Capítulo 1840: Chapter 1245: Betraying the Master?
To be honest, Duanmu Huai originally didn’t plan to attend any celebration. After all, he disliked those boring ceremonies and rituals, considering them a complete waste of time.
However, when Lumiaire informed Duanmu Huai that someone wanted to assassinate him, his interest was immediately piqued.
Hey, now this is interesting!
Someone’s trying to assassinate me?
How fun is that?
It would be a shame not to go.
Just coincidentally, Duanmu Huai had destroyed so many alien species recently that his calamity progress was shooting up. The only thing that puzzled him a bit was that despite wiping out so many aliens, the progress bar increased only about the same as for exterminating a single QB species.
Why is that? Could it be that because QB is a higher-dimensional species, the progress awarded is more? And these are just ordinary alien species, so they give less? What’s the situation here?
Nevertheless, after taking out so many alien species, Duanmu Huai successfully reached the full progress reward for the fourth level of [Calamity Ascension] named [Star Ocean Punishment], obtaining two special buffs: [Target Severance] and [Turkey Shoot].
Among them, [Target Severance] increases weapon damage on the warship by 50%, while [Turkey Shoot] boosts accuracy by 30%. If these two buffs are combined with Levatial’s Poem Magic Chanting, then once activated, all of Duanmu Huai’s Tribunal Warships will gain an additional 150% damage bonus and a 130% accuracy bonus.
This kind of super boost had Duanmu Huai so excited he could burst. If this were a game, he would now dare to go head-to-head with the Chaos Legion, even if the Champion of Chaos was leading them — he wouldn’t back down. Even if Mountain Array came, he could still triumphantly defeat them! Not to mention the Protofleet gathering — he wouldn’t care! With the powerful firepower of his fleet, what was there to fear?
Duanmu Huai now felt so light-hearted; he wasn’t afraid of anything anymore!
And precisely because of this, when he learned from Lumiaire that someone was planning to assassinate him, Duanmu Huai immediately waved his hand.
Let’s go have some fun!
After all, the next stage is the final phase of [Calamity Ascension] called [Life and Death Foe], and to obtain the Ether Synchronous Engine, Duanmu Huai must go through the first three stages [Hard-First], [Its Benefit Breaks Gold], and [Solar Eclipse and Apocalypse] before he can unlock the final structure [Ether Synchronous Engine].
But at least for now, Duanmu Huai wasn’t afraid of building the Ether Synchronous Engine. Before, he was worried that building it might provoke the Chaos Fleet to attack en masse, but now… with these bonuses, he’d be glad if they came — afraid they wouldn’t come back once they did, hahaha!
Only the final phase, as it stands, cannot be completed just relying on the alien species of this Star Territory. For some reason, despite the abundance of alien species in this Star Territory, the progress gained from exterminating them isn’t very high. One reason is that it gets harder to advance the progress in the later stages, and another is that these alien species don’t seem to be worth much according to system assessment.
Look, in that Magic Girl world earlier, exterminating one QB species fully completed a phase. By that calculation, Duanmu Huai must have exterminated a thousand, if not eight hundred alien species in this Star Territory. The calamity progress should be maxed out for starting the Ether Synchronous Engine by now. Instead, it has only entered the final phase?
How is the system calculating these weights?
Duanmu Huai wanted to complain to customer service, but unfortunately, this system doesn’t have a customer service hotline…
At this point, with no other choice, Duanmu Huai decided to seek some fun with the assassin instead.
Just like the first time he met with Palpatine, this time Duanmu Huai only brought Ann and Mary, as well as Ogis. The others had no interest in attending such a celebration. And strictly speaking, the civil war was won with the Tribunal’s help for the Galactic Republic, so they weren’t in the mood to attend any Galactic Republic celebration.
Of course, due to Duanmu Huai’s mischievous nature, he hadn’t informed Ann and Mary that someone was waiting to assassinate him. After all, it’s all about fun, and the thrill makes it interesting.
And Duanmu Huai trusted that with Ann’s and Mary’s skills, handling an assassination attempt would be no big deal.
After all, everyone was quite idle recently, so why not seek some excitement?
And so, the clueless two young girls were brought to Coruscant once again by Duanmu Huai.
“Welcome, Your Honor, the Judge, and the esteemed guests of the Tribunal.”
The one welcoming the four naturally was Palpatine. However, unlike his initially secretive appearance, this time Palpatine was in the open, wearing luxurious attire, and gleefully pleased, with Count Dooku smartly dressed, standing spiritedly behind him.
For Palpatine, today was indeed a grand day, since today he would publicly announce the transition from Galactic Republic to Galactic Empire, proclaiming himself as the supreme Emperor of the Galactic Empire!
With joy comes energy; even Palpatine’s demeanor towards Duanmu Huai was cheerful.
By the way, Ann and Mary were also dressed in exquisite gowns, carefully styled, as one is a princess and the other a young lady who received strict training in etiquette. Duanmu Huai might not care and appear directly in Power Armor, but as representatives of the Tribunal, they had to be meticulously groomed. They couldn’t afford to embarrass themselves, could they?