Chapter 494 - 192: Accepting a Mandatory Quest: Complete It or Die

At that moment, because it was the first time he had destroyed a Neutral City, he was unexpectedly slapped with a compulsory quest—one with a one-hour countdown that would result in his immediate annihilation if he failed to complete it.

"Son of a bitch!" Shen Fei cursed. Seeing that the countdown for the compulsory quest had already begun and that it specifically stated a Mission Exemption Scroll could not be used, he no longer had the luxury of eavesdropping on the NPC and the boss. With a flicker, he summoned a Teleportation Gate and vanished on the spot...

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「One minute earlier.」

After Shen Fei instantly depleted the Neutral City’s health bar and completely destroyed it, his personal status screen opened and lines of text began to scroll by.

[DING!]

[Neutral City destruction detected!]

[DING!]

[You have obtained one Heart of the City!]

[DING!]

[100 points of City Energy plundered!]

[DING!]

[You have obtained Energy Crystal x3!]

[DING!]

[Killed 1 Intelligent NPC. Experience +100,000,000!]

[DING!]

[Killed 1 Intelligent Creature’s Retainer. Experience +1,231!]

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The messages flooded Shen Fei’s personal status screen. He had received a wave of experience rewards because, while wiping out the city’s health bar, he had also taken out a guardian Intelligent NPC and its retainers who were blocking his path. The amount of experience he gained was within his expectations.

What he hadn’t expected, however, was that besides the experience, he had also obtained 1 Heart of the City, 100 points of City Energy, and 3 Energy Crystals in this haul! This made Shen Fei’s heart skip a beat.

[Heart of the City: Can be used to upgrade a city’s level. 5 Hearts of the City can upgrade a small city to a medium city; 20 Hearts of the City can upgrade a medium city to a large city! 40 Hearts of the City can be used to construct a new, small Neutral City!]

Shen Fei had obtained one Heart of the City in this haul. The attributes of this item were simply invincible! Not only could it upgrade existing Neutral Cities, but when the quantity reached 40, it could even be used to instantly establish a medium city... It was just that invincible!

And in that last haul, aside from obtaining one Heart of the City, Shen Fei had also gained an extra 100 points of City Energy. As the owner of nine Neutral Cities, he certainly knew what City Energy represented. A city’s Shields, Teleportation Arrays, and even the activation of its buff effects all required the consumption of City Energy.

Currently, the only way to increase City Energy was through its slow daily recovery of ten, or at most twenty, points. Shen Fei never thought that he could get this stuff just by taking down a Neutral City! And it was a massive 100 points in one go!

Finally, besides the Heart of the City and the City Energy, he had also acquired 3 Energy Crystals. The use for Energy Crystals was also incredibly great. This item could be used to charge a National Treasure Divine Artifact. The operation of Shen Fei’s [Ninth World], his Divine Artifact Skills like [Long-range Teleportation], and others, could all be directly recharged using Energy Crystals.

Originally, he had only wanted to destroy the home of the NPC and the boss to fish for some information. Shen Fei never expected such a huge, unexpected bounty.

But the reason Shen Fei had instantly summoned a Teleportation Gate to leave, no longer eavesdropping on the conversation between the now-homeless NPC and boss, was because of the text that subsequently scrolled across his personal status screen:

[DING!]

[First-time destruction of a Neutral City detected!]

[Compulsory Quest Activated—Destroy Neutral Cities]

[Destroy Neutral Cities: Compulsory timed quest. Please destroy 50 Neutral Cities within 1 hour, or you will be annihilated! (Special quest. Mission Exemption Scrolls cannot be used!)]

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