Chapter 324

Leaving the Commander-in-Chief's office, a prompt popped up in Li Boyong's field of vision.

Main Mission—Integrated Army Hegemony (Non-Unique): Only humans who adapt to life in space within the colonies can become the guardians of the Earth Sphere. (Completion grants 25 Plot Points, 30 Battle Merit Points)

Note: This mission requires ensuring both Commander-in-Chief Maia and President Brian survive. If either dies, the mission is declared a failure.

Oh, the main mission was triggered so quickly, but it's reasonable given my current affiliation.

It's just that this mission seems very difficult. If I follow the Integrated Army, I have to fight against combat forces like the Hiryu Kai and the Hagane. 25 Plot Points and 30 Battle Merit Points are not easy to earn...

Thinking about maneuvering and shooting with a Leon and a Weissritter, only to be killed instantly by a Pile Bunker from a Gespenst that suddenly appeared out of nowhere...

Also, I remember in the original plot, the Commander-in-Chief and Bian had plans to protect and cultivate the Hiryu Kai and the Hagane as high-end combat power against the aliens.

If they can defeat the Federation government and unify the Earth Sphere, they can recruit these two ships when the aliens truly invade, and they won't have to worry about these people not cooperating.

If they fail, then the Hiryu Kai and the Hagane, which can defeat the DC and the Colony Integrated Army, will naturally be able to better protect the Earth Sphere.

The idea is good, but the subordinates are miserable; they are ordered not to deal a death blow to the enemy mothership during life-and-death struggles.

I'll put this line aside for now and see after triggering missions for other routes...

Li Boyong returned to the Bell, signed the non-disclosure agreement, and went straight to Natarle's room.

Over the past few days, everyone had become accustomed to Li Boyong and Natarle acting as a pair, so they weren't surprised by him entering and leaving the First Officer's room.

After all, heroes and beauties go together. After that battle, no one on the Bell had any objections to Li Boyong.

"Back?" Natarle naturally helped Li Boyong take off his military dress uniform and hang it up, "What did the Commander-in-Chief ask you?"

"Nothing much, just my thoughts after personally fighting the Void Walkers." Li Boyong hugged Natarle from behind while she was hanging the clothes and took a deep sniff at her neck, "The higher-ups probably want to know what the frontline soldiers think..."

"Wait, I'm helping you hang your clothes, keep your hands to yourself." Natarle felt the hot air Li Boyong exhaled and said one thing while meaning another.

"I know, help me hang one more piece." As he spoke, Li Boyong began to unbutton Natarle's military jacket, "The warship is undergoing maintenance these days, and our First Officer also needs some proper maintenance."

Natarle was quite helpless regarding Li Boyong's dirty talk and restless hands.

But who told her she liked this guy?

To be imprecise, the relationship between them couldn't be described simply as a couple.

Regardless of shortcomings or strengths, she would try her best to tolerate them...

After an intense and careful maintenance session, Li Boyong added several injections of propellant to Natarle, then held her, immersed in the afterglow, and checked the changes in the system.

Speaking of which, it's strange that our system-kun has no presence at all. It clearly upgraded to a Super Mecha Combat System, but Li Boyong only remembered to check the system functions after the main mission popped up.

In the upgraded system, the panels that existed before had no changes, just character attributes, skills, spirit commands, and titles. Now there was an extra BGM panel...

Li Boyong's mouth twitched, and he looked at the BGM function.

Simply put, it's a buff with some flaws between a skill and a spirit command. For example, the BGM 【Iron Lone Wolf】 would increase your melee attribute while lowering your shooting attribute.

The difference from skills is that you can only have the effect of one BGM at a time. You can switch between multiple BGMs you have acquired, but they cannot stack.

Compared to spirit commands, the advantage of BGM is that it doesn't require spending spirit points to use, and the disadvantage is that the effect is not as powerful.

Finally, the condition for acquiring BGM is that you need to clear the relevant world, and then you can spend the corresponding plot points and battle merit points to unlock the BGM related to that world.

Alright, it's very reasonable for a mecha combat system to have a BGM function...

Finally, Li Boyong looked at the followers and found that no one else had changed, only the panels for Shihe, Natarle, and Stella were different.

After completing the CE Century (Second Half), Li Boyong could now spend plot points and battle merit points to let Shihe, Natarle, and Stella learn new skills. Moreover, they were no longer noted as followers in the panel, but as companions...

In that case, after clearing the 00 world and the Full Metal Panic world, Wang Liumei and the Xia sisters could also learn skills.

Li Boyong, who originally felt he had a surplus of plot points and battle merit points, suddenly felt that the points in his hand were not enough...

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Earth Cradle, Federation Special Pilot Training School.

Stella had been alone since crossing into this world, and she was very uneasy without Li Boyong by her side.

Moreover, the SCHOOL was a facility that would stop at nothing to achieve its goals, often performing mental operations on Stella, attempting to implant false memories and personalities to control her, but all ended in failure.

This environment, similar to the Romanian laboratory, initially stirred up bad memories for Stella, often causing her to fall into sudden manic episodes.

But fortunately, the combat ability Stella displayed was extremely excellent, so the facility head, Adra, did not dispose of Stella. Instead, she listened to the advice of her assistant, Dr. Cuero, and let Stella live with other experimental subjects in the facility.

Supplemented by regular mental suggestions, letting her view other children in the facility as partners, the violent Stella finally gradually settled down.

After settling down, Stella habitually displayed an attitude of obedience in this place similar to the Romanian laboratory.

SCHOOL cafeteria.

Stella was eating with several children in the facility. Among them, a big sister with long dark green hair was gently wiping away the residue from the corner of Stella's mouth.

"Sister Sakura, just like Neo, is very gentle to Stella."

Stella stared blankly at the green-haired big sister.

"Really, sister, you spoil Stella too much."

Another big sister with short silver hair on the side started complaining when she saw this.

"Haha, Zeola, you're jealous. You were jealous when Lato was here, and now that it's Stella, you're the same..." A purple-haired boy on the other side laughed and slapped the table, causing the silver-haired girl to punch him twice hard.

"Arad, let you talk, let you talk!"

Seeing this, Sakura hurriedly persuaded gently, "Arad, Zeola, stop messing around. To me, you are all my most important younger brothers and sisters, it's just that Stella, this little blockhead, is really a bit confused when she first arrived."

"Haha, little blockhead." The purple-haired boy Arad laughed heartlessly at Stella again, clearly thinking the nickname was very appropriate.

Stella pouted unhappily when she heard this. This guy was as annoying as Olu. "Little blockhead" was a nickname that belonged only to Neo. Sister Sakura, who was gentle to her, could call her that, but Arad—no.

So, Stella pointed her finger at Arad and said, "Brainless!"

Then she pointed at Zeola and continued, "Unhappy!"