Chapter 318 A Gift Before Parting

Han Xiao only felt the mech vibrate slightly, and when it opened again, he had returned to the Black Star Army's large fleet, which was attacking the outer defenses of the Modo Expeditionary Force. He was in the command room of the flagship.

Hearing the commotion, the many cadres present who had been staring at the battle situation turned their heads to look. First, they looked at Han Xiao's face, then their gazes involuntarily shifted downward, to the large hand he had placed on Ames's waist and abdomen. Then they glanced at Ames's calm expression, and the room instantly became silent.

"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen this before?" Han Xiao glared at everyone and retracted his hand.

"Boss, is the target eliminated?" Melos coughed and winked.

"Otherwise? The Modo Civilization didn't even send a Super-A Grade. With just those people in the expeditionary force, how could I possibly fail?"

Melos originally wanted to ask, "Then why did it take so long?" But looking at Ames's radiant complexion, he hesitated and wisely didn't ask.

Han Xiao ignored him and looked at the battlefield outside the window. It was currently at a fever pitch, with the two fleets locked in a fierce battle. The army had already broken through the outer protective shields of two planetary bases and deployed a large number of army players, who were engaged in large-scale battles with the players of the opposing guild alliance, with no clear victor in sight.

At this moment, Ames turned around and patted Han Xiao's pectoral muscles, saying, "Alright, the main culprit has been eliminated. I'll return to the Shattered Star Ring first."

"Huh? You're leaving so soon?" Han Xiao was slightly stunned. "Didn't you say you wanted to deal with the mastermind together?"

He thought Ames would stay here to participate in battle after battle against Modo, continuing to vent her anger. He didn't expect her to leave so soon.

"Killing the initiator of the plan has already vented my anger. Besides, having you here is enough," Ames said with a light smile, in a very good mood.

Her original idea was to help Han Xiao while taking revenge. She had already helped a lot. If it weren't for her, Manison would have lost at least one more convict. During this time, Han Xiao had persuaded her, so Ames decided to listen to Han Xiao's advice and return to Longtan to continue guarding it.

*Ding!*

As soon as she finished speaking, Han Xiao's panel reacted. The quest [Ames's Wrath] had changed to "Completed."

'So it's done like this? Fortunately, she didn't really want to overthrow the entire Modo Civilization. I guess her anger dissipated, so she dispelled such an exaggerated idea. It seems my persuasion during this time was effective…'

Han Xiao thought to himself.

"I'll take Izo back with me and keep a close eye on him in the future, so he won't easily run away again," Ames said, flicking a strand of hair from her temple.

Han Xiao mourned for Izo for a third of a second, then nodded decisively.

"Arrange him as you see fit, don't give me any face."

Ames extended her slender, fair fingers and lightly tapped Han Xiao's chest with a smile. "Then I'll go back first. Come and find me when you have time. Anyway, thanks to your help this time, I won't say thank you again. We don't need to be so polite between us, and you don't like hearing it anyway…"

"Alright, alright, hurry back," Han Xiao waved dismissively.

"Oh, right, before I leave, I have a gift for you." Ames seemed to have suddenly remembered something. The spatial enchantment rune on the back of her hand flickered, and a book appeared in her hand.

"What's this?" Han Xiao looked down, a little curious.

"I've been sorting and summarizing my Qi cultivation experience to date, and I've created a new Qi training method. It should be universal, and you can practice it too," Ames said with a smile.

Han Xiao took the book and flipped through it. It was a handwritten version. The content recorded was a Qi training method called "Dragon Throne Star Force Absorption Method." The specific effect was still unclear, but it seemed quite profound, not inferior to Little Overlord's "Heber Stellar Furnace Training Method" back then.

"Why write it by hand? Wouldn't it be more convenient to write it on a smart device and send it to me?"

"This can train your patience," Ames said with the same smile.

Her idea was simple: only a handwritten version could be given as a gift in person, and it could also leave a memento for Black Star.

With such a surprise, Han Xiao didn't refuse. He put away the handwritten book and nodded. "Alright, I'll find time to practice it when I get back."

"Then I'm leaving."

Ames smiled and didn't dawdle. She had Han Xiao send her back with another Emperor mech.

After she disappeared, Han Xiao reopened the panel and carefully looked at the rewards for this quest.

The quest evaluation was Excellent. The base experience of 2e5 was multiplied to 10e, which was passable. The contribution of the Longtan faction increased by tens of thousands. Ames's favorability was already full, so it couldn't increase further. Izo's favorability, on the other hand, increased quite a bit. The random rewards increased from 2 to 4, and the character cards also doubled, yielding 2 cards, both of which were Ames's character cards.

The ability of the first character card was called "Force Field – Star Capture," which used force field abilities to grab a target. It was a decent control skill with a usage limit of 5 times. The ability of the other character card was called "War Whip – Dragon Arc," which was also an application technique of force field abilities. It had both AoE damage and control, and also had 5 uses. The effect was also acceptable.

In Han Xiao's mind, this ordinary quest was just a bonus, and he didn't have high expectations. Now that he had received these rewards, he considered it a small profit. The main focus in his eyes had always been the Kunde Clan's quest.

Opening [Kunde Leader's Last Wish] in the quest list, Han Xiao glanced at it. Requirement one was still unchanged, and quest requirement two was the same, because it was an S-level quest, so there was no specific progress display. However, his intuition told him that his successful raid had greatly advanced the quest.

After pondering for a while, Han Xiao thought to himself,

"Based on the current situation, I estimate that the day the Modo Civilization is completely tormented by me and gives up competing for the Flickering World will be when the second requirement of this quest is completed."

He had been coveting the three ability rewards of quest requirement two, namely [Vengeful Oath Taker], [Leader's Proof], and [Wrath of the Kundes], all of which were excellent abilities, especially the semi-template specialty [Leader's Proof], which had growth potential.

Thinking like this, Han Xiao summoned Philip in his quantum network vision and instructed,

"Send the video of me using space-time cutting technology to destroy the Modo Expeditionary Force's command headquarters to the Kunde Clan's garrison, and have them play it in a loop in all the settlements, trying to let every mantis shrimp… cough, every Kunde Clan member see it."

"Understood, buzz!"

Han Xiao's battle against the Modo Expeditionary Force was very brief, and Philip recorded the whole process. He was never the type to bury himself in work. Helping the Kunde Clan avenge their enemies, he would definitely use the video to boost his reputation among the Kunde Clan, letting the entire clan know his kindness, which would also increase the quest completion.

After handling this matter, Han Xiao called Fording over, avoided the others, and whispered, "Did you do what I asked you to do?"

"In the past month and a half, I have converted 15,420 Modo soldiers and mid-level officers. These are our spies within the Modo Expeditionary Force," Fording nodded.

He had received Han Xiao's secret order. When the Black Star Army's fleet attacked the Modo defense line, he used the soul transfer device to convert a portion of the enemy soldiers, infiltrating the Modo Expeditionary Force and planting spies.

The Modo Civilization had once used the soul transfer device to deal with the army, so Han Xiao had Fording use their own methods against them. With the strangeness of the soul transfer device, even if Modo was prepared, they could not avoid being hit.

"Well done."

Han Xiao nodded with satisfaction. Taking multiple approaches, he had already planted pieces in the Modo Expeditionary Force's territory. In this way, he would have more internal intelligence sources, which would not only allow him to control the movements of the Modo Civilization's army, but also to investigate the location of secret transport lines as much as possible, so he could slowly torment them.

"Pass down my order, temporarily withdraw our troops. We will return to the base to rest for a while."

Han Xiao said loudly, and the cadres present were all stunned.

We are currently in the upper hand, so why are we withdrawing our troops as soon as we say so? Even if we don't attack the defense line, we should at least finish this battle before talking about it.

They didn't know that Han Xiao wasn't letting the Black Star Army rest, but that he had just killed the commander of the Modo Expeditionary Force and knew that the other side was temporarily without a leader and would inevitably fall into chaos, so he deliberately left the enemy time to rest.

He didn't want to press the attack and give Modo a little hope, and then crush it again and again. In this way, it would be easier for Modo to give up the competition in despair, and attacking their morale was the best strategy.

Although the many cadres were confused, no one would question the army commander's orders.

Soon, the main force of the army fully retracted their battleships, disengaged from the heated battlefield, and withdrew in an orderly manner.

Seeing this, the Modo garrison on this defense line was all confused.

Aren't we at a disadvantage? Why did you stop hitting us halfway through?

"Strange, quickly tell the command headquarters." The fleet commander of this defense line quickly reported to the higher-ups.

However, what awaited him was a long silence, with no one answering.

After a long while, he received the bad news released by the internal network, and was shocked to learn what had happened – the entire command headquarters had been beheaded by Black Star, and even the people and the base were taken down!

……

On the other side, one of the Kunde Clan's settlement planets.

After about twenty years of transformation, the new generation of the Kunde Clan gradually adapted to their current captive life, accepting the culture instilled by the Crimson Empire and the Black Star Army. As batches of elderly mantis shrimp died of natural causes, the clan's cultural transformation action gradually became effective.

Each settlement planet was isolated and unable to contact other planets. They had separately restored basic productivity. The streets were crowded with people, the heavy and oppressive atmosphere had faded a lot, and the younger generation had injected new vitality into the Kunde Clan.

On this day, a major event occurred on this settlement planet. Every screen in the world was playing a video, the content of which was Han Xiao destroying the Modo Expeditionary Force's command headquarters. Philip had also thoughtfully added commentary, explaining the ins and outs, trying to make the Kunde Clan understand what Han Xiao had done for them.

Every Kunde Clan member who saw the video understood that Black Star was still continuing to carry out his promise, persevering in avenging their clan. Moreover, Black Star had deliberately used their technology.

Seeing the scene of the mechanical soldiers using space-time cutting technology to shatter the command headquarters, the carapaces of the Kunde Clan members lit up with excited orange light, feeling extremely proud.

Look, those who plotted against us are also no match for the strongest technology of our Kunde Civilization!

This made everyone feel that they were not just watching Black Star uphold justice alone, but that they had helped.

Accompanying the pride was the deep gratitude that everyone felt for Black Star.

For many years, he had not only given them shelter, but had also always remembered his promise to seek justice for their clan… Such a good person was now their clan's only patron saint, which was simply a stroke of luck in their misfortune.

The same scene was being played out on every planet of the Kunde Clan, and countless Kunde Clan members became even more reverent of Black Star.