I have an Apocalypse City

Song Jian stepped forward, picking up this blood-red bead and taking a closer look, only to find that it was another augmentation equipment;

“Puppet Armor (Blue), external augmentation equipment, installation location: skin; equipment effect: This item can merge with the user, enhancing the user’s physical condition; after integration, Physique +5, Strength +3; special effect: Covers the body’s surface with a layer of blood and flesh armor, increasing overall defense by 80%, Vitality Points +200, Vitality Points recovery speed increased by 40%, this effect lasts for 5 minutes, and can only be used once within 6 hours; item description: This item contains the evil remnant soul of the fallen Puppet Beast, Hesmanth, once merged with the user, the evil soul of Hesmanth may corrupt the user’s soul, with a chance of turning the user into an Abyss creature!”

When Song Jian saw the item’s attribute description, he couldn’t help but reveal a delighted smile on his face. This attribute could be fully comparable to a silver quality equipment. However, when he saw the item’s description, his face immediately darkened;

“No wonder it’s only a blue-quality equipment. Without Hesmanth’s evil soul, I’m afraid this equipment would be at least silver-grade!” Song Jian thought to himself with a touch of regret.

Regardless of silver quality, gold quality, epic quality, or even legendary quality, with such major side effects, Song Jian would never consider using this item.

“After the new version, players can change their profession to an Abyss profession, or even directly change to an Abyss attribute. If I encounter such a player, I might be able to sell this thing for a good price.” Song Jian held the red Blood Bead, pondering in his heart.

Putting the item in his inventory, Song Jian strode towards the outside of the floating base;

By the time he arrived at the nearest passage to the base’s foundation, he realized that a large hole had been blown open below the floating base.

“Those three people must have entered from here,” Song Jian thought to himself. At that time, the entire floating base shook, and Song Jian had thought it was due to a problem with the floating system, not suspecting that it was these three guys who had blasted an entrance;

With the Wings of Steel unfolded, Song Jian flew down;

At this moment, he was worried for Anna, unsure if she had encountered the fleeing player. Although Anna was an epic profession, she didn’t have many offensive skills. If she really encountered the escapee, Eagle Fly, she would likely be caught in a few encounters;

Fortunately, when Song Jian came down from the floating base, he saw Anna emerging from behind a rock and cheering, running towards him;

Song Jian’s heart was instantly relieved. He quickly held Anna and asked, “Anna, did you see anyone coming out of the floating base?”

“I did,” Anna nodded, “Just now, three people blew open the floating base, but about ten minutes ago, only one person ran out from inside. He looked like he was being chased by something behind him and appeared rather disheveled.”

Song Jian nodded, took out the flower of the Life Vine from his inventory, and handed it to Anna, saying, “This is the flower of the Life Vine.”

Anna’s face lit up with joy as she reached out to take it, gratefully saying to Song Jian, “Song Jian, I’m really, really grateful to you.”

System: You have completed the fourth part of the Epic-Level mission, gaining Anna’s gratitude. Your intimacy with Anna has increased to worship!

System: You may attempt to recruit Anna Katerina as your Follower; since you already have one Follower, you will need to pay the price of a permanent decrease in your highest attribute point if you wish to recruit Anna Katerina as a Follower;

System: After detection, the game character Anna Katerina is an important figure related to the game’s story and progress, and players cannot recruit her as a Follower;

System: Epic-Level mission, The Birth of Queen Katerina complete, your mission rewards will be issued once you return to the City of Sin!

A series of “drip drip drip” system notification sounds filled Song Jian’s ears, with a waterfall of information displayed in his info bar.

First, Song Jian’s relationship with Anna leveled up to worship, which meant that Anna fully trusted Song Jian, likely considering him as her closest person, which met the player’s recruitment conditions;

Since Song Jian had previously recruited a Knight of Dawn, Ya, as his Follower, although Ya was tricked away by the female Priest, his Follower’s quota still occupied;

If Song Jian wanted to recruit a second Follower, he would need to pay the price of a permanent loss of one highest attribute point. Now, Song Jian’s highest attribute point was in Strength, followed by Agility. If he could really recruit Anna as his Follower, Song Jian wouldn’t be stingy with his attribute points. After all, Anna was an Epic-level profession, a Life Priest, and also possessed the Resurrection Skill, which was a divine skill for the current players. Spending an attribute point to have her as a Follower was definitely worth it for Song Jian;

However, the subsequent system notice quickly extinguished Song Jian’s eager thoughts to recruit, as Anna was involved in the game’s story direction. He knew this, but he didn’t expect her status to be so important that even recruiting her as a Follower was outright denied by the game.

What’s more important was that the mystery of this chain of missions Song Jian had been doing was finally revealed;

Song Jian looked at Anna in astonishment, finding it hard to believe that the slightly dazed and clumsy girl in front of him would grow up to be a queen.

Looking at Anna’s dazed face, Song Jian pointed at the flower in her hand and said, “You should need a quiet illusion to advance, so why not do it in this instance? I think this is the quietest and safest place now.”

Where else could be safer than an instance? Song Jian didn’t believe that another group of people would break in. The chances of such a continuous invasion were slim, almost negligible. In addition, don’t forget that Song Jian was no pushover. If they happened to fight, Song Jian’s current damage could be on par with that of a First Order Combat Power expert.

“Then.. then wait for me. It might.. it might take some time!” After glancing at Song Jian, Anna carefully held the flower and walked over to a rock and sat down;

With her eyes closed, Anna began chanting a ballad. Song Jian was stunned, realizing that the ballad Anna was chanting was exactly the same as the one sung by the Life Vine when it was ending its life and condensing the Seed of Life.

Soon, the purple-red flower in Anna’s hand slowly glowed, and the petals began to disintegrate one by one, turning into fine, sandy specks of light and floating away.

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