Chapter 462: Return
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Despite the state of crisis, fortunately at this very moment, dozens of arachnid overlords came swooping through the ceiling crevices under Sheyan’s command. Though a major portion of these undaunted overlords were crushed to death by the crumbling rock fragments, the remainder were able to successfully haul the contestants and the Takji Warriors out.
After flying a kilometre away from the area, though they were shielded by the fleshy walls of the overlords, they could still feel a searing blaze behind them. Unprecedented terrifying red-blazing magma erupted frenetically into the sky, blended with masses of white fog and black ashes! At present, if one were to spectate from the atmospheric ozone of Pandora, the sight would resemble a sudden ignited torch on the ravishing Pandora!
At this moment, Mogensha and Reef had already stayed for nearly 2 hours. Even though their current financial state could sustain this period, any additional second from the 2 hours duration would cause an insufficiency in utility points to arise, and instigate the realm. Thus, the realm would directly seize equipments and items as collateral from the contestant’s interspatial region. If that wasn’t enough, then wielded equipments would then be stripped off! With an absence of equipment, the next would be a forceful deduction of abilities and so on; ultimately, resulting in getting erased! A death to clear all debts. Thus, both of them hurriedly chose to return.
As for Sheyan, he had roughly 20 minutes remaining, and his meticulous and scheming personality wasn’t willing to squander it. Hence, he planned to seek out the Mother of the Blackthorn. With his amassed abundance of fortune, he would repurchase a whole set of arachnid units; especially that wondrous trump of an arachnid drone! That was definitely an essential purchase for killing and burning in the future. Both sides naturally possessed an unwavering ‘Worshipped’ relationship; and with the peak of Jinkuang’s ‘charm’, it was practically a case of small capital but huge profit.
However at this moment, the Blackthorn Overmind unveiled a cruel fact to Sheyan with an apologetic tone – though he could still purchase those items, no, he could even gift them to Sheyan; but due to the Blackthorn tribe abcissing from the arachnid race and becoming a lone wolf race, the Blackthorn arachnids no longer received enhanced spirit dominion from the Blade Empress. Putting it bluntly; if Sheyan acquires any arachnids eggs and hatched them, if those arachnid units were separated from the Blackthorn Overmind by a definite distance, they would lose their spirit dominion and be completely uncontrollable.
Actually, this point was already reflected prior to completing the Golden Side Mission. For example when facing the rocks imbued by the protection of the Sea Mother’s spirit force, those drones experienced a massive plummet in efficiency; due to them being distanced from the Blackthorn Overmind, and their spirit dominion weakening greatly. They had to resort to a legendary creature Jenny to intervene, and supply some spirit boost.
Moreover, later when facing that gigantuous conch, the zerglings had turned delirious after becoming affected by that potent spirit influence. On the contrary, if the arachnid units possessed a spirit dominion of the mighty Blade Empress, they would absolutely not be affected.
Under such circumstances, don’t even mention Sheyan attempting to hatch arachnid eggs in other nightmare worlds….even hatching them 100-200 kilometres away now, the resultant arachnid creatures may possibly become wild beasts that would be completely unable to be controlled. At worst, they would turn mutually hostile, totally uncontrollable. That was equivalent to a waste of money. The only consolation was that the arachnid eggs he purchased in the Starship Trooper eggs could still be operated normally. Nevertheless, Sheyan was merely left with 2 overlord eggs that could only be treated as freight tools.
Though Sheyan was upset, he ultimately knew the concept of winning some while losing some. To accomplish this Golden Side Mission, certain inevitable sacrifices were necessary. Hence, though he sighed, he didn’t feel awfully disappointed. By now, the notification of returning to the nightmare realm was round the corner. Sheyan inhaled a deep breath, as he admired this beautiful, treacherous and plentiful planet Pandora for the last time. Then, he bidded farewell to the Blackthorns, and strolled into the nearby forest before selected to return.
Approximately 10 seconds later, leagues of vines had suddenly sprouted out from beneath Sheyan’s feet. With every passing step, the vines would wrap around him, and his body would submerge by a little. After trudging for scarcely 10 steps, the vines had already totally wrapped Sheyan up, then, it pulled him into the ground; he utterly disappeared from the land of Pandora.
The present Sheyan was already exceedingly familiar with the returning process. He directly shut his eyes, and only until that extremely queer weightless sensation vanished from his body, did he finally reopen them.
Right now, he was back inside that cosmos universe like environment. The darkness surrounding him was abstruse, and filled with glittering stars.
Suddenly, Sheyan could feel an unexplainable pain jolting throughout his entire body. It was as though every blood vessel in his body was being crudely brushed and cleansed! This pain seemingly faded as fast as it came, and sustained for merely 5-6 seconds before vanishing.
However, during this persisting period, Sheyan’s teeth chattered excessively, as perspiration oozed out from his body as though he had taken a bath! Such was the intensity of that pain. Soon after, the realm transmitted an unhurried notification.
[ The curse, ‘Venom water pulse’, has been expelled from your body. ]
[ Your military rank: Second Lieutenant. ]
[ The effort required to expel that curse was immense, therefore, you must pay up a fixed sum of utility points. ]
At this instant, Sheyan finally understood; in reality, the few of them had been inflicted by the mysterious scheme of the Sea Mother. Fortunately, he had instantly returned to the realm, not long after getting infected. The realm would naturally do a body scan, and revert contestants to their normal state. However, this further verified that Sheyan’s hypothesis were spot on. At least, that usage of curse by the Sea Mother was indicative of it presence in this world.
“Then old Mourbo…….” Sheyan suddenly remembered that matter. Obviously, that old head would’ve been inflicted as well. Furthermore, the Sea Mother would definitely not show mercy to one that had directly damaged its Tree of Souls. Still, this matter was beyond Sheyan’s influence by now. He could only hope that Mother Nature Eywa would be moved, and step forward in aid.
Closely following this, the 3D projection imagery naturally commence. The first scene feedbacked the acts of the trio protecting the Valkyrie. Following that, was their journey of gathering creature specimens for Hell’s Gate. Finally, Sheyan’s completion of the Golden Side Mission…..which should’ve been exaggeratedly projected, yet only one scene was exhibited – the final imagery of Sheyan standing before the altar while completing the mission…….it appears, the mission completion score of ‘horrendous’ was indeed a fully justifiable reputation!
The realm then projected out the following report:
[ Setting: Avatar world. ]
[ Difficulty: Hard (B+). After accepting the Golden Side Mission, difficulty scaled to S (Nearly impossible to complete) ]
[ Pain limitation: 50%. ]
[ Additional capabilities boost: 0%. ]
[ Current setting exploration rate: 46.33%. ]
[ Acquired new titles: Plunderer / Penetrate / Headhunter / Outstanding Worker. ]
[ Mission exploration rate: 21%. ]
[ Mission completion score: E+. (Note: lowest score is E, highest score is perfect SSS.]
[ Due to a ‘horrendous’ mission completion score, you only receive 1 free attribute point as reward. ]
[ Mission exploration rate / mission completion score reward: Utility points 1,175 + 214 points (214 as Silver party leader bonus). You have not hit the threshold to receive any potential points. ]
[ This world is a medium intensity realm war: You receive additional achievement points as reward. ]
[ You receive additional 6 achievement points. (3 + 2 (silver party leader bonus) + 1 (legend level +1 bonus)) ]
At present, Sheyan was already mentally prepared for a disastrously low performance rating. Besides, the glorious ‘Horrendous’ evaluation of his completed Golden Side Mission had been glamorously exhibited. Such an evaluation couldn’t be simply described as a rat ruining a pot of soup; it was practically pissing into the pot itself. If his score wasn’t low, then that would be strange. Fortunately, he was already plentifully satisfied with what he had reaped. Originally not harbouring much hopes pertaining to his score, receiving an additional 6 achievement points counted as a pleasant surprise.
The boundless starry cosmos gradually turned fuzzy, and once again turned into darkness. When Sheyan regained his vision, he had smoothly returned to his personal room. As he begun making an inventory stock, he realized he had nearly 80,000 utility points left on him, and 40 potential points. It could be said this was an unprecedented massive harvest for him. A Realm war was indeed not just a name in vain, with true risks and crisis not being a deception!
As for Sheyan, his unallocated free attribute points had now reached a terrifying 20* points! His achievement points had swelled to 98 points, and don’t even mention First Lieutenant now, he was merely 2 points shy of a Captain promotion! Once he promotes to a Captain, he could instantly utilize that ‘Honorary Cross Medallion’ that Mogensha exchanged for himself. Then, his rank would directly experience a qualitative change, and evolved into the realms of a Field Officer!
(TN:Free attribute points – *11 (GSM) + 8 (previous mission) + 1 (completing this world))
The reason for Sheyan not allocating his free attribute points, was actually because he had personal plans. Especially after Mcdh had advised him on certain things using obscure methods, it had served to affirm Sheyan’s convictions.
Nevertheless, such a conduct was tremendously dangerous; because when the realm evaluated one’s prowess, it wouldn’t care about whether attribute points were allocated or not, but directly take everything into account when calculating difficulty! It was only that Sheyan could currently rely on his formidable party, and his quick-wittedness in being opportunistically adept, did he dare to take this risk.
After deliberating a little, he first allocated 7 free attribute points into agility, allowing his pure agility to ascend to 20 points! Immediately, he received the notification.
[ Your basic attribute ‘Agility’, has reached 20 points in pure/unenhanced state. ]
[ You receive an additional bonus for this corresponding basic attribute. Please select an option within the next 120 seconds. Exceeding this will result in a random draw. ]