Chapter 188 Template Specializations

Template specializations were rare and could only be obtained through unconventional means, like Han Xiao. There was no fixed method.

Although the [Prey] mission was a good opportunity to gain a specialization, it had been so long since the next stage was triggered. He almost thought Wan Ying had given up, but the mission had not been settled, so he couldn't count on it.

In his memory, the missions that rewarded specializations usually gave ordinary ones, with even rare ones being scarce. He needed to weigh the options before undertaking such missions.

Missions outside the Shattered Star Ring were excluded.

Some specializations had limited enhancements to combat power and would only waste time, so those were also excluded.

After filtering through them, Han Xiao selected a few relatively cost-effective missions.

Although the rewarded specializations couldn't drastically change his combat power like template specializations, they still provided a certain degree of enhancement.

"Completing these missions will probably take a few months. The war won't end so quickly, so I have enough time..." Han Xiao thought to himself.

His current total level was 221, and he needed to undergo a class advancement at level 225. He had stockpiled several Mission Settlement Cards during the version update. He used one for his level 220 advancement, leaving him with some remaining, so all he lacked was experience.

The experience required to level up after level 220 skyrocketed, but with the harvest from his two leek fields (player base), he might only need a few months to gather enough experience.

It was perfect to do missions while waiting for his experience to fill up.

Han Xiao summoned Hela, Aurora, and Fording, explained his upcoming itinerary, and the three had no objections.

"Oh right," Han Xiao suddenly remembered something and said to Aurora, "Help me create some recovery potions. I want to equip the higher-ups in the legion with them. They might save their lives in critical moments."

The war zone was starting to get dangerous. To avoid casualties among the legion's higher ranks, he wanted to provide them with some life insurance. Aurora's vitality potions were miraculous, equivalent to a second life.

Now that Aurora could control her abilities freely, creating potions wasn't a significant drain on her.

"No problem!"

Aurora was very happy.

Finally, she could be of help!

Hela had wanted to dissuade him, but seeing Aurora's happy appearance, she remained silent.

Since it was Han Xiao's request and not too excessive, she indulged Aurora. She had seen Aurora's growth and her protectiveness was not as extreme as before.

After spending a day handling the odds and ends, Han Xiao led the three on a journey to farm specializations.

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Three blue-black scimitar-shaped spaceships dragged surging contrails, sailed out of the desolate universe belt, and entered the Shattered Star Ring through a remote border.

Inside the cockpit of the leading spaceship, Ecolin gazed at the starry river outside the porthole, spat out the rotten fruit he was chewing, revealing sharp teeth stained with bluish-purple juice, and cursed.

"Damn bastards, flying for almost six years, finally got here."

As he spoke, he slapped the control button for the cryo-sleep pod on the spaceship's control panel.

*Chi chi—*

Dozens of neatly arranged low-temperature life-support cryo-sleep pods in the cabin began to thaw. The doors opened, cold air billowed out, and one by one, tall and short figures emerged, of various races, bodies naked, covered with scars and tattoos.

"We slept for three years? That's long enough."

"Is it time for a shift change or are we there?"

These fellows who had woken up from hibernation put on their respective clothes and came to the cockpit.

Ecolin heard the footsteps, did not turn his head, and pointed to the star map. "We're there. This is the Shattered Star Ring. If you haven't gone stupid from sleeping, quickly restore yourselves. Don't delay the boss's mission."

"Don't worry, as long as I suck some blood, I'll recover."

A tall, thin, pale man spoke, licked his lips, and glanced at his companions with ill intentions.

"Baron Olosen, if you dare to lay a hand on my men, don't blame me for throwing you off the ship."

"Why should I listen to you?" The pale man Olosen smiled coldly, his high cheekbones giving him a sinister air.

"Because I'm the captain personally appointed by Godar, or do you want to fight?" Ecolin glared at him fiercely.

Olosen chuckled and shrugged, indicating compromise.

Ecolin snorted coldly, then continued, "You better keep a low profile. I remember you're a wanted criminal who escaped from the Shattered Star Ring. I don't want your stupidity to expose us before we complete the mission."

"That was a warrant from sixty years ago. Maybe it's been revoked already."

Olosen didn't care.

The people on these three ships were all members of the Fallen Ark, wanted criminals from different star fields. They were sent to the Shattered Star Ring to carry out a mission.

Ecolin, nicknamed "Corrosive Poison," was a Grade A Super, the captain of this team. He had spread plagues on multiple colony stars in the Ancient Star Desert, causing more than three billion casualties. He was wanted by twenty-three galaxy-level civilizations and two star cluster-level civilizations. Later, he joined the Fallen Ark and followed Godar.

Olosen, calling himself "Baron," was a member of the Long-lived Blood Clan, and another Grade A Super in the team. He had hunted life in multiple star fields, extremely vicious, and had bounties in five star fields.

Especially in the Shattered Star Ring, he had bitten off the head of a high ranking official giving a speech in front of the entire civilization during a festival of a galaxy-level civilization, causing a sensation. After he escaped from the Shattered Star Ring, he joined Godar's command.

This group had set out six years ago and had only just arrived in the Shattered Star Ring. As wanted criminals, they did not dare to use cross-star field Star Gates openly, and spent most of their time traversing the desolate universe belt.

These three "Light Sable" spaceships were equipped with top-notch superluminal warp engines, specially used for cross-star field navigation, capable of accelerating to a maximum warp speed of level 17.89. If they reached top speed within a star field, they could cross a galaxy in minutes.

Even these Supers, whose lowest rank was B-grade, had to hibernate in low-temperature life-support pods to withstand the immense load of superluminal warp.

With this superluminal warp engine, this team had spent about six years crossing multiple star fields from the desolate universe belt to reach the Shattered Star Ring without relying on Star Gates.

One of his subordinates asked, "Captain, which task do we do first?"

This team had two tasks to complete in the Shattered Star Ring.

"Are you an idiot? Of course, we do the easier one first!" Ecolin said impatiently, casually opened a file, which displayed on the light red virtual screen.

It contained information on two people, Harrofal and Han Xiao.

They were the two who had joined forces to deal with Godar's avatar.

"Harrofal, a Grade A Super of the Tera civilization, Vice President of the Tera Official Mechanical Academy... a researcher."

"Black Star-Han Xiao, leader of the Black Star Army, ally of the Purple Crystal civilization, Super A grade seed... Oh, his record has been updated again, a formidable guy, said to be one of the best among the Calamity Grades of the Shattered Star Ring."

Olosen heard this, his face full of disdain, and he smiled coldly. "Black Star? When I was in the Shattered Star Ring, I never heard of this guy. Just a newcomer who emerged in recent years."

Ecolin didn't care and said expressionlessly, "The Shattered Star Ring is just a remote star field. The strength of the Supers here is not comparable to the strong of the 'Central Star Sea' three star fields."

Following Godar in the Central Star Sea, Ecolin and others looked down on people from remote star fields like the Shattered Star Ring. As the most ferocious gang of thugs in this Star Sea, they were used to being arrogant and didn't even necessarily care about Super A Grades.

Since seven years ago, Godar had been babbling about some tree, tree, tree. In their eyes, Godar's madness had worsened, so he had inexplicably sent them to the Shattered Star Ring to find coordinate data for some wormhole.

Ecolin: "Harrofal has the data we need in his hands. He's the primary target. If we can get the data smoothly, we won't need to bother with Black Star. In any case, Harrofal is easier to deal with than Black Star."

Everyone nodded.

Ecolin paused and continued:

"After we solve the first task, we'll steal the Evolution Cube."

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(Have some things to do tonight, so this is a bit shorter. Let me organize my thoughts.)