An hour later, Xiao Ran had returned to Fleet World. After coming back from Prometheus, he had gone straight into his study.
In the study, Xiao Ran had been researching the Mission Permission he had received from Prometheus. The moment he confirmed his choice of Mission Permission, a golden light had appeared before his eyes, and within it, a cube emitting a faint violet-blue glow had slowly emerged.
The instant he reached out and grasped the cube, Xiao Ran understood that it was the physical manifestation of Prometheus's authority. It was both a key and a controller.
Whoever possessed this cube could gain the ability to manage Prometheus's missions, but only Xiao Ran could use it. Even if Xiao Ran gave the cube to someone else, it would be useless. However, he could divide three Level Two Authorities from the cube and grant them to others.
From the moment he received this Mission Permission, Xiao Ran had effectively shed his identity as a participant and become an administrator of Prometheus. Most of Prometheus's restrictions on participants had been stripped away from him. Unless he violated Prometheus's core self-preservation rules by harming or damaging Prometheus, Prometheus would no longer have any way to erase him.
But from the moment he gained this authority, Xiao Ran no longer needed to undertake any missions. At the same time, he could freely join any mission, though he would no longer gain any direct rewards from them—no Merit Points and no mission rewards.
From then on, every mission undertaken by all participants in Prometheus would fall under his management. He could freely design missions and adjust the rewards participants received according to mission difficulty. Every difficulty level had a corresponding range.
That range was not very large, however. For example, if completing a D-rank mission