Chapter 717 Changing in a Blink
“Oh my goodness, the headquarters is actually this huge toy. How much money is it worth
“The ck Star Army could not have taken over the entire Garton Star System already, right?”
Just as the hundreds of thousands of yers looked up toward the sky with dumbstruck expressions, their interfaces all vibrated as they received a notification.
Frenzied Sword recovered from his stupor, immediately opening the interface, and a look of joy appeared on his expression.
All the yers who belonged to the ck Star Army had received the same faction mission.
[Ten Years): The First Link
Mission Introduction: The winds of change have blown, and the years passed quickly. Ten years have been and gone, and the situation in the universe is turbulent, with many undercurrents moving. You will participate in the tidal waves of this era. It is time for you to return to your team.
Mission Requirements: Proceed to the nearest ck Star Army satellite fortress.
Reward: 15,000 Experience, +300 ck Star Army Favorability
This is a chain mission.
Han Xiao had been watching the time for the yers toe online. It was precisely he who had issued the mission for everyone to return through the faction interface. This was to allow the yers to be guided to understand the new version and not allow them to run off with a head full of fog.
Because Han Xiao’s wording was formal, it was akin to a new mission for the yers. In any case, any mission issued through the yer interface would be a legitimate mission.
With the yers having just touched on the new Version, it was the period where they were most eager to understand the changes that had happened in the gxy. This mission was akin to a beacon in the dark, like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey, attracting their attention through creating an itch in their hearts.
“This is the guiding mission released by the new version. As long as we follow this, we will understand where the storyline has advanced. Believe me, there will not be any problems in doing so!” Bun-Hit-Dog had a firm look of confirmation.
“To actually be a storyline mission released by the ck Star Army Faction...” Frenzied Sword’s eyes lit up. “This should be a hint that the ck Star Army will y an important role in Version 3.0!”
No one would reject the guided mission for this storyline version, and the majority of the yers had their own thoughts on their next course of action. They would go over to the dock to take a spaceship, which would ferry them into the sky to squeeze into that sky fortress.
Just as everyone had the thought in their heads, in the direction of the ck Star Army’s Satellite Headquarters appeared many tiny ck dots the size of sesame seeds. They expanded at a rate visible to the naked eye and turned out to be a fleet with the insignia of ck Star on them. They hovered above the heads of the tens of thousands of yers, the stable anti-gravity device installed in them not even raising a wind.
Those present could not help but pause in shock. At this moment, the bottom of the battleships opened, releasing traction beams toward the ground. At the same time, the cabin crew spoke through the loudspeakers, broadcasting their voices throughout the sky of the entire city.
“All members of the ck Star Army, please board the fleet. I repeat, all the members of the ck Star Army board the fleet.”
All of them were spaceships that Han Xiao had specially deployed to escort the yers. The yers present did not imagine that the ck Star Army would actually send someone to pick them up, causing them to feel incredibly surprised.
This was Godora’s. To be so unbridled in the city, was the ck Star Army so powerful now?
All signs indicated that the ck Star Army was no longer the same. The yers could not wait to know what had happened in the past decade.
Everyone lined up to board the spaceship, and the fleet returned right after taking in the passengers.
After boarding the ship, the yers started to take action, asking the NPCs around the ship to uncover more intelligence. However, the distance from Golden Gate to their headquarters was too short, not even needing half a minute to arrive there. The yers who wished to gather intelligence could only dispel their thoughts.
The ck Star Army headquarters grewrger as they got closer, allowing the yers to see more details of this armed satellite fortress. The ground was full of defensive measures, all kinds of weird devices, and there was even a huge thruster. Rather than calling it an armed satellite fortress, it might as well as be called a satellite battleship!
The pro yers gathered together and observed through the porthole. Frenzied Sword could not help but click his tongue. “This thing looks freakishly strong. Rather than a satellite, it is more apt to call it a weapon.”
“I recall that in the previous version, having tens of thousands of gships was already extremely scary. To think that the moment this version opens, there’s something even scarier appearing. There was no such thing in the previous version, if I remember,” Hao Tian mused.
“We don’t even know if this was designed by ck Star...” Maple Moon was curious.
Very quickly, the fleet reached the airport, and the tens of thousands of yers streamed out, quickly upying arge area of the dock and looking around, curiously taking in their surroundings.
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they arrived, the yers felt the lively atmosphere. There were NPCs milling about, every one of them carrying the insignia of the ck Star Army. This was far more crowded than looking at the base from the surface.
“Is this our new headquarters? Why are there no NPCs to wee us?”
“What do we do next?”
Just as the yers started to hesitate, their interface changed, showing thepletion of the first chain mission (Ten Years). Han Xiao immediately released the second chain mission.
(Ten Years]: The Second Link
Mission Introduction: In the past decade, Gxy has undergone huge changes. You need to review the deeds of the ck Star Army in the past decade.
Mission Requirements: Update and activate the internal procedures of ck Star Army, and watch the video lesson (History of the ck Star Army (Required)].
Reward: 25,000 Experience, +500 ck Star Army Favorability
Han Xiao had been observing the yers movements from inside the base. He did not need to show himself but used the mission function to dictate the yers’ movements. This would be more natural and secretive.
“This must be the backstory for the new version!”
“I told you, there’ll definitely be some notification for this version, just like in Version 2.0!”
“How convenient. I thought we’d have to look for leads ourselves.”
Frenzied Sword’s eyes gleamed. He was actually thinking about what had happened between the two versions. He did not expect this guiding mission to directly publish the information they most wanted to know. How good this was!
Their mission requirement was to update their internal procedures, which was the Phillip subprogram. This was the toy installed by all members of the ck Star Army and contained the ability to check their resumes, umted achievements, browse the faction store, call airdrop supplies, and more.
The tens of thousands of yers took out theirmunicators and opened their subprograms. This time, there was some response for them atst. Phillip’s virtual image turned into a 3D projection, which was suspended above themunicator.
“Coordinate detection... Coordinates confirmed. Your current position is the base of the ck Star Army. Permissions have been unfrozen. You have obtained permission to update your database. Please scan to verify, hum...”
Before the version update, Phillip’s subprogram could not support the function of stereo projection. yers could only use words to tease Phillip. However, he now had an avatar. Phillip appeared as a finger-sized boy that appeared as cute as a girl would.
Many of the female yers’ eyes lit up when they saw him, and they could not help but touch Phillip with their fingers. Although there was no tactile feeling being transmitted, Phillip acted as though he had been hit and covered his little face, which was full of tears. His innocent expression seemed to convey that he was in pain because his projection had the function of virtual sensing.
Instantly, the majority of female yers, including Maple Moon, were captivated by Phillip, their motherly love disastrously overflowing:
“Waa, how can something be so cute!”
“Oh no, this is the feeling of having a child!”
“He’s so cute. My heart is gonna melt...”
“So cute, how apt.”
Hao Tian squeezed on Phillip’s head, causing it to explode and turn into a pile of light debris. The next moment, it reformed, and Phillip shivered in a corner of the screen. Hao Tian mused, “There’s no notification onbat information. It seems like he cannot be reared as a pet to fight.”
Standing by the side, Frenzied Sword’s mouth was twitching incessantly. “Are you the Devil himself?”
The crowd teased Phillip for a while before he announced that the update waspleted. The yers present all then opened the subprogram. Phillip retracted back into the screen before issuing a notification.
“Permissions have been reactivated. Wee back to the ck Star Army. Please ess your academic program.”
A beam of light shot out from themunicators of everyone present, forming a 3D screen as the video yed. The title of the video was ‘History of the ck Star Army’, and this was exactly the academic program that they were required to watch.
Han Xiao had set up the activation program to automatically y the academic program. Not just the yers, every single member of the ck Star Army had to undergo this course. This was basically a textbook used to establish the culture of ck Star Army, and the producer was Rossellin.
In his previous life, the yers basically had to dig out the background of each version update by themselves, which was very inefficient. Han Xiao simply used his advantage to directly tell the yers the history of the version update in this way, such that they would be able to figure out the situation earlier. This would save them a lot of trouble while improving the sense of identity the yers felt, increasing their belonging to the ck Star Army.
The spirit of the yers was stoked. They were trying to know what the ck Star Army had be at this point, so they quietened down, their gazes staring fixedly at their virtual screens.
“The ck Star Army was established in the Year 688 of the Gxy Calendar and has been established for 17 years. Its original name was called the ck Star Mercenary Group, and its founder was (ck Star] Han Xiao...” Rossellin’s voice sounded, and the screen showed a silhouette of ck Star at the forefront, with the figures of his Officers behind him.
Just by looking at the opening, Bun-Hit-Dog’s eyes lit up. “This feels like a blockbuster here...”
After exining the creation as well as the leader of the army, Rossellin’s tone changed as she immediately began to describe the process of the ck Star Army’s transformation in scale.
The picture showed a star map of the Garton Star System. On the upper left corner, there was a time indication of Year 688. This was exactly when the ck Star Mercenary Group was first established. Within the vast star map, a humble and small green dot represented the forces of the ck Star Mercenary Group at that time.
As the time on the upper left corner started to move, the tiny green dot slowly moved around, finally finding a base and beginning to expand into a small, irregrly shaped green area. This gradually expanded over time, showing the development trend of the ck Star Army.
Not only were the hundred thousand yers at the headquarters watching this, but yers from the other bases were also watching the video at the same time. This portion was the events that had taken ce from Version 1.0 to 2.0, and to have it disyed in this manner attracted the attention of all the yers.
As the green area slowly expanded in the Garton Star System, the time shown on the upper left-hand corner finally reached the mark of ten years ago, just before the version update.
The yers started to pay attention. From now on, it would be the decade that they had not experienced, which was the unknown changes.
At this moment, the view on the virtual screen suddenly zoomed out tremendously, directly expanding to show the entire Colton Star Cluster. The star map was erged dozens or hundreds of times!
At the same time, the green area that was originally confined to the Garton Star System suddenly ballooned out to spread to more than half of the Colton Star Cluster, upying half of it!
Everyone present was stunned silly.
Following the time skip, the sphere of influence rose sharply. If the expansion of the ck Star Army in Version 2.0 was considered that of running, then the period of ten years between the two versions was as though it was riding on a fighter jet!
The time finally arrived at Year 705. Out of the entire Colton Star Cluster, close to ny percent was green in color.
At this moment, Rossellin’s voice sounded in the background.
“Today, the ck Star Army haspleted its transformation, having branches throughout the whole Colton Star Cluster. Its business scope includes warfare, mining, and more. It is also the long-term ally of the Purple Crystal Civilization, the ruler of the Colton Star Cluster, with over ten other civilizations as coborators. The Cmity Grade Supers under His Excellency have also grown to almost twenty people, with tens of thousands of battleships and hundreds of mining rights. The ck Star Army stands at the forefront of the organizations in the Shattered Star Ring.”
Frenzied Sword and Bun-Hit-Dog stared at thismentary. They were not alone, as the yers around them had the same expressions as them, full of shock and surprise!
When they originally arrived there, Frenzied Sword had already grossly inted the power the ck Star Army had after a decade, but even he did not expect that he had still underestimated the ck Star Army! His imagination had truly limited him.
This sort of feeling was like, after falling asleep for a night, waking up and finding out that the factory in town that you worked for had turned into the world’s top five hundredpanies! Overnight!
I only looked away for moment, and you had already ascended to the sky?
The curiosity of the crowd was so great that they were anxious about the deeds of the ck Star Army in the past decade. They could not help but wish to scrub the video straight to the end.
Just what exactly happened when we were not here? How did the ck Star Army leap up to be such a great influence?