There were four well-known Beyond Grade As in the Shattered Star Ring — [Tyrant] Heber, [Dragon Emperor] Ames, and [Magus] Austin. Han Xiao had more or less interacted with the three of them, but he had never even seen the last Beyond Grade A, [Star Pupil] Sisko.
Sisko's territory was located in a Star Cluster at the edge of the Shattered Star Ring. Han Xiao had attended one of the Tyrant's parties, and only Sisko was not there.
Sisko was born in a Star System civilization and was now the supreme leader of this civilization. He led his people to develop quietly in his territory and did not expand or cause trouble. He was even more low-key than Austin.
Could it be that this guy has also secretly sided with the Red Empire?
Under the mechanical suit's helmet, Han Xiao's expression was unsettled.
In his previous life, Sisko did not participate in the secret war in Version 3.0. He could only attribute the current situation to his influence on the world.
Although he had never seen Sisko before, Han Xiao remembered the information from his previous life.
Sisko was not a humanoid creature. It was said that his genes had reverted back to their ancestors and that he had a weak connection with a certain god from another dimension in the Arcane Church. He was extremely talented and had the ability to activate and materialize psychic energy.
The attack that he had taken was a psychic attack from Sisko that had been stored in some way. It was not Sisko himself, so the damage was not high. What gave him a headache was a bunch of negative statuses that lasted for an unknown period of time.
Han Xiao was also not sure if this sneak attack was ordered by Sisko or if the enemy had obtained this item through some means and Sisko did not know about it.
These thoughts flashed through Han Xiao's mind, and he did not have the energy to continue thinking. The negative statuses started to take effect, and his mind became noisy.
The scenes in front of him overlapped, like countless mirrors placed at opposite angles, causing him to hallucinate. A sense of weakness rose from the depths of his mind. It was like he was extremely tired but could not sleep.
"Now, the Bloodshed Land knows that Calamity Grades are no threat to me, so they can only use Beyond Grade A methods to deal with me …"
Suppressing the chaos in his mind, Han Xiao clenched his teeth and waved his hand. The Mech Legion followed the orders and intensified their attacks on Hardaway. At the same time, the mechanical army began to enter the battlefield en masse, destroying the enemy battleships and increasing the speed of their advance.
Han Xiao no longer cared about the command to stall for time. He was prepared to take down the Hyperdrive Base Station as soon as possible, end this battle, and deal with the debuffs on his body as soon as possible.
Hardaway was a little stunned. The white ball of light was a telekinesis attack. There was no direct indication of its power, so he did not know what damage Han Xiao had suffered.
Even a Beyond Grade A seed like him could not tell, let alone the others on the battlefield. Only Han Xiao himself knew what had happened.
"Joad, what on earth is that thing?!"
Hardaway's expression didn't look too good. He didn't like to scheme against worthy opponents.
"That's confidential." Joad was dissatisfied with Hardaway, but he was too lazy to say more. Hardaway was only a cooperative partner and was not loyal to the Bloodshed Land. He did not treat Hardaway as someone he could trust.
Hardaway suppressed his anger, and while dealing with the Mech Legion's attacks, he observed Han Xiao in the distance. "He doesn't seem to be affected. What kind of damage did that white ball of light do to him?"
Joad sneered and did not intend to explain.
After ten years of fighting, the Bloodshed Land had accumulated a large amount of intelligence on their battle with Han Xiao. Compared to his strong physical vitality, Black Star's mental strength was his weakness. This was something that could not be concealed, and most organizations could guess. However, Han Xiao was only relatively weak in this aspect, and it was not an absolute weakness. His vitality was still very strong, and an ordinary Grade A Psychic or Psionic Mage would not be his match.
However, if it was a Beyond Grade A Psychic, it would be a different story.
This ball of psychic poison that came from Sisko was something that Joad had obtained with great difficulty. His inspiration came from the EsGod doppelganger that the Dark-star leader had summoned seven years ago, with the goal of weakening Han Xiao.
Because the Tyrant had been looking forward to Black Star becoming a Beyond Grade A Super, Joad had followed Heber's orders and did not use this psychic poison on Han Xiao, silently waiting for him to improve.
However, not long ago, the Tyrant had personally told him that it was almost impossible for Black Star to become a Beyond Grade A Super in the remaining two to three years of the war. The Tyrant's plan was going to fail, so Joad felt that there was no need to let Black Star go, which was not against Heber's wishes.
Since Black Star could not become a Beyond Grade A Super, the Tyrant would only take action after the war was over due to the rules of the war. Thus, Joad decided to think of a way himself and use Sisko's psychic poison to weaken Black Star, reducing his strength and reducing the pressure on the high-level combatants on his side.
This mentality was similar to wanting to hold a stock with great potential for a long time, but the stock's growth had stagnated, and there was even a trend of decline.
Sisko's psychic poison was very well hidden, and the source could not be seen. Joad estimated that Black Star did not even know who had poisoned him.
"You've completed your mission. Find a chance to retreat," Jorde calmed himself down and said casually before ending the call.
He was already very satisfied that Black Star had been poisoned this time.
Hardaway was silent, and he was the only one left in the communication channel. After Black Star was poisoned, he did not continue to harass him. He suddenly felt a sense of loneliness and wanted to retreat.
He charged left and right on the battlefield, using the Bloodshed Land's fleet as a distraction. Relying on his indestructible body, he forcefully charged out of the Mech Legion's encirclement, snatched a spaceship, and quickly left the battlefield.
Han Xiao was already used to his escaping posture and knew that he would not be able to kill him with his current strength. Thus, he recalled the Mech Legion and turned back to deal with the high-level combatants of the enemy. The enemy Calamity Grades all fled.
The SS Eternity also entered the battlefield, and super dense psionic energy annihilation rays shot out from the corners of its crystal, destroying all the spaceships in its path and leaving a blank area on the battlefield.
Facing the unstoppable advance of Section Zero, the Bloodshed Land changed their strategy and no longer fought to the death. They began to retreat while fighting. Seeing that the hyperdrive base station was about to fall, the Bloodshed Land directly blew up the base station and took the initiative to cut off the connection between the various planetary strongholds, not leaving it for the enemy.
After losing the fast wormhole passage, the other planetary strongholds became independent, and the fleets of the strongholds also began to retreat, abandoning the Kant Star System to preserve their strength.
Not long after, all the Bloodshed Land troops retreated, and Section Zero's large-scale counterattack was victorious. All the enemy forces in the Kant Star System were chased away.
The Bloodshed Land's base in the Kant Star System had been reduced from five to four, which meant that the Bloodshed Land's base in the Kant Star System was not stable. If it were the West Wind, Kaya, and Chaida Star Systems that had been occupied for a long time, it would not have been so easy to chase away the enemy. Even so, this was a rare victory, and Section Zero was encouraged. Purple Crystal was also overjoyed when they received the news of the victory.
The players' mission was also completed, and the results of the victory increased the mission rating, increasing the rewards.
…
In a certain planetary stronghold that had been occupied by Section Zero.
Black smoke billowed, and charred corpses littered the ground. The soldiers cleaning the battlefield passed through the messy battlefield and collected the spoils of war.
There were quite a number of players mixed in with the soldiers cleaning the battlefield, picking and choosing as if they were picking up trash.
"The harvest this time is not bad. If we dismantle these broken pieces of equipment into materials, we should be able to sell them for one or two thousand Enas."
Mad Blade picked up a broken high-tech mechanical warhammer and threw it into the floating loot box. He was in a good mood.
The members of the Rivervale team were also collecting spoils of war and chatting in groups of twos and threes.
The vice-captain, Evil Sword, picked up a broken blaster, curled his lips, and threw it aside. He casually asked, "Captain, how much experience do you have now?"
"Let me see …" Mad Blade glanced at the interface. "It's about time for my Promotion."
Because they had to participate in the Pro League at the end of Version 2.0, they did not have much experience left. Their levels were not the highest at the start of the version, and many of them had not even reached level 100 for their Promotion.
"You're leveling up so fast," Evil Sword said enviously. "I'm still lacking experience."
"I killed more enemies than you, and my Mission Rating is higher than yours. Of course, you're not leveling up as fast as me," Mad Blade said proudly.
Evil Sword curled his lips. "Forget it, I'm not going to compete with you. I'll spend some experience to learn some High-End Knowledge and suppress my level."
"What's the point of suppressing your level? You should reach Grade B after reaching level 100."
"Who knows, there might be an experience penalty for killing Grade C monsters after reaching Grade B. Anyway, with you as an example, it's better for me to wait and see." Evil Sword chuckled.
"Up to you, coward. You're going to level up sooner or later anyway." Mad Blade rolled his eyes.
On the other side of the battlefield …
Hateful Sky was also cleaning the battlefield with a few of his friends and chatting.
"This battle is finally over. Let's find some time to go to another Star System to accept the Bloodshed Land's recruitment order," Hateful Sky said.
Hateful Sky said.
During the battle, there was no chance for them to join the enemy's faction. Now that the battle was over and they could move freely, Hateful Sky decided to take action.
"There seems to be a fifty percent discount now. I feel that we should enjoy one last wave of benefits before we change factions. We'll return to the Black Star Corps headquarters and spend all our earnings before joining the Bloodshed Land," someone said.
Hateful Sky nodded. "That works too."
"It's just that our Main Storyline Rating from this battle will probably be erased and replaced with the Klent faction's Main Storyline Mission," someone said regretfully.
"That can't be helped."
Hateful Sky shook his head. "However, at least we got the reward from this battle. Compared to the Klent faction's hidden storyline, this loss is nothing."
Everyone nodded.
At the same time, in another stronghold, Summer Night Flower was also thinking about this problem.
"After this mission is over, there should be people joining Klent. At that time, we can verify that my deduction is correct. Klent is the best choice," Summer Night Flower muttered to himself.
Summer Night Flower muttered to himself. He believed in his own speculation and was looking forward to switching sides.
…
Most of the troops were cleaning up the battlefield. Han Xiao let Herlous and the others take care of the post-battle issues while he locked himself in the training room.
In the room, Han Xiao's face was pale. He closed his eyes and focused on experiencing the negative status of his body. After a long time, he opened his eyes with a serious expression.
The problem was very troublesome.
[Soul Poison] reduced all his attributes by twenty percent and increased his stamina and energy consumption by fifteen percent. He needed to spend more energy to use his skills.
[Sensory Misdirection] reduced his hit rate, critical rate, and dodge ability.
[Whisper Illusion] continued to disturb his mind. Strange voices kept whispering in his mind, making it difficult for him to maintain his calm and rational state.
[Split Personality] was the most dangerous as it allowed him to give birth to other secondary personalities. [Parasitic Mind] allowed the psychokinesis poison to live in his mind. Every time he expended energy, a portion of his energy would be absorbed by the psychokinesis poison and used to nourish the weak secondary personalities. This allowed the secondary personalities to become stronger and fight for control of the body.
If the control of the body was snatched away, the interface would say that he would enter the [Chaos] state and would not be able to differentiate between friend and foe.
However, Han Xiao knew that the actual effect would be more complicated for him. It would not be as simple as entering the [Chaos] state.
"Sisko … Sigh, I hate Psychics …"
Han Xiao frowned and rubbed his temples. The secondary personality seemed to be very weak now, and he could not feel its existence. However, every time he fought in the future, the secondary personality would grow stronger.
Could it be that the goal of Bloodshed Land is to restrict my actions so that I will not dare to fight casually?
Han Xiao shook his head helplessly. Even if he was prepared for the attacks of a Beyond Grade A Psychic, he would still be hit.
It seemed like he had to put everything else aside and think of a way to deal with these negative statuses first.
Han Xiao sighed.
"The duration is unknown. It probably won't disappear on its own. How should I get rid of it?"
He endured the mental fatigue and thought to himself.
The simplest way was to ask Sisko's main body for help. However, he did not know whether Sisko was friend or foe, and he would be walking right into a trap.
The second way was to ask Austin for help. This was something he could consider.
The information on the interface was not complete. Han Xiao wanted to take a look at the details of the Psychic Toxin, but his profession was very materialistic and he could not give himself a checkup. He could only summon Lagi and Fu Ding.
"You were ambushed by a Beyond Grade A Psychic?"
Fu Ding and Lagi came to the room. After hearing Han Xiao's explanation, they were both shocked.
Han Xiao rubbed his brows and sighed. "It's impossible to guard against it. I did not expect to encounter Sisko. Fu Ding, help me check how bad the situation is."
Fu Ding became serious. He reached out his hands and pressed them behind Han Xiao's ears. He then closed his eyes and sent his psychic energy into Han Xiao's brain.
Han Xiao could feel Fu Ding's psychic energy reaching in.
Buzz!
All of a sudden, the scene in front of his eyes changed, showing the scene in his own brain. This was the vision shared by Fu Ding.
The mental brain was a white world. Han Xiao and Fu Ding both existed in the form of light figures, looking down at the mental brain.
At this time, one-tenth of the area was filled with purplish black fog. The fog tried to condense into a human figure from time to time, but it failed every time.
"This is the Psychic Toxin that has parasitized your mental brain."
Fu Ding's tone was serious. "It will continuously absorb your energy and expand on its own. When it expands to thirty percent of the area, your sub-personality will have its own consciousness and start fighting for the body."
Han Xiao's expression was ugly. "Can you remove this Psychic Toxin?"
Fu Ding shook his head helplessly. "This is a mass of Psychic energy from a Beyond Grade A Psychic. It's extremely corrosive and difficult to remove. Even my Psychic energy will be devoured by it. Sorry …"
At this time, Lagi's spiritual body also squeezed in and appeared beside the two of them. He glanced at them before patting Han Xiao's shoulder.
"You're hopeless. Pass the position of Army Commander to me. I will inherit your career."
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