Chapter 435 A Pivotal Decision

[You have triggered Grade D Mission: Recruitment!]

[Mission Details: Congratulations, you have fulfilled one of the hidden requirements to become a member of the Nightmare Army. Meet one of the officials of the Army, you will be accepted.]

[Mission Reward: Become a warrior of the Nightmare Army.]

[Mission Expiration Time: 8 hours!]

A certain player walking through the streets was shocked.

"Are you for real?"

"Was I just recruited by the Nightmare Army?"

"But, how? What did I do? I didn't do anything".

"Did the goddess of luck just shake her cheeky bosom in my direction? Holy!"

He was stunned and excited.

Compared to years ago in Version 1 when being close to Legolas simply meant joining his faction, the story was now entirely different. Those who joined him from Version 1 received a great boost.

In Version 2, the requirements to join the Nightmare Army was steep.

Also, the benefits after joining the army were also incredibly rich.

From access to exclusive class knowledge, gadgets, and transferrable abilities to having the chance to spar with powerful NPCs. When a spar was triggered with a powerful enough NPC, a mission was triggered alongside it for the players.

If they perform well, they could get lots of benefits.

Still, these were just the rudimentary benefits of joining the Nightmare Army. From influence to more connections, the Nightmare Army offered all of these since it was an organization at the very forefront of Planet Darvis.

Balanced John0Wick did not hesitate. "The goddess of luck finally decided to shine her luck on me, I can't afford to waste this opportunity".

Without hesitation, he met one of the officials of the Nightmare Army in his prefecture. That same hour after his application, it was accepted.

[Congratulations! You have become a warrior of the Nightmare Army!]

Excited, Balanced John0Wick did not hesitate as he sent screenshots to the global player forum. While this warrior excitedly made his way to the headquarters of the Nightmare Army, something else inside him stirred.

'What is this? Has my cover been blown?' The Psychic Parasite stirred.

'I need to play it cool, I can't drop my cover now'.

'Perhaps, I should take this as an opportunity. This is another opportunity for me to continue the mission of the Specter by infiltrating deep'.

'The mission of the Emperor must be fulfilled!'

'I should stay passive'.

A few hours later, everything was smooth, Balanced John0Wick made his way into the headquarters of the Nightmare Army but just after he made his way into one of the many registration buildings, something hit his head.

Bam!

He lost consciousness.

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[Player: Balanced John0Wick]

[Main Class: Summoner]

[Sub Class: Elite Agent]

Level: 39

Grade: E

[Attributes: …]

[Health Points: …]

[Mana Points: …]

[Active Abilities: …]

…

[Neophyte: Psychic Parasite!]

[Passive Ability: Passivity!]

>Passivity: The ability to turn passive and invisible inside a host, hiding successfully from every type of invasive detection methods<

[Active Abilities:]

>Proliferate: When activated, this ability enables the Psychic Parasite to reproduce a weaker Grade F parasite that has the ability of growth the same way that the main Psychic Specter proliferated it<

>Growth: When activated, this ability enables the Psychic Parasite to grow passively by draining the blood and energy of its host<

[Special Ability: Host Destruction!]

>Host Destruction: When activated, this ability enables the Psychic Parasite to kill the host without leaving any obvious traces behind. It also enables it to escape in a spectral state<

[NOTE: The Psychic Parasite shares the same health points and mana points with that of its host, it feeds on its host.]

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After capturing the target, while Champion Onana used his myriad machines, scanning the player deeply, trying to find the parasite to no avail, Legolas suddenly walked towards his virtual screen and started writing on it.

"The Psychic Parasite has no form, like it's name, it is psychic in nature".

"These are its abilities".

By the time that Legolas was done writing, Shadow Master Heimdall and Champion Onana were completely shocked.

"How were you able to do it?" Champion Onana asked.

"I have my ways".

It sounded completely crazy but Champion Onana was used to crazy things after the past 5 months spent with him, he believed the Summoner.

Legolas turned to look at the virtual screen. "Using these abilities as our template, I think we can now assume and know a lot about the enemy that we face, he is no longer in the dark like before".

"First, they can grow and proliferate".

"Taking these into account and the short time as well, after killing the main parasite, I think we can assume that none of them at this moment is above the Grade D realm which means all our Grade C powerhouses are likely safe".

"The time is just too short for another of them to grow so powerful".

"Putting that aside, looking at the proliferate ability, I think it's best we assume that there are dozens if not hundreds of these things out there already".

"We should prepare for the worst".

"What matters though is that our high-level secrets are not being leaked".

"The passive ability explains why it's so hard to detect them, as for its sole Special Ability, it explains why Commander Fong died 3 days ago".

"I don't think we can counter this process except only by High Official Eleanor, but we can't have her at all places all at the same time".

"Also, from what I just discovered; they likely can't be killed the normal way unless the kill is done by a Psychic. The most reliable way to kill them is by killing their host, thankfully, the victim is an immortal this time".

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You have activated active ability: Combat Master

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The Psychic Parasite tried to retaliate but it was simply too weak, Legolas obliterated the player including the parasite from existence with one punch.

"With this information…" Legolas turned to look at Champion Onana. "I believe you now have the foundation to properly fight the parasites".

Champion Onana nodded seriously. "This is more than enough, leave it to me".

"Thanks". Legolas nodded, then he finally turned to look at Heimdall. "Go get prepared, the gray world gathering is in an hour".

"Yes, Army Commander".

After Champion Onana and Heimdall left, alone in his office after sitting down cross-legged, a lot of worrying thoughts went through Legolas' mind.

He made use of his game interface.

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[Current Level: 71]

[Experience Points: 818,000,000 XP]

[Basic Summoner Class Knowledge: 8/8]

[Intermediate Summoner Class Knowledge: 6/6]

>Enhanced Leadership; Beast Integration; Shepherd; Naming Authority; Beast Emperor; Beast Conqueror<

[Advanced Summoner Class Knowledge: 3/6]

>Spirit Summoner; Grandmaster Beast Tamer; Cosmic Summoner<

>Spirit Summoner: Grants access to the Spirit plane, including the myriad spirit beasts residing there. If you decide to make the change to become a Spirit Summoner, your spirit beasts become more powerful than normal<

>Grandmaster Beast Tamer: Exponentially increases your beast taming skills and charisma around beasts<

>Cosmic Summoner: Improves the cosmic abilities of your contracted beasts, it also grants you the relevant skills to tame a Cosmic Beast<

[Cutting-Edge Summoner Class Knowledge: 0/4]

[Ultimate Summoner Class Knowledge: 0/4]

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Legolas looked troubled. 'My leveling speed is not fast enough'.

'Compared to version 1, my experience points are increasing far faster than before but the requirements to level up increases at a steeper rate'.

'At this rate, I'll never become a Grade B Summoner before the Cataclysm which is my surest way of gaining more power in preparation for it'.

'Apart from leveling up a grade, another way for me to exponentially grow my power is by learning more class knowledges'.

'I have no doubt that if I am able to learn just 1 Cutting-Edge knowledge, my power will grow so much that I'll hardly be able to recognize my current self but that's the problem, I can't get Cutting-Edge knowledge here'.

'Even the Nak Navy has no access to knowledge of such caliber'.

'To get them, I'll need to go to the Nak State itself'.

Legolas was placed in a dilemma. 'I can't face the Cataclysm like this, if the power difference is too huge, then being smart would no longer be as useful'.

'I must do something about this'.

Amid his thoughts, one existence floated to his mind, the rogue hunter, Edgar, he felt troubled. 'This decision…, should I make it?'

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