Chapter 1 .，！

When Fang Senyan raised his unadorned strength to 20 points, he received a notification:

"Your basic attribute: Strength exceeds 20 points in a naked/unbuffed state."

"You have received an additional basic attribute reward. Please choose within ten seconds."

"a, Basic Attribute Reward I (Passive): Big Guy, grants you a +5 bonus to all strength checks except for damage.

For example, to wear a piece of equipment requiring 25 strength, you only need 20 strength. To learn a scroll requiring 25 strength, you only need 20 strength. When performing a crushing check, 26 strength can crush a contractor with 15 strength, but damage is calculated as if you have 26 strength."

"b, Basic Attribute Reward I (Passive): Muscle Man, your sturdy and developed muscles effectively protect your body. Any enemy's critical hit rate against you is reduced by 10%, and even if a critical hit occurs, the critical damage is reduced by 20%."

Fang Senyan hesitated for a long time between Muscle Man and Big Guy. However, he thought that in the last world, when encountering a sea of raptors, the main problem was fearing their critical hits. If he could suppress their critical hits, Fang Senyan's survival time in the swarm would increase by at least 50%!

On a deeper level, due to the existence of the Resilience talent, single bursts of high damage were undoubtedly more troublesome for Fang Senyan, whether in combat with contractors or firefights with storyline characters. So Fang Senyan chose b: Muscle Man. It could also be regarded as laying a foundation for his future position in the team.

After the delay caused by the selection, Reef had rushed over from his personal space. Fang Senyan couldn't help asking him what he was busy with, seeing his hurried appearance. Reef sighed and said:

"Of course, I'm busy with forging. Although I used a lot of Pandora crystal ore to restore Byron's limbs, Mogansha has a worker bee that can continuously collect minerals. He promised to give me some Pandora crystal ore after he came out, which is barely enough."

Seeing that Reef was indeed quite proficient in forging, Fang Senyan took out the pair of white-grade finger tigers he was equipped with for advice. Reef was also a little surprised to see them:

"This thing should also be made by someone with very advanced forging skills. He can extract the parry/block attribute from other equipment and add it to this white-grade finger tiger of yours. This can only be done by a certain branch of forging, but this extraction + attachment process is extremely easy to damage equipment."

The two walked and talked, unconsciously reaching the plaza in the Nightmare Space. After the two boarded the "tentacle elevator," they quickly rose to the top of the space. In front of them was the hexagonal metal passage.

At this time, there were still three people entering the metal passage in front, apparently using related abilities. Others could not approach for a short time, so Fang Senyan took the opportunity to take out his black-grade material, "Mountain Troll's Back Leather," and asked Reef, who had forging abilities, if he could make a top.

Reef looked at it and nodded, saying it was possible. Then he asked Fang Senyan if he had any other additional materials. Fang Senyan thought for a while and searched in his mark's storage space. Because he used the Prometheus III weapon to slaughter a staggering number of raptors, even though the drop rate wasn't high, he still collected quite a few of their rare carapace drops.

These carapaces, marked as "materials," had all been selected by Fang Senyan and were of outstanding deep-blue grade. Except for two pieces reserved for Jin Mine, the guy who plucks feathers from a passing goose, all of them were taken out for Reef to choose. Reef was quite satisfied and selected a few more complete pieces, leaving Fang Senyan with three or four pieces remaining.

At this time, the three contractors who were handling matters in front of them began to stand up, and it seemed that they had also completed their affairs. They walked over casually, talking. Because all contractors' heads had a hazy light effect, their faces could not be seen at all, and only their conversations could be faintly heard:

"Finally promoted to a Level III team, fucking finally, Kurt didn't die in vain!"

"Why didn't the boss come to handle this matter? He doesn't seem to be around lately."

"I heard it's for a woman. Do you remember that violent woman, Froya? It is said that she and the boss had a complicated relationship, but it is said that this woman is dead."

"Damn it, dying is too common in this damned space. It's just a woman, isn't it? If the boss is willing, I can find him a hundred in Amsterdam."

"I suddenly realized that discussing women and emotions with a moron nicknamed the mobile reproductive organ is a terrible idea. Although Froya is dead, the boss secretly bound a Horcrux to her back then."

"Horcrux? That thing Voldemort used in the Harry Potter world? The boss is really willing to spend a lot of money."

"Yeah! The boss should be busy with the Horcrux resurrection mission recently..."

"........."

Next, the three people gradually drifted away, and their voices could no longer be heard. Fang Senyan next to him took a deep breath!

"Level III team! Boss!!! Horcrux!!! Metal Mentor Froya!"

These seemingly insignificant words combined to give Fang Senyan a huge shock, like swallowing a mouthful of 56-proof Erguotou and then suddenly chewing a large, crisp, white clove of garlic. The burning sensation swept across the tongue, straight into the throat, all the way to the stomach!

"Interesting." A cold smile appeared on the corner of Fang Senyan's mouth. The feeling of blood slightly heating up all over his body rose again. This was not fear, but the excitement of facing a powerful challenge! An instinctive strength revived from the depths of his soul! Then it filled his entire body, lingering for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Reef couldn't help asking when he saw Fang Senyan standing there in a daze.

"Nothing." Fang Senyan certainly wouldn't overthink based on a few words. The metal mentor was not Voldemort, and resurrection was not so easy. Even if she came back to life, so what? He couldn't decide what others did, but he just needed to become stronger quickly! Thinking of this, the two entered the metal passage together, and then passed through the dark green lightspeed scan. They sat down on a metal chair at the end of the passage, and a holographic screen naturally appeared in front of them.

"Number 1018... Loading..."

"Identity verification in progress..."

"Your current Nightmare Mark rank is Lieutenant."

"Your current Merit Points are 52."

"The following services are currently available to you:"

"A: Purchase rank-related items and props." (Enter detailed purchase list)

"B: Access rank-related confidential information." (This ability may incur certain costs)

"C: Apply to establish a team."

"D: Obtain rank subsidy." (Your current rank subsidy is: free purchase of a rank-related reward prop. The prop must be purchasable with your current permissions)

"E: Accept rank mission." (No relevant missions available at this time)

"F: Leave current team. (This service is not available. You are currently in a temporary team.)"

"G: Other."

Because Reef was still in the temporary team with Fang Senyan at this time, he could also see this long list of options and immediately made a helpless expression. Only when Fang Senyan asked did he realize that a reserve lieutenant only had three options:

"A: Purchase rank-related items and props."

"B: Apply to establish a team."

"C: Other."

From this simple point, one could see the huge difference between a proper lieutenant and a reserve lieutenant! Fang Senyan was not in a hurry to choose to establish a team. He brought back an unknown strange object from the last world: Blade Queen's Body Hair. After submitting it, he received two choices:

a, Sell it and get 10,000 general points.

b, Donate it to the space and get 2 Merit Points.

Now that he knew the importance of Merit Points, he naturally chose to donate. He increased his Merit Points to 54 and then chose the option to create a team, receiving a series of prompts:

"You can form a minimum-level small team, with a maximum of three core team members, no more than 10 regular team members, and no more than 20 temporary team members. You can purchase related reputation contracts in the space to expand the number of people."

"You can appoint a deputy, but his rank must be Sergeant or higher. This appointment will consume one Merit Point."

"Please name your team. If this item is skipped, then the team you create will be named by number."

Fang Senyan looked at the naming option and didn't know why, but suddenly, in a moment of whimsy, he slowly typed two words:

"Ace!"

Then Fang Senyan instantly froze, because after confirming, a prompt popped up in front of him:

"Are you sure you want to establish this team?"

"You will immediately receive related team-building tasks. There is usually no life-threatening danger in team-building tasks, but the final mission evaluation you receive will determine the benefits and team abilities obtained after the team is established!"

Seeing this, Fang Senyan and Reef were stunned. It seemed that it was quite rare for a proper lieutenant to come and establish a team, so even Reef had never heard of such a rule.