Chapter 575 Mission Reward, Plan Preparations (2/2)
”Were those attackers from DarkStar?” Bennett asked.
Han Xiao only nodded.
”Abominable…” Bennett's expression was filled with helplessness and fury. Even if he clearly knew who the enemy was, he had no way to deal with them. He did not even possess the qualifications to talk to them and could only swallow this bitter pill. His eyes were filled with vengeance and hatred.
”Relax. I'll settle the problem of DarkStar soon. You do not need to worry.” Han Xiao smiled.
Patting the shoulders of Bennett, Han Xiao then moved past several people, walking deep into the base. He only left a dwindling silhouette in the eyes of Hila and the rest.
Those few people seemed to see an illusion where the departing shadow of Han Xiao leaving the planet intersected with his current departing shadow. Before they knew it, this old acquaintance had already grown to the point where they could only look up to him.
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Returning to his room, Han Xiao took a bath before putting on a fresh set of clothes. The battle had greatly consumed his stamina, and the moment he relaxed, his stomach growled in hunger. He finished more than twenty high-concentration nutrition bars before he felt some form of stamina returning.
Knock, knock, knock.
Knocking was heard from the door. Herlous stood outside with a group of his officers.
Because the majority of them had gone to support the Six Nations, they had only returned a while ago. Upon hearing of Han Xiao's battle results, the group was stunned and even thought that their captain had been mistaken for someone. Only after confirming this fact did they then accept it and immediately ran over to find Han Xiao.
The moment the door opened, everyone rushed into the room in an instant.
”I heard that you repelled three Calamity Grades, and even the main cannon could not hurt you!” Herlous had an expression of surprise, looking up and down Han Xiao before speaking in confusion. ”When did you become so powerful? Why was I unaware of it?”
”If we have time, we can fight a round. Then you'll find out.”
”This… better not.” Herlous shuddered out of reflex.
Their previous fight could barely be considered a spar, but now it would just be a one-sided beatdown. Herlous did not indulge in being abused, and it seemed like he could only beat his captain through playing cards.
Han Xiao smiled before turning around to see Sylvia staring at him with sparkling eyes.
”Teacher, I want to learn this!”
”Scram, why the f*ck do you want to learn everything?”
”No… I really want to learn!”
”You can stop thinking about it. That's something that cannot be learned.”
The little face of Sylvia drooped down as she huffed. ”Unfair. Why is it like this?”
On the side, Ginette batted her eyes and licked her lips. ”Captain, turns out you were this strong. Should we one day… try it out?”
”You can find Harmon for that. I'm not interested.” Han Xiao's lips twitched.
As though he had received a cue, Harmon scratched his head, turning over to look at Ginette as he snorted, ”You want a fight? I can accompany you anytime.”
”I'm not talking about fighting!” Ginette's face froze.
The oldest Volga curled his lips as he thought, Bullsh*t, how could that not be considered fighting?
All the officers were babbling on, and only Feidin smiled warmly as he asked, ”Black Star, you're not injured, right?”
”Nothing too serious.” Han Xiao nodded, sweeping his gaze across the room, before asking, ”Where's Aroshia?”
Aroshia did not follow the rest of the officers over to view… ahem, to visit him.
”She overexerted herself and has gone over to the reaction furnace to recharge.”
Han Xiao nodded in understanding. Because Aroshia was an energy body, the energy furnace was her best supply station.
The group of officers rambled on for a while, giving Han Xiao a headache. Thus, he eventually chased them out to help with the disaster relief whilst he stayed in his room to rest.
He did not need to stick his hands into the disaster relief as he had more important things to do.
The battle had resulted in him losing the majority of his machinery. The first task at hand was to rebuild his Mechanical Army, restoring the previous quantity. The second matter was to break through to the Calamity Grade as quickly as possible. He was already at Level 136, with his combat capability close to the great divide of Grade A. Most likely, when he exceeded Level 140, he would enter the realm of Calamity Grades.
The Level 140 Advancement happened to be the next Race Evolution, and this would result in a huge promotion.
It was just nice that his advanced class [Virtual Mechanic] was currently at Level 11, with the upper limit being Level 20. This meant that even if his total level reached 140, there would not be any Class Missions, only a Promotion Mission. Furthermore, he still had a leftover [Mission Completion Card] on hand, which could allow him to undergo his Promotion immediately.
However, while he was only separated from advancing by four levels, every increase in level at this point required a veritable ocean of experience. From Level 136 to Level 140, he required more than three billion experience.
The upper limit of Version 1.0 was Level 60, whereas the limit for Version 2.0 was Level 90. However, the experience required to upgrade would only increase. In the future, the upper limit increase during each version update would gradually decrease as players required more time to upgrade.
At the beginning of the battle, Han Xiao had allocated all his stored experience to upgrade himself. If he wished to obtain another three billion experience points in a short amount of time, he could only turn to the players.
Godora was already quietly preparing for the final battle, while DarkStar was completely unprepared. He had to quickly recover his combat strength in order to obtain the right to participate. After all, [Godora's Ally] was also a main storyline.
It seems like there's a need to refresh the batch of knowledge and skills for the players. Since I also have plenty of funds in my account, I can freely choose the professional knowledge for the Pugilist and Esper classes, then copy it and sell it. I just need to change the prices from money to experience. Oh, that's right. I also have the dungeon copy and can milk it for quite the sum.
Han Xiao had long become accustomed to such methods and conveniently opened the forums, looking at the current situation of the players.
Various posts on the forum came into view. In Planet Aquamarine's board, most of the posts were basically about him, and the forum had exploded into conversation about his battle. Numerous screenshots and videos taken depicted the historical scene where he took the main cannon head on. The players had exploded in excitement!
The trending posts were all dominated by him once again.
Casually opening a few of those posts, he got goosebumps from seeing himself inside the videos.
All the posts put up by the players could be summarized using the few phrases.
Strong! Fantastic! Earth shaking! Explosive! I'm in love!
For those who had already joined the Black Star Mercenary Group, they were the happiest. Because the stronger their boss was, the more positive an impression people would have of them. In addition, there was still Dragon Emperor Ames on top, and just thinking about it, the future of their faction seemed quite bright.
This event can be considered an opportunity, to allow players to feel that the storyline for Planet Aquamarine has already ended, and it is the time to enter a higher stage, to lead them into the galaxy…
Moreover, according to the needs of Godora and the galaxy's journalists, what had happened on Planet Aquamarine would be vigorously publicized. If he did not guess incorrectly, there would be many uninvited guests heading over to the planet soon.
Han Xiao's eyes flashed. This would be a good chance for him to carry out the next phase of his plan!