Chapter 159 Official Reception

The leader of the official Godora reception team stepped forward, his tone respectful.

"On behalf of the Godora government, I welcome all of you legion commanders. We thank you for accepting our invitation to the celebration. Preparations are underway. In the meantime, we will be responsible for your accommodations. Feel free to tell me if you have any requests. Please, follow me. We have arranged lodging for you."

Millions of mercenaries were on the move, and it was fortunate that the Godora government was a galactic civilization, arranging everything clearly.

The Godora celebration still required a few days of preparation, so everyone could only wait on the Godora mother planet for the celebration to begin.

The celebration would be held in the capital, where everyone also settled. The legion commanders stayed at the same official guesthouse, while their mercenaries stayed elsewhere due to their large numbers. Only the legion commanders were invited to the celebration; the hundreds of thousands could only watch the channel broadcasts and could not squeeze into the venue.

The hundreds of thousands of players scattered throughout the capital would certainly not stay obediently in their rooms. Han Xiao had no intention of restricting their freedom, as players would not feel favorably toward a faction that forced them. He could only guide them with benefits and sentiment. He had always done so.

The players received the same treatment as the other mercenaries. When they were not on missions, their free movement was unrestricted, as long as they did not violate the law.

Moreover, letting the players actively understand the interstellar price level would make them feel the warmth of home in the Black Star Army.

...

Separating from his officers, Han Xiao followed the reception staff to the official guesthouse with the other legion commanders. This type of guesthouse was used to welcome foreign guests and was not open to the public.

Along the way, Han Xiao chatted casually with the legion commanders. Those without cooperation agreements, like Justin, actively established alliances with Han Xiao.

He also took the opportunity to observe the scenery of the Godora mother planet. The sky was azure blue, and pedestrians used flight badges along the designated routes, like bridges of people. Tall, slender golden buildings pointed to the sky, each floor equipped with landing points, accommodating the flow of people. The scenery was similar to what he remembered.

The magnificent and luxurious official guesthouse was built on a mountain. The reception staff led Han Xiao and his group to their respective rooms. Each room was spacious and fully equipped. They were all two-story duplexes with huge floor-to-ceiling windows and balconies overlooking a large part of the capital. The scenery was unobstructed, the air was fresh, and the environment was beautiful.

After Han Xiao arrived at his room, the reception staff withdrew on their own, no longer disturbing him.

"These conditions are not bad."

Han Xiao wandered around upstairs and downstairs, opening the refrigerator to take a look. It was filled with Godora's specialty foods and various wines.

He took out a portion of frozen red meat cut into square cubes and placed it in a simple automatic cooking machine that looked like a fireplace. He set the flavor to "Godora traditional sauce" and started the machine.

After only a short while, a steaming dish of meat cubes came out, covered in a rich golden sauce like honey, very Godora in style, and exuding an appetizing aroma.

"I can finally save my taste buds, which have been ravaged by high-energy nutrient paste."

Han Xiao took a deep breath of the meat aroma, his appetite whetted. He ate one meat cube after another, like eating snacks. The taste was sweet, the meat was tender, and it bounced between his teeth, surprisingly with a jelly-like texture.

Godora was a civilization close to the magical side. Their mother planet once had countless ferocious magical beasts, which were now locked in zoos for people to visit. Some with good taste had become common foods, artificially bred... Magical beasts often had very delicious meat.

He casually took out a red fruit from the refrigerator that looked like two butt cheeks, as well as an unopened bottle of light golden wine, walked to the balcony, leaned on the lounge chair, and enjoyed the scenery of the Godora mother planet while drinking, eating meat, and gnawing on fruit. The words "comfortable" seemed to be written all over his face.

In his previous life, DarkStar plagued Godora for a long time. Now that they had been eliminated in advance, hundreds of millions of creatures who had been harmed by DarkStar indirectly survived.

The greatest threat, DarkStar, had been destroyed. Without enemies watching covetously, they finally ushered in a period of stability and could safely carry out the Black Star Army expansion plan. It was estimated that there would not be too much crisis before the next version... The overall situation was settled, so it should be okay to give himself a blessing...

Not long ago, Han Xiao used the Card of Destiny - Child of Destiny to predict the situation of Hela. As expected, Hela was still alive. However, unexpectedly, the prediction result actually showed Hela's death... In simple terms, it was like he calculated a divination and found that Hela had a dark fate and would have a bloody disaster soon.

Predictions were not omnipotent, but unfortunately, he did not predict Hela's possible location, so he could not hunt her down.

Although he was unable to eliminate Hela himself, she seemed to be in for bad luck. Han Xiao was a little curious about what kind of fatal crisis Hela would encounter. The greatest possibility was encountering Godora's pursuers and being beaten to death. Unfortunately, the prediction itself was very vague, so the specific situation could only be guessed.

"The DarkStar plot has been changed by me, and future follow-up events will no longer occur. The fates of those DarkStar members are also different," Han Xiao thought secretly.

Starting from Version 1.0, the boss DarkStar of the Garton Star System had been a Damocles sword hanging over their heads. Now that they had finally eliminated them, there would be no enemies of significance appearing in the Garton Star System in a short time. He was also flirting with Godora, so the home base was basically safe, with no worries.

So he was in a good mood now, very relaxed, feeling that the sun was so bright and the flowers were so red.

"It's been several years since I entered the interstellar..."

Drinking his wine, Han Xiao could not help but recall his experiences in the interstellar.

He established the Black Star Mercenary Group, fought everywhere, joined the Dragon Emperor's command, and used this as a backer to maneuver between various forces. He carried out primitive accumulation in Version 1.0, and then returned to Aquamarine Star after the opening of 2.0 to implement the plan to recruit players. During this period, he began a deeper cooperation with Godora, cracked the Heteromorphy Disaster, and destroyed DarkStar with his own hands...

Now, he had finally accumulated enough strength to gain a foothold in the Star Sea.

"The next step is to rise."

Han Xiao took a sip of wine, his eyes changing, and various ideas emerged one after another.

...

After a short rest, a high-level officer from the War Bureau came to the official guesthouse and invited all the legion commanders to a meeting.

Han Xiao also received the notice. He put on a handsome windbreaker, combed his hair into a handsome look, and hummed a song to the conference room. He saw You Yu and Gureja at a glance. These two were the first to arrive.

After he sat down, he chatted with the two of them. Gureja liked to touch people's thighs when chatting, and You Yu kept eating while talking. After chatting for a while, the other legion commanders arrived one after another.

After everyone arrived, a Godoran wearing old-fashioned clothes walked into the room. This person was a high-level officer of the War Bureau. Han Xiao had communicated with him many times on the communicator, and he recognized the real person at a glance.

The high-level officer of the War Bureau spoke official words, expressing his gratitude to everyone, and then explained the precautions for participating in the celebration. Most of Godora's high-level officials would attend at that time, including the highest leader, Sairus V. The celebration was very formal, so there were many rules to be observed.

The dozen or so legion commanders present were all big shots who dominated their respective territories, but it was also the first time they had participated in the official celebration of a galactic civilization. Even if they possessed great strength and were unruly, they did not dare to act arbitrarily in the face of such a major event and listened to the precautions with a serious expression.

The meeting ended quickly, and the legion commanders got up and prepared to leave.

At this moment, the high-level officer of the War Bureau suddenly stopped Han Xiao.

"Black Star, come with me. Sairus V has invited you to meet."

Pa!

All the legion commanders stopped abruptly, turned their heads in unison, stared at Han Xiao, their expressions surprised and uncertain.

The highest leader of Godora was the leader of a galactic civilization, a true big shot, whose status, influence, and power were much greater than those of their large mercenary groups. They could only get in close contact with Sairus V at the celebration...

However, such a big shot wanted to meet Black Star privately?!

Everyone was a legion commander, so why did you have special treatment?

Han Xiao raised his eyebrows, not surprised at all, and nodded. "I understand, let's go."

The legion commanders watched the backs of the two leaving, looking at each other, their eyes a little puzzled.

There must be something fishy going on!

Godora had not yet released the information publicly. The legion commanders did not know that Han Xiao was the key figure in achieving victory, and his credit was essentially different from theirs.

...

After wandering around all the way, entering the political core building, and passing through one authority after another, the two came to the highest leader's office and saw Sairus V.

Sairus V took the initiative to get up, extended his palm, and said in a cordial tone, "Black Star, how was your rest?"

"Pretty good."

Han Xiao shook his hand and said polite words.

There was also a high-level officer from the War Bureau beside him. The three of them sat down and chatted casually for a while before getting to the point.

"Black Star, your intelligence helped us eliminate DarkStar." Sairus V had no airs. He put away his smile and said in a solemn tone, "On behalf of the people of Godora, I thank you. Godora will remember your contributions."

"As a citizen of the Garton Star System, this is what I should do. It's just a small job," Han Xiao said modestly.

"The awarding ceremony for you will be more grand. We will award you the 'Golden Gorget Medal', which is the highest level of honor medal in Godora and has only been awarded thirty-two times so far."

"Then I'm really flattered," Han Xiao raised an eyebrow.

"This is what you deserve. As for the reward you requested, we have already prepared it."

As soon as Sairus V finished speaking, the high-level officer of the War Bureau next to him took out a communicator and released model projections of two types of spaceships.

"Fifty Falcon-class battleships, which have both assault and escort functions; a Fortress-class flagship, an interstellar aircraft carrier, the hull material is high-strength alloy, which is very tough. These fifty-one battleships are completely brand new and are now stored in a military warehouse, ready to be handed over to you at any time."

As required, these two types of warships were purely technological and not Godora's own models.

Adding this batch of warships, the total number of his spaceships reached sixty or seventy, and the fleet finally had a certain scale.

Han Xiao browsed the various spaceship parameters and nodded. Godora did not fool him. These two types of spaceships were very good models, especially the Fortress-class flagship, which was priced at over ten million Enas and cost millions. Among all spaceship models, flagships, main ships, and motherships were the most expensive.

These fifty-one warships alone were worth tens of millions of Enas.

After confirming that there was no problem with the spaceship, the high-level officer of the War Bureau continued:

"The remaining fifteen million has been transferred to your account. Please check it."

The communicator indeed showed a transfer notification. Han Xiao glanced at the balance and used his powerful willpower to control his facial expressions so that he did not laugh like a blooming chrysanthemum.

Fifteen million in arrears, plus three million and four hundred thousand in war employment fees, the current savings were as high as twenty-eight million Enas!

A windfall!

"As for the Esper Ability knowledge you requested, we can provide five types. This is the list."

Han Xiao took a look. The Esper Ability knowledge possessed by a galactic civilization was naturally more comprehensive than the black market. Some were not available on the black market. Now it was placed in front of him for him to choose, greatly saving his collection time, but the list only had high-end knowledge.

Without hesitation, Han Xiao directly chose the Mechanical System high-end knowledge that he had not yet learned:

Armed Branch - [Advanced Material Technology], the core knowledge of the Mechanical System, researching higher-strength materials. The most obvious effect is that the armor value of all machines will be greatly improved!

Energy Branch - [Super Nano-Power], enhances the basic attributes of mechs and machine soldiers. Combined with [Advanced Material Technology], advanced memory alloys can be developed, which can automatically restore armor value. At the same time, he will learn nano-robot blueprints and can even give machines the ability to transform!

Energy Branch - [High-Energy Weaponization Application], combined with [High-Energy Mastery], can fuse a variety of high-power mechanical weapons!

Control Branch - [Interstellar Navigation Technology], prerequisite knowledge for independently manufacturing spaceships!

Control Branch - [Advanced Application of Quantum Entanglement], greatly increases the distance of energy and information transmission, and improves the efficiency and range of virtual intrusion!

The high-level officer of the War Bureau directly extracted the data from the knowledge base and transmitted it to Han Xiao's communicator.

Han Xiao suppressed the urge to immediately invest Potential Points to learn.

The income from selling intelligence had basically been obtained. All that was left was for Godora to announce his achievements at the official celebration and boost his popularity.

The result of this cooperation could be described as a win-win situation for both parties.

After chatting for a while, Han Xiao got up to say goodbye and followed the high-level officer of the War Bureau to the door of the office. At this moment, Han Xiao's heart suddenly moved, and he secretly threw an observation mark on Sairus V.

The highest leader often dealt with confidential matters. If he spied on Sairus V, he might be able to obtain a lot of confidential information.

--Definitely not because he was curious about the private life of the leader of a galactic civilization!

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The next day, Han Xiao rented a mechanical modification room.

Located on the Godora mother planet, eliminating the transportation time, he directly purchased the core materials needed to manufacture the new mech from the War Bureau, Kail Alloy, PR-909 Super Nano Polymer Fiber, and Refined Overga Metal Ore.

The three extremely expensive controlled strategic materials, even with Godora's cost price, cost him more than 100,000 Enas.

Coincidentally, he had obtained five new knowledge yesterday. Among them, [Advanced Material Technology], [Super Nano-Power], and [Advanced Application of Quantum Entanglement] were upgraded to Lv5 max level, costing a total of 51 Potential Points.

Potential Points were finally starting to become scarce. Once he opened up and upgraded knowledge, the consumption speed of Potential Points would be very fast.

Han Xiao used the new knowledge to improve the mech blueprint, and at the same time invested experience to upgrade the blueprint to Lv10 max level to ensure the maximum manufacturing effect.

This time, he was full of ambition and prepared to manufacture a new mech suitable for Grade A combat power and above purple equipment quality!