Sister Bao'er's already large eyes widened into saucers. "How could I *not* protect them for the rest of my life? I *will* protect them for the rest of my life!"
She spoke with such earnestness that Qin Feng had never seen her so serious before. Ever since he'd known her, this girl had always been playful and carefree.
Qin Feng said gravely, "The battlefield is treacherous. We don't know what awaits us."
Sister Bao'er retorted, "So what if it's dangerous?! I'm not staying on the last line of defense during the next wave. I'm going to the front line! I'll prove to you that I can protect them for the rest of my life!"
Qin Feng: ...
Netizens: ...
"Whoa, Sister Bao'er is so badass!"
"Damn, if it's about talking big, Sister Bao'er takes the cake!"
"This... isn't that over the top?"
"Keep talking! Keep talking!"
Qin Feng said, "If they never grow stronger, and if they die in battle, do you really think the Nier Kingdom citizens watching the livestream will revive them?"
Sister Bao'er waved her hand generously, "There's no 'what if'! I only have a white-tier talent, just like them."
The crowd: ...
Everyone on Blue Star: ...
Qin Feng: ... *How can that be the same?!*
*Who dares compare themselves to you, Sister?!*
The two stood locked in a stalemate, neither willing to back down.
Suri stepped forward, her voice gentle, "I'm sorry. It's our fault for causing this unpleasantness."
She approached Sister Bao'er and smiled. "Sister Bao'er, we know you care about us. But Mr. Qin is right. We need to grow too and prove our own worth."
"Not just to the Nier Kingdom, but to all three of you. We need to show you our value."
"We don't want to keep hiding behind you, becoming a burden and holding you back!"
After her speech, the other two Nier Kingdom girls exchanged determined glances and nodded vigorously.
"Mr. Qin and Suri are right! We'll go!"
"Sister Bao'er, don't be angry. We'll be back!"
Seeing this, Qin Feng smiled.
"Alright, come with me."
Sister Bao'er, who had been huffing angrily beside them, felt a little better seeing Qin Feng personally lead them.
However, she stopped him.
"The coordinates! I'll take them!"
Qin Feng hesitated for a moment, thinking that Sister Bao'er was a sensible person. Since she had agreed, she wouldn't secretly act on her own to solve their problems for them.
With that thought, he gave her the coordinates.
As she turned to leave, Sister Bao'er looked back, her face still flushed with anger, and said,
"Brother Qin, I'm not happy with you! I'm inflated! Hmph!"
With that, she turned and stalked away.
Qin Feng: *Cough, cough...??*
*What the hell was that?*
*You're not an inflatable doll—what are you even inflating?!*
Qin Feng, who had been cultivating in his workshop, choked violently, and the Spiritual Energy circulating within his body became slightly turbulent.
Jarvis reminded him, "Sir, your energy flow is unstable. I recommend calming your emotional fluctuations."
Qin Feng was speechless. He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled the stale air.
He sighed,
"I almost capsized in the ditch without even entering a meditative state."
"Inflated? An inflatable doll?"
"Heh heh heh, Qin Feng must have upset Sister Bao'er. By the way, what did she mean by that?"
"Didn't you just explain it yourself?"
"@The guy two comments up, she means she's unhappy. She's angry."
"Eyes sparkling with stars.jpg, my wife is too cute."
"I can't take this anymore! Even when a Sichuanese girl is angry, she's still so adorable! I absolutely must find a Sichuanese girl to marry!!"
The two girls from the Nier Kingdom took the lead, and Suri followed.
Uncle Jiu stopped her.
"Master, what is it?" Suri asked.
Uncle Jiu shook his Soul-Seizing Bell, and A'Da jumped up.
"Take this. It'll be good practice."
Suri nodded earnestly. "Yes, thank you, Master."
Uncle Jiu sighed. "Don't blame Brother Qin for being harsh. He's right. Heaven helps those who help themselves. In the end, survival always depends on one's own strength."
Suri quickly shook her head. "How could I dare blame Mr. Qin, Master? He's right. I should be thanking him."
Seeing that his disciple was reasonable, Uncle Jiu felt reassured.
"Alright, go. Be careful in all things. Don't push yourself if things get dangerous. With Miss Bao'er by your side, don't worry."
"Yes, Master!"
Suri had come to realize that the three guardians of the Dragon Kingdom were all formidable experts in disguise.
Even Sister Bao'er, who only seemed to care about having fun, was not to be underestimated.
Sister Bao'er led the group south, cheering them on along the way.
"Don't worry! With me here, you'll be fine!"
She was remarkably bold, treating the monster hunt like a casual outing.
The three girls from the Nier Kingdom, however, were a different story.
Suri, holding the Soul-Seizing Bell, was in slightly better condition due to her red-tier talent.
Moreover, A'Da, her spirit companion, bounced along behind her, keeping pace.
The other two girls, pale-faced and stumbling, were barely able to walk.
Without each other's support, they might have collapsed on the spot.
Two hovering drones circled overhead, keeping a watchful eye out for danger.
Sister Bao'er glanced up and huffed, her cheeks puffed out.
"Hmph! It must be Brother Qin's! He's hoarding all the fun for himself, sneaking off to play while we're stuck here! Such a stingy!"
"What the heck is 'walling off'? I can guess 'sneaking off,' but is 'walling off' me propping up a wall?"
"Summon the class representative! Come explain this!"
As they continued south, Suri grew increasingly puzzled.
"This direction should lead to the Nier Kingdom's main gate. There should be war fog here. Why is it gone?"
The other two women were also puzzled.
"Yeah, and wasn't this supposed to be a desert? How did it turn into a forest?"
Unbeknownst to them, ever since the Nier Kingdom's gate was moved to the Dragon Kingdom's gate location, the map of this region had been regenerated.
Otherwise, Qin Feng's drone wouldn't have been able to detect any monsters in this area.
Based on the swarm's current exploration, desert terrain barely supports any monsters.
This was also why those foreigners who emphasized "human rights" and "freedom" were obediently scavenging for resources overnight during the lull in the assault.
The map was simply too barren this time.
"Who cares about all that?" Sister Bao'er said. "Let's just go over there, kill them, and get it done!
When we get back, will you teach me how to make those other pottery jars?"
The women: ...
The Dragon Kingdom audience: ...
"What time is it, Sister Bao'er? You're still thinking about playing?"
"Ahem, look at those two girls, they're trembling with fear, and Sister Bao'er still wants to learn pottery from someone."
"Hahaha, as my wife would say, how did she put it? Oh, no big deal, we got this."
At that moment, the happiest person was probably the little newbie who had been secretly learning Uncle Jiu's Daoist magic.
Fortunately, Qin Feng had sent Suri to go fight monsters, putting a temporary halt to the impromptu lesson.
The group listened intently as the Daoist elder explained the parts Uncle Jiu had skipped. They didn't want to fall further behind later.
After walking for a while, Sister Bao'er checked the coordinates. "This should be the place, but I don't see anything." She looked at the map and then at the coordinates Qin Feng had sent. They matched perfectly.
The National Battlefield's map coordinates were rather crude, with each coordinate encompassing a large area. It was difficult to pinpoint three boarmen in the dense forest.
Just then, Jarvis maneuvered a drone, circling twice in front of the four women.
Suri realized, "It must be Mr. Qin! He wants us to follow it!"
Sister Bao'er nodded. "Yeah, most likely. Let's go!"
The four women and the corpse followed the drone for less than two hundred meters before spotting the boarmen Qin Feng had mentioned.
"Three... There are three of them," said Anbei, a 19-year-old girl. Her talent was only gray, granting a +2 boost to all attributes. On Blue Star, this would have made her twice as strong as an ordinary person—winning Olympic gold medals would have been child's play. Of course, that would require good luck and avoiding the Japanese referees.
But here in the National Battlefield, this level of strength was woefully inadequate.
"How... how do we fight them?" asked Gu Pu, who was slightly better off with a white talent and was even younger than Anbei.
Now that the monster was right in front of them, they had finally mustered their courage, only to feel their resolve waver again.
Suri observed their surroundings and confirmed there were no other threats.
Just as Mr. Qin had said, there were only three pig-headed monsters!
"I'll take on two of them. You two work together to kill one. How about it?"
The two women exchanged glances and silently nodded.
With that, the three of them slowly crept forward, A'Da following closely behind.
"Tsk tsk tsk, what a sin! She's not much older than my little sister. My foodie sister would probably be sitting in the air conditioning right now, grinning like an idiot at her phone!"
"@Upstairs, keep talking!"
"I think Great God Qin Feng is being a bit unfair this time! Sending a few women out to fight while he hides at home sleeping!"
"Got a problem with that? Can't my husband rest for a day? He's scavenged so many resources and secured so many benefits for the Dragon Kingdom! What's wrong with a day of rest?!"
"No problem, no problem! I wouldn't dare! I was wrong..."
"Hahaha, Great God Qin Feng has alt accounts, so he can do whatever he wants."
"Tsk tsk tsk, already acting like an exploitative capitalist."
Though Qin Feng was meditating, he hadn't entered a state of deep concentration.
The drone footage played before him at the opportune moment.
Mark 3 was also following at a safe distance, protecting them. He couldn't allow the three Guardians of the Neil Kingdom to be endangered on their first mission, especially with Sister Bao'er trailing behind them.
This mission could be considered foolproof.
As Suri and the others crept closer, they finally reached the distance required to trigger a Battlefield Notification.
**Battlefield Notification**: Congratulations to Neil Kingdom Guardians Suri, Anbei, and Gu Pu for discovering an E-Class resource point: 1 ton of gold.
The message flashed before everyone.
To Qin Feng's surprise, under a nest of small monsters, beneath a white chest, lay a resource point of one ton of gold!
"Holy crap, looks like we can't underestimate white chests anymore."
"It might be a resource point!"
"Whoa, a gold resource point!"
"We're rich!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, how uncultured. It's only one ton."
"Holy shit, the upstairs one requires a 100x materialization for a single ton! That's 100 tons of gold ore! Do you know the Dragon Kingdom's largest gold mine only has a little over 500 tons?"
"Hmm... so that means... we're rich?"
"Roar!"
The Battlefield Notification immediately signaled that the monsters had been awakened.
"Roar! Roar!"
Three pig-men charged toward the enemies who had invaded their territory.
Suri was startled by the sight, but she calmed down in less than two seconds.
She tore the Corpse-Suppressing Talisman from A'Da's forehead and shook the Soul-Calling Bell:
"By the power of the command, A'Da, kill without mercy!"
"Hmph!"
A'Da's eyes snapped open, and he saw several plump, living blood bags.
How could he resist such an opportunity?!
He straightened his arms, lightly touched his toes, and gracefully sprang forward.
The lead pig-man was momentarily bewildered by this strange comrade charging at him.
*What the hell is this?*
*Such long tusks?*
*Are you the Pig King?!*
For a moment, the pig-man hesitated, unsure whether to attack this fellow creature.
Before he could decide, A'Da had already pounced.
He plunged both arms into the pig-man's chest with a *squish!*
Ten fingers dug deep into the creature's chest.
"Aaaah! Aaaah!!"
The pig-man roared, bringing down his thigh-thick club.
*Thud! Thud! Thud!*
The club struck A'Da's head, sending wood chips flying.
A'Da was unharmed. He opened his mouth and bit down.
*Snap!* followed by the satisfying *glug-glug* of blood being sucked.
The other two pig-men ignored A'Da's plight, their eyes fixed solely on their prey.
One charged at Suri.
Suri raised her Tang Dao and roared, "Yaa!"
She charged forward, engaging it in combat.
The other pig-man set its sights on Anbei, charging straight at her.
Anbei froze in terror, her legs trembling so violently that she nearly dropped her Tang Dao.
"Don't be afraid! If you're scared, you'll never beat your opponent!" Sister Bao'er shouted from behind.
"Go! You two, flank it from the left and right! Use your speed and numbers to your advantage! You can do this!"
With a renewed roar, Anbei and Gu Pu charged forward.
The two women, quick-witted, immediately put Sister Bao'er's plan into action.
Moving swiftly, they maintained their flanking positions, trapping their opponent between them.
Although a few surprise slashes weren't fatal, the constant bleeding soon left the pig-headed man dizzy and spinning in place.
"Hmph!"
Just then, A'Da returned, looking for a new blood bag.
It leaped beside the bleeding pig-headed man and opened its mouth for a bite.
But after just a few gulps, this blood bag was empty too!
Looking around, Suri was still dodging and weaving.
A'Da hopped forward, thrust its arms into the air, and a new blood bag appeared in its grasp.
*Gulp... gulp...*
Suri smiled.
"Hey, A'Da's having a great time drinking!"
After the prolonged battle, she realized that even E-Class monsters weren't that strong.
She left her opponent to A'Da for a feast.
Anbei and Gu Pu, though disheveled, also wore triumphant smiles.
They had actually managed to defeat E-Class monsters!
"Hmph!"
A'Da tossed the blood bag aside and roared at the sky.
It had likely gained the most from this battle.
Three pig-headed monsters on the ground, poisoned by corpse toxin, were still shivering uncontrollably.
Suri quickly stepped forward and cast a spell according to her master's teachings.
In an instant, the three convulsing monsters fell silent.
**Battlefield Notification**: Congratulations to Neil Kingdom Guardians Suri, Anbei, and Gu Pu on slaying 3 E-Class monsters: Boar-Headed Brutes.
**Battlefield Notification**: Congratulations to Neil Kingdom Guardians Suri, Anbei, and Gu Pu on capturing 1 ton of gold from an E-Class resource point.
Two notifications floated before all the Guardians.
Qin Feng smiled.
"Jarvis, prepare to retrieve some gold. The materials in the warehouse will eventually run out. We need to find our own ways to replenish them."
The Mark series mechs were almost entirely constructed from gold-titanium alloy, a composite of 99% gold and 1% titanium.
Qin Feng's plan was to expand the mech fleet as much as possible, which would require vast amounts of gold.
Titanium was less of a concern; the battlefield warehouse was currently well-stocked with it. Gold, however, was scarce.
It remained uncertain whether future system reward packages would include mech material replenishment, but it was better to be prepared.
"Yes, Mr. Qin," Jarvis replied.
-----------------------
Completed English PDF of this fan-fic on my Patreon shop if you want to support and own the full fan-fic in one go. Just grab the PDF and binge the entire story from start to finish!
Guys, I've uploaded some High Quality english translated fanfic on my Patreon shop! Feel free to check it out-if you're interested, you can grab a copy and support me there.
Here are a few titles of recently uploaded fanfics:
New Addition
" Marvel: Awakening Abstract Abilities at the Beginning "
" Marvel: Fused with Broly at the Start "
" Marvel: Starting as the God of Destruction "
" Superman in Marvel—Will I Get a Copyright Warning? "
" Marvel: Starting by Loading the Homelander Template "
" Marvel: Becoming an Emperor Through Lottery Draws "
" Marvel: Awakening the Power of a Million Stars at the Start "
" Marvel: I Am the Leader of the Mutant Race "
many more are available 140+
Your support means a lot-thanks in advance, legends!
patreon.com/SuperTL
(End of Chapte