Song Chen replied calmly, "I'm not going. We just finished fighting KG-11, and the consumption was too great. I need to recuperate. You go."
Sola did not ask further. "Alright. The Prominence Assault Regiment owes you a life. We'll repay it when there's a chance."
After that, the two cut off the channel at the same time.
The Prominence Assault Regiment's ship silhouettes and the Cold Tide Special Forces' ice-crystal-painted warships accelerated toward the main planet deep within the Moonshadow Civilization.
Song Chen turned and boarded the Shadow Bee jump craft.
The hatch closed, the life-support system restarted, and the familiar pale-blue lights in the cockpit came on.
He lowered the seatback and lay there for several minutes, running through what he needed to do next.
The KG-11 battle had earned him 320 billion Killing Value. The number was like an enormous sum stored in a bank, ready to be withdrawn at any time.
He quickly calculated how to allocate it.
First: replace his blade.
The Heavenly Balance Blade was an S-Class War Blade, the finest equipment on Blue Star, and the initiation gift his teacher, Zhou Wangyue, had given him.
He had wielded this blade from Blue Star all the way into the universe, cutting down mutant beasts, Winged Folk, rebels, Blood-Eclipse Organism amalgams, and Seventh-Rank Peak foes.
But the limits of S-Class materials were right there. The fourth level of Star-Splitting Slash had already reached the Star Crown level. Continuing to use this blade was like chopping an iron plate with a wooden stick—he could chop it, but the stick itself was cracking too.
Second: save up attributes.
He was still far from what he needed to break through to Eighth Rank. The threshold for condensing Star Origin Power was one hundred points. Each point required one million