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Chapter 632: Chapter 632: First Order Combat Power Qualification Assessment

With the magical materials at hand, Wang Qi and his companions didn’t bother with gaining new territories but immediately headed to the central square of the City of Hope territory.

In fact, this area used to be Camel Square, with a fountain garden in the center. It was the place where the original Doomsday Supermarket had descended. After their alliance territory was upgraded to a Level 6 Manor, everyone had decided to build a Transmission Array at Camel Square.

The Transmission Array wasn’t that large. From the outside, it looked like a five-meter diameter circular platform, but it involved the extremely advanced skill of “Magic Runes”.

Normally, the installation would have required the efforts of more than a dozen mages and even more apprentices. However, currently, in the entire City of Hope, only Wallace knew how to build a Transmission Array. At most, just over a dozen mage-class players could help, which made the construction quite slow.

However, as long as they could construct the Magic Array, the development pace of the City of Hope Alliance was sure to enter a rapid growth period. Within the entire Doomsday City, there were more than just one alliance who owned a Level 6 Manor, but only the City of Hope Alliance could construct a Magic Array.

“We need to pay attention to our defenses and not start any territorial expansion for a while. Also, keep an eye on all the other alliances that have upgraded to Level 6 Manors,” Song Jian advised.

“Don’t worry. We have our inside people in all alliances that are Level 4 and up,” Wang Qi reassured. “Ke’er ordered so very early on when we upgraded to a Level 5 Manor.”

Song Jian was surprised and looked at Li Ke’er. He hadn’t expected the mature Li Ke’er to be so adept with these deceptive tactics.

“I learned all of them from my mom!” Li Ke’er said, her head held high and looking somewhat proud.

Song Jian nodded, saying nothing.

Just then, he felt a vibration from the token in his inventory that he had gained in the Imperial Dragon Devil Cave. He opened his inventory to see an invitation:

System: The unique profession promotion competition has started. Do you accept the invitation to participate?

System reminder: This is your second invitation. This token only has three chances to invite you. You only have one last invitation chance left.

System warning: Until you attain First Order Combat Power, accepting the invitation will result in a high probability of challenge failure, with a death rate of 98.97%.

Song Jian felt a weight in his heart. He had just leveled up to level 30 and hadn’t completed the First Order Combat Power test. He might waste this chance.

Decline!

The vibration from the token in his inventory started to fade, as though it had never happened.

“I must join the last invitation; it’s the chance to get a unique profession!” Song Jian decided inwardly. His Sword Controller, though an epic profession, wouldn’t be able to attain the final “Sword Immortal” profession through either re-profession or leveling up. He could only become a “Sword Immortal” through the unique profession competition.

The construction of the Transmission Array would take at least a month. After resting for half a day at the Manor Castle, Song Jian started to apply for the First Order Combat Power qualification test with the system.

As a player with Level 30, he could apply for a First Order Combat Power evaluation competition. If he passed, he would gain many attribute and skill points and be awarded a Skill Book of his own profession, which would certainly be a rare one. A player with First Order Combat Power could undoubtedly crush any opponent of the same level who had not yet passed the First Order Combat Power evaluation.

The next day, Song Jian put on his Ant Emperor Ancestor Set and applied for the First Order Combat Power qualification test. A flash of white light later, he disappeared from the Manor Castle.

When Song Jian’s vision cleared, he found himself standing on a teleportation stone platform. The stone platform was in a castle that was about seventy to eighty feet tall and more than ten feet long, looking very much like a plaza because it was so spacious.

In the center of the castle was a statue of a dwarf holding a knife in one hand and an axe in the other, as though he was roaring at the sky.

Many people were gathered around this dwarf statue, seemingly doing something.

After descending from the stone platform, Song Jian moved towards the dwarf statue.

When he got to the statue, he noticed that there were more than a dozen oval-shaped teleportation gates encircling it, each with a crowd of people around it.

Most of these people were NPCs, with only a few human players. These players were all gathered in front of a pale-green gateway.

Song Jian had discovered long ago that he was the highest-level player on the honor rankings, but that was within Doomsday City only. Other than him, there were also over a dozen players at level 28 and over a hundred at level 27, totaling just under five thousand people on the list.

Song Jian didn’t know how many players were in the entire game, but combined, there were over ten thousand players in the City of Sin and the City of Hymns alone. As time passed and more people entered the game, the total number of players was already more than a hundred thousand.

Therefore, seeing that over a dozen players had reached level 30 and were prepared to challenge their First Order Combat Power, Song Jian didn’t find it strange.

The other teleportation gates were surrounded by NPC professionals, so naturally Song Jian headed towards those players.

As soon as he reached the pale-green teleportation gate, he heard the players murmuring among themselves.

“How many worlds did you clear today?”

“Four. But the difficulty level seems so high—an A-rank, two A+ ranks, and an S-rank. I’ll probably wait until tomorrow if it still doesn’t work.”

“The higher the rank of the world, the more rewards you get in the end. If it’s an A-rank world, we can still try to fight it! Anyone want to form a team to conquer this A-rank world?”

“No, an A-rank is too difficult. If we fail, we’ll have to wait a month for the next chance. By then, someone might have already leveled up to 35, so it’s not worth it!”

“Exactly, it would be great if we could draw a B or B- rank world…”

Song Jian silently listened to the chatter and put his hand onto the teleportation gate when he had understood the basic situation.

Soon, several lines of system messages appeared before him:

“Do you want to conduct the First Order Combat Power trial? Yes/No”

“Please choose a trial world that matches your own strength. During the trial, players will not die – they will be automatically transported out the moment before their health points hit zero if their life is in danger;”

“Failure in the trial task means you will have to wait for a month to reselect the trial task;”

“Please choose from the following trial worlds for the First Order Combat Power qualification test. The higher the level of the world, the more rewards you receive upon successful completion;”

“Trial World 1: A-rank World; Task Reward: All attributes increase by 15 points, +5 skill points, also receive a Skill Book of no less than blue quality;”

“Trial World 2: B-rank World; Task Reward: All attributes increase by 10 points, +2 skill points, also receive a Skill Book of no less than Gold quality;”

“Trial World 3: A+ rank World; Task Reward: All attributes increase by 18 points, +6 skill points, also receive a Skill Book of no less than Dark Gold quality;”

“Trial World 4: S-rank World; Task Reward: All attributes increase by 25 points, +8 skill points, also receive a Skill Book of no less than Epic quality;”

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