The first person Xiao Ran chose to meet was not Renard, whom he wanted to turn into a follower, but the participant who had been imprisoned ever since the Mech was destroyed and retrieved by Law.
It was an independent cell specially prepared to imprison the participant. The thick walls were so thick that even Xiao Ran couldn't escape from it. Every day, there were many soldiers guarding the cell 24 hours a day. There were also Mithril mercenaries from the Son of Dannu who piloted at least two transforming Mechs to guard the cell, cutting off any possibility of the participant escaping from the inside.
After capturing the participant, Xiao Ran only imprisoned him and didn't kill him. He felt that the participant was also a good talent. He possessed good technology and was able to obtain a Mech like the Gurungast. If it wasn't for Xiao Ran's involvement in this mission, the participant would definitely be the final winner of this mission. His potential couldn't be underestimated.
If the participant was lucky enough, he would have enough time to develop. Xiao Ran also believed that the participant would eventually rely on his identity as a technology-type participant to quickly rise up in the super zone. But it just so happened that he met a high-level participant from the real zone like him, who obstructed his path.
When Xiao Ran went to meet the participant, he didn't go alone. Instead, he brought along El Erf with him. After all, in a situation where he didn't know the participant's true ability, meeting him alone would be full of uncertainty. In order to be safe, it was necessary to bring along El Erf.
When Xiao Ran entered the cell and saw the participant, what he saw was a clean and tidy cell with no lack of daily necessities and daily entertainment. After locking up the participant, apart from restricting his freedom, Xiao Ran didn't impose too many harsh conditions on him.
When Xiao Ran entered the cell, the participant also looked clean and tidy. He was sitting on the bed watching TV. When he saw Xiao Ran and El Erf, he stood up unhurriedly and looked at Xiao Ran silently.
In such an occasion, Xiao Ran, who looked more like a guest, directly found a place to sit down. He sized up the participant who also looked like a young man and slowly said, "Want to talk?"
The participant glanced at Xiao Ran and said with a slightly magnetic voice, "Go ahead."
Xiao Ran didn't care about the other's attitude. Instead, he said, "By the way, I still don't know your name. How many missions have you completed so far?"
As a prisoner, perhaps because the participant was a man of few words or because he was impatient with Xiao Ran, he only answered with a few words. "Puento. This is my fifth mission."
However, Xiao Ran felt that the other party was a man of few words, unlike Elelv, who was usually expressionless but would give detailed explanations when he spoke. The other party was truly a man of few words. This could be seen from the fact that the other party had only spoken one sentence during the battle.
Xiao Ran nodded. "Okay, Puento. I want to know what your mission is."
But regarding this question, the participant named Puento didn't answer directly. Instead, he asked, "What does this have to do with you imprisoning me?"
When Xiao Ran heard Puento's question, he spread his hands slightly and said, "You can say that it's a little related. If the missions don't conflict with each other, I think I can help you complete them."
Puento was obviously stunned after hearing Xiao Ran's words. He didn't seem to understand the purpose of Xiao Ran's words. After a moment of silence, he said, "Bring back Chidori Yao and stop the agreement meeting from continuing."
"That's it?" Xiao Ran asked thoughtfully. "Based on the situation at that time, if you and Renard had targeted Chidori from the beginning, your mission would've been completed by now. Yet, you chose to attack me with Renard. I want to know the reason."
"Side mission." Puento said calmly, "I accepted a side mission to protect Renard or kill you to remove the nuclear energy blockade of this world."
"So that's why you and Renard stood in front of me?" Xiao Ran nodded. He completely understood why Puento did what he did back then. The main reason for his failure was that he was overconfident. Similarly, he was bound by Renard's decision and had no choice but to face him head-on.
Xiao Ran said to Puento, "I can't help you stop the agreement meeting from continuing, but I can let you personally bring Chidori to Renard. At least this way, you should get some compensation in terms of mission completion and won't completely fail your mission."
"I can also help you complete the side mission to ensure Renard's safety and remove the nuclear energy blockade of this world."
After hearing Xiao Ran's words, Puento immediately said, "What are your conditions?"
"Join my team." Xiao Ran directly stated his conditions. In Xiao Ran's opinion, Puento was a participant with great potential. Since the situation in the super area was not completely clear yet, comparing Puento with Lang Ba, Puento did indeed have great development potential. A technical participant was indeed worthy of Xiao Ran's invitation to join his team.
Moreover, Xiao Ran also wanted to see what would happen if a real participant of the super area and a real participant of the real area formed a team. Would he be able to rely on Puento's existence to enter the super area's missions in the future without needing a regional mission card? If that was the case, it would definitely be very beneficial for Xiao Ran.
And if Puento did not agree, Xiao Ran would definitely not let this enemy, who had already had a conflict with him and obviously had great development potential, stay.
Puento could roughly guess Xiao Ran's thoughts. If he agreed to Xiao Ran's request, he could complete more missions, but if he did not, Xiao Ran would immediately die here. There were no other options for Puento to choose. Faced with the choice of life or death, Puento was very calm. After about three minutes of silence, he slowly nodded and said only one word, "Okay."
"Very good." Xiao Ran smiled. After learning the participant number of the other party from Puento, he started to send out the party invitation. However, the moment he entered the number and sent out the invitation, a new notification appeared on the projection of his wristwatch.
"Warning. You are sending a team invitation to super area participant number 11258. Cross-area team invitation cannot be completed. You can send a forced invitation. Once the invitee agrees, he or she will be converted to a real participant and lose all mission experience and knowledge. Only physical attributes (including bloodline, awakened skills) will be retained …"
When Xiao Ran saw this notification, he immediately clicked Cancel. A look of surprise appeared on his face. He did not expect that the participants of the real zone and the participants of the super zone would not be able to form an official team. Moreover, such an attempt had never been made before.
And once a forced invitation was sent, the invitee would be forced to become a real participant if he or she agreed. The invitee would also lose all mission experience and the skills he or she learned in the missions. If that happened, Puento, a technical participant, would be completely useless. Xiao Ran naturally didn't want that to happen.
"If a team won't work, what about a legion?" Xiao Ran frowned slightly. After thinking for a while, he called out the legion interface and sent another invitation to the invitee in the name of the legion, inviting him to join his Burning Legion.
"You are sending a legion invitation to super area participant number 11258. Cross-area legion invitation has been accepted. The invitee is a super area participant and cannot go to the real area's legion base. You need to build a new legion base in the super area. After the base is built, real area members will not be able to go to the super area's legion base.
"In the real area's legion base and super area's legion base, other than materials and resources that can be freely distributed, the rest of the items and parts will be restricted.
"When carrying out a legion scale mission, super area members can join in a limited part of the mission, but under no circumstances will they be able to make any transactions with real area members.
"You have activated the Burning Legion branch function. Currently, super area members of the Burning Legion are limited to ten. As the legion levels up, more privileges will be unlocked."
Xiao Ran carefully read through all the notifications that popped up. From these contents, it seemed that he had opened up an army branch in the super class area. However, apart from the free distribution of achievement points and materials, as well as the ability to allow participants from the super class area to join in limited missions, this army was basically equivalent to a new army that was independent from another world. However, it was under a unified command and arrangement.
No transactions between the super area and the real area could be carried out. No parts or mecha could be traded between members of the same legion to achieve common usage. Other than the war achievement points, Puento would not be able to receive any more support from the Burning Legion. Currently, only a maximum of ten people could be used.
However, Xiao Ran keenly noticed the most important point, which was that these notifications did not mention anything about the legion base at all. This made Xiao Ran think of a new possibility.
Since they couldn't directly circulate the mecha bodies and components from both sides through the army, it also restricted the Super System participants and True System participants from trading. However, it didn't say that they couldn't develop their technology in the army's encampment and jointly develop their new mecha bodies. More importantly, the fact that they couldn't trade didn't mean that Xiao Ran couldn't obtain the parts or mecha bodies that belonged to the Super System.
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