Quarterly Task
Task content: Choose to annihilate or bring to submission twenty of the Warhammer Interstellar Commonwealth's great tribes.
Complete ten to claim the base reward.
Complete thirteen to claim a Bronze Treasure Chest.
Complete sixteen to claim a Silver Treasure Chest.
Complete twenty to claim a Gold Treasure Chest.
Current progress: thirteen.
Annihilated: the Black Tiger tribe.
Brought over: the Spider Queen tribe, the Harpy tribe, the Fox-folk tribe, the Siren tribe, the Frost-Wolf tribe, the Hound tribe, the Golden Leopard tribe, the Golden Eagle tribe, the Black Wolf tribe, the Fury Bear tribe, the Centaur tribe, the War-Ram tribe
Settle the quarterly task reward ahead of time?
Zhao Chen stirred a thought: Confirm.
Settling quarterly task ahead of time… congratulations, one base reward and one Bronze Treasure Chest obtained.
Base reward obtained: 500 task points
Bronze Treasure Chest opened — congratulations, obtained: the 'T4 Sacred Lotus-class Medium Interstellar Medical Ship' technical blueprint
Perhaps because Zhao Chen's completion rate this time was not very high, the reward was not very rich.
He glanced over his own System interface.
Host: Zhao Chen
Profession: Topmost starship engineer
Special attributes: fleet luck-value bonus; the Eye of Insight
System points: 29,880,000 (single-month fleet income: 14,600,000 points)
Task points: 1,450
Starship count: 50,727
Tasks: annual task (in progress); T5 Mall privilege task (in progress · 70%)
Warehouse: T4 Sacred Lotus-class Medium Interstellar Medical Ship technical blueprint
Because the Owl Dragon Legion's interstellar warships in service grew ever more numerous, and their grades ever higher, the single-month fleet System point income grew ever greater.
As of now he had accumulated near 30 million System points.
Task points too, after completing this quarterly task, had grown by no small amount.
These accumulated System points were of course all for the sake of redeeming, at the first instant after the T5 series mall was opened, the T5-grade interstellar warships he wanted.
And perhaps in answer to Zhao Chen's call.
The T5 Mall privilege task, quiet for some while, gave a prompt at this moment.
T5 Mall Unlock Task (completion 70%)
Next, please make your selections by the task prompts; once the selections are made you will gain the corresponding completion rate, and when completion reaches 100%, the T5 System Mall is unlocked.
More than one of the following options may be completed. Time limit: three months.
Option one: Destroy 3,000 demon interstellar warships — 5% completion.
Option two: Destroy 30,000 demon interstellar warships — 10% completion.
Option three: Destroy 300,000 demon interstellar warships — 20% completion.
Option four: Destroy 300 T4-grade Demon Race interstellar warships — 5% completion.
Option five: Destroy 3,000 T4-grade Demon Race interstellar warships — 10% completion.
Option six: Destroy 30,000 T4-grade Demon Race interstellar warships — 20% completion.
Seeing the refreshed T5 Mall privilege task, Zhao Chen could not help growing excited.
This time the T5 Mall's privilege truly stood before him.
The task this time was rich indeed — a full six choices.
Though by the completion rate each was worth, it signified that not all of them need be completed; one need only reach 100% completion.
Were all six choices completed, this time would yield a full 70% completion.
But two of those task options were of no small difficulty.
Option three required destroying 300,000 Demon Race interstellar warships, and option six required destroying 30,000 T4-grade Demon Race interstellar warships.
Happily, Zhao Chen need not complete them all.
Or it would truly be uncertain whether he could unlock this T5 Mall privilege at all.
"Three months' time — that falls just before year's end. So combining this with the annual task's reward. By then I shall have the T5-grade large interstellar industrial base on the one hand, and be able to redeem T5-grade interstellar warships on the other. Quite simply perfect." Zhao Chen was excited past all bearing.
Having witnessed the T5 Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought's world-covering might, Zhao Chen of course hoped his Owl Dragon Legion might possess more T5-grade interstellar warships.
And above all with the threat from the Demon Race now about to be faced.
Thereafter, within the Warhammer's borders a new alliance was raised, styled abroad the Warhammer Northern Front Alliance; and near enough both sides, enemy and friend, from the civil war before it had all joined.
The Warhammer's several great tribes now began to set themselves in motion, and interstellar warships without cease made for the Dragon-folk tribe's northern territory through the star gates.
And strategic resources past counting were supplied there besides.
Princess Blanche this time did not let those small and middling tribes idle in the rear; she had sworn to resist the Demon Race's invasion, but neither would she let that crowd behind put out no strength at all.
Upon this point Charlotte, standing for Zhao Chen, expressed agreement as well.
The Warhammer Northern Front Alliance issued its first order, requiring that those tribal powers which sent no fleets to the northern frontier theater must unconditionally produce 70% of the strategic materiel within their own territories to supply the forward battlefield.
At the same time, all relevant auxiliary-type interstellar warships must, at need, be ordered wholly to the rear of the forward theater to stand by.
In this operation those small and middling tribes carried out these orders most obediently.
Some were even willing to send out their own elite fleets.
The reason behind it, by what later investigators found.
Appeared to have to do with the Dragon Emperor leading 150,000 interstellar warships in person into a bloody battle against 30,000 Demon Race warships, and being grievously defeated all the same.
Though this was a grievous defeat, it startled that crowd of Warhammer tribes awake, and made them perceive clearly how mighty the enemy they faced this time was, and how evil the technology it possessed.
Either stand out and resist to the end — or, after their territories fell, become colonial planets of the Demon Race, a supply ground of living energy for demon interstellar warships, an existence little better than meat-cattle.
While the Warhammer made ready for war.
Over in the Holy Radiance Empire, matters were unfolding without cease at this hour as well.
Upon the Sacred Angel planet, within a certain estate among the clouds, Saint Cana sat upright within a pavilion — but her expression was very grave.
Today's news had come somewhat late.
Since the military tribunal's judgment, Saint Cana, though she had not been found guilty, had been temporarily suspended by the Sacred Angel family and made to rest and recover here, with her network connection to the outside cut off besides.
Which is to say, plainly, house arrest.
And this too was the Sacred Angel family protecting this proud daughter of heaven of theirs — because Saint Cana had insisted upon investigating the Disciple family.
As the Sacred Angel family saw it, Saint Cana was quite simply seeking her own death.
Until, several days ago, that great matter occurred, and broke this quiet.