"Unit 678, you have become a high-ranking member of the UNION faction. Will you leave Celestial Being and join the UNION faction? If you choose to join the UNION faction, you will be forced to accept a faction-change mission. No reward will be given for success, and Celestial Being's favorability will drop sharply until it reaches hatred. If the mission fails, UNION's favorability will drop sharply until it reaches hatred, and Celestial Being's favorability will also drop sharply until it reaches hatred."
Applause filled his ears while a prompt from Prometheus's Main System echoed in his mind. Xiao Ran kept the same expression on his face, but inwardly answered without hesitation, "Reject."
"You have rejected the faction-change mission. Your faction remains unchanged. Because you have become a high-ranking member of UNION, you have triggered a mandatory Side Mission."
"A-Class Side Mission: Eliminate any potential threats to the Celestial Being faction within UNION, including but not limited to people or other causes of potential losses. 0/3. This mission may be completed personally or indirectly through cooperation with the Celestial Being faction. Until the mission is completed, your true faction must not be exposed. Exposure will be considered mission failure. Reward for success: 10,000 Merit Points, permanent locking of your UNION disguise identity in this world, a substantial increase in Celestial Being faction favorability, and one unknown reward."
"Penalty for failure: deduction of 20,000 Merit Points, UNION faction favorability reduced to hatred and locked as hostility, and you will become a Side Mission bounty target for participants in the UNION faction."
Damn it! Xiao Ran cursed inwardly. He had not been too surprised that rejecting the faction-change mission had triggered a mandatory Side Mission. The earlier prompt had confirmed that accepting it would lead to a mandatory mission, so naturally rejecting it