CHAPTER 440: CHAPTER 237: CAN IT REALLY BE THIS TWISTED? (2.5/5)_1

"The Heavenly Path’s Hint: A unit has been detected using a skill. Your ’Divine Replication Seal’ has recorded the skill used. Please choose whether to retain it. Current retention capacity: 3/3."

"The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Your skill retention slots are full. If you wish to retain a newly recorded skill, please first choose a recorded skill to forget. Forgetting a skill for the first time each day costs one eternal gold coin."

This is ridiculously expensive; forgetting a skill costs a hundred million, Chen Mo mused.

Despite the hefty price, Alina’s skills were indeed too tempting. After some consideration, Chen Mo decided to remove Million Arrows Heart Piercer from his three replicated skills. Compared to the functionality of his other skills, this one was relatively replaceable.

After Chen Mo spent one eternal gold coin to remove Million Arrows Heart Piercer, Illusion Creation was retained.

However, Chen Mo also craved some of Alina’s other skills. But most of Alina’s skills were Passive skills linked to mirror units, which were outside the range his Divine Replication Seal could copy. So, even though Chen Mo coveted many of Alina’s skills, he couldn’t replicate many of them.

For now, obtaining Illusion Creation, the skill he desired most, was satisfactory enough. He could replicate subsequent skills later, when she used them at an opportune moment.

"That’s enough," Chen Mo said. "Let’s finalize the rules."

"Are you sure you want to choose coordinate sharing?" Alina asked.

Although Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monsters were also freakishly powerful, none of their opponents were pushovers. They faced hundreds of entities with true damage attack power in the hundreds of thousands, along with a host of Demonization Skills. Given their combat strength, Alina doubted Chen Mo would necessarily have the upper hand, even with three million Skeleton Monsters. Especially since he was a Skeleton Mage—a profession whose summons were typically powerful, but the Mages themselves were usually quite fragile.

"It’s fine, just trust me," Chen Mo replied. "After all, even if we don’t choose this, we’ll inevitably meet them in the end, won’t we?"

「Over at the Yongming Star System.」

Seeing that one hundred four-star professionals in curse demonization status had entered the instance, the higher-ups of the Yongming Star System immediately used an associated screen to check the situation. Although the specific details within the instance couldn’t be viewed from outside, they could monitor the general status of their associated units through special means. For example, they could see the current life and safety status of these associated characters, whether they had encountered enemies, and if those enemies were elites or a BOSS. This was similar to the entrance exam and college entrance exam instances Chen Mo and his team had participated in before. As long as the association was made, there was a way to view this information.

There were generally two ways to make this association.

One method was to associate with the instance itself. This was the most thorough method. Once an instance association was established, anyone who subsequently entered that instance would have their general situation relayed via the associated screen.

The second method was to associate with an individual. This method was somewhat more troublesome and was generally used when an instance association was impossible. This was the method they were currently using. After all, when intruding into an instance, it was naturally impossible to have made a prior association with it. They could only use individual association to check the situation.

The few Yongming Star System executives who hadn’t entered the Tower of Eternity were currently watching this associated screen. Because they had been informed in advance of Chen Mo’s ability to instantly kill opponents two tiers above him—and that this might not even be his limit—they harbored some doubts about this surprise attack by four-star professionals. After all, their original plan for five-stars was considered the most stable; four-stars always felt a bit insufficient, even if their current strength wasn’t something ordinary units of the same or even higher tiers could resist.

Inside the instance, the hundred individuals from the Yongming Star System had already gathered in the Imperial City. Indeed, just as Chen Mo had guessed, they were assigned to the Imperial Army. The identity the Heavenly Dao bestowed upon these hundred individuals was that of the "Ruthless Organization," the most special unit in the entire Imperial Army. They answered only to the Queen Mother and her brother, the country’s Prime Minister. According to the identity bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, these hundred individuals were the primary accomplices in most of the misdeeds committed by the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister in this world.

The purpose was actually similar to the roles Chen Mo and Alina had been assigned: to draw as much animosity as possible from the experts of the opposing factions. They could be assassinated at any moment.

The captain of the hundred-man squad sneered, "Interesting. These two from the Solar System are truly arrogant. Even with an SSS-level instance difficulty, they deliberately chose the weaker Rebel Army, leaving the powerful Imperial Army to us. This instance intrusion—it’s like we were handed good news right from the start!"

The captain of this squad was tall, dressed in a black, tight-fitting outfit that made his physique appear even more solid and powerful. His face was expressionless, giving him a very cold and strict demeanor. His black hair was neatly combed, which, combined with his lean face, made him look incredibly imposing. His eyebrows were thick and long. His eyes, a deep brown, held a hint of indifference and disdain. He clearly had the bearing of a leader.

"Captain," a squad member asked, "we can choose a rule. What should we pick? Should we choose coordinate sharing?"