Chapter 130

Seeing that there would be a bit of a wait in the queue, the two went to the appraisal room next door and sold the Hachimga Egg, which had been classified as an "unknown oddity." To their surprise, each of these eggs could be sold for 2 merit points, which was a real windfall!

After waiting for a while, it was finally their turn to enter the core area of the Space to handle matters. Fang Senyan and Reef sat down, and a laser grid projected down from above, scanning their bodies. Then, a cold, mechanical voice came from the opposite side:

"Welcome back, Contractors executing the team establishment mission."

"Data loading..."

"The mission you accepted is Team Mission: Survival."

"Mission Description: Live, keep trying to live, until you can't hold on any longer."

"Mission Progress Check... You have passed the Phase I time-related critical point! Mission Evaluation increased by 30."

"Mission Progress Check... You have passed the Phase II time-related critical point! Mission Evaluation increased by 50."

"Mission Progress Check... You have passed the Phase III time-related critical point! Mission Evaluation increased by 100."

"Your mission evaluation is a base value of 30+30+50+100=210 points. Neither of the two participants returned early."

"Your mission completion evaluation is: Currently the highest difficulty (LVMAX)."

"Please wait..."

"Signal connecting..."

This "wait" lasted almost ten full minutes for Fang Senyan and Reef. Then, chaotic interference began to appear on the holographic virtual screen. After a while, that somewhat hoarse voice came again:

"If this damn signaling device doesn't give me a good enough reason to wake me up, then I will definitely apply for a replacement main chip, otherwise I will never drink hot cocoa from the Babala Pung Basin again! Damn it, what could possibly require connecting to me? Huh?"

"Team Establishment Mission Completion Evaluation: Highest???"

"A lieutenant applied?"

"Ah ha! Look who it is, Number 1018?"

Hearing this hoarse voice, Fang Senyan knew who it was. It was probably the guy who授勋 (shou xun - awarded the medal) to him when he was promoted to lieutenant. He said very seriously:

"It's a pleasure to see you again, sir."

The hoarse voice laughed crisply:

"You can call me Colonel. It seems I wasn't wrong about you. The team establishment mission isn't too difficult, but being able to achieve this result is quite rare. Hmm, you completed the mission with two people? And you're still a lieutenant, so the relevant rewards will take that into account. Well, congratulations! The Ace Team is officially established!"

As the hoarse voice announced, Fang Senyan and Reef simultaneously received prompts:

"You have left the temporary team."

"Your team has received the highest mission completion evaluation bonus: Silver grade."

"Silver Grade Privilege: From the very beginning of the team's establishment, you can draw up to three team passive skills."

"Silver Grade Privilege: When conducting team battles with other teams, you can directly suppress the enemy team's skills, reducing their effectiveness by at least 10%-30% (depending on the enemy team's grade), and increasing the probability of the enemy team's skill failure to 20%-50% (depending on the enemy team's grade)."

"Silver Grade Privilege: When drawing team-related skills, you gain an extra drawing right."

"Silver Grade Privilege: Gain a team space with a volume of 10x10x10 cubic meters."

"Silver Grade Privilege: Every time the team level is raised, you will receive 2 team skill points (usually 1 point). You can use team skill points to improve team skills, and every 3 team skill points can open an additional team skill learning slot."

Looking at this series of prompts, Fang Senyan wasn't too surprised. To use the cynical words of someone spitting sunflower seed shells in a gold mine: Ignorance is bliss.

But Reef was looking at this long string of prompts and taking a deep breath. He remembered that when he established the reserve team, there was no team establishment mission, nor anything involving grades... In other words, it was impossible to reveal any information about that.

As for team skills, they did exist, but there was only one learning slot, and after obtaining it, a skill would be assigned to you directly, whether it was good or bad depended on fate. More importantly, how could team skills be learned for free? Learning fees were divided into three levels:

The first level was 10,000 universal points, 10 potential points, and 5 merit points. Based on Reef's experience, these skills were mostly run-of-the-mill things like +3 to the movement speed of all team members (not 3%), +1% to strength + attack damage, etc. Without a doubt, the best attribute in this was +1 to stamina, because no one on the team would find it useless. It is worth mentioning that the 共生会 (Gong Sheng Hui - Symbiosis Society)'s team ability, "Desperate Survival," which increased evasion value, was at this level.

The second level was 30,000 universal points, 30 potential points, and 15 merit points. Obviously, the team skills at this level would be a bit better than before, probably passive skills like +3 to strength, +2% to critical hit rate, +2% to evasion rate, etc. The Banks Gang's team skill, "Desperate Gambit" (gaining a shield with 100 hit points inheriting the protector's defense the moment you are reduced to critical state), belonged to the second level. Of course, it was also possible that they had used team skill points to upgrade this skill.

The learning fee for the third level was 70,000 universal points, 70 potential points, and 35 merit points. Uh, Reef wasn't very clear about the team skills at this level. He had only heard that someone had seen a team skill that gave +1 to all attributes, which seemed to be at this level.

More importantly, Reef also saw the attribute that gave 2 team skill points after the team level was raised, which could only be described as mind-numbing... When a reserve team increased its team level, it could only obtain 1 team skill point! In this way, the growth rate of a silver-grade team was innately twice that of a reserve team!

Fang Senyan didn't have time to care what Reef was thinking at this moment. He still remembered the advice that the hoarse voice had given him last time, which was indeed golden advice. At this time, he heard the hoarse voice yawn and say lazily:

"Have you finished reading? After you've finished reading, prepare to draw team skills. You can draw three times, oh no, silver-grade teams can draw six times. You can choose three of the six results as team skills."

Fang Senyan's heart stirred and he said:

"I wonder if Colonel has any more advice for me this time?"

The hoarse voice laughed heartily:

"No more, no more! Seeing how smart you are, why are you confused for a moment? The reasoning behind this is too obvious. I'll just ask you, what's the name of your team establishment mission?"

Hearing these words, Fang Senyan suddenly understood! For all the guys struggling in the Space, the only expectation is to live! Living is the basis of everything!

Next, the formal drawing of team skills began, but when choosing the first draw, the Nightmare Mark directly stopped the drawing process and gave a prompt:

"Number 1018 and Number 770123 have jointly entered the team establishment mission."

"Neither party returned early."

"Both parties received the highest mission completion evaluation."

"You have triggered relevant conditions."

"Calculating..."

"Planning..."

"Related verification..."

It took almost five full minutes before the next prompt came.

"You have obtained the hidden team skill: Life Link! (Passive, each upgrade requires team skill points x3)"

"Unable to evaluate this skill."

"Hidden Team Skill: Life Link, when you are both in the Ace Team (i.e., no one has lost team member status), your lifeforce will be linked together by a mysterious force."

"When either party reaches the critical point of entering a near-death state, they will directly enter a Petrochemical state, with a 50% reduction in movement speed, unable to attack or use items. Any damage caused to him will be forcibly reduced by 50%! And this damage will be transferred to the other person in the Life Link (the transferred damage will also be calculated based on the other person's defense reduction, the person near death is not damaged)"

"When both linked parties enter a near-death state at the same time, the Life Link is invalid."

"The damage reduction effect in the Petrochemical state has domain priority." (When conflicts arise between certain abilities: no priority < priority < authority (overwhelming hidden attributes are this) < domain priority < domain authority)

"You can also choose to give up this hidden team skill and randomly draw another team skill. Yes or no?"

Fang Senyan and Reef looked at each other, and simultaneously clicked "Yes" without hesitation! The moment they saw the word "hidden," they knew that this skill must be rare, and the saying that "things are valued for their rarity" has been circulating for thousands of years and is still going strong, obviously still in common use even in the Nightmare Space.

The main reason why the Space could not determine the grade of this skill should be because its applicability was relatively limited. Without a doubt, the effect of linking Fang Senyan and Reef together was the best. But linking two squishy ranged contractors together... as a rule, if the team's MT doesn't fall, this ability is useless. Once the MT falls, the use of the two linked together is only to escape. At best, it's just a somewhat unqualified escape skill.