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The Godora spaceship landed, the hatch slid open, and Nagokin strode up to Han Xiao.

"What's the situation? Did you deal with the Heteromorph Primordial?"

Nagokin asked anxiously.

"Got it," Han Xiao replied casually, retracting his machineries. Starting from his limbs, the mecha on his body folded layer by layer, shrinking back into the compression orb necklace.

"Directive change… commencing retrieval of Mech-Beast Guard Regiment…"

In the next moment, thousands of mechanical constructs simultaneously folded up, turning back into compression orbs. Drawn by the electromagnetic chain, they automatically rolled to Han Xiao's feet.

Han Xiao flicked a compression orb from his hand, turning it into a black and red, long, rectangular metal container, about two meters tall. These compression orbs rolled into it one after another, filling the container. Then, the container door automatically closed, revealing a line of symbols that read "001".

This kind of container was a "mobile barracks", a must-have item for the legion stream. Different numbered mechanical legions were stored in independent barracks containers, one barracks container for one legion.

The Mech-Beast Guard Regiment's number was 001, the first fully organized legion that Han Xiao had built. The barracks container held the compression orbs of a mechanical squadron. The container door used a strong magnetic lock and intelligent control, making it difficult to open by other means. Only Han Xiao's command could control it.

When the container was filled with other compression orbs, the barracks container itself could not turn into a compression orb. Although not very portable, it wasn't troublesome to use. With Phillip's control and the container's high-speed propulsion module, there was no need to always carry the barracks container around. As long as he issued a command, the barracks container could quickly arrive at the battlefield like an airdrop.

The bottom of the barracks container ejected flames, quickly ascending into the cargo hold that the Blacklight Lurker automatically opened. Inside the cargo hold was a simple cleaning and repair workshop, which would check the extent of mechanical damage. Since the opponent was a wild beast far below his level, the damage was minimal.

At this time, the beast horde had collapsed, and the battle was already over. Nagokin quickly organized his men to clean up the battlefield. He took out a detector and discovered that the Heteromorph Primordial's reaction had completely disappeared.

"Fantastic, I'll inform the higher-ups immediately. The research department's antidote was a success!" Nagokin was overjoyed.

At this moment, the mercenary group's spaceship also arrived on the scene. Melos appeared with his men. Just in time, Han Xiao instructed the mercenaries to clean up the battlefield and transport the corpses of those beasts back—these were all materials. Yi Ye Qing could manufacture gene potions. Although they were useless to him, selling them to the players would be an extra source of income.

Jupiter and the others didn't manage to snag any kills and had even died once or twice. They stood in the distance, looking dejected.

However, on the forums, hundreds of thousands of players were in high spirits.

Just as Black Star killed the Heteromorph Primordial, the [Heteromorph Disaster] main storyline's progress suddenly skyrocketed, directly filling in the remaining progress. The panel prompted "You have successfully defended Planet Aquamarine", mission complete!

All Planet Aquamarine players received generous main storyline rewards. Depending on the individual's accumulated progress, the rewards varied in size. On average, the rewards far exceeded those of side quests.

However, the source of the players' excitement wasn't the mission rewards but the fact that Planet Aquamarine's main storyline had finally concluded. This also meant that the next step was entering the interstellar space!

The players had been mixing around on Planet Aquamarine for so long, and the bizarre and fascinating interstellar space was what attracted them the most. In the past, they could only learn about the star sea from Meatbun's videos, but before long, they could experience it for themselves. The [Heteromorph Disaster] had only just ended, and many players were already looking forward to future developments, feeling both anticipation and excitement.

The reactions of the people of Planet Aquamarine were another story altogether.

Ten minutes after the battle ended, the shelters and the Six Nations learned from the Godorans that the Heteromorph Primordial had been eliminated. Without another word, they immediately sent this good news over all channels. Refugees everywhere who were glued to their television sets or radios all saw it.

In the cities of the Six Nations and the Black Phantom's shelters, countless people first revealed expressions of disbelief, their faces gradually becoming excited, followed by tears of joy.

They had finally survived the calamity!

They were still alive!

For a time, the entire world cheered!

City after city was enveloped in a joyful atmosphere of surviving a catastrophe. Some indulged in unbridled venting, some danced with joy, some wept with tears, some prayed with gratitude.

The voices of countless people condensed into a surging wave of sound, soaring into the sky, echoing and rolling.

The dawn finally illuminated the future. Recalling the disasters that this planet had experienced, it was simply like hell. Now… it was all over.

The people of Planet Aquamarine once again rekindled hope for the days ahead.

And the higher-ups of the Six Nations and Bennet tacitly agreed, while announcing this good news, they vigorously publicized that Black Star had killed the Heteromorph Primordial, creating hype for him and shaping him into a savior-like hero.

Precisely at this moment of nationwide jubilation, this kind of propaganda offensive had a significant effect. Almost all the refugees were filled with gratitude toward Black Star.

After the disaster, the Six Nations had to consider the distant future. They still maintained their respect for Godora, but privately, they had already accepted Black Star's words and placed their bets on Han Xiao.

Han Xiao, who was left on the battlefield in the rain, didn't yet understand these situations. While the others cleaned up the battlefield, he walked to the side and opened the panel.

[【Annihilation of the Primordial】Completed!]

[Mission Evaluation: Perfect]

Only killing the Heteromorph Primordial could earn a 【Perfect】 evaluation.

The base reward was only 800,000 experience, but the actual amount received was 2,400,000 experience. A high evaluation came with a random reward, and the extra reward gave another one, for a total of two chances for random rewards. Besides these, Han Xiao also received some Legend Points.

[Planet Legend Points (Planet Aquamarine): Heteromorph Terminator - The calamity brought by the Heteromorph Primordial swept across the entire Planet Aquamarine, order collapsed, people were displaced, and countless people died tragically. And you, killed the source hated by countless people, expelled the disaster, and brought dawn—you saved this planet!]

Han Xiao's current mission reward amount was already very high. The percentage increase brought by a single point of Planet Legend Points had a very obvious effect.

After reading the basic rewards, Han Xiao focused on drawing the first-kill reward of the Heteromorph Primordial's two abilities. For him, this was the most valuable reward.

Han Xiao didn't act immediately. He looked around and found Fording, and without saying a word, he touched him for good luck.

"Steady, steady. I feel like I'm protected by luck this time."

Han Xiao rubbed his hands with satisfaction. Under Fording's helpless gaze, he ran to the side and began drawing.

[You have received the reward: Draw two abilities (perks/skills) from the Heteromorph Primordial (Semi-Mature Stage)]

[Prompt: The Heteromorph Primordial is a special lifeform. Talent-type abilities cannot be drawn. Some drawable abilities have been automatically adjusted]

"The skill effects have been adjusted. As expected." Han Xiao nodded secretly.

This was a common situation when drawing ability-type rewards. If the target race was too special, some abilities couldn't be copied. For example, the Heteromorph Primordial's ability to change its own material form, share senses, manipulate emotions, and so on were all special talents.

It was like a human player drawing an ability from a demon. A special talent like True Name Release naturally couldn't be drawn. To put it more vividly, demons had skills like "Tail Strike", but human players didn't have a fourth leg, so of course they wouldn't draw such a skill. The hardware conditions simply didn't match.

For targets with extremely large species differences, even drawable abilities would have their effects changed, stripping away the potential influence of the target race's characteristics and turning them into more adaptable universal skills. For example, the demon race's "Tail Strike" would likely be adjusted to a skill like "Leg Strike", and it would never become a whip attack.

[Random drawing in progress… Drawing complete]

[Please select two of the following five abilities as rewards:]

[1. 【Hardening】-Skill: Physical Resistance +65%, Agility -30%, Consumes 50 Stamina, Lasts 14 seconds, Cooldown 30 seconds]

[2. 【Intermediate Cell Proliferation Mastery】-Perk: Use Stamina to proliferate cells and heal wounds. Stamina is converted into Health Points at a ratio of 1:5, with a maximum recovery of 28% Health Points/s]

[3. 【Grinding】-Skill: Melee skill. When using attacks like entangling, grabbing, or locking techniques, you can deal eight damage instances, each dealing 40%~60% damage. Depending on the attacked part, there is a chance to add statuses like 【Fracture】 or 【Paralysis】. Consumes 60 Stamina, 140 Endurance, Cooldown 15 seconds]

[4. 【Energy Storage】-Skill: Gain an additional Stamina slot, equal to 25% of your Stamina limit. Consuming the additional Stamina slot will not affect your Stamina bonus. Activating this skill lasts for two days, Cooldown is three days (the value of the extra Stamina slot is not included in the Stamina bonus realm)]

[5. 【Medium Efficiency Energy Absorption】-Perk: When receiving physical, magic, or energy attacks, 60% of the damage value negated by resistance will be converted into Stamina]

After the adjustments, the effects of the skills and perks might be enhanced or weakened. The two perks, Cell Proliferation and Energy Absorption, had their effects somewhat reduced by stripping away the influence of the Heteromorph Primordial's species characteristics.

However, the simultaneous appearance of the two perks greatly surprised Han Xiao.

In his opinion, these two perks were the most valuable abilities on the Heteromorph Primordial's body. Drawing only one of them, while having a decent effect, was just so-so. But having both at the same time would create a chemical reaction!

Simply put, being attacked could restore his mana, and using mana could restore his health. Although the recovery rate wasn't as monstrous as the Heteromorph Primordial, he could withstand it with his high health. With nearly 38,000 health, even if he only recovered 28% per second, that was still awesome! The actual health recovery value was almost twice that of the Heteromorph Primordial!

The other three skills were not bad, but compared to these two, they were not competitive at all.

Even if the effects of the two perks were somewhat weaker, it was only relatively weaker than the original version. Taken separately, they couldn't be considered weak at all, and they still met the standards of template perks. Han Xiao couldn't be more satisfied.

He initially thought that drawing one would be a win and had prepared himself for not drawing either of the two perks. He didn't expect to have such good luck this time. Was touching Fording this effective!

Han Xiao couldn't help but look at Fording with burning eyes, wishing he could extract hundreds of tubes of ability potions from him right now. Fording and Morning Star in his body both felt a chill at the same time.

Lady Luck likes to trip people, but when she encounters Fording, she probably stretches out her leg so he can touch her. What else is there to say? We are different!!

Withdrawing his gaze and without hesitation, Han Xiao directly selected his targets.

[You have obtained the 【Intermediate Cell Proliferation Mastery】Perk!]

[You have obtained the 【Medium Efficiency Energy Absorption】Perk!]