Chapter 20: Magnetic Field Maverick

Ji Xinghuo boarded the skycraft once again and sped through the night sky.

Inside the cockpit, he examined a crystal pinched between his fingertips, firm yet elastic, its information interface appearing in his view.

This exceptional variant had returned to his hands, though at a cost.

Speaking of costs, Ji Xinghuo wasn’t sure; perhaps it was a good thing.

He signed the contract.

It was an employment contract with the Sword Bureau. By signing, Ji Xinghuo officially joined the Sword Bureau as a “Yuchang” swordsman.

Swordsmen in the Sword Bureau are ranked in four levels, named after ancient swords.

From lowest to highest, they are Yuchang, Chun Jun, Chi Xiao, and Xuan Yuan.

The Yuchang swordsman, the lowest rank, earns a basic salary but still higher than ordinary jobs, starting at over 30,000 Asia Yuan per month, with various benefits and performance bonuses, the monthly income could nearly reach 40,000 Asia Yuan.

Attendance actions also include hefty additional subsidies.

Naturally, the work at the Sword Bureau is special; most missions are dangerous. The high salary comes at the risk of one’s life.

One misstep: plenty of money but no life to spend it.

Ji Xinghuo is just a Yuchang swordsman for now and doesn’t need to participate in actions. The contract clearly stated that only senior extrahumans are eligible for missions.

Until then, he is simply a member of the Sword Bureau – General Administration Section – Training Division.

Most Yuchang swordsmen belong to the Training Division, whose main task is training. They participate in secret agent training, practice battles, and hope to be promoted to Chun Jun swordsman soon.

Although Ji Xinghuo was reluctant to join the Sword Bureau, the Training Division was indeed a great place.

The Training Division has the best cultivation conditions, many advanced facilities and equipment that aren’t available on the market, including various expensive auxiliary drugs and is staffed with top-notch coaches and teaching assistants, not unlike those in the super leagues, even surpassing them.

Most importantly, all of this is free!

No mission duties, just training, and still getting paid—it’s incredibly satisfying.

Ji Xinghuo was quite tempted, but after calming down, he realized that every gift of fate is marked with a price in secret.

The Sword Bureau’s generosity is not for charity.

Accepting the salary and enjoying the benefits of the Sword Bureau means fighting for them in the future.

Of course, fighting for the Sword Bureau means serving the country, and Ji Xinghuo does not oppose this. He is very willing to contribute his strength to the nation.

But not now.

Ji Xinghuo has his own plans. Binding himself closely with the Sword Bureau now does not align with his interests.

For future prospects and personal career considerations, he must keep his distance from any official forces or major powers for now.

“When I’m stronger, when I possess the power to crush all enemies, I can make a greater contribution to the nation.”

After much thought, Ji Xinghuo made his decision.

Sword Bureau swordsmen don’t have to clock in; he resisted the advantages offered by the Training Division, voluntarily giving up the benefits without reporting. The Sword Bureau couldn’t do much about it.

At worst, he’d get fired!

This thought made Ji Xinghuo chuckle to himself.

Zhou Yi tried to coerce and tempt him. His intentions were good, knowing his great appreciation for Ji Xinghuo’s talents. But Zhou Yi couldn’t have predicted that Ji Xinghuo simply didn’t care for the benefits of the Training Division and would skip out.

“I need to integrate the variant soon.”

“And then make my escape!”

The Sword Bureau’s reach is global, finding him would be easy, but there’s a perfect place they can’t penetrate.

That’s the Star Realm!

Modern national security systems are pervasive; through the internet and countless cameras, they nearly monitor everything worldwide in real-time. It’s too hard for individuals to evade search.

But in the Star Realm, without electronic devices and networks, the power of national organizations is at its weakest.

Ji Xinghuo already planned to head to the Star Realm—for the sake of spiritual energy sources!

Moments later.

The skycraft returned Ji Xinghuo to Chang’an, dropping him off in a deserted park in the Qishan District before ascending back to the sky.

Ji Xinghuo did not head home immediately.

Although Min Chongwu had said that for the next half-month, the Sword Bureau would station someone specifically to monitor his apartment building and the surrounding streets, ensuring absolute safety.

However, Ji Xinghuo did not quite believe it.

It’s not that he feared retaliation, but he disliked being monitored secretly.

In a hotel a few kilometers from his home, Ji Xinghuo checked into a room. After a brief wash, he sat on the bed and pulled out the crystal he carried with him.

【Variant: Rotating Magnetic Field】

【Grade: Beyond Limit】

【Fusion Success Rate: 99%】

【Upgradeable: Yes】

A beyond-limit ability!

Ji Xinghuo had admired it many times, but each time he saw the interface’s information, he was thrilled, almost overwhelmed.

Across global exchanges and major platforms, beyond-limit abilities are the highest level of abilities available for purchase.

But the “Rotating Magnetic Field” is not among them.

Beyond-limit essentially means it can surpass human limits.

Even the weakest, least popular beyond-limit ability would not sell for less than twenty million. Not to mention the Rotating Magnetic Field, a top-tier beyond-limit ability—money can’t buy it.

Its rarity needs no further explanation.

The Rotating Magnetic Field can amplify the human body’s biomagnetic field. When activated, combined with stellar power, it produces various powerful effects—enhancing strength, explosions, and speed, improving the efficiency of stellar power cultivation, and speeding up the recovery after stellar power is exhausted, among others.

Magnetic and electric fields are inseparable.

Thus, the Rotating Magnetic Field allows extrahumans to generate electric currents in their bodies!

This ability’s essence is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe—electromagnetism. As the Rotating Magnetic Field is enhanced and delves deep into physical roots, it will possess all sorts of incredible, almost mythical powers.

Control electricity, enhance the body, cellular reorganization, control metals, disintegrate substances…

Its potential is nearly limitless!

Whoever controls electromagnetism rules the world like a tyrant!

Of course, these powerful abilities need a solid base of stellar power and more abilities for support.

Electromagnetism is too distant a goal; not to mention that he’s just a junior ranger, even a King-level extrahuman would hesitate to claim they could touch even the surface of electromagnetism.

Integrating the Rotating Magnetic Field is just the first step of a long journey.

It’s sought after not just because of its immense power but because the Rotating Magnetic Field is at the core of a supremely potent professional template.

That is the Magnetic Field Maverick!

Earth already has over forty mature professional templates, and comparisons between these templates are inevitable. This topic is also a perennial hotspot on various websites, forums, and social media.

Which professional template is the strongest, which is the weakest;

Which is the fastest, which is the slowest;

Which is the most unique, which is the rarest, which is the most comprehensive, which is the most peculiar, and so on…

Just post about it online, and it will attract thousands of responses.

Countless people argue, quarrel, curse, get angry, make enemies, leading to offline challenges, fights, and even violent incidents.

Some have lost their lives, others have gone to jail.

Amateur netizens debate endlessly, and professional organizations and officials also conduct research.

At the turn of the century, the Star Defense Council (ADC)’s “Extrahuman Guild” released a professional template rating system, breaking down professional templates into ten aspects of ability: melee, long-range, defense, speed, perception, burst, control, recovery, support, and potential.

Each ability scores between 1 to 10 points.

This rating system incorporates extensive data, complex calculation formulas, and functions to calculate scores for each ability.

The total score of all ten abilities is the final rating.

Most professional templates score below 40 points.

For instance, the ranger has 37 points.

The lowest score belongs to “Giant General” with only 31 points.

Others like “Iron Guard” have 32 points; “Star Torchbearer” has 34 points; “Evil Spirit” and “Phantom Maestro” have 35 points; “Flying Step” and “Ice Edge” have 36 points.

“White Knight” and “Shadow Blade” are similar to the ranger, scoring 37 points each.

Those scoring above 40 points are considered stronger professional templates, like “Blackcloth Bishop” with 41 points, “Gravity Warrior” with 43 points, “Charm Master” with 44 points, “Mind Hacker” with 45 points.

There are even fewer templates scoring over 50 points.

“Change Genius” has 51 points, “Blood Butcher” has 50 points, “Superconductor” has 52 points, and “Aura Fighter” scores 58 points—all are powerful and rare, almost unbeatable by peers of the same level.

There are even stronger professional templates scoring 60 or even over 70 points, very few globally.

For example, “Dragon Master”, “Psyche Stringer”, and “Star Realm Traveler”.

The highest-scoring job assessed by this system is the “Magnetic Field Maverick”, scoring 81 points!

Magnetic Field Maverick is the only job template to score over 80 points, with none of its ten abilities scoring below 7 points.

Not just the “Extrahuman Guild”; other countries and organizations’ assessment systems also rank the Magnetic Field Maverick at the top.

Without exception!

After years of debate online, no matter how heated the process, discussions often converge on the “strongest job” with a consensus.

The Magnetic Field Maverick is considered the strongest professional template by most people.

Of course, rating systems are theoretical.

Lower-scoring job templates aren’t necessarily much worse than higher-scoring ones. It still depends on the extrahuman himself.

Professional templates are not the sole factor determining an extrahuman’s strength.

On the contrary, high-scoring job templates often have many drawbacks.

Such as high thresholds, demanding requirements, difficult training, low fusion success rates, rare abilities hard to find, inability to advance, and so on.

Low-scoring job templates have many advantages and conveniences, and subsequent career advancements can also possess power comparable to higher-scoring jobs, or even stronger.

Nevertheless, people still aspire to rare and powerful job templates.

Magnetic Field Maverick is certainly one of them.

And the most important core ability of this job template is the “Rotating Magnetic Field” that Ji Xinghuo holds in his hand!