White light flashed, and two figures came tumbling out of it!
Before either could make a sound, two beams of white light descended from above, enveloping the wretched figures—one covered in blood, the other with half his hair scorched away. Both looked charred from head to toe.
They naturally drew plenty of stares from the people coming and going across the platform.
When they emerged again, fully restored, they exchanged a glance. Their faces were a mixture of emotions, their wry smiles tinged with lingering fear.
Good thing they had run when they did. Otherwise, that razor-sharp purple beam might have refined them on the spot before it even swept over them—
Dying to some unidentified area attack would have been a terrible bargain.
Still, high risk really did bring high reward.
Unlike One-Star missions, whose rewards usually hovered in the hundreds, this Two-Star main mission had awarded each of them a full three thousand Universal Points without their triggering a single side quest.
Even for early users like them, that was unquestionably a fortune.
But after seeing a "life-form" in the mission world that resembled a calamity incarnate, and an unremarkable child raised by an elderly scavenger use the advantages of his bloodline to climb to unimaginable heights in the blink of an eye—
Well, it was hard not to feel the gap between them.
"Two-Star really is... Two-Star."
Li Ce straightened his collar and sighed.
Now that they had recovered from their weakened state, a brief review was enough for both men to spot some peculiarities in the mission.
In just a few dozen hours, they had faced the threat of Shin Godzilla coming ashore twice, while also having to search through nearly nonexistent clues for traces of "Kong"!
Especially when that atomic dinosaur appeared the second time: