Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 373 - 171 Summary

"The Grand Chorus" instance wasn’t exactly smooth sailing for players in my past life. freёweɓnovel_com

Nearly a hundred thousand sturdy and fearless Green Skins, along with air permeated with spores, and carnivorous vines that secreted corrosive liquid, wiped out many pioneering squads in the early phase.

As for using gas masks to block the spores, using Flame Firearms to burn the carnivorous vines, and using Plague and other means to deal with the Green Skins, all these methods were tirelessly tried and discovered by players—just like Edison’s mechanical process of trial and error in searching for the right filament material, in search of the optimal solution.

As for this BOSS, it was said to have first been discovered in the city center, then the players chased it while the BOSS fled. The Green Skins desperately and crazily blocked and covered the rear, fighting even more fiercely than the players, which resulted in the BOSS escaping many times and simply could not be caught.

Ultimately, the guilds sent several Lv.10 max-level Snipers to the rooftops, attempting to snipe the BOSS from a distance.

Although sniper rifles are very powerful, the problem lies in actually hitting the target.

Since the pursued BOSS was moving at high speeds, and the shooting angles were frequently obstructed by various buildings and cover, in addition to being surrounded by a large number of protecting Green Skins, hitting the target accurately in such chaotic and complex conditions required a great deal of reaction and control ability from the Snipers.

After shooting for half a day, the Snipers were shocked to find that the BOSS could regenerate health!

It wasn’t the kind of automatic healing from Flesh Power, but rapid healing from High Rank Life Ability—just a swipe at the wound, and it would be as good as new... which means hitting the opponent’s chest, abdomen, limbs, and the like, was utterly useless.

You had to land a headshot to disrupt the opponent’s consciousness.

In the end, after all the bullets were spent and several rounds of ammunition were replenished, someone got a stroke of dumb luck and landed a shot to the opponent’s head, finally sniping the BOSS down.

As for the subsequent infighting among players over the BOSS’s Extraordinary Traits, let’s not talk about that for now.

In this world, the reason Aske’s mission went so smoothly was a big part due to the information advantage of the Prophet, who preemptively targeted and resolved the unfavorable factors of the instance.

The rest could only be attributed to Miel’s excellent marksmanship—after all, she had been a BOSS in the game, her skills far surpassing those so-called "professional top players."

When finally accounting for the rewards of this mission, the greatest were naturally the Magic Potions "Storm III" and "Meteor III" in their entirety, acquired from the Spiritual Body Sect, as well as the "Life III" and "Spirit Body III" recipes plus the corpses’ Extraordinary Traits congealed by Thira.

Though it took the name of mission compensation and intelligence exchange, it was evidently facilitated by the relationship between Thira and Apilius; otherwise, such a large transaction wouldn’t have proceeded so smoothly.

The next gain was the "Giant II" Magic Potion prepared for Sigrdrifa, "purchased" from the current leader of Life School, Lu Aelin, using a combination of reported leads and monetary difference.

There were no internal connections between both parties, making the transaction quite grudging. Looking at Lu Aelin’s intention, it seemed as though the "Giant II" was sold to The Azure Longsword with quite a sense of doing so for Nora’s sake.

Then came the rewards from the Falcon Family, a large sum of Gold Coins. It comes quickly and goes quickly for the Transcendents; it’s always right to save more.

Last of all were the rewards promised by the Duke of Bavaria for helping the Falcon Family in their Rebellion, the "Will III" Magic Potion for Eleanor.

After summarizing the mission and rewards, the ladies were shocked to discover that what was initially just a diplomatic mission to the Swabian Duchy was layered into four missions by Aske—ultimately leading to as many as six Magic Potions already in hand or that would soon be in hand—a textbook case of "maximizing benefits."

Using the least amount of time to acquire the most Magic Potions—he truly deserves to be our Squad Leader.

After returning to Mingxing City and delivering Friedrich’s letter to the Duke of Bavaria, Aske received the promised "Will III" Magic Potion from Weisbach.

Meanwhile, Medea, accompanied by Nora, visited the alchemy shops in the city, purchasing the corresponding ingredients necessary for the "Life III" and "Spirit Body III" recipes.

Turning the materials at hand into Magic Potions and adding those that had already been acquired, this round actually led to 7 people being promoted:

Eleanor, consuming "Will III," advanced to Lv.9;

Nora, consuming "Life III," advanced to Lv.7;

Miel, consuming "Intuition II," advanced to Lv.8;

Mia, consuming "Weakness II," advanced to Lv.7;

Peggy, consuming "Life Stealing II," advanced to Lv.8;

Sigrdrifa, consuming "Giant II," advanced to Lv.8;

Thira, consuming "Meteor III," advanced to Lv.7;

Thus, the team’s average level was raised to around Lv.7.5, excluding Aske who was already at max level, and Medea was the only one left who hadn’t consumed any Magic Potions since she was still missing "Desire III" and "Desire IV."

Both Magic Potions were with her real mother, and since there was a plan for obtaining them, Medea didn’t feel any anxiety.

Come to think of it, as the team’s level advanced into the later stages of the Bloodline Path and the demand list featured a large number of Level III and IV high-end Magic Potions that couldn’t be bought on the market, how did Aske obtain these scarce resources?

He leveraged Eleanor’s relationship to deal with the Weisbach family;

He leveraged Thira’s relationship to deal with her grandfather Apilius;

He leveraged Medea’s relationship to deal with the Enchanting Demon Queen;

He leveraged Nora’s relationship to deal with the Life School...

Indeed, it’s a world where connections prevail, as real as it gets.

Aske could even envision, in this world without players, the scarcer the Extraordinary Resources, the more they are concentrated in the hands of the social elite.

If we don’t deal with these high-ranking individuals, just relying on our little mercenary group to huff and puff as we gather, who knows till when we’ll monkey around to collect everything.

Luckily, I’ve leveled up to Lv.10 and have begun to walk the Path of Law, so I won’t have as strong a need for these external things anymore.

Speaking of the subsequent historical direction, with the Falcon Family changing flags, the Swabian Duchy will soon fully switch to the Emperor’s camp, right?

Without support from Burgundy, the Duchy of Franknia won’t last long before the Emperor’s Alliance, and it will soon be breached just like in the original game’s main storyline.

Then the Emperor’s blade will move southward, the Wolf Family will declare surrender, and thus the second expansion ends.

The third expansion, the ultra-difficult campaign "Expedition to the Church Court," begins.

No, just thinking about this gives Aske a sense of urgent crisis.

How come our team’s average level is only Lv.7.5? It’s too slow...too slow... Hard resources like Magic Potions can’t keep up, so we might as well optimize and enhance our soft resources first.

Right, didn’t everyone just take a round of Magic Potions? To quickly adapt to the new abilities, let’s do some hellish adaptive training!

Therefore, the day after returning to Bavaria, Aske confidently announced this plan to the girls.

Then, ignoring everyone’s cries of grief, forcefully pushed the plan forward, and suddenly everyone’s daily life was packed with various types of training.

Ability training, combat training, positioning training, skill training, and so forth were scheduled like the course timetable of a senior year student at Maotanchang High School.

Soon enough, some couldn’t stand this masochistic training scheme and began plotting to quietly leave the group.

"I can confirm, the Squad Leader just wants to kill us!" Mia said in a resentful whisper.

"Why would he want to kill you?" Miel asked, puzzled.

"Because he’s gone crazy." Mia declared, "Fourteen hours of training a day, what the hell is that? That’s exploitation! It’s child abuse, utterly inhumane exploitation!"

"In my understanding, training doesn’t generate any value, so of course, there’s no question of exploitation," Miel calmly pointed out the flaw in her words.

"You’re actually speaking up for him, you traitor!" Mia stared at her in disbelief. "Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for the Squad Leader?"

Miel’s face flushed slightly as she defended herself, "I’m just being realistic."

"Your tone sounds a lot like the Squad Leader’s," Mia scoffed disdainfully. "I don’t care, I’m going out to relax for a few days. Staying here any longer, I’m afraid my nerves are going to snap."

"Wait, Mia!" Before Miel could stop her, the coast clear, Mia teleported away from Fire Island.

No sooner had she reached the Real Plane than she was lifted from behind.

"What are you doing?" Aske asked.

Mia: ...

Damn, isn’t this too cunning? To actually guard the entrance to the ancient book outside? Are you treating Fire Island like a prison to lock everyone up?

"I came out to use the bathroom." Mia blurted out, stubbornly.

"Fire Island doesn’t have bathrooms?" Aske asked.

"Oh, right, I can use the bathroom facilities on Fire Island," Mia stuck out her tongue and chuckled sheepishly before disappearing from Aske’s hands.

And teleported back to Fire Island.

"Really now." Aske shook his head speechlessly and continued on his way out.

Upon leaving the Weisbach Palace, the streets outside were clearly much livelier than last month.

Obviously, with the Wolf Family’s offensive being halted at the foot of the southern Alps, Bavaria’s citizens began to hold an optimistic stance towards this civil war, stirring up the commerce and consumer demand in Mingxing City.

"Aske!" Suddenly someone called his name.

Aske turned his head to see, and it was actually Rasul, a mentor of the Ilanian Assassin Organization.

"What are you doing here?" Aske asked in surprise.

"Assassins are everywhere," Rasul folded his arms, confidently stating.

"Let’s cut to the chase," Aske spoke bluntly, "Weakness III and Weakness IV Magic Potions, will you sell them? They are for your apprentice, Mia."

"She’s leveled up this fast?" Rasul frowned slightly, "Alright, but I don’t have the potions ready, only the formulas. I’ll send someone to gather the ingredients."

"Let’s not talk about that for now. Aske, as an honorary member of the Assassin Organization, we have a task we’d like to entrust to you. As for those two bottles of Weakness potions, consider them compensation for this mission."

"What’s the mission?" Aske thought to himself with the title of hired gun hanging over him for so long, surely there was some work to be assigned now.

"Assassinate the commander of the troops sent by the Wolf Family this time, the Demigod ’Hidden Strings,’ Alberto," Rasul said with a smile.

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