"Really? You can buy it for just 16 points?"
Following this person’s remark, the other companions at the table all put aside their previous argunts and discussions, gathering around to look at the reward exchange list.
"It really seems to be just 16 points. I rember seeing a mission earlier. If we can go to the East District black market and gather intelligence on the Super Mutant base, we can be rewarded with more than twenty points, doesn’t that an..."
"Exactly! What are we still doing here? Let’s hurry and complete the mission, then submit the intelligence! Otherwise, if soone else gets ahead of us, the Corona Battle Suit will be gone!"
"But, after all, the East District is the territory of Super Mutants. Those brainless muscle fools are no different from monsters. They devour every survivor they see. If we go there recklessly, won’t we..."
"Coward, what are you worried about! We used to frequently go to the East District to collect Langke Bacteria, now we’re just going there again under a different pretext. If you don’t dare to go, don’t expect to get a share when we sell the resources exchanged for the Corona Battle Suit after completing the mission!"
"..."
The group started arguing again.
However, this ti was different from before. The one who initially questioned the Star Alliance’s origins and motives now wanted to do the mission the most.
Listening to the conversation of the group not far away, the man sitting in the middle of the tavern drinking wine slightly curled his lips into an almost imperceptible smile.
"Interesting..."
Gently setting down the wine glass in his hand, as if passing ti idly, he quietly listened to their discussion from several ters away.
In their perspective, being so far away, and discussing in such low voices, they believed they wouldn’t be overheard.
Yet, who would have thought the man’s constitution had far surpassed their expectations?
Even though they were separated by seven or eight ters, simply concentrating and listening carefully allowed him to hear what they were saying.
This was just a natural informational gap between them.
The Star Alliance had been on this planet for several years, but due to specific environntal factors here, all electronic equipnt within the Red Light Zone beca unusable, and hoping to quickly relay information beca futile.
Thus, the survivors of City No. 7 still harbored little understanding of these Awakeners’ abilities.
They judged based on their impressions of Genetic Warriors and Mutants, unaware their entire conversation had already been overheard by the other party.
But at least they weren’t wrong about one thing: the man indeed was an Awakener from the Star Alliance.
And his identity was the leader of the Star Alliance’s first Expeditionary bounty hunters on this planet, from the Wildfire Tavern’s Rat Exterminator Team, Morris Martin.
Three years ago, Morris led his team to join the Wildfire Tavern’s interstellar exploration plan, becoming the first Expeditionary team here.
They signed a one-year expedition agreent with the tavern, executing missions here, despite facing greater dangers than on Water Blue Star, the rewards promised to be even greater.
Three years ago, they completed the cleansing of a Super Mutant camp around the World Tree Base and earned the recognition of a prominent figure, directly receiving a promotion qualification.
From an ordinary mortal, he leaped into becoming a Dark Spirit capable of controlling Extraordinary Power.
That experience afforded them opportunities and progress far beyond others, ensuring they gained a significant advantage in ensuing actions, earning large amounts of points.
But beyond these points, what was most crucial was the enhancent in their abilities after becoming Dark Spirits.
After three years of relentless efforts, the Rat Exterminator Team’s strength had all surpassed the Middle-level Enlightennt threshold.
Amongst all bounty hunter teams, this was a noteworthy achievent.
Despite the Rat Exterminator Team’s average strength seeming not quite high, with the strongest being Morris who was just approaching Upper Enlightennt.
When compared to those who officially joined the Three Great Sanctuaries via examination, they indeed were slower.
But it should be noted that those who qualified as Awakeners through skill possessed extraordinary talent.
They were the elite carefully selected by the Star Alliance from billions across the globe, with sensitivity to and cultivation of Dark Spiritual Power far surpassing ordinary people.
In a cultivation novel, they would be the prodigious geniuses whose cultivation progressed with twice the effort gaining quadruple the results.
While Morris and his team’s chance at Awakening mainly through battle achievents were of average natural aptitude, and couldn’t compare to geniuses.
Nevertheless, that didn’t an their team’s strength was weak.
On the contrary, compared to those Awakeners from the Star Alliance’s main base, these bounty hunter-originating Awakeners had their own advantages.
Due to living in such harsh environnts for years, facing diverse and perilous tasks and peculiar enemies daily, they had already developed their own combat tactics.
At least in terms of real combat experience, these bounty hunters were indeed well-seasoned.
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