biggest they encounter so far is 5 to 8 meters, and they are strong luckily in space battle personal strength is useless, only the power of their ship matters.

20 days ago when the first skirmish happened, 10 ships of HFA 2nd squadron were lost and many are damaged. The enemy didn't fare any better, they lost 12 ships before they retreated in defeat. The success of the first battle greatly increased humanity's morale, added to that, even though 10 ships are lost not many died because they were able to evacuate in time.

As humanity celebrates the navy top officials are having an emergency meeting, the reasons? Out of 10 ships lost 7 are supply ships, clearly, their enemies are targeting their supply line, and they have succeeded, without supply ships, they're stuck until new supply ships have come to replace the ones that have been destroyed, and that's a big problem without supply ship all solutions they have will need to be consumed within 30 days, or it will expire.

The supply ship purpose is to manufacture new solutions every 30 days in other words without supply ship the whole squadron will have to start fasting and stocking of goods is useless if after 30 days it will expire and regular food is a no-go since it is not enough to supply their enhance body. They have to eat 10 times a regular human ear to get the energy they need, inland or in the city, it's not an issue since food is abundant but in space, it's a big concern especially if you have to feed thousands if not hundreds of thousands of enhanced soldiers.