Early morning.
At the South Pacific island base, a transport aircraft steadily rolled along the runway before finally coming to a stop.
As the rear cargo ramp lowered, Neagley and Natasha stepped out alongside Skye and Jessica, who were excitedly looking around everywhere.
They had taken the transport plane for the final leg of the trip because they transferred midway through the journey.
Otherwise, relying purely on cargo ship to return would have wasted too much ti.
The distance from New York to the South Pacific was seven to eight thousand nautical miles. Under normal circumstances, the trip alone would take around two weeks.
During the transfer, they had also conveniently sent Killgrave to the research base in St. Petersburg.
With Neagley's special instructions, Killgrave was going to "enjoy himself" quite thoroughly in the days ahead.
"Hey, girls, what are you looking at? Get in the car."
Neagley and Natasha climbed into a Raptor and called out to Skye and Jessica, who were still staring around at the surroundings.
"Coming~"
The two girls, who had just arrived at the base and found everything fascinating, imdiately ran over after hearing her call.
Once the Raptor started moving, it drove along the road toward the base.
The airport runway and the training and living area were separated by so distance, so a road had been built between them for convenient transportation.
The road followed the island's coastline, with beaches and the ocean visible in the distance.
The scenery was exceptionally beautiful and pleasant.
But what drew the girls' attention the most was the sight they passed along the way.
Groups of soldiers were running along the beach in formation.
More importantly, the n and won wearing training vests all had thick chains wrapped around their bodies, with massive square tal alloy blocks dragging behind them.
"Whoa… this is your normal training?"
Skye and Jessica looked completely stunned.
"This is just the most basic aerobic training," Neagley said with a light laugh. "They have to sprint around the island carrying weight. The vests, chains, and tal blocks they wear all have special materials added to them, and the weight increases by a fixed amount every day."
"How heavy are they?"
Skye asked cautiously.
"The day before I left, my body weight load was thirty tons. The chains and tal weight blocks together added another eighty tons."
Neagley casually stated the number, instantly changing both girls' expressions.
"How is that even possible?" Skye's mouth fell open in disbelief.
How could normal humans possibly train like this?
She and Jessica had long known that Neagley and Natasha ca from the sa organization and possessed strength far beyond ordinary people.
But they had originally assud the two won were the strongest mbers of the warband.
Now that they had seen this place, they realized the entire warband was full of superhumans.
And there were terrifyingly many of them.
Just from a rough count, there were over a thousand people training over there.
A thousand soldiers training like this every single day, with the weights constantly increasing—
Was this still the Earth they knew?
Where exactly had they been brought to?
Jessica's expression soon shifted into excitent.
"So I'll be able to do that too soday?"
The girl had never been overly obsessed with power before because she had always been much stronger than ordinary people. She had thought that was already enough.
Or rather, her understanding of strength had been limited to that level, and she had never believed there was much room for improvent.
But now she knew there were countless people far stronger than herself, and it seed she could continue growing through training or other thods.
Naturally, she beca filled with anticipation.
"Of course," Natasha replied. "But before that, you'll need to undergo so other training first."
Being allowed to bring the two girls back to the base was already a decision approved by the Boss.
So whether it was Skye or Jessica, both of them would inevitably undergo future serum injections and training.
However, they might also be the last batch.
The current generation of soldiers was about to graduate soon. Once they did, all of them would move to another base.
This island base was no longer suitable for training over a thousand soldiers from the two warbands.
Instead, it would be reserved for the second batch of selected soldiers to undergo injections and training.
So mbers of the two warbands would also stay behind as instructors to train the second batch.
And the number of recruits in the second batch would be even larger.
Because of this, entirely new bases were being built all around the world. Their facilities and training systems would all replicate the setup here.
The structure of their forces was gradually becoming complete.
"That's great."
After hearing Natasha's answer, Jessica was already impatient with excitent.
Skye was the sa.
No matter the gender, everyone longed for power.
Especially after what had happened at the Temple of Eternal Night, neither of them would refuse the chance to beco as strong as Neagley and Natasha.
...
Before long, the car arrived in front of the base dormitories.
This area housed the won's dormitory of the Raven Warband.
The male dormitories of the Astartes Warband were on the other side.
Neagley and Natasha brought Skye and Jessica into an empty room.
It was a standard three-person suite.
There were three separate bedrooms with attached bathrooms, along with a living room, balcony, and even computers and televisions fully provided.
The dormitories they had lived in before weren't nearly this good. These new buildings had only been constructed over the past few months during training.
Afterward, everyone abandoned the older, simpler dormitories and moved here instead.
Skye and Jessica had arrived at the perfect ti.
The interior decorations were fairly simple, but everything necessary was included.
There was even a separate kitchen for use.
"This will be your dorm room. There are no keys, and you don't normally need to lock the doors around here. If you want to when you sleep, just pull it shut."
"Alright, you can put your clothes and things down. Oh, by the way, costics are not needed here."
"Follow ."
"Next, you'll need to undergo a full-body examination. If everything goes smoothly, training plans will be arranged for you very soon." Neagley said after showing the two girls around.
"Shouldn't we go see the Boss first?" Skye asked in confusion.
"The Boss? He's a little busy right now. He probably won't co for a while." Neagley shrugged.
Busy with what? Matthew was naturally busy studying.
At that mont, he was in a villa in Moscow, learning subjects related to electromagnetism and other fields from Ivan Vanko.
And this left Ivan deeply shocked.
Because Matthew learned far too quickly.
Anything Ivan taught him only needed to be explained once before Matthew rembered it completely.
Not only that, Matthew would later raise extrely critical questions regarding the material.
His learning speed and level of comprehension were completely beyond imagination.
Ivan even felt that if this continued, Matthew would absorb all of his knowledge within a very short ti—
And rapidly grow into a top expert in those fields himself.
Because of this, even the arrogant and unruly Ivan began to feel sowhat inferior in comparison to Matthew.
His attitude gradually softened as well.
Ivan looked down on so-called billionaires and people in power, but toward genuine geniuses, he could still show proper respect.
Especially when that genius would also beco his future Boss.
...
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