The Most Dangerous Type of Trial Mission

Rolando said, "There's another way to leave the Stellar Training Camp: enter the Molten Secret Realm!

"The Molten Secret Realm is the Molten Empire's foremost training ground for geniuses. It has produced quite a few geniuses who participated in the Universe Peak Genius Battle, including even super geniuses who ranked among the top ten thousand in the universe!"

"To enter the Molten Secret Realm, one must pass through the Stellar Training Camp. Even going through the motions is enough. That's why families from the Molten Empire and more than a dozen surrounding mid-tier universe nations are so eager to send their family members into the Stellar Training Camp."

At this point, Rolando looked at Li Qi. "Didn't your family send you to the Stellar Training Camp so that you could enter the Molten Secret Realm?"

"A planetary-level genius who has grasped a domain like you will definitely be able to enter the Molten Secret Realm, as long as you don't die during the Stellar Training Camp's trial missions!"

Rolando thinks I'm from some major family?

Li Qi raised a brow. "If one can enter the Molten Secret Realm, I doubt anyone would refuse."

Rolando shrugged noncommittally. "Of course."

"Go on. Finish explaining the last hunting mission."

Li Qi brushed aside the subject of the Molten Secret Realm and had Rolando continue explaining the hunting missions.

"There are three types of hunting missions."

Rolando said, "They are exterminating space pirates, pursuing fugitives, and Planet Hunting Missions.

"You can tell from the names alone that none of these missions are easy, because the enemies faced in all three are vicious people with blood on their hands!"

"Exterminating space pirates."

He began explaining in detail. "This trial mission requires cooperating with the empire's military to attack a space pirate stronghold. The trainees serve as spearhead assault teams, and the death rate is very high. However, such missions are relatively rare due to the limited number of space pirates."

"Pursuing fugitives has the lowest death rate among the hunting missions. Trainees complete the mission alone or in teams depending on the number of fugitives. The empire only provides intelligence support, but quite a few trainees still fail and die because of faulty intelligence."

"The last one, planetary hunting, is the most common hunting mission. The empire places criminals sentenced to severe punishment or even death on a planet, then sends trainees onto that planet to hunt them down.

"It may seem like the trainees are hunting criminals, but in reality, the criminals are hunting the trainees as well. Every trainee they kill earns them a reduced sentence. Worse still, they can form teams of up to four.

"Individually, these criminals may not be very strong, but they'll stop at nothing to achieve their goals! Sometimes, they'll even use seriously injured companions as bait, even if that companion ends up being killed by a trainee!"

Rolando said, "My previous hunting mission was planetary hunting. Many trainees were hunted down by criminals because they acted alone."

Li Qi frowned in thought. Of the three trial missions, the hunting missions are the most dangerous and have the highest death rate, and they take place during the third trial mission.

The opponents in hunting missions are all people. Whether space pirates or criminals, if they can serve as targets for the Stellar Training Camp's missions, they must possess a certain level of strength and means.

Planet Hunting Missions in particular are the worst. Criminals who will stop at nothing are the most troublesome, because they have no bottom line!

Then his brows relaxed considerably. Planetary-level geniuses who have grasped a domain do receive preferential treatment. The Blood Blade Cone is issued after the second trial mission, allowing me to strengthen myself before the hunting mission and improve my survival and combat abilities.

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Seeing Li Qi's changing expression, Rolando understood how he felt. He had felt much the same when he first learned about the hunting missions.

My life gene level is thirty-two times higher. At the same realm, I can fight enemies four ranks above me. Raising my genetic energy level is a good way to increase my strength.

With that in mind, Li Qi asked, "Can points be used to exchange for nutrient solution enhancement?"

"Of course."

Rolando answered, "Advancing from planetary level to planetary level nine only costs ten points. But at stellar level, the initial upgrade costs twenty points, and the points required double with every rank advanced.

"In other words, advancing from stellar level one to level two costs twenty points, level two to level three costs forty points, and so on. Advancing from stellar level eight to level nine costs 2,560 points!

"It's precisely because the point requirements for increasing strength vary so drastically that trainees entering the Stellar Training Camp cannot exceed stellar level five."

After speaking, Rolando could not help asking, "Can I ask you a question?"

Li Qi was slightly taken aback. "Go ahead."

"Why are you a planetary-level genius who has grasped a domain, yet you're only planetary level eight?"

Rolando had really wanted to know this. If Li Qi had been planetary level nine, he would never have dared to wager as much as fifty points!

Li Qi gave the excuse he had prepared. "Because I wasn't previously a planetary-level genius who had grasped a domain. I only comprehended a domain while traveling to the Stellar Training Camp."

"So that's how it is..."

Rolando was somewhat speechless. He felt that he was truly unlucky to have encountered something like this.

After mocking himself inwardly, he shook his head and asked, "Is there anything else you want to know?"

Li Qi thought for a moment, then asked, "Can points be used to exchange for secret manuals in the Stellar Training Camp? If so, what level are those manuals?"

"Points can be used to exchange for secret manuals."

Rolando answered, "But most of them are fairly ordinary, and they are common manuals from the surrounding universe nations. Any domain lord-level family with even slightly stronger foundations will basically have them."

The manuals are ordinary? Then the advanced ones must be in the Molten Secret Realm.

Li Qi nodded to show that he understood. "I have nothing else to ask. If you have nothing else to say, then I'll concede."

Looking at Li Qi's somewhat youthful face, Rolando decided to offer him a reminder as a gesture of goodwill.

"You've only just entered the Stellar Training Camp, so you don't have many points. I suggest you exchange them for a first-rank force battle suit to improve your survivability, along with some throwing knives made of B-grade metal to use as psychic weapons."

I don't have many points, but I should still have enough to exchange for another first-rank psychic weapon.

Li Qi muttered inwardly. In response to Rolando's well-intentioned reminder, he smiled. "Thank you for the advice."

With a thought, a light screen appeared before him. It asked whether he wished to concede.

Li Qi tapped confirm with his finger, turning into a streak of white light and vanishing from the grassland.

As Li Qi left, a light screen popped up before Rolando, informing him that he had won the wager and received twenty points.

Looking at the light screen before him, Rolando murmured, "A domain! I really envy him!"

His techniques had long since reached the perfected level, but without comprehending artistic conception, he was ultimately fated to remain without a domain.

Though the Stellar Training Camp had many trainees—two or three thousand in a single camp—the number of trainees who had comprehended a domain was very small, at most one percent!

Even if geniuses of this caliber did not enter the Molten Secret Realm, they would not lack opportunities after leaving the Stellar Training Camp. Many forces would compete to recruit them!

After conceding and leaving the combat space, Li Qi logged off and left the Virtual Universe...

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