Chapter 1258
After performing a surprisingly simple registration at Death Sickle’s base, Lin Huang soon left the black market and found a nearby hotel to use as a temporary residence .
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Only when he was at the hotel did he begin to study Death Sickle’s website in earnest .
As Bloody had said, it was easy to join the Death Sickle organization . All he had to do was fill in an incomplete form and he immediately became a reserve member .
However, reserve members had extremely limited access .
On the official website, apart from public messages that could be found on the internet, the forum only contained a section for reserve members and a section for missions . There were also access restrictions in the missions section; he was only able to look at reserve-level missions .
As for the forum itself, there were access restrictions on even the message and trading sections .
“That’s what you get for being a reserve member . It’s no different from being a passerby,” Lin Huang could not help but exclaim after giving the website a general once-over .
Not long after though, Lin Huang found a sticky that was pinned to the reserve members’ section . The post was entitled Rules and Regulations For Promotion of Death Sickle Members .
He clicked on the post immediately, which took him less than a minute to read . Now he finally had a complete understanding of how Death Sickle’s ranking system worked .
Just like what Bloody had found earlier, Death Sickle members were ranked in the order of reserves, Black Sickle, White Sickle, Gold Sickle, and Blood Sickle .
A normal registration would make one a reserve member straight away .
Reserve members only needed to complete three assassination missions within a year or take on three designated missions within ten years to become official Black Sickle members .
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In actuality, there was also a real-name registration process that would allow one to bypass the reserves level and directly become a Black Sickle member .
However, this particular process required a recommendation from an official Death Sickle member . Not only that, the person would need to register their real name; their combat strength and ability had to be above virtual god-level as well . They would also have to pass an actual combat assessment . They could only skip over the reserves level and become a Black Sickle member if they passed their identity checks as well as their combat assessment .
Two conditions had to be fulfilled for Black Sickle members to be promoted to White Sickle members .
The first was to be in the top three places on the Black Sickle Leaderboard’s monthly rankings for three consecutive months .
The second was to complete a True God assassination mission, which was a trial mission assigned when the promotion was requested .
The conditions for White Sickle members to be promoted to Gold Sickle members were similar .
Apart from being in the top three spots on the White Sickle Leaderboard monthly rankings for three consecutive months, one also needed to complete a Heavenly God assassination mission .
The conditions for Gold Sickle members to be promoted to the highest rank of Blood Sickle were even stricter .
The basic condition for promotion was to maintain the number one spot on the Gold Sickle Leaderboard monthly rankings for three years consecutively without missing a single month .
They had to carry out three trial missions, each to assassinate a half-step Lord .
“Judging by that last condition, although on the surface it seems as if there’s no lord-level guardian in Death Sickle, the seven Blood Sickle members should at least be at the level of half-step lord instead of the ordinary peak-stage Heavenly God,” Lin Huang exclaimed, unable to restrain himself, “If these seven Blood Sickle powerhouses have the ability to kill half-step Lords, the power of seven of them combined might be on par with a Lord . ”
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After Lin Huang had finished reading this pin, he checked out other pins on the forum as well as the stickies with the most comments .
He only returned to the main page after scrolling over the reserve members section for over three hours .
“The access for reserve members is too limited . I must get promoted to Black Sickle level as soon as possible so I can take on missions to assassin Virtual Gods . ” Now that he had a rough understanding of Death Sickle’s organization and hierarchy, Lin Huang was able to come up with a plan very rapidly . “I don’t think I’ll be able to go the route of using the identity check, so I can only be promoted through normal channels . That means I’ll need to complete three reserve missions . ”
Once he had considered things to this point, Lin Huang clicked on the missions page and began looking for missions that suited him .
Due to the restrictions, Lin Huang could only access the reserves missions listed in the missions section . Despite that, he found plenty there
to occupy him .
After giving the matter some thought, Lin Huang chose to sort these missions by distance .
He wanted to be promoted as soon as he could, so naturally the closer the mission was, the better . He did not bother to take into consideration the difficulty level and the reward points .
“Mission: Assassinating Ai Yun”
“Location: Iron Fist Shelter”
“Target’s Details: Son of Ai Rong the Iron Fist, combat strength: imperial-level”
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“Mission Reward Points: 10,000 points”
Lin Huang was stunned when he saw the first mission that popped up according to distance .
The location was the Iron Fist Shelter, which was the Shelter that Lin Huang was currently in . In addition, it was worth 10,000 mission reward points . The points were comparable to those awarded for killing a new first-rank True God .
Lin Huang had never heard of Ai Yun . However, the name Ai Rong was familiar to him because it was the name of the Iron Fist Shelter’s guardian .
According to the information that Bloody provided earlier, Ai Rong had been a ninth-rank True God since time immemorial . No one had yet been able to measure the extent of his abilities .
Lin Huang then looked through Ai Yun’s information again . He discovered that not only was the boy Ai Rong’s youngest son, he was also Ai Rong’s only remaining son .
However, Ai Yun was only imperial-level in combat strength—or at least the combat strength that he demonstrated to the outside world was only imperial-level, and he did not seem to harbor any potential for cross-ranking battles .
Perhaps it was because Ai Yun was only imperial-level that the mission was also open to reserve members .
However, Lin Huang skipped the mission without hesitation and went straight to the next one on the list .
This mission was nearby, but it was not worth offending a top True God just to get promoted to be a Black Sickle member .
After spending some ten minutes doing simple filtering, Lin Huang selected three missions that he deemed suitable .
“Kill the Boa Seal Shelter guardian Vine Boa . ”
“Kill Violet Rat Shelter guardian Lumi Rat . ”
“Kill a Poisonous Swamp Frog to retrieve venom . ”
Both Boa Seal and Violet Rat Shelters were grade-1 Shelters . Moreover, they were both on the same planet and near the Iron Fist Shelter .
The reason nobody was willing to take on these two missions was not that both Shelter guardians were so powerful, but because both Shelters had a massive number of monster tribes in them . Though they were merely grade-1 Shelters, they housed about a million members of the same tribe . The population alone was comparable to that of a top grade-3 Shelter .
Meanwhile, both of the missions were only published in the missions section for reserve members for a reward of 100 points, respectively .
Given these missions were high risk and low return, it made sense that nobody was willing to take them on .
The Poisonous Swamp Frog was located on a miasmic planet close to the Boa Seal Shelter and the Violet Rat Shelter . The entire planet was covered in toxic mist, and almost all living things in its ecosystem were poisonous .
The layer of toxic mist alone could affect most living beings below virtual god-level .
Given that the reward points were low—only 300 points—it was only natural that nobody was willing to take such a risk .
All three of the missions happened to be in the same area and they were not far away from the Iron Fist Shelter . Lin Huang selected them without hesitation .