【Quarterly mission: The Allies' War
Mission content: make certain that the allies' losses do not exceed a set figure.
Requirement one: the Angel Race's loss of interstellar warships must not exceed one million. (Above seven hundred and seventy thousand warships lost)
Requirement two: the Machine Race's loss of interstellar warships must not exceed one million five hundred thousand. (Above one million four hundred and eighty thousand warships lost)
Mission reward: 10,000 task points】
Zhao Chen sat within his own office; and before him, besides the system interface, there was a showing of the time.
(Galactic Star Calendar 3036, June 30, 23 hours 55 minutes 37 seconds)
And within the quarterly mission's page, those figures upon warships lost were leaping without cease besides.
That Zhao Chen should of a sudden have been willing to furnish the Machine Race so many missile ships was for this: that by these missile ships' support of firepower he might lessen the Machine Race's losses upon the field.
And plainly that object has been reached.
And now it needs only to wait upon the quarterly mission's counting-down.
Tick, tock, tick, tock.
Zhao Chen sat with his eyes closed; and though this counting made no sound whatever, yet for some cause Zhao Chen felt there came to his ear the beating of one of those old-fashioned clocks.
Time at this moment seemed drawn out long.
At last the time went from June into July.
And within Zhao Chen's mind there came besides the sound of the system's mission prompt.
Zhao Chen opened his eyes.
【Quarterly mission: The Allies' War
Mission content: make certain that the allies' losses do not exceed a set figure.
Requirement one: the Angel Race's loss of interstellar warships must not exceed one million. (Above seven hundred and eighty thousand warships lost)
Requirement two: the Machine Race's loss of interstellar warships must not exceed one million five hundred thousand. (Above one million four hundred and ninety thousand warships lost)
This mission is complete; you may draw the mission reward at any time.
Mission reward: 10,000 task points】
Zhao Chen without a word more touched to draw it.
And with that there were ten thousand task points the more within Zhao Chen's purse.
Though these ten thousand task points cannot at present be spent, for Zhao Chen needs them to answer the requirement for opening the T6 shop.
And at the same time another of Zhao Chen's missions was declared complete besides.
【Quarterly mission updated
Please choose the manner in which, within the three months to come, you will furnish military aid to the Machine Race and the Angel Race.
1: aid in forces
2: aid in weapons
3: aid in funds
4: waving the flag and shouting
Note: mark well — once the corresponding manner of aid is chosen, should you employ any other manner of aid, this mission shall be judged failed of itself.
Option four may obtain three T6 fighting-type interstellar warships; option three, two T6 fighting-type interstellar warships; option two, one T6 fighting-type interstellar warship; option one, one quasi-T6 fighting-type interstellar warship.
You chose the second manner of aid. This mission is complete; you may draw the corresponding mission reward】
Three months of holding back, and the holding is at last at an end.
Zhao Chen touched to draw the mission reward.
【Mission reward exchanged. Congratulations. You have obtained the technical drawings of the T6 Wrath-of-Heaven-Goddess-class Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ship】
Zhao Chen's look was level, and even his feeling was somewhat level.
Before this he had imagined what his feeling would be, facing the Owl Dragon's first T6 warship — that he might cry out in his excitement, that he might be astonished.
But at this moment he only looked with a smile upon his face at this warship hanging before him.
An interstellar heavy-artillery ship belongs among the second-line firepower-support warships of a field.
The Owl Dragon Legion has had this type in service before.
And it now forms besides, with the missile ships, a paired net of firepower.
Facing a conventional enemy, one uses the heavy-artillery ships, which may be used again and again.
But facing an enemy hard to deal with, or a local fight that must urgently be ended in a short time, missile ships are set on, to give within the shortest time the strongest covering strike of firepower within a certain compass.
In truth, set against her performance, what Zhao Chen minds more is her requirement and her cost of building.
And after a reckoning of Zhao Chen's.
He came by a figure exceedingly satisfactory.
The cost of one such T6 Wrath-of-Heaven-Goddess-class Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ship is 300 trillion star coins; and supposing one T5 Galaxy-class Large Interstellar Industrial Base to bear the building, fifty months are wanted.
Which is some four years.
Though of course, if several T5 Galaxy-class Large Interstellar Industrial Bases build her together, that time may be greatly shortened.
"300 trillion star coins… had this been before, I truly could not have afforded to build her." Zhao Chen smiled a little.
First the Angel Race's 900 trillion, and then the Machine Race's 2,000 trillion.[1]
Which have given Zhao Chen the confidence to attempt a T6 warship.
But by the Owl Dragon Legion's own system of industry at present, it is very hard to spare so much capacity to produce this T6 Wrath-of-Heaven Goddess.
And the more so now, in the case of this fighting with the Demon Race.
"By the look of it, this goddess must wait until after the fighting with the Demon Race to be born.
"Before that, let us first lay some plans of production." Zhao Chen shrugged helplessly.
To have a good thing and yet be unable for the present to build it is beyond doubt like having a beauty before one whom one may not touch.
Zhao Chen looked at the system's other pages.
【Host: Zhao Chen
Profession: topmost starship engineer
Special attributes: fleet luck-value bonus, Eye of Insight
System points: 1.1 billion (single month's fleet return: 400 million points)
Task points: 10,000
Starship count: above seven hundred thousand
Mission: the Machine Race's Secret · third stage
Warehouse: technical drawings of the T6 starship Southern Heaven Gate; technical drawings of the T6 Wrath-of-Heaven-Goddess-class Interstellar Heavy-Artillery Ship】
Upon some months' accumulation, Zhao Chen's estate has grown a great deal richer besides — only that at present it may be looked at and not moved.
【T6 shop missions】
Mission content:
Mission one: the task points within the host's account reach a value of 10,000. [Complete]
Mission two: the system points within the host's account reach a value of 1 billion. [Complete]
Mission three: the host's (the Owl Dragon Legion's) fighting-type interstellar warships in service reach 500,000. [Complete]
Mission four: the host's (the Owl Dragon Galactic Interstellar Group's) auxiliary-type Owl Dragon-line warships now held reach 2,000,000. [Complete]
Mission five: the host's (the Owl Dragon Galactic Interstellar Group's) monthly output reaches 10 trillion star coins. [Complete]
Mission six: enter the Gate of Gaia within the Machine Race's royal court】
Looking at this string of figures, Zhao Chen found that without his marking it his estate had grown to such a size.
And from the opening of the T6 shop's privileges there remained one mission only.
The Gate of Gaia within the mechanical royal court.
Zhao Chen has a foreboding that this is not merely a mission's requirement; that behind it lies hidden the Machine Race's true secret.