While tens of thousands of Source Warriors around the world nervously accepted their share of the Operation Dawn missions through the Merit System, Lin Yi, in the East Blade Military Academy principal's office, also received a mission notification from the system.
Unlike the detailed, clearly defined missions assigned to everyone else, Lin Yi's list was exceedingly simple—and enough to make anyone else's scalp crawl.
There was only one mission on his list, repeated a full ninety-three times.
[Highest Priority Extermination Mission (Serial Numbers: GX-Z-001 to GX-Z-093)] Mission Objective: Confirm and kill Star Core Level Abyss Beast units. Mission Requirements: Ensure the target is completely annihilated and prevent it from approaching our main defensive positions or threatening the allied forces. Mission Rewards: Rewards vary according to the target's strength. Each kill grants a base reward of 5,000,000 Merit Points. Note: This mission is a core strategic component of Operation Dawn and is reserved exclusively for Supreme Commander Lin Yi.
Ninety-three Star Core Level Abyss Beasts, with a minimum reward of five million Merit Points each.
Behind those numbers were every Star Core Level Abyss Beast identified in this Giant Nest operation, as well as the responsibility Lin Yi had to bear alone as the Pillar of Heaven.
Lin Yi calmly scanned the ninety-three identical mission entries, his expression unchanged.
Ever since the Merit System had been established, he had registered all his actions through it.
Whether it was forming the Expeditionary Army, killing the Leader Rank Main Nest commander, or facing the Star Core Level entities that awaited him now, he always accepted the missions through the system.
And whenever he had something he no longer needed, he never handed it over for nothing. He exchanged it for Merit Points through the system instead.
As a result, over the