Lin Xiao could not do anything about it. He had already denied it, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Kazare did not continue asking about this and got down to business. When he heard that Lin Xiao was willing to trade with the Astral Consortium, he agreed without hesitation. Then, he was surprised to receive the notification to activate the Astral Consortium.
"No missions? Just Friendly? "
This was different from what Bigsas had said.
Normally, to activate the Astral Consortium's reputation, one would need to complete a mission related to the Astral Raiders as proof of allegiance. Moreover, it would only start with neutral reputation.
However, he did not need to complete the mission and started with Friendly reputation.
When he left Kazare's place, Lin Xiao had already received two missions. One was a standard trading mission that lasted for a long time. As long as he traded with the Astral Consortium, he would receive an additional 10% reputation in addition to the normal trade.
The other mission was to kill the Astral Raiders. It was also a long mission. Every time he killed one, he would receive two reputation points. Ordinary Astral Raiders could accumulate reputation points at most, which was Reverence.
With Friendly reputation, he could use most of the services in any of the Astral Consortium's strongholds. At the same time, he could purchase almost all basic supplies from the Astral Consortium with a 5% discount.
As he pondered, he walked out. Lin Xiao suddenly looked up and saw two humanoid creatures standing not far away, looking over.
"You want to hunt me down?"
The two humanoid creatures had traces of Nightmare Creatures on them. They were the subordinates of the Nightmare Child who had just brushed past him.
This was not because they could recruit subordinates from the real world. Just like how humans could recruit human subordinates directly, Nightmare Children could also recruit Nightmare Creatures directly.
He had no intention of hiding it. He returned to the open space and met up with his girlfriend. Along the way, he told her what he had just seen.
She smiled and said, "Since that's the case, let's do as he wishes and give him a chance."
She had already seen the strength of Lin Xiao's subordinates along the way. She did not take one or two Nightmare Children seriously.
Although she could not see the level and template of each other's subordinates because they belonged to different factions, she did not think that there was anyone comparable to her boyfriend at this stage.
Then, the two pretended to leave the city immediately and stopped at a wasteland about a kilometer away from the city. Sure enough, the Nightmare Spawns quickly followed.
Seeing Lin Xiao waiting in place, the Nightmare Child immediately stopped and looked around. There was no way for anyone to hide in this endless wasteland. There were only a few demonized creatures wandering in the wasteland, so it was impossible for there to be an ambush.
"Kill!"
They belonged to different species, but the pronunciation of the word was similar. The Nightmare Spawn attacked him with an absolute advantage in numbers.
Looking at the rapidly expanding army of Nightmare Children, Lin Xiao retracted his gaze from a team of tall Orc Knights and smiled at his girlfriend.
"How long do you think he can last?"
"Half an hour?"
"I don't think it's possible. I think it will collapse in ten minutes!"
There was no need to hide in front of the Nightmare Spawn. Many of the Great Naga revealed their true forms and rushed towards the Beast Cavalry.
"Bam, bam, bam …"
After a series of brutal collisions, the Beast Cavalry was thrown off their horses and thrown to the ground by the big Nagas. The big Nagas' momentum had not dissipated and they forced their way through the army of Nightmare Children in one breath. There was no match for them at all.
"Not as strong as I thought!"
In just one round, the Nightmare Spawn's subordinates were completely defeated. The difference in strength was beyond Lin Xiao and his girlfriend's expectations.
His girlfriend shrugged and said,
"You win!"
However, although the Nightmare Spawn looked shocked, he did not order his troops to retreat. It was as if he still had a trump card. He wanted to play it safe and ordered his subordinates to fight steadily so that they would not fail.
As he expected, with a scream from the Nightmare Spawn, all the defeated troops quickly gathered around him, and then …
To Lin Xiao's surprise, the Nightmare Spawn raised his head and stretched out his arms. The muscles all over his body expanded rapidly, and his arms also expanded and thickened. Then, they exploded into a large amount of minced meat and grew into tentacles at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the surrounding subordinates touched the tentacles, they were stuck by the tentacles and pulled toward the Nightmare Spawn.
In just a dozen seconds, hundreds of creatures were pulled toward the Nightmare Spawn. They melted and transformed into a 40-meter-tall mountain of flesh. After a violent transformation, it quickly turned into a 50-meter-tall Nightmare Giant.
"The Nightmare Spawn's universal talent?"
Lin Xiao had seen this move in the past when he fought against the Nightmare Spawn's Divine Territory. Under the Nightmare Spawn's control, it could fuse into a super powerful flesh giant that was far stronger than the current one.
Although he could not see its template and level, Lin Xiao guessed that this Nightmare Giant was at least a Commander template and was probably close to Level 80. Although it was slightly weaker than the Fallen Molten Giant King that he had killed, it was still very powerful. At this stage, it was definitely very powerful. Normal human army players …
Well, they could still fight it if they were prepared.
This move was equivalent to gathering the life force and strength of all the subordinates. It was powerful, but its attack method was too simple. It was like a dungeon boss. Facing the various classes under the prepared human army players, the probability of winning was not high.
Thinking about it, it was normal. Everyone was from the Divine Territory civilization, so there was no reason for the Nightmare Spawn's talent to be invincible.
Since they were going to grind a Boss, things were much easier. Several Lords with over 1,600,000 HP acted as tanks and stood in front of the Boss. Meanwhile, they dealt as much damage as they could, bombarding the Boss with all sorts of spells. Even Lin Xiao cast spells from afar.
As the strength of his subordinates increased, Lin Xiao had not fought for a long time.
His subordinates were too strong. Even if his spells were enhanced by his talent, they were still of little value. Often, he did not need to do anything.
Unfortunately, he could not bring his subordinates into the dungeon. No matter how many subordinates the Army Style players had, they could not bring them into the dungeon. They could only enter the dungeon alone like other players.
Now, Lin Xiao felt that the Lightning mastery was no longer suitable for him. When he built the fortress and leveled it up to Level 3, he could build a teleportation circle that connected to the expeditionary army fortress. He would go back and take a new mastery or upgrade his template from a normal player to an elite player. It was just like how monsters were divided into normal and elite monsters.
The elite template did not only strengthen the attributes but also the entire class system.
For example, skill strengthening, talent strengthening, and most importantly, the public cooldown change.
Most of the skills of normal players had a public cooldown of 1.5 seconds, which meant that even instantaneous skills with no cooldown would have a public cooldown of 1.5 seconds and could not be used consecutively.
For example, Magic Burst Skill had no cooldown, but every time it was used, there would be a public cooldown of 1.5 seconds, which meant that all skills shared the same cooldown.
After being upgraded to an elite template, the public cooldown would be reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
There was no need to explain how important this change was. It could be said that even if the class and talent did not have any enhancements, just this point alone could strengthen any class by a large margin.
To be honest, Lin Xiao had been away from the stronghold for a long time, and he had brought along a bunch of powerful subordinates. This had caused him to almost forget that this was a game.
Leveling up, doing missions, clearing dungeons, farming equipment, these were all things that he had not touched in a long time.
The difference between an Army Style player and a normal solo player was too big.
After transforming, the flesh giant's Attack had exceeded 20,000 points. Its Attack Power was close to that of a Lord ranked player. It could easily kill a Level 70 Elite with just two punches, and Level 65 and below Elite players would die with just one punch. If Lin Xiao had been an ordinary player, he might have died.
At this stage, it was already very strong for an ordinary Army Style player to have a Commander as a subordinate. For example, if Lin Xiao did not use the Tesseract, he would only have one Commander and five Enhanced Elites. This was the current situation of most ordinary Army Style players.
The flesh giant that the Nightmare Child had transformed into had as high as 7,000,000 HP, high defense, and high HP regeneration. However, under the bombardment of his many powerful subordinates, it was still smashed to the ground.
When the flesh giant's life force was exhausted, its entire body stiffened, and its body fell apart. Large pieces of dry flesh fell apart. Lin Xiao found the Son of Nightmare, who was pretending to be dead, among the pieces of flesh, and struck it to death with a dozen lightning bolts.
"Killed Nightmare Child, Honor Point + 1."
"Finally, I can see some Honor Points. It's not easy!"
This thing was much more difficult to obtain than he had imagined. He had been in this world for more than ten years, and he had only obtained one Honor Point.
After killing the remaining soldiers, Han Xiao cleaned up the battlefield and returned to the Astral Financial Group's node.
He entered the town as if nothing had happened, and the guards did not pay any attention to him. He took out a portion of the materials he had collected along the way and exchanged them for 12 Astral Coins. He then spent 10 Astral Coins to teleport the entire team to the other side of the floating continent.
Seven months later, Han Xiao arrived at another Astral Financial Group node at the edge of the floating continent called Duloner. He used the materials he had collected along the way and a few missions he had completed along the way to exchange for 25 Astral Coins to teleport to the other floating continent.
The new floating continent was only a few dozen square kilometers in size. It floated in a large area of distorted space, and the nearest floating continent fragment was hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. The Astral Financial Group had built a neutral city called a node here. There was a super-large teleportation platform in the city that could teleport to many nodes around it at the same time. This meant that this node city was a key hub.
As soon as Lin Xiao came down from the teleportation platform, he saw a human and a Nightmare Child confronting each other in the square below the platform. There were many spectators from different races around them.
Seeing Lin Xiao coming down from the platform, the human's face lit up and he greeted him from afar.
The Nightmare Child's face changed, and he turned around and left without saying a word.
Seeing this, the human said loudly to Lin Xiao, "Brother, let's go.
"Brother, do you want to make a move and kill him?"
Lin Xiao shook his head.
"No, I'm new here. I'm not familiar with this place."
The human stared at Lin Xiao for a while and smiled.
"That's true. You're new here and not familiar with this place. Let's find a place to have a drink. I'll treat you?"
"I'll treat you."
Han Xiao gladly agreed. It just so happened that he was new here and did not understand the situation here. He might as well ask someone who had come first.
He was not afraid of being scammed. With the Nightmare Child beside him, everyone was united against outsiders. Plus, he was cautious. As long as he was not greedy or impulsive, he would not be scammed.
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