Chapter 41: Main Mission, The Path to Ascension

After this conversation, everyone lost interest in playing and sat in their seats contemplating life. As for Lu Chen, he had completed the third stage of his main mission. The newly unlocked mission was a long-term one, but how long exactly?

Lu Chen doubted he would even have enough remaining time to complete this long-term mission.

Main Mission (Fourth Stage): The Path to Ascension

Mission Objective: Further establish activity in this world by hunting and killing pureblooded dragons. This mission can be divided into different stages for reward collection.

Mission Difficulty: Easy to Fatal

Reward for First Kill of a Fifth Generation Species: Dragon Blood Seed (Green)

Reward for First Kill of a Fourth Generation Species: Dragon Blood Seed (Green) *2

Reward for First Kill of a Third Generation Species: Dragon Blood Crystal (Blue)

Reward for First Kill of a Subsequent Generation Species: Dragon Blood Crystal (Blue) *2

Reward for Killing the Remains of a White King: Divine Seed (Legendary)

Reward for Killing Any First Generation Species: Nibelungen Plan activated. If the condition of Secret Party Reputation 3000+ is met, you can become the ultimate beneficiary. Each kill of a first generation species will result in a bloodline enhancement.

Reward for Killing the Black King Nidhogg: Receive World Crystal, permanently locking in the Explorer's access to and use of this world.

Hint: Dragon Blood Seeds and Dragon Blood Crystals can enhance the purity of the explorer's dragon bloodline.

Hint: Divine Seeds can stabilize the bloodline, assisting the explorer in breaking through the critical blood limit.

Failure Penalty: None

The series of rewards listed in the mission made Lu Chen salivate. He had used one Dragon Blood Seed before, barely giving him a dragon bloodline, but it was too weak. According to the rating system of Cassel Academy, it probably didn't even reach D-level.

But what if he could continue to obtain items to refine his bloodline? Leaving aside other benefits, just the direct attribute bonuses made Lu Chen extremely excited.

However, a problem arose. Even the Secret Party didn't know where the Dragon Kings were sleeping. Where could he go to slaughter them?

Moreover, the mission difficulty clearly marked the upper limit as "Fatal." Lu Chen now roughly understood that this difficulty indication was a comprehensive evaluation based on his current strength.

So when he first entered this world, both branches of the mission were marked as simple. However, this time, the upper limit was marked as Fatal, meaning that his current strength might not be enough to face those legendary Dragon Kings.

He could only start from the grassroots, targeting those minions to improve his strength first. If he could awaken his language ability, his strength would undergo a qualitative change.

Ah, if only there were some Dragon Kings just waking up, in a daze, and I could kill them.

Of course, Lu Chen felt like he was daydreaming. He had attended classes at the academy and knew that every time one of the Four Great Sovereigns revived, it was a bloody affair. The Secret Party would pay an unknown price, often a nationwide war, to put those sovereigns back to sleep.

The cocooning places of the Dragon Kings were absolute secrets, often by the time they reappeared, they already had mature combat power. Unless the Secret Party could discover them before they fully revived and catch them off guard, they would have the advantage.

In addition to the main mission, he also unlocked a new side mission.

Side Mission: Dragon Blood Hunter

Mission Objective: Hunt and kill Death Samurai, dragonkin, and pureblooded dragons below the First Generation to earn Origin Coins rewards. The completion of this mission is unlimited. Note: All types of first kills will be settled first in the main mission. This mission only counts targets after the first kill.

Mission Difficulty: Easy to Fatal

Mission Reward: 500-80000 Origin Coins

Failure Penalty: None

Lu Chen thought this was a good mission. Although he couldn't use Origin Coins here, it would count as work for the Execution Department in the future.

Both tasks had no failure penalties because if you didn't do them, you'd quietly live out your days in this world until death. Once you undertook the mission, the basic outcome of failure was death.

Lu Chen couldn't just wait for death. He pursued battles, pursued greatness, and with his short lifespan of only three years, he couldn't rely on Transcendence to be reborn through fire. Instead, he faced the fate shared by all Secret Blood Warriors.

...

Cassel Academy, underground, in a blue space.

A burly man sat in a reclining chair, holding a glass of iced whiskey, watching the projection in front of him.

It was footage taken by a satellite. In the dim panorama, the clouds covering the earth lit up like a fire cloud. With the movement of the wind, the clouds dispersed, revealing the blazing maple forest.

As time passed in the video, the image became increasingly blurry. One could only see occasional collapses in the maple forest, and a figure moving in battle. Eventually, the figure chased towards a predetermined direction and stopped.

What happened next was breathtaking when viewed from the satellite's high perspective.

There was a line, as if drawn by a god's brush, extending from a distance. Wherever it went, everything would part because of the god's power. The flames stood apart as if welcoming the king's arrival, and the late maple leaves fell like praise for the emperor. The line continued until it reached a tall black figure before stopping, and the actions of that black figure ceased.

"The speed of this, according to his physical test results, is at the fifth rank? No, this should only be a fourth-rank moment... The fourth-rank moment, like the force of a thunderbolt, that highly dangerous hybrid hasn't even reacted yet. He didn't even feel the wind because his opponent was faster than the wind. A clean beheading, Schneider struck gold this time."

The man spoke, took a sip of his drink, and lit a High Seeker cigar. He looked to the illusory girl beside him and asked, "What do you think?"

"He's excellent. The resistance to the moment on him is very weak. Although it's only a fourth-rank moment, he can even achieve the running speed of a seventh-rank moment user in history. It shows that he has natural extraordinary strength, and his physical qualities far surpass ordinary hybrids."

"Tsk tsk, a seventh-rank moment user... There's no way to jog ten kilometers while using Language Abilities."

The man looked to his left where a beam of light shone down from above. Fluorescent fragments floated in that beam, and the shadow of a girl stood in the center of the light beam, semi-transparent, shimmering with a faint glow. Her black hair slowly hung down until it floated in the air at the tips, wearing what looked like a silk nightgown, sitting opposite the man in the reclining chair, smiling.

"EVA."

The man reached out to touch the girl's long hair. No matter how many times he did it, he still had the illusion that she was still there, really still by his side.

The girl reached out her hands to "hold" the man's large hand, but neither side could feel each other's warmth.

"Do you feel sentimental seeing Abel being easily killed like this?"

The girl suddenly smiled lightly, with a hint of teasing.

"He's just a thief stealing the king's power, waving violence thinking he's invincible. In reality, he's just a clown, a half-hearted obsession... How can he compare to the determination of the avengers?"

At the end, the man and the girl looked at each other, their golden eyes burning hot like fire.

"And what about this video?"

The girl asked softly.

"Delete it, and delete the original records from that satellite."

The man said faintly.