<h4>Chapter 508: New Version, New Phase</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios
The stars were shining brightly, and the rivers of light lit up the pitch-ck universe. Every twinkling star was immeasurably far away, and every star represented a race, a civilization, a dream. It was like anding ne flying past a brightly lit city, forming both a majestic and lively sight.
Looking through the spaceship’s window, the contours on Golden Gate gradually became finer and clearer. Spaceships of all different shapes and sizes could be seen taking off andnding on this Godoran colony. It was as though the prosperity of the could be spread out in the sky, and those looking from afar could also feel this sense of prosperity.
This was a type of middle-sized, long-distance spaceship. It was amonly seen model with its exterior made from a grayish allow. Its hyperdrive engine was also amon one, and it had an inferior grade electromaic shield. The official selling price of the spaceship was around 750,000 to 900,000 Enas, and a second-hand spaceship would be about thirty percent cheaper. If one had good ties with the factory that manufactured the spaceship, it could even be purchased for 170,000 Enas. On the spaceship, there was a bright yellow royal crown decal, and this was a spaceship for rent belonging to the Royal Crown Gctic Travel Agency.
This Travel Agency had just signed a long-term loan contract for thirteen spaceships with the ck Star Mercenary Group a month ago. The rental fee was far lower than the selling price of the spaceship, but it still was not cheap.
At that moment, this spaceship, which temporarily belonged to the ck Star Mercenary Group, had a few dozen mercenaries on it and was flying toward Golden Gate. They were the mercenaries who had recently been hired by the ck Star Mercenary Group a few months prior.
During his one year of preparation, after Han Xiaopleted the construction of his assembly lines, he had made use of his fame to hire a few hundred frence mercenaries to build up the strength of his mercenary group and increase the NPC resources of his mercenary group. The new members were then restructured into different teams to make it easier tomand them.
Herlous and the others alone would not be enough to deal with the Mutation Disaster. Presently, Han Xiao no longer needed to restrict the size of his mercenary group, so the more the merrier. The Great Mechanic Han would never be stingy in investing in his mercenary group. With arge stack of bills in his pocket, Han Xiao would not feel good if he did not spend any money.
“ck Star suddenly gathered all of us. Are we going on arge mission?”
“We are Floating Dragon’s force in name. Could it be that the Dragon Emperor has an order for us?”
“I tried asking around, and nobody knows what ck Star wants. Even the officers aren’t sure.”
“All the others have arrived already, and we are thetest. I hope we didn’t dy anything.”
As the mercenaries were chatting, the spaceshipnded at the port nearest to the base. Stepping out of the spaceship, dozens of mercenaries disembarked, and not too longter, they stopped in front of a gigantic base. The base was built on an octagonal plot ofnd and was surrounded by automatic cannon towers made from alloy walls.
The style of the base was like a gigantic metal castle with its shiny ck exterior reflecting the sun’s rays. Numerous metal buildings were joint together with ten or so cone shaped rooftops pointing toward the sky, looking like they were fries in a box. The buildings were all angr, and they had the precision of a machine. Apart from the grayish metal color, white and red paint could be seen extending out along the edges of the buildings to add some color to the otherwise heavy base. Together with the blue indication lights that were scattered all over the base, the entire base had a high-tech feeling to anyone who walked in.
This was the result of one year of hard work. ck Star’s first base!
All the mercenaries came in front of the door, and aplicated identification panel popped out on the interface. After they were all verified that they belonged to the ck Star Mercenary Group, the door of the base began to slowly open, and a voice sounded from the interface.
“Identificationplete, hum... Wee back, hum...”
“Phillip, how’s your day?” a mercenary joked with the interface.
“Currently working, hum... Cannot chat casually, hum...”
All of them then walked into the base. The interior of the base was notplicated. The center of the base was arge empty space with bridges leading toward the different regions of the base. It was like a beehive, and this middle region was called the ‘mouthpiece’ by the mercenaries.
The base was truly toorge. Even a million people would not be able to fill it uppletely, and the mercenary group only had a few hundred people at the moment. Thus, the interior of the base was extremely spacious.
These mercenaries walked toward the main hall while chatting, their voices echoing in therge hall.
When they entered the main hall of the base, they saw that a few hundred people were already waiting there. They were all waiting silently with the atmosphere solemn. These merrily chatting mercenaries immediately stopped theirughter and chatter and gathered behind the other mercenaries.
The few hundred people in the main hall were the present members of the mercenary group. They were d in different kinds of armor and had either melee or ranged weapons on their backs. They were tall, short, fat, skinny, human, and beast; however, they all had something inmon. They were all emanating the sharpness of an elite warrior, and every single one of them had survived hundreds of battles.
In front of the crowd, ck Star’s officers were standing in a row with their backs facing the crowd. Herlous was d in a light blue armor, Aroshia was glowing all over, the three Volga brothers looked as though they had been made from the same mold, and three other new officers who joined a few months ago. As for Feidin and Sylvia, they were standing further away.
At that moment, the metal ground that was in front of the crowd opened up, and a human figure rose up on an elevator. His ck overcoat fluttered in the wind, and he had a ne made frompressed orbs. Furthermore, he was still wearing a pure ck mask that covered his face.
It was Han Xiao.
After a year, Han Xiao had changed his outfit into something more striking, and he had mimicked the Germinal Organization leader in wearing a mask. He felt that he was more handsome this way.
<i>I am someone who owns his own property after all, and my coolness factor should go up a little at least. Furthermore, this ck mask is actually equipment.</i>
The moment that he appeared, everyone’s gaze was immediately fixed on him.
“Is everyone here?”
Han Xiao’s gaze swept over everyone present. He had hired these mercenaries personally, and Floating Dragon’s reputation was truly useful. The majority of those present were lone wolves with pretty impressivebat prowess. They were all extremely reliable. All of the mercenaries before him could be split into three different categories. The first category would be mercenaries who did not belong to any mercenary group before this. The second category would be those who belonged to the Sunil Division. The third category would be a ‘War League’, which one of the new officers had brought with him.
After the base was constructed, Han Xiao did not stay in the base but took the time to visit others and hired three new officers based on his memories. These were characters who had been famous in his previous life.
Sehrinde, a Sunil Grade B Pugilist. He was dressed in a white hood. While the material of the hood seemed soft, it had a defensive inscription inscribed in it. His face was hidden under the shadow of the hood, and tworge des could be seen hanging on his waist. He would be able to unsheathe those des at any time, and when Han Xiao first met him, Han Xiao had almost thought that he hade out from a certain popr assassination game.
He was another Grade B Super who belonged to the Guardian Faction of the Sunil civilization. When Fernas left Sunil, Sehrinde did not leave together. Sehrinde had a quiet personality, and his personality was just like his swift and queer Pugilist subss. He was like an assassin hidden in the darkness and a sharp contrast to Herlous’ open Pugilist style.
With Herlous making the introduction, Han Xiao had managed to find the lonesome Sehrinde and issued an invitation to him. As the reputation of the ck Star Mercenary Group grew, more and more Sunil Supers became willing to join ck Star. It was safe, and they could earn a lot of money. It could also be said that Han Xiao was offering them protection. Under Herlous’ persuasion, Sehrinde had epted Han Xiao’s invitation and begun working together with him.
Presently, the Sunil Division was led by Herlous and Sehrinde.
The second new officer was Gte Colin, a female space human. She was a Grade B Cannon Master and carried various kinds of heavy firearms all over her body. The thickyer of machinery covered her tall, sexy figure. It was her creed to worship firepower over anything else.
Gte was a pretty famous lone wolf mercenary. In Han Xiao’s previous life, she had joined Sky Ring Army and be a famous leading figure of the army. Han Xiao had spotted her name when he was going through the list of frence mercenaries and thus decided to pull Gte into his mercenary group while she was still alone.
The process naturally had not been an easy one. Gte had an explosive temper and cursed at both the heavens and the earth. She did not even ce Floating Dragon in her sights. Han Xiao had thuse up with a small n and purposely intervened in one of Gte’s missions. With the both of them on opposing sides, they had naturally ended up fighting. After Han Xiao beat her terribly a couple of times, Gte had finally submitted and joined the ck Star Mercenary Group.
Han Xiao had promised to provide her with heavy firearms at a low price. With Gte’s hobby of collecting all different kinds of weapons, she had immediately epted his proposal.
The third officer had an even greater origin. He was a main character ss figure. Han Xiao had spent a great deal of effort before finally being able to con him into joining. Just like how he had conned Herlous back then.
Harmon Rockfall Sonodin. He was a Luhan Beastman and was more than three meters tall. His entire body was covered in hair, and he looked a little like a bear. His appearance was still pretty adorable, but he actually belonged to a n of ferocious fighters. The Luhan Beastmen had their own civilization, and it was located in a different Star Cluster. Their governance method was an alliance system between all the different tribes. Harmon was one of the candidates for the next tribal chief of the Rockfall Tribe.
While the Luhan Beastman was a gctic civilization, they preserved their battle loving, boorish, and warlike tradition. When the tribe wanted to decide the next chief, they would not vote for the new chief peacefully but settle it with a battle. All the candidates would be chased out from their mother and sent to randoms. They would have to train themselves up in the gxy and also build up their own ‘War League’. When the designated time arrived, they would then take all of their troops back to their mother to participate in the battle to determine the chief. In other words, it was simr to the fight between princes for authority.
Harmon was a main character, and his storyline was to aid him in snatching the position of tribal chief. When he was conning Harmon, Han Xiao had activated this mission. This mission was simple and violent. He had to fight from the start to the end. After the yerspleted this mission in his previous life, the process had be a dungeon, and they would be able to gain a Dungeon Crystal from doing daily missions at the Rockfall Tribe. Thus, Han Xiao could remember the mission clearly.
The way to hire Harmon was naturally to agree to an ancient ceremony and be part of his War League. Harmon was not alone, and he brought the subordinates in his War League, dozens of powerful Luhan Beastman, to join the mercenary group.
Harmon had the strength of a Grade B Super, and his Esper ability was very simply to strengthen his body and cause the muscles on his entire body to expand.
While his Esper ability was extremely singr, Harmon was proficient in many different weapons and was a warrior with exquisite battle techniques. Han Xiao had taken a look at Harmon’s attributes before, and Harmon had six rare subss that belonged to the [Warrior] ss.
The addition of the three new officers provided the mercenary group with fresh blood. Han Xiao had more and more capable subordinates under him, and the rewards that his faction could give out had also increased greatly.
Currently, the highest mission reward that Han Xiao could give out was 1,000,000 experience, and his Daily Reward Limit was over twenty times that. This meant that if he issued a faction mission, he could give out more than 20,000,000 experience to the yers. Hiring NPC characters was all to better attract yers.
Opening up hismunicator, Han Xiao looked at his mercenary group’s introduction.
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ck Star Mercenary Group
Credibility Rating: 1,018 (High)
Scale: 417 members
Grade D: 47
Grade C: 359 members
Grade B: 11
Missions Completed: 82
Main Activity Area: Colton Star Cluster
History:
[Sunil Defense Battle]
[Silver Rescue Operation]
[Capture of Purple Gem Civilization’s Head Of Rebels “Pilippa Wasasa”]
[Battle of Noriosse]
[78 more missions... (Expand/Copse)]
Creator: ck Star—Han Xiao
Creation date: Gxy Calendar Year 688, 02 October
Summary: A medium sized mercenary group with a good name and very high credibility. Completed hiring missions with high ratings multiple times. Work together with manyrge-scale mercenary groups. Field Team under the Dragon Emperor. Base is located on Golden Gate. Mercenary captain ck Star aided Godora in killing a Cmity Grade Super in Noriosse. Reliable.
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<i>Today is the day of Version 2.0’s release. I have waited almost a year for this day. My manpower should be sufficient.</i>
Han Xiao nodded in his head.
Over the past year, Han Xiao had done many things and made ample preparations. He had constructed a total of twenty-three assembly lines, and his 4,500,000 Enas had almost all been spent, with only about 1,100,000 Enas remaining. The majority of his money had been spent on materials, and his assembly line had been churning out equipment without stopping. His warehouse already had a mountain of equipment at the moment.
The loan had already exceeded the first interest free year. ording to Rockfess’ requirement, he would have to start paying interest if his loan period was more than a year. Han Xiao was waiting to earn a huge sum of money from the yers.
His experience on the interface had already fallen below 100,000,000 points, and Han Xiao was still level 116. He had spent all of his experience on gambling for blueprints and raising the level of his skills. He was currently in dire need of experience points. He still had a Mission Completion Card in his hands, and if he had sufficient experience points, he could even advance directly and charge to level 140. It would be a lie to say that he did not look forward to that.
Keeping his thoughts to himself, Han Xiao looked at the mercenaries present and said, “I have gathered everyone today for arge-scale mission. My home is undergoing a cmity, and their sights are only limited to that of their. They aren’t able to see what we can see, and we are their only hope.”
The mercenaries all began looking at each other.
<i>ck Star’s home?</i>
<i>That backward called Aquamarine?</i>
“I will fight for you just like you will fight for me.” Harmon hammered his chest with his fist.
“I will be by your side just like before,” Herlous proimed.
All the mercenaries in the hall also began to express their support.
Looking at the time, it was about right.
Han Xiao opened the interface and waited quietly.
After a short wait, a new notification appeared.
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Version 2.0 is now open.
Fetching data... Fetching data done!
yer Forum Open
Wee to ‘Gxy’ Version 2.0!
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<i>After preparing for such a long time, Version 2.0 is finally here!</i>
Han Xiao’s eyes glowed as he walked toward the door.
A few hundred elites followed behind him majestically.
“Let’s go!”