The Death List Novel - Chapter 209

Chapter 209 Team Objectives

“Qin Lun, are you sure?” Hill’s question came from the guild channel.

“I’m not sure yet, but Wei Ma will indeed go out tomorrow!” Qin Lun threw away a small bottle in his hand and sneered.

“How far do you think we’ll go?” Hansen asked in a low voice.

“It’s hard to say, it might go to the final stage!” Qin Lun’s expression was unpredictable as he said indifferently.

Hearing Qin Lun’s feedback, the guild channel slowly fell silent. On the other side, Hill and Hansen looked at each other with ugly expressions.

“Fifth stage?” Hill closed his eyes and muttered to himself. Then, he turned to his disciple and revealed a strange smile. “Haha, Hansen, did you hear that? One or two of us will die too!”

“Hmph, I’m looking forward to it!” Hansen let out a muffled groan, and a blazing flame slowly ignited in the depths of his pupils.

After the communication ended, Qin Lun lowered his head and expressionlessly looked at the bottle in his hand. He muttered to himself nervously, “I will definitely survive. I will definitely survive!”

The thumb-sized crystal bottle in Qin Lun’s hand contained more than half a bottle of emerald-green liquid. The liquid was soaked in a small piece of translucent and sparkling tender leaves. Although this leaf was as delicate as a bud, it was actually the bud of an ancient tree of wisdom in the center of the silent forest.

This leaf bud contains incredible vitality, as long as it is soaked in dew for a month. The dew would turn into emerald green liquid that was no less than the World Tree Dew and could be used as an ordinary healing drug. Although the vitality contained in this leaf sprout was slowly declining, its value was still enormous.

Scorpion Tail Biao didn’t need to share his mission harvest with the rest of the team, it was all owned by Qin Lun. On the one hand, the Sass couple had already obtained a copy of the back shell of the ‘Armor’, and on the other hand, Qin Lun had to take on a key part of the overall plan. According to the private agreement of the three murderers, Hansen and Hill would no longer share this part of the proceeds.

After a moment of silence, Qin Lun flipped his hand to put away the crystal bottle and walked towards the camp in the rookie area. When they returned to the camp, the sky gradually darkened. Some of the new members of the camp had already lit a campfire and roasted the prey they had caught today.

Seeing Qin Lun enter the camp, the busy new members glanced at him and stopped paying attention. The shelter itself was not big, and this camp for rookies was even smaller. The entire open space was only two hundred square meters, and there were more than ten tents that were in tatters.

Each tent was shared by two people, and Qin Lun lived with Cassie. In fact, with the exception of a few old rookies, most of the rookies had just arrived at the shelter a few days ago.

Most of these new members were jungle races, elves, trolls … There were also a few dwarves, dwarves, and orcs. Because of the equipment skills and bloodlines displayed in the Nars world, it was unknown how many of the more than twenty new members were apostles.

Of course, races like Frank and Hill with undead bloodlines and water bloodlines could easily identify them as apostles.

In fact, Qin Lun guessed that the Shattered Star System should have used the Narsley world as a base to nurture professional apostles. Judging from the special environment of the Neri world and the enormous natural resources it possessed, this possibility was very high.

During this period of time, the newbies who entered the Neri world were probably all apostles teleported in from the Broken Star System, mid-level profession apostles between the second and third gears. Apart from Qin Lun’s team and the sworn enemy team that Hansen and Hill had provoked, there were apparently one or two other apostle teams out of the remaining dozen rookies.

The Broken Star Sky had once reminded them that their team competition mode was not a joke. There weren’t many official missions issued by the shelter camps, but the rewards for each official mission were very generous. At the same time, it also caused competition among many rookies.

Even though Master Wei Ma had issued a personal mission, from what Qin Lun had obtained, it was not inferior to a professional skill. This was because Qin Lun and the others had only managed to catch a young scorpion-tailed tiger that could barely meet the mission’s requirements.

In fact, if it weren’t for Cassie’s connections, Qin Lun and the others would probably have received a challenge from the other apostle guilds when they received this mission. Successful ones enjoyed the benefits of the mission, and the losers could only go to the beast bars and plantations in the shelter camps to live, or even bury their bones in the silence.

In fact, the apostle team competition has not yet entered the most intense stage of sprinting. As the duration of their stay diminished, these groups of apostles would inevitably intensify the conflict brought about by the mission.

Master Wei Ma’s personal mission had not been acknowledged by the Shattered Star System. Although they had gained some benefits, their stay had not increased. Judging from the observations of the past few days, only the official missions issued by the refuge camps could be deemed to have exploratory value by the Broken Star System and be evaluated for the hidden plot, thus obtaining the reward of staying in the refuge camps for a long time.

With Qin Lun’s team’s overt strength, they wouldn’t be recognized by the storyline characters. Unless they took a risk and snatched food from other guilds, it was unlikely that they would receive a formal mission. Of course, it wasn’t that they didn’t have any chance to increase their stay. They also had a main mission of the Source of Strength.

After entering the refuge camp, the guild finally satisfied the release environment of “Source of Strength” and opened the details of the main mission.

Source of Strength (Commandant Level Difficulty): There are many powerful high-tier creatures living in the Forest of Silence. Only in life and death battles with these high-tier creatures can the apostles integrate their professional abilities and comprehend the true essence of strength.

Mission accomplishment mode 1 (second lieutenant): gather the power of the guild to kill or capture a high-tier creature above rank 7, without borrowing the power of the storyline characters.

Mission accomplishment 2 (Lieutenant level): Apostle 70053, independently kills or captures one of the following creatures (Moon Demon Spider, Juvenile Hill Giant, Scorpion Tail Big, Golden Eye Condor, Wind Wolf King).

Mission Tip: In Team Competition mode, team kill or individual kill means that a team or individual apostle inflicts more than 90% of the creature’s HP damage.

Mission reward: 20,000 broken crystals, 800 exchange vouchers, 5 contribution points, 1 fusion crystal after completing the mission in the same way. Complete the mission in Mode 2. Obtain 30,000 broken crystals, 1000 exchange coupons, 10 contribution points, and 2 fusion crystals. There is no additional reward for this mission. Mission failure deducts 50 Longevity Soul points.

This main mission was the first true Lieutenant-level difficulty mission Qin Lun had seen. The content of the mission was very simple. It only required hunting a Tier 7 creature. Qin Lun, Hill, and the others had secretly calculated that if the guild worked together sincerely and used all their trump cards, it wouldn’t be difficult to kill a Tier 6 creature before that.

Take the Sixth Grade Scorpion Tail Big as an example. If Qin Lun summoned a Fifth Grade Hellfire Demon Dog and worked with two MTs, they would be able to kill an adult Scorpion Tail Big in a short amount of time.

However, seventh grade creatures were different. Sixth grade creatures were mid-grade creatures, while seventh grade creatures were high-grade creatures. The difficulty of this mission was that the life forms of high-grade creatures had undergone a qualitative change, making it difficult to kill them in a short period of time. The longer the battle dragged on, the greater the likelihood that the battle would be interfered with by the outside world. Perhaps a fisherman would appear at some point, especially now that there was another sworn enemy team eyeing him covetously.

As for the second way to complete the mission, Qin Lun had asked the rest of the team. Almost everyone’s candidate goals were different. It was very likely that the Broken Star System was specifically designed for everyone’s future profession.

Taking Qin Lun as an example, the Wind Wolf King and the Moon Demon Spider were only rank 5, but these two were social creatures. The Moon Demon Spider’s nest had a large number of small spiders, and the Screaming Wind Wolf King had the protection of a pack of wolves.

The Scorpion-tailed Tiger and the Golden-eyed Eagle were Tier 6 creatures. Although they lived alone, both of them moved like the wind. Their agility greatly offset the long-range attack abilities of forest hunters.

As for the last type of hill giant, the adult giant was as high as rank eight. Although the young giant was only rank six, and its movements weren’t too agile, it was generally protected by the adult giant.

All in all, the first method of the [Source of Strength] main mission was to test the teamwork. Everyone in the team needs to have no weaknesses and have a high level of anti-jamming capability.

The second method was to test Qin Lun’s mastery and understanding of the jungle hunter profession. Only by using the jungle hunter’s abilities of disguise, trap, long-range attack, and summoning could he complete the main mission in the second method.

For Hansen, Hill, and the others, the second method was that the candidates were completely different from Qin Lun. Hansen’s targets were melee creatures with low mobility but thick skin and thick flesh, such as Ancient Tree Demons, Ogres, and so on.

Compared to the other main missions that Qin Lun had encountered, although this mission didn’t have an additional reward for world exploration, the Narsley world was very special. Killing Tier 6 or Tier 7 creatures would produce good equipment materials, basically making up for the additional reward.

Qin Lun opened the tent. Cassie was not in the tent at the moment. She was probably practicing Qin Lun’s method of defeating the rhino.

Cassie hasn’t gone hunting in the forest yet. She’s just working in the beastpen. Qin Lun gave him a way to cheat, and that was to let him use the opportunity of working in the beast pen to drug Man Xi.

Before entering the inner world, Cassie had trained to survive in the wild. She was familiar with many jungle plants and mixed a laxative or anesthetic. There was no problem at all. Moreover, he was also an elf, and his affinity for animals was very high. It was very easy for rhinoceroses to eat “special fodder”.

Qin Lun lay on the hay and put his arm under his head. He looked at the “Source of Strength” on the death list and fell into deep thought.

The guild’s plan was based on the “Source of Strength” main line, and the hunting targets mentioned in the quest basically had location indications. Most of them weren’t very far from the campsite, and the furthest Rank 7 creature was only half a day’s journey away.

The three murderers used the prestige they had accumulated in the Sas’ hearts to persuade them to target the adult hill giant as their main mission target.

Adult hill giants reached rank eight, but hill giants didn’t have magical abilities and their movements were slower. If he could lure it into a trap or a suitable geographical environment, there would be a considerable success rate. Moreover, the forest terrain was complicated. Even if they couldn’t kill the giant, they could still cover for each other and escape.

The other reason he chose the hill giant as his target was because the female hill giant also had a young giant beside her. This was the prey that Hansen and Hill had specifically left behind for Qin Lun.

Of course, these two fellows didn’t do this out of conscience, but because they wanted Qin Lun to take on the most dangerous part of the plan.

In the end, Qin Lun had no choice but to accept this arrangement. He had his own difficulties. First, because of his elven bloodline, no one in the guild was more suited to work alone in the Forest of Silence and search for information.

The second reason was that he had resurrected Frank, leaving only 50 points for each of the two souls. The rest of the team could accept the failure of the main mission, but Qin Lun could not. Once the main mission failed, he would die from exhaustion of his longevity soul.

Frank didn’t care. The second method of his Source of Strength was only a trial mission. It was extremely easy, and the target was the lowest-ranked fourth-ranked creature. It could also be accomplished by working in the campsite’s beastpen and plantations. Even if the mission failed, it would only deduct 30 Longevity Soul Points. There was still a second chance.

However, this arrangement wasn’t without additional benefits. If Qin Lun took advantage of the guild to lure away the adult hill giant, he would kill the young giant alone. Then not only did he complete the main mission, he also completed the inaugural mission of the jungle hunter: the hunter’s bar mitzvah.

Hill, Hansen, Frank, and the Gasas were responsible for killing the adult hill giant, while Qin Lun hunted the young giant alone. This was the team’s plan on the surface, and it was also the first stage of the overall plan of the three murderers!