by <unknown>
“The past few days, I’ve felt a restriction on becoming stronger. It seems to be the Grade B limit you spoke of. I have a feeling that as long as I surpass it, my power will be much stronger. However, this limit is not as strong as you said. I should be able to break it any time…
“Also, I have been dreaming. I saw many blurry images in my dream that felt familiar, but I can’t recall the most of it after waking up… Do you think these are the memories I’ve lost?”
Han Xiao was surprised, and his eyes narrowed.
Chapter 457. The Second Grade B Officer |
This news was a little too sudden. Even the Great Mechanic Han could not react to it instantly. He thought about it and realized that Aroshia had been at Grade C+ for quite some time. With her growth speed, it was indeed about time for her to enter Grade B.
In Aroshia’s A ranked chain mission [Reboot], the requirement of the first round was to reach Aroshia and help her reach Grade B. The rewards were very rich—5,200,000 experience and one chance of a random reward. Han Xiao just happened to be in need of random reward chances, so this was an unexpected, pleasant surprise.
Aroshia was very special. She said that she had recently dreamed of many familiar images and that those might be the memories she lost. Every time Aroshia died, her memories would reboot, and she would forget everything before that. After so long, it was unknown how many memories she had lost.
“When you step through the doors of Grade B, there might be a special change,” Han Xiao said.
Due to this sudden situation, Han Xiao changed his destination and made the spaceship stop at the nearest small planet.
Aroshia was not a player. Plus, she was an Esper that had no certain pattern. Her class advancement might release a powerful force. For the sake of being cautious, he did not let her advance her class in the spaceship.
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Stepping onto the ground, Aroshia closed her eyes. Her body slowly levitated up, and beams of bright light shot out from her body, causing an energy tide in a range of a few hundred meters.
Whoosh!
Violent winds stirred up stone and sand, and the energy wave kept expanding like a ripple.
Around the spaceship, Han Xiao and the others watched Aroshia go through class advancement from afar. Their hair was dancing in the wind as sand and dust blew on their faces.
“It’s quite a huge scene…” Herlous raised his hand to block the beams of light.
“She’s very special. She was around Grade C as soon as she awakened, and there’s an enormous amount of energy hidden in her body. Breaking through Grade B is a piece of cake for her.” Han Xiao nodded.
Herlous’ face twitched. “Am I the only one who feels that breaking through grades is not easy?”
The oldest Volga patted his shoulders and said meaningfully, “Be satisfied with what you have.”
Like the expanding sea, the light energy quickly filled up the space within a few hundred meters. That area became a sea of light. It was as if Aroshia’s powers far exceeded before.
Ohm!
Suddenly, the light stopped expanding and rapidly retracted to the center many times faster than before. A countless number of light beams rushed into the middle point, making a loud noise like the howling wind. The light converged into a tornado, and the center of it got brighter and brighter. However, when it reached its maximum brightness, it looked like it suddenly got darker.
All the energy was infused into a point. That point suddenly enlarged and exploded into light dust, turning into a human figure of light without a face. It was covered in ripples of energy waves and golden electric currents.
Then, under the effect of Aroshia’s Esper power, the energy followed a certain unknown principle and turned into matter. Aroshia’s body appeared again as she slowly landed on the ground.
Han Xiao took out the energy level detector and aimed it at Aroshia. The energy that she was emitting now had exceeded the lowest Grade B energy level standard.
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First round of [Reboot] completed.
You have received 5,200,000 Experience.
+5 Risda Favorability.
You have received Random Reward x 1.
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This Risda definitely has an unusual relationship with Aroshia, but who is he?
Holding back his joy, Han Xiao temporarily left the random reward in the interface, walked to Aroshia, and asked, “How are you feeling?”
Aroshia checked herself and said, “I can control more energy now.”
“Other than that?”
“I saw more familiar images, way too many… my head is hurting a little.” Aroshia frowned.
Han Xiao looked down, reached out his hands, and rubbed her temples, easing her pain. “What else are you feeling?”
“I don’t know. Some places that flashed past in my memories seem to be summoning me. I have a feeling that if I go to these places, I should be able to recall some things…” Aroshia moved her fingers in the air and drew out the images of different locations in her memories with light energy.
Han Xiao raised his brows. Initially, Aroshia was not curious about the memories that she had lost at all, but after she entered Grade B, she seemed to have awakened a more human side of her. She had new desires, and her emotions were richer.
Could it be that as Aroshia became stronger, her secrets would be gradually exposed?
At this time, a new notification popped up on the interface.
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[Reboot]
Second Round: According to Aroshia’s descriptions, head to the various locations in her memories and help her look for the pieces of her memories.
Current Progress: 0/?
Reward: 10,300,000 Experience, +10 Risda Favorability
Failure Condition: Aroshia’s death
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The second round is to help her find parts of her memories? Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled. Being this special, Aroshia’s origin was definitely extraordinary. If she found her memories, he was not certain whether it would be a good or bad thing.
He felt that Aroshia was good the way that she was. If she recovered her memories, her personality would definitely change. This current state between them would most likely not be able to carry on.
Han Xiao was a little hesitant.
Maybe keeping things as they were and not doing this mission was the best choice.
No matter what, Aroshia was a very decent friend, and she was now the second Grade B officer in the mercenary group. If she continued to grow, she would be of more use.
With three Grade B Supers, including Han Xiao himself, the rating of the mercenary group in the alliance would increase, and he would have another strong comrade.
However, this should be Aroshia’s personal storyline. Even if he did not do it, she might remember more memories as time went on. By then, she might choose to leave nonetheless. When thinking this way, Han Xiao thought that he might as well do the mission and see how things went.
This second round of the mission was like treasure hunting. Aroshia could only briefly describe the images, and they still had to find the actual locations of those images. It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Furthermore, there were multiple locations. Although there was no information regarding this mission in his previous life, Han Xiao remembered quite a number of places, so he would not be completely clueless
This mission is definitely impossible to complete in a short period of time. Sigh, I shall look for it slowly then. Promotion is the most important matter right now.
Han Xiao patted Aroshia’s back and told her to get back to the spaceship with the others. The spaceship then took off and left the planet.
There was still a random reward chance in the interface. Han Xiao rubbed his hands together, took a deep breath, and activated it.
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Randomizing…
Randomizing complete.
Your Random Reward Type
is: [Item]
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Han Xiao’s eyes immediately brightened; he was excited.
There is a chance!
He subconsciously held his breath in trepidation.
Time felt like it was stretched out, and everything became slower. The three choices appeared one after another.
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Please select one from the three items below
Small Potential Potion: Grants 1 bonus Potential Point
Mechanic Blueprint: 1 random Mechanic blueprint.
Blank Character Summon Card: Choose a character and randomly generate that character’s Character Summon Card. Can only be used once.
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Han Xiao’s eyes widened in shock.
Wow, they were all complete trash!
I finally got the [Item] type, and this is what you give me‽
Han Xiao almost wanted to smash the table.
He had caught a glimmer of hope, and the next second, it was extinguished. The highs and lows of life were too exciting!
I want the Mission Completion Card!
Chapter 458. Attention from a Distant Star Field |
After panicking for a while, Han Xiao finally calmed down. He clenched his teeth and smiled.
It’s not a big deal. I didn’t get it this time, but I will try it the next time and even the next time after that!
It was just like card games, where normal people had to rack their brains to win but lucky ones just had to use whatever card they got in order to win.
I’m not panicking at all!
Han Xiao drank a cup of water to calm down and looked at the interface again. The three items were still there waiting for him to choose.
None of the three items were rare, so Han Xiao could only choose the best out of them.
Although Potential Points were important, the Small Potential Potion only gave one point, which was negligible. Han Xiao would only have considered it if it was a medium or large one. One random Mechanic blueprint looked good, but it was actually complete garbage. There were way too many Mechanic blueprints, so the chance of getting a good blueprint was way too low. Even if he did get a very rare blueprint, it would most likely be a piece of equipment that could only be built at very high levels. If his level was not high enough, it would be completely useless. Furthermore, Han Xiao did not need any random blueprints. He remembered the knowledge combination for most blueprints, so he could make them himself.
After contemplating, he felt that only the Blank Character Summon Card was worthwhile. If he chose to generate Ames’ Character Summon Card, who knew what effect it would have?
Although he had the Super-Gene Extractor, it was obviously impossible for him to use it on Ames; he did not want to die yet.
Its lower limit was not too low, and its upper limit was over the top, so it was quite a good choice.
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You have received [Blank Character Summon Card] x 1
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Han Xiao nodded. The next time I see the Dragon Emperor, I shall use this. If I can generate some overpowered effect, I might be able to use it to fight a Grade A Super directly, so that will be an option.
No matter how strong a Character Summon Card was, it was considered the user’s ability, which met the requirement of the Promotion mission. He did not get the Mission Completion Card this time, but he got another possible method to complete it. Han Xiao took it as a backup choice, but of course, it was based on the fact that he would generate one of the extremely strong abilities from Ames. Something that would demolish a Grade A Super would be best.
For the time being, Han Xiao still preferred to continue trying the random rewards. Although the results at the moment were not satisfactory, he did not think that the plan was a bad idea. He would not give up because of the obstacles so far.
He set the next destination, and the spaceship started its autopilot and headed in that direction. This rented spaceship was focused on speed, so it was suitable to travel to many places.
His choice this time was a simple and straightforward BOSS mission. It did not have rich rewards, but this kind of time-saving mission was exactly what Han Xiao needed.
Furthermore, Aroshia was now Grade B, so fighting a BOSS around the same level would definitely be much easier.
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At the same time, in a Star Field extremely distant from Shattered Star Ring, a black spaceship in stealth mode was quietly hovering in space. The exterior of this spaceship was very smooth, reflecting the scenery of the space like a black mirror. It looked like a fan from above and a diamond shape from the front.
It was a Stealth Level Scout Ship, usually known as the Black Light Prowler. As a product of the Federation of Light, it was extremely expensive—top-notch in stealth, detection, speed, and many specifications. Its technology far exceeded most civilizations. On the spaceship black market in various Star Fields, the spaceships from the three Universal Civilizations were the most popular. A second-hand Black Light Prowler could be sold for tens of millions of Enas. It was among the top scout ships.
In other words, this was like an extremely luxurious, high-class sports car.
One nanosecond earlier, a special wave had traveled through countless light-years in the quantum realm and arrived there in an instant. In the cockpit of the spaceship, a finger-sized, oval-shaped accessory was hanging at the top of the cockpit. This transparent accessory received this special wave and emitted a golden glow.
“Hmm?”
A sound appeared in the empty cockpit.
Countless streams of light appeared out of nowhere and gathered into a human-shaped cluster of light. It reached out its hand and touched the accessory that was flickering with weak light.
“Your energy level finally recovered to the level that’s locatable by the detector… So, you were thrown to the Shattered Star Ring by the wormhole… I will look for you very soon. Wait for me.”
In the blink of an eye, this Black Light Prowler turned into a stream of light and disappeared. It only needed microseconds to warm up before jumping. It was so swift that it was almost impossible to catch.
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After Feidin left with the Black Star Mercenary Group, the impact that it made on the entertainment industry stirred up quite a controversy.
The news that ‘Chen Xing’ had given up his singing career when it was soaring shocked many. Although the reporters and the media did not get any information from Feidin, they started making guesses. Stories with headlines like ‘The Real Reason…’ spread very quickly, stunning the Chen Xing fans and sparking heated discussions.
However, the entertainment news and the mercenary industry were two different worlds, so Han Xiao did not care. He only paid a little attention when this actually made him more famous.
After completing Chen Xing’s mission, he did not waste time and went on to the next location to trigger one of the missions.
In a remote Star System in Colton Star Cluster, the Godoran Civilization had set up research space stations to scout unpopulated planets, researching different planets, life forms, and environments. There were many Observers like Kerlodd in such space stations.
In 075 Godora Research Space Station, upon receiving permit, the spaceship entered the railroad of the space station and parked at the internal dock.
Alighting from the spaceship, Han Xiao and the others looked around. This space station was built to have a very typical Godoran theme.
A few Godora Observers waited at the dock, and one of them asked, “Black Star Mercenary Group, may I know why you are here?”
“Just happened to pass by, and my spaceship needs to refuel, so I’m here to rest for some time. We will pay the corresponding fees, or we can do some missions,” Han Xiao said. “Do you have anything here that needs to be dealt with?”
The leader hesitated and shook his head. “There is no extra work here. Since your spaceship needs to be repaired, you can use our shipyard.”
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Mercenaries were semi-neutral and slightly leaned toward the lawful side. They had an access permit by default and could park in many strongholds of Galactic Civilizations. They have reported their arrival before entering the space station, and as the Black Star Mercenary Group had a good name and had fought against DarkStar some time ago, the space station allowed Han Xiao and his friends to park.
If their negative reputation was too high or even were wanted, not only would they not be able to enter many places, they would also be chased by the police once their location was exposed.
After talking for a while, the Godoran Observer led the way and guided them out of the dock into the space station lounge. According to the management regulations, as soon as their spaceship was refueled, they would have to leave.
Of course, Han Xiao did not go there just to refuel. This Research Space Station had a mission that he wanted to trigger. It was easy to get a high rating and simple to do.
The mission’s setting was that a research ship had gone missing and lost contact in a nearby desolate planet. The space station sent another team to look for them, but that team lost contact as well. Hence, the space station reported the situation to the Godoran Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation and waited for them to send more Observers to investigate the situation. As this was an internal job, the Godoran Observer did not talk about it earlier. They did not want to request help from mercenaries.
However, the players could trigger this mission through the internal personnel in the space station. This was not a hidden mission, so the players just had to pay close attention to the clues, and they would be able to find that person.
That person was Han Xiao’s target.
Chapter 459. Low Attribute Does Not Mean That I Am Not Handsome |
The space station was not huge. Its exterior was dark gold and gray colored, and its overall design followed the traditional Godora theme—light and twisted.
