Chapter 1 The Panel

The panel popped up a series of prompts:

[【Planet Aquamarine Crisis】 Completed!]

[You gained 620,000 experience]

[Garton Star System Reputation +2]

[Planet Aquamarine - Six Nations Camp Favorability +1500]

[【Assassination Target】 Completed!]

[You gained 12,100,000 experience]

[Garton Star System Reputation +30]

[Godora Camp Favorability +1000]

[You gained 1 point of Legend]

With both tasks completed, Han Xiao glanced at the prompts. His reputation in the Garton Star System wasn't low to begin with, and once the news spread, he could gain another wave of fame. After this battle, his reputation in Garton would likely advance further, reaching the 【Well-Known】 level, making him a prominent figure in this star cluster.

This time, he also obtained a new point of Legend.

[Star System Legend (Garton Star System): The Three Disasters Battle—You faced an ambush by three Grade A powerhouses, fighting three against one, and in the end, you were not defeated! This is a legendary event, enough to make anyone who hears about it feel surprised and doubtful. Everyone who knows you will recognize your strength, and your deeds will be sung throughout the stars!]

Star System Legend has a wider range of dissemination than Planet Legend, increasing the reward bonus percentage. Planet Legend is 5%, while Star System Legend is 12%. This was Han Xiao's first Star System Legend.

In addition to the mission rewards, the NPC template popped up a dungeon generation prompt, adding a new option:

[Scenario: Planet Aquamarine Defense War]

"An unexpected surprise." Han Xiao's eyes lit up.

Only relatively sensational battles would generate scenario-type dungeons. Another similar one was 【Scenario: Dragon Emperor's Might】. This meant that his battle with DarkStar had reached the point of generating a dungeon.

Processing the rewards was simple, and he quickly finished. At this time, Godora spaceships descended from the sky, landing slowly. The commander led a group of subordinates, striding over.

"DarkStar deployed a space disruption device. We were late, and they escaped. What's the situation here?"

As he spoke, the fleet commander subconsciously looked at the crater left by the main cannon, and his heart sank. He felt that the support mission might have failed, and Planet Aquamarine had suffered irreparable damage.

"The enemy didn't succeed..." Nagojin gave a simple explanation, emphasizing Han Xiao's crucial role. He focused on explaining the battle between DarkStar and Han Xiao.

Upon hearing this, the Godora commander and his subordinates looked at Han Xiao, their expressions changing instantly, their faces filled with disbelief.

Resisting three Calamity Grades and withstanding the main cannon of a mothership was too powerful. Looking at the surrounding traces of battle, the Godorans knew how intense the fight had been.

The Godora higher-ups had been anxiously awaiting the results. They weren't concerned about Planet Aquamarine, but about Han Xiao's safety. Only if Han Xiao was alive could the intelligence trade continue.

When they learned that DarkStar had dispatched three high-level combatants to target Black Star, the higher-ups were half disheartened, thinking that DarkStar had discovered Black Star stealing intelligence, so they had taken action. However, Nagojin's report shocked the higher-ups. Black Star had actually fought three against one and hadn't been defeated! The opponents weren't three weaklings, but three powerhouses who were considered high-level combatants in the galaxy! In the end, he even withstood the main cannon. This level of strength made even the well-informed Godora higher-ups feel shocked.

Black Star's performance had already placed him in the ranks of top-tier combatants!

The Six Nations and the shelters had suffered varying degrees of damage and were organizing manpower to deal with the aftermath. Since the Godorans were already here, they temporarily stationed themselves, worrying that DarkStar would make a comeback, and helped clean up the mess.

Everywhere were ruins, flames, and smoke. Many injured people were dug out of the rubble by guards, covering their profusely bleeding wounds and screaming loudly. There were also residents who had lost their families, looking dazed, weeping silently, a scene of human tragedy. Although DarkStar had been repelled, countless lives had been torn apart, and the pain would forever remain in the hearts of the survivors.

Many surviving residents had no time for grief, actively joining the disaster relief efforts, contributing their strength, united as one.

Han Xiao rested for a while, got up, and walked toward the base. Along the way, disaster relief workers hurried back and forth, constantly brushing past him, all rushing to save people, not stopping in front of him. But as they passed, these disaster relief workers would spontaneously nod to Han Xiao, their faces showing serious respect, as well as unspeakable gratitude.

Entering the base area, Hela greeted him, carefully looking him over, hesitating for a moment, and uncertainly said, "You're not injured?"

Aurora hurriedly interjected, "Tell me if you're injured, I can heal you."

"I've seen plenty of small scenes like this." Han Xiao waved his hand, his face not red, his breath not labored, looking calm and collected.

"...It's good if you're okay." Hela paused and didn't say much.

"Hehe, my sister was very worried about you just now." Aurora giggled.

"If you die, we won't have a way to live either." Before Han Xiao could look over, Hela immediately explained.

Han Xiao rolled his eyes and said, "Helping me out sooner is more useful than anything."

Hela had never directly accepted Han Xiao's invitation before, but this time she didn't deny it, slowly saying, "I will diligently cultivate at Dragon Emperor's place and become stronger as soon as possible."

"Me too." Aurora hurriedly raised her hand.

At this moment, Bennett walked over from the side, looking sad.

"The outer area of the shelter is almost completely destroyed and can only be rebuilt. The losses of the Six Nations are even greater. Many cities have been destroyed. They are busy with disaster relief and asked me to thank you for sending reinforcements, otherwise the losses would have been further expanded. Preliminary estimates are that Planet Aquamarine may have twelve million people dead, and the number of injured and disabled may be several times this number."

"This result is already very good." Han Xiao shook his head.

From beginning to end, the DarkStar attack actually only lasted for more than ten minutes, causing tens of millions of casualties, a terrifying efficiency. Without the mercenary group, Nagojin, the players, and so on, the losses would have been even greater.

The Godora reinforcements actually arrived very quickly, thanks to the Godora's early deployment of the warp base, otherwise, if DarkStar had been given enough time, it wouldn't have been a question of how many casualties there were; there wouldn't have been anyone alive to count the losses.

The destruction of the cities was even more severe, basically becoming ruins, and it would take a long time to rebuild.

"Was this group of attackers DarkStar?" Bennett asked.

Han Xiao nodded.

"Damn it..."

Bennett's expression was angry and helpless. Even if he knew who the enemy was, he had no way to deal with them, not even the qualification to talk to them. He could only swallow the bitter fruit and chew on hatred.

"Don't worry, I will solve the DarkStar problem. You don't need to worry." Han Xiao smiled.

Patting Bennett on the shoulder, Han Xiao walked past the others and toward the central base, leaving only a receding figure for Hela and the others.

The others suddenly saw an illusion. The figure of Han Xiao leaving Planet Aquamarine and boarding the spaceship once overlapped with the current figure, as if unconsciously, this old acquaintance had grown to the point where they could only look up to him.

...

Returning to his room, Han Xiao took a shower and changed his clothes. The great battle had consumed a lot of energy. Once he relaxed, his stomach cramped with hunger. After gnawing on more than twenty highly concentrated nutrient bars, he felt that he had recovered some strength.

Knock, knock, knock—

A knock suddenly rang out. Opening the door, Melos and a group of cadres stood outside.

Most of the mercenaries had gone to support the Six Nations and had only recently returned. As soon as they came back, they learned about Han Xiao's achievements and were all stunned. They thought their leader had been replaced. After repeated confirmation, they accepted the reality and ran to visit Han Xiao at the first opportunity.

As soon as the door opened, the crowd swarmed into the room.

"I heard you repelled three Calamity Grades, and the main cannon couldn't hurt you?!"

Melos looked surprised, circling Han Xiao and sizing him up, perplexed:

"When did you become so powerful? How come I don't know?"

"You'll know if we have time to fight."

"This... let's not." Melos shuddered.

In the past, sparring could be called sparring, but now it was purely one-sided abuse. He didn't want to be abused, and he could only beat the leader in cards.

Han Xiao smiled and turned to see Sylvia staring at him with shining eyes.

"Teacher, I want to learn this!"

"Get lost, you want to learn everything."

"No, I want to learn!"

"Don't even think about it. You can't learn this."

Sylvia's little face drooped down, and she muttered, "That's too much, why is it like this..."

Next to her, Jin Dai winked and licked her lips.

"Leader, so you're so strong. How about we... try it out one day?"

"Go find Harmon. I'm not interested." Han Xiao's mouth twitched.

Harmon was suddenly cued, scratched his head, turned to look at Jin Dai, and said in a muffled voice, "Want to fight? I'm always ready."

"I'm not talking about fighting!" Jin Dai's face froze.

Bullshit, that's fighting... Volga, the boss, curled his lips.

The cadres were noisy, only Fording smiled warmly and asked with concern, "Black Star, are you injured?"

"Nothing serious."

Han Xiao nodded, glanced around, and asked, "Where's Aroshia?"

Aroshia didn't follow this group of cadres to visit... pui, see him.

"She consumed too much energy and went to the reactor to recharge."

Han Xiao nodded to show understanding. Aroshia was an energy body, and the reactor was her supply station.

The cadres chattered for a while, and Han Xiao's head hurt. He kicked them out to help with disaster relief, and he stayed in the room to rest.

He didn't need to intervene in disaster relief. Grand Technician Han had more important things to do.

This battle had cost him a lot of machinery. The immediate task was to reorganize the mechanical legion and restore its original scale. The second thing was to advance to the Calamity Grade as soon as possible. He was currently level 136, his combat strength approaching the threshold of Grade A. He estimated that breaking through level 140 would allow him to enter the realm of Calamity.

Advancing at level 140 would coincide with the next race sublimation, greatly improving his abilities.

Coincidentally, the 【Virtual Mechanic】 class was currently level 11, with an upper limit of 20, meaning that when the total level reached 140, there would be no job transfer mission, only an advancement mission. He still had a 【Mission Settlement Card】 on hand, which could be used to advance directly.

However, although it was only four levels away from the advancement limit, at this level, each level required a huge amount of experience. From level 136 to level 140, it would take more than thirty billion experience.

The level cap in version 1.0 was 60, and the level cap in version 2.0 was 90. However, the experience required for leveling up later became more and more, and the level cap released in each subsequent version would gradually decrease, requiring players to spend more and more time to level up.

At the beginning of the battle, Han Xiao had used all the stored experience to level up. If he wanted to earn more than thirty billion experience in a short period of time, he could only start with the players.

Godora was secretly preparing for a decisive battle, while DarkStar was still in the dark. He had to quickly restore his combat power so that he could participate. The 【Godora Alliance】 was also a main storyline.

"It seems that I need to update a batch of skills and knowledge. Fortunately, there are plenty of funds in the account, so I can buy a lot of martial arts and psychic-type professional knowledge, copy it, and resell it. As long as I change the pricing from money to experience, oh right, and the newly acquired dungeon, I can also sell it for a good price."

Han Xiao was already familiar with this kind of method. He opened the player forum to see the situation of the players.

Various posts jumped into view. The Planet Aquamarine section was almost all about him. The forum had been detonated by the battle just now. Countless screenshots and videos recreated the historic scene of Han Xiao withstanding the main cannon, which was extremely shocking. The players were extremely excited.

The hot post leaderboard had once again been dominated by him.

Han Xiao browsed some posts at random. The flurry of praise made his scalp tingle and his whole body crawl with goosebumps.

The posts from so many players could be summarized into a few words:

—Strong! Awesome! Shocking! Super cool! Fell in love!

The players who had joined the Black Star Mercenary Group were the happiest. The stronger the faction leader, the more face they had. Above that was the Dragon Emperor Ames. Just thinking about it made them feel that this faction had a bright future.

"This incident is an opportunity to make players feel that the Planet Aquamarine storyline has ended, and it is suitable to enter a higher stage, guiding them into space..."

Moreover, according to Godora's needs and the responsibilities of interstellar news reporters, what happened on Planet Aquamarine should be vigorously publicized. If he guessed correctly, after a while, many uninvited guests might descend on this planet.

Han Xiao's eyes flashed... This was a good opportunity to carry out the next stage of the plan!