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Chapter 300: First Battle of the Skirmish Warship - [Master-Servant Contract]
Chapter 300: First Battle of the Skirmish Warship - [Master-Servant Contract]
"It seems that even the heavens are on my side. Not only did I successfully gamble on a 27% promotion success rate, but right after the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] was promoted, I'm immediately presented with a half-step Fourth-Rank enslaved creature."
"Once this creature completes its promotion, I can enslave it before it undergoes life ascension. A newly promoted Fourth-Rank enslaved creature will fetch a good price, and it should also shorten the time it takes for my Guiding Technique to reach the Fourth Rank..."
Inside the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] Skirmish Warship, the scar-faced man's face was filled with excitement, his smile lingering for a long time.
His name was Wang Zhen, and his comrades called him Scarred Wang. He was now 452 years old and had been a peak cruiser captain for over two centuries on the Morning Star Yang Land.
More than a year ago, during an exploration of an alien domain, he had the good fortune to obtain an orange-quality Super Main Cannon. He eventually traded this for a drop of Fourth-Rank creature blood.
With this Fourth-Rank blood, he spent several hundred years accumulating funds to finally increase his promotion success rate to 27% in a year-long warship promotion task. Ultimately, he was lucky enough to successfully promote his ship from a cruiser to a Skirmish Warship.
Not long after the promotion, he eagerly took control of his newly promoted Skirmish Warship to patrol the land. To avoid any unexpected incidents, he chose the sparsely populated Arctic Barren Hill, only to have luck visit him once again.
However, just as the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] was speeding toward the source of the promotion fluctuations, the warship suddenly received a communication request.
This sudden change made Wang Zhen quickly suppress his excitement and become highly vigilant.
As a lone wolf who had survived over four centuries, Wang Zhen was not the kind of fool to act recklessly.
After some consideration, he cautiously accepted the communication.
Soon, a projection of Song Chi, wearing a bionic skin mask, appeared before him.
"The Fourth-Rank promotion you detected is from an enslaved creature under my command. If it has disturbed you, I apologize!"
Song Chi's tone was neither humble nor arrogant.
Initially, Wang Zhen's eyes were filled with caution, but as the communication connected, a few barely noticeable flickers of surprise flashed in his eyes. His expression suddenly changed, shifting from caution to a high and mighty demeanor.
His radar had faintly detected the presence of the Sky Dome and discovered that it was just a cruiser.
"Is that all it is?"
As he spoke with Song Chi, Wang Zhen subtly glanced at the radar map from the corner of his eye.
As the distance between the two warships decreased, the [Void Membrane] component finally lost its effectiveness, and the Sky Dome, hovering in the sky, was completely captured by the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger].
"Just a cruiser..."
Wang Zhen felt a surge of intense excitement. In the past, he would never have entertained such thoughts.
But now, things were different.
The [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] was now a Skirmish Warship. Even though he had not yet broken through to the Fourth Rank with his Guiding Technique and lacked the Divine Consciousness State, he could still easily crush a regular cruiser, even a peak cruiser.
With this thought, the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger], which had slowed down, suddenly changed course and shot directly toward the Sky Dome above.
Wang Zhen decided to make his move.
A creature about to reach the Fourth Rank, a purple-quality enslavement component, and another purple-quality concealment component—these three things made it impossible for him to suppress the greed in his heart.
Unexpectedly, the Sky Dome's reaction was extremely quick. Almost the moment the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] began to ascend, its engines went to full power, and the warship ascended at a speed that was not slow at all.
A regular Third-Rank cruiser captain would never have such a quick reaction, but it was important to remember that Song Chi already possessed a Divine Consciousness State. Compared to Wang Zhen, who had yet to break through to the Fourth Rank with his Guiding Technique, Song Chi's perception was even sharper.
Thus, when Wang Zhen's eyes showed signs of suspicion and he covertly checked the radar map, Song Chi had already sensed his ill intentions.
Thus, the two warships, one large and one small, began a chase.
After some time, the two Flame Torch Captains on the warships had their own thoughts.
Song Chi was quickly analyzing the situation and soon realized that the pursuing Skirmish Warship seemed off. Compared to the Skirmish Warships he had seen before, this one was clearly far inferior.
"Right, without the support of Law Power, this Skirmish Warship must have just been promoted."
With this realization, his eyes grew even colder.
As for Wang Zhen, a hint of seriousness appeared on his face. The [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger]'s ship engines, though only of purple quality, had been reinforced to level 49. With the additional 200% thrust boost after reaching the Fourth Rank, the ship's speed was far beyond its usual performance.
However, he noticed that the distance between the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] and the cruiser above was not significantly reduced.
He guessed that the Sky Dome must be equipped with an orange-quality engine.
With this conclusion, Wang Zhen's enthusiasm grew even more, and he gave himself the order to end the battle quickly.
Buzz! The special overdrive characteristic of the purple engines was activated, and the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger]'s speed suddenly surged.
With this change, the distance between the two warships began to steadily decrease.
On the Sky Dome, Song Chi instinctively wanted to activate the "Phantom Trace" characteristic or the [Void Escape Pearl], but thinking of his earlier speculation, he forcibly restrained himself.
The warship's cannons continued to fire non-stop, targeting the ship below.
However, this was clearly futile.
In less than ten seconds, the distance between the two warships had been reduced to less than ten thousand meters. At this moment, several alloy chains suddenly shot out from the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger].
Without attempting to dodge, Song Chi allowed the alloy chains to tightly bind the Sky Dome.
As the alloy chains completely controlled the Sky Dome, both Song Chi and Wang Zhen's faces simultaneously showed a cold smile.
Below, the two main cannons of the [Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger] roared, and terrifying annihilation beams struck the Sky Dome's energy shield, which was unable to move.
However, what made Song Chi almost laugh was that these seemingly frightening annihilation beams only reduced the [Immortal Realm Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield]'s value by less than 20%.
"Your turn is over, now it's mine!"
Murmuring to himself, the Sky Dome's hull suddenly turned, and the two Fifth-Rank main cannons, now fully charged, erupted simultaneously.
The Mixed Cave Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light, over three thousand meters long, and the Soul-Extinguishing Gaze Light, with a diameter of one kilometer, roared simultaneously.
Below, Wang Zhen, in the main control room of the Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger, suddenly felt an intense sense of life-threatening danger. His intuition told him that if these two terrifying attacks hit, the Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger would suffer catastrophic damage.
However, the problem was that the alloy chains not only restricted the Sky Dome but also his own flagship.
Just as he was about to cancel the effect of the alloy chains, the two terrifying attacks had already pierced through ten thousand meters and struck the energy shield on the surface of the Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger.
The active attack characteristics of the reinforced fifth-rank orange main cannon, combined with the attack characteristics of the similarly reinforced fifth-rank red main cannon, and both enhanced by the spatial law, gave a clear indication of the immense power behind the two attacks launched by the Sky Dome.
In just two seconds, the purple energy shield of the Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger was completely overloaded, and the Mixed Cave Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light and the Soul-Extinguishing Gaze Light struck the ship's hull armor.
Fortunately, Wang Zhen promptly activated the active defense characteristics of the hull armor, which was the only orange component on the Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger, preventing immediate destruction under this terrifying attack.
When the power of the two attacks finally dissipated, two terrifying cracks, each hundreds of meters in diameter, appeared at the bow of the Howling Wolf and Roaring Tiger.
However, thanks to the active defense characteristics of the orange hull armor and the fourth-rank Zelusui ship's own basic component enhancements, the Mixed Cave Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light and the Soul-Extinguishing Gaze Light failed to sink the ship in one blow.
Seeing this, Song Chi remained expressionless, his mind racing. A large amount of divine sense threads shot out from his mind and quickly entered the Sky Dome.
In the next second, under Wang Zhen's horrified gaze, the Sky Dome above suddenly transformed from a warship into a mecha giant.
Holding the DivineEvolutionSword, which glowed with a deep red light, the mecha giant condensed a vast amount of spatial law power at the tip of the sword. In a mere blink, a spatial law Ruins Light blade hundreds of meters long formed at the tip of the DivineEvolutionSword.
"Mythic Mech Form, spatial law, Ruins Light blade. It's someone from the Song Clan of Dinghai. Damn, why did I provoke such a monster from the Song Clan of Dinghai!"
Unaware of Wang Zhen's inner despair, Song Chi didn't care and didn't want to know. He only wanted to test the results of the laws and secret techniques he had comprehended over the years.
His thoughts were simple: since the Mixed Cave Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light and the Soul-Extinguishing Gaze Light failed to finish off the opponent in one blow, he would just deliver another strike.
But just as he was about to swing the Ruins Light blade, the warship received another urgent communication request.
Without hesitation, he connected the communication, curious to see what the other party had to say as their final words.
"Seventh Prince Song Chi, this old man failed to recognize your greatness. Please show mercy, and I will serve you as my master!"
Song Chi remained unmoved by this plea, and the Ruins Light blade at the tip of the DivineEvolutionSword showed no signs of dissipating.
It was well known that flame vessel captains, due to their flame seed ancestral aperture and flame seed, could not be enslaved by enslavement components. This made such offers of servitude unrealistic, which was why Song Chi had no interest.
However, Wang Zhen, possibly aware of this, was unusually proactive.
"Seventh Prince Song Chi, this old man is not exaggerating. I have a special purple component called the 'Master-Servant Contract.' It allows two willing parties to form a permanent master-servant spiritual bond."
He didn't stop there. After mentioning the 'Master-Servant Contract' component, he sent over a detailed attribute sheet and decisively erased the mind spirit of another ordinary third-rank flame vessel captain who had previously signed a contract with him.
He then quickly unloaded the component and used a traction beam to send the purple-glowing component to the Sky Dome.
As a lone wolf, having risen from an ether energy shuttle to a Zelusui ship, Wang Zhen naturally had some special means. He had obtained this 'Master-Servant Contract' component when his ship was promoted to an ether energy shuttle. Over the subsequent four hundred years, he had used this component to form contracts with various same-rank or lower-rank flame vessel captains, sending them to explore star regions with their ships, which helped him grow to his current status.
This 'Master-Servant Contract' was undoubtedly Wang Zhen's greatest trump card, but in the face of certain death, he had no choice but to use it.
Moreover, Wang Zhen had another thought. He actually had no significant aversion to relying on the seventh sequence of the Song Clan of Dinghai.
The events he had just witnessed shocked him, a man who had roamed the principality for over four hundred years. In all those years, Wang Zhen had never seen such a monstrous existence.
A third-rank captain with two fifth-rank main cannons, a mind spirit transformed into a divine mind, and an understanding of the spatial law and the Song Clan's signature secret techniques. Most shockingly, he could freely control the mythic mech form at the third-rank level.
All of this clearly indicated that the seventh sequence of the Song Clan was a world-class prodigy, not just in the Morning Star Principality but in the entire Tianpan River System.
Serving such a person didn't feel awkward to him; instead, he believed that if everything went well, he might have the chance to advance further.
Opening the hatch, Song Chi first summoned a second-rank humanoid alien enslaved creature to inspect the purple component, ensuring there were no traps. Only then did he bring it into the ship.
Master-Servant Contract lv0
Quality: Purple
Characteristics:
- Additional +1 servant slots
- Consumption: 7/s (mana points)
Master: None
Servant: None (0/2) {1+1}
Effect:
- Forms a master-servant spiritual bond between two willing parties. The master has absolute life and death control over the servant, who will have no ill thoughts towards the master and will be absolutely loyal.
No recharge or cooldown required
Upgrade Requirements:
- 7 zero-tier floating land essences
- 700 mana points
After reading the full attributes of the 'Master-Servant Contract,' Song Chi's eyes gleamed. Clearly, this was an extremely high-quality component.
Although its effects seemed similar to enslavement components, if it truly could form a master-servant spiritual bond with a flame vessel captain, its value would be unimaginable.
(End of Chapter)
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