Xiao Ran was truly out of options now. If this strange situation had not occurred at the start of the mission and he had instead appeared directly in Orb, he could have led Orb's Space Force into space, pinned everything involving Junius 7 on that old fox Durandal and LOGOS, then stirred up something major with the UC World.
But the problem now was that his faction had been restricted. He could disregard everything and return to Orb, and Main Mission One might still succeed, but unless he found the condition that triggered a faction change, the Main Missions Prometheus issued afterward would still be Earth Force-oriented. Standing with Orb would then cause one Main Mission after another to fail.
Xiao Ran did not dare test the consequences of failing a Main Mission. Of course, the consequences were not entirely beyond what he could bear. At most, he would lose some Merit Point rewards and receive a few penalties. But openly defying a mission issued by Prometheus was best avoided. Being unable to complete it and deliberately refusing to complete it were two different things. The former meant lacking ability; the latter meant doing it on purpose.
Xiao Ran had never failed a Main Mission, so he did not know whether there were greater penalties beyond the seemingly minor punishment of deducted Merit Points. But the fact that no participant in all of Prometheus would deliberately refuse to complete its missions certainly was not because every participant had such noble morals.
And in terms of his identity status, this Mission World was completely different from all the ones he had experienced before. Whenever he had entered a Mission World using an Ultimate Mission Card in the past, his status during the interval period had been listed as departed. This time,