Chapter 1 A Famous Organization

To this day, the Black Star Army is a famous organization in the Shattered Star Ring. The sudden arrival of a satellite base caused a sensation on Dilder Star.

The Goron Star Cluster has nothing to do with the Secret War. The various consortia on Dilder Star, as well as the million-plus newbie players here, were wondering what the Black Star Army's intentions were.

Escort warships sailed out of the airport, meeting the Black Star Army's satellite base and showing the necessary vigilance.

The heads of the various consortia couldn't wait to send communication requests, wanting to talk to the commander of this Black Star fleet.

Soon, their requests were answered, and all the consortium heads were pulled into a video conference channel. Sylvia's face appeared on their communication screens.

It was her, Black Star's Chief Executive Officer!

As an important cadre of the Black Star Army, Sylvia had quite a reputation. Many consortium heads recognized her. Seeing such an important figure leading the team, everyone felt a little uneasy, feeling that the Black Star Army had ulterior motives.

"I am Sylvia, the commander of this fleet." Sylvia nodded, giving an opening remark.

"Why didn't you say hello before suddenly arriving? Do you want to violate interstellar business principles and seize Dilder Star's business?" a consortium head who seemed to be the leader of the group spoke, his tone unkind and aggressive.

Odergon Consortium was the largest chaebol force on Dilder Star. The person speaking at this time was the head, Carver.

The others had similar ideas to Carver. Dilder Star was a treasure trove for them, and they didn't want others to get involved.

Sylvia smiled faintly, "Please don't misunderstand. Although our Black Star Army is an armed organization, we will not use force to coerce legitimate consortia... Moreover, Dilder Star's business is not attractive to us. You can rest assured."

Hearing this, Carver and the others looked a little unnatural. Dilder Star, which they regarded as a treasure trove, was only a trivial interest in the eyes of the powerful Black Star Army. Sylvia's implied meaning was obvious: she didn't care about this little profit, which made Carver a little embarrassed.

"Then what are you here for, and you even moved a satellite fortress over here? If I remember correctly, the Goron Star Cluster is not a battlefield of the Secret War," Carver asked suspiciously.

Sylvia cleared her throat and said loudly, "As an important member of the Mercenary Alliance, our Black Star Army's mercenary department has decided to expand its business to the Goron Star Cluster. Dilder Star is our branch location. We will contract the employment in this area. You can also regard us as the Mercenary Alliance's office. If you need manpower, you can apply to us."

Carver and the others' eyes lit up. If the Black Star Army didn't interfere with Dilder Star's business and only expanded its mercenary business, it would be beneficial to them.

If a reliable mercenary organization was stationed on Dilder Star, the security situation would improve significantly, attracting more people.

Moreover, with the Black Star Army, they wouldn't have to look for those mediocre small mercenaries, making it safe and reliable.

Now, the Mercenary Alliance has a tendency to monopolize the employment business of the entire star field. Carver believes that since the Black Star Army is a member of the Mercenary Alliance, it is expanding in order to expand the Mercenary Alliance's business.

"Understood, we have no objections." Carver lowered some of his guard, and the others echoed.

Sylvia: "Very good, I have something I want to ask you. I hope you can use your influence to publicly announce on Dilder Star that our Black Star Army will be stationed here. With your help, we can quickly open up the market."

As an external force, even if the Black Star Army is powerful, Sylvia would still ease the relationship with the local forces, so it would be twice the result with half the effort.

Hearing this, Carver hesitated.

At this time, Sylvia added, "Of course, in return, if you need mercenaries in the future, we will provide a certain discount..."

"Don't worry, we'll take care of the publicity for you." Carver was overjoyed and agreed without saying a word.

...

Whether on the surface of Dilder Star or in the airport hall, you could look up and see the huge satellite fortress suspended in outer space orbit.

Just when people were panicking, a number of forces, led by the Odergon Consortium, jointly issued an announcement, claiming that they had reached a cooperation agreement with the Black Star Army. The Black Star Army had come with good intentions and would establish a branch on Dilder Star to undertake employment business.

As soon as the announcement came out, the vast majority of people breathed a sigh of relief and became happy instead.

The security of the interstellar transit station has always been a problem. The Black Star Army stationed here may be able to improve the current situation.

Of course, not everyone welcomed the Black Star Army. For example, the small mercenary organizations who made a living on Dilder Star felt the pressure.

They could all see that their lives would definitely be difficult in the future, and their business would probably be taken away by the Black Star Army.

But the Black Star Army soon issued a recruitment notice, recruiting a large number of people, with priority given to local mercenaries.

For a time, respondents gathered, and countless people enthusiastically participated, especially the players of Dilder Star.

The topic of the Black Star Army often dominated the forums. Even newbies had a certain understanding of the Black Star Army's benefits, plots, and deeds.

The Black Star Army has accompanied the players through two versions of the main quests. Countless players have contributed to the Black Star Army, and their deeds remain in the Star Sea Chronicles. The current scale of the Black Star Army is due to the players' efforts, which gives some newbies a natural sense of belonging to the faction.

In the eyes of many newbies, the Black Star Army is the main force of players in the Shattered Star Ring.

It was just due to regionality that many people did not want to travel all the way to Colton, and at this time, the Legion's business expanded to the Goron Star Cluster. Without distance restrictions, quite a few players no longer hesitated and joined decisively.

Some hesitant players were mainly entangled in the choice of the story line. In their opinion, joining the Black Star Army was equivalent to participating in the Secret War main line, and they did not want to give up the freedom to explore other story lines.

But after listening to the explanation of the players who joined the legion, they realized that it was not the case. To join the Secret War, they needed to submit an application to participate in the war. If they did not want to, the legion would not force them. They could choose not to trigger this main line.

If they didn't participate in the war, they would be normal mercenaries of the Black Star Army, and they could screen tasks and explore on their own, and enjoy the faction benefits as well.

Moreover, they were surprised to find that the Black Star Army was a high-level member of the Mercenary Alliance. Here, they could also trigger the plot line of the Mercenary Alliance, which was equivalent to joining the Black Star Army to choose two main lines.

There were also some players who wanted to do the local main plot of Dilder Star - helping the Odergon Consortium drive away the nearby Star Pirate gangs.

However, they were stunned to find that the Odergon Consortium had withdrawn this task, and the local main plot of Dilder Star had disappeared!

After careful inquiries, many players learned that the Star Pirate gangs entrenched near Dilder Star heard that the Black Star Army was coming, so they gave up their strongholds and ran away decisively.

These Star Pirates were all scared away by the Black Star Army!

There was nothing to hesitate about.

Basically, within three days, more than 90% of the Dilder Star players chose to join the Black Star Army.

Han Xiao had been running it for so long, and the benefits of the Black Star Army were unparalleled to the newbie players. Not only were there a lot of equipment and props, but also complete basic and advanced professional knowledge, without having to brush the favorability of the NPCs everywhere to learn.

The current level and needs of the newbies were equivalent to the players in the 1.0 era, and his Black Star Army gave the benefits of the 3.0 era, which was the ultimate luxury temptation for the newbies, and they could not refuse.

...

Sylvia recruited players on Dilder Star, and Han Xiao's panel also received real-time feedback.

As soon as these newbie players joined the legion, the first thing they did was to learn knowledge.

He had the "Political Asset" task reward, rewarding an extra 30% experience, and the dry experience pool quickly filled up, and soon he had enough experience to level up again.

With the opening of the second field of leeks, his speed of harvesting experience was significantly improved. At this rate, level 240 was just around the corner.

The legion players were now divided into two batches, one was the old players who basically reached Grade B, and the other was the new players with an average level of thirty or so, with more than one million each.

The spending power of the new players was not as good as the old players, but their potential needs were the greatest. Han Xiao decided to free-range the newbies on Dilder Star and not force them to participate in the Secret War - with their combat power, the benefits of participating in the war were not as good as doing employment.

The Mercenary Alliance's main line was more suitable for this group of newcomers.

Han Xiao secretly pondered: "The player market has doubled compared to before. These newcomers have to learn knowledge and skills from scratch, but their level is still very low, and they need to be fattened slowly."

Professional knowledge was a rigid requirement, and the newcomers would have to learn it sooner or later, so he was not in a hurry.

Beep beep...

The communicator suddenly rang, and Han Xiao glanced at it, and it was Leif from the Purple Crystal Civilization.

"Black Star, I heard that you established a branch in the Goron Star Cluster?" Leif asked.

"The news is well-informed. Do you have any comments?" Han Xiao raised his eyebrows.

"Cough cough, I'm just curious to ask." Leif coughed.

In fact, the Purple Crystal Civilization hoped to keep the Black Star Army tied to the Colton territory and did not want to see Han Xiao expand outward, but now was not the time to talk about it.

Han Xiao: "What are you looking for me for today?"

Leif's face became serious and he said in a deep voice, "It's like this, we have heard that the Crimson Empire and the Glorious Federation have reached a preliminary consensus. We don't have much time left. We must speed up the pace of our counterattack."

The negotiation is coming to an end?

Han Xiao's heart moved. When the Crimson Empire and the Glorious Federation complete the negotiation, it will be the end of the Secret War. No wonder the Purple Crystal is anxious.

"What's the reaction on the war domain side?"

Leif: "They have become active. High-level combat power has been dispatched on a large scale. Without your suppression, we have suffered a lot."

Han Xiao understood that there must be a reason for Joe Deer to be misled by him and thus become rampant.

"We urgently need you to return to the front line. Coincidentally, we are preparing for the next large-scale military operation, Black Star, we need..."

At this time, Han Xiao interrupted him, "Sorry, I don't want to participate in this operation."

Leif was stunned. Black Star was an important part of the tactic, but now that Han Xiao was not coming, wouldn't it disrupt the overall plan?

"...Why?"

Han Xiao thought for a while and said, "You should know that no matter what the outcome of the war is, the Overlord is unlikely to let me go, right?"

Leif fell silent. The Purple Crystal did know about this, but had not intended to tell him. It was not that they didn't care about his life or death. The high-level officials were very realistic, just to make the most of everything.

Seven years ago, the Purple Crystal was optimistic about Han Xiao's potential and implemented early investment, but now that seven years have passed, the Purple Crystal high-level officials saw that he had lost his momentum for rapid growth, and they were not as optimistic about his potential as they were at the beginning.

Although they still attached importance to him, the high-level officials' ideas had changed. They no longer expected him to become a Super-A grade.

The Purple Crystal would not allow the Overlord to retaliate against their meritorious ministers afterward, but the high-level officials had their own considerations. Although the possibility of Black Star becoming a Super-A grade had decreased, he was still a peak Calamity Grade superpower, and he was still worth wooing. The Overlord's move would prompt Black Star to seek refuge from the Purple Crystal, bringing the two sides closer together, which was more beneficial than harmful to the high-level officials.

As for Black Star's safety, the Purple Crystal was not worried. No matter what, Black Star still had Dragon Emperor behind him. It was naturally better to give charcoal in the snow than to add flowers to the brocade... Maybe he could even forge a relationship with Ames because of this.

Han Xiao didn't care. The essence of cooperation between the two sides was still to get what they needed. The Purple Crystal didn't owe him anything. He slowly said, "So I have to think of a way to try to break through the bottleneck of the Calamity Grade with the remaining time."

"Understood."

Leif saw that Han Xiao had made his words clear, so he didn't force it anymore.

Regarding the situation of the Secret War, Leif was actually very clear. The Purple Crystal high-level officials knew that they could not drive away all the enemies, and in the end, they would probably lose some border star systems. They were already mentally prepared. What they were doing now was to try to take back as much territory as possible to stop their losses.

In this case, Han Xiao's unwillingness to participate in the war was not something the Purple Crystal could not accept.

Black Star must also know this, so he made this request... Leif thought to himself, feeling that Han Xiao's words about trying to break through the Super-A grade were just an excuse.

There had been no movement for seven years, and he didn't think Han Xiao could make any breakthrough in the short term.

But there was no need to make these words clear.

Leif: "I will submit your opinion to the high-level officials, but you can not come, but the Black Star Army must participate."

"That's natural."

After hanging up the communication, Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, neither the Purple Crystal nor the war domain would come to bother him for the time being. He had withdrawn from the Secret War and should go get some specialties to prepare for the Super-A grade.