He Xingzhou’s virtual universe guide, Tuanzi, reminded him: "During the official simulation of the Civilization Arena, you can start simulated training. Would you like to begin?"
"Let’s start!" He Xingzhou said, as they were still unfamiliar with the rules.
"Each simulation in the virtual universe consumes one Cosmic Coin," Tuanzi said. In the virtual universe, there’s always some place to spend a little money. It doesn’t seem like much, but it adds up to an expensive cost.
Over the past decade, most of the rewards He Xingzhou initially obtained had been spent, with less than a thousand Cosmic Coins left.
For many civilizations, when they run out of Cosmic Coins, they can only earn more by selling intelligence, technology, resources, or completing relevant tasks issued by the Order Alliance, essentially working for the Order Alliance in a different capacity.
"You guys practice first, I’ll go play a couple of matches myself!" Bai Ningxiang said as she disappeared from the spot, having already entered an arena to engage in simulated warfare with other civilizations.
He Xingzhou, Xu Zhilan, and He Mengyao each entered the training grounds for training.
"Welcome to the Level 1 Civilization Training Ground." He Xingzhou appeared in an unfamiliar star system, and Tuanzi introduced: "This is the simple difficulty training star system. You will face a fleet with the strength of a 1.2 civilization in this star system."
"Try to eliminate the opponent’s living forces and destroy their military base and industrial base."
"All the weapons you use come from the weaponry your civilization possesses, synchronized in technology and quantity."
He Xingzhou found that the fleet he could use was indeed synchronized with reality because it’s a simulated battle. His enemy’s weapon count was about the same as his.
He Xingzhou could now view the enemy’s information: "Humanoid Civilization A, civilization strength 1.2 level, 500 warships, 200 L1 level warships, 300 L2 level warships, highest level warship is the L2 level Space Cruiser; highest level weapon, Plasma Beam."
"Only Plasma Beam?" He Xingzhou was a bit surprised. They had used this during the Planet Battlefield, or perhaps it was due to the simple difficulty level?
He began the simulated combat, at the initial battlefield, each side occupied a planet, started arranging forces, and began the battle.
He Xingzhou hardly used any tactics, allocating part of his forces to defend his planet and then allowing the main fleet to attack the enemy.
The entire process scarcely involved any strategy.
Because the enemy’s warships were no match for his. The opponent’s Plasma Beam strength was about the same as the giant mecha he created during the Catastrophe Era, not even piercing the warship’s Energy Shield.
The training war was a one-sided crush. In less than a day, he had captured all the enemies.
A day here, for Blue Star time, might be less than a minute since the simulation process is all about transmitting brain information, much like dreaming.
Tuanzi said, "Initial training has passed, you can continue training, or start battling against other civilizations."
He Xingzhou thought for a moment and said, "Let’s go for a higher difficulty!"
There are general difficulty, difficult difficulty, very difficult difficulty, Hell level difficulty, etc.
Each level is divided into Level 9, with the highest difficulty level no longer limiting the opponent’s civilization level and weaponry.
He Xingzhou said, "Let’s try Hell level difficulty 9!"
He entered Hell level difficulty 9. His weapons were still the same number, and a microsecond later, before he could make any moves, Tuanzi announced, "You’ve failed."
He Xingzhou: "??? It’s over already? I want to see the battle replay!"
In the battle replay, slowed down countless times, a small black dot appeared in the star system and then quickly expanded, engulfing the entire star system.
Tuanzi explained, "Your simulated opponent used a hyperspace annihilation bomb, completely annihilating the star system you were in. This training score: 0 points."
"Forget it, let’s go with a similar level civilization opponent at the highest difficulty," He Xingzhou said.
"Select difficult difficulty level 1."
This time, He Xingzhou’s opponent switched to a 1.2 level civilization opponent, with a warship count far exceeding his, possessing over 100 L2 level Space Cruisers and a fleet number exceeding two thousand.
He Xingzhou once again simulated the battle, and sure enough, it was noticeably tougher. The enemy used their superiority in warship performance to tussle with him repeatedly in space, and there were a few sneaky fleets that would occasionally sneak attack the main base.
He Xingzhou suffered some losses, barely maintaining the situation by relying on weapons surpassing civilization level, achieving a hard-fought victory.
"Indeed, space warfare is not as straightforward as dealing with the Mars Insect Clan. Winning on Mars was about seizing the opportunity and weapon superiority," He Xingzhou thought.
He continued training, and during training, he could also adjust the civilization type.
For example, adjusting to a Silicon Civilization opponent, at the start of the war, they might only have a thousand warships, but as the war begins, they can quickly produce more, with the warship amount increasing as the battle continues!
They could also employ information attack methods, infiltrating the warship’s intelligent systems, causing them to "betray."
Or a non-human civilization opponent using biological warships with extremely strong self-repair capabilities. When getting damaged, they could consume matter and energy like the Zerg to repair themselves.
There are also civilizations that don’t use warships, like individually powerful space creatures; civilizations that only develop Space Mecha; those living in asteroid belts, specializing in ambushes, like the Starship Civilization, etc.
When He Xingzhou first faced these civilizations, even in training mode, the win rate was very low, below fifty percent.