Swallowed Star: Inward Cultivation, Crying Luo Feng

Chapter 268 Outrageous Military Merit Quotas

"We just got back and are planning to rest for a few days."

"You can use this time to make some preparations."

"We will depart for the Shattered Star Domain in ten days."

Marquis Jingyi reminded Luo Fan.

Luo Fan nodded after hearing this.

Then, everyone sat and chatted for a while.

It was mainly the other members of the team who were sharing their experiences with Luo Fan.

……

Ten days passed quickly.

The group has barely left the hall these past few days.

After all, ten days is a very short time for these immortals.

I'm just back for a short rest this time.

During this period, Marquis Jingyi did leave twice.

The main purpose was to sell the spoils of the previous monster-hunting team.

Soon, Luo Fan arrived at a starport under the guidance of the group.

The place was filled with countless spaceships.

These spacecraft are mostly E-class spacecraft.

However, the demon-hunting team's spaceship isn't here.

Then, Marquis Jingyi took out a spaceship from the World Ring.

Luo Fan recognized the spaceship at a glance.

This is an F3 class spaceship.

The spaceship was crafted from the Golden Soul and Silver Mother.

As for speed, it can only reach a maximum of about twenty times the speed of light.

It is considered a relatively inexpensive spaceship among the F-class spaceships.

A cosmic coin worth less than a million Chaos Units.

Seeing that Luo Fan was examining the spaceship, Marquis Jin Yuan walked over to Luo Fan and said with a smile.

"Ice Blade, don't be fooled by the fact that our spaceship is just an ordinary F3-class spaceship. There's more to it than meets the eye."

As he spoke, he gave a mysterious smile.

He didn't explain immediately, but instead kept her in suspense, leading Luo Fan directly into the spaceship.

Soon, Marquis Jin Yuan led Luo Fan into the spaceship's lounge.

As soon as Luo Fan entered, he immediately realized that something was wrong.

He was somewhat surprised to find that the lounge was actually made of meteorite iron.

Meteorite iron is a G-grade metal.

Although the lounge is quite small, it can only comfortably seat ten people.

Even the tall and thin Feng Jianhou was unable to straighten his body.

Even so, the cost of this lounge is ten or even a hundred times higher than the value of the entire spaceship!
Marquis Jin Yuan said with a grin.

"How about it?"

"Did you see that?"

"This rest room was bought by our demon-hunting team after saving up for a long time."

"We really felt bad about spending money to build this lounge."

Luo Fan also knew that spaceships in extraterrestrial battlefields were very easy to damage.

Especially on these battlefields where titles and honors are bestowed and immortality is achieved.

For an immortal being to destroy F-grade metal, it would be quite easy.

However, G-grade metals are not easy to damage.

Even among the strongest immortals, it would be very difficult to destroy G-grade metal.

Having a lounge made of G-grade metal can prevent attacks from powerful individuals with strong detectors.

Many people do this on battlefields outside the region.

Otherwise, we would lose a spaceship in every battle.

A spaceship that is too valuable costs millions of Mixed Yuan Units.

Even if it's a loss, it would still hurt to see someone granted the title of Marquis and immortality.

If it's just F3 level, then it's fine.

Many teams also use E-class spaceships and then set up a rest area made of F-class metal inside.

However, this is relatively rare in the eleventh battlefield.

Because the eleventh battlefield is much larger than the other battlefields.

Therefore, if you want to get to a certain place quickly, you need a spaceship that can travel fast.

At this moment, Marquis Jingyi and his companions also entered.

He looked at Luo Fan and said.

"Ice Blade, you've learned about the Shattered Star Domain these past few days."

"This time, we'll get to know each other a bit on the outer edge of the Shattered Star Domain before heading inside together."

Upon hearing this, Luo Fan nodded to indicate that he understood.

Marquis Jingyi had previously stated that their goal this time was to head to the Shattered Star Domain.

The moment he learned of it, information about the Shattered Star Domain automatically popped into Luo Fan's mind.

The Shattered Star Domain is located in the eleventh battlefield.

It is about one million light-years away from the 066th military base.

At this spaceship's speed, it should arrive in about two days.

The Shattered Star Domain is mostly comprised of ordinary immortal teams and marquis-level immortal teams.

In the core area, there are even a small number of immortal kings.

However, these immortal kings usually act alone.

The entire shattered star field is about several hundred light-years wide.

This starry sky once contained a large number of planets.

However, it was shattered during the battle.

Moreover, it has been ravaged by space storms.

This eventually formed a fragmented star field.

The outer perimeter of the Shattered Star Domain mainly consists of ordinary Immortal teams and a small number of relatively weak Marquis teams.

Those stronger Marquis-level squads will generally enter the Shattered Star Domain.

Because of the passing spatial storms, spatial treasures sometimes appear here.

Luo Fan also found some information on powerful figures in the Shattered Star Domain. This was because it wasn't far from a demon race military base.

Therefore, there are many demons and their affiliated races here.

The demon-hunting team had been hunting down powerful demons here before.

Just then, Marquis Jin Yuan suddenly thought of something and looked at Luo Fan to ask.

"By the way, Iceblade, what's your military merit stat?"

"As a new recruit, the Virtual Universe Military Merit System should have informed you about this, right?"

At this moment, the others also turned their gazes toward Luo Fan.

Once they arrive at the battlefield outside the region, they can only retire after fulfilling their military merit quota.

Military merits are mainly earned by hunting down powerful members of other races.

The stronger and more talented the alien warrior, the more military merits can be obtained after hunting him down.

Besides these, there are other ways to earn military merit.

For example, completing officially released tasks or obtaining certain important information.

The higher the amount of military merit, the greater the talent and strength of the person.

Luo Fan glanced at the group and said calmly.

"My military merits amount to one trillion."

"How many?"

"Are you sure you read that correctly?"

“How can it be so high?!”

The team members gasped in surprise.

This amount of military merit is frighteningly high.

Because military merit is not so easy to obtain.

Killing an ordinary realm lord earns 100,000 military merits.

Killing an elite realm lord grants a million military merits.

Killing a World Lord general will earn you tens of millions of military merits.

Killing a regular Immortal grants 100 million military merits.

Killing an Immortal Army Lord at the High (Peak) level grants one billion military merits.

Killing someone at the initial stage of being granted a title of Marquis will earn you 10 billion military merits.

Next come the ranks: Marquis (Advanced), Marquis (Peak), King (Elementary), King (Advanced), and so on, all the way to King (Peak).

Killing a peak-level King grants ten trillion military merits.

From the initial stage of being enfeoffed as a marquis to the peak stage of being enfeoffed as a king, for every minor increase in strength, military merits will increase tenfold.

The limits of being crowned a king and the invincible king are even higher.

One trillion military merits means that Luo Fan needs to kill one hundred enemies of the same level!
That is, one hundred low-level Marquis, or ten high-level Marquis, or killing a peak Marquis.

The amount of military merit is generally determined relative to the authority one has when first entering a battlefield outside the territory.

Military merits are generally awarded based on the number of enemies killed (between ten and one hundred) of the same level.

The higher one's talent and the stronger one's abilities, the higher one's military merit will be.

It is extremely rare for someone like Luo Fan to need to kill one hundred enemies of the same level before he can retire.

At this moment, Marquis Jinyuan looked at Luo Fan with a very strange expression.

"Iceblade, are you being targeted?"

Although he knew it was completely impossible.

However, the prospect of a trillion military achievements still frightened him.

It should be noted that even the Marquis of Jinyuan has not accumulated a trillion military merits to date.

In reality, it is very difficult for a powerhouse above the Immortal level to kill a powerhouse of the same level.

Especially after achieving the title of Marquis and attaining immortality.

If one wants to kill a powerful opponent of the same level alone, it is almost impossible to emerge unscathed.

Because when they realize that they are no match for their opponents and cannot escape, these immortals will burn their divine power.

After burning divine power, the attack power will instantly increase a thousandfold!
(P.S.: This is a setting explicitly stated in the original work.)
How terrifying is an attack a thousand times stronger?
To withstand such an attack, one would need to burn divine power.

For ordinary immortal powerhouses, the rate at which their divine power is consumed after burning is extremely fast.

In the end, even if you kill the opponent, you may lose more than 50% of your divine power!

It could take millions of years to recover!

Therefore, killing a strong opponent of the same level is extremely difficult.

Therefore, to kill a master at the initial stage of the Marquis level, one generally needs to possess at least the strength of the peak stage of the Marquis level in order to kill him without taking any damage.

It might even require a powerful figure like a king to achieve this.

Therefore, after arriving at the extraterrestrial battlefield, it usually takes a long time for immortals to complete their military merit quota.

Moreover, most of them go to kill those who are weaker than themselves.

At this moment, everyone looked at Luo Fan with very strange eyes.

In their view, Luo Fan might have to stay on the battlefield outside the domain for tens of millions of years.

"Ugh--"

Marquis Jin Yuan stopped speaking, but after sighing, he patted Luo Fan on the shoulder to comfort him.

The way everyone looked at Luo Fan now carried a hint of sympathy.

This left Luo Fan somewhat bewildered, both amused and exasperated.

However, he didn't bother to explain it.

In fact, the Lord of Ice Peaks gave him an even higher amount.

He needs to accumulate trillions of military merits before he can leave the battlefield outside the region.

That is, to kill one high-level King-level expert or ten low-level King-level experts.

If they knew, they would be even more shocked.

In fact, this wasn't too difficult for Luo Fan.

When the Space Worm clones exert their full power, their base strength can reach eighteen million times.

In a head-on confrontation, killing a high-ranking King wouldn't be a problem.

The problem is that Luo Fan's current comprehension of the fundamental laws of space is too low, so if the opponent wants to escape, he has no way to stop them.

After all, while the distance that the space worm clone can travel using wormholes is far, it is still slower than teleportation.

A powerful expert at the King level has mastered the profound mysteries of a certain fundamental law of space.

……

Two days passed quickly.

The demon-hunting team finally arrived in the Shattered Star Domain.

(End of this chapter)