To his pleasant surprise, the reward gained from accomplis.h.i.+ng the military mission was pretty excellent. It actually decreased the difficulty of promoting from Major to Lieutenant Colonel!Before, Sheyan had 106 achievement points and required a frightening 200 achievement points to promote to Lieutenant Colonel! But after accomplis.h.i.+ng his military mission, he now only needed 175 achievement points to ascend to Lieutenant Colonel. Those 4 blood keys had unexpectedly shaved off 25 achievement points. Even though part of those keys included Reserve-duty Growth-hunters’, it was truly an overwhelming profit!
Following that, Sheyan spared no hesitation in utilizing his free purchasing privilege, procuring one ‘Hyphazyme Clashreplacement injection’. This had been his goal ever since entering the realm. Naturally, it took precedence in his purchasing.
Apart from that, Sheyan pondered about his previous consumption of the honorary dosage. Hence, he expended little achievement points to purchase an ‘Honorary Recovery Dosage’.
With his present Major rank, he would receive a free ‘Honorary Recovery Dosage’ every time he entered a world. Therefore with this additional dosage, it could basically guarantee him some buffer to deal with any situation.
As for the party’s experience, Sheyan shook his head as he observed its tiny experience strip. It seems like upgrading to lvl 4 would still take a long time. If the ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ had resulted in a side mission, there would be some hope. Regrettably, it wasn’t modeled to that usage style.
This was what you call, not being able to gain the fish and bear paw at the same time.
In the Caribbean sea world, Sheyan toiled laboriously to earn money and subsequently established a domineering flags.h.i.+p. Obviously, he would be unable to attend to other things and had abandoned the domain of side missions. Otherwise, there would’ve surely been more potential to uncover between the naval battle of Chevalle’s pirate fleet and the British Royal Navy. Most of the side missions would probably branch out from there.
After departing from the military promotion grounds, Sheyan was quickly contacted by that ‘Zi’.
"How much are you willing to sell that item for?"
Sheyan paused for a moment before answering.
"Not right, you aren’t Zi. You are Demondream."
The opposite party then paused silently. A new message was transmitted again.
"Seaman, I am Zi. We need to talk."
That mere phrase of 8 words sufficed to indicate Zi’s strong personality&h.e.l.lip;...Sheyan breathed out in response.
"Now I believe you are Zi. But you need to wait, my comrades have not returned. No matter what, I shall only talk after they safely return. Otherwise, I won’t be able to make any guarantees or promises, because we are one team."
Zi replied with astonishment.
"You were chased out first? You utilized that item?"
The item that Zi referred to, was the ‘Unmodeled Amnio-tank’ obtained from the Avatar world. Sheyan didn’t refute her. Zi then paused a little before continuing.
"That is fine, but you best contact me before commencing your next world. Right now, the situation isn’t looking favorable for you. I heard the Metals Professor died by your hands?"
Sheyan was slightly stirred and replied.
"She brought about her own ruins by triggering a mechanism, what has that got to do with me?"
Zi coldly replied.
"That isn’t important, what is, is that she believes you are responsible. According to accurate sources of mine, Fu Lyanna has already been revived by Zeus with an enchantment stone. She will definitely create trouble for you in the next world. Alright, you can carry on with your affairs."
Sheyan squinted his eyes faintly.
Though this matter could be expected, he didn’t consider it would become so urgent.
At this moment, his party contract suddenly fluctuated, signaling that Mogensha and Reef had both simultaneously returned. Sheyan hastily rushed over and instantly got a huge shock.
As it turns out, both brothers practically appeared as though they had gone through the ten famous tortures of the Qing dynasty.
Both of Reef’s arms were dismembered, and his head was a mutilated mess. Even one of his leg joints was fractured and distorted.
Brother Black was not that bad. His limbs were intact, but his entire body could only be depicted as shattered gla.s.s.
He had three puncture wounds that could be seen from front to back! Stopping slightly at this place, blood converged into a puddle; one could tell how dire their wounds were.
"Are you guys products of a slaughterhouse? What are you doing now?" Sheyan jovially exclaimed in his pleasant mood.
Brother Black panted a little before he powerlessly pleaded while carrying a slight conceitedness.
"Boss, help us! Our utility points had been squandered away by prolonging our period of stay! But we managed to achieve a ‘lvlmax’ score of that d.a.m.nable hidden main mission! Never did we expect that upon returning to the realm, we actually needed to pay a recovery fee. Our utility points were insufficient and could only return to you for help."
"You guys achieved a ‘lvlmax’ score?" Sheyan was truly amazed.
Evidently, both of them revealed satisfied expressions upon witnessing Sheyan’s current look. Reef couldn’t resist the urge to cough and bragged.
"Ahem ahem, that is of course! The party experience, ahem ahem, we both added 10 points!"
Sheyan hurriedly surveyed and realized the party experience had truly been raised substantially. He reckoned that one more mission would be adequate to upgrade to level 4!
His two party members had indeed executed to the peak of expectations. Sheyan couldn’t help but ask.
"Shouldn’t you guys have received an abundance of rewards from the completion of your mission? Why are you still lacking the resources for treatment?"
Brother Black offered a bleak smile.
"Boss, Barbossa is one of the seven pirate lords and he was exceptionally adept in employing poison! If ours were ordinary wounds, that would be fine. Look closely, even a Growth-hunter like Reef now couldn’t resist his poison toxins. Our personal regeneration capabilities have been totally stifled! Healing isn’t a problem, but the utility points need to eliminate the poison toxins is exceedingly absurd!"
Sheyan instantly recalled. Barbossa was indeed an expert in employing poisons. The venom smeared on his sword was even lethal enough to kill a wily old fox like Blackbeard!
One must know that in the Caribbean sea world, apart from Davy Jones, Blackbeard would probably be the pinnacle force. Yet Barbossa was able to contend against him with poison. From this, one could tell how capable he was in this aspect.
Left with no alternatives, Sheyan could only release his blood efforts. He couldn’t possibly watch those two unlucky brats turn crippled right.
After both of them received their treatments, the combined utility and potential points of them both&h.e.l.lip;..the former sunk to a 3 figure sump, while the latter miserably hovered around a 1 figure sump.
When they reminisce about their high-spirited return from the Avatar world, where they held tens of thousands of utility points in their hands, they felt additionally miserable because of those bittersweet memories.
Fortunately, ‘Odin’s Surge’ still had a surplus of 20 divine power. This indicated that someone could attempt to learn it twice. Evidently, for a dest.i.tute and poverty-stricken party Ace, those two attempts must definite be sold for a sky-high price. Otherwise, it would incur the resentment of the common folk.
Excluding that, Sheyan had relied on the indomitable might of the Dingyuan to quell several legendary creatures. From there, they had acquired 2 silver storyline grade equipments and 3 black grade equipments.
The silver storyline equipments were preserved for personal use, while the three black grade equipments had been offered up to Odin. Right now, they were left with a single Horcrux – ‘Giant gall of the Elegant Hawksbill Turtle’.
The Elegant Hawksbill Turtle was a craggy sh.e.l.l turtle that was covered with elegant aquatic gra.s.s. Of course, this was an amplified and mutated version. Embedding its Horcrux would definite skew towards the side of defense.
Although both Reef and Sheyan could employ it, in view of the current economic crisis of the party, selling it should probably fetch a significant amount of value.
The rejuvenated Reef and Brother Black elatedly exercised their bodies. As the saying goes, one only realizes the value of heath after an illness.
Right now, both of them were intrigued by what Sheyan had gone through. Sheyan then laughed while composedly narrating.
"Nothing much actually, I just made a bit of trouble for Little Lord Fokke."
Reef and Mogensha were both sh.e.l.l-shocked. They knew Sheyan was most likely about to execute something ma.s.sive, but they didn’t antic.i.p.ate it was that ma.s.sive!
Brother Black inquired with disbelief.
"You settled that terrifying fiend?"
Sheyan leaned back in response.
"Well I didn’t have much confidence initially, that is why I couldn’t tell you guys to be there. Frankly speaking, I can still escape with that item if something goes awry."
Following that, Sheyan explained the entire process. Mogensha and Reef exchanged glances as they instantly felt rather dispirited. They were extremely pleased with their own ‘lvlmax’ attainment for the hidden main mission. Yet Sheyan had unknowingly committed such a huge deed singlehandedly!
Upon viewing their reactions, Sheyan burst into laughter and consoled them.
"If I can’t even keep up with you guys, how can I continue allowing you to call me boss?"
Reef and Mogensha remained speechless. Then, Reef abruptly asked.
"Then did you gain anything splendid from slaying Little Lord Fokke? Or are you planning to h.o.a.rd it without diving?"
Facing that question, Sheyan could only offer a bleak smile. He then revealed everything in great details. Just the battle process alone caused his audience to be shaken to the core.
Finally, Sheyan retrieved the ‘Journal of Bernard Fokke’.
His countenance turned solemn as he declared.
"This is my greatest harvest. According to the clues indicated in this, we can very possibly uncover the deepest mysteries of a world. Yet this is the perplexing part – the mysteries may not be from the Pirate of the Caribbean world. If everything goes smoothly, I believe our ultimate reward may possibly be 1 point of legend level!"
Hearing the term ‘legend level’, Reef and Brother Black both became excited. Honestly speaking, they were extremely envious of Sheyan’s single legend level!
Instantly, they both eagerly reached their hands out to touch the voyage journal log.
Soon after, the archaic handwriting of Bernard Fokke was exhibited before their eyes.
An outrageous and incomparably intense sensation surged within them, alarming their emotions and puzzling their souls!
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TL: It has come to my attention that there"s a bug causing some to be unable to see chapter 589 (it shows a teaser instead). I think this bug only affects those using the app, I think what you can do is to remove the novel from the reading list and add it back.